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<strong> PHILADELPHIA</strong> – The <a href="http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/">Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters</a>, the world leader in providing intelligent information to businesses and professionals, today released <a href="http://sciencewatch.com/tags/2025">The World in 2025: 10 Predictions of Innovation</a>,
a new report that predicts the landscape of science and technology in
2025 by mining global patent data and scientific literature.
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To conduct the study, researchers identified the top 10 emerging
scientific research fronts based on an analysis of citation rankings
using Thomson Reuters <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/thomson-reuters-web-of-science/">Web of Science</a>. They next looked at global patent data in the <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/derwent-world-patents-index/">Derwent World Patents Index</a>
to identify the top 10 patent fields with the highest number of
inventions containing a priority date of 2012 and beyond. The resulting
technology areas with the highest level of commercial and scientific
research interest were then reviewed to identify hot spots of innovation
that will lead to tomorrow’s biggest breakthroughs.
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<li><b>Solar is Largest Source of Energy on the Planet</b>: According
to the most highly-cited scientific research papers of the last two
years, improvements in photovoltaic technology, chemical bonding and the
use of photocatalysts are making the process of harvesting and
converting the sun’s energy much more than a novelty for the
environmentally conscious; solar power will be used for the masses.</li>
<li><b>Teleportation Testing Is Common</b>:
Thanks to the research that went into the Higgs Boson project, Scotty
may soon be beaming things up. Scientific literature has exploded around
the Higgs Boson, with over 400 citations of the 2012 study. And, recent
patent applications related to Higgs Boson address “a body accelerating
at the speed of light and growing into the square of the speed of
light.” </li>
<li><b>Everything Will Be Digital, Everywhere</b>: From
the smallest of personal items to the largest continents, everything,
everywhere will be digitally connected as a result of improved
semiconductors, graphene-carbon nanotube capacitors, cell-free networks
and 5G technology. </li>
<li><b>Type 1 Diabetes is Preventable</b>:
Advancements in ribonucleic acid-guided (RNA-guided) engineering will
advance to a point where it will be possible to create a human genome
engineering platform for identifying and treating disease-causing agents
in humans. This field currently leads all areas of genetic-engineering
patenting and has been identified as an emerging research front in the
scientific literature.</li>
<li><b>DNA Mapping at Birth Is the Norm</b>:
Analysis of the human genome continues to be one of the hottest areas of
scientific research, with one recent paper collecting over 1,000
citations. Advancements in nanotechnology coupled with more widespread
Big Data technologies make in vivo measurements, for diagnoses to
conduct precise, cell-level screenings, possible. </li>
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Additional predictions include: Cancer Treatments Have Very Few
Toxic Side Effects; Petroleum-Based Packaging Is Replaced by
Cellulose-Derived Packaging; Electric Air Transportation Takes Off; <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><u>Food
Shortages and Food Price Fluctuations Are Things of the Past</u></b></span>; and
Dementia Declines.
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“While we do not purport to own a crystal ball, we do have the next
best thing: citations to scientific literature and patent content. When
analyzed in aggregate, these provide a fascinating window into
innovations that will change our lives in the future,” said Basil
Moftah, president, Thomson Reuters IP & Science. “By analyzing
current R&D activity and commercial pipelines, we are shining a
spotlight on some of the most exciting developments that will emerge
over the next decade.”
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The full report of <a href="http://sciencewatch.com/tags/2025">The World in 2025: 10 Predictions of Innovation</a>,
provides snapshots of research-citation-and-patent-filing metrics for
each technology area, alongside commentary that defines the key trends
of these nascent technologies. Data for this report were compiled using
Thomson Reuters <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/thomson-reuters-web-of-science/">Web of Science<sup>®</sup></a>, <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/incites/">InCites<sup>®</sup></a>, <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/derwent-world-patents-index/">Derwent World Patents Index<sup>®</sup></a>, and <a href="http://info.thomsoninnovation.com/">Thomson Innovation</a>.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-51042112452428826132014-06-08T10:09:00.003+07:002014-06-08T10:09:41.581+07:00 ประชาชาติธุรกิจ: ตลาดข้าวไทยพังอเมริกาพบ "หอมมะลิ" ปลอมupdated: 06 มิ.ย. 2557 เวลา 12:08:23 น.<br />
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<b>ข้าวหอมมะลิไทยในสหรัฐป่วน ผู้นำเข้าRiviana Foods โร่ฟ้อง พณ.ไล่บี้ผู้ปลอมปนข้าว-เครื่องหมายรับรอง "Thai Hom Mali Rice" ขู่หากยังไม่ดำเนินการ เตรียมหันไปนำเข้าข้าวเวียดนามแทน ด้านบริษัทที่ปรึกษา White & Case ชี้ไทยอาจถูก USPTO ถอดสิทธิ์เครื่องหมายรับรอง</b><br />
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ผู้สื่อข่าว "ประชาชาติธุรกิจ" รายงานสถานการณ์ข้าวหอมมะลิในตลาดสหรัฐเข้ามาว่า เมื่อเร็ว ๆ นี้ บริษัท Riviana Foods ซึ่งเป็นบริษัทผู้นำเข้าข้าวหอมมะลิตามมาตรฐานของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ ภายใต้เครื่องหมายรับรอง "Thai Hom Mali Rice" กำหนดความบริสุทธิ์ของข้าวไม่น้อยกว่า 92% เข้ามาจำหน่ายในเครื่องหมายการค้า Carolina, Success, Mahatma ที่มลรัฐเท็กซัส<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,; font-size: small;">ล่าสุด
บริษัทดังกล่าวได้ทำหนังสือร้องเรียนมายังสำนักงานส่งเสริมการค้าระหว่างประเทศ (สคร.) ณ วอชิงตัน ดี.ซี.
