Abolishing a nearly 50-year-old policy for rice price support, Korea adopted a new direct payment program in 2005 … nets and the WTO disciplines on domestic support. The program aims to deal with over-supply of rice while guarding against … performed to test the degree of a linkage between rice support and production. The analysis suggests that rice support have only …

Despite the well-known idea that rice is a commodity andthus it is unlikely to be differentiated, there is a large … product is considered in a short interval of time. Beforethese findings, we asked what the effects of rice purchasing … strategiesare over consumers’ expenditures. This paper proposes a mathematicalmodel to simulate the decision process of rice …

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 … using those genotypes as parent material, develop cold tolerance varieties of rice. A yield simulation model was used to …

In spite of the potential for rice-fish farming in Bangladesh, it has been adopted by relatively few farmers because of … socioeconomic, environmental, technological and institutional constraints. Rice monoculture remains the main farming system in … Bangladesh even though integrated rice-fish farming is the best farming system in terms of resource utilisation, diversity …

enrolled in the University of Arkansas Rice Research Verification Program. The results reveal most fields have high technical …

Germination and hydroponic experiments are performed on rice seeds growing in soils treated with Cd stress, with rice … rice seeds. The results have shown that: (1) Cd stress reduces the thousand grain weight of rice seeds, and higher Cd … content means lower thousand grain weight; (2) The germination vigor and germination percentage of rice seeds under Cd stress …