USA – USA Rice now represents 90 percent of growers
Source: AG Professional07/01/2013 – The Mississippi Rice Promotion Board voted unanimously in late December to join the USA Rice Federation as of Jan. 1, 2013.
Golden rice trial triggers sackings, investigation
Source: SciDev.Net07/01/2013 – Three Chinese researchers have been fired from their positions after they co-published a study in which 24 schoolchildren in China’s Hunan province were fed genetically modified (GM) rice in 2008, Chinese authorities announced last month (6 December).
Philippines – Stop rice smuggling
Fuente: NSS Oaxaca04/01/2013 – Rice traders, millers, and farmers are appealing to the Aquino administration to act immediately and decisively against the “rampant” rice smuggling in the country that has resulted in the flooding of the grain and lower demand for domestic rice.
USA – Mississippi joins the USA Rice Federation
Source: The Vindicator04/01/2013 – The Mississippi Rice Promotion Board voted unanimously on Dec. 20, 2012, to join the USA Rice Federation as of Jan. 1, 2013. This action brings Mississippi rice farmers together with farmers from other rice-producing states in the USA Rice organization, which now represents about 90 percent of U.S. rice production as…
India, Vietnam are world’s top rice exporters
Source: The Nation04/01/2013 – Thailand lost its three-decades-old title as the world’s top rice exporter last year, falling behind India and Vietnam, industry sources said on Friday.
Thailand – Thailand ‘loses rank of world’s top rice exporter’
Source: InterAksyon.com04/01/2013 – Thailand lost its status as the world’s top rice exporter in 2012 as a controversial scheme to boost farmer incomes saw it overtaken by India and Vietnam, an industry group said Friday.
Nigeria – Poor quality rice in circulation – Dealers
Source: PUNCH03/01/2013 – The Rice Millers, Processors and Dealers Association of Nigeria on Wednesday alerted the nation that poor quality rice had been smuggled into the Nigerian market.
Philippines – Legarda warns of less rice with continued rise in global temperature
Source: Senate of the Philippines03/01/2013 – Senator Loren Legarda today warned that Filipinos need to take aggressive and immediate action to adapt to the changing climate and prevent further rise in global temperature or prepare themselves for meals with no rice at all.
Liberia – Liberia: ‘Reduce rice importation’- UL economist cautions
Source: allAfrica31/12/2012 – An Economist at the University of Liberia (UL) Dehpue Zuo, has called on the government to reduce rice importation to boost food production.
USA – Farm bill, inputs an quality are top rice producer concerns
Source: Western Farm Press28/12/2012 – U.S. rice producers say the farm bill, input costs, water availability, regulation and quality issues are top concerns for the rice industry, during interviews at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Coronado, Calif.