Sentences with phrase «rice producers»

It was a big rice producer and was known early on for that.
Kampe Omi Dam Project is breathing down on the leading rice producers in the country.
This work, in 1997, led rice producers to «block» their rice, to refuse to deliver it to the national collection company which was buying a kilo of rice at a price lower than the cost of production at 112 francs CFA.
High - yielding rice varieties, fertilizers, and irrigation have contributed significantly to this yield increase and Indonesia's overall rice production, making the country the third - largest rice producer in the world.
For example, «we partner with a great rice producer here in California, who has planted an entire field of rice for the schools that we serve.
So, you know, we partner with a great rice producer here in California, who has planted an entire field of rice for the schools that we serve.
The Nature's Stewards farms also plan to be the first rice producers in the world to be certified as sustainable under a new U.S. Sustainable Rice Certification Standard in development by Winrock and the American Carbon Registry to be launched this summer under a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant.
The regulation also cites ACR's voluntary offset methodology for Emissions Reductions in Rice Management Systems as an approved Early Action Quantification Methodology, providing an important on - ramp for rice producers in California and the Mid-South to get credit for their pioneering initiatives to reduce methane emissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainage timing.
We consider this a win - win for the environment,» said Arkansas rice producers Jim and Sam Whitaker.
Congress enacted legislation in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide the USDA Secretary with added authority to ensure that GE contamination was minimized or prevented after rice producers lost an estimated $ 1.25 billion as a result of a contamination event.
As the largest Organic Jasmine Rice producer in the world, Urmatt has received critical acclaim for its beautiful high - quality rice and boldly ethical farming models.
Spanish food group Ebro Foods is in negotiations to acquire Australian rice producer SunRice for an enterprise value of A$ 600m (Eur425m).
To further minimize the possible accidental mixing of Golden Rice, if it is approved, with other rice varieties, we plan to work with rice producers in areas where Golden Rice could be grown to develop guidelines for cultivation, harvest, transport, storage, and processing of rice to help keep it separate.
First Vice-President Busokoza said that the Government of Burundi and IRRI share the same vision: to provide sustainable methods of growing rice to improve the well - being of rice producers and consumers, to reduce poverty and preserve the environment.
In the U.S., the top rice producers include Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
If approved, the methodology will enable GHG emission offsets created by rice producers throughout the U.S. to be sold to regulated entities with mandatory emission reduction obligations under the California cap - and - trade program.
Through a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG), CRC and EDF are expanding the protocol to include Mid-South rice production and are engaging rice producers in California and Arkansas in pilot offset projects to demonstrate benefits of producer participation in the compliance offset program.
The ACR methodology, which includes modules for both California and Mid-South rice producers, was developed and piloted under a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant by Terra Global Capital LLC in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Applied Geosolutions, LLC, the California Rice Commission, and the White River Irrigation District.
«South Asia, an important beneficiary of IRRI's work, leads on global rice production, with India being the second largest rice producer and the first largest exporter in the world,» says Abdelbagi Ismail, who heads the Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project.
«We are very excited about ACR's newly approved methodology, which will allow us to demonstrate practical approaches to delivering emission reductions from rice production in Arkansas, the country's leading rice producer,» said Dennis Carman, executive director of White River Irrigation District.
I never knew the U.S. was such a big rice producer either MJ.
Rice producers in the U.S. will now be able to export their product to China, the USA Rice trade organization reported in late January.
Many technologies and rice breeding techniques are needed to develop and deliver solutions to meet the challenges of food security, poverty, climate change, and resource availability that rice producers and consumers face.
China is the world's largest rice producer — around 193 million metric tons (FAO 2008), which can account for as much as 35 % of of total world rice production.
Rice producers are now trying to nutritionally fortifying their white rice with essential vitamins and minerals, which is a positive step; however, it is impossible to replace the valuable fiber stripped away with the bran and germ of the rice grain.
Fortified White rice: Rice producers are now trying to nutritionally fortifying their white rice with essential vitamins and minerals, which is a positive step; however, it is impossible to replace the valuable fiber stripped away with the bran and germ of the rice grain.
«We are excited to announce approval of the Mid-South modules and to see projects come to market in both California as well as in Arkansas, Winrock's home state and the country's leading rice producer
Just a one - meter rise — well within the projections for this century — would flood half of the riceland in Bangladesh and much of the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam, two countries that are leading rice producers.
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