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EnglishSource: Statesman.com23/02/2013 – One August morning in 1915, Aaron Simon, a Jew who had immigrated to the United States at the turn of the century to flee the pogroms and deprivations of Czarist Russia, led a motorcade from Bay City to Bastrop to address the Colorado River Improvement Association.
Source: Daily Democrat22/02/2013 – Greater competition from Australia and Egypt in the global market has dampened export prospects for California rice, and farmers say they worry they will have a harder time covering their production costs as they face lower returns and uncertainty in future farm programs.
Source: The Hindu22/02/2013 – China’s most renowned agricultural scientist has described as “120 per cent fake” claims that farmers in Bihar harvested a world record 22.4 tonnes of rice from one hectare of land without using herbicides or genetically modified (GM) seeds last year. A national icon, Yuan Longping is known here as “the father…
Source: Delta Farm Press21/02/2013 – Ghana is the largest commercial market for U.S. rice sales on the African continent. For more than 10 years, the USA Rice Federation has conducted successful promotional activities in this key market. As a result, U.S. rice is well-known among Ghanaian consumers and is preferred over long-grain rice from other…
Source: All Africa20/02/2013 – An American farmer, Calvin Burgess of Guthrie, Oklahoma, owner of Dominion Rice and Integrated Farms Limited, is set to begin a large scale mechanised rice farming in Taraba State beginning this year’s farming season.
Source: The Tribune20/02/2013 – Decades of experience have proved that Sacramento Valley rice farmers can use their fields to grow healthy ducks. Now, research under way in the Yolo Bypass aims to find out if they can grow salmon, too.
Source: Reuters20/02/2013 – Japan must be willing to negotiate in all trade sectors, including politically sensitive ones like rice, if it wants to join the United States and 10 other countries in talks on a regional free-trade pact, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian16/02/2013 – Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field…
Source: Rappler19/02/2013 – Rice stocks in the Philippines, a major importer trying to become self-sufficient in the staple food of its 100 million people, have tightened slightly going into 2013, the government’s Bureau of Agricultural Statistics said.
Source: Phys.org19/02/2013 – Two studies, led by Dr. Fugen Dou of Beaumont – and a team from College Station, Corpus Christi, Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina—will look at yielding more high quality organic rice in an environmentally friendly way. The research projects are funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.