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EnglishSource: YubaNet.com29/04/2010 – Iraq is planning to import 80 percent of its wheat and rice requirements in 2010, according to Hussein Ghazy, a spokesman of the state-owned Grains Company affiliated to the Trade Ministry. Trade Ministry figures show Iraq imported 3.55 million tons of wheat and 1.17 million tons of rice last year – up…
Source: Bloomberg28/04/2010 – India, the world’s second-largest rice producer, will purchase lower-quality grain from farmers to bolster reserves after last year’s drought shrunk the crop to the smallest in seven years, a government official said.
Source: Bloomberg22/04/2010 – Rice fell for the ninth straight session, the longest losing streak since 2001, on concern that Vietnam is reducing prices to boost export sales as U.S. farmers expand the area devoted to the grain.
Source: Caribbean Daily News23/04/2010 – Guyana says it has signed an order for another shipment of rice to Venezuela under an agreement to provide 50,000 tons of rice to Caracas, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud has said.
Source: The Financial Express26/04/2010 – With the India meteorological department predicting a normal monsoon this year, the government is getting ready for the forthcoming kharif season with new seeds and better pest management practices to make maximum use of the likely improved weather condition.
Source: CommodityOnline23/04/2010 – World’s richest man and Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday praised a new variety of Indian rice breed that can withstand flood.
Fuente: BERNAMA.COM26/04/2010 – Several factors have been identified as reasons why the younger generation in Sarawak are not interested in becoming paddy farmers, among them outdated labour-intensive methods, Bernas Chief Operations Officer Mohd Kamaluddin Mohd Effendie said.
Source: Kaieteur News Online22/04/2010 – Several rice farmers across the country have experimented successfully with planting methods and in some cases have more than doubled their yields per acre.
Source: Bloomberg.com21/04/2010 – The Philippines is “concerned” that low rainfall forecast through June may delay rice planting, curbing supplies in the world’s biggest buyer for a second year, a government official said. Rice futures rallied.
Source: Reuters19/04/2010 – The European Union has lifted restrictions on imports of rice from the United States that were imposed in 2006 after shipments were found to contain genetically modified rice not approved in the bloc, an EU official said on Monday. U.S. rice imports to the EU have been at a virtual standstill since…