ถึงปัญหาการจำหน่ายข้าวหอมมะลิปลอมปน และยังมีการปลอมเครื่องหมายรับรองข้าวหอมมะลิตรารวงข้าว
โดยพบในแบรนด์ต่าง ๆ เช่น Golden Star, Goya,Sunfoods และ Oriental Trading
ซึ่งเมื่อบริษัทนำข้าวหอมมะลิเหล่านี้ไปตรวจสอบพบว่าส่วนผสมเป็นข้าวชนิดอื่นที่มีราคา "ถูกกว่า"
ข้าวหอมมะลิ เช่น ผสมข้าวหอมปทุมธานี
แต่ที่น่าประหลาดใจก็คือข้าวหอมมะลิปลอมปนเหล่านี้กลับได้รับเครื่องหมายรับรอง "Thai Hom Mali Rice"
ของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศเช่นกัน และยังจำหน่ายในราคาถูกกว่าข้าวหอมมะลิ (92%) แท้ของบริษัท
<br /><br />ไม่เพียงเท่านี้ บริษัท Riviana Foods ยังพบอีกด้วยว่า บริษัท Well Luck
ซึ่งเป็นผู้นำเข้าข้าวหอมมะลิเวียดนามเข้ามาจำหน่ายในมลรัฐนิวเจอร์ซี ภายใต้ในแบรนด์ Green Elephant
ได้ปลอมตราสัญลักษณ์ของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ โดยระบุไว้ที่บรรจุภัณฑ์ว่า "Hom Mali" หรือ "หอมมะลิ"
ทำให้ผู้บริโภคเกิดความสับสน ซึ่งมีการกระทำคล้ายคลึงกันกับบริษัท Winn Dixie
ซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ตในรัฐฟอริดา มีการนำเข้าข้าวเข้าไปจำหน่าย โดยระบุว่า "Thai Jusmin
Rice"<br /><br />แต่เมื่อนำตัวอย่างข้าว Thai Jusmin Rice ไปตรวจสอบกลับพบว่าไม่มีข้าวหอมมะลิของไทยอยู่เลย
ซึ่งปัญหาเหล่านี้บริษัท Riviana Foods เชื่อว่าอาจจะทำให้ผู้บริโภคสหรัฐเข้าใจผิด
ส่งผลกระทบต่อตลาดสหรัฐ ซึ่งเป็นตลาดนำเข้าข้าวหอมมะลิอันดับ 1 ของไทย คิดเป็นสัดส่วน 25.76% โดยในช่วง
4 เดือนแรก (มกราคม-เมษายน) ของปีนี้ ประเทศไทยมีการส่งออกข้าวหอมมะลิไปยังสหรัฐ คิดเป็นมูลค่า 3,963.03
ล้านบาท หรือลดลง 4.44% จากช่วงเดียวกันของปีก่อน<br /><br />ล่าสุด เมื่อวันที่ 12
พฤษภาคมที่ผ่านมาน.ส.เบญจวรรณ อุกฤษ อัครราชทูต (ฝ่ายการพาณิชย์) สคร.กรุงวอชิงตัน ดี.ซี.พร้อมด้วย
Mr.Ting-Ting Kao ที่ปรึกษาด้านกฎหมายจากบริษัท White & Case ซึ่งประเทศไทยได้ว่าจ้างไว้
ได้เข้าพบกับ Mr.De Zeeuw ประธานกรรมการและทีมผู้บริหาร บริษัท Riviana
เสนอให้ฝ่ายไทยทำหนังสือถึงสำนักงานอาหารและยาสหรัฐ (US-FDA) ฟ้องร้องเรื่องการปิดฉลากที่ไม่เป็นจริง
สำหรับข้าวที่ไม่ได้มาตรฐานของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ และให้ส่งหนังสือถึงผู้ค้าปลีกรายใหญ่ของสหรัฐ เช่น
Costco กับ Walmart แจ้งกรณีการตรวจพบสินค้าข้าวหอมมะลิแอบอ้างเครื่องหมายรับรองของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ
แต่ไม่ได้ผลิตข้าวหอมมะลิตามมาตรฐานที่กำหนดไว้<br /><br />"ทางบริษัท Riviana
ได้ร้องเรียนปัญหาการปลอมปนและแอบอ้างเครื่องหมายรับรองข้าวหอมมะลิไทยมาเกือบ 5 ปีแล้ว นับจากปี 2552
แต่ไม่ได้รับการดูแลจากฝ่ายไทย
และบริษัทได้ประเมินว่าข้าวหอมมะลิที่วางขายในสหรัฐปัจจุบันที่มีเครื่องหมายรับรองของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ
แต่ไม่ได้มาตรฐาน (92%) มีอยู่มากกว่า 50% หรือครึ่งหนึ่งของข้าวหอมมะลิที่วางจำหน่ายทั้งหมด ดังนั้น
ฝ่ายไทยควรแก้ไขปัญหานี้อย่างจริงจัง เพราะเรื่องนี้เป็นที่รู้กันในหมู่ผู้นำเข้าทั่วไป
หากยังปล่อยให้มีปัญหาการละเมิดเครื่องหมายรับรองต่อไป ก็จะกระทบต่อภาพลักษณ์ข้าวหอมมะลิไทย
และสร้างทัศนคติที่ไม่ดีต่อเครื่องหมายรับรองดังกล่าว
แม้ว่าผู้บริโภคสหรัฐจะไม่ให้ความสำคัญกับตราสัญลักษณ์ แต่ให้ความสำคัญกับราคาขายเป็นหลัก" Mr.De Zeeuw
กล่าว<br /><br />และที่สำคัญ
หากรัฐบาลไทยยังเพิกเฉยไม่ยอมแก้ไขปัญหาการปลอมปนและละเมิดเครื่องหมายรับรองต่อไป
บริษัทก็พร้อมที่จะเลิกนำเข้าข้าวหอมมะลิไทย (92%) และจะหันไปนำเข้าข้าวหอมมะลิที่ไม่ได้มาตรฐาน
หรือข้าวจากเวียดนามที่มีขายต่ำกว่ามาขาย เพื่อความอยู่รอดของบริษัท <br /><br />ทั้งนี้ บริษัท Riviana
Foods เป็นบริษัทลูกของบริษัท Ebro ผู้ส่งออกข้าวอันดับ 1ของโลก และยังเป็นผู้จำหน่ายเส้นพาสต้าอันดับ 2
ของโลก มียอดขายข้าวปีละ 680.4 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ ยอดขายพาสต้า 459.4 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ โดยผลิตข้าวในแบรนด์
Minute, River Rice, Carolina, Success, Mahatma และ Blue Ribbon จากโรงสีข้าวของบริษัท
และมีการนำเข้าข้าวจากประเทศต่าง ๆ รวมถึงประเทศไทย ปัจจุบัน บริษัทถือครองส่วนแบ่งตลาด 25%
ของตลาดข้าวหอมมะลิในสหรัฐทั้งหมด 200 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ <br /><br />ด้าน น.ส.เบญจวรรณ อุกฤษ อัครราชทูต
(ฝ่ายการพาณิชย์) ณ วอชิงตัน กล่าวว่า สำนักงานได้ประสานกับบริษัท Riviana
เพื่อขอตัวอย่างข้าวและดำเนินการสุ่มสำรวจตลาดสินค้าข้าวหอมมะลิไทยจากผู้จำหน่ายหลายรายในเขตวอชิงตัน
เวอร์จิเนีย และแมรี่แลนด์ รวมทั้งได้จัดส่งตัวอย่างข้าวหอมมะลิและบรรจุภัณฑ์
เพื่อให้กรมการค้าต่างประเทศตรวจสอบ เบื้องต้นพบว่ามี 5
แบรนด์ที่มีการปลอมปนข้าวหอมมะลิและมีการประทับตรารับรองข้าวหอมมะลิของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ
ซึ่งเป็นตราที่กรมออกให้กับผู้นำเข้าที่ได้มาตรฐานข้าวหอมมะลิของไทย
<br /><br />"เรื่องนี้เป็นเรื่องที่น่ากังวลมาก เนื่องจากส่งผลเสียต่อภาพลักษณ์ข้าวหอมมะลิไทย อีกทั้ง 5
บริษัทที่มีการปลอมปนข้าว ก็ยังขายข้าวหอมมะลิไทยในราคาถูก เป็นการดัมพ์ราคาข้าวหอมมะลิไทยที่ได้มาตรฐาน
ทำให้ผู้นำเข้าข้าวหอมมะลิไทย (มาตรฐาน 92%) แบบถูกต้องได้รับผลกระทบ ถูกแย่งตลาดไป ทาง
สคร.ได้เชิญกรมการค้าต่างประเทศเดินทางไปสหรัฐ เพื่อตรวจสอบข้อเท็จจริง และดำเนินการทางกฎหมายต่อไป"
น.ส.เบญจวรรณกล่าว <br /><br />ขณะที่ทางบริษัทที่ปรึกษากฎหมาย White & Case
ได้ให้ความเห็นว่าประเด็นนี้อาจทำให้สำนักงานสิทธิบัตรและเครื่องหมายการค้าสหรัฐ (USPTO)
พิจารณาเพิกถอนการจดทะเบียนเครื่องหมายการค้าและสิทธิบัตรข้าวหอมมะลิไทย ดังนั้น
รัฐบาลไทยต้องติดต่อกับผู้ผลิต ผู้นำเข้า และผู้ส่งออกสินค้าข้าว
เพื่อแจ้งปัญหาปลอมปนที่เกิดขึ้นรวมถึงเพิ่มความเข้มงวดในการสุ่มตรวจสอบตักเตือนผู้ที่ใช้ข้าวเวียดนาม
และผู้ที่ใช้เครื่องหมายรับรองละเมิด <br /><br />ส่วนในระยะกลาง-ระยะยาว
รัฐบาลไทยต้องดำเนินการตามกฎหมายกับผู้ปลอมปนและละเมิดดังกล่าว โดยอาศัยกฎหมายอาหารและยา (Food Drug and
Cosmetic Act) ห้ามสินค้าที่ปิดฉลากไม่ถูกต้อง หรือปลอมปนผ่านแดน, กฎหมายเกี่ยวกับการโฆษณาเท็จ (Lanham
Act) ยื่นฟ้องต่อศาลในกรณีที่หีบห่อผลิตภัณฑ์ก่อให้เกิดความเข้าใจผิด และกฎหมายเครื่องหมายการค้า (Trade
Mark) โดยเจ้าของสิทธิ์สามารถขอความร่วมมือจากหน่วยงานศุลกากรสหรัฐในการห้ามนำเข้าสินค้าที่ละเมิด
และขอให้ศาลมีคำสั่งห้ามผู้ละเมิดให้หยุดการดำเนินการ <br /><br />ตลอดจนการติดต่อกับรัฐบาลเวียดนาม
เพื่อขอความร่วมมือการแอบอ้างใช้คำว่า Hom Mali บนผลิตภัณฑ์ของเวียดนาม ส่วนในระยะยาว
ไทยควรส่งเสริมความเข้าใจเกี่ยวกับข้าวหอมมะลิไทยในสหรัฐ และปรับปรุงกฎระเบียบ มาตรฐาน และบทลงโทษ
ตลอดจนจัดทำสัญญากับบริษัทผู้นำเข้า/ผู้จัดจำหน่ายในสหรัฐเกี่ยวกับการใช้เครื่องหมายรับรองของกรมการค้าต่างประเทศด้วย
<br /><br />ด้าน น.ส.ปานจิตต์ พิศวง รองอธิบดีกรมการค้าต่างประเทศ กล่าวว่า
กรมกำลังอยู่ระหว่างดำเนินการเก็บตัวอย่างข้าวหอมมะลิที่วางจำหน่ายในสหรัฐเพื่อตรวจสอบ
หากพบว่ามีการปลอมปนจริง ก็จะต้องพิจารณาดำเนินคดีในฐานะที่กรมเป็นเจ้าของสิทธิเครื่องหมายรับรอง "Thai
Hom Mali Rice" <br /><br />ส่วน ร.ต.ท.เจริญ เหล่าธรรมทัศน์ ประธานกรรมการ บริษัท อุทัยโปรดิวส์ จำกัด
และนายกสมาคมผู้ส่งออกข้าวไทย กล่าวว่า ขณะนี้ในส่วนของบริษัทยังไม่ได้รับผลกระทบ
เพราะส่งออกในลักษณะข้าวหอมมะลิพรีเมี่ยมบรรจุถุง
ซึ่งทางลูกค้ายังให้ความมั่นใจได้ว่าจะไม่มีการปลอมปนแน่นอน อย่างไรก็ตาม
กรมจะต้องตรวจสอบว่ามีการบังคับใช้กฎหมายป้องกันการละเมิดเครื่องหมาย "Thai Hom Mali Rice"
ที่ไปจดคุ้มครองไว้ในสหรัฐหรือไม่ เพื่อไม่ให้กระทบต่อผู้ส่งออกข้าวไทยด้วยอีกทางหนึ่ง<br /><br />อนึ่ง
บริษัทผู้ส่งออกข้าวหอมมะลิไทยไปยังตลาดสหรัฐ 5 รายแรก ได้แก่ บริษัทสยามเกรนส์, บริษัทนครหลวงค้าข้าว,
บริษัทอุทัยโปรดิวส์, บริษัทไทยลีการเกษตร และบริษัทเอลล์บา บางกอก</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-72144162268644721422014-05-22T07:09:00.002+07:002014-05-22T07:09:35.369+07:00A Map Of Where El Niño Will Strike Around The World<a href="http://io9.com/a-map-of-where-el-nino-will-strike-around-the-world-1579079407?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow">Ria Misra</a><br />21 May 2014<br />
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The map is the work of NOAA and is by no means a prediction or promise of how this year's El Niño might fall, or even if there will be one at all. What it does do, however, is give an overview of how researchers have observed El Niño altering precipitation patterns around the world since 1950.<br />
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As you can see, some areas are likely to be prone to the heavy rains, storms, and flooding that we often associate with El Niño. But other areas could experience unusual dryness, perhaps even drought.<br />
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<b>BOX 4.9: Technology Transfer in Rice Contract Farming</b><br />
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One investor in Cambodia had developed a rice contract farming system whereby the company supplied improved fragrant rice-planting materials to farmer groups. An average farmer cultivated about one to 1.5 hectares of fragrant rice, using rice seeds provided by the investor. After retaining part of the harvest for their own consumption, the farmer sold all production to the investor. The investor agreed to buy all the production from the farmers at market prices and provided a guaranteed minimum price as an assurance to farmers. The rice from the contract farms was milled at the investor’s rice mill and the final product is sold in the national market (about 80 percent) or exported.<br />
