Ricecheck, an extension program for rice developed by the NSW Department of Primary Industries, is based on eight best … crop yields and farm profitability. In this paper, the economic benefits from Ricecheck to the rice farmers are measured …

expansion of shrimp production into the fresh-water margins of river estuaries that were previously used for rice cultivation …, and model development and specification for rice and shrimp production in this study. This paper presents a brief … production theory, and describes a comparative economic analysis of shrimp and rice production. A final result was found that …

This paper analyses the impact of concessional sales of rice under public food distribution schemes on the open market … demand and total consumption of rice in Sri Lanka from 1953 to 1989. The results show that, on average, 73 per cent of the … concessional issues of rice under the non-targeted (universal) rationing scheme during 1953-1977 has served to replace a potential …

The burning of rice stubbles is widely practised in rice based farming systems in north-west India (Punjab, Haryana and … tractor powered machine capable of direct drilling wheat in standing rice stubbles, provides an alternative to burning …. However, the adoption of this technology has been limited and burning of rice stubbles remains widespread. The Australian …

In 2011 the Thai Government pledged to pay rice producers 50 per cent more than the going market price. The surplus has … that the policy has in fact depressed world prices and the Government has a mountain of rice to dispose of. Furthermore … rice policy options using a dynamic, stochastic, ten-region, partial equilibrium model of world rice trade. While the Thai …

industry from such research. The aims in this paper are to examine the pattern of adoption of individual rice varieties … developed in NSW, and to develop an estimate of the expected adoption curve for different types of rice varieties. The analysis … indicates that the pattern of adoption and disadoption of rice varieties can be modeled successfully. A framework is developed …

. The cropping-system is predominantly rice-based in the wet season and high-value cash crops are grown during the dry … scope economies in this environment. Results show that significant scope economies exist between rice and the major dry …-season crops of garlic and mungbean. Scope diseconomies exist between rice and maize. …

Farming in coastal Bangladesh includes rice/shrimp and rice/non-rice cropping systems. The former has been highly … adverse impacts on rice cropping and the local environment. From 2009, farmers adapted the system by changing the pond (gher …) infrastructure, adopting delayed planting of a saline-tolerant rice cultivar, flushing out accumulated salt with freshwater during …

The occurrence of low night temperatures during reproductive development is one of the factors most limiting rice … subsequent floret sterility. Researchers have found that in 75% of years, rice farmers suffer losses between 0.5 and 2.5 t …/ha. Research is being undertaken to identify overseas rice varieties, that are cold tolerant under the local weather conditions and …