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EnglishSource: The Epoch Times03/03/2011 – For decades, high levels of cadmiumand other toxic heavy metals have polluted China’s waterways. Throughirrigation they have ended up in village rice paddies. Villagers complain of bone pains. Some have stopped eating their own crops, feeding it to livestock, or selling it if they can.
Source: Science Codex02/03/2011 – Rice, which is sensitive to drought due to its high water requirement, is particularly vulnerable to how global climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts. If rice plants’ combined tolerance to flooding and drought could be improved, however, rice productivity could be protected and even substantially increased.
Source: Manila Bulletin28/02/2011 – The Philippines plans to import around 800,000 tonnes of rice this year even if a government council allowed purchases of up to 1.3 million tonnes, the agriculture secretary said here.
Source: Kippreport28/02/2011 – Rice prices are likely to remain high as demand rises, but countries can boost supply and temper prices by switching to climate change-ready varieties, the head of a rice research agency said on Monday.
Source: Vanguard28/02/2011 – Nigeria can become Africa’s largest rice producer by 2012 if the Federal Government can give rice farmers the necessary assistance, Alhaji Abubakar Wogi, has said.
Source: The Asahi Shimbun25/04/2013 – Officials are still struggling to dispose of some 17,000 tons of contaminated rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear disaster there two years ago.
Source: M&C24/02/2011 – Soaring food prices may have helped ignite the popular protests shaking Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya but no similar food shocks should be expected in rice-eating Asia, according to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experts.
Source: PhilStar26/04/2013 – In what is considered as “the mother of all smuggled rice,” an illegal shipment of at least P1.2 billion worth of rice from Vietnam was opened by the Bureau of Customs yesterday.
Source: Economic Times25/04/2013 – You can just forget about cooking with olive oil to stay fit. Olive oil production in Spain has been hit hard by a drought, which has pushed up prices by 40%. This has prompted rice bran oil companies like Adani Wilmar, Ricela Health Food and Sethia Oils to swing into action to take a slice…
Source: Iraq-Business News23/02/2011 – Iraq’s Ministry of Trade has announced that it has closed a deal to import 125,000 tons of rice from Thailand at a cost of $65 million in order to meet the demands of the government’s food-subsidizing ration card system.