Pakistan plans to increase rice exports by 10% in 2010-11
Source: Bloomberg05/07/2010 – Pakistan plans to ship 10 percent more rice overseas in the year starting July 1, according to the exporters’ trade group.
Rivals Challenge Vietnam in low class rice export
Source: Vietnam Import Export News Channel04/07/2010 – Vietnam, well known as the largest low class rice provider in the world, now has many redoubtable rivals in the market segment. Le Tuan, Chair of Vinh Long Import-Export Joint Stock Company (Inmex Cuu Long), has signed a contract to sell 10,000 tons of rice to Kenya.
Philippines – Experts concur with DA chief: Rice self-sufficiency in three years
Source: BusinessMirror04/07/2010 – Removing rice imports in three years is possible, assuming that the Aquino administration would be able to put in place the right policy measures and educate the public on healthy eating, experts said over the weekend.
Ambitious GM rice project enters next phase
Source: SciDev.Net01/07/2010 – An international consortium aiming to re-engineer rice to increase yields by 50 per cent is about to move into the second phase of its decades-long project. The project aims to genetically modify rice to use a more efficient method of photosynthesis — the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates…
Guyana – Rice farmers fight losing battle with millers
Source: Kaieteur News23/06/2010 – Regulators are moving to introduce stern measures that will mandate rice millers to put down at least 10 per cent of their last crop paddy purchases as a cash surety, as current legislations fail to protect rice farmers. Government officials on Thursday admitted that they are fighting a losing battle as…
India – Deficient monsoon may cut rice output for a second year
Source: Reuters02/07/2010 – Paddy transplantation in the country is not moving at the desired pace, hit by a second year of deficient monsoon, which may impact the country’s food grain output, officials, farmers and industry watchers said. “Overall sowing is not progressing well due to deficient rainfall,” said Rajat Paul, additional director with the West…
India – Rice output can rise to 130 mn tns by 2020 via drip irrigation
Source: Business Standard02/07/2010 – The country’s rice production can easily increase to about 130 million tonnes by 2020 if trials for cultivating paddy through drip irrigation are successful, according to Jain Irrigation.
Rice falls to three-year low on prospects for bigger supplies
Source: Bloomberg29/06/2010 – Rice fell to the lowest price in more than three years on expectations for a bigger U.S. crop and increased world supplies. The U.S. crop was rated 74 percent good or excellent as of June 27, up from 55 percent at the same time a year earlier, the government said yesterday. Global…
Rice output in Thailand to be smallest in eight years, FAO says
Source: Bloomberg29/06/2010 – Rice production in Thailand, the largest exporter of the grain, may drop to the lowest in eight years as drought and the spread of plant hoppers damage crops, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. The nation’s main rice crop, which accounts for about 75 percent of total output, may be 22…
China – Work on new hybrid rice to be finished in 2012
Source: Crienglish.com20/06/2010 – Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, said on Sunday that his team was working on a new version of high-yield hybrid rice and might complete it in 2012. Yuan, director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center and a faculty member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,…