<div id="subtitle">Protests Erupt As Brazil Tries to Evict Farmers From Amazon Reservation</div><div><p>Protesters fighting removal of settlers from an Amazon Indian reservation burned two bridges and blocked another, federal police said Wednesday.</p><p>Police planned to begin clearing the remaining non-Indian settlers ...
<div id="subtitle">US donates 16,000 tons of rice to Cyclone Nargis victims in Myanmar delta</div><div><p>The United States donated 16,000 tons of rice to cyclone victims in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta where a humanitarian crisis persists nearly a year after the disaster, the U.S. Embassy ...
<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 ...
<div><p>Rice prices are likely to rise sharply for the second straight year in 2009 as the global economic slowdown hits farmers and consumers alike, the International Rice Research Institute warned Friday.</p><p>The worldwide credit crunch will make it hard for farmers to secure ...
<div id="subtitle">International rice institute says credit crunch may lead to another rice crisis this year</div><div><p>A drop in oil and fertilizer costs has halved the price of rice — a staple for almost 700 million of Asia's poorest — but it could jump ...
Flood of post-quake donated and subsidized US rice dismays Haitian farmers 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. ...
<div><p>For Senegalese rice farmers like Pape Alioune Seck the food crisis is a blessing in disguise in a country that until recently imported three-quarters of this staple from Asia.</p><p>"Two years ago, the Senegalese rediscovered rice from the river valley," said the 32-year-old ...
<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, ...
<div><p>World rice markets are likely to remain tight next year despite an expected record harvest after key producers clamped down on exports, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said Wednesday.</p><p>Export prices of one of the world's most important grains almost tripled between ...
<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 ...
