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EnglishSource: Western Farm Press29/12/2011 – Next season could bring significant reductions in acreage for some rice producing states, according to rice specialists addressing the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Austin, Texas. Here’s a state by state look.
Source: PM News29/12/2011 – The Federal Government has expanded the capacities of three rice mills in the country to 90,000 tonnes each to facilitate rice processing and ensure competitiveness.
Source: Delta Farm Press29/12/2011 – In early September of 2011, Arkansas rice producer Jared Holzhauer thought his crop had made it through early- and mid-season weather woes with flying colors. But by the time he started harvesting the crop later that month, it turned out that the crop looked better from the road than in the…
Source: Jakarta Globe27/12/2011 – Three state companies will team up to open 100,000 hectares of new rice fields in a bid to achieve the government’s target of a 10 million-ton rice surplus by 2014, a minister said on Tuesday.
Source: The Mainichi Daily News27/12/2011 – With the government announcing a possible ban on future rice planting in areas where contaminated rice was detected, farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are on the verge of losing the little hope that has kept them going amidst months of torture.
Source: Taipei Times28/12/2011 – A shipment of Taiwanese rice bound for Tokyo departed central Taiwan yesterday, the second in a series of three deliveries of the biggest rice order received from Japan in eight years.
Source: Nation Multimedia27/12/2011 – The flood has forced farmers to shorten their rice-growing period, while at the same time they will find it hard to access high-quality rice seed, says an expert at Bayer CropScience, the agricultural-chemical arm of German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer.
Source: The Phnom Penh Post26/12/2011 – Cambodia’s total paddy rice output reached 8.4 million tonnes in 2011, up from 8.25 million tonnes last year, according an initial assessment by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Source: Business Line26/12/2011 – With trading being lukewarm, except for duplicate basmati, prices of all other aromatic and non-basmati varieties on Monday ruled flat.
Source: Business Mirror26/12/2011 – The National Food Authority (NFA) said it is keen on conducting the tender for the importation of rice within January even as the agency has yet to present the guidelines to the NFA council as well as the Department of Finance for the tax-expenditure subsidy.
