National Paddy Planting Day or Dhan Diwas is a celebration across the country. It is an even bigger deal here in Pokhara Valley which grows some of Nepal’s most famous indigenous varieties of rice ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of farmers and their families across Nepal celebrated an annual paddy festival by planting rice, splashing in the muddy fields and enjoying a special feast. The ...

Splashing mud and drinking local rice beer, Nepali farmers this week celebrated National Paddy Day to mark the beginning of the rice-planting season, despite some coronavirus lockdown measures still ...

NEW DELHI, June 7 (Reuters) - India has raised the price at which it will buy new-season common rice paddy from farmers by 7%, the trade minister said on Wednesday, the biggest increase in five years, ...

Mangaluru: In an inspiring initiative that blends education with agriculture, students from Thiruvail Govt Model Kannada and ...

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) states that the potential rice production can still change depending on planting conditions until ...

Rice stems lengthen when a newly identified gene activates during flooding. Another gene suppresses lengthening in shorter varieties. The insight could help plant breeders. Scientists at Nagoya ...