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Tag: Rice

Posted inOpinion

Revisiting Sri Lanka’s abrupt shift to organic farming

by Soumya Bhowmick October 17, 2022October 17, 2022

Tracing the origins of the disastrous agricultural policy that was one of the factors that led to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ouster as president and downfall of the Sri Lankan economy, we can see his dynamism being displayed when he promised a “revolution” in fertilizer use in his election manifesto. But the fact is that this was […]

Posted inOpinion

Vietnam’s broken rice bowl

by James Borton August 26, 2022August 26, 2022
Posted inChina

Xi’s food self-sufficiency call marks latest turn inward

by Jeff Pao December 14, 2021December 20, 2021
Posted inThailand

No rural refuge for Covid-19 unemployed Thais

by Peter Janssen May 1, 2020May 5, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia

Cambodia rice crisis signals deeper economic rot

by David Hutt January 23, 2020February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Thailand

Thai woman shocked to find lizard in sticky rice snack

by Asia Times staff January 29, 2019February 18, 2020
Photo: AFP/Wang Zhao
Posted inUncategorized

Huawei puts lid on rice rumor

by Asia Times staff January 9, 2019February 18, 2020
Rice farmers in Thailand working in their fields. Photo: AFP
Posted inAT Finance, Thailand, World

Thai government pushes reform in agriculture sector

by Dusita Maneemuang October 11, 2018February 18, 2020
Thai farmers in a political protest in a 2014 file photo. Photo: AFP/Pornchai Kittiwonsakul
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Middle East, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Politics of rice spring eternal in Thailand

by Peter Janssen September 20, 2018February 18, 2020
Mercury enters rice through local industrial activities and through burning coal. Photo: David Woo, CC BY-ND
Posted inAT Finance, China, Chongqing, South Asia, World

Coal dust is tainting China’s rice with mercury

by Noelle Eckley Selin and Sae Yun Kwon May 5, 2018February 18, 2020
China aims to grow rice in polluted, saline fields. Photo: Xinhua
Posted inBeijing, China, Middle East

Modified rice grown in saline fields to hit China market

by Asia Times staff April 11, 2018February 18, 2020
High levels of inorganic arsenic were found in 13 out of 45 rice samples obtained in Hong Kong and Lo Wu. Photo: iStockphoto
Posted inAT Finance, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, World

Cancer-causing inorganic arsenic found in rice samples

by Asia Times staff February 28, 2018February 18, 2020
Photo: iStock
Posted inChina, World

US, China make surprise trade breakthrough after disappointing talks

by Asia Unhedged July 21, 2017February 18, 2020
A mill worker in Thailand holds harvested rice grains. Agriculture, largely rice farming, employs 40% of the country's work force Photo: Reuters / Jorge Silva
Posted inAT Finance, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

The plague and promise of Thai rice

by Peter Janssen March 22, 2017February 18, 2020
A farmer works in her rice field in Suphan Buri province, north of Bangkok, Thailand November 2, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom
Posted inUncategorized

Thailand university starts accepting rice for tuition fees

by AgWeb December 21, 2016
A farmer works in a rice paddy field outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Samrang Pring
Posted inAustralia, Beijing, China, European Union, Middle East, Oceania, World

US challenges China’s grain import quotas at WTO

by Reuters December 16, 2016February 18, 2020
Photo: Wikimedia commons
Posted inUncategorized

Climate shifts, Chinese dams threaten Vietnam’s ‘rice bowl’

by Poo Yee Kai December 9, 2016December 9, 2016

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