Nigeria – Nigeria plans rice and wheat self-sufficiency within three years – government document
The West African nation is the world’s second largest importer of rice and among the biggest buyers of U.S. wheat.
Guyana – Mexico to fast-track rice deal with Guyana
Guyanese rice farmers could be soon benefitting from the Mexico market, as Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo continues to seek new buyers for local rice.
First sustainable rice standard launched
New UN-Supported Rice Management Standard Sets Benchmark for Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Responsible Rice Cultivation.
Vietnamese ambassador seeks help from UC Davis to preserve country’s rice crop
Ambassador seeks help on climate change in rice fields. He says his country is ripe for change and investment. Strong trade ties between California, Vietnam cited.
U.S.A. – Can you trademark a grain of rice?
The fascinating history of America’s premium sushi rice, Kokuho Rose
U.S.A – North Carolina’s contaminated town: Former rice farmers struggle
Land around Navassa used to be filled with rice farms worked by slaves. But decades of corporate abuse has left much of the earth poisoned. In 1980 tons of carcinogenic creosote was mixed with the soil and buried
Residents say they would like to use the land for farming again, but can’t. Largely poor, rural area is now subject to a $93million cleanup operation.
U.S.A. – WASDE: U.S. All-rice yield lowest since 2011
U.S. all rice production in 2015/16 is forecast at 187.8 million cwt, down 1.7 million from last month with the decline entirely due to lower yield.
India – Here’s how rice can light up homes
As the world’s seventh largest country and one of its leading growing economies, India faces major challenges when it comes to meeting the energy needs of more than one billion people.
Canada – Wild rice plants cause contention on Pigeon Lake
Landowners concerned for lake’s future as amount of wild rice increases on Pigeon Lake.
USA – Rice harvesting progressing in Louisiana, but yields are down
South Louisiana rice farmers have had excellent weather to get the 2015 crop out of the field, but the yield is a decline from the two exceptional harvests over the past two years, according to LSU AgCenter experts.