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EnglishSource: Business World06/02/2012 – Rehabilitation of the internationally known rice terraces in the North will start by the end of this month given favorable weather conditions, an official said yesterday, with the project expected to be completed in three months.
Source: Vietnam Net05/02/2012 – Le Truong Son, general director of Docimexco Dong Thap, said it is difficult to sign commercial contracts at present. Importers mainly come back to study prices, waiting for the peak harvest season of the winter-spring rice crop in late February and early March this year.
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.
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.
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…
Source: Delta Farm Press31/01/2012 – Louisiana rice farmers have been apprised of a plan to address the problem of saltwater entering irrigation ditches.
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.
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.
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…
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.
