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EnglishSource: 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…
Source: Farming First19/04/2010 – Being essentially an agrarian country, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The main staple food is rice – and rain-fed lowland rice production accounts for more than 80% of the total rice area – but flooding, drought, and pests and disease are increasingly common due to changes…
Source: Philstar.com18/04/2010 – Less water, more rice. Aerobic rice technology, a new rice technique that uses less water, will be tested by Magsasaka Siyentista (MS) Nimencio J. Concepcion of the Farmers Information and Technology Services (FITS) Center in San Ildefonso, Bulacan.
Source: Science News16/04/2010 – Ask toxicologists how best to avoid mercury poisoning and they’ll almost certainly advise against eating too much of the wrong types of fish. (Never mind that there’s considerable confusion about what the wrong types are.) But a new study out of China shows that for millions of people at risk of…