Category: Rice

Chinese astronauts return to Earth with the world’s first rice grown in orbit. This achievement will lead to a better understanding of the effects of weightlessness on rice cultivation and […]

India’s aromatic basmati and non-basmati rice exports rose 7.37 percent to 12.697 million tonnes during the April-October period of the current fiscal, despite restrictions on the shipments, according to industry […]

The government on Tuesday lifted the ban on exports of organic non-basmati rice, including broken rice, a move which would help in promoting the outbound shipments of the commodity. The […]

Rice procurement has increased 12 per cent to 11.433 million tonnes (mt) during the first month of the current procurement season (October-September), thanks to Punjab and Haryana. The grain’s purchase […]

According to the Indian government’s estimates, the country’s rice production is set to see a decline in the kharif season this year, mainly attributed to a drop in paddy acreage. […]

The government on Thursday imposed a 20% export duty on non-basmati ‘white’ rice exports which is expected to hit the overall volume of exports in the current fiscal. According to […]

The World Bank’s food security update of August 2022 flagged how global concerns over the likelihood of a rice export ban by India are rising. It noted that ‘exporters, concerned […]

The Bangladesh government has cut the import duty on rice further to 5 percent while liberalizing shipments of the cereal into the country to build the food grain inventory. In […]

The Centre has deferred by an other six months its decision to impose mandatory inspection requirement for pesticide residue for the export of basmati and non-basmati rice to European destinations. […]