Rice
Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple food for nearly half of the world's population. Rice is a member of the grass family, which also includes wheat, corn, sorghum, barley, oats, and rye. Unlik...
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Rice and Rice Agriculture
Rice is Asia's most important food crop, and Asian rice production and consumption account for over 90 percent of the world total. About two-thirds of Asian caloric co...
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In 2006
U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza
Rice
led an intensified diplomatic effort to promote democracy and a
U.S.
-friendly peace in an increasingly resistant Middle East. After fighting bro...
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The United States isn't in decline, no matter what you may hear about a rising China eclipsing the West, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.America at the start of the 21st century b...
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There have been many lowlights in the three-year chill between the Bush administration and Spain's Socialist government, foremost among them Madrid's decision to pull its troops out of Iraq, and se...
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The U.S. rice industry wants the federal government to reject a plan to grow genetically modified rice in Kansas, saying the country's growers would suffer "financial devastation" if modified crops...
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A gene bank thought to house the world's largest collection of rice genetic samples _ a safeguard against the destruction of a crop that 3 billion people depend upon _ will receive $600,000 in new ...
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The Agriculture Department is trying to block the planting and distribution of a long-grain rice seed because it may contain traces of genetically engineered rice, officials said Monday.The departm...
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Washington (dpa) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will
visit Ankara next week to caution against invading northern Iraq to
go after Kurdish rebels for recent attacks...
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Officially, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought Australia's top diplomat to California to thank a valued ally with a hometown tour.Unofficially, Rice was laying the groundwork for her retur...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday blamed the apparent collapse of a truce in Lebanon on extremists trying to "sow discord" as she renewed the Bush administration's strong support of t...
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While China is expected to resume imports of Japanese rice in
early July, optimism about its sales prospects there is not exactly
pervasive among Japanese industry observers.
Some are even...
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