Category Archives: News @en

USA – Clock is ticking on 2014 rice crop

Source: Delta Farm Press10/04/2014 – Will 2014 be a repeat of the late-planted, lower-yielding, lower-quality crops of 2010 or 2011 or will it be more similar to last year’s record production and higher grain quality?

USA – Rice planting int he Mid-South moving ‘in slow motion’

Source: Delta Farm Press11/04/2014 – Rice planting was off to a roaring standstill for much of the Mid-South in early April as wet weather and cold temperatures slowed progress considerably. Here’s more from state rice specialists and agronomists:

Thailand – Rice exports up 40% year on year

Source: Bangkok Post08/04/2014 – Thai rice exports rose to 1.4 million tonnes in the first two months of 2014, up 40% from the same period in 2013, Oryza.com reported on Tuesday.

Australia – Rice Growers slam Japan FTA

Source: The Sidnwy Morning Herald08/04/2014 – Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia President Les Gordon has slammed Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s landmark free trade agreement with Japan as a deal that punishes and ignores ricegrowers.

Philippines – PHL misses 2013 rice self-sufficiency target

Source: GMA News05/04/2014 – The Department of Agriculture said the country failed to meet its target of 100-percent rice self-sufficiency in 2013 despite earlier projections that the goal would be met before 2014.

Ghana – Rice farmers to sue MoFA over stalled rice project

Source: GhanaWeb05/04/2014 – Three-hundred-and-fifty rice farmers at Ohiamadwene and its environs in the Shama District of the Western Region have threatened to take legal action against the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) for its inability to carry out a rice project for them.

USA – Drought Threatens Texas Rice Farmers’ Future

Source: NBCDFW04/04/2014 – Brothers Stewart and Kirby Savage should be out right now, planting rice, a crop that their family has grown in Matagorda County for nearly a century. But here they sit, in their low-slung office along Texas 60, talking water, or the lack of it.

Nigeria – Rice, fish imports have affected our revenue collection — Customs

Source: All Africa04/04/2014 – Customs Area Controller, CAC, of Apapa Area1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Charles Edike, has said that the new import policy of the Federal Government has affected the revenue collection of the Command.

Thailand – Rice sector needs long-term development plan, a seminar heard

Source: The Nation05/04/2014 – Thailand should draw up a long-term policy on rice crops and trading management to avoid huge losses from short-term subsidies, while politicians should no longer be allowed to make rice policy a populist tool, a seminar heard yesterday.

India – Rice millers strike takes vehicles off road

Source: Business Standard03/04/2014 – The on-going indefinite strike of rice millers in support of their various demands had put more than 5000 vehicles engaged in transportation off road.