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EnglishSource: Khaleej Times30/10/2011 – A predicted surge in the supply of rice from South East Asia over the coming months would help reinforce the UAE’s position as the world’s biggest re-exporter of rice, an industry expert said.
Source: The News24/05/2013 – The Punjab Seed Council has approved five non-BT cotton and four new rice varieties for general cultivation in Punjab.
Source: Reuters27/10/2011 – Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that the nation’s shrinking agricultural sector is in dire straits.
Source: SciDev Net25/10/11 – Research into rice varieties is keeping the staple food affordable and helping to stave off hunger for millions in South-East Asia, an Australian government agency has reported.
Source: Bloomberg26/10/11 – Thailand’s worst floods in more than a half century may have wiped out as much as 14 percent of paddy fields in the world’s biggest rice exporter, potentially erasing the predicted global glut.
Source: The Hindu Business Line23/05/2013 – Rice bran oil producers have decided to form an international organisation to create an awareness among consumers about the health advantages of using the oil.
Source: Bangkok Post23/05/2013 – Losses from the government’s rice pledging scheme for the 2011-12 harvest year are estimated to reach 200 billion baht, far above the Finance Ministry’s earlier forecast of 70-100 billion baht, says a source.
Source: LBO.lk23/10/2011 – Sri Lanka has gifted 250 metric tonnes of rice to Somalia as domestic production increased, economic development minister Basil Rajapaksa said.
Source: Market Watch23/10/2011 – As rice prices rise and supply tightens in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter, buyers are increasingly turning to India to meet their needs though infrastructure bottlenecks may slowdown shipments, trading executives said.
Source: Today Online21/10/2011 – The price of Thai fragrant rice may have risen by 9 per cent since January, but Singapore’s stockpile and its strategy of diversifying its rice supply sources have mitigated the effects of price spikes and supply disruptions, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan told Parliament on Friday.