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EnglishSource: Focus Taiwan28/01/2013 – Inspections conducted by independent consumers’ rights organizations have found that nearly 90 percent of the rice noodle brands sold in Taiwan are not as pure as their makers claim, sometimes containing even less than 20 percent rice.
Source: MSN News27/01/2013 – The Congress will provide seven kg rice free of cost to the extremely poor people, 35 kg of rice at the rate of Re 1 to the poor people, and allowances to the jobless youths and farmers in Tripura if voted to the power in the Feb 14 assembly polls. Releasing the…
Source: Dawn.com26/01/2013 – Exporters have urged the government to bail out rice exports maintaining that a steep fall was witnessed during the first six months of current fiscal year due to higher local prices.
Source: The Vindicator25/01/2013 – Colombia Rice Export Quota, Inc. (COL-RICE) last month issued the U.S. share of the net proceeds from administration of the U.S. rice tariff rate quota (TRQ) in Colombia to the six state rice research boards. The U.S. share was $3.19 million, split as follows among the six rice –state boards based…
Source: Radio Free Asia24/01/2013 – Laos’s rice production has fallen short of government targets for the second year running due to natural disasters and a seed shortage, dealing a potential blow to the Southeast Asian nation’s ambition of becoming a rice exporter.
Source: Phys.Org24/01/2013 – Butterfly wings are characterized by shingle-like scales (above), which keep water from pooling, and microgrooves (below), which repel water and reduce surface adhesion. These features help keep the surface free of debris and contaminants. Credit: Scanning electron microscope image (top) and optical profiler rendering (bottom), courtesy Bharat Bhushan and Greg Bixler, Ohio State…
Source: Today’s THV24/01/2013 – The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board received more than $1 million in tariff rate quota (TRQ) funds generated for domestic rice research from the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, which established annual increasing tariff rate quotas for U.S. rice.
Source: Bloomberg23/01/2013 – Rice exports from Thailand plunged 37 percent last year to the lowest in more than a decade, dethroning the Southeast Asian nation as the largest shipper.
Source: SpringerAbstract – In situ conservation of crop genetic resources is widely recommended but, as yet, no methods have been developed to rank the genetic entities to preserve and the social organisations to involve. The highlands of Madagascar have been identified as a key site for rice, Oryza sativa, genetic diversity. To define conservation strategies,…
Source: ingentaconnectAbstract: Although it is well established that biodiversity plays an important role in pest control, there is limited knowledge on how the origins of agriculture may shape arthropod biodiversity. Arthropod food webs likely have coevolved with wild crop relatives before domestication, but not all arthropod taxa may be able to inhabit cultivated habitats. We…