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EnglishSource: Delta Farm Press09/07/2010 – Texas rice farmers are poised to make another good crop on increased acreage, but heavy rains for the last two weeks have growers concerned about disease pressure and the cost of treatments. “The crop looked good two to three weeks ago,” said Garry McCauley, Texas AgriLife Extension water and weed…
Source: PIA Daily News Reader09/07/2010 – Farmers in the “texting capital” of the world, the Philippines, will soon have nutrient management advice tailored specifically to their rice crops delivered to their mobile phones. Dr. Roland Buresh, part of the International Rice Research (IRRI) team that has joined the Philippine Department of Agriculture to establish the…
Source: ABC Rural09/07/2010 – Farmers and investors will be looking on with interest today as the first rice crop to be grown in Western Australia in almost 30 years is harvested in the Kimberley. Rice was abandoned there in 1983 due to problems with native birds and difficulty in finding suitable varieties for the Ord’s…
Source: allAfrica.com07/07/2010 – Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu has said that the state can produce up to 50 percent rice consumed in Nigeria. Aliyu, who said this at a workshop on rice production in Niger, said the state would embark on irrigation farming all year round to boost production. The governor, who was represented by…
Source: Business Mirror08/07/2010 – The Philippines has the capability to become self-sufficient in rice for as long as the government would invest in farm-to-market roads, extension work and irrigation, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said. IRRI director general Robert S. Ziegler also said the timely delivery of crop-management information to farmers would boost efforts…
