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EnglishSource: Bloomberg19/07/2013 – The Thai government, seeking to offload record stockpiles of rice built up through a state-buying program, is prepared to sell the grain at a loss as it plans to open bids for the hoard every two weeks.
Source: The Nation18/07/2013 – Health authorities are scrambling to slap strict controls on chemical fumigation of rice and to push packers into upgrading their processing to good manufacturing practices (GMP) after reported findings of adulterated rice sapped public confidence in the country’s food safety standards.
Source: Western Farm Press17/07/2013 – California rice farmer Charley Matthews Jr. remembers the excitement when Japan first started buying rice from the United States in 1993.
Source: Crop Biotech Update17/07/2013 – More than 60 researchers and partners have met under the Support for Agricultural Research and Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC)’s event “Partners, Possibilities and Prospects” on July 15 at the 6th African Agricultural Science Week in Accra, Ghana. The SARD-SC project aims to raise the productivity of maize, cassava, wheat, and rice by 20 percent in…
Source: International Business Times15/07/2013 – The Thai government has embarked on a disastrous and costly rice subsidy program to benefit its rice farmers – the program cost the government $4.4 billion last year – but an unexpected beneficiary turned out to be Myanmar, as Thai traders flock to the neighboring country to buy rice that…
Source: Food Product Design15/07/2013 – Rice protein offers identical benefits to dairy-based whey protein for muscle growth and repair, according to a new study published in the Nutrition Journal.
Source: The Nation12/07/2013 – Amid criticisms over the rice-pledging scheme, FAO official says quality and pricing hold key for the future of Thai rice.
Source: Cornell University10/07/2013 – During the first week of June, Erika Styger, director of programs of the SRI (System of Rice Intensification) International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice) at Cornell, trained 17 Haitians in the northern Coronel-Dubre region of Haiti in how to train farmers to improve rice productivity through the use of the SRI methodology.
Source: The Advertiser10/07/2013 – This year’s rice crop will likely be an average one, Steve Linscombe, director of the LSU AgCenter’s Rice Research Station, said Tuesday. But average is not bad.
Source: IRRI10/06/2013 – To help unleash the great potential of promising students in Asia to help feed the region into the future, a US$ 3 million donation has established the Lee Foundation Rice Scholarship Program to educate and train a new generation of rice scientists.