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EnglishSource: Bloomberg Businessweek19/02/2012 – Dominion Farms Ltd., an Oklahoma- based farming company that produces rice in Kenya, agreed to start a rice farm with the government in Nigeria that would be Africa’s biggest with production at 300,000 metric tons a year.
Source: Inquirer News15/02/2012 – A technical engineering team sent to Ifugao last week by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has finalized a work plan for restoring the province’s rice terraces and for reviving its watershed, the agency’s Cordillera director said.
Source: Agrosoft14/02/2012 – A Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (Epagri) e a Basf fazem o lançamento da nova variedade de arroz irrigado – cultivar SCS117CL – na Estação Experimental de Itajaí para agricultores, produtores de sementes e de grãos, técnicos e lideranças rurais.
Source: Environmental Health News14/02/2012 – U.S. women who reported eating average-sized portions of rice had higher levels of arsenic exposure compared to women who didn’t eat rice, indicating that food may provide potentially harmful levels of arsenic.
Source: Bangkok Post15/02/2012 – Farmers in flood-prone Bang Rakam district of Phitsanulok have demanded fairer compensation if their land is to be used to retain floodwater.
