The institute s Chairman Abhaya Weragoda said it was possible to promote bread containing 20 per cent rice flour and 80 per cent wheat flour for a start. Commenting on the recent increase in bread and wheat flour prices, Weragoda said the situation should be regarded as a welcome opportunity to promote rice flour into the system. Rice may be put in water so as to produce rice cream which may be mixed with dry wheat flour to produce a wet flour, to promote the use of rice flour into the...

A 2005 study by US scientists focused on China, which produces a third of the world s rice and where rice fields have shrunk by 10 million ha in the past decade as farmers shifted to other crops and abandoned marginal land. AS delegates to a climate conference in Bangkok last week debate how to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems and a possible solution lies in the rice fields that cover much of Thailand, the rest of Asia and beyond. Methane emissions from flooded rice paddies...

Warehouse receipts are papers that are issued to a trader who keeps stocks of commodities like wheat and rice in warehouses. MUMBAI: A few banks have burnt their fingers treading this unchartered territory, but many are willing to bet that warehouse receipts are the next big thing in commodity financing. Mr Choudhary feels risk perceptions relating to the commodity business, warehouses and their management have improved. Almost a similar amount has been lent against receipts issued by...

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Much of Eastern Arkansas is dedicated to row cropping and has benefited from commodity payments made under the Farm Bill, while Northwest Arkansas and River Valley farmers have received far less because they don't grow the typical commodity program crops like rice, wheat and cotton. Food stamp programs will gobble up two-thirds of the total $602 billion, up from $492 billion under the current bill, which will expire in September. Arkansas row croppers stand to lose and the picture is still...

Outlook >> Monday May 14, 2007 Poisoned livelihoods In this farming community in Tak, villagers have been advised not to grow food crops due to ground contamination. The villagers were told to stop growing rice as it contained a dangerously high level of cadmium and more than 100 million baht was spent buying and destroying contaminated rice. The factory will need at least 5,000 tonnes of sugar cane per day, meaning the one-time rice farmers would be able to earn a living growing sugar...