Even though the government arranged the loan for farmers there have been no other provisions such as fertilizers, urea, or fuel for tractors for farmers this year in Arakan. The Burmese military authority has loaned 7000 kyat per acre of farmland to each farmer throughout Arakan State for this year's crops through the government-owned Agriculture Bank, with loans starting the first week of this month, reports a farmer source. As the government has not provided fertilizers to farmers this...

While the monsoon is likely to hit Orissa in the next 7 to 10 days but for the farmers here there is hardly anything to look forward to. Met predictions suggest it will be less than average monsoon and that can spell doom for most farmers in Orissa who depend almost entirely on rains for their staple crop paddy. It does not look like the rains this year will be reason for cheer especially for farmers. He says that many farmers are selling off their plots because agriculture has become a...

South Korea was also fearful that shipments would lead to even more pressure from major rice exporters such as the United States to open its market. Once desperately short of the staple, the world s 12th-largest economy is now struggling to cope with bumper harvests from its heavily subsidised rice farmers while South Koreans turn to Western foods such as noodles and bread. But that concern largely evaporated after Seoul managed to exclude rice from a free trade agreement with the United...

Import bills for these commodities are forecast to rise by as much as 13 percent from 2006, the report said. Rising prices of imported coarse grains and vegetable oils - the commodity groups that feature most heavily in biofuel production - account for the bulk of the increase. Record-high international freight rates have also affected the import value of all commodities, putting additional pressure on countries' abilities to cover their food import bills. More expensive feed ingredients...

The project has been taken up at the initiative of the state agriculture department by the New Farmers Association, a body formed by all the farmers at Haorang Kairen with technical assistance from experts at the Central Agricultural University, Iroishemba. New rice variety to be tried at model farm :: KanglaOnline ~ Your Gateway. The project has been taken up at the initiative of the state agriculture department by the New Farmers Association, a body formed by all the farmers at Haorang...