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EnglishSource: The Epoch Times03/03/2011 – For decades, high levels of cadmiumand other toxic heavy metals have polluted China’s waterways. Throughirrigation they have ended up in village rice paddies. Villagers complain of bone pains. Some have stopped eating their own crops, feeding it to livestock, or selling it if they can.
Source: Science Codex02/03/2011 – Rice, which is sensitive to drought due to its high water requirement, is particularly vulnerable to how global climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts. If rice plants’ combined tolerance to flooding and drought could be improved, however, rice productivity could be protected and even substantially increased.
Source: Manila Bulletin28/02/2011 – The Philippines plans to import around 800,000 tonnes of rice this year even if a government council allowed purchases of up to 1.3 million tonnes, the agriculture secretary said here.
Source: Kippreport28/02/2011 – Rice prices are likely to remain high as demand rises, but countries can boost supply and temper prices by switching to climate change-ready varieties, the head of a rice research agency said on Monday.
Source: Vanguard28/02/2011 – Nigeria can become Africa’s largest rice producer by 2012 if the Federal Government can give rice farmers the necessary assistance, Alhaji Abubakar Wogi, has said.
Source: M&C24/02/2011 – Soaring food prices may have helped ignite the popular protests shaking Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya but no similar food shocks should be expected in rice-eating Asia, according to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experts.
Source: Iraq-Business News23/02/2011 – Iraq’s Ministry of Trade has announced that it has closed a deal to import 125,000 tons of rice from Thailand at a cost of $65 million in order to meet the demands of the government’s food-subsidizing ration card system.
Source: Bloomberg23/02/2011 – India’s Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said it’s the “right time” for the world’s second-biggest grower of rice and wheat to export a limited quantity of the food grains, potentially cooling global prices.
Source: The Japan Times22/02/2011 – Farmers are up in arms about the possibility that the government will participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, which would remove import tariffs on products from member countries. In particular, rice farmers say that allowing cheaper foreign rice into Japan would wipe them out, which is probably true for most of…
Source: Mail Online18/02/2011 – It could be the answer for the millions who find brown rice hard to swallow – healthy white rice. Scientists have refined the milling process to create a rice that has all the taste of white rice but many of the health benefits of brown rice.
