By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, July 16: The federal ministry for food, agriculture and livestock (Minfal) has asked the agriculture departments of Sindh and Punjab to immediately submit assessment reports on the damage to crops due to the ongoing monsoon season and floods. By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, July 16: The federal ministry for food, agriculture and livestock (Minfal) has asked the agriculture departments of Sindh and Punjab to immediately submit assessment reports on the...

Bangkok - Thailand's rice exports to Iran are likely to reach 1.2 million tons this year thanks to a supply shortage from its main competitor Vietnam, news reports said Thursday. Chookiat Ophaswongse, president of Thailand's Rice Exporters Association, said Iran is expected to import an additional 400,000 tons of rice from the kingdom during the rest of the year because of a shortfall in Vietnam, Thailand's main rival, The Nation newspaper reported. Thailand expects to export 1.2 million...

agriculture? For starters, agriculture is right at the forefront of important research and stands to benefit tremendously. The genome is a complete set of an organism's genetic material--the sum total of all the information in cells that determines whether we are human or a corn plant. Two of the hottest areas of science and technology today involve agriculture--the genomic mapping of plant and animal species and the transition from fossil fuels to renewable fuels. In 2005, the rice genome...

Under the regulation issued by the Government and the Ministry of Trade, rice exporters must register their contracts with VFA for confirmation, but the association has stopped dealing with rice export contracts since last weekend. In the Mekong Delta, rice price is rising to an average VND2,950 per kilo because local exporters have strongly purchased rice for export. However, the VFA must wait for instructions from the Government because the signed contracts have reached this year's...

But around Delhi, free-range and organic goods from newcomers to farming are showing that money can be made by growing specialty products that consumers are willing to pay more for. Many farmers in India, where more than 70 percent of the people depend on the land, eke out a living -- or else fall steadily into debt -- trying to grow water-, fertilizer- and pesticide-heavy crops on an acre or two of land. Small and marginal farms have become an unviable proposition , argued Indian Prime...

EST Siddique Islam - AHN South Asia Correspondent Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Two government agencies and the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country's central bank, will jointly monitor online the opening of import LCs (letters of credit) and their settlement aiming to rein in the soaring prices of essentials in Bangladesh, officials say in the capital, Dhaka on Tuesday. EST Siddique Islam - AHN South Asia Correspondent Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Two government agencies and the Bangladesh Bank...