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EnglishSource: The Times of India24/10/2010 – India on Saturday said it will soon export five lakh tonne of rice and wheat to Bangladesh despite ban on outward shipments of the foodgrains. “India will be exporting three lakh tonne of parboiled rice and two lakh tonne of wheat to Bangladesh…PSUs (state trading firms) have been directed to do so expeditiously,”…
Source: Vietnamnet22/10/2010 – The demand for rice in the world market has been increasing rapidly towards the end of the year. Rice exporters, including Thailand, Pakistan and India have raised their export prices by at least 30 percent compared to previous month. However, at this moment, when the rice prices reach the highest level in…
Source: Freedomist.com21/10/2010 – Rice farmers could boost their yields by 50 percent with a new method that uses less water Oxfam America said on Wednesday as climate change and drought threaten the staple crop.
Source: Fast Company19/10-2010 – When we last covered PATH, the international health nonprofit had licensed its rice fortification technology to producers in Brazil, Columbia, and India. Now PATH is bringing Ultra Rice–a rice-shaped extruded rice grain filled with vitamins and minerals–to Burundi. This marks the first time that Ultra Rice will be available in Africa.
Source – Inquirer.net19/10/2010 – A state of calamity was declared in Isabela province Monday after Super-typhoon “Juan” made landfall and threatened to wipe out the region’s rice crop. The supertyphoon is expected to cause a power shortage in northern Luzon in the short term. By the end of the year, however, the country is expected to…
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek18/10/2010 – Rice production in Australia may almost quadruple next harvest as heavier-than-usual rainfall boosts water supplies following a decade of drought, a growers’ group said after raising its production forecast.
Source: Business Line17/10/2010 – DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd (DSCL) is looking at hybrid rice as a major growth driver for its ‘Bioseed’ (hybrid seeds) business. “Right now, the bulk of Bioseed’s revenues are from Bt cotton and corn hybrids. But in five years, we see hybrid rice contributing a bigger share”, said Mr Vikram S. Shriram,…
Source: DNA16/10/2010 – In August, research warned that rice yields are expected to decline over the coming decades as global temperatures rise. It highlighted the need for heat-tolerant strains of rice to offset this.
Source: Wisconsin Ag Connection15/10/2010 – Session three of the Rice Leadership Development Program was held earlier this month, providing participants with an overview of rice marketing and production practices, specialty product development, conservation and environmental issues and a close-up look at the state’s rice harvest in California. Class members met with Farmers’ Rice Cooperative, the…
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek08/10/2010 – Vietnam, the second-largest rice exporter, may lose about 5 percent of the farmland used for the crop by 2020 as malls and industrial parks spread, according to the government, which has drawn up a plan to halt the losses.
