Latest . Search . Archive . News by email . Feeds . Blog <Back Email to friend Link to story Print Comment Beijing to tap neighbours' water for Olympics (10 May 2007) Beijing plan to import an annual 400m cubic metres of water from an adjacent province to prevent water shortages during the Olympic Games, Chinese officials have said. Latest . Search . Archive . News by email . Feeds . Blog <Back Email to friend Link to story Print Comment Beijing to tap neighbours' water for Olympics (10...

Rice farmers were also able to take more time because of dry conditions and laser level their fields and use their tractors to prepare fields. If a farmer needs to plant quickly because of the weather, quality of rice could be lost when fields are also harvested quickly. Harvesting equipment runs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, so farmers can't just go out and buy more equipment if they need more harvesters at a certain time. In some years -- such as last year -- late rains in the...

According to The Plant Protection Department, rice fields infested by the pest in the north total more than 79,000ha, of which 16,000ha have been completely ruined, affecting mostly winter-spring crops. Viet Nam News ::Politics::Socio-Culture ::Economy::Comment::Miscellany. In addition, rice seedlings should be planted more sparsely. Brown hoppers leave farmers in dust. This combination of wet and sun is considered by experts as favourable breeding conditions for the insect. For its part,...

The institute s Chairman Abhaya Weragoda said it was possible to promote bread containing 20 per cent rice flour and 80 per cent wheat flour for a start. Commenting on the recent increase in bread and wheat flour prices, Weragoda said the situation should be regarded as a welcome opportunity to promote rice flour into the system. Rice may be put in water so as to produce rice cream which may be mixed with dry wheat flour to produce a wet flour, to promote the use of rice flour into the...

A 2005 study by US scientists focused on China, which produces a third of the world s rice and where rice fields have shrunk by 10 million ha in the past decade as farmers shifted to other crops and abandoned marginal land. AS delegates to a climate conference in Bangkok last week debate how to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems and a possible solution lies in the rice fields that cover much of Thailand, the rest of Asia and beyond. Methane emissions from flooded rice paddies...