This dependence on international markets is risky due to the instability of the global rice market and negative repercussions of the liberalisation of the agricultural trade from free trade agreements. theedgedaily.com Published by the group of companies. This pales in comparison to Thailand, which is the fifth largest exporter of food products worldwide, with its food export expected to grow by 10. Hence, the NCER initiatives will play an integral role in addressing these problems,...

A top official said in January that Nigeria had cut its annual rice imports to half a million tonnes due to a significant rise in local production over the last three years due to the success of the government initiative. Nigeria launched an ambitious programme in 2003 known as the "Presidential Initiative on Rice", to raise local output to 5 million tonnes last year and 6 million tonnes by end-2007. The association had said about a third of the rice imported into Nigeria was smuggled from...

By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, July 16: The federal ministry for food, agriculture and livestock (Minfal) has asked the agriculture departments of Sindh and Punjab to immediately submit assessment reports on the damage to crops due to the ongoing monsoon season and floods. By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, July 16: The federal ministry for food, agriculture and livestock (Minfal) has asked the agriculture departments of Sindh and Punjab to immediately submit assessment reports on the...

Bangkok - Thailand's rice exports to Iran are likely to reach 1.2 million tons this year thanks to a supply shortage from its main competitor Vietnam, news reports said Thursday. Chookiat Ophaswongse, president of Thailand's Rice Exporters Association, said Iran is expected to import an additional 400,000 tons of rice from the kingdom during the rest of the year because of a shortfall in Vietnam, Thailand's main rival, The Nation newspaper reported. Thailand expects to export 1.2 million...

agriculture? For starters, agriculture is right at the forefront of important research and stands to benefit tremendously. The genome is a complete set of an organism's genetic material--the sum total of all the information in cells that determines whether we are human or a corn plant. Two of the hottest areas of science and technology today involve agriculture--the genomic mapping of plant and animal species and the transition from fossil fuels to renewable fuels. In 2005, the rice genome...