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PADDY production reached 2.6 million tonnes in the 2024/2025 season, surpassing the national requirement of 1.2 million ...

Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threaten it all. I joined him in the aftermath as he travelled around his homeland, visiting the ...

A comprehensive review by scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing Agricultural University, ...

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The number of endangered bird and amphibian species has increased on the Environment Ministry’s latest Red List, but there ...