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EnglishSource: Reuters10/06/2011 – Ngadiyo, a farmer in Indonesia’s West Java, worries that there won’t be anyone to grow rice once he retires. His son and two daughters moved to Jakarta, the capital, several years ago, lured — like many others — by more stable jobs and hopes of a more modern life as the nation’s economy grows. They…
Source: LabSpaces10/06/2011 – The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research publishing in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on June 9, 2011. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domestication of rice occurred at least twice independently but with extensive “borrowing” between the two subspecies.
Source: Physorg.com07/06/2011 – In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Masanori Yamasaki and colleagues from Kobe University in Japan, describe how they analyzed the genomes of several types of rice and discovered that the lengths of the stems on the plants grew shorter over time as rice was first being domesticated,…
Source: PR Newswire09/06/2011 – Environmental Defense Fund, in partnership with Winrock International, the California Rice Commission and the leading Arkansas rice industry associations and producers, will receive a $1.1 million USDA Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to demonstrate best practices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice production in Arkansas and California.
Source: Reuters09/06/2011 – A Japanese mayor is seeking to rebuild his city into a renewable energy hub by placing solar panels on top of rice paddies that were devastated by the March earthquake and tsunami.
Source: Reuters07/06/2011 – India raised the support price at which it buys rice from farmers by around eight percent, the government said in a statement on Thursday, a move aimed at encouraging more planting of the food crop during the current monsoon season.
Source: KPLCtv.com07/06/2011 – Rice farmers frustrated with increasing salt water in their irrigation canals filled a meeting hall June 3 to hear what could be done about the problem.
Source: GMA News08/06/2011 – A United Nations (UN) agency sees the Philippines improving its rice production in the next two years, reflecting projections of the Aquino administration though to a lesser extent.
Source: The Jakarta Post05/06/2011 – Morning moisture that looks like pearls is still on paddy leaves and stems as the sun starts shining on the scenic terraced and winding paddy fields typical of Bali in Jatiluwih village in Penebel, north of Tabanan.
Source: Xinhuanet04/06/2011 – A total of 56.95 million mu of the country’s farmland (about 3.8 million hectares) was affected by drought, the country’s top drought relief authority said Friday.
