Ample rice reserves in India, the world’s biggest exporter of the food staple, and expectations for bountiful monsoon rains should allay concerns about the possibility of any “drastic” measures to curb exports, according to National Commodities Management Services Ltd. “As things stand today, there is every reason to be optimistic for the crops to be good given the supportive monsoon,” …
Rice, domesticated by humans over 10,000 years ago has now become the staple food for more than three billion people. Researchers from various institutes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya found depleting trends in grain density of zinc and iron in rice and wheat cultivated in India. The team collected seeds of rice and …
