Just five crops (corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat) receive 93 percent of payments for commodities, which have averaged about $20 billion a year. Subsidies are going to large, wealthy farms and distorting global markets. The subsidies also distort global agricultural markets, putting the US at odds with its trading partners and hurting poor farmers abroad. This artificial "gigantification," though, has encouraged dependency, pushed out small farmers, and raised land prices such that...

Ray Embajador, DA-Central Mindanao regional coordinator for the Gintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) Rice program, said recently their agency would subsidize half the price of certified rice seeds farmers would procure for the wet season in May to October this year. Ray Embajador, DA-Central Mindanao regional coordinator for the Gintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) Rice program, said recently their agency would subsidize half the price of certified rice seeds farmers would procure for the wet season in...

Vincent and the Grenadines to explain the non-submission of data on their individual rice imports. However several regional countries routinely ignore submitting information on activities of their rice sector or provide only partial data. Guyana has always argued that it can supply rice for regional consumption but this would required member states provide timely data on production, imports and exports to the CARICOM Secretariat twice yearly. Guyana offended by Rice Monitoring Mechanism...

He never forgot this promise all through his teaching career at the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agricultural Technology from 1960 to 1974 even after his singular research achievement in discovering, for the first time in the world, the role of zinc in rice cultivation. He never forgot this promise all through his teaching career at the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agricultural Technology from 1960 to 1974 even after his singular research achievement in discovering, for the first...

Northwest Arkansas' poultry and cattle farms have encountered sharply increased grain prices as more grain goes into alternative fuels, such as ethanol. Such scrutiny is a fact of life in worldwide trade, and ignoring it in the ongoing revision of farming legislation is not wise, he said. Corn and rice policies are under examination by the group, too, he said. Johanns, a former governor of Nebraska, is drafting the administration's farm policy proposals and is also, with the cooperation of...