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EnglishSource: Bloomberg16/08/2012 – Rice production in India, the world’s second-biggest grower, is poised to slump from a record as the worst monsoon since 2009 reduces planting, potentially lowering exports and boosting global prices.
Source: Fox News15/08/2012 – Genetically modified rice could be a good source of vitamin A for children in countries where deficiency in the vitamin is common, a new study suggests.
Source: BurmaNet News14/08/2012 – Burma has ambitions to try to regain its onetime stature as the world’s rice bowl when the country was by far the biggest exporter of the grain.
Source: Business World12/08/2012 – The country’s rice stock dropped by 36.6% year-on-year as of the start of July, with supply still sufficient to meet local demand for 56 days, the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) said over the weekend.
Source: AG Web10/08/2012 – U.S. total rice supplies for 2012/13 are projected at 244.4 million cwt, down 2.5 million from last month. Projected beginning stocks, imports, and production are each lowered from a month ago. USDA’s first survey-based forecast of the 2012/13 U.S. rice crop is 190.0 million cwt, down 1.0 million from last month’s projection,…
Source: Vermilion Today.com11/08/2012 – Classifying the 2012 rice harvest in south Louisiana as good, bad or mediocre is proving to be a difficult challenge.
Source: Delta Farm Press10/08/2012 – The bright spot for Mississippi’s smaller-than-normal rice crop is that it is looking good at harvest, thanks to an early start and a favorable growing season.
Source: Reuters09/08/2012 – Millions of tonnes of rice that no one wants; huge losses for the state budget; farmers more interested in quantity than quality; exporters throwing in the towel. Thailand’s world-beating rice industry is in a sorry state.
Source: Chicago Tribune08/08/2012 – As Myanmar emerges from decades of isolation and oppression, it hopes to reclaim its nearly forgotten status as the world’s biggest rice exporter. That’s a tall order, but industry and government officials have begun drafting plans to revitalize the industry after years of neglect and military mismanagement.
Source: Reuters09/08/2012 – Bangladesh has extended a ban on the export of most varieties of rice until next June, the commerce secretary said on Thursday, backtracking on a plan to end the restriction.
