By Yousuf Nazar KARACHI, June 10: This year s budget is populist in tone, inflationary in substance, neutral for the agriculture sector, pro-corporate in general, disappointing for the textile industry and largely irrelevant for the common person, although it offers some relief to government employees. By Yousuf Nazar KARACHI, June 10: This year s budget is populist in tone, inflationary in substance, neutral for the agriculture sector, pro-corporate in general, disappointing for the...

The Prairie Star: Opinion The Prairie Star. Just when you thought you'd heard just about everything, along comes a New York Times op-ed piece that blames the obesity and bad eating habits of the American people right on the front step of the American farmers and the farm bill. Noting that the farm bill, among other things, determines which crops will be subsidized, he claims that in the case of the Twinkies and the carrots, the farm bill &#8220offers a lot more support to the cake than to...

New scientific knowledge is allowing rice researchers to develop better quality rice varieties that could fetch a higher price from consumers, especially increasingly affluent rice consumers in Asia. A major international initiative is being launched to try to boost the income of the world's millions of poor rice farmers and at the same time provide consumers with more nutritious, better tasting food. The main aim of the new International Network for Quality Rice is to help rice breeders...

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Chengdu, China (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla hailed the cooperation between Indonesia's Artha Graha Network and Sichuan GuaHao Seed Industry (SGSI) which were ready to provide additional one million tons of rice to support the national rice supplies in 2007. Chengdu, China (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla hailed the cooperation between Indonesia's Artha Graha Network and Sichuan GuaHao Seed Industry (SGSI) which were ready to provide additional one million tons of...

bn last year, the Thai government has set the blueprint to safeguard rice trade and global food security, as a number of challenges are needed to be addressed such as diminishing productive land and water resources, industrialisation and rising urbanisation. Thai rice convention targets Middle East market slice - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com Monday, 11 June 2007. Thai rice convention targets Middle East market slice - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com Monday, 11 June 2007....