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EnglishSource: The Nation17/04/2013 – Chinese rice importers have been combining Thai jasmine rice with cheaper grains in order to maintain a profit, due to the very high price resulting from the government’s pledging scheme.
Source: The Times of India17/04/2013 – A scientific breakthrough will bring a loud cheer among India’s farmers living in coastal areas. Scientists have discovered a rice variety with double the salt tolerance of any other rice in the world.
Source: The Wall Street Journal16/04/2013 – A single plant born out of unlikely parents opens the possibility of farmers growing rice on land normally unusable because of salt from nearby sea.
Source: Bloomberg15/04/2013 – U.S. rice farmers say they expect Japan will open its market to imports as American agricultural groups push a Pacific-region agreement that would create the world’s largest free-trade area.
Source: Hurriyet Daily News15/04/2013 – Turkish rice sector players are planning to launch campaigns to promote rice sales, which have been hit by 50 percent in two days after the genetically modified organism (GMO) rice seizure incidents.
Source: ABC News15/04/2013 – A small group of organic farmers in Indonesia are revolutionising the way the country grows rice and thanks to an Australian-educated entrepreneur, they have managed to tap into a lucrative market.
Source: China Daily11/04/2013 – New super rice strains with an expected yield of 14.9 metric tons per hectare will help China maintain its largely self-sufficient supply of rice, a staple food for more than 60 percent of its population, over the next few decades, experts said.
Source: BBC News10/04/2013 – Analysis of commercially available rice imported into the US has revealed it contains levels of lead far higher than regulations suggest are safe.
Source: The Asahi Shimbun11/04/2013 – Genetically modified rice may hold the key to a mask- and medicine-free existence for Japan’s millions of allergy sufferers. But the remedy is still some years away.
Source: The Hindu Business Line10/04/2013 – The bullish trend in the rice market continued with prices of a few aromatic and sharbati rice varieties moving up by Rs 50-400 a quintal on Wednesday.
