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EnglishSource: Stabroek news03/04/2010 – Government interventions like last month’s infusion of $258 million into the country’s rice industry to stave off the El Nino-related threat to an estimated $600 million worth of rice under cultivation are unlikely to avert losses to the industry that could amount to a significant portion of the total current rice…
Source: Natural Products Marketplace04/03/2010 – In a recent Mlaysian study, germinated brown rice (GBR) inhibited the total number of colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF), AC and multi-crypt of ACF development; and reduced the expression of beta-catenin and COX-2, highlighting its promise as a possible preventive method for colon cancer.
Source: IRIN 01/04/2010 – Rice may still be a symbol of food security across Africa, but the cereal does little to boost nutrition, unlike vegetables, according to the India-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Source: AlertNet31/03/2010 – The dry, cracked earth beneath my feet feels as hard as concrete and there’s not a drop of water in the field. Yet there are lush, green shoots of paddy sprouting from the soil.
Source: GMANews.TV30/03/2010 – The government’s palay (unhusked rice) procurement as of the third week of March slid by almost a fifth from a year earlier amid an El Niño-induced drought.
Source: allAfrica.com30/03/2010 – The governor of Niger State Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu has called on Nigerians to stand against rice importers with the aim of stimulating consumption of locally produced rice in the country.
Source: allAfrica.com28/03/2010 – Federal Government intends to launch a major plan for raising domestic rice production and improving indigenous processing capacity by 300 per cent.
Source: Business Insider29/03/2010 – Huang Weijuan, a Guangzhou housewife, said she spent 55 yuan ($8) to buy a bag of rice in Taojin agricultural bazaar in the city’s Yuexiu district over the weekend.
Source: NBF General Topics28/03/2010 – The two-prong policy initiatives of the Federal Government aimed at attaining self-sufficiency in rice production through local cultivation and becoming a food exporting bnation in 2020 may remain a mirage, going by the happenings in the nation‘s land borders.
Source: Bloomberg26/03/2010 – Nigeria, Africa’s third-biggest rice producer, plans to boost production of the grain fourfold over the next decade to save more than $500 million spent annually on imports, the Agriculture Ministry said.
