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EnglishSource: Bangkok Post25/06/2013 – The government temporarily defused a potential timebomb on Tuesday, promising angry farmers the National Rice Policy Committee will this week consider their demand to maintain the paddy pledging price at B15,000 until the end of the current harvest.
Source: The Nation02/04/2012 – After being hit severely by floods last year, Sandee Rice – Thailand’s leading rice packer – is now paddling its own canoe to rebuild its business, which is expected to recommence operations this month.
Source: Kaieteur News01/04/2012 – Dr Ashni Singh has reported an 11.3 increase in rice production. He told the House on Friday, that the rice industry extended its stellar performance of recent years with total production last year of 401,904 tonnes.
Source: KATV30/03/2012 – Acreage in the nation’s top rice growing state is expected to be at its lowest point since 1989, while corn acres in Arkansas are expected to overtake cotton acres for the first time since 1940, Scott Stiles, extension economist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said Friday.
Source: FARS News31/03/2012 – Uruguayan Agriculture Minister Tabaré Agerre announced his country’s readiness to supply rice to Iran in exchange for oil.
Source: Myanmar Times24/06/2013 – As rice farmers fall deeper into debt, a ripple effect is being felt throughout the supply chain, with the Myanmar Rice Federation’s newly elected president warning that even his company – Gold Delta – is in financial crisis.
Source: The Hindu Business Line24/06/2013 – The rice market may see only need-based buying and prices may rule with marginal fluctuation in the coming days, according to trade sources.
Source: The Advocate29/03/2012 – The cereal maker Kellogg’s is enlisting Louisiana rice farmers in the effort for earth-friendly Rice Krispies.
Source: The Land29/03/2012 – Rice harvest is in full swing in southern NSW, with crops which missed the worst of the flood damage yielding as much as 12.5 tonnes a hectare.
Source: Business World29/03/2012 – The Philippines is set to purchase from abroad 380,000 metric tons (MT) of rice after the government completed the bidding for the shipment quota of the private sector, an official said yesterday.