Global rice prices are likely to surge by 10 percent to 20 percent in the next few months as an El Niño weather pattern grips top producers in Asia, baking the region’s croplands and whittling down stocks of the grain to multi-year lows.
Source: IFPRI Blog 29/07/2015 – The following blog story was originally published on the HarvestPlus blog. HarvestPlus has opened a facility in Bangladesh to support faster breeding of zinc rice and train scientists in the use of advanced screening techniques. The X-ray fluorescence (XRF) laboratory center is located at HarvestPlus’ regional office in Bogra. …
India is estimated to have produced over 102 million tonnes of rice in 2014-15 crop year (July-June).
Engineering students win awards at international competition for creating less costly, more environmentally friendly and termite resistant alternative to particleboard.
Over 400 people gathered at the LSU AG Center Rice Research Station on Wednesday to discuss the future of the rice industry.
A plasticizer contaminant was found in samples of suspected synthetic rice obtained from Davao City, the National Food Authority (NFA) said yesterday.
Source: Market Place 02/07/2015 – The U.S. will open an embassy in Havana — so said President Barack Obama Tuesday, a significant step showing that efforts to normalize relations with Cuba are ticking along. However, the embargo still stands, and only Congress can lift it. Should that happen, many U.S. exporters will stand to benefit, including…
The BIORICE researchers have developed biotechnological processes to convert the by-products found in the processing water of rice starch into different ‘peptides’ (small protein molecules).
Source: Gulf News 20/06/2015 – The Philippine government and non-government organisations have joined hands to preserve, nurture and market highland rice varieties from the northern Cordillera region for the health conscious, sources said, adding efforts include finding more varieties and reviving nearly extinct ones to make organic rice more affordable. Some 300 “heirloom rice varieties”…
Source: The Jakarta Post 21/06/2015 – Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said on Sunday that the government would redesign its rice-for-the-poor (Raskin) program following a recommendation from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which has detected irregularities in the implementation of the program. Playing down reports that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo would completely remove the…
