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VIDEO: Thailand's rice scheme stokes concerns
2013-08-29 03:08:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Thailand's policy of buying entire crops of rice leaves it with a mountain of the food, which if sold at today's prices would incur a significant loss.
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Extreme weather bears down on rice
2013-08-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: Drought, heat, heavy rain and floods in China's major rice-growing regions are likely to cut the country's harvest and increase reliance on imports, industry experts have forecast. An ongoing drought has harmed rice crops in Central and East China's major rice-growing regions such as Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. Meanwhile, heavy rain and floods have hit Heilongjiang province in Northeast China. In addition, a heat wave has scorched 13 provincial-level areas and left about 6 million people...
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Kellogg, Louisiana State Work On Sustainable Rice Growing
2013-08-09 02:15:26| Agriculture - Topix.net
Rice has long been an important food staple, dating back as far as 2500 B.C. Today, rice is essential to the diets of much of the world's population, and a major ingredient in many of the foods produced by Kellogg Co., including Rice Krispies, Special K and other brands.
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Ford using rice hull-reinforced plastic in F-150s
2013-08-07 12:30:17| Green Car Congress
Roots breakthrough for drought-resistant rice
2013-08-04 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-presse: Japanese biotechnologists on Sunday said they had developed a rice plant with deeper roots that can sustain high yields in droughts that wipe out conventional rice crops. It is the third breakthrough in new cereal strains in less than two years, boosting the quest to feed the world's spiralling population at a time of worsening climate change. Writing in the journal Nature Genetics, a team led by Yusaku Uga of the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba describe how they found...
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