+57 310 8228246
EnglishSource: PRNewswire31/01/2011 – Nutritious U.S.-grown rice can help consumers meet the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which emphasize healthier food choices to boost overall nutrition while helping to combat the growing rate of obesity, America’s leading public health concern. Newly published research shows that Americans who eat rice have healthier diets and are less likely…
Source: ABC News31/01/2011 – A baby’s first bite into solid food is among the milestones every parent anticipates. And for 50 years many pediatricians have recommended that parents initially feed their solid food-ready babies white rice cereal.
Source: Bloomberg31/01/2011 – Senegal’s rice crop will probably exceed last year’s record harvest and meet at least 60 percent of domestic consumption needs, helping the country reach self sufficiency by 2015, a government official said.
Source: The Times of India30/01/2011 – An experiment by Indian agriculture scientists points to the enormous effect global warming could have on the fragrant basmati rice. Basmati, Sanskrit for the fragrant one, may lose not just its aroma, the famous long grains may get shorter, say scientists.
Source: Vietnam Business & Economy27/01/2011 – Vietnam’s rice export is the first impressive achievement of the country’s reform, on both external and internal fronts. If shortcomings are eradicated, the results reaped will be all the more astounding.
Source: PRWeb28/01/2011 – Meiogenix and CIRAD signed a collaboration agreement to evaluate the impact of Meiogenix’s SpiX™ technology in modulating meiotic homologous recombination in the genome of rice. The research program which will be performed in the laboratory of Dr. Emmanuel Guiderdoni, an expert in rice genomics, could lead to the identification of new natural varieties…
Source: Bloomberg26/01/2011 – Bangladesh, South Asia’s biggest rice buyer, doubled its import target for this year to cool domestic prices that surged to a record in December as consumers and farmers hoarded supplies, a government official said.
Source: Reuters26/01/2011 – The U.S. futures regulator has imposed total fines of $2 million on two traders for excessive speculation in U.S. rice futures as prices raced to all-time highs in 2008.
Source: Asia One News26/01/2011 – North Korea’s rice price has hit a record high due to the delayed arrival of Chinese aid and a campaign to procure food for the military, a Seoul-based welfare group said Wednesday.
Source: Business World25/01/2011 – The Government may import just enough rice this year to ensure a 30-day buffer and leave any requirement beyond that to private traders, Agriculture officials said in separate interviews.