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EnglishSource: Consumer Reports.org05/12/2011 – A new federally funded study of more than 200 pregnant women receiving prenatal care in the New Hampshire area reports a link between rice consumption and elevated levels of arsenic in urine, suggesting that “many people in the United States may be exposed to potentially harmful levels of arsenic through rice consumption,”…
Source: Business World05/12/2011 – The regional office of the Department of Agriculture is conducting field trials on rice varieties that can withstand drought or flooding and can grow in coastal areas.
Source: PhilStar.com03/12/2011 – Although it seems ironic, the Philippines, which continues to import rice for local consumption, is now exporting tons of hybrid rice seeds, first developed in China, to neighboring countries in Asia.
Source: Physorg.com02/12/2011 – The “Sustainable Rice Platform” will elevate rice production to a new level by helping farmers – whether subsistence or market-focused – boost their rice production, keep the environment healthy, facilitate safer working conditions, and generate higher incomes to overcome poverty and improve food security.
Source: Nature23/11/2011 – In southern China, farmers have been cultivating fish and rice in the same fields for more than 1,200 years — with good reason, according to a group led by Xin Chen at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Farming fish and rice together achieves the same rice yield as growing rice alone, but uses 68% less…
Source: PBS29/11/2011 – Xu Limin goes out of her way to make sure the rice she buys wasn’t grown in southern China.
Source: Reuters29/11/2011 – In the first half of the 20th century, when it was known as Burma in Britain’s eastern empire, Myanmar and its lush Irrawaddy delta were celebrated as the “rice bowl of Asia,” leading the world in rice exports.
Source: Sun Herald.com25/11/2011 – Conversations with the governor’s economic development advisers about a proposed bio-fuel plant in Colusa alarmed some city officials about what they thought could be potentially devastating air regulations coming toward the rice industry.
Source: All Africa.com25/11/2011 – Rice farmers have called for installation of new water barriers to prevent flooding of their fields.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek24/11/2011 – Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest rice exporter, may ship 400,000 metric tons this month, according to figures released today from the General Statistics Office in Hanoi, 20 percent less than in the same period last year.
