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EnglishSource: The News28/06/2013 – The country’s rice production has declined by around 20 percent during the last five years to 5.54 million tons in the year ending June 30, Agri Forum of Pakistan reported on Thursday.
Source: International Business Times16/04/2012 – The prices of Vietnamese rice for export have gone up by US$15-25.00 per ton since early April due to increasing Global demand and diminishing world rice reserve, said the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) Monday.
Source: Echo Press16/04/2012 – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will expand its knowledge of wild rice and sulfate interactions with the help of a University of Minnesota research team. This work, funded by the 2011 Minnesota Legislature from the Clean Water Fund, is designed to provide key information on the effects of sulfate on wild…
Source: PhilStar.com16/04/2012 – The Philippines may start exporting rice to other Asian countries in the first quarter of 2013 if no major calamities hit the country, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said yesterday.
Source: Hindustan Times09/04/2012 – Paddy farmers and millers are sceptical about the Centre’s move to promote use of certain hybrid seeds as they worry these will produce high percentage of broken rice. The Centre is promoting hybrid varieties through various programmes highlighting that these need less water and time to ripen. It has, however, banned some…
Source: Bangkok Post28/06/2013 – The government has completed its blanket inspection of rice stored in warehouses across the country and found only 26 cases where the rice in storage does not match the documentation, Pol Gen Worapong Chewprecha, a deputy commissioner of Royal Thai Police, said on Friday.
Source: Business World19/04/2012 – The country’s rice stock at the beginning of March declined by 29.5% year on year, data from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) showed on Friday, even as an official said supply will be augmented by the summer harvest.
Source: Stabroek News18/04/2012 – Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke said the Government is now formulating an ambitious plan to put 500 acres of land into rice cultivation by July and another 1,500 by December.
Source: Science Blog12/04/2012 – As Asia’s monsoon season begins, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists warned today that rapid climate change and its potential to intensify droughts and floods could threaten Asia’s rice production and pose a significant threat to millions of people across the region.
Source: Asia One27/06/2013 – Anyone can spend himself into trouble. It’s one kind of trouble if it’s your own money, but it’s another if it’s the taxpayers’. And it’s bigger trouble still if all logic cries out for you to stop throwing tax cash all over the place, but you have to weigh that against the…