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EnglishSource: Bloomberg Businessweek07/04/2011 – Many Thais revere Me Posop, the rice goddess who guards humankind and rewards good stewards of her grain. Me Posop has been kind to Thailand in recent decades. While its neighbors Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos struggled through war, Marxist-Leninism, and authoritarian rule, Thailand prospered from its new factories and booming rice…
Source: Inquirer.net12/04/2011 – Rising costs of basic commodities and services in the country and a shrinking rice supply have become a national security concern, according to a report by the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).
Source: PhilStar.com11/04/2011 – ASEAN countries plus China, Japan and South Korea will provide 720,000 tons of rice reserve this year to cope with the impact of rising foods prices, Indonesian Agriculture Minister Suswono said here on Monday.
Source: Yahoo News09/04/2011 – Fears of radiation spread to rice as the planting season began in Japan, prompting the government to ban its cultivation in contaminated soil as fallout leaking from a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant dealt another blow to the national diet.
Source: The Hindu09/04/2011 – The Director General of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Robert S. Zeigler has said that the institute was discussing with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) the possibility of developing an India specific programme of molecular genetic and breeding for rice.
Source: EurekAlert06/04/2011 – Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the patients in a novel use of CT scanners as part of an agriculture study to increase rice yield.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek06/04/2011 – Kenya, a net rice importer, may double production of the grain over the next seven years after introducing a drought-resistant seed variety that thrives in drier environments, the Agriculture Ministry said.
Source: abs-cbnNews.com03/04/2011 – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is eyeing the Philippines as a site for the production of Basmati rice, Vice President Jejomar Binay said.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek31/03/2011 – Farmers in Arkansas, the nation’s leading rice producer, plan to cut the amount of rice they grow in the coming season and replace it with more profitable crops, according to a report released Thursday.
Source: Bangkok Post02/04/2011 – The National Rice Policy Committee approved a budget of 5 billion baht to buy up to half a million tonnes of paddy to shore up domestic prices that have plunged because of harvests in Vietnam.