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The investor provided technical support and training to contract farmers on the appropriate techniques for rice cultivation. Farmers were given training on the use of proper agricultural practices such as scheduling of various field operations (for example, ploughing, planting), optimal planting densities, nonuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and so on. Extension service staff visited farmers during the growing season and provided advice on how to address any problems observed during the visit, for example, on how to overcome attacks by insect pests. Participants in this scheme noted the higher yields resulting from the better quality seed inputs and technical support provided by the investor. The working relationship between farmers and the investor was perceived as positive by both parties.<br />
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Source: UNCTAD-World Bank Survey of Responsible Agricultural Investment Database.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-33816942061259418392014-05-06T08:20:00.002+07:002014-05-06T08:20:25.364+07:00Here comes El Niño: Recent spike in sea temperatures raise fears that a 'significant' weather event is on its way<br />
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<li><b> Experts have spotted a spike in Pacific Ocean sea temperatures</b></li>
<li><b> This, coupled with the rapid movement of warm water eastwards, has increased concerns about an upcoming El Niño event</b></li>
<li><b> El Niño affects wind patterns and can trigger both floods and drought</b></li>
<li><b> Researchers said rises in temperature are above those seen in recent years</b></li>
<li><b> This suggests the 2014 El Niño could be one of the strongest for decades</b></li>
<li><b> In January, experts predicted a 'substantial' rise in extreme El Niño events</b></li>
<li><b> An unusually strong El Niño event occurs every 20 years, but this new research shows this will double to one event every 10 years</b></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A spike in Pacific Ocean sea
temperatures and the rapid movement of warm water eastwards have
increased fears that this year's El Ni</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">ñ</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">o could be one of the strongest yet.</span><br />
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Niño - a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific - affects
wind patterns and can trigger both floods and drought in different parts
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although previous research has suggested extreme</span> <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">El
Niño events could occur later this year, experts claim this recent rise
hints they are likely to be more significant than first thought. </span><br />
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Niño refers to a set of conditions when the surface of the sea in an
area along the Equator in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean becomes
hotter than usual. </span><br />
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average water temperature in that area is typically between 1 and 3°C
(approximately 2 and 5°F) warmer than normal during this event. </span><br />
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has the effect of adding huge amounts of heat and moisture into the
atmosphere, ultimately affecting patterns of air pressure and rainfall
across the Pacific and globally.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Strong El Ni</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">ñ</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">o</span> <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">events occur every 20 years or so, but researchers recently said this could drop to 10 years thanks to global warming. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At the opposite end of the scale, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">La Niña is the climatological counterpart to El Niño. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">La Niña refers to periods when sea-surface temperatures around the Equator are cooler than normal. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This has a similar affect on air pressure and rainfall because it suppresses how much heat and moisture enters the atmosphere. </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Wenju Cai, a climate expert at
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation, said the rises in Pacific Ocean temperature were above those seen
in previous El Niño years. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I think this event has lots of characteristics with a strong El Niño,’ said Cai.</span><br />
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strong El Nino appears early and we have seen this event over the last
couple of months, which is unusual; the wind that has caused the warming
is quite large and there is what we call the pre-conditioned effects,
where you must have a lot of heat already in the system to have a big El
Niño event.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He based his conclusions on studying data released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</span><br />
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majority of weather forecasting models indicate that the phenomenon may
develop around the middle of the year, but it was too early to assess
its likely strength, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization said on
15 April.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meteorologists
added the prospect of an El Niño will likely be firmed up 'in the next
month or two', although forecasting its strength will be hard to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The chance of an it</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> developing in 2014 exceeded 70 per cent according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology. </span><br />
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expected to issue its next El Niño outlook report on Tuesday, while
Japan's meteorological agency is expected to updated its forecast in the
next couple of weeks.</span><br />
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worst El Niño on record in 1997 and 1998 was blamed for massive flooding
along China's Yangtze river, responsible for killing more than 1,500
people.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The impact of extreme El Niño events is
felt by every continent, and the event in 1997 cost between $35billion to
$45billion in damage globally.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A strong El Niño also increases fears that production of many key agricultural commodities in Asia and Australia will suffer.</span><br />
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damages were said to have been in the region of between $35billion to
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Extreme El Niño events develop differently from standard El Ni</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">ñ</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">os, which first appear in the western Pacific. </span><br />
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extreme events occur when sea surface temperatures exceeding 28°C
develop in the normally cold and dry eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This different location for the origin of the temperature increase causes massive changes in global rainfall patterns.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The new patterns result in flash floods and torrential rain in some places and devastating droughts and wild fires in others.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Extreme El Niño events are expected to double in frequency over the next 100 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In January, a team of international
scientists said extreme weather events fuelled by unusually strong El
Niños are expected to double over the next century.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Climate
scientists warned countries could be struck by devastating droughts,
wild fires and dramatic foods approximately every ten years.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
team, made up of experts from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate
System Science (CoECSS), the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and CSIRO, also spotted a link between global warming
and extreme El Niño events.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We
currently experience an unusually strong El Niño event every 20 years.
