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EnglishSource: The Hindu Business Line28/05/2012 – The rice market witnessed a mixed trend on Monday with buying being lacklustre. The Pusa-1121 and Sharbati rice varieties witnessed a downtrend, while all other aromatic and non-basmati varieties managed to maintain their previous levels.
Source: Fox News28/05/2012 – Last year’s crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He’s living up to his family’s proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation…
Source: UPI.com27/05/2012 – The North Korean government is turning its attention to a drought that is jeopardizing the rice crop, state media reports monitored in South Korea said.
Source: Delta Farm Press25/05/2012 – Experts from the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station will tell farmers about their latest work Thursday (May 31) at the Evangeline Parish Rice Field Day.
Source: ChicoER.com27/05/2012 – It’s nearly the end of May and crop dusters are still buzzing over laser-leveled land around Gridley. Each day starts with a question mark. Will the pilots be able to get on the job? Will wind blow recently planted seeds to one side of the flooded field? Will the clouds continue to form…
Source: Science News25/05/2012 – There has been a lot of research, recently, showing how global change — especially warming — can alter the habitat and preferred range of marine and terrestrial species. But rising levels of greenhouse gases can also, directly, do a number on agricultural ecosystems, a new study shows. At least for U.S.-grown rice,…
Source: The Daily Star27/05/2012 – Rice price in local markets has continued to fall alarmingly for over two weeks, much to the worry of farmers in the district famous for rice production.
Source: IRIN22/05/2012 – Some 320,000 people in Côte d’Ivoire are grappling with hunger partly because they cannot afford the high prices of imported rice, but government efforts to bring down the cost of the staple food are so far not working well.
Source: Phys.org24/05/2012 – New research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirms that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide facilitate the flow of genes from wild or weedy rice plants to domesticated rice varieties. As a result, domesticated plants could take on undesirable weedy characteristics that may interfere with future rice production.
Source: All Africa28/05/2012 – Around 700 million of the world’s poor live in rice-growing areas in Asia. Rice is the staple food in Asia and 95 percent of the world’s rice is produced there. Mostly grown in soils submerged under water, irrigated lowland (or ‘paddy’) rice accounts for nearly 80 percent of the world’s rice production…
