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EnglishSource: Reuters10/04/2010 – Vietnam will sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia to encourage Saudi Aramco to invest in two refineries to be built in the Asian country, and welcomed Saudi firms’ interest in investing in rice cultivation in Vietnam. Like other Gulf Arab countries that rely on food imports, Saudi private firms have intensified efforts…
Source: theadvertiser.com10/04/2010 – It’s turning out to be a good spring for planting rice after all. About 80 percent of south Louisiana’s fields are seeded, and farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi plan more acreage than a year ago.
Source: Bangkok Post02/04/2010 – The Commerce Ministry has been ordered to send negotiators to Vietnam to initiate discussions on ending the rice price-war between the two countries, Deputy Prime Minister for economic affairs Trairong Suwankiri said on Friday.
Source: posted by guanteik.blogspot07/04/2010 – Rice production in Thailand and Vietnam, the two largest exporters, may be hurt by drier-than-normal weather that’s parched farms and cut water levels in the Mekong River, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Source: 2theadvocate.com06/04/2010 – Louisiana farmers started the 2010 rice-planting season with caution, worried that wet fields might require more planting in water this year. But fields dried out, temperatures have warmed and farmers are now able to drill-seeding much of their crop.
Source: Kaieteur News Online06/04/2010 – The fifth of 12 drying floors has been commissioned by Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, part of the $400M El Nino intervention by President Bharrat Jagdeo, to safeguard the livelihood of rice farmers.
Source: Stabroek news06/04/2010 – Despite El Nino conditions, rice production has increased by an estimated 12,000 tonnes when compared to the same period last year, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said.
Source: mydigitalfc.com04/04/2010 – India, the second largest producer of rice, accounts for 19.70 per cent of global production. Within India, rice occupies one-quarter of the total cultivated area and accounts for about 40 to 43 per cent of total foodgrain production.
Source: Reuters04/04/2010 – Singapore-based Indo-Sino and local Tanvir Enterprise have won a Bangladesh tender to buy 50,000 tonnes of white rice at $388.92 per tonne, cost and freight, a official said on Sunday.
Source: The Nation05/04/2010 – “Rice farming is our major income. We all know of the government’s warning sign but we still want to take the risk in case something happens to our farm area,” says Sangwan Seangkhum, 41, from Phitsanulok’s Bangragum district.