Our research shows this will double to one event every 10 years,’ said
Agus Santoso of CoECSS, who co-authored the study.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘El Ni</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">ñ</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">o
events are a multi-dimensional problem and only now are we starting to
understand better how they respond to global warming,’ he added.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Extreme El Niño events develop differently from standard El Ni</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">ñ</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">os, which first appear in the western Pacific. </span><br />
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extreme events occur when sea surface temperatures exceeding 28°C
develop in the normally cold and dry eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This different location
for the origin of the temperature increase causes massive changes in
global rainfall patterns, which result in floods and torrential rain in
some places and devastating droughts and wild fires in others.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
impacts of extreme El Niño events that extended to every continent
across the globe in 1997, for example, killed around 23,000 people.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr
Cai continued: ‘During an extreme El Niño event countries in the
western Pacific, such as Australia and Indonesia, experienced
devastating droughts and wild fires, while catastrophic floods occurred
in the eastern equatorial region of Ecuador and northern Peru.’</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In Australia, the drought and dry
conditions caused by the 1982 and 1983 extreme El Niño led to the Ash
Wednesday Bushfire in southeast Australia, which resulted in 75 deaths.</span><br />
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Sopheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14573873665631343219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-49452106548006925692013-12-30T13:35:00.001+07:002013-12-30T13:35:46.390+07:00Cooperation between Angkor Rice and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Nj8fluW1qtM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-10866164617041585062013-12-30T12:19:00.001+07:002013-12-30T12:38:15.786+07:00A world-first technology is turning tonnes of waste into bio-fuel and could transform the way the Kingdom approaches agriculture.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><i>Southeast Asia GLOBE</i></span><br />
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A top a massive furnace billowing with heat, one can peer
through the flue into the inferno. It is a mesmerizing sight: waves of flame
keep rice husk wheeling, condemned to an embodiment of the bible’s “eternal
fire”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Adisorn Chieu, the Cambodia
managing director of local producer Angkor Rice, stands nearby. “TORBED”
technology is the future of rice husk technology,” He says, confident that this
huge reactor – the first of its kind installed anywhere in the world will
revolutionize Cambodia’s rice industry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite the status of rice as
Cambodia’s undoubted food staple, the Kingdom’s rice industry lags behind that
of its neighbors in term of both production and processing. Viet Nam can grow
up to ten tonnes of rice per hectare, While Cambodia produces just three.<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to figure from the
Ministry of commerce, rice exports doubled in the first seven months of this
year. To keep up, the processing sector requires revolution. The rice industry
misses out on premium export price because mills cannot cope with the
increasing supply, meaning unprocessed rice is sold for nominal prices to
Vietnam, where processing costs are minimal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rice mills, along with most
Cambodians, are crippled by the cost and supply of electricity, with prices
more than twice that of neighboring Vietnam. Most rice millers have their own
diesel generators to ensure consistent power, but these are dirty, barely
cheaper and do nothing to mitigate waste. Hence a revolution is indeed taking
place, with mills turning to their own waste to power operations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rice husks constitute about 20%
of rice’s weight and are a mill’s main waste product. Currently, they are often burned in the open
or dumped in rivers, where they release methane as they decay. However, they
make perfect biofuel for gasifies – converters that can power small- and
medium-sized plants by turning waste products into energy. The requisite gasifier
systems’ initial costs depend on the size and make of machinery, but
emancipation from the expensive grid reduces dependency on diesel to about 30%
of most producer power needs. In theory,
gasifier systems allow a rice mill to cut its electricity costs in half.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A lake of capital provides the
main barrier to jumping on this renewable energy bandwagon. Hence organization such
as SNV, a development body from the Netherlands, step in to find financing
option for the mills. Together with SME renewable energy, the Cambodia business
selling gasifiers, they promote the technology to rice millers throughout
Cambodia.<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to Ira Larasaty, SNV’s waste-
to-energy program leader, “copycat gasifiers” pose a different type of problem:
Their lake of quality renders them prone to breakdown, which sabotages the
system’s reputation for efficiency and cost-reduction. Furthermore, bio-char is
a waste product produced by gasifiers that can contaminate water and soil
without proper treatment, while burnt rice husks contain levels of crystalline
silica, which is carcinogenic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Future machine: Angkor Rice has embraced the expensive and</span><br />
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“Accumulated
solid waste is an issue that needs attention…. Most millers do not apply any
treatment to gasifier wastes due to a lake of funding and lake of support,”
said Larasaty. “One of the objectives is
to introduce a technology that is environmentally responsible and sustainable.
This can be achieved by joining force with technology provider who are
confident and can demonstrate that their systems are efficient and cost
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For Large mills with capital
aplenty, the TORBED reactor solves both electricity and waste problem. At
Angkor rice headquarters near Phnom Penh, this multimillion-dollar, two
megawatt power plant stands adjacent to it processing mill. Tonnes of
stockpiled rice husk is conveyed into the furnace and burnt evenly at about
760c.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The operation is dauntingly high-tech,
although it retains some Cambodian character: Above the buttons and knobs,
dials and monitors, there hangs a golden Buddhist shine. According to Adisorn
Chieu, this reactor halves the mill’s costs and they are plant to build
another.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unlike gasifiers and alternative
large scale power generators in Cambodia, the TORBED reactor burns husks very
evenly, resulting in amorphous silica, which , crucially, is non-carcinogenic
and can be sold as a product in itself for use in the construction industry.
The reactor also eliminates the need for diesel, making it a particularly
eco-friendly power generator.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, the convoluted technology
means the team at Angkor Rice are dependent on knowhow and resource from abroad.
