Under major irrigation schemes we are going to cultivate other vegetable and food crops, especially export oriented crops. We should have our own system and hybridisation of old agricultural methodology with new agriculture. Measures are also underway to strengthen agriculture exports while helping the local farmer with additional subsidies. In order to increase the contribution of agriculture to the GDP, we will have to develop micro and macro level agriculture. Here we are concerned more...

The Financial Gleaner The Financial Gleaner The Financial Gleaner. Guyana has complained that selected countries of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) 15-member bloc are not supplying timely and accurate data on their rice imports while sidestepping application for the 25 per cent common external tariff (CET) on imported rice. Guyana has complained that selected countries of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) 15-member bloc are not supplying timely and accurate data on their rice imports...

scientists focused on China, which produces a third of the world's rice and where rice fields have shrunk by 24 million acres in the past decade as farmers shifted to other crops and abandoned marginal land. BANGKOK, Thailand - As delegates to a climate conference here debate how to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems - and a possible solution - lies in the rice fields that cover much of Thailand, the rest of Asia and beyond. Methane emissions from flooded rice paddies contribute...

According to rough statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, last year the efficient fertilisation programme operated on a trial basis in 42. It is believed that the programme will use less chemical fertiliser, reduce cost of agricultural production and help increase grain output. Thanks to the efficient land fertilisation, wheat output increased by more than 400,000 tonnes in 93 wheat producing counties and rice production rose 1.6 million tonnes in central China's Hubei Province....

Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs - prices that later wilted. President Bush is talking up alternative fuels and companies including Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland co., the biggest ethanol producer in the world, are pouring money into research and development. Still,...