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As China gorges on homegrown foie gras, France faces a new rivalChina is rapidly emerging as a global powerhouse in foie gras production, with farmers like Li Fengshan driving massive output increases. C...
Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening 'the world's kitchen'Toxic runoff from unregulated rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is contaminating the Mekong River and its tributaries, threatening the l...
How Asia-Pacific is fighting a fuel shock that could get worseAsian nations are grappling with prolonged energy supply strains due to the Middle East conflict, prompting governments to implement costly...
Pakistan's drug smuggling bid foiled in BangladeshPakistan tried to smuggle banned poppy seeds to Bangladesh through Chittagong Port. Customs officials seized a large shipment falsely decla...
Andhra Pradesh sets 51 lakh tonne paddy procurement target for 2025-26 Kharif season: MinisterAndhra Pradesh is gearing up for an ambitious 2025-26 Kharif season, targeting the procurement of 51 lakh tonnes of paddy. With the new gov...
What is the Chinese fungus, and how dangerous is it? U.S. says it stopped plan to bring pathogen to MichiganA Chinese scientist and his girlfriend are facing federal charges for allegedly smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus, into the U....
‘Agroterrorism’: Chinese scientist arrested for smuggling deadly fungus into USTwo Chinese nationals have been charged by the US for smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a fungus classified as a potential agroterrorism weap...
Grains for gold: Indian export curbs drive boom in barter smugglingSmuggling of gold for food staples like sugar and grain surges across the India-Bangladesh border. India's export curbs created price dispa...
Against the grain: The many pressures that are cooking up a rice crisisNon-basmati white rice constitutes about 25 per cent of total rice exported from the country. India accounts for 40 per cent of global rice...
After export ban, rice smuggling booms along Indo-Nepal borderVillagers along the India-Nepal border in Maharajganj are involved in smuggling rice into Nepal. Young unemployed men, women, and sometimes...
CBI names Trinamool's Anubrata Mondal in fourth supplementary chargesheet in connection with multi-crore cattle smuggling scamThe CBI has indicated the role of Trinamool Birbhum District President Anubrata Mondal in its 35-page chargesheet in the cattle smuggling c...
CBI summons more TMC members in connection with multi-crore cattle smuggling caseThe Central Agency on Wednesday issued notice to Trinamool Congress MP and actor Deepak Adhikari, popularly known as ‘Dev’ in the movie are...
PDS rice from Andhra Pradesh worth crores exported to Africa, MalaysiaThe police busted one such gang recently. Investigators first detected that the rice, meant exclusively for those holding white ration card...
Recent increase in smuggling in the North East can be due to economic distress insinuated by Covid: FICCI CommitteeVarious battalions of the forces intercepted smugglers transporting the illicit consignments using bikes, cars and trucks while hiding them...
Research proposes formal trade in rice seeds between India and BangladeshFormal trade in rice seeds between India and Bangladesh could open up a tremendous market opportunity and improve livelihood of the farmers
India, Bangladesh need cooperation in rice seed trade: StudyAt present, farmers of both the sides are using smuggled seeds which are not of good quality, it said.
- Pak grain being smuggled into India
Pakistan has asked its Rangers deployed along the Indo-Pak border to check any possibility of smuggling of pulses, rice, wheat and flour to...
- Rice crisis to cost Philippines one percent of GDP: Study
Soaring food prices are likely to cost the Philippines nearly one percent of its economic output this year to ensure adequate supplies to t...
- TN special teams to prevent smuggling of PDS rice
The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday decided to form special teams to prevent smuggling of rice meant for Public Distribution System.
- Ration rice being sold in black market in Tamil Nadu
Ration rice, currently being sold at a subsidised rate of Rs 2 per kg in Tamil Nadu, has joined the list of products being handled by stree...