Daily Archives: February 9, 2012

Bangladesh – Rice prices ‘should remain at a cost-plus level’

Source: The Financial Express05/02/2012 – The prices of rice should remain at a cost-plus level which would provide the incentive to the growers to help maintain its production at a stable level on a sustained basis, the experts and officials said.

USA – Rice, soybeans topic of annual crop production meeting

Source: Stuttgart Daily03/02/2012 – Approximately 75 farmers attended the annual Arkansas County Crop Production of Rice and Soybean Meeting yesterday in the conference room at the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center east of Stuttgart.

USA – Arcadia receives $4.5 million grant from USAID to develop salt-tolerant rice and gather greenhose gas emissions data from Nitrogen efficient crops

Source: Market Watch31/01/2012 – Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, today announced that it has been awarded a 5-year, $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop salt-tolerant rice and measure greenhouse gas emissions from conventional rice…

USA – Lousiana rice groups meet to hear updates

Source: Delta Farm Press31/01/2012 – Louisiana rice farmers have been apprised of a plan to address the problem of saltwater entering irrigation ditches.

Madagascar – The ‘less is more’ philosophy of rice production

Source: Gantdaily.com31/01/2012 – Ernest Rakotoarivony, 45, was teased by some members of the Talata community, a small town 30 kilometers north of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, after breaking with traditional rice cultivation methods and employing a technique taught to him by a Jesuit priest.

China – China ‘delivering rice’ to North Koreans

Source: The Australian31/01/2012 – Long convoys of Chinese lorries laden with rice were seen entering North Korea after Beijing reportedly agreed to provide major food aid to Pyongyang’s new regime, a South Korean activist has said.

USA – Drought may cause shutdown of Texas rice production

Source: OPB News31/01/2012 – Although recent rains have put a dent in the Texas drought, a day of reckoning looms for the state’s long-grain rice growers, who pump millions into the economy in Southeast Texas each year and account for about 5 percent of America’s rice production. Come March 1, if there is less than…

Vietnam – Rice exports may be 400,000 tons this month, Vietnam says

Source: Bloomberg30/01/2012 – Rice exports from Vietnam, the world’s second-largest shipper afterThailand, may total 400,000 metric tons this month, 25 percent less than a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.