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EnglishSource: Business Recorder26/05/2013 – Thai rice exports have fallen 30 percent so far this year due to high prices caused by a government intervention scheme, but shipments from Vietnam have risen and prices are falling due to an increase in supply there, traders said on Wednesday. Between January and May 21, Thailand exported 1.47 million…
Source: The Hindu Business Line26/05/2013 – With gaining popularity of rice bran oil as a healthy option for cooking, its market in the country is estimated to grow by 15 per cent to Rs 4,600 crore this year, industry body SEA said.
Source: The Economist12/11/2011 – IN ASIA kingdoms are said to rise and fall with the shifting price of rice. So the continent’s rulers presumably ought to be worried by the effects of disastrous floods in Thailand, the world’s biggest exporter of the white grains (see chart).
Source: CGIAR09/11/2011 – Soil salinity and flooding in the coastal deltas of India and Bangladesh directly impact the lives of around 130 million people. Rice fields in these areas are inundated with tidal surges driven by cyclones early in the wet season, followed by partial or stagnant flooding due to heavy monsoon rains later in the…
Source: KPLC TV24/05/2013 – LSU AgCenter rice experts, speaking at the Evangeline Parish Rice Tour on Thursday, said this year’s rice crop so far has been unusual and difficult.
Source: Economic Times25/05/2013 – Major Rice Bran Oil (RBO) producers in the world have decided to form an international organization to create awareness among edible oil consumers across the world about the health related advantages of using the RBO.
Source: PhilStar.com04/11/2011 – A month since typhoons Pedring and Quiel, the toll on rice production in Nueva Ecija, dubbed as the country’s rice granary, has shown.
Source: allAfrica.com07/11/2011 – The company Mozfoods, which processes rice in Chokwe district, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, believes that the conditions now exist for it shortly to reach its installed capacity of 20,000 tonnes.
Source: Khaleej Times04/11/2011 – Shaikha Lubna Al Qasimi, UAE Minister for Foreign Trade, on Thursday officially opened in Dubai the RICE 2011, or Rice International Exhibition and Conference, the new three-day event which aims to strengthen UAE’s position as the world’s biggest re-exporter of rice.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek04/11/2011 – Rice shipments from Thailand, the largest exporter, will drop by half from November to January as a state-buying policy raises costs and flooding disrupts transport, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association.