The commerce ministry clarified that there is no export ban on rice and traders can ship the commodity after paying 20 per cent duty...

Latest data from agriculture ministry showed that paddy sowing was down 20.52 lakh hectares to 393.79 lakh hectares...

Rice growers asserted that they are being forced to sell their produce at prices far less than the cost of production because of the welfare initiative...

Government had provided paddy to the 3 mills for extraction of rice...

The study has found that the growth rate in national rice grain production has declined since the mid-1990s despite significant improvements in rice varieties and increasing yields per hectare...