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EnglishSource: Seattle Pi19/06/2013 – Thailand will pay farmers 20 percent less for rice to stem losses from a much-criticized subsidy program that dislodged the country from its spot as the world’s No. 1 exporter of the grain, a government minister said Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian20/06/2013 – We’ve used rice in Britain since the middle ages: our ancestors boiled it in milk with sugar, cinnamon and almonds (imported from Italy, rice cost so much it was kept under lock and key with the spices). At one point, rice pudding was believed to lead to “venerie” – sex – and blindness.…
Source: The Daily Star20/06/2013 – Rice prices are on the rise amid speculations about lower boro production due to reduced acreage, stakeholders said yesterday.
Source: Vietnam.net20/06/2013 – Millions of farmers in Mekong Delta never dream of making a profit of 30 percent as promised by the government. They just wish to sell out the rice.
Source: IRRI11/06/2013 – A US$12 million investment in rice research has returned more than $70 million in benefits to rice farmers and national economies in four Asian countries, according to a new report.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek19/06/2013 – Rice shipments from Thailand, the second-biggest exporter, are set to increase as the government reduces the price paid to farmers to rein in spending, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
Source: CBS News18/06/2013 – Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday.
Source: AgriLife 18/06/2013 – Water restrictions in some parts of Texas and unseasonably cool temperatures that settled in earlier this year have had the state’s rice crop growing in a bit of uncertainty.
Source: Bangkok Post18/06/2013 – The cabinet is yet to discuss proposals to reduce the pledging price of rice, because it is waiting for the National Rice Policy Committee to provide further details on the existing scheme, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said.
Source: Capital Press18/06/2013 – State and national rice industry representatives say the Farm Bill now being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives is about the best that growers could hope for.
