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EnglishSource: CGIAR20/10/2011 – Indonesia is one of the biggest consumers of rice in Asia, making the availability of affordable rice of prime importance to the well being of the nation’s 235 million people. In a bid to avoid a recurrence of the rice crisis that took place in the country in 2008, the Indonesian government initiated…
Source: Wester Farm Press20/10/2011 – USDA scientists have characterized the molecular mechanism behind some plants’ ability to resist rice blast. The fungus has been found in 85 countries worldwide, including the United States.
Source: GBN17/10/2011 – A pilot project on the suitability of large-scale rice and beans cultivation in the Wegbe-Kpalime area of the Volta Region is underway.
Source: Leadership16/10/2011 – Ekiti State indigenes have been urged to go into rice farming in order to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the state and equally boost food production in the country.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek13/10/2011 – Rice farmers near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will impose radiation safety limits that will only clear grains with levels so low as to be virtually undetectable after government-set standards were viewed as too lenient, curbing sales.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek13/10/2011 – Ronald Gertson’s family has grown rice for five generations in east Texas, where the Colorado River makes the soil ideal for the grain and little else. Now, the state’s worst drought ever may keep Gertson from planting next year, eroding U.S. output that is the lowest in 13 years.
Source: AG WEB12/10/2011 – U.S. rice production in 2011/12 is forecast at 186.9 million cwt, down 4.0 million from last month and the smallest crop since 1998/99. The decline is entirely due to a decrease in yield. Average yield is estimated at 7,123 pounds per acre, down 150 pounds from last month. Harvested area is unchanged at…
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek12/10/2011 – Damage to rice crops from Thailand to Philippines may “push up” prices this year as global production of milled rice may be less than previously forecast, according to the International Rice Research Institute.
Source: AME info12/10/2011 – The UAE’s position as the world’s biggest re-exporter of rice can be reinforced by an increase in imports of the grain from South East Asia, according to the driving force behind an important new industry event taking place in Dubai next month.
Source: Reuters11/10/2011 – Nine heavy wooden rods drop slowly into holes carved in a row in a massive marble block to peel off paddy rice in the same way used for centuries at an old water mill in northern Italy.
