Millions in USAID money has gone to some of the largest rice mill operations in the state, such as Supreme Rice in Crowley ...

Starting with just 3,000 square meters of land, Ho Ba Phieu built a seed rice empire spanning 100 hectares. Now a self-made ...

The Department of Agriculture in Region 2 clarified that some farmers have not been receiving financial aid from the govern-ment due to inaccurate registration under the Registry System for Basic ...

TUNDE OYEKOLA examines the unprecedented dry season flooding in three Kwara LGAs, where over 5,000 rice farmers lost more than 3,000 hectares of farmland worth N11.5bnAs Nigeria grapples with the ...

Akai Egwuonwu, Managing Director of Anambra Rice Mill Limited, makers of Anambra Stine Rice, says the rice revolution in the ...

International demand for basmati rice is forecast to double over the next few years. But farmers and connoisseurs say ...

“These fields are just like they would have been in the 17th or 18th century,” says Chalmers, 60, a fourth-generation rice farmer whose Lowcountry roots stretch back hundreds of years.

Thillainayagam’, a native rice variety with its origin traced to the integrated Madurai region comprising Madurai, Sivaganga, ...

A farmers’ group has warned the Department of Agriculture (DA) against rushing its rice price reduction plan, stressing that it must not come at the cost of farmers’ livelihoods. The DA is reportedly ...