Philippines – Rice stocks grow 26% in July
Source: Business World21/07/2013 – The country’s rice stocks, as of July 18, climbed by 25.65% year-on-year to 2.4 million metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority (NFA) said.
USA – Rice growers meet for updates
Source: The Bolivar Commercial21/07/2013 – The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation met for its annual Rice Commodity Advisory Committee Meeting Friday.
Philippines – Golden rice seen as the answer to malnutrition
Source: Manila Standard Today21/07/2013 – The International Rice Research Institute based in Los Baños, Laguna, is currently developing a high-nutrient rice variety that could help address malnutrition in the country and in the whole world.
Indonesia – Rice farmers face water shortage
Source: The Jakarta Post 20/07/2013 – Over the past four months, rice farmers in Peguyangan, North Denpasar, have stopped planting their fields because there is no water supply to the area.
USA – Rice Expo to feature message about gluten-free living
Source: KATV19/07/2013 – The Arkansas Rice Expo, set for Friday, August 2nd in Stuttgart, will focus attention on that fact that most rice is naturally gluten-free. The expo is set for 8 a.m. at the Grand Prairie Center at 2709 U. S. Highway 165.
Thailand – Thailand faces loss on rice sales to drain record stockpiles
Source: Bloomberg19/07/2013 – The Thai government, seeking to offload record stockpiles of rice built up through a state-buying program, is prepared to sell the grain at a loss as it plans to open bids for the hoard every two weeks.
Thailand – Rice safety fears
Source: The Nation18/07/2013 – Health authorities are scrambling to slap strict controls on chemical fumigation of rice and to push packers into upgrading their processing to good manufacturing practices (GMP) after reported findings of adulterated rice sapped public confidence in the country’s food safety standards.
USA – Rice farmers hopeful over TPP market
Source: Western Farm Press17/07/2013 – California rice farmer Charley Matthews Jr. remembers the excitement when Japan first started buying rice from the United States in 1993.
Africa – Collaborative project to raise crop productivity in Africa
Source: Crop Biotech Update17/07/2013 – More than 60 researchers and partners have met under the Support for Agricultural Research and Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC)’s event “Partners, Possibilities and Prospects” on July 15 at the 6th African Agricultural Science Week in Accra, Ghana. The SARD-SC project aims to raise the productivity of maize, cassava, wheat, and rice by 20 percent in…
Birmania – Myanmar benefits from Thai rice subsidy as Thai traders ince
Source: International Business Times15/07/2013 – The Thai government has embarked on a disastrous and costly rice subsidy program to benefit its rice farmers – the program cost the government $4.4 billion last year – but an unexpected beneficiary turned out to be Myanmar, as Thai traders flock to the neighboring country to buy rice that…