Monthly Archives: January 2013

Thailand – Government running out of space to store pledged rice

Source: Bangkok Post14/01/2013 – The government is expected to have trouble finding enough space to hold its rice stocks, as millers are complaining that their warehouses are already nearly full.

Breitinger column: China may allow U.S. rice into country

Source: greenbaypressgazette.com11/01/2013 – Corn, wheat and soybeans are the headline-grabbing grains for most U.S. commodities traders, who largely ignore rice.

USA – Rice-cell cocktail kills cancer cells, leaves normal cells alone

Source: Michigan Tech 11/01/2013 – Juice from rice cells knocked out two kinds of human cancer cells as well or better than the potent anti-cancer drug Taxol in lab tests conducted by a Michigan Technological University scientist. Plus, it did something extra: it played nice with normal cells.

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.