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EnglishSource: Bloomberg23/02/2011 – India’s Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said it’s the “right time” for the world’s second-biggest grower of rice and wheat to export a limited quantity of the food grains, potentially cooling global prices.
Source: The Japan Times22/02/2011 – Farmers are up in arms about the possibility that the government will participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, which would remove import tariffs on products from member countries. In particular, rice farmers say that allowing cheaper foreign rice into Japan would wipe them out, which is probably true for most of…
Source: Mail Online18/02/2011 – It could be the answer for the millions who find brown rice hard to swallow – healthy white rice. Scientists have refined the milling process to create a rice that has all the taste of white rice but many of the health benefits of brown rice.
Source: Manila Bulletin19/02/2011 – Department of Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala urged the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) to find ways on how to attain the country’s goal of rice self-sufficiency by 2013.
Source: The Economic Times18/02/2011 – Rice procurement in the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS- October 2010-September 2011) by government agencies has crossed the mark of 200 lakh tonne (20mt) mark upto February 17 but is slightly lower than procurement same time last year.
Source: YubaNet.com16/02/2011 – The price of rice, the staple food in Madagascar, has doubled in the past two years, forcing residents in the capital, Antananarivo, to halve their consumption. “At almost 2,000 ariary (US$1) a kilogramme, rice has become a luxury item,” Tiana Randrianirina, a rice seller at the main market in the capital, told…
