Philippines – High-yielding varieties key to nation’s rice self-sufficiency

Source: Business Mirror15/07/2010 – Even without expanding areas planted to rice, an official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) said the use of high-yielding rice varieties would ensure that the Philippines would become self-sufficient in rice by 2013. “With limited or dwindling rice areas, the Philippines can still be self-sufficient and limit rice importation if…

Australia – Rice farming frontier

Source: Stock & Land11/07/2010 – Unlimited water supplies in Australia’s far north west were too great a temptation for two drought-weary farmers from the NSW Murray Valley who embraced their inner-frontier and will this week harvest the first commercial rice crop grown in the Ord River Valley for more than 30 years – taking the future…