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EnglishSource: Bloomberg17/08/2010 – China’s mid-season and late-season rice crops face increasing threats from pests after widespread floods this summer made conditions ideal for insects to breed, the Ministry of Agriculture said today.
Source: Bloomberg17/08/2010 – India, the world’s second-biggest rice grower, may have a record harvest this year as increased planting offset drought in the east of the country. Production may total 100 million metric tons in the year ending June 2011, compared with 89.3 million tons a year ago, said Vijay Setia, president of All India Rice Exporters’…
Source: Vietnam Business News12/08/2010 – Rice exports will total 6 million tonnes this year while domestic food security is still ensured, deputy minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien told reporters here on Tuesday.
Source: Afrique Avenir12/08/2010 – The hunger riots, triggered by the despair of the population facing soaring food prices in 2007 and 2008, led many African governments to react and reconsider development of the agricultural sector. Agriculture returned to the centre of national policy debates and rice, food staple no.1 was given production priority. Result: the rice…
Fonte: Novohamburgo.org11/08/2010 – Segundo dados do Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior – MDIC, as exportações brasileiras de arroz alcançaram 53,6 mil toneladas em julho.
Source: allAfrica.com06/08/2010 – Uganda hopes to become the region’s leader in rice research with the opening later this year of a US$6 million centre at its crop research institute.
Source: AFP09/08/2010 – Even modest rises in global temperatures will drive down rice production in Asia, the world’s biggest grower of the cereal grain that millions of poor people depend on as a staple food, a study published Monday warned.
Source: Stabroek news09/08/2010 – Just over a week ago an increase in paddy bug presence was noticed in the Black Bush Polder area and farmers are being warned about a possible infestation, General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (GRPA) Dharamkumar Seeraj says.
Source: Dailycomet.com07/08/2010 – The rice crop around the Eunice area, one of the region’s chief economic drivers, looks to be plentiful. But prices have dropped from 2009, farmers and agriculture officials say.
Source: Vietnam Business News06/08/2010 – The Philippines, Vietnam’s biggest rice customer by far, has announced it will emphasize achieving food self-sufficiency – a problematic development for Vietnam’s exporters.
