Source: Chico ER 28/10/2014 – Nothing about this year’s rice growing season has been business-as-usual. Some growers received no water. Others received most of their water. Some rice growers sold water. By the time all the rice acreage in California was tallied, officials say about 25 percent less rice was planted this year. Last year…
Education Secretary Armin Luistro urged schools nationwide to actively participate in the observance of National Rice Awareness Month in November, saying the amount of rice Filipinos waste every day could feed 2.5 million people a year and adds up to more than P7 billion annually.
Guyana says it has exported 400,000 tonnes of rice, the most in the country’s history.
Shuichi Yokota may be the future of Japan’s struggling rice industry. – See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/japans-sacred-rice-farms-rotting-inside?page=0%2C0#sthash.WaVmFXNV.dpuf
Rural poverty in parts of Asia could be exacerbated due to negative impacts from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living, says the report of working group two of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report.
Africa’s rapid expansion of areas for rice production will be the fastest globally, in percentage terms.
India may become the largest exporter of rice next year amid higher demand anticipated from African and Middle East countries and competitive prices.
Silica improves what is called rolling resistance, meaning vehicles need less energy to move and therefore burn less fuel. It also improves traction on wet pavement.
Typically considered an inexpensive, low-quality livestock feed, rice straw is getting special treatment this year, as more growers experiment with new ways of baling it to try to retain more of its nutritional quality.
In the past month, The Nature Conservancy of California implemented a new rescue program called BirdReturns where donors put up money to pay farmers to flood their rice fields early with well water, starting last week, and to leave them flooded into April next year, well past when they are usually drained.
