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EnglishSource: Star Advertiser05/06/2012 – During 18 years living across the road from rice paddies, Malinee Khammon has never planted a single seedling. The daughter of farmers who is in her last year of high school, she has become adept at deflecting increasingly desperate pleas from her parents for help on the farm.
Source: Delta Farm Press05/06/2012 – USA Rice Producers’ Group Chair Linda Raun welcomed new analysis written by Carl Zulauf of Ohio State University describing the benefits of a price-based countercyclical approach and applauded the endorsements and attention the analysis is now receiving.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek05/06/2012 – The third consecutive year of record rice production is poised to expand inventories to the most in more than a decade, driving down prices and helping to contain the more than $1 trillion spent on food imports annually.
Source: 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: Delta Farm Press04/06/2012 – Rice farmers should be vigilant for disease, specifically leaf blast that is worse than in previous years. The warning was provided by LSU AgCenter experts during field days in Evangeline and Jefferson Davis parishes.
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: Manila Bulletin 03/05/2012 – The locally developed SL-8 hybrid rice has become a popular international rice variety with 32,000 hectares now planted in Indonesia and is expanding rapidly in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa.
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…
