Asia rice demand strong for Yuba-Sutter
Source: appealdemocrat.com09/01/2013 – Agriculture faces a sweet future as the middle class in China and India expands and imports more food from the United States, rice growers were told Tuesday in Yuba City.
USA – Texas water supplier moves to cut off rice farmers
Source: Yahoo News09/01/2013 – Texas rice farmers probably won’t get irrigation water to flood their fields for an unprecedented second consecutive year after officials overseeing major reservoirs in Central Texas voted Tuesday to cut off downstream allotments if there’s no significant rain by March.
Madagascar rice seen benefiting from climate warming in study
Source: Bloomberg08/01/2013 – Madagascar’s rice growers are expected to benefit from climate change as warmer weather boosts yields, French agriculture researcher Cirad said.
USA – Southeast Texas rice farmers brace for another dry year
Source: YNN07/01/2013 – For generations, rice farms in Southeast Texas have survived on water released from lakes Travis and Buchanan, but drought prompted officials to keep the water in the lakes last year and it may happen this year.
USA – USA Rice now represents 90 percent of growers
Source: AG Professional07/01/2013 – The Mississippi Rice Promotion Board voted unanimously in late December to join the USA Rice Federation as of Jan. 1, 2013.
Golden rice trial triggers sackings, investigation
Source: SciDev.Net07/01/2013 – Three Chinese researchers have been fired from their positions after they co-published a study in which 24 schoolchildren in China’s Hunan province were fed genetically modified (GM) rice in 2008, Chinese authorities announced last month (6 December).
Philippines – Stop rice smuggling
Fuente: NSS Oaxaca04/01/2013 – Rice traders, millers, and farmers are appealing to the Aquino administration to act immediately and decisively against the “rampant” rice smuggling in the country that has resulted in the flooding of the grain and lower demand for domestic rice.
USA – Mississippi joins the USA Rice Federation
Source: The Vindicator04/01/2013 – The Mississippi Rice Promotion Board voted unanimously on Dec. 20, 2012, to join the USA Rice Federation as of Jan. 1, 2013. This action brings Mississippi rice farmers together with farmers from other rice-producing states in the USA Rice organization, which now represents about 90 percent of U.S. rice production as…
India, Vietnam are world’s top rice exporters
Source: The Nation04/01/2013 – Thailand lost its three-decades-old title as the world’s top rice exporter last year, falling behind India and Vietnam, industry sources said on Friday.
Thailand – Thailand ‘loses rank of world’s top rice exporter’
Source: InterAksyon.com04/01/2013 – Thailand lost its status as the world’s top rice exporter in 2012 as a controversial scheme to boost farmer incomes saw it overtaken by India and Vietnam, an industry group said Friday.