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EnglishSource: International Business Times07/08/2013 – A draft law in Myanmar that is intended to help farmers by setting minimum prices for crops may actually threaten to cripple them as well as undermine efforts to unleash the economic potential of a country that once was the world’s top exporter of rice.
Source: Los Angeles Times08/08/2013 – A genetically modified strain of rice might one day be used to prevent life-threatening rotavirus infections among children in the developing world, according to researchers.
Source: The Nation08/08/2013 – The government is expected to maintain the pledging price for the upcoming year at Bt15,000 per tonne of white paddy rice to ensure farmers’ satisfaction, but the price will be lowered in the following year, forum participants were told yesterday.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation07/08/2013 – A gene that gives rice plants deeper roots can triple yields during droughts, according to Japanese researchers writing in Nature Genetics this week (4 August).
Source: BBC News06/08/2013 – Scientists in the Philippines are weeks from submitting a genetically modified variety of rice to the authorities for biosafety evaluations.
Fonte: Exame.com06/08/2013 – A Cooperativa Agrícola Mista Itaquiense Ltda, mais conhecida pelo público como Camil, comprou sua primeira operação na Argentina. Trata-se da produtora de arroz La Loma Alimentos, com sede na cidade de Los Charrúas.
Source: Discover02/08/2013 – It’s been more than a decade since scientists first raised an alarm about arsenic levels in rice—an alarm based on the realization that rice plants have a natural ability to absorb the toxic element out of the soil.
Source: Voice of America04/08/2013 – Its 7am at the Yaounde city hall. The 2013 edition of the National Science and Innovation Expo has just opened. A man is making an announcement over the public address system. Government officials, scientists, and a curious public are all here to discover the work of the country’s top researchers. There…
Source: The Hindu Business Line05/08/2013 – There will be no customs duty on import of rice bran and rice bran oil cake from October 1, against 15 per cent currently, according to a Finance Ministry notification.
Source: Bangkok Post 05/09/2013 – Seven months into 2013, Cambodia’s rice exports have already surpassed the total figure achieved for the entire year in 2012.