Yearly Archives: 2011

Angola – Vice-governador considera mais valia produção de arroz na região

Fonte: ANGOP27/04/2011 – O vice-governador do Kuando Kubango para área de organização e infra-estruturas, Simão Baptista, considerou esta segunda-feira a apresentação do projecto de produção de arroz, denominado “Fazenda Agro – Industrial do Longa”, uma mais valia para o relançamento da economia da província e não só.

Bangladesh – Rice price hike in Bangladesh much higher than international price: ADB

Source: The Financial Express27/04/2011 – The Asian Development Bank has said Bangladesh’s domestic rice price growth is higher than that of the international price which underpinned the local inflation.

China – Government to mull raising rice prices, Ma says

Source: Taipei Times25/04/2011 – President Ma Ying-jeou said the price of rice had not been raised in the past three years due to the recession, but it could be raised in future.

Singapore – Singaporean to lead efforts on food security, poverty reduction through rice research

Source: Eco-Business25/04/2011 – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has appointed Singaporean Leo Chen Ian as the new executive director of the IRRI Fund, Singapore.

Thailand – Thai rice exportsmay exceed 9.5 million tons, Official says

Source: Bloomberg22/04/2011 – Rice exports from Thailand, the world’s largest shipper of the grain, may gain more than expected this year, boosted by strong demand from the Middle East and Asia, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

USA – Rice farmers recongnized for excellence in conservation

Source: Delta Farm Press21/04/2011 – The award recognizes “outstanding organizations or individuals whose partnership efforts significantly contribute to America’s enduring legacy of conservation on our working lands.”

Bangladesh – Dhaka developing world’s first vitamin-A rich rice

Source: BioScholar20/04/2011 – Bangladesh is conducting trials of what scientists claim is the world’s first-ever vitamin A-rich rice.

Senegal – Senegal achieves rice sustenance, plans exports, President says

Source: Bloomberg18/04/2011 – Senegal is producing enough rice to meet domestic needs and export the surplus, President Abdoulaye Wade said.

Philippines – Norice crisis, no NICA report, says Palace

Source: PhilStar14/04/2011 – President Aquino belied yesterday reports of a looming rice crisis and insisted that concerned government agencies claimed that the unrest in North Africa, the Middle East and the disaster in Japan could only affect the prices of food.

USA – To help rice farmers, geneticists study how nature produces a weed

Source: Physorg.com06/04/2011 – As rice farmers across the south prepare to plant their crop this month, University of Massachusetts Amherst evolutionary geneticist Ana Caicedo and a research team are beginning a major new study of how weeds evolve in general and of weedy rice in particular, one of the prime threats to rice production worldwide…