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EnglishSource: 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…
Source: companiesandmarkets.com13/04/2010 – This is the replacement for the July 2009 edition of Rice Farming in the US Industry Risk Ratings Report. Industry Risk Ratings Synopsis This Industry Risk Ratings report evaluates the inherent risks associated with the Rice Farming in the US industry. Industry Risk is assumed to be ‘the difficulty, or otherwise, of…
Source: BBC13/04/2010 – Concrete made from rice husk and coal ash waste is being developed in a scheme to tackle climate change. Traditional methods of concrete production release large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Source: Reuters10/04/2010 – Vietnam will sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia to encourage Saudi Aramco to invest in two refineries to be built in the Asian country, and welcomed Saudi firms’ interest in investing in rice cultivation in Vietnam. Like other Gulf Arab countries that rely on food imports, Saudi private firms have intensified efforts…
Source: theadvertiser.com10/04/2010 – It’s turning out to be a good spring for planting rice after all. About 80 percent of south Louisiana’s fields are seeded, and farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi plan more acreage than a year ago.
Source: Bangkok Post02/04/2010 – The Commerce Ministry has been ordered to send negotiators to Vietnam to initiate discussions on ending the rice price-war between the two countries, Deputy Prime Minister for economic affairs Trairong Suwankiri said on Friday.
Source: posted by guanteik.blogspot07/04/2010 – Rice production in Thailand and Vietnam, the two largest exporters, may be hurt by drier-than-normal weather that’s parched farms and cut water levels in the Mekong River, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Source: 2theadvocate.com06/04/2010 – Louisiana farmers started the 2010 rice-planting season with caution, worried that wet fields might require more planting in water this year. But fields dried out, temperatures have warmed and farmers are now able to drill-seeding much of their crop.