“[TORBED technology] is the promising and potential for larger plants is huge
as long as the support systems – trained operators, maintenance, funding etc –
are implemented,” said Larasaty.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Biofuel from rice husks could
play an important role in two of Cambodia’s projected goals. By increasing mills’s
efficiency, the government’s aim to export one million tonnes of rice in 2015
could be realized, and with excess power from gasifiers and the TORBED reactor
being sold to villager, biofuel could help the government’s scheme to electrify
70% of households by 2030.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“With gasifiers there is some
failure, some success,” said Chieu. “TORBED is perfect for us, because here in
Cambodia we have high electricity costs and plenty of rice husks.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Angkor Kasekamroong Roeung Co Ltd (“Angkor”) and TORCHE Energy Sdn Bhd signed an MOU to develop Cambodia’s second TORBED based combustion system utilizing rice husk as a fuel.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Torftech Energy is supplying its “state-of-the-art” TORBED based combustion system utilizing rice husk as fuel to generate electricity at all of these new plants in Cambodia. These TORBED combustion systems will be manufactured and supplied through Torftech Energy’s newly formed Malaysian Joint Venture, TORCHE, which will also provide the Engineering, Procurement and Construction for the project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The same unique proposition saw recent success in Vietnam; where the opportunity to produce a non-hazardous high quality ash helped win a pipeline of projects for Torftech Energy. The production of such an ash provides considerable advantages over conventional combustion plants as the ash can be used as a cement substitute for enhancing concrete strength. The ash generated, using the proprietary TORBED combustion technology developed by Torftech from United Kingdom, has the trade mark ‘Agrisilica’ that guarantees its quality and enables the export of the ash to major economies in the region. This is one of the key factors that permit the additional investment costs that result when using more advanced European Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mr Jeffrey Lamb, Head of UK Trade & Investment in Vietnam, witnessed the signing and commented; “It is fantastic to see Torftech Energy being so successful in South East Asia and providing a low carbon solution to both a waste and an energy security issue. It is especially encouraging to see an innovative British company developing strong partnerships across multiple countries in the region.” </span></div>
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Field survey indicates good yield, good production, fragrant and very promising!</h2>
By Angkor Rice<br />
1st November 2013<br />
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Kampong Speu - Angkor Rice staffs went down to the field to check the crop condition yesterday. Kampong Speu is the main province under the contracted farming of Angkor Rice, beside from that are Kandal, Kampot and Takeo.<br />
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Base on the report, Mr. Chieu Chu said that the crop is in perfect condition, "the farmers are happy for this year. there were no drought and there were not much diseases". He added that the crop should be ready to be harvested in another 1-2 weeks time.<br />
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Angkor Rice has been working with farmers in order to grow Neang Malis fragrant rice for more than 10 years. "This is the 12th years we have been working with the farmers" Mr. Pa, Angkor Rice agriculture promoter said. "We created hope and good job to the farmers not only in our member area, but it has lifted the whole rice industry of the whole country".<br />
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Mr. Sombath, a chief village in Khom Prey Rumduan, Kampong Speu province said, "we will support the company as the company is very honest and sincere to us". He expects the price of the crop will be highest comparing to the other rice variety because the advice from the company.<br />
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"All of our villagers grow rice for the company, the rice can be grown only 1 time a year but the yield and the price is good to support my nieces to enter a university in Phnom Penh", he told us proudly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members of Angkor Rice who works on the field for more than 12 years in Kampong Speu.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's ride, ask me, I shall give you fragrant rice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The condition of the rice is almost ready to be harvested, the water in the field was also pumped out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carefully taking care, the rice will be the pride of the country, the pride to the King.</td></tr>
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By <a href="http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2013-10/18/content_17043366.htm">Zhong Nan (China Daily USA)</a><br />
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The government is expected to further lower the bar on rice imports, in a bid to boost the country's food supply, industry experts said.<br />
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The China National Grain and Oils Information Center forecast that the country's rice output will drop 0.7 percent year-on-year to 202.8 million metric tons in 2013, indicating the rice production is falling after stable output growth for a decade.<br />
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As the world's biggest rice consumer, China imported between 500,000 and 600,000 metric tons of rice per year until 2012, when local prices lost their competitiveness against rice imported from neighboring countries.<br />
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Ding Shengjun, a senior researcher at the Academy of the State Administration of Grain, said that adverse weather and floods in major rice-growing regions, such as Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, have curbed the country's rice output and deepened reliance on imports.<br />
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During a visit by Premier Li Keqiang to Bangkok this month, China agreed to raise the amount of rice to be imported from Thailand over the next five years to 1 million metric tons per year.<br />
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"After decades of efforts to pursue higher outputs, China's rice sector is seeing a decline in competitiveness," Ding said. "The government has realized that the country's rice farmland needs a break after years of heavy use of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides."<br />
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The country accounts for 26 percent of the world's rice production.<br />
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Like other Asian countries, China has implemented policies to encourage rice cultivation by guaranteeing minimum purchase prices. But after almost a decade of increases, rice prices are now well over those seen in international markets.<br />
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The China National Grain and Oils Information Center said the per hectare rice production level has also declined, with the rice yield per hectare falling 1.7 percent to 6.7 tons this year. However, the corn and wheat yields per hectare rose 2.6 and 1.6 percent, respectively.<br />
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"The fast pace of industrialization and urbanization has transformed a number of rice farmland areas into manufacturing facilities and residential housing projects. This transformation to a certain extent has gradually shifted the country's rice production center from the south to the north," said Wen Tiejun, dean of the school of agricultural economics and rural development at the Beijing-based Renmin University of China.<br />
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Wen said that outdated grain logistics services have also hampered the efficiency of the rice production system.<br />
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The northeast region is far away from the major rice consumption provinces, but the grain logistics system is not ready for that challenge yet.<br />
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For instance, rice transportation costs from Heilongjiang province to major consumer markets in Zhejiang and Jiangsu now account for about 30 percent of retail rice prices, according to a study by the Harbin-based Northeast Agricultural University. That puts extra pressure on logistics companies to satisfy rice demand during peak seasons, and offers opportunities for companies in South China to buy rice from neighboring countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam.<br />
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Ding Lixin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, said that the increasing rice imports stem from the notable price differences between foreign and domestic rice.<br />
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He said that rice imports will be kept at a high level if domestic rice prices continue to rise before the Lunar New Year, which will be in late January 2014.<br />
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However, domestic prices might be capped by the increase in imports.<br />
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"Under such circumstances, sufficient rice supply from the global market and the low import prices from countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam have all become important elements subduing the rising pace of Chinese rice prices," he added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">King Norodom Sihamoni, Queen Mother and the Prime Minister, Samdech Hun Sen, visit Angkor Rice today.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H.E.Chan Sarun, Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, was explaining to the King about the rice variety grown in the research field at Angkor Rice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The King and the Prime Minister were discussing about the Cambodian rice industry at Angkor Rice. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The King gave a present to Angkor Rice president, Mr. Chieu Hieng.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The King and the Prime Minister were checking the rice husk power plant at Angkor Bio Cogen.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/files/2012/10/Sandy-and-Earth.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9500" height="300" src="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/files/2012/10/Sandy-and-Earth-300x300.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; display: block; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 10px 8px 0px; max-width: 600px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sandy and Earth" width="300" /></a>If you’ve followed the U.S. news and weather in the past 24 hours you have no doubt run across a journalist or blogger explaining why it’s difficult to say that climate change could be causing big storms like Sandy. Well, no doubt here: it is.</div>
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The hedge expressed by journalists is that many variables go into creating a big storm, so the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sandy-vs-katrina-and-irene" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">size of Hurricane Sandy</a>, or any specific storm, cannot be attributed to climate change. That’s true, and it’s based on good science. However, that statement does<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>mean that we cannot say that climate change is making storms bigger. It is doing just that—a statement also based on good science, and one that the insurance industry is embracing, by the way. (Huh? More on that in a moment.)</div>
