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Are rice prices about to spike?
19 hours ago ago from Something Wicked Comes
Fear of 'super-spike' in rice market By Javier Blas in London Published: December 8 2009 17:53 | Last updated: December 8 2009 17:53 Rice prices have moved to levels not seen since last year's "super-spike" as a buying spree by the Philippines, the world's largest importer, tightens the market. Manila received offers on Tuesday for it to buy low-quality rice at about $630 a tonne, up 30 per cent from last month's tender, and ...
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2 hours ago ago from The Survival Station
Millions dying from starvation as a direct consequence of global warming fraud Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, December 10, 2009 The implementation of policies arising out of fraudulent fearmongering and biased studies on global warming is already devastating the third world, with a doubling in food prices causing mass starvation and death a primary reason why the climategate crooks and their allies should ...
Related contentNo plans to import rice immediately, says government
8 hours ago ago from Commodity Explorer
Source : Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, December 07, 2009, There is no immediate need to import rice as the country has enough stocks to manage demand, the government said on Monday. The government has assessed the stock position of rice and decided that import of rice for the central pool is not required at this stage, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia told the Lok Sabha. However, if ...
Related content[khabor.com] ULFA leaders' arrests: Why the charade?
3 hours ago ago from Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com
ULFA leaders' arrests: Why the charade? by Shahedul Anam Khan WE have had to absorb two very different versions of the arrest/handing over/surrender of several top Ulfa leaders from/by/Bangladesh to India, in the last seven days. Either there was lack of coordination between the concerned agencies of the two countries, or there was an attempt at one-upmanship on the part of the Indian intelligence to go public on the status of ...
Related contentBangladeshi rice seeds go abroad
12 hours ago ago from Bangladesh Economic News
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=153059 Bangladeshi rice seeds go abroad ANISUR RAHMAN KHAN A total of 19 varieties of rice out of 52 developed by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) are now being cultivated in 14 countries across the world. Farmers of India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Bhutan, Iraq, China, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Burundi and Benin are now cultivating the BRRI ...
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India food prices jump 19 percent on poor rainfall
8 hours ago ago from PopEater
MUMBAI, India -India's food price inflation has hit 19.1 percent, the government said Thursday, after the country's weakest monsoon since 1972 cut into agricultural output. Food prices for the week ending Nov. 28 were 19.1 percent higher than they were during the same period last year, while fuel prices rose just 0.1 percent, the Ministry of Commerce said. The summer monsoon was 23 percent below normal, and the government estimated last month ...
Related contentElizabeth Sepper: Obama's Chance to Fix Food Aid
17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Food aid is in desperate need of change. Despite repeated international pledges to tackle world hunger, food aid fails to reach the most vulnerable and usually arrives late, in insufficient quantities, or not at all -- even in response to international appeals. When it does arrive, its quality often falls below basic nutritional standards. What's more, food aid can even increase -- rather than reduce -- hunger. Development organizations ...
Related contentData Raise Fears of China Property Bubble
4 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
SHANGHAI -- China's urban property prices grew at their fastest pace in 16 months in November, increasing concerns a market bubble may be forming and underscoring the challenge Beijing faces in sustaining the country's economic recovery while avoiding excess. As part of the balancing act, Beijing Wednesday scaled back some of the stimulus it introduced last year and early this year to support the real-estate market during the financial ...
Related contentRussian Takes the Helm of ‘Gas OPEC’
20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
An organization of natural gas exporting countries informally known as the Gas OPEC has elected a Russian as its first secretary general, underscoring the oversize role the country is likely to have in the group that it helped found a year ago. A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Leonid V. Bokhanovsky, a vice president at Stroytransgaz, a well-connected pipeline construction company, was elected at ...
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