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EnglishSource: 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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Source: Stabroek News31/10/2011 – Mahaicony Rice Mill (MRM) continues to owe farmers and the Ministry of Agriculture will be moving to pursue payments for those affected and they should be able to access some funds by next week.
Source: Khaleej Times30/10/2011 – A predicted surge in the supply of rice from South East Asia over the coming months would help reinforce the UAE’s position as the world’s biggest re-exporter of rice, an industry expert said.
Source: 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.
