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EnglishSource: Hindustan Times23/09/2012 – With reports of water table going down in Punjab and Haryana considered as “rice bowl of India”, experts feel cultivation of the staple grain, which requires good amount of water could be shifted to eastern states having favourable condition.
Source: Huffington Post20/09/2012 – Arsenic-laced rice products being reported in the news are not the result of breakfast cereals and baby foods being soaked in poison at the factory. Rather, various natural and man-made processes can cause the toxic element to accumulate in rice grains as they grow.
Source: The Wall Street Journal13/09/2012 – A debate is reigniting over how to avoid a repeat of the 2008 food crisis, when rice prices hit a record high of $1,000 per metric ton, as academics and traders scoff at suggestions that futures trading could help smooth out wild swings in the market.
Source: The Nation11/09/2012 – Farmers have urged the Agriculture Ministry to create rice zones so that better breeds can be developed, as the government’s high subsidies have emboldened farmers to ignore quality and concentrate on quantity instead, critics say.
Source: Victoria Advocate.com12/09/2012 – When it comes to most things ag, a producer has one shot per season to make a healthy crop.
Source: All Africa10/09/2012 – The Kalimbeza Rice Project on the banks of the Zambezi River will soon be transformed into a full-scale rice production project, where production will be expanded and rice harvested, processed and distributed to a much larger market.
Source: TwinCities.com08/09/2012 – In canning jars, cattle troughs and 100 lakes across Minnesota, scientists are working at breakneck speed to unravel the relationship between the state’s iconic wild rice plant and something called sulfate.
Source: PhilStar07/09/2012 – Although it will continue to import commercial rice as part of its buffer stock, the Philippines will start exporting quality rice varieties to selected markets abroad next year.
Source: TalkVietnam02/09/2012 – A farmer in the Mekong delta province of An Giang has been successful in inventing a machine that can pick up unhusked rice at 15 tons an hour, thereby saving the labor cost of about 30 workers.
Source: Reuters03/09/2012 – Thailand, the world’s biggest rice exporter, will renew its intervention policy in October after the current scheme expires, aiming to buy up to 25 million tonnes of paddy to shore up prices, a senior government official said on Monday.