Consumers in Tamil Nadu, a predominantly rice-growing state in India, who preferred millet grains, particularly finger millet,...
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“Pongal is a harvest festival widely celebrated by farmers in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka to give...
During the 1943 Bengal famine, 3 to 4 million people died because of widespread starvation. Since then,...
Global rice prices started moving upward in November 2009 after months of steadily declining since reaching their...
“Rice is life” truly lives up to its meaning in India, where its origin dates back to...
Scientists had long known an Indian rice variety, unromantically dubbed FR13A, that could handle a week or...
During my stay at IRRI, I really grew up. Coming from India Tamil Nadu Agricultural University where...
You’ve been farming for 20 years. You do things as your father did them, and his father...
To understand the importance of rice farming to Bangladesh, look at the numbers. This densely populated country-more...
