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EnglishSource: The Nation24/11/2011 – The Commerce Ministry has blamed rice millers for the lower price of rice while exporters are complaining about falling prices because of sluggish demand overseas and difficulties with shipments due to the flooding.
Source: Daily Yomiuri Online21/11/2011 – Nearly 90 percent of respondents to a nationwide Yomiuri Shimbun survey said they would primarily choose Japanese rice over foreign brands even if the latter cost less after rice imports were liberalized.
Source: PhilStar.com21/11/2011 – Leaders of Southeast Asian countries have agreed to form a regional rice pool they can tap during emergencies to mitigate the impact of volatile rice prices in the global market, President Aquino said.
Source: Bangkok Post21/11/2011 – The export outlook for Thai rice next year will depend on the government’s policy for promoting exports and the export performance of india, says the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
Source: TG Daily18/11/2011 – When it comes to feeding the world you’d be hard pressed to find a crop more valuable than rice – the staple food of half the world’s population.
Source: Daily Yomiuri Online19/11/2011 – The Fukushima prefectural government will reexamine locally grown rice declared safe for consumption following the recent discovery of rice from Fukushima city exceeding the safety levels.
Source: BusinessWorld17/11/2011 – Rice imports for next year could be higher than initially forecast, a Cabinet official yesterday said, following crop damage caused by a string of typhoons in the second half.
Source: Gizmodo17/11/2011 – For the first time since the tsunami-induced meltdown at a Fukushima power plant, Japanese health officials have discovered excessive concentrations of radioactive cesium in rice harvested from the region.
Source: The Bioenergy Site16/11/2011 – The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of researchers that includes a UC Davis rice geneticist.
Source: Inhabitat15/11/2011 – The earthquake and tsunami in Japan earlier this year caused serious damage to farmland, destroying a number of rice paddies, amongst other things, by inundating them with seawater. However, a recent cultivation trial done by B&L Corporation in Ishinomaki in Miyagi has succeeded in producing 5,400 kg of rice per hectare in ruined paddy fields. Using an agricultural preparation called…
