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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Item: 1. What country is the second largest exporter of rice? How much rice does it export annually? |
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| Hanoi- Vietnam plans to reduce its 2007 rice exports by 16.5 per cent against last year to ensure food security in the face of widespread pest infestation, an official said Friday. The world's second largest rice exporter set a target to export 4 million tons of rice this year, compared with nearly 4.8 million tons last year, according to Trang Hieu Dung, director of the Planning Department under the Ministry of Agriculture. |
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| 2. What country is the largest importer of rice? How much does it intend to import in the next, few months to address the coming rice crises? |
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| Golden Country is the largest importer, wholesale and distributor of all Asian, Oriental, Caribbean and African food in the Midwest and one of the largest in the United States. We carry all kinds of rice, noodles, sauces, beverages, snacks, marine products, canned foods, dry foods, frozen foods,etc. At present, he said, the country is 90-percent self-sufficient in rice, and the country has to import “only 10 percent” of its requirements, which can be easily met with imports. The country is targeting 95-percent rice self-sufficiency in 2009 or 2010, and possibly 100 percent in 2011. |
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| http://www.manilatimes.net/national/ |
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| 3. What percentage of total rice exported to Africa comes from Asia? How much is it worth annually? |
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| Our company is a 100% Export Oriented Unit with 80% of our production being Exported to the Rice Markets around the World including Middle East, Europe, USA, Australia aAsia, home to many of the world's top rice suppliers, accounts for 76 percent of the 30 million tons of the staple food exported each year. Prices are shooting up worldwide, in part because many of those countries have cut back on exports due to fears of shortage. The food-price crisis has underscored that, as a region, Asia is divided into "rice haves" – where domestic production is enough to feed the population – and "rice have-nots," which consistently rely on imports. Correspondent David Montero provides a snapshot of rice supplies around the region:nd Africa. |
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| 4. In 1910,150 glaciers dotted the Glacier National Park in Montana,USA. How many are there now? |
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| By 2005, only 27 glaciers remained, and scientists generally agree that if the current global warming continues, all the glaciers in the park will be gone by 2030. |
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| 5. What is Europe’s biggest glacier? Why is it breaking up? What consequence if it breaks up? |
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| GLASGOW, Scotland -- Europe's largest glacier is on the verge of breaking up as a result of incre"Effectively, the glacier is breaking up around that hole and is slipping into the fjord. It is beginning to disintegrate and in the next few years will collapse into the water." |
| But he dismisses panic theories that the loss of the glacier is man-made or even permanent. |
| "It really is not a human-induced situation," he said. "This glacier is receding from the coast because it advanced to the coast during what is known as the Little Ice Age. |
| "Relatively speaking, things have become warmer, but they were warm before the Little Ice Age." |
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| 6. Which country is slowly disappearing due to rising sea water level? Where is it? |
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| The island of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, has been obliterated by rising seas. The island, located in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, is the first inhabited island to be wiped off the map. |
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