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EnglishSource: Reuters20/11/2012 – Thailand will sign a memorandum of understanding to sell rice to China during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s official visit to Bangkok this week, a senior Commerce Ministry official said on Tuesday, but gave no details of the variety or price agreed.
Source: UN News Centre19/11/2012 – Global rice production for 2012 is expected to outpace consumption, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today, adding that improved weather patterns in Africa and Asia had contributed to the rebound in rice inventories.
Source: Victoria Advocate17/11/2012 – The rice fields are empty right now, just soft cocoa-colored earth, but next spring, the fields will be filled with green stalks of rice plants – if the rice farmers get the water to grow their crops.
Source: Seattlepi17/11/2012 – Soil scientist David Weindorf has received funding for research into how to quickly measure the amount of salt and zinc in rice fields. Economist Mike Salassi has been awarded a grant for an economic analysis of rice production and farm management in Louisiana.
Fonte: Jornal de Angola15/11/2012 – O ministro da Agricultura, Afonso Pedro Canga, inaugurou na comuna do Longa, Cuito Cuanavale, uma fazenda de produção de arroz em grande escala, acto que marcou a abertura oficial do ano agrícola em todo o país.
Source: Chron14/11/2012 – Rice farmers likely will receive irrigation water next year from a Central Texas river authority despite pleas from property and business owners who want the limited resource left in the Highland Lakes near Austin.
Source: SciDev.Net06/11/2012 – Rice farmers in China and South-East Asia are neglecting to adopt new pest-resistant cultivars, preferring to rely on excessive use of insecticide to combat pests, according to a leading rice scientist.
Source: All Africa12/11/2012 – The residents of five villages in the Boyard Valley, in southwestern Senegal, are freeing themselves from “the tyranny of imported rice” by stepping up local production of this important staple food.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek11/11/2012 – Arkansas row crop farmers took advantage of early warm weather during spring to get their seed in the ground, allowing many to dodge the worst effects of the late-summer drought and go to market with some record yields.
Source: Stock & Land09/11/2012 – Contrary to prevailing fears about global food security, our ballooning world population is unlikely to be running short of the popular food staples rice and wheat in the near future.
