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EnglishSource: Bangkok Post05/03/2012 – Rice exports have declined this year as a result of the rice mortgage scheme implemented by the Pheu Thai Party-led government, a seminar organised by the Democrat Party was told yesterday.
Source: Seattle Pi19/06/2013 – Thailand will pay farmers 20 percent less for rice to stem losses from a much-criticized subsidy program that dislodged the country from its spot as the world’s No. 1 exporter of the grain, a government minister said Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian20/06/2013 – We’ve used rice in Britain since the middle ages: our ancestors boiled it in milk with sugar, cinnamon and almonds (imported from Italy, rice cost so much it was kept under lock and key with the spices). At one point, rice pudding was believed to lead to “venerie” – sex – and blindness.…
Source: Voice of America29/02/2012 – Five months after lifting a ban on exports of cheaper varieties of rice, India has emerged as one of the world’s top rice exporters. That has helped stabilize prices around the world, even as the cost goes up in traditional exporting nations like Thailand.
Source: The Daily Yomiuri29/02/2012 – The agriculture ministry has announced it will conditionally permit rice planting this year in municipalities where radioactive cesium contained in last year’s harvests was found to be from 100 becquerels to 500 becquerels per kilogram.
Source: Kaieteur News29/02/2012 – While many rice farmers from Golden Fleece, Essequibo Coast, are in the process of harvesting rice for the first crop, a number of them especially those residing on the northern section have been hard hit from floods.
Source: Sun Star29/02/2012 – The National Mapping and Resource Information Agency (Namria) presented recently the map showing the delineation of the core and buffer zones of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras Unesco World Heritage Site.
Source: The Sun Daily28/02/2012 – The introduction of hybrid rice to the world in 1979 enabled China to feed 70 million more people annually and uplift the status of rice farmers by maximising output from paddy fields.
Source: The Economic Times27/02/2012 – Iraq is considering buying rice and sugar from India, the gulf nation’s deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways said here today.
Source: The Daily Star20/06/2013 – Rice prices are on the rise amid speculations about lower boro production due to reduced acreage, stakeholders said yesterday.