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EnglishSource: Voice of America29/02/2012 – Five months after lifting a ban on exports of cheaper varieties of rice, India has emerged as one of the world’s top rice exporters. That has helped stabilize prices around the world, even as the cost goes up in traditional exporting nations like Thailand.
Source: The Daily Yomiuri29/02/2012 – The agriculture ministry has announced it will conditionally permit rice planting this year in municipalities where radioactive cesium contained in last year’s harvests was found to be from 100 becquerels to 500 becquerels per kilogram.
Source: Kaieteur News29/02/2012 – While many rice farmers from Golden Fleece, Essequibo Coast, are in the process of harvesting rice for the first crop, a number of them especially those residing on the northern section have been hard hit from floods.
Source: Sun Star29/02/2012 – The National Mapping and Resource Information Agency (Namria) presented recently the map showing the delineation of the core and buffer zones of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras Unesco World Heritage Site.
Source: The Sun Daily28/02/2012 – The introduction of hybrid rice to the world in 1979 enabled China to feed 70 million more people annually and uplift the status of rice farmers by maximising output from paddy fields.
Source: The Economic Times27/02/2012 – Iraq is considering buying rice and sugar from India, the gulf nation’s deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways said here today.
Source: The Daily Star28/02/2012 – Millers, stockists and large-scale farmers of rice are in a fix as their profit margins have been squeezed by falling prices of the commodity.
Source: Dawn.com26/02/2012 – Import of rice from India would badly hurt local production, causing losses to both exporters and farmers because cheaper import of agriculture produce from India would ruin agricultural production potential of the country.
Source: Bangkok Post27/02/2012 – The Public Warehouse Organisation is confident it can sell rice to Indonesia after buyers could not obtain orders from Vietnam and India, says Pol Maj Sarawut Sakulmeerit, PWO’s director.
Source: Bloomberg21/02/2012 – Rice stockpiles are poised to reach the biggest in almost a decade as record harvests boost supplies and imports decline for the first time in three years.
