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EnglishSource: Hindustan Times09/04/2012 – Paddy farmers and millers are sceptical about the Centre’s move to promote use of certain hybrid seeds as they worry these will produce high percentage of broken rice. The Centre is promoting hybrid varieties through various programmes highlighting that these need less water and time to ripen. It has, however, banned some…
Source: Business World19/04/2012 – The country’s rice stock at the beginning of March declined by 29.5% year on year, data from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) showed on Friday, even as an official said supply will be augmented by the summer harvest.
Source: Stabroek News18/04/2012 – Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke said the Government is now formulating an ambitious plan to put 500 acres of land into rice cultivation by July and another 1,500 by December.
Source: Science Blog12/04/2012 – As Asia’s monsoon season begins, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists warned today that rapid climate change and its potential to intensify droughts and floods could threaten Asia’s rice production and pose a significant threat to millions of people across the region.
Source: Stock & Land13/04/2012 – This year’s rice harvest is in full swing, with farmers reporting a good, consistent result. Rice Growers Association (RGA) president Les Gordon said by the end of last week over 200,000 tonnes of rice had come off, with RGA still estimating a national crop a touch under a million tonnes.
Source: Bangkok Post09/04/2012 – Five Asean rice-producing countries are likely to resume efforts at collaboration, but the private sector still doubts whether coordination can be achieved due to the great differences between the countries.
Source: Business Standard08/04/2012 – It is a genocide no one talks about. The “genocide” here is something we know by another name, for what Debal Deb is referring to is the Green Revolu-tion and the effect it has had on the variety of rice species now available. Deb has his rationale. “Before the Green Revolution, India…
Fuente: Reuters07/04/2012 – Myanmar plans to increase rice exports by almost a fifth to 1 million tons in the current fiscal year (2012-2013), owing partly to international help in reviving its agriculture sector, state media said on Saturday.
Source: Kaieteur News06/04/2012 – Rice continues to be one of the most primary agricultural products in Guyana and over the past few years the country has been able to benefit from good price arrangements for this commodity from Venezuela.
Source: Vanguard05/04/2012 – The Federal Government has introduced an additional charge of N26,000 per tonne for imported rice.
