China – Rice that’s fresh, fragant and home-grown
Source: South China Morning Post10/08/2013 – Home-grown brown rice is taking the richness of Hong Kong’s paddies to the dining table, with the help of a green group and government funds.
USA – Wild rice mounts a comeback for culture and ecology
Source: Great Lakes Echo08/08/2013 – Native wild rice is revered by the Ojibwa, Pottawatomi and Odawa tribes as part of the prophecy that brought them to the Great Lakes region.
Myanmar – Myanmar’s proposed rice subsidy criticized for potentially damaging farmers and undermining economic development
Source: 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.
Genetically modified rice as medicine
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.
Thailand – Rice-pledging price ‘to stay’
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.
Rice gene digs deept to triple yields in drought
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).
Philippines – GM rice approval ‘edging closer’
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.
Brasil – Camil compra produtora de arroz na Argentina
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.
USA – Toxin found in most U.S. rice causes genetic damage
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.
Cameroon – Cameroon researchesrs develops new rice variety
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…