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EnglishSource: Reuters20/02/2013 – Japan must be willing to negotiate in all trade sectors, including politically sensitive ones like rice, if it wants to join the United States and 10 other countries in talks on a regional free-trade pact, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian16/02/2013 – Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field…
Source: Rappler19/02/2013 – Rice stocks in the Philippines, a major importer trying to become self-sufficient in the staple food of its 100 million people, have tightened slightly going into 2013, the government’s Bureau of Agricultural Statistics said.
Source: Phys.org19/02/2013 – Two studies, led by Dr. Fugen Dou of Beaumont – and a team from College Station, Corpus Christi, Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina—will look at yielding more high quality organic rice in an environmentally friendly way. The research projects are funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Source: Daily Democrat18/02/2013 – Rice farmer Josh Sheppard can see clearly how careful management of winter water levels in rice fields has brought more types of birds to his land.
Source: Arizona Daily Star17/02/2013 – Rod Wing, director of the Arizona Genomics Institute, has played a major role in mapping the structure and function of the world’s primary cereal crops. Rice is the one that needs our immediate attention, he says.
Source: Care217/02/2013 – Called Wuyuanzao by locals, the heirloom rice is grown on only 50 acres of land in Wannian county in the Chinese province of Jiangxi. It’s a species of rice that has been cultivated for more than 12,000 years, but this is the only place in the world today that it can thrive.
Source: The Advertiser17/02/2013 – Southwest Louisiana rice farmers could reap benefits from growing Chinese agriculture markets by exporting rice there.
Source: ChicoER.com17/02/2013 – Rice farmer Josh Sheppard can see clearly how careful management of winter water levels in rice fields has brought more types of birds to his land.
Source: The Nation14/02/2013 – The Democrat MP for Pitsanulok, Dr Warong Dejwikrom, on Thursday challenged the Public Warehouse Organisation to inspect rice in warehouses without prior notice to prove that the organisation has no degraded rice stored in the rice pledging scheme.
