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EnglishSource: Western Farm Press30/05/2012 – Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide facilitate the flow of genes from wild or weedy rice plants to domesticated rice varieties. As a result, domesticated plants could take on undesirable weedy characteristics that may interfere with future rice production.
Source: SulphurDailyNews.com30/05/2012 – The LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station will hold its annual field day June 28 with a variety of speakers and presentations.
Source: All Africa28/05/2012 – Around 700 million of the world’s poor live in rice-growing areas in Asia. Rice is the staple food in Asia and 95 percent of the world’s rice is produced there. Mostly grown in soils submerged under water, irrigated lowland (or ‘paddy’) rice accounts for nearly 80 percent of the world’s rice production…
Source: PhilStar.com22/05/2012 – Rice production for January-September period could reach 11.25 million metric tons, up 4.7 percent on year, thanks to favorable weather, the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) said today.
Source: Chicago Tribune03/07/2013 – After tests found worrisome levels of arsenic in American rice last fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would test 1,000 additional samples by the end of the year and issue recommendations “promptly.”
Source: The Raw Story21/05/2012 – Food shortages have worsened even in North Korea’s southwestern rice belt and some residents have starved to death there, a Seoul-based online newspaper said Monday.
Source: The Nation03/07/2013 – Despite deciding to raise the minimum price for rice back to Bt15,000 a tonne under its price-pledging scheme, the government plans to cut the pledging amount to Bt13,000 a tonne for the next harvest season, due to begin by November, a Commerce Ministry source says.
Source: Ghana Web19/05/2012 – The Ghana Rice Inter-professional Body, GRIB is stepping up efforts to introduce new standards for the production of local-rice by the end of the year.
Source: The Indian Express20/05/2012 – After trying paddy seed developed by universities outside Punjab, farmers are now back to using paddy varieties developed by the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) in Ludhiana.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald20/05/2012 – Farmers who decided to grow rice by relying solely on rainfall are beginning to reap the benefits of their foresight.