India – Iraq looking to import rice, sugar from India
Source: The Economic Times27/02/2012 – Iraq is considering buying rice and sugar from India, the gulf nation’s deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways said here today.
Bangladesh – Falling rice prices put farmers in tight corner
Source: The Daily Star28/02/2012 – Millers, stockists and large-scale farmers of rice are in a fix as their profit margins have been squeezed by falling prices of the commodity.
Pakistan – Import of Indian rice opposed
Source: Dawn.com26/02/2012 – Import of rice from India would badly hurt local production, causing losses to both exporters and farmers because cheaper import of agriculture produce from India would ruin agricultural production potential of the country.
Thailand – PWO desperate for Indonesia rice sale
Source: Bangkok Post27/02/2012 – The Public Warehouse Organisation is confident it can sell rice to Indonesia after buyers could not obtain orders from Vietnam and India, says Pol Maj Sarawut Sakulmeerit, PWO’s director.
Record rice crop boosting stockpiles to decade high: Commodities
Source: Bloomberg21/02/2012 – Rice stockpiles are poised to reach the biggest in almost a decade as record harvests boost supplies and imports decline for the first time in three years.
USA – Texas rice farms likely to not receive water due to drought
Source: Huffington Post21/02/2012 – Five generations of Ronald Gertson’s family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no matter how fickle Mother Nature was, there would be one constant: water to irrigate their crop.
Uganda: Rice planting over schooling
Source: All Africa20/02/2012 – Authorities in the eastern Ugandan district of Butaleja are grappling with the high rate of school children who drop out to work in rice plantations.
India – Basmati rice export to restart this week after a year’s gap
Source: Times of India20/02/2012 – Export of Basmati rice from India is likely to re-start in couple of days as the government is learnt to have agreed to lower the minimum export price (MEP) from 940 dollars per tonne to 700 dollars per tonne.
India – Rice disease management cum specialist support held
Source: The Morung Express19/02/2012 – Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Kohima district conducted district level training on rice disease management cum specialist support in collaboration with NU: SASRD Medziphema at Teichuma village on February 17, 2012.
Thailand – Govt presses ahead with rice pledging
Source: The Nation20/02/2012 – Despite warnings on the huge stockpiles it will have to handle and severe export competition this year, the government has insisted on going ahead with its rice-pledging scheme, as it believes the strategy will drive up prices both domestically and in the international market.