Major rice producing countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, have been affected by natural disaster and they are unlikely to be ableto meet their export targets,Mr. There is a good opportunity for Thailand, a key rice producer, to increase its exports to between 8. Thailand now hasover five million tonnes of rice on hand, with a production of29 million tonnes of paddy rice, or 18. BANGKOK, May 12 (TNA) - Natural calamities affecting several major rice producing...

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Kansas State University soil scientist Chuck Rice thinks farms offer the "win-win" way to start mitigating the atmosphere's overload of carbon dioxide. By using no-till methods, where farmers plant seed without plowing up fields, farms could keep carbon from escaping as soils are turned over. Using perennial grasses as a source for bio-fuels, rather than planting corn or sorghum on an annual basis, could also reduce carbon emissions, he said. Rice notes that less tillage also requires less...

While there weren't many export deals struck during the week for prompt shipment, a rice convention in Bangkok witnessed negotiations of deals that may lead to export shipments over the next few months. Iranian traders are in negotiations to buy 300,000 tons of rice from Thai traders, a Thai rice industry executive aware of the negotiations said on the sidelines of the convention. So bringing rice from the hinterland has become quite tough," said a trader in Bangkok. Jirapaet said 32,000...

Rice stakeholders termed it a major breakthrough, as it has been almost 13 years since the institute developed a rice variety. Contrary to this, Indian Council of Agriculture Research developed many varieties including Pusa - the long grain aromatic rice - whereas, recently it identified four improved varieties of rice, beside a hybrid, for release in different agro-climatic regions during the 42nd meeting of All India Rice Research Group a month ago in Hyderabad. The scientists of Kala...

Harkin isn't proposing to gut the current commodities programs, which are projected to cost about $7 billion a year if current market conditions continue. Giving money to farmers to grow those crops, "would be something like direct payments," he said. But Harkin seems to be looking at some of the $26 billion that would be spent over the next five years on direct payments as a source of money for supporting crops that could eventually produce ethanol from cellulose, crops that include...