Renie Palco, a hybrid rice farmer, said as he narrated the improvement of his life these recent years when he ventured to farming hybrid rice to the team from the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) ...
Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Nasir Idris, has directed the Ministry of Agriculture to procure and deploy chemicals to combat a mysterious disease affecting rice farms in parts of Shanga Local ...
Over ₦2 billion worth of rice investments were lost in a single day after water was reportedly released from Jebba Dam in Niger State, flooding Shonga in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State.
said it has entered into a partnership with a Japanese agriculture technology firm to reduce rice-farm emissions. In a statement, PhilRice said that it signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Sagri Co., ...
Like a flowing stream in the desert, Shonga recently experienced an unusual flooding at the peak of the dry season on January 25, 2025, which swept away thousands of hectares of rice farms in ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government will release up to 210,000 tonnes of its stockpiled rice, Farm Minister Taku Eto said Friday, in a bid to ensure smooth distribution of the Japanese staple amid ...
Among the programs affected were those that bought crops — including Louisiana rice — for foreign food aid. Trump's announcement left rice industry leaders scrambling, with USA Rice Federation ...
Recently though, homegrown rice has been making a comeback. Long neglected paddies in Long Valley in Yuen Long are once again being farmed on, mainly to feed an endangered bird; Zen Organic Farm ...
After opening a dam to release excess water, many rice farmlands in Shonga, Edu local government area of Kwara State, have been submerged. LEADERSHIP gathered that the devastating flooding ...