This video shows how farmers in northwestern Bangladesh are using flood-tolerant rice varieties to cope with many floods that afflict this part of the country.
Although rice is highly nutritious, a lot of the quality is lost during processing. This results in poor quality rice on the market. So consumers turn to imported rice.
"...culture of quality is very important for us to push back the dumping from outside, if we don't do it; whether its from Africa, whether it's from my mothers kitchen, people are not going to buy
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org ) has found that from harvest to market, farmers usually lose 30-50% of their earnings.
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) has found that from harvest to market, farmers usually lose 30-50% of their earnings.
The semiautomatic-fed downdraft rice hull furnace (dRHF) was developed to cope with the high cost of fossil fuels that are used in most flatbed dryer furnaces.
