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EnglishSource: BusinessWorld17/11/2011 – Rice imports for next year could be higher than initially forecast, a Cabinet official yesterday said, following crop damage caused by a string of typhoons in the second half.
Source: Gizmodo17/11/2011 – For the first time since the tsunami-induced meltdown at a Fukushima power plant, Japanese health officials have discovered excessive concentrations of radioactive cesium in rice harvested from the region.
Source: The Bioenergy Site16/11/2011 – The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of researchers that includes a UC Davis rice geneticist.
Source: Inhabitat15/11/2011 – The earthquake and tsunami in Japan earlier this year caused serious damage to farmland, destroying a number of rice paddies, amongst other things, by inundating them with seawater. However, a recent cultivation trial done by B&L Corporation in Ishinomaki in Miyagi has succeeded in producing 5,400 kg of rice per hectare in ruined paddy fields. Using an agricultural preparation called…
Source: The Post and Courier14/11/2011 – As day broke in the ACE Basin, flocks of tundra swans began to fly from a pond. They rose into a sky where hundreds on hundreds of birds already flew — egrets and blue herons, white ibis and wood storks. In a nearby tree a bald eagle pair watched. Not…
Source: The Daily Star14/11/2011 – Bangladesh is likely to bag a record rice crop for the second consecutive year, said Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a forecast released early this month.
Source: The Economist12/11/2011 – IN ASIA kingdoms are said to rise and fall with the shifting price of rice. So the continent’s rulers presumably ought to be worried by the effects of disastrous floods in Thailand, the world’s biggest exporter of the white grains (see chart).
Source: CGIAR09/11/2011 – Soil salinity and flooding in the coastal deltas of India and Bangladesh directly impact the lives of around 130 million people. Rice fields in these areas are inundated with tidal surges driven by cyclones early in the wet season, followed by partial or stagnant flooding due to heavy monsoon rains later in the…
