Thai rice farmers plan to step up protests after the government’s new subsidy plan failed to meet their demands.Most Read ...

The late Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka’s most celebrated architect, spent about 50 years at his country estate, Lunuganga, on the ...

Paddy's first ever radio two-way! Paddy's live from Salford with the Weekest Link and his first ever radio two-way!

Behind the ministry’s hesitation to use the stockpiles may also be its long-standing agricultural policies for rice. The government had tried to curb rice overproduction and keep prices from falling ...

Rice cultivation, surprisingly enough, accounts for another 12 percent of humanity’s global methane emissions. As with cows, the problem is burps — lots and lots of tiny burps.

As with cows, the problem is burps — lots and lots of tiny burps. Growing rice requires flooding fields, called paddies, with staggering quantities of water. Microbes known as archaea multiply in the ...

As with cows, the problem is burps — lots and lots of tiny burps. Growing rice requires flooding fields, called paddies, with staggering quantities of water. Microbes known as archaea multiply ...

It is a double whammy for the JVP; both rice consumers and paddy farmers are demanding that their competing interests be addressed. Rice growers are threatening to march on Colombo and stage what they ...

A worker sifts a rice stockpile in Thailand. Japan stockpiles 1 million tons of rice that it will soon tap to lower prices.

Hosted by Cherry Healey and Bolton's own Paddy McGuinness, the show visits some of the most impressive and busy factories in the country as they meet demand for their products. In tonight's ...