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EnglishSource: Stabroek News17/10/2012 – Rice farmers will have to make do without the promised SRD 3.2 million in aid by the government. ‘It all depends on the decision by the Council of Ministers. If they give a positive signal we have to find the financial means because they are not in the budget. The stakeholders…
Source: The Nation17/10/2012 – Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has urged the government to provide a direct subsidy to farmers instead of continuing the loss-making rice-pledging scheme, as their incomes would then be improved without destroying the market mechanism.
Source: Malaya17/10/2012 – Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala yesterday said that the Philippines has reached 98 percent of its rice production target for the year.
Source: All Africa15/10/2012 – As floods continue to wreak havoc in several states of Nigeria, destroying farmlands of rice, maize and other crops, there are fears of imminent food security threat.
Source: Inquirer News14/10/2012 – Local rice millers on Friday inaugurated a project designed to convert rice husks churned out by their rice mills into electricity that would power up the city and neighboring communities.
Source: The Economic Times09/10/2012 – With reports of water table going down in Punjab and Haryana considered as ‘rice bowl of India’, scientists and analysts feel cultivation of the staple grain, which requires good amount of water for cultivation could be shifted to eastern states having favourable water condition. The water table is going down…
Source: Bangkok Post09/10/2012 – Thailand could lose its status as the top exporter of fragrant rice next year if it does not improve quality, warns the Thai Rice Exporters Association (TREA).
Source: The Advertiser.com07/10/2012 – Rice farmers have faced a bittersweet harvest this year, reveling in the U.S. Department of Agriculture prediction that Louisiana would produce record yields, but then facing reality — a rampant rice disease that rotted some of the crop, unchanging prices and a recent study that warned of arsenic levels in rice.
Source: Business Standard05/10/2012 – Rice exports from India are estimated to be at record 10 million tonne in 2011-12 marketing year, that ended last month, on strong demand and competitive prices, says a report.
Source: The Nation05/10/2012 – Farmers in the eastern and central Thai provinces of Prachin Buri and Nakhon Nayok are being encouraged to plant “Khao Banna 432,” a new variety of rice that grows well in flooded conditions and can sustain more than 100cm of water for at least a month, according to the Rice Department.