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EnglishSource: The Examiner18/07/2011 – Erik Andrus considers himself a beer and bread man, but he’s had limited success growing high quality grains on his sometimes soggy swath of Vermont farmland. This spring, in an effort to turn a liability into an asset, he switched focus and began experimenting with rice.
Source: Bloomberg15/07/2011 – Rice shipments from Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest exporter after Thailand, may exceed the goal for the year as production increases and exporters aim for new markets, including neighbor China.
Source: GBN14/07/2011 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says Ghana’s over-reliance on foreign imported rice is becoming a source of worry. “By limiting the importation of rice, the country will save money and invest in market development to increase productivity and expand growth. This is how most countries develop,” said FAO Representative in Ghana,…
Source: USGS13/07/2011 – Rice – which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population – could become adapted to climate change and some catastrophic events by colonizing its seeds or plants with the spores of tiny naturally occurring fungi, just-published U.S. Geological Survey-led research shows.
Source: philStar.com10/07/2011 – Bangladesh , one of the world’s biggest rice consuming countries, is expanding its hybrid rice seed production area from 300 hectares this year to 3,000 hectares in the coming years, “as it recognizes the contribution of the high-yielding seeds to its rice production program.”
Source: The Nation05/07/2011 – As a quick response to the Pheu Thai Party’s promise to restore the rice-price pledging scheme, domestic rice trading has ground to a halt, as millers are keeping their supplies off the market on speculation that prices will shoot up.
Source: E-Pao05/05/2013 – Over 1000 metric tonnes of rice, which have been procured by Department of Consumer Affairs Food ad Public Distribution, Government of Manipur from Food Corporation of India for distribution among the poor and needy people of the State, have turned stale from prolonged storage before the same could be distributed to the…
Source: Bloomberg06/07/2011 – Rice futures rose to a four-month high on mounting concern that output is dropping in the U.S., the world’s third-largest exporter.
Source: Bloomberg05/07/2011 – North Korean rice prices have quadrupled this year amid concern the regime is facing further economic isolation, according to a South Korean research report.
Source: Bloomberg06/07/2011 – Tokyo Grain Exchange Inc., operator of Japan’s largest agricultural commodity bourse, said trading volume may quadruple after it lists rice futures, helping it break even after three consecutive years of losses.