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EnglishSource: The Times of India30/01/2011 – An experiment by Indian agriculture scientists points to the enormous effect global warming could have on the fragrant basmati rice. Basmati, Sanskrit for the fragrant one, may lose not just its aroma, the famous long grains may get shorter, say scientists.
Source: Vietnam Business & Economy27/01/2011 – Vietnam’s rice export is the first impressive achievement of the country’s reform, on both external and internal fronts. If shortcomings are eradicated, the results reaped will be all the more astounding.
Source: PRWeb28/01/2011 – Meiogenix and CIRAD signed a collaboration agreement to evaluate the impact of Meiogenix’s SpiX™ technology in modulating meiotic homologous recombination in the genome of rice. The research program which will be performed in the laboratory of Dr. Emmanuel Guiderdoni, an expert in rice genomics, could lead to the identification of new natural varieties…
Source: Bloomberg26/01/2011 – Bangladesh, South Asia’s biggest rice buyer, doubled its import target for this year to cool domestic prices that surged to a record in December as consumers and farmers hoarded supplies, a government official said.
Source: Reuters26/01/2011 – The U.S. futures regulator has imposed total fines of $2 million on two traders for excessive speculation in U.S. rice futures as prices raced to all-time highs in 2008.
Source: Asia One News26/01/2011 – North Korea’s rice price has hit a record high due to the delayed arrival of Chinese aid and a campaign to procure food for the military, a Seoul-based welfare group said Wednesday.
Source: Business World25/01/2011 – The Government may import just enough rice this year to ensure a 30-day buffer and leave any requirement beyond that to private traders, Agriculture officials said in separate interviews.
Source: GMA News.tv25/01/2011 – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) launched on Monday a new mobile initiative named “Nutrient Management for Rice Mobile (NMRiceMobile)” which allows Filipino farmers and their extension workers to get fertilizer information for free.
Source: The Sunday Leader23/01/2011 – The Central Bank of Sri Lanka under its Viskam Loan Scheme has facilitated the establishment of the first rice flour milling factory with the latest state of the art milling technology.
Source: Farm Press21/01/2011 – USA Rice Federation recently launched The Rice Advisor (member log-in required), a monthly research report that provides rice industry members with current food processing trends for products using rice as an ingredient. According to the report, there were more than 4,300 new products using rice as a whole or broken kernel introduced over the…
