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EnglishSource: Dhaka Tribune31/05/2013 – With the Boro harvest coming to an end, farmers are expecting bumper crops this season but they are not sure if fortune will smile upon them, as every year they are deprived of fair prices for their products.
Source: PhilStar.com03/12/2011 – Although it seems ironic, the Philippines, which continues to import rice for local consumption, is now exporting tons of hybrid rice seeds, first developed in China, to neighboring countries in Asia.
Source: Physorg.com02/12/2011 – The “Sustainable Rice Platform” will elevate rice production to a new level by helping farmers – whether subsistence or market-focused – boost their rice production, keep the environment healthy, facilitate safer working conditions, and generate higher incomes to overcome poverty and improve food security.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek31/05/2013 – North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year’s crucial rice planting season: possible bonuses that are part of an economic shift echoing ally China’s steps three decades ago toward embracing capitalism.
Source: Ghana Web31/05/2013 – Rice farming at Botanga in the Kumbungu District in the Northern Region has significantly improved following the implementation of an agricultural project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Source: Nature23/11/2011 – In southern China, farmers have been cultivating fish and rice in the same fields for more than 1,200 years — with good reason, according to a group led by Xin Chen at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Farming fish and rice together achieves the same rice yield as growing rice alone, but uses 68% less…
Source: PBS29/11/2011 – Xu Limin goes out of her way to make sure the rice she buys wasn’t grown in southern China.
Source: Reuters29/11/2011 – In the first half of the 20th century, when it was known as Burma in Britain’s eastern empire, Myanmar and its lush Irrawaddy delta were celebrated as the “rice bowl of Asia,” leading the world in rice exports.
Source: Phys.org29/05/2013 – With the aid of high-tech tools, Agricultural Research Service and collaborating scientists are closing in on the genes in rice that regulate the uptake and storage of important minerals—a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world’s population.
Source: Sun Herald.com25/11/2011 – Conversations with the governor’s economic development advisers about a proposed bio-fuel plant in Colusa alarmed some city officials about what they thought could be potentially devastating air regulations coming toward the rice industry.