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Scientists have long taken a similarly cautious stance, but more are starting to drop the caveat and link climate change directly to intense storms and other extreme weather events, such as the warm 2012 winter in the eastern U.S. and the frigid one in Europe at the same time. They are emboldened because researchers have gotten very good in the past decade at determining what affects the variables that create big storms. Hurricane Sandy got large because it wandered north along the U.S. coast, where ocean water is still warm this time of year, pumping energy into the swirling system. But it got even larger when a cold<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whats-causing-dry-winter" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jet Stream</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>made a sharp dip southward from Canada down into the eastern U.S. The cold air, positioned against warm Atlantic air, added energy to the atmosphere and therefore to Sandy, just as it moved into that region, expanding the storm even further.</div>
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Here’s where climate change comes in. The atmospheric pattern that sent the Jet Stream south is colloquially known as a “blocking high”—a big pressure center stuck over the very northern Atlantic Ocean and southern Arctic Ocean. And what led to that? A climate phenomenon called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)—essentially, the state of atmospheric pressure in that region. This state can be positive or negative, and it had changed from positive to negative two weeks before Sandy arrived. The climate kicker? Recent<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extended-forecast-next-winter-extreme" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">research by Charles Greene</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at Cornell University and other climate scientists has shown that as more<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arctic-sea-ice-loss-implications" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arctic sea ice melts</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the summer—because of global warming—the NAO is more likely to be negative during the autumn and winter. A negative NAO makes the Jet Stream more likely to move in a big, wavy pattern across the U.S., Canada and the Atlantic, causing the kind of big southward dip that occurred during Sandy.</div>
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Climate change amps up other basic factors that contribute to big storms. For example, the oceans have warmed, providing more energy for storms. And the Earth’s atmosphere has warmed, so it retains more moisture, which is drawn into storms and is then dumped on us.</div>
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These changes contribute to all sorts of extreme weather. In a recent op-ed in the<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em>, James Hansen at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York blamed climate change for excessive drought, based on six decades of measurements, not computer models: “Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.”</div>
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He went on to write that the Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 could each be attributed to climate change, concluding that “The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.”</div>
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Hanson also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/06/two-degree-global-warming-limit-is-called-a-prescription-for-disaster/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">argued a year ago</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that Earth is entering a period of rapid climate change, so radical weather will be upon us sooner than we’d like.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scientific American</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>just published<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-global-warming-happening-faster-than-expected&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20121029" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a big feature article</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>detailing the same point.</div>
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Indeed, if you’re a regular<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scientific American</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>reader, you might recall that another well-regarded scientist predicted behemoths such as Sandy in 2007.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=warmer-oceans-stronger-hurricanes" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The article</a>, by Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was presciently titled, “Warmer Oceans, Stronger Hurricanes.” Trenberth’s extensive analysis concluded that although the number of Atlantic hurricanes each year might not rise, the strength of them would.</div>
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Hurricane Sandy has emboldened more scientists to directly link climate change and storms, without the hedge. On Monday, as Sandy came ashore in New Jersey, Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, tweeted: “Would this kind of storm happen without climate change? Yes. Fueled by many factors. Is [the] storm stronger because of climate change? Yes.”</div>
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Raymond Bradley, director of the Climate Systems Research Center at the University of Massachusetts,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Global+warming+likely+driver+intense+hurricanes+scientists/7464613/story.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was quoted</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vancouver Sun</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>saying: “When storms develop, when they do hit the coast, they are going to be bigger and I think that’s a fair statement that most people could sign onto.”</div>
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A recent, peer-reviewed study published by several authors in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Proceedings of the National Academy of Science</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>concludes: “The largest cyclones are most affected by warmer conditions and we detect a statistically significant trend in the frequency of large surge events (roughly corresponding to tropical storm size) since 1923.”</div>
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Greg Laden, an anthropologist who blogs about culture and science, wrote this week in<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/10/28/what-you-need-to-know-about-frankestorm-hurricane-sandy/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an online piece</a>: “There is always going to be variation in temperature or some other weather related factor, but global warming raises the baseline. That’s true. But the corollary to that is NOT that you can’t link climate change to a given storm. All storms are weather, all weather is the immediate manifestation of climate, climate change is about climate.”</div>
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Now, as promised: If you still don’t believe scientists, then believe insurance giant Munich Re. In her<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/10/watching-hurricane-sandy-ignoring-climate-change.html#ixzz2AiOmFhp3" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #19437c; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">October 29 post<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Yorker</em>, writer Elizabeth Kolbert notes:</div>
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Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance firms, issued a study titled “Severe Weather in North America.” According to the press release that accompanied the report, “Nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America.” … While many factors have contributed to this trend, including an increase in the number of people living in flood-prone areas, the report identified global warming as one of the major culprits: “Climate change particularly affects formation of heat-waves, droughts, intense precipitation events, and in the long run most probably also tropical cyclone intensity.”</div>
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Insurers, scientists and journalist are beginning to drop the caveats and simply say that climate change is causing big storms. As scientists collect more and more data over time, more of them will be willing to make the same data-based statements.</div>
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รมว.พาณิชย์เดินหน้า กล่อมลาว พม่า ดึงร่วมวงค้าข้าวอาเซียน หลังเวียดนาม กัมพูชา ตอบตกลงไปแล้ว คาดประกาศความร่วมมือในการประชุมอาเซียนซัมมิตกลาง พ.ย.นี้ ด้านกสิกรไทยจับมือพันธมิตรจีน 19 แห่งพัฒนาเครือข่ายบริการแฟคเตอริ่ง เปิดแผนธุรกิจปี 2556 ตั้งเป้าสินเชื่อโต 9-10% คุมหนี้เน่าไว้ที่ 2-3%<br />
<br /> นายบุญทรง เตริยาภิรมย์ รมว.พาณิชย์ เปิดเผยว่า ไทยและเวียดนามได้ตกลงที่จะร่วมมือกันค้าข้าวในตลาดโลก เพื่อดึงราคาข้าวและช่วยให้เกษตรกรของทั้ง 2 ประเทศมีชีวิตความเป็นอยู่ที่ดีขึ้น โดยในการประชุมคณะรัฐมนตรี (ครม.) ไทย-เวียดนามที่ผ่านมา เวียดนามได้ตกลงตามข้อเสนอของไทยในการกำหนดเป้าหมายผลผลิต เป้าหมายราคา และตกลงร่วมกันที่จะสร้างความมั่นคงทางด้านอาหาร (ฟู้ด ซีเคียวริตี้) ให้กับโลก<br />
ขณะเดียวกัน ได้สั่งการให้กรมการค้าต่างประเทศไปเตรียมการเจรจากับ สปป.ลาว โดยให้นัดคุยกับรัฐมนตรีพาณิชย์ สปป.ลาว ก่อนการประชุมอาเซียนซัมมิตที่จะมีขึ้นช่วงกลางเดือน พ.ย.นี้ เพื่อหารือถึงกรอบความร่วมมือในเรื่องข้าวของประเทศในอาเซียน หลังจากที่ไทยได้เจรจากับทางเวียดนามและกัมพูชา และทั้ง 2 ประเทศได้เห็นด้วยกับข้อเสนอของไทยแล้ว ส่วนกับพม่าจะมีการหารือกันในระหว่างการปะชุมคณะกรรมาธิการร่วมทางการค้า (JTC) ที่จะมีขึ้นในวันที่ 1-2 พ.ย.นี้ ที่กรุงเทพฯ<br />
“ถ้าประเทศผู้ปลูกและส่งออกข้าวในอาเซียน 5 ประเทศเห็นพ้องต้องกัน ก็จะเสนอให้ผู้นำอาเซียนประกาศความร่วมมือในเรื่องข้าวในเวทีการประชุมอาเซียนซัมมิตที่กัมพูชาเป็นเจ้าภาพกลางเดือน พ.ย.ต่อไป โดยจะจัดตั้งสมาพันธ์โรงสีข้าวและผู้ค้าข้าวอาเซียน เพื่อเพิ่มความร่วมมือในเรื่องการค้าข้าว การสำรองข้าว เพื่อความมั่นคงทางด้านอาหารให้กับโลก” นายบุญทรง กล่าว<br />
นายบัณฑูร ล่ำซำ ประธานเจ้าหน้าที่บริหาร และกรรมการผู้จัดการ ธนาคารกสิกรไทย กล่าวว่า การพัฒนาความร่วมมือทางเศรษฐกิจในภูมิภาคเอเชีย โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งความร่วมมือในประชาคมเศรษฐกิจอาเซียน (AEC) ที่จะเกิดขึ้นในปี 2558 หรือความร่วมมืออาเซียนบวก 3 ได้แก่ ประเทศในอาเซียน 10 ประเทศ รวมทั้ง จีน เกาหลีใต้ และญี่ปุ่น จะช่วยให้สภาพเศรษฐกิจของเอเชียมีความมั่นคงมากขึ้น ซึ่งปัจจุบันจีนถือเป็นตลาดส่งออกอันดับหนึ่ง และเป็นคู่ค้าสำคัญอันดับสองของไทย ด้วยมูลค่าการค้าระหว่างไทยและจีนปีที่แล้วสูงถึง 1.5 ล้านล้านบาท<br />
ธนาคารเล็งเห็นถึงความสำคัญของการเติบโตในการทำธุรกิจและการลงทุนระหว่างกัน โดยจะร่วมลงนามความร่วมมือกับธนาคารจากจีน 19 แห่ง ที่เป็นสมาชิกสมาคมแฟคเตอริ่งระหว่างประเทศ เบื้องต้นได้ลงนาม 6 แห่ง ได้แก่ ธนาคารไชน่าหมิงเซิง ธนาคารผิงอัน ธนาคารจาวซาง ธนาคารเพื่อการพัฒนาผู่ตงแห่งเซี่ยงไฮ้ ธนาคารแห่งเซี่ยงไฮ้ และธนาคารเปาซาง เพื่อร่วมกันพัฒนาบริการแฟคเตอริ่งระหว่างประเทศ ความร่วมมือดังกล่าวจะสามารถสร้างเครือข่ายความร่วมมือที่ครอบคลุมการบริการแฟคเตอริ่งระหว่างไทย-จีนที่ใหญ่ที่สุด มีมูลค่าการทำแฟคเตอริ่งของความร่วมมือประมาณ 29,000 ล้านบาท <br />
นายบัณฑูร กล่าวว่า แผนดำเนินธุรกิจของธนาคารใน 2556 ที่ได้รับอนุมัติจากคณะกรรมการธนาคารแล้ว ตั้งเป้าอัตราเติบโตของสินเชื่อไว้ที่ 9-10% และเป็นไปตามอัตราการขยายตัวของเศรษฐกิจในปีหน้าที่ 5 % โดยสินเชื่อปีหน้าจะเน้นทุกกลุ่ม ตั้งแต่รายเล็กถึงรายใหญ่ ส่วนหนี้ที่ไม่ก่อให้เกิดรายได้ (NPL) จะควบคุมไว้ที่ 2-3% ของสินเชื่อรวม ซึ่งเป็นระดับปกติของสถาบันการเงิน.
