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The Rice Paddy

Long-term irrigation project does not offer short-term political gain... because it requires years for the results of any irrigation project to be realised. Issan villages that face annual droughts and are dubbed "chronic drought-affected villages". Thus,…
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The Village Rice Mill

This is the oldest rice mill in the village of Ban Donwai, the wood used is of an indigenous hardwood dated over 40+ years ago, the mill operates on a crop-share basis and produces only for local self consumption ...
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Personal Rice Mill

The Finance Ministry will review the use of millions of rai of land owned by the Treasury Department. www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/04/23/head lines/headlines_30071332.php ... The move is a bid to bring the land into production as part of a broad strateg…
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Re-Planting

World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger By DAVID STRINGER – LONDON (AP) — Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets. These possible solutions to the first global food crisis since World…
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Jasmine Rice - Khao Hom Mali

... China uses 440,000 tons of rice each day. “If we sold them every grain of rice we produced in the United States, what we export and use domestically, it would last them less than three weeks.” .... Bob Papanos, vice president, U.S. Rice Producers Ass…
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Ploughing of the field

.. There are two kinds of stories that we can tell about the food prices. One is an economic story, and that's a story about a perfect storm of poor harvests and a demand for meat in developing countries, which is diverting grain, and the high price of oi…
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Re-Planting of Rice

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Re-Planting of Rice

Multi-national Food Corporations ... if you imagine a sort of hourglass, at the top there are the millions of farmers who grow the food that we eat, and at the bottom there are billions of us consumers, and in the middle there are just a handful of corpo…
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The Rice Fields of Issan

Rice could be even more volatile, since governments in many nations -- including across Asia's "rice bowl" -- consider rice not just a staple, but a national security priority. What makes rice supply/demand special is that almost all of the crop is cons…
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Re-Planting of Rice

Global food crisis looms as Asia's rice bowl empties and world price soars By Raju Gopalakrishnan in Manila Published Date: 18 April 2008 Source: The Scotsman Location: Edinburgh news.scotsman.com/world/Global-food-cris is-looms-as.3996034.jp TH…
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Re-Planting

... World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable and politically risky period," Joachim von Braun, head of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute told The Economist, after G8 finance ministers ended their summit last weeke…
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Re-Planting

.. they reminds me of flamingos when they're doing this back-breaking work, grandma in her traditional "pah toon" (tube-cloth) will rests twice to finish her bundle, while the young ones will stand up very often to twist their necks and backs as if they'r…
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Storm of Festivity - Songkran

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A Wet Look

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Songkran - Water Festival

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Songkran - Water Festival

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Songkran - Water Festival

After the festival, mobile phones repair shops were having a field day, just could'nt keep up with the demands to fix dead phones ...
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Songkran - Water Festival

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