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EnglishSource: Cirad13/06/2012 – A new upland rice variety is now available to growers in the highlands of Madagascar. The variety is the fruit of a partnership between FOFIFA and CIRAD, and is tailored to the agro-climatic conditions in the region. In particular, it is tolerant of the cold temperatures over 1200 m above sea level.
Source: The Hindu Business Line17/06/2012 – Syngenta, the Switzerland-based agri-business company, is looking to play a big role in India’s vegetable and rice production.
Source: East Asia Forum13/06/2012 – With Europe threatening to push the global economy into yet another recession, one would think this would be a time for economies to batten down the hatches, build fiscal and foreign exchange buffers, and brace for the coming storm.
Source: Business Insider13/06/2012 – Trade publication Drinks International just released its annual list of the world’s best-selling liquor brands and surprisingly, a local Korean brand of distilled rice liquor, called soju, topped the list, beating out major global players like Smirnoff and Bacardi.
Source: The Advocate14/06/2012 – Adam Habetz and south Louisiana’s more than 1,000 other rice farmers worry that their federal support funds and many of their rice farms will soon be gone.
Source: Manila Standard Today13/06/2012 – The country’s rice inventory dropped 21.3 percent to 2.67 million metric tons as of May 1 from 3.4 million MT year-on-year, the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics said Tuesday. The inventory is good for 79 days.
Source: Bangkok Post12/06/2012 – Exporters have called on the government to start selling rice from its stockpile as local supply tightens.
Source: Kaieteur News11/06/2012 – The Mahaicony Rice Mills (MRL) which is the country’s largest rice milling company that controls an estimated 40 per cent of purchases countrywide, is facing the non-renewal of its operating licence unless all farmers are paid fully, Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy warned yesterday.
Source: The News07/06/2012 – Despite the depreciation of the Pakistani rupee, the rice business has still not picked up, because of a simultaneous depreciation in the Indian rupee. An increase in the domestic cost of production, with increasing prices of seed, fuel, fertilizer, insecticides and pesticides and farm wages has further compounded the woes of…
Source: VietNamNet Bridge07/06/2012 – The bountiful crop does not make farmers happy, because the rice price has dropped dramatically. Meanwhile, exporters have been put on tenterhooks since it’s very difficult to find importers at this moment.
