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Hain Celestial buys specialty rice company Tilda
2014-01-13 16:45:23| Food - Topix.net
Tilda has more than 60 dry rice and ready-to-heat branded products under the names Tilda, Akash Basmati and Abu Shmagh.
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Climate Change Clouds Philippines Dream of Rice Self-Sufficiency
2014-01-13 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WSJ: Climate change will complicate the Philippines efforts to become self-sufficient in rice, the countrys economic planning secretary said Monday. Arsenio Balisacan said preliminary data showed that 74% of the estimated damage from natural disasters in the country last year came in the farm sector, primarily affecting rice. The natural disasters include extreme weather caused by global warming, he said. We expect these extreme events and unpredictable phenomena to become the new normal, Mr. Balisican...
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Pakistan moves to introduce flood-tolerant rice varieties
2014-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For the first time in years, Pakistani farmer Zulfiqar Ali cannot afford to sow winter wheat. Damage to his standing rice crop from heavy monsoon rains has left him penniless. "My rice crop on 18 hectares was flattened by lashing rains in July,' said Ali, standing next to his paddy field in Sialkot district, some 190 km (120 miles) from Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. "I have already landed in a debt trap, and my children have been hungry for many days.' Although Pakistan produces enough rice...
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Dan Rice, Sons Plan To IPO Their Marcellus- And Utica-Focused Rice Energy
2014-01-10 16:44:00| OGI
Private-equity sponsor Natural Gas Partners plans to sell some of its interest.
Madagascar battles locust swarms save rice & maize crops
2013-12-31 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A pair of farmers in Madagascar are struggling to drive off hundreds of thousands of locusts heading for their rice plantation, equipped with no more than a branch and a plastic bag. "It's the third time in a month that these bugs have come near here and I'm terrified we may lose everything," says Razafindradaoro. For this father of four, salvation could come from the heavens. Flying about 10 metres above the ground, a helicopter will soon be spraying insecticide in the area around Tsiroanomandidy,...
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