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This study, led by COSA President Daniele Giovannucci, was released by the U.N. Division for Sustainable Development and the key messages also served as a strategic input to the "Sustainable Development in the 21st Century" Report published by The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).<br />
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Dozens of experts and thought leaders from many countries offered their diverse views on how the food and agricultural system could become significantly more sustainable while meeting the need for global food security. These were gathered into four broad-based groups:<br />
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Group 3: The Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Expert Group was coordinated by Danielle Nierenberg of Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project.<br />
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Group 4: An Agricultural Production and Environmental Sustainability Group convened by Sara Scherr and Jeffrey Milder of EcoAgriculture Partners.<br />
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While Cambodia is still a minor player on the global rice export scene, shipping just over 100,000 tons of rice so far this year, and about 200,000 tons in all of last year, it is slowly building an international reputation for producing some of the world's finest rice, even winning an international taste test at a recent rice conference.<br />
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For more information about Cambodian rice exports you can contract Mr. David Sok, of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters (FCRE) at tele: 855 12 770 350, email <a href="mailto:david.sok@fedocrex.com">david.sok@fedocrex.com</a>.<br />
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 1, 2012 – Cambodian premier Jasmine rice won the ‘World’s Best Rice’ Award at the global rice tasting competition during the World Rice Conference (WRC) organized by The Rice Trader (TRT) in Bali, Indonesia, from September 26-28, 2012.</div>
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The TRT’s World Rice Conference is the annual gathering of rice industry professionals, with a conference agenda that aimed to map the future direction for rice markets, and how price trends will be shaped. TRT WRC 2012 was the largest gathering of rice professionals in the region, attracting over 400 delegates from all over the world and featuring expert speakers who guided delegates towards a vision of markets in 2012/13 and beyond. A delegation representing 12 Cambodian Rice Exporters participated in the conference.</div>
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“Several leading rice producing countries participated in this international Rice Tasting Competition. A panel of rice experts and culinary chefs from 5-star hotels in Bali blind tasted the different samples and selected the Cambodian sample as the best one” said Mr. David Sok from Golden Rice </div>
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Cambodia, one of the country’s leading rice millers and exporters. “Based on our discussions among participating companies before we left for Bali, we decided to select three Cambodian rice samples to be submitted for the TRT competition: two were premier fragrant rice samples and one was premier white rice. The sample that received the award was one of the two premier fragrant rice samples: our Cambodian Jasmine Rice, Grade A, 100% Unbroken”.</div>
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“We would like to express our warmest thanks to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which provided technical advice to the 12 participating Cambodian rice export companies and facilitated our TRT participation” Mr. Sok added “and this award is showing the world that Cambodia has great quality rice and can compete with other major rice market players.”</div>
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“All participating Cambodian rice exporters were very happy and proud when the TRT expert panel announced that Cambodian rice won the ‘World Best Rice Award’ this year” said Mr. Chan Pich from Signatures of Asia, another participating rice export company. “I think it is a great success for the Cambodian rice industry and for Cambodia as a whole”.</div>
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During the annual World Rice Conference, TRT organizes this rice tasting competition, with submissions from different rice producing countries. In 2010, Thai rice won the award and in 2011, a rice sample submitted by Myanmar won the global award. It is believed that this world recognition of Cambodian rice will help the Kingdom boost its rice exports by promoting Cambodian rice in world markets, encouraging international buyers and traders to consider buying more rice from Cambodia, and contribute to the accomplishment of the Cambodian Government’s objective to export 1 million tons of rice by 2015.</div>
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PHNOM PENH - Cambodia’s aromatic variety of jasmine rice was awarded top prize at the Rice Trader World Rice Conference in Bali, Indonesia, last month.<br /> <br /> Second and third place went to Thai rice varieties, as more than 40 rice-exporting countries attended the conference, from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28.<br /> <br /> Cambodia is now seeking to expand its exports of its jasmine rice and other varieties.<br /> <br /> Ung Chhengsear, a representative of Cambodian rice export company Lor Ek Heng Sek Meas, who attended the ceremony, said the award will help raise the profile of Cambodian rice, which has gone relatively unnoticed.<br /> <br /> “So this will help increase our rice exports to meet the government’s ambition of 1 million tons of rice exports by 2015,” he told VOA Khmer by phone from Indonesia.<br /> <br /> Twelve companies from Cambodia attended this year’s conference, sponsored by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.<br /> <br /> Bas Rozemuller, IFC project manager, who led Cambodia’s delegation, told VOA Khmer that many buyers had begun contacting Cambodian companies following the announcement of the award.<br /> <br /> The rice variety was judged on its overall quality, including texture, shape, flavor and aroma. It is one of four varieties of rice that Cambodian exporters sell abroad.<br /> <br /> Hean Vanhan, deputy director general of the Ministry of Agriculture’s general directorate, said Cambodia’s rice exports are continuing to improve. The country has exported more than 420,000 tons of rice so far in the first eight months of the year, he said.<br /> <br /> International recognition of the rice’s quality will help exports, said Mey Kalyan, a senior advisor to the Supreme National Economic Council and a key contributor to the government’s rice policy.<br /> <br /> “We earned No. 1,” he said. “So we have to move to the next step, which is to make our rice even better known and trusted worldwide.”<br /> <br /> Cambodia will host the World Rice Conference next year.</div>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-17234731952358856672012-10-13T13:25:00.002+07:002012-10-13T13:25:51.454+07:00ผู้จัดการ - ปีนี้ข้าวหอมเขมรขึ้นแท่นข้าวคุณภาพดีที่สุดในโลกโดย ASTVผู้จัดการออนไลน์ 8 ตุลาคม 2555 13:54 น. <br />
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> การประชุมประจำปีครั้งนี้ มีผู้เข้าร่วมมีผู้เข้าร่วมกว่า 400 คน เพิ่มขึ้นเป็น 3 เท่า เทียบกับการประชุมครั้งแรกเมื่อ 3 ปีที่แล้วในฟิลิปปินส์ ประกอบด้วย ผู้บริหารจัดการด้านอาหาร เจ้าหน้าที่ทางการ ผู้แทนสมาคมกับบริษัทค้าข้าวจากประเทศต่างๆ ทั่วโลก รวมทั้งน.ส.กอบสุข เอี่ยมสุรีย์ นายกสมาคมผู้ส่งออกข้าวไทย ซึ่งเป็นประธาน และซีอีโอของกลุ่มกมลกิจ มีรายงานเรื่องนี้ใน http://www.trtworldrice.com/ เว็บไซต์อย่างเป็นทางการของการประชุม</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> เจ้าหน้าที่รัฐ และผู้แทนภาคเอกชนจากกัมพูชาจำนวน 12 คน ไปร่วมการประชุมครั้งนี้ สำนักข่าวกัมพูชากล่าว</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> สำนักข่าวของรัฐบาลไม่ได้ระบุชนิดของข้าวหอมที่ส่งเข้าประกวด แต่ตามรายงานของสื่อทางการก่อนหน้านี้ กัมพูชาปลูกข้าวคุณภาพดีอยู่ 2 ชนิด คือ ข้าวหอมดอกลำดวน (ที่นิยมปลูกกันมากใน จ.ศรีสะเกษ) กับ “ข้าวดอกมะลิ” ที่นำเมล็ดพันธุ์ไปจากประเทศไทย</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> สื่อของทางการรายงานในขณะเดียวกันว่า 3 ไตรมาสที่ผ่านมา กัมพูชาส่งออกข้าวได้เพิ่มขึ้น 2% เทียบกับช่วงเดียวกันปีที่แล้ว นายจอม ประสิทธิ์ รัฐมนตรีอาวุโส ซึ่งเป็นรัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการค้า เปิดเผยตัวเลขนี้ในที่ประชุมเรื่องข้าว (Rice Forum) ที่จัดขึ้นในกรุงพนมเปญเป็นครั้งที่ 2 สัปดาห์ที่แล้ว</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> จนถึงปลายเดือน ก.ย.กัมพูชาส่งออกข้าวสารได้ทั้งหมด 123,000 ตัน กับข้าวเปลือกอีก 167,000 ตัน หรือคิดเป็นข้าวสารรวมกันประมาณ 180,000 ตัน เพิ่มขึ้น 2% เทียบกับช่วง 9 เดือนของปี 2554 นายประสิทธิ์กล่าว</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> รัฐมนตรีผู้เรียกร้องไปยังภาคส่วนต่างๆ ให้ขยายการส่งออกให้มากยิ่งขึ้น เพื่อให้เป็นไปตามเป้าหมายส่งข้าวออกอย่างน้อยปีละ 1 ล้านตันในปี 2558 นี้ สำนักข่าวของทางการกล่าว.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; 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ข้าว หอมมะลิไทยเคยเป็นหน้าเป็นตาข้าวไทย จนครั้งหนึ่งรัฐบาลสมัยนั้นคิดจะสร้างเป็นแบรนด์ระดับโลกด้วยเครดิตที่เคย เป็นแชมป์ข้าวคุณภาพดีมีรสชาติอร่อยที่สุดในโลก 2 ปีซ้อน แต่เมื่อตุลาฯปีที่แล้วในการประชุมข้าวโลกที่เวียดนาม ข้าวหอมมะลิต้องเสียแชมป์ครั้งแรกให้กับข้าวพม่าชื่อ "เพิร์ล พอว์ ซาน" ซึ่งมีขนาด 5-5.5 มิลลิเมตร แต่มหัศจรรย์ตรงที่เวลาหุงเสร็จเมล็ดข้าวจะพองขึ้นจากเดิม 3-4 เท่า และรสชาติหอม
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กรรมการตัดสินยังบอกว่า "ข้าวที่โดดเด่นและได้รับการยอมรับว่ามีรสชาติดีที่สุดในโลกคือ "ข้าวหอมมะลิไทย" แต่ปีนี้ข้าวหอมมะลิไทยกลับพลาดตำแหน่งไปเช่นเดียวกับข้าวพันธุ์ สีดำสายพันธุ์ "เวเรนา" จากอิตาลี <br />
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ในปีนี้ประชุมที่บาหลี อินโดนีเซีย ปรากฏว่าข้าวจากกัมพูชาได้รับการยกย่องเป็นข้าวคุณภาพดีที่สุด รายงานระบุว่ากัมพูชามีข้าวคุณภาพดีอยู่สองชนิดคือ "ข้าวหอมดอกลำดวน" ที่นิยมปลูกในศรีสะเกษ และ "ข้าวดอกมะลิ" ที่นำเมล็ดพันธุ์ไปจากไทย<br />
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ขนาดเอาพันธุ์ไปจากเราแท้ๆ กลับพัฒนาพันธุ์ดีกว่าต้นตำรับ<br />
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ชะตา กรรมข้าวหอมมะลิไทยอยู่ในขาลงจริงๆ เสียแชมป์คุณภาพข้าวไม่พอ ยังส่อแววเสียแชมป์ส่งออกอีกด้วย รายงานระบุว่าในรอบ 9 เดือนนี้ไทยส่งออกข้าวหอมมะลิ 8 แสนตันขณะเวียดนามส่งออกกว่า 7 แสนตัน <br />
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ขณะ ที่ภาพรวมการส่งออกข้าวของไทยปีนี้เป็นที่แน่นอน จะต้องจะเสียแชมป์ให้อินเดียที่เพิ่งกลับมาส่งออกและเวียดนาม ส่วนไทยแชมป์เก่าร่วงรูดมาอยู่อันดับสาม<br />
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อย่างไรก็ตามข้าวหอมมะลิไทย เสียแชมป์นั้นไม่เกินความคาดหมาย ตั้งแต่ได้เแชมป์มาไม่ได้ใส่ใจทำวิจัยหรือพัฒนาคุณภาพให้ดีขึ้น ปล่อยให้พม่า กัมพูชา แย่งแชมป์ไปได้ <br />
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ยิ่งมีนโยบายรับซื้อ ข้าวทุกเมล็ด ยิ่งกระตุ้นชาวนาเร่งปลูกโดยเน้นปริมาณมากกว่าคุณภาพ ถึงอย่างไรรัฐบาลก็รับซื้อทั้งหมดอยู่แล้ว ไม่ต้องใส่ใจคุณภาพ ไม่สนใจพัฒนาพันธุ์ให้ดีขึ้น<br />
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เคยมีผู้ใหญ่เล่าให้ฟังว่า เมื่อสองสามปีก่อนได้ร่วมคณะพ่อค้าเดินทางไปเจรจาขายข้าวในประเทศหนึ่งใน แอฟริกา ซึ่งเป็นช่วงหาเสียงเลือกตั้งประธานาธิบดี แทบไม่เชื่อพรรครัฐบาลมีนโยบายหาเสียงว่าหากได้รับเลือกจะให้ประชาชนได้กิน ข้าวหอมมะลิ<br />
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ในที่สุดพรรครัฐบาลได้รับเลือกจริงๆ ไม่รู้ว่าเลือกตั้งครั้งหน้า ใช้นโยบายข้าวหอมมะลิได้ผลหรือเปล่า Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-49566262736887643772012-08-20T15:57:00.001+07:002012-09-12T15:47:09.102+07:00Implementation of China-Cambodia of the two signed agreements<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><i>The Commercial News</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the rice trade contract signed by August 2012, between AKR and COFCO as to promote the China-Cambodia bilateral economic and trade cooperative relations, especially in response to the desire of the Cambodia's rice exports to China, the first 100 tons of rice with 5kg and 2 kg packaging was successfully shipped out to China under the full support by CCIC (China Certification & Inspection Group) on rice inspection and certification.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(CCIC) China Certification & Inspection Group is a subsidiary of one of China's State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine ("AQSIQ)" inspection, identification, certification, testing "as the main industry of independent third-party inspection and certification bodies in the country's various ports of China has CCIC companies in the international reputation, the most influential integrated, cross-border inspection and certification bodies, CCIC Cambodia Co., Ltd. </span></div>
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Sopheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14573873665631343219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-67125631846356472972012-05-21T15:26:00.002+07:002012-05-21T15:26:45.229+07:00Neang Malis registered: now unauthorised trading is illegal<