Chinese scientists have engineered a laser-based imaging system capable of reading millimetre-sized text from 1.4 kilometres ...

Suboptimal grain filling in rice (Oryza sativa) inferior spikelets poses a constraint to maximizing the yield potential. The differential grain filling between superior and inferior spikelets has been ...

New tests by advocacy group Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) found elevated arsenic levels and other heavy metals in a ...

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Declan Rice has endured a difficult couple of weeks on the football pitch. The Arsenal midfielder was part of the Gunners’ side that crashed out of the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain ...

The traditional tall varieties with slender stems yielded only 1-1.5 tonnes of grain per hectare ... in most oilseeds, pulses and other field crops have been flat or registered modest increases, this ...

Basmati rice, known for its long grains, delicate fragrance, and distinctive flavour, is experiencing a surge in global demand, especially in its premium forms. According to industry reports ...

The Food Ministry said in a statement that the current rice stock stands at 356.42 Lakh Metric Tonnes (LMT) against a buffer norm of 135 LMT. “Similarly, wheat stock is 383.32 LMT against a ...

India also has a buffer stock of pulses, ensuring food security, he added. “We have wheat, rice and other grains available in sufficient quantity. There has been bumper production, purchase from ...

In this paper, a novel method to automatically screen and classify rice seed samples is proposed using a combination of spatial and spectral features, extracted from high resolution RGB and ...

India is targeting 354.64 million tonnes of foodgrain production in the 2025-26 crop year starting July on the forecast of better monsoon rains, a senior government official said on Thursday.