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...Back in the day, we knew we were cool even when detractors dismissed us as “the brown rice brigade” (though few of us actually had beards or sandals)....
...Government data show the consumption of rice in Japan has halved over the past half-century, while meat eating has more than tripled....
...Lloyd’s text is joined by the latest meadow thoughts from Fergus Garrett, who is now chief executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust....
...Mr Turrell is considering green tea flavours, cranberries and sesame seeds to appeal to a savoury palate....
...Selling seeds to farmers can be a way for merchants to build relationships for purchasing back their grain....
...Companies including ADM and Dreyfus have seen corn shipments turned away at Chinese ports in recent months over concerns they contained unapproved genetically modified seeds....
...A quarter of this was down to one company, Singapore’s Olam, which exported close to $450m worth of cocoa and sesame seeds last year, mainly to Japan and Europe ....
...Kozhukattai, small balls made from broken navara rice, sit in another bowl, seasoned with mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chillies, served with coconut chutney....
...sowing of seeds or spraying of pesticides, for example, are predominantly sold outside Japan....
...Line with clingfilm and fill with rice and bake for 30 minutes at 180 C – then remove the rice and cook for another 10 minutes. Cut out the lid and egg wash and decorate and cook with the coffin....
...As the cost of commodities such as wheat and corn soared to record highs, the shares of fertiliser and seed companies jumped to nearly bubble levels. These changes are reshaping the FT500 list....
...Graham Rice once wrote a book with Christo and remarks that he was “nothing if not mischievous”....
...“There’s basically no mechanism to transfer that seed to another part of the economy.” There is no time to waste in creating such mechanisms....
...This year the government set an official target of 95 per cent self-sufficiency in wheat, rice, maize and tubers. But hitting that target is getting harder all the time....
...Buy a take-out chicken dinner in Los Angeles or an onigiri rice ball from a convenience store in Tokyo, and there is a good chance the plastic bag it comes in will have been made in China....
...In 2007 and 2008, during the last food crisis, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam banned exports of rice, exacerbating price increases, while China slapped export taxes on grains....
...Now 73, he was an agricultural supplies trader, dealing in seeds, fertiliser, pesticide, farm equipment and plastic irrigation pipes for traditional flood irrigation, who started manufacturing pipes in 1980...
...Behind this is the rise of emerging countries such as China and the elevation to the middle class of billions of people who now require a diet richer than the traditional staples of rice and wheat....
...Next time they come back they might even try our macrobiotic brown rice, miso, maple syrup and apple porridge. Auckland has great cafés, many of them serving wonderful breakfasts....
...Susan Rice Susan Rice, chairman and chief executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland, has three claims to fame in the overwhelmingly male world of senior Scottish banking executives – she is female, was born in America...
...The Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), the government’s main development body, used Ticad to launch a Coalition for African Rice Development, which aims to double African rice production to...
...higher-yielding seeds because so much of their income is spent on oral rehydration salts....
...Supermarket shoppers have struggled painfully for a year with the impact of price inflation, being forced to pay more for staples such as bread, rice and milk....
...Monsanto, the world’s largest biotech seed producer, also has seen its value nearly double in 12 months, as has Syngenta, the Anglo-Swiss seeds and crop protection group....
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