International demand for basmati rice is forecast to double over the next few years. But farmers and connoisseurs say ...

Besides India, the prices of rice varieties from Thailand, too, have gone up. Earlier, the cost of a 20kg bag of non-Basmati rice from Thailand was anything between Dh28 and Dh35. Now, the price ...

Kenya has emerged as a threat to the Indian subcontinent’s exclusivity to basmati rice with farmers in the Ahero region of Kisumu county tasting success in cultivating the fragrant rice.