Earlier, they practiced shifting agriculture but not they are doing stable farming. The action plan envisages special measures for educational and social development of these tribes besides providing them better health, housing, self-employment, drinking water facilities as well as training in better farming and employment. Priority sector programmes of all three tribes have been separately shown so that in case entire action plan amount is not possible to be sanctioned, then at least...

The Philippines agriculture industry will find it harder to cope with climate change because of the country s size and unique geographical features, an environmental scientist said. Reiner Wassman, senior climate scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Ba os, Laguna, said the size and geography of the archipelago defies a uniform response strategy, because it is highly possible that the patterns of climate change will vary along the climatic zones. Reiner Wassman,...

In other rice news, cash rice prices in Asia were flat to lower Thursday in lackluster trade, with a weaker baht causing Thai prices to fall, albeit slightly, said exporters. Speculative and fund buying met with little selling, and helped prices to rise Thursday, analysts said. Thai exporters are confident that buyers will start making their way to Thailand as exporters from Vietnam, its main competitor in rice export trade, have ceased making new offers. In 2003, the Chinese government...

Over in Tanay where Erap was enjoying "sauna" rather than endure GMA's SONA, the deposed president touched his famed whisker and snorting:" tsk tsk, four of her so-called major infrastructure projects were really my accomplishments. Little did people know that, granting those without conceding, our infrastructure is still one of the worst in Asia. Even former president FVR lamented the fact - that side by side ambitious projects - stood the dismal fact that for the third straight year, the...

China Organic Executes Milestone Strategic Partnership Agreement with Wukeshu Grain Depot to Further Expand Wholesale Market Penetration Search Results for Google. According to the agreement, Wukeshu Grain Depot will process an estimated 60,000 tons of green rice grains, which will yield 42,000 tons of wholesale rice products, for CNOA as it continues to meet ever-increasing demand for its well-known ErMaPao brand of high-quality products in the first year. China Organic Executes Milestone...