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EnglishSource: The Morung Express19/02/2012 – Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Kohima district conducted district level training on rice disease management cum specialist support in collaboration with NU: SASRD Medziphema at Teichuma village on February 17, 2012.
Source: The Nation20/02/2012 – Despite warnings on the huge stockpiles it will have to handle and severe export competition this year, the government has insisted on going ahead with its rice-pledging scheme, as it believes the strategy will drive up prices both domestically and in the international market.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek19/02/2012 – Dominion Farms Ltd., an Oklahoma- based farming company that produces rice in Kenya, agreed to start a rice farm with the government in Nigeria that would be Africa’s biggest with production at 300,000 metric tons a year.
Source: Inquirer News15/02/2012 – A technical engineering team sent to Ifugao last week by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has finalized a work plan for restoring the province’s rice terraces and for reviving its watershed, the agency’s Cordillera director said.
Source: Agrosoft14/02/2012 – A Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (Epagri) e a Basf fazem o lançamento da nova variedade de arroz irrigado – cultivar SCS117CL – na Estação Experimental de Itajaí para agricultores, produtores de sementes e de grãos, técnicos e lideranças rurais.
Source: Environmental Health News14/02/2012 – U.S. women who reported eating average-sized portions of rice had higher levels of arsenic exposure compared to women who didn’t eat rice, indicating that food may provide potentially harmful levels of arsenic.
Source: Bangkok Post15/02/2012 – Farmers in flood-prone Bang Rakam district of Phitsanulok have demanded fairer compensation if their land is to be used to retain floodwater.
Source: Bangkok Post15/02/2012 – Anchalee Porsongkhram, a Bang Rakam villager, said she would cooperate with the water retention policy only if the government pays out a reasonable amount of compensation.
Source: The Economic Times14/02/2012 – India’s exports of basmati rice to Iran may get hurt if tension escalates in West Asia region following a bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat here yesterday, an exporters’ body said today.
Source: CBS News18/06/2013 – Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday.