Despite the government's planned release of 210,000 metric tons of stockpiled rice, consumers are wondering if this will lead to any relief, while one farmer in Saitama Prefecture spoke of ...

New Delhi: A new study has found that shifting away from cultivating rice to alternative cereals such as millet, maize and sorghum could help tackle production losses related to climate by 11 per cent ...

Farmers in India are known to prefer harvesting rice for its economic viability. Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are among the top producers, accounting for a significant fraction of the country ...

"Optimised allocations of harvested area can reduce climate-induced production loss by 11% or improve farmer net profit by 11% while maintaining calorie production and cropland area," the authors ...

The study points out that price fluctuations heavily influence farmers' decisions on which crops to plant and suggests that economic incentives be given to them to shift from rice to more climate ...

The joint study, co-authored by experts from several global institutions, including the Indian School of Business (ISB), points out that while rice is a staple crop for Indian farmers due to its ...

(2025) in NW Rwanda. Note the terraces and the multiple shallow landslides. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of ...

It’s time to dust off your Akubras and get on your cowboy boots ‘cos Farmer Wants A Wife is about to take over your screen with good ol’ country lovin’ because a trailer just dropped for ...

The small town of Banaue is the starting point ... and says sadly that "the rice farmers are becoming fewer". However, he does not believe that this will endanger the world heritage of the rice ...

It is about 2.3 km north of Paro town at an altitude of 2280 meters above sea level and surrounded by fertile rice terraces. Farmers grow a wide range of temperate crops. The village was one of the ...

Surinder Singh, a farmer from Kherabad village in Punjab’s Kapurthala district, owns around 25 acres of land where he has been cultivating hybrid rice varieties for the past five years. He faced a cut ...