But when domestic rice production was not sufficient, there was no other choice but to import the commodity, he said. He said , in principle, the governemnt wanted the people's need for the staple to be always met by farmers' rice. Bulog prepares Rp6 trillion to buy 1.5 million tons of farmers' rice. Mustafa also said the agency would conduct market operations in regions where farmers were not yet facing harvest time. Boediono on the occasion also touched on the governemnt's rice import policy.

Farmers are moving acres to corn to take advantage of a 74 percent jump in futures in the past year, which spurred meat producers such as Tyson Foods inc. to raise prices and cut margins for grain processors such as Bunge ltd. Weather and commodity price swings may alter the actual acreage figures. farmers will sow the most acres of corn since World War II and cut soybean plantings after record ethanol production boosted grain prices to a 10-year high, a government survey showed. Farmers...

A group of 200 California rice farmers are concerned that genetically modified rice could contaminate their crops. These countries' citizens are particularly adverse to genetically modified foods, and might drastically reduce imports of California rice if they learned it were contaminated with GM strains, concludes a market study compiled this month by Bryant Christie inc. on behalf of RPC. They have made keeping genetically modified rice out of California a key issue because they fear it...

Senior officials and scientists of the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), and other agencies of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture, signed the three-year agreement with the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) this month. Senior officials and scientists of the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), and other agencies of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture, signed the three-year agreement with...

Some market analysts had projected 90 million acres or more. The trade was guessing the corn acreage number would be about 88 million acres. The best growing conditions for many years in the Great Plains and strong wheat price seems to have caused the winter talk about replanting fall-planted wheat to row crops this spring to fade away. Farmers are being told they will not get all the double and triple stacked hybrid seed they ordered and there will be little seed corn for replanting. crop...

One wonders what impressions the prospective importers of foreign shores get when they pay a visit to grocerys wholesale market the countrys largest with a view to seeing the bazaar themselves before they seal a deal. Pakistans grain exports are already facing a turbulent time with the advent of quota-free era from January 1, 2005, which means export products will have to pass stringent standards of quality imposed by foreign buyers in a global market where competition is getting fiercer...