Personal requiem: Asia's lost gemsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 14 hours agoBamboo and thatch tourist huts hug the meandering Pai River as far as the eye can see, gobbling up rice paddies and clambering up hillsides on its left bank …
'Long neglect of productivity' causes rice supply shortageSun.Star, Philippines - 4 hours ago"Inputs and yields for most crops are lower than most other Southeast Asian countries and productivity growth rates lag behind other parts of Southeast Asia …
BRIEFING - ASIA AGRIBUSINESS - MARCH 25, 2008Trading Markets (press release), CA - 48 minutes agoMANILA - Senate President Manny Villar on Monday called on the government to regulate its spending capacity in taking counter-measures on the impending rice …
Don't Just Blame the Chickens for FluThe Associated Press - 11 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Intensive rice farming and large duck populations — not the number of chickens raised — may be the best predictors of where bird flu might …
Asia stability threatened as rice dwindlesTimes Online, UK - 10 hours agoWorld rice supplies are reaching dangerously tight levels as stores of South Asia's staple food fall to 25-year lows and governments strive to stabilise …Can the strains be overlooked? The Daily Starall 2 news articles