Yearly Archives: 2011

USA – Spring floods cost Arkansas farmers millions in lost income

Source: Reuters29/08/2011 – Arkansas farmers suffered a severe blow from this spring’s floods and stormy weather, with crop damage costing them $335 million in lost farm income, a study released on Monday said.

USA – Wild rice harvest not looking as good this season

Source: Wisconsin Ag. Connection31/08/2011 – People looking to participate in wild rice gathering this fall will likely encounter only fair rice beds this year based on aerial surveys conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Philippines – No gold in Golden Rice, says GMO expert

Source: The Cornucopia Institute28/08/2011 – Gold is absent in golden rice. Dr. Michael HansenMichael Hansen, Senior Scientist of the Consumers Union (USA) stressed this concern during a forum on the controversial Golden Rice staged recently at the NCAS Auditorium, University of the Philippines Los Banos in Laguna province. The forum, titled “Golden Rice in Focus: An…

Cambodia – Cambodia’s rice export scheme sees good omen with Chinese investments

Source: Cambodia Today27/08/2011 – Cambodia has seen a positive sign towards achieving its self-imposed target of one million-ton- rice exports by 2015 as the sector has been attracting a number of large investments from China.

Sri Lanka – Bumper northern rice harvest boosts stocks

Source: IRIN News26/08/2011 – Bumper paddy production in Sri Lanka’s former conflict areas has averted an expected national rice shortage, experts say. 

USA – Feared beetle makes its way to U.S. in rice from India

Source: FoxNews.com25/08/2011 – U.S. Customs and Border Patrol investigators said Tuesday that they intercepted a feared nonnative beetle in bags of rice that arrived at O’Hare International Airport from India, the latest in a surge of discoveries of the hard-to-kill pest that could damage this country’s grain industry if it became established.

Japan – Japanese researchers trying to find rice varieties that absorb less Cesium from the soil

Source: Cryptogon22/08/2011 – A research agency in Fukushima Prefecture recently began examining some 110 varieties of rice from in and outside Japan in search for strains that absorb less radioactive cesium from soil.

Vietnam – Vietnam’s rice bowl threatened by rising seas

Source: guardian.co.uk21/08/2011 – Sitting amid buckets of rice in the market, Nguyen Thi Lim Lien issues a warning she desperately hopes the world will hear: climate change is turning the rivers of the Mekong Delta salty.

Guyana – Guyanese-owned large rice farm commissioned in T&T

Source: Stabroek News20/08/2011 – Five thousand acres across the country will be used for rice cultivation during the next six months.

Bangladesh – Caritas joins agency in rice research

Source: UCA News19/08/2011 – Caritas has formally joined a government agency in a six year deal for partnership-based research and production of rice.