Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or less commonly Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and Africa. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production (rice, 741.5 million tonnes in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tonnes) and maize (1.0 billion tonnes). Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important food crop with regard to human nutrition and …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 April 2024 English

marked loss in diversity. To counter it, farmers in Tiruvanamalai are reviving traditional varieties of rice and promoting crops better suited to their rainfed lands

Tiruvanamalai are reviving traditional varieties of rice and promoting crops better suited to their rainfed


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English

Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC), an initiative by the Nation for Farmers, is a collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers …

Diversify and decentralize public procurement scheme (rice, wheat, pulses, oilseeds, millets...); e. Promote


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 February 2024 English

factsheet presents a distinct set of MPCE estimates after imputing the value of consumed items – such as rice, wheat, salt, laptop, bicycle, etc. – received free of cost through social welfare programmes of the

Consequently, the value figures for (i) food items: Rice, Wheat/Atta, Jowar, Bajra, Maize, Ragi, Barley


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 January 2024 English

year. The rice paper-wrapped delicacy that melts in the mouth is Andhra Pradesh's signature sweet, and is mostly made by women who do the skilled work of making the brittle and transparent rice sheets. They

received a GI (Geographical Indicator) last year. The rice paper-wrapped delicacy that melts in the mouth is skilled work of making the brittle and transparent rice sheets. They say the returns are just not sweet


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …

1972 and 2017 387 Table 14.3 Tenure status of rice farmers, 1972 and 2017 387 Table 14.4 Indicators


Perkins School for Blind · 2024 English

J., Greer, M., Noyes-Grosser, D., Eile, J. M., Rice, C., Shaw, E., Surprenant, K. S., Twombly, E., London J., GREER, M., NOYES-GROSSER, D., EILE, J. M., RICE, C., SHAW, E., SURPRENANT, K. S., TWOMBLY, E.,


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …

had sprung up in the Padma between 1793 and 1827. Rice was being grown on them in large quantities. The grow mustard, opium, and, at the end of winter, rice. They would move farther away from the river before


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important historical ideas, the series has been sponsored …

the rice consumed in Bengal used to come from Burma. The war had blocked the passage of this rice. Also Pakistan. Even the practice of eating fish and rice instead of rotis was considered a failing of the


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …

longer. Now he ate just vegetables, with some boiled rice Still he belched and hiccupped, it wasn’t at all neighbourhood grocery. The shopkeeper stores wheat, flour, rice, sugar, and many other things in burlap sacks. middle of the nineteenth century. Cotton, sugar, rice, wheat and spices—all of these used to be transported


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 September 2023 English

the singer tells us that she is grinding jowar and rice to make ambil (porridge). Balumama is well built heap of pearls [a good harvest] I grind jowar and rice to make porridge At noon, my Balumama is in a state


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