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EnglishSource: Physorg.com06/04/2011 – As rice farmers across the south prepare to plant their crop this month, University of Massachusetts Amherst evolutionary geneticist Ana Caicedo and a research team are beginning a major new study of how weeds evolve in general and of weedy rice in particular, one of the prime threats to rice production worldwide…
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek07/04/2011 – Many Thais revere Me Posop, the rice goddess who guards humankind and rewards good stewards of her grain. Me Posop has been kind to Thailand in recent decades. While its neighbors Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos struggled through war, Marxist-Leninism, and authoritarian rule, Thailand prospered from its new factories and booming rice…
Source: Inquirer.net12/04/2011 – Rising costs of basic commodities and services in the country and a shrinking rice supply have become a national security concern, according to a report by the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).
Source: PhilStar.com11/04/2011 – ASEAN countries plus China, Japan and South Korea will provide 720,000 tons of rice reserve this year to cope with the impact of rising foods prices, Indonesian Agriculture Minister Suswono said here on Monday.
Source: Inquirer News29/04/2013 – President Benigno Aquino III reiterated his previous announcement of rice self-sufficiency in the Philippines by yearend when he went on a second campaign sortie for the local candidates of the Liberal Party in the Quezon province on Monday.
Source: Yahoo News09/04/2011 – Fears of radiation spread to rice as the planting season began in Japan, prompting the government to ban its cultivation in contaminated soil as fallout leaking from a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant dealt another blow to the national diet.
Source: The Hindu09/04/2011 – The Director General of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Robert S. Zeigler has said that the institute was discussing with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) the possibility of developing an India specific programme of molecular genetic and breeding for rice.
Source: Business Standard29/04/2013 – Fertilisers, crop protection and specialty nutrient products manufacturer, Coromandel International Limited, has signed an MoU with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for promoting and disseminating improved rice research technologies in India.
Source: All Africa29/04/2013 – Rice is a farm produce which seems to slowly, but surely replacing Maize as common household staple in Tanzania and other East African countries and in the process, it also transform lives in Same District of Kilimanjaro.
Source: EurekAlert06/04/2011 – Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the patients in a novel use of CT scanners as part of an agriculture study to increase rice yield.