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EnglishSource: The Economic Times09/10/2012 – With reports of water table going down in Punjab and Haryana considered as ‘rice bowl of India’, scientists and analysts feel cultivation of the staple grain, which requires good amount of water for cultivation could be shifted to eastern states having favourable water condition. The water table is going down…
Source: Bangkok Post09/10/2012 – Thailand could lose its status as the top exporter of fragrant rice next year if it does not improve quality, warns the Thai Rice Exporters Association (TREA).
Source: The Advertiser.com07/10/2012 – Rice farmers have faced a bittersweet harvest this year, reveling in the U.S. Department of Agriculture prediction that Louisiana would produce record yields, but then facing reality — a rampant rice disease that rotted some of the crop, unchanging prices and a recent study that warned of arsenic levels in rice.
Source: Business Standard05/10/2012 – Rice exports from India are estimated to be at record 10 million tonne in 2011-12 marketing year, that ended last month, on strong demand and competitive prices, says a report.
Source: The Nation05/10/2012 – Farmers in the eastern and central Thai provinces of Prachin Buri and Nakhon Nayok are being encouraged to plant “Khao Banna 432,” a new variety of rice that grows well in flooded conditions and can sustain more than 100cm of water for at least a month, according to the Rice Department.
Source: Phys.org03/10/2012 – The first domesticated strain of rice was Oryza sativa japonica, which was grown thousands of years ago from wild rice in the middle of the Pearl River in southern China, says the study, published in Nature.
Source: GMA News02/10/2012 – Hybrid rice producer SL Agritech Corp. on Tuesday said it signed deals with companies from Thailand, Myanmar, and Singapore on rice production and marketing in Asia.
Source: The New Star.com29/09/2012 – Polished white rice poured from a funnel at the new Kennedy Rice Mill into 10 rail cars here Friday, the first shipped from the facility that took almost two years two build.
Source: Bangkok Post28/09/2012 – The head of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) is backing a group of academics in petitioning the charter court to halt the government’s controversial rice pledging scheme.
Source: Bloomberg26/09/2012 – Rice exports from Pakistan, the fourth-largest shipper, are set to rebound from November with the new harvest after a rally in domestic prices and cheaper supplies from India cut shipments, a traders’ group said.
