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 …

Brazil`s rice markets. In response to changes of the agricultural policies during the period of investigation, the presence …

This paper has studied the trends in the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of rice in India for the period 1980 … stagnation in rice is not due to technology fatigue, but could be due to the sluggish input intensification. The study calls for … policy initiatives for strengthening investments on research and extension for furthering the TFP growth and steps for …

There is no consensus on what defines a reference for the world rice price. A review on rice as a differentiated … commodity shed two important insights. First, it confirms that few studies have considered segmentation of rice in their price … analysis. Second, Thai 5% brokens has often been considered the world reference price for rice but no empirical exercise has …

production portfolio and input usage. Specifically, the paper estimates a rice yield function based on household-level crop … production, long-term climate measurements and recent weather shocks. The results suggest that rice production will suffer from … key components of climate change adaptation strategies at farm and national level. Localized policy packages aiming at …

The Seed Voucher System (SVS) was adopted by the Emergency Rice Initiative (ERI) to grant farmers access to certified …. This study examined the impact of the SVS on income inequality reduction and rice income per hectare among rice farming … multistage sampling procedure. Using Randomized Control Trial approach, 160 farmers out of the 600 rice farmers randomly selected …

The research analyzed the land tenure system among rice farmers in Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria ….727, p<0.001). The problems of land tenure system that affects rice production as revealed by the study were Land … fragmentation, Excessive land ownership, Land litigation and Expropriation. The study recommended that legislation given rice …

selection of rice cultivars by conducting a life cycle assessment of GHG emissions and estimating the carbon sequestered for … fourteen commonly sown rice cultivars across Arkansas. Market-oriented carbon-offset credits based on additionality likely … retailers strive to lower their overall carbon footprints. Given their higher yield per unit of GHG emission, hybrid rice …