+57 310 8228246
EnglishSource: Indian Express20/11/2010 – More than a year after allegations of “illegal” exports of rice to African countries surfaced, the government on Friday told Parliament that public sector trading firms had indeed flouted norms, benefitting some private companies.
Source: Business Standard19/11/2010 – India’s rice output is likely to rise 12.36 per cent this year, on favourable pattern of monsoon and higher acreage area, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO’s) latest food review forecast released yesterday. The agency estimated India’s total milled rice output at 100 million tonnes (mt) this year,…
Source: Blogs From the Earth Institute17/11/2010 – Since the 1960s, farmers in Punjab, India have practiced some of the most intensive broad scale grain production in the world. As a result, the state has earned the nickname “the food bowl of India” for its out sized role in adopting and implementing Green Revolution technologies that in…
Source: The Australian09/11/2010 – Singapore should become the global hub of rice futures and spot trading to defend Asia’s billions from price swings, food riots and shortages.