India's basmati exports are likely to rise as the recent floods in Pakistan have submerged nearly one fifth of the country's basmati crop under water while damaging other rice crops. Pakistan competes with India for ... [full story]
Indian minister of state for agriculture K V Thomas has expressed concern over reports that the world's longest basmati rice variety Pusa-1121, developed by Indian scientists, is being grown in Pakistan under a different name. Pusa-1121 ... [full story]
The ongoing tension between South Asian giants India and neighboring Pakistan have thwarted their plans to jointly own the term basmati for the aromatic rice grown exclusively in parts of Indian subcontinentIndia and Pakistan had planned ... [full story]