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EnglishSource: The Ithaca Journal26/11/2010 – Two teams based at Cornell University, backed by multimillion-dollar grants from the National Science Foundation, are turning to the frontiers of genetic sciences to help solve an age-old problem — how to make corn and rice crops hardier and more productive.
Source: The times of India26/11/2010 – How about growing a special variety of rice that shows submergence tolerant capacity and could be grown in high saline conditions in the country?
Source: Ghana News Agency24/11/2010 – The government cannot continue to spend its earnings on importing rice whilst it has the capacity to produce enough to feed the population, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, has said.
Source: Bloomberg24/11/2010 – Thailand, the world’s biggest rice exporter, said output from the nation’s main harvest may fall below its previous estimate as the worst floods in five decades devastated crops, supporting prices of Asia’s staple food.
Source: Manila Bulletin23/11/2010 – The government’s P2.2-billion program to massively produce value-added, export-oriented organic rice on 10,000 hectares will boost the economic status of the poorest farmers in rain-fed areas long left out in development programs.
Source: 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.
Source: SOS Children’s Villages16/11/2010 – With the recent natural disasters, the mood in Indonesia was low-key before the arrival of President Obama last week. Images of the destruction caused by Mount Merapi dominated the news and over 250 people are now known to have died following the eruptions. In recent days the volcano’s activity has lessened and exclusion…
