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EnglishSource: Reuters27/10/2011 – Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that the nation’s shrinking agricultural sector is in dire straits.
Source: SciDev Net25/10/11 – Research into rice varieties is keeping the staple food affordable and helping to stave off hunger for millions in South-East Asia, an Australian government agency has reported.
Source: Bloomberg26/10/11 – Thailand’s worst floods in more than a half century may have wiped out as much as 14 percent of paddy fields in the world’s biggest rice exporter, potentially erasing the predicted global glut.
