Hundreds of people were invited via the Internet to taste genetically modified rice at restaurants in 23 cities across China on Sunday in a move to further promote GM foods to the general public.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday gave her closing statement for an impeachment trial over a rice-pledging scheme, calling for a fair verdict.
Most Thai rice farmers are used to producing rice for a living on a permanent basis and cannot turn to doing any occupation other than the rice-growing business, said a leading farmer on Monday.
South Korea decided to set an import tariff rate on rice, which will be imposed from 2015 when the country's rice market is opened completely, at 513 percent, and to launch negotiations with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to conclude it, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.
China produced 34.01 million tonnes of early rice in 2014, a decrease of 125,000 tonnes, or 0.4 percent, from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday in a statement.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra authorized her lawyer, Norawit Laleang, to submit a petition to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Tuesday against its resolution to dismiss Yingluck's request to include eight additional witnesses.
Overdue payments for rice-pledging scheme remained a big headache for Thai caretaker government as Yingluck's cabinet has failed to seek loans.
China seeks self-reliance in staple production, including wheat and rice, following growth in domestic grain output over the past decade, a senior Chinese agricultural official
FAO downgraded its forecast for the 2013 rice production in Philippines to 18 million tonnes from the expectation of a bumper crop of 18.9 million tonnes at the beginning of the season.
Recent Mekong River flash floods have entirely damaged 113,260 hectares of rice paddies, or 4.4 percent of the total rice-planted area of 2.56 million hectares, according to an agricultural report Tuesday.
Trade statistics showed that India has overtaken Thailand as the biggest rice supplier to Singapore, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.
Myanmar has seen some encouraging foreign engagement in the development of its agricultural sector, in which foreign investment accounts for only 0.43 percent of the total.
The Thai government on Tuesday agreed to promptly review last week's decision to cut the rice price by 100 U.S. dollars a ton in response to protesting farmers.
"Vietnamese people believe that there are so many kinds of parasites living inside human body which appear the most at the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. As such, people try to kill those inner parasites on that day," Nguyen Thi Ty introduced Xinhua reporters in Hanoi about Duanwu festival in Vietnam.
With an eye on dinner tables in the Chinese mainland, McDonald's, the world's leading fast food operator, on Wednesday announced new rice products for the mainland market.
Sales of local rice have fallen as a result of last year's surging rice imports. Chinese farmer are expecting another bumper rice harvest this year.
Cambodia's National Assembly on Thursday adopted a law on farmers' cooperatives in order to support government policies in bolstering the agricultural sector, particularly paddy production and milled rice exports.