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EnglishSource: Bangkok Post11/06/2013 – The Phnom Penh Post cited data from the Council of the Development of Cambodia as saying the country exported 146,854 tonnes of milled rice from January to May, a 127% increase year-on-year.
Source: Science Codex11/06/2013 – A US$12 million investment in rice research has returned more than $70 million in benefits to rice farmers and national economies in four Asian countries, according to a new report.
Source: Western Farm Press29/12/2011 – Next season could bring significant reductions in acreage for some rice producing states, according to rice specialists addressing the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Austin, Texas. Here’s a state by state look.
Source: PM News29/12/2011 – The Federal Government has expanded the capacities of three rice mills in the country to 90,000 tonnes each to facilitate rice processing and ensure competitiveness.
Source: Delta Farm Press29/12/2011 – In early September of 2011, Arkansas rice producer Jared Holzhauer thought his crop had made it through early- and mid-season weather woes with flying colors. But by the time he started harvesting the crop later that month, it turned out that the crop looked better from the road than in the…
Source: Jakarta Globe27/12/2011 – Three state companies will team up to open 100,000 hectares of new rice fields in a bid to achieve the government’s target of a 10 million-ton rice surplus by 2014, a minister said on Tuesday.
Source: The Mainichi Daily News27/12/2011 – With the government announcing a possible ban on future rice planting in areas where contaminated rice was detected, farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are on the verge of losing the little hope that has kept them going amidst months of torture.
Source: Taipei Times28/12/2011 – A shipment of Taiwanese rice bound for Tokyo departed central Taiwan yesterday, the second in a series of three deliveries of the biggest rice order received from Japan in eight years.
Source: Reuters10/06/2013 – The Thai government plans to cut the price it pays farmers for their rice to 10,000 Thai baht ($330) per tonne from 15,000 baht to limit the losses from the intervention scheme, according to a newspaper report on Monday that quoted the commerce minister.
Source: Nation Multimedia27/12/2011 – The flood has forced farmers to shorten their rice-growing period, while at the same time they will find it hard to access high-quality rice seed, says an expert at Bayer CropScience, the agricultural-chemical arm of German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer.