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EnglishSource: Manila Bulletin23/11/2010 – The government’s P2.2-billion program to massively produce value-added, export-oriented organic rice on 10,000 hectares will boost the economic status of the poorest farmers in rain-fed areas long left out in development programs.
Source: Indian Express20/11/2010 – More than a year after allegations of “illegal” exports of rice to African countries surfaced, the government on Friday told Parliament that public sector trading firms had indeed flouted norms, benefitting some private companies.
Source: Business Standard19/11/2010 – India’s rice output is likely to rise 12.36 per cent this year, on favourable pattern of monsoon and higher acreage area, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO’s) latest food review forecast released yesterday. The agency estimated India’s total milled rice output at 100 million tonnes (mt) this year,…
Source: The Wall Street Journal16/04/2013 – A single plant born out of unlikely parents opens the possibility of farmers growing rice on land normally unusable because of salt from nearby sea.
Source: Blogs From the Earth Institute17/11/2010 – Since the 1960s, farmers in Punjab, India have practiced some of the most intensive broad scale grain production in the world. As a result, the state has earned the nickname “the food bowl of India” for its out sized role in adopting and implementing Green Revolution technologies that in…
Source: The Australian09/11/2010 – Singapore should become the global hub of rice futures and spot trading to defend Asia’s billions from price swings, food riots and shortages.
Source: SOS Children’s Villages16/11/2010 – With the recent natural disasters, the mood in Indonesia was low-key before the arrival of President Obama last week. Images of the destruction caused by Mount Merapi dominated the news and over 250 people are now known to have died following the eruptions. In recent days the volcano’s activity has lessened and exclusion…
Source: Daily Nation16/11/2010 – The government is planning to upgrade a 2,500-acre rice irrigation scheme in Msambweni District in order to boost rice production.
Source: The Vancouver Sun15/11/2010 – The Philippines expects its rice output to grow in the final quarter of 2010 and increase next year, allowing the world’s biggest buyer to more than halve its imports from a record 2.45 million tonnes for this year.
Source: IRRI10/11/2010 – One of the world’s largest global scientific partnerships for sustainable agricultural development has launched a bold new research initiative that aims to dramatically improve the ability of rice farmers to feed growing populations in some of the world’s poorest nations. The efforts of the Global Rice Science Partnership, or GRiSP, are expected to lift…