This paper aims to investigate the presence of price transfer asymmetry (APT) in the rice production chain in Rio Grande do Sul incorporating in the analysis the effects of public policy interventions, specifically the agricultural minimum prices. The results indicate the occurrence of positive...

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition by providing a quality rating and a price quote for...

Agricultural intensification riding on the Green Revolution ushered bountiful production of selected staples (rice, wheat, maize) in the developing nations and caused a significant economic growth. It showered a new hope through a package of high-yielding seeds of rice and wheat, laying networks...

Rice is a staple crop in Nigeria. Even with a push to increase domestic production, little is known about the functionality of Nigeria's open bag markets and the preferences of consumers for specific rice attributes. Our study uses a hedonic price model to identify quality attribute preferences...

Food price volatility broadly impacts the country's food security. Rice price stabilization in Indonesia is carried out by BULOG, the food state-owned enterprise (SOE) that the WTO has identified as Indonesia's state trading enterprise (STE). This study was conducted to evaluate the price...

This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri-food context. However, because rice production is so...

The inventor is a vital input in acquiring new technologies. Collaboration among inventors is an essential topic for scholars. Talhelm et al. proposed The Rice Theory, highlighting the cultural differences between rice and wheat regions. This paper explores the differences in inventor team size...

This paper examines price volatility and transmission of rice markets in Ghana and draws implications for food security. Using monthly rice price data from 2013 to 2019, the paper uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) with an Error Correction Model (ECM) to ascertain the availability...

Indonesian rice production has exhibited a positive increasing trend over the years. On the other hand, rice retail prices tend to fluctuate, even though the country has imported rice. One reason for this is that not all of the rice produced is sold to the market or marketed surplus. The...

This paper examines the formation of property rights in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan with a focus on rice market development. Both nations’ citizens eat rice and rulers in both nations view rice as one of the nation’s most significant strategic resources. However, by the end of 18th...

Rice is produced in 72% of the departments in Colombia. Recent extreme events have raised concerns about the relationship between weather and rice production, since aproximately 35% of the hectares where rice is grown rely exclusively on rainfall for the crop’s water needs. This study provides...

Malnutrition among mothers and children in India is extremely high. Every second woman in the nation is anemic, and every third child is diminutive, according to the Food Ministry. On the Global Hunger Index (GHI), India ranks 94th out of 107 countries, placing it in the ‘serious hunger'...

-The Rice Plant essentially accommodates of 4 subsystems especially Cleaning, Husking, Separation, and Elevator. Cleaning has sub-units. A unmarried repairman is to be had 24*7. Availability of rice plant is decided with the help of RPGT and accessibility of the association of rice plant for...

The importance of phospholipase C (PLC) in plant development has been demonstrated in several studies. OsPLC1, a member of PI-PLC in rice, although its role in the response to salt stress of rice seedlings has been reported, its functions in the growth and development of rice is elusive. Here,...

Rice straw (RS) is treated by straw biogas anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to reduce pollution, but RS anaerobic gas production technology has some problems such as low gas production rate, slow digestion speed, and long digestion period. Domesticated paddy soil microbes (DPSM) is an...

Modeling transaction costs is of particular importance when analyzing price integration in developing countries. Spatial price integration among five major Bangladesh rice markets are examined over the post-liberalization period that covered a long time span from January 1999 to December 2021,...

The use of multiple insecticidal seed treatments in combination to control a greater spectrum of pests has been increasing in rice production in the U.S. Mid-South. The economic benefits of individual seed treatments in rice are well documented, but returns on investment (ROI) on combinations...

Hydrogen-rich gas production from rice husk via steam gasification and catalytic reforming using CeO2-modified Ni-CaO absorption bifunctional catalysts synthesized by sol-gel method in a two-stage system was investigated. The results show that the Ce0.7Ni1Ca5 catalyst achieves maximum H2...

Arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) accumulate easily in rice grains that pose an unignorable threat to human health worldwide. The opposite releasing mechanisms of As and Cd in the soil complicate measures to reduce the accumulation of As and Cd simultaneously in rice. We performed soil incubation...

The study aimed to determine the usefulness and adoption of Palay Check ( Rice check) technology. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods, specifically correlational and case study research designs. Respondents of the study were the 78 small-holder farmers in San Mateo, Isabela....

Objective - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways rice producers work with other stakeholders to maximize business potential of rice agribusiness by identifying problems, suggesting solutions, and developing a stakeholders' participatory framework as a guideline tool for the...

Objective - This research aims to; 1) study the competitive advantage and firm performance of the geminated parboiled rice community enterprise group, 2) investigate the differences in competitive advantage and firm performance when classified by organizational factors, 3) study the difference...

The classical approach for the synthesis of catalysts based on biogenic silica from rice husk or rice straw involves a high temperature (600 °C) calcination step to remove the organic matrix from the silica backbone. The remaining silica can then be impregnated with a variety of active...

How does export activity affect prices in domestic consumer markets? To explore this questions, I exploit a natural experiment provided by India's rice export restrictions during 2007-2011. I first document that the binding restrictions had a considerable negative impact on producers. However,...

The outbreak of COVID-19 disease caused disruption in global supply chains as countries imposed various measures in a bid to contain the coronavirus. This paper examines the nexus between governments’ COVID-19 response measures, real exchange rate and prices of wheat and maize in South Africa....

Developing countries rely on sectors like agriculture for production and sustenance. Climate change threatens their economic activity by impacting crop yields and affecting seasonal planting and harvests. Using advances in econometric modeling, however, one may analyze the effects of variable...

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition by providing a quality rating and a price quote for...

The Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) was initiated as policy framework with the aim of doubling rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the period from 2008 to 2018. This paper assesses the contribution of the CARD policy to rice production and forecasts the local rice...