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EnglishSource: Business Standard02/07/2010 – The country’s rice production can easily increase to about 130 million tonnes by 2020 if trials for cultivating paddy through drip irrigation are successful, according to Jain Irrigation.
Source: The Town Talk30/03/2013 – The leader of the “majority” of Louisiana’s rice growers says he’s concerned that a lawsuit filed by “a minority special interest group” of growers could wreck a system that has made growing rice profitable.
Source: Bloomberg29/06/2010 – Rice fell to the lowest price in more than three years on expectations for a bigger U.S. crop and increased world supplies. The U.S. crop was rated 74 percent good or excellent as of June 27, up from 55 percent at the same time a year earlier, the government said yesterday. Global…
Source: Bloomberg29/06/2010 – Rice production in Thailand, the largest exporter of the grain, may drop to the lowest in eight years as drought and the spread of plant hoppers damage crops, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. The nation’s main rice crop, which accounts for about 75 percent of total output, may be 22…
Source: Crienglish.com20/06/2010 – Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, said on Sunday that his team was working on a new version of high-yield hybrid rice and might complete it in 2012. Yuan, director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center and a faculty member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,…
Source: Reuters20/06/2010 – Pakistan’s 2010-2011 season rice crop is expected to drop by 14 percent versus the year earlier as India limits water supplies to Pakistan, a board member on Pakistan’s Rice Exports Association told Reuters on Sunday. Pakistan’s Indus river basin is supplied by melting snow and glaciers from the Himalayas. Both India and…
Source: Xinhuanet.com20/06/2010 – The Bangladeshi scientists have developed four new varieties of rice for aman season (summer paddy) creating scope for increasing the yield of this monsoon crop and reducing reliance on boro (winter paddy) production. The new varieties are submergence-tolerant BRRI Dhan-51 and BRRI Dhan-52, and Hybrid-4 and Hira Dhan-10, both first ever hybrid…
Source: Mercury News29/03/2013 – California environmentalists say a proposal by state pesticide regulators to allow spraying of a controversial pesticide on rice fields in the Sacramento Valley could harm aquatic organisms and honeybees.
Source: Sindh Today News18/06/2010 – Despite the government’s efforts to improve rice production and availability of more storage water this year, paddy has been sown in less area than last year, according to early reports about the kharif sowing season. Data released by the agriculture ministry Friday reveals that paddy has been sown in 10.97…
Source: change.org16/06/2010 – One organization came up with an innovative way to improve the world’s rice production—let farmers watch movies. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) created a program where researchers, farmers, and processors come together to create instructional videos on growing and producing rice. Through the series of films, farmers from different countries can share…