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SINGAPORE - When Aston Soon opened Astons Specialties in a corner coffee shop in East Coast Road in 2005, he did so with some urgency. His wife was six months pregnant with their first child. Then 33, ...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday said it would study the possible importation of rice from the Association of ...
The provincial government of Guimaras is gearing up to launch the PHP20-per-kilo rice program, initially offering 5,000 bags ...
Larry Lacson, NFA administrator, showed to the news team scenes of the laboratory analysis on the quality of rice in the latest shipment. Lacson first checked the NFA warehouse at the pier area in ...
Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...
This could lead to a shift away from rice consumption.” Many stores are limiting customers to one bag of rice per visit. Whatever the cause of the shortages, retailers must put rice on the ...
The president of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has presented 40,000 bags of rice to the vulnerable people in Jos North and Jos South local government areas of Plateau State. Bashir Adamu ...
For a one-hectare field, this includes 11 bags of fertilizer and one bag of hybrid rice seeds. The rest is given in cash. NIA works with irrigators associations in its two irrigation management areas: ...
This could lead to a shift away from rice consumption.” Many stores are limiting customers to one bag of rice per visit. Whatever the cause of the shortages, retailers must put rice on the ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from ...