Philippines – Nueva Ecija rice harvests down by 40%
Source: PhilStar.com04/11/2011 – A month since typhoons Pedring and Quiel, the toll on rice production in Nueva Ecija, dubbed as the country’s rice granary, has shown.
Mozambique – Mozfoods optimistic about rice production
Source: allAfrica.com07/11/2011 – The company Mozfoods, which processes rice in Chokwe district, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, believes that the conditions now exist for it shortly to reach its installed capacity of 20,000 tonnes.
Dubai – Rice exhibition to help expand market: Lubna
Source: Khaleej Times04/11/2011 – Shaikha Lubna Al Qasimi, UAE Minister for Foreign Trade, on Thursday officially opened in Dubai the RICE 2011, or Rice International Exhibition and Conference, the new three-day event which aims to strengthen UAE’s position as the world’s biggest re-exporter of rice.
Thai rice exports seen plunging on state buying, flooding
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek04/11/2011 – Rice shipments from Thailand, the largest exporter, will drop by half from November to January as a state-buying policy raises costs and flooding disrupts transport, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
How fear drove world rice markets insane
Source: NPR02/11/2011 – Nothing is more basic and simple than food. Yet it comes to us courtesy of a long, complicated supply chain that spans the globe.
Rice seed yields blood protein
Source: Scientific American31/10/2011 – One can’t squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood–or at least blood protein–from a grain of rice. In a study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe rice seeds that…
True wild rice probably isn’t what you think it is – It’s better
Source: Indian Country01/11/2011 – The migration story of the Ojibwe people tells of following the miigis (cowry shell) west and looking for a place where food grows on the water. That food was manoomin (wild rice), and the place, basically, was northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan and west-central Ontario.
USA – Texas rice industry well represented in Cuba this week
Source: Southwest Farm Press31/10/2011 – In spite of continued Congressional support of a 50-year old policy of trade restrictions against Cuba, U.S. rice industry representatives are gathering in Havana this week for the annual International Trade Fair of Havana (FIHAV) in hopes of developing new trade strategies and gathering support for overturning the U.S. embargo, which…
Rice quality expands markets for U.S. producers
Source: Western Farm Press07/11/2011 – New rice varieties that offer new options for U.S. growers and expanded market opportunities for the U.S. rice industry have been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and cooperators.