News on Rice Farming

US rice doesn't help struggling Haitian farmers

2010-03-02T14:34:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Flood of post-quake donated and subsidized US rice dismays Haitian farmers</div><div><p>Haiti's rice farmers are dismayed. It's nearly harvest time in this fertile valley where the bulk of Haiti's food is grown, and they're competing once again with cheap U.S. imported rice.</p><p>Just down the road, vendors are undercutting them, selling the far less expensive grain. Subsidized U.S. rice has flooded...

Jury: Bayer must pay $1.5M to AK, MS rice farmers

2010-02-22T11:00:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Missouri federal court jury: Bayer should pay $1.5M to US farmers for contaminated rice</div><div><p>A federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in U.S. Department of Agriculture says Louisiana rice farmers averaged a record 6,300 pounds of rice per acre last year.</p><p>It says that's up 470 pounds pe...

Rice an unlikely global warming culprit

2010-02-23T20:33:29Z

<div><p>Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's output of greenhouse gases.</p><p>While much of the globe's focus in the climate change fight is on the burning of fossil fuels and the logging of rainforests, water-logged rice paddies are also a major source of global warming-causing methane.</p>...

India says no rice imports for now

2010-02-24T02:27:48Z

<div><p>India has scrapped tenders to import rice, saying it has enough stocks to manage despite a harvest shortfall following the worst monsoon in almost four decades.</p><p>A top-level cabinet committee on food cancelled the three tenders totalling 30,000 tonnes, which would have represented the first imports of the staple by India -- a traditional exporter -- since the 1980s.</p>&am...

Philippines makes biggest ever rice tender

2010-02-24T07:28:38Z

<div><p>The Philippines will tender for a record 600,000 tonnes of rice to guard against potential supply shortfalls from crop damage caused by recent storms, officials said on Tuesday.</p><p>The December 1 tender, the country's biggest ever, would likewise be a "forward-buying" operation in anticipation that prices may jump next year, a senior agricultural official told AFP.</p&a...

India government to import rice: report

2010-02-24T11:44:10Z

<div><p>India's government plans to import 30,000 tonnes of rice to offset an expected production shortfall following the worst monsoon in nearly four decades, a report said Saturday.</p><p>The move comes as the US Department of Agriculture has forecast India's rice output will fall between 15 million and 17 ...

India imports rice after bad monsoon: report

2010-02-24T12:42:54Z

<div><p>India has begun importing rice to counter an expected large shortfall in production following the driest monsoon season in nearly four decades, the Press Trust of India said Thursday.</p><p>The move to import rice comes amid government fears that output will fall short by up to 16 million tonnes in the world's second-lar...

Rice mature on a rice field in Gimje

2009-09-22T01:11:23Z

Rice mature on a rice field in Gimje, south of Seoul, September 22, 2009. South Korea's heavily protected rice market is facing massive oversupply due to record harvests and people eating less of the traditional diet staple and more bread and noodles. Another factor adding to the oversupply comes from South Korea cutting off rice handouts to North Kore...

A farmer holds a sickle on a rice field in Gimje

2009-09-22T01:11:33Z

A farmer holds a sickle on a rice field in Gimje, south of Seoul, September 22, 2009. South Korea's heavily protected rice market is facing massive oversupply due to record harvests and people eating less of the traditional diet staple and more bread and noodles. Another factor adding to the oversupply comes from South Korea cutting off rice handouts to

VIETNAM-RICE-HARVEST-FARMER

2009-09-07T23:55:45Z

Farmers loads bags of paddy into a cart as they harvest rice on a rice field in the suburd of Hanoi on September 8, 2009. Till the end of July, Vietnam singed contracts of exporting 5.294 million tonnes of rice. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)...

Rice growers expected to have strong 2009 yields

2010-02-25T12:56:43Z

<div id="subtitle">US rice crop projected to be up nearly 3 pct from a year ago, but some weather risks remain</div><div><p>Rice growers are projected to have a 2009 yield nearly 3 percent greater than a year ago, even though the heart of the nation's rice-producing area had an unduly wet spring and a cool summer.</p><p>"Rice is a pretty forgiving crop," said Ch...

Thailand's rice exports on 2009 should exceed 9 million tonnes

2009-09-02T03:50:50Z

epa01844932 Thai rice farmers spray pestizides on young rice plants growing in an irrigated paddy field in Ratchaburi province, Thailand, 02 September 2009. Thailand's rice exports on 2009 should exceed 9 million tonnes, were worth 98.8 billion baht (2.89 billion US dollars or 2 billion euro) with the severe drought in India a major factor in pushing...

Farm Scene Rice Harvest

2009-09-02T00:16:21Z

Juan Marnole, inspects rice being unloaded into a storage tank at Federal Dryer and Storage, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 in England, Ark. Rice growers are projected to have a 2009 yield that's nearly 3 percent greater than a year ago, even though the heart of the nation's rice-producing area had an unduly wet spring and a cool summer. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)

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South Korea tries to get people to eat rice, again

2010-02-25T13:23:01Z

<div><p>SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - South Korea's government is planning to tell the people that it is their patriotic and historic duty to put down the sandwich and pick up the rice bowl as the country tries to grapple with a huge surplus.</p><p>South Korea's heavily protected rice ma...

Scientists develop high-yield deep water rice

2010-02-25T18:05:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Nature: Scientists develop high-yield rice that can grow in deep water</div><div><p>A team of Japanese scientists has discovered genes that enable rice to survive high water, providing hope for better rice production in lowland areas that are affected by flooding.</p><p>The team, primarily from the University of Nagoya, rep...

Gene experts see high-yield rice in flood zones

2010-02-25T18:16:45Z

<div><p>HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have identified two genes that make rice plants grow longer stems and survive floods, and hope this will enable farmers to grow high-yielding rice species in flood-prone areas.</p><p>The long-stemmed deepwater rice varieties grown at present in areas of frequent flooding have very low...

news india floods

2009-07-24T09:46:24Z

Commuters make their way down a flooded street in Amritsar. Heavy rainfall in the area has boosted the rice crop and forecasters have predicted more rainfall in the region Punjab, India - 23.07.09

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US farmers, ranchers push for greater Cuba access

2010-02-28T14:58:42Z

<div id="subtitle">US agricultural groups renew call for greater access to Cuba to sell rice, meat and vegetables</div><div><p>The farm lobby is using President Barack Obama's easing of some travel restrictions to Cuba as an opportunity to push for increased sales of rice, meat, vegetables and other goods to the island nation.</p>&a...

Louisiana rice fields salted by 2008 hurricanes

2010-03-03T07:18:26Z

<div id="subtitle">2008 hurricanes leave some Louisiana rice paddies too salty to plant; about 35,000 acres lost</div><div><p>A new report estimates that southwestern Louisiana farmers will not be able to plant thousands of acres of rice this year because of high salt levels in fields after last summer's hurricanes.</p><p>Researchers from the