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Cauvery delta farmers are gaining resilience by cultivating indigenous rice varieties
When it comes to undoing the wrong agrarian practices, prioritising indigenous grain varieties and practices becomes important. For centuries, the Cauvery delta...
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Cauvery delta farmers are gaining resilience by cultivating indigenous rice varieties
When it comes to undoing the wrong agrarian practices, prioritising indigenous grain varieties and practices becomes important. For centuries, the Cauvery delta...
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ICAR’s herbicide-tolerant rice is not farmer-friendly and is a threat to national food security
This technology will raise cultivation costs by monopolising the seed-agrochemical market and may lead to more robust, herbicide-resistant weeds in the future,...
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90पर्यावरणWhat is golden rice — and why has a Philippine court put a stop to its commercial production?
Court of Appeals recently revoked biosafety permits for genetically modified golden rice and Bt eggplant until all safety, health and legal issues...
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What is golden rice — and why has a Philippine court put a stop to its commercial production?
Court of Appeals recently revoked biosafety permits for genetically modified golden rice and Bt eggplant until all safety, health and legal issues...
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78पर्यावरणGhanaians love rice — how smallholder farmers could harvest more of it with the help of machines
Efforts to produce more rice often results in increased labour-intensive work for smallholder farmers Rice has become a big part of Ghanaians’...
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Vampireweed threatens rice production in Africa. What do we know about it?
Associated annual economic losses amount to $82 million, affecting more than 140,000 rural households Photo for representation: iStock Rice vampireweed (Rhamphicarpa...
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How Odisha is promoting climate-resilient agriculture through rice fallow initiative
Cultivation of short-duration pulse, oilseed crops in rice fallow is helping maximise land use efficiency, boost farmers’ income and promote regenerative agriculture...
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Unhealthy levels of arsenic in water could exacerbate health concerns when used to boil rice
Rice, staple of over half of humanity, already has more arsenic than other grains; washing or boiling it with arsenic-contaminated water poses...
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India’s rice trade at risk in Red Sea attacks
India’s famed basmati rice variety is among the commodities hit by supply chain disruption caused by the Houthi attacks on the Red...
