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EnglishSource: USDA02/04/2014 – USDA is helping to provide rice growers in California and the Midsouth with new opportunities to voluntarily execute conservation practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while cultivating a new income stream.
Source: Inquirer02/04/2014 – Ever heard of “chong-ak,” “imbuucan” and “ominio?” These are rice varieties grown in the Cordillera that are fast disappearing, according to organic food advocates.
Source: Business Recorder28/03/2014 – Pakistan’s rice exports have surged by 22.57 percent to $1.4 billion during July-February FY13-14 against $1.1 billion during the same period last year. Pakistan has exported some 2185753 thousand ton rice during July to February 2013-2014 against 2142303 thousand tons during the same period of FY 12-13. Basmati rice exports increased…
Source: Kaieteur News29/03/2014 – Rice millers operating on the Essequibo Coast are anxiously awaiting word on how soon they would be able to ship rice to Venezuela.
Source: GMA News28/03/2014 – Because of high production costs and lower tarrifs, Philippine farmers and rice distributors fear losing a significant amount of business at the onset of free trade in Southeast Asia in 2015.
Source: ANBA26/03/2014 – African countries representatives, including a Mauritanian one, were in Brazil earlier this month to learn about the cropping and industrialization of rice in the country. The group included by technicians, entrepreneurs and government members of the nations comprising the project Africa Rice, were in the states of of Tocantins and Goiás. “All of…
Source: Business Week24/03/2014 – Rwanda has seen continuous growth in rice production which indicates substantial reductions of imports of the crop by 2017.
Source: AGWEEK24/03/2014 – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, on March 12, released its preliminary findings on how much sulfate pollution is too much for wild rice, saying a two-year, $1.5 million field and laboratory study shows sulfate above 4 to 16 parts per million can produce a chain reaction in the ecosystem that harms wild rice.
Source: This Day Live24/03/2014 – Local rice farming in the country is set to receive a major boost, following the completion of arrangements by Olam Nigeria Limited to cultivate 6000 hectares of land for low land rice cultivation through irrigation in its expansive rice farm in Nasarawa State.
Source: Inquirer.net24/03/2014 – Philippine trade negotiators are firmly confident that all countries with interest in accessing our rice market would have endorsed by April the continued implementation of quotas over the next three years.