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EnglishSource: PhilStar.com28/04/2012 – China has expressed willingness to support the Philippine request before the World Trade Organization (WTO) to extend its special treatment through quantitative restrictions on rice imports.
Source: IRIN24/04/2012 – The system of rice intensification (SRI) is gaining ground across Asia as more and more governments come to rely on it for food security.
Source: NDTV24/04/2012 – China has finally allowed import of basmati rice from India, which comes as a big boost to exporters who would now get access to a huge market of 1.3 billion people for their about 4.5 million tonnes of aromatic rice.
Source: Business Standard24/04/2012 – India’s rice production in 2011-12 increased 7.1 per cent to 102.75 million tonnes (mt), which, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, is part of the “good performance in Asia”. In fact, the improvement in the production of this foodgrain has been widespread in the continent, with China making major gains…
Source: The New York Times22/04/2012 – Toshiharu Ota, a rice farmer in Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, survived the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster last year. But his fields were devastated by the salt deposits left behind when the tsunami’s floodwaters receded. Now, to help farmers like Mr. Ota, a research team is working to develop…
Source: Bangkok Post23/04/2012 – The government should allow a free rice market or risk ending up with 10 million tonnes in its stock, say observers.
Source: Rappler20/04/2012 – The Philippines, one of the world’s biggest importers of rice, could go a long way to achieving its elusive goal of self-sufficiency simply by wasting less, a global research institute said.
Source: International Business Times16/04/2012 – The prices of Vietnamese rice for export have gone up by US$15-25.00 per ton since early April due to increasing Global demand and diminishing world rice reserve, said the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) Monday.
Source: Echo Press16/04/2012 – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will expand its knowledge of wild rice and sulfate interactions with the help of a University of Minnesota research team. This work, funded by the 2011 Minnesota Legislature from the Clean Water Fund, is designed to provide key information on the effects of sulfate on wild…
Source: PhilStar.com16/04/2012 – The Philippines may start exporting rice to other Asian countries in the first quarter of 2013 if no major calamities hit the country, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said yesterday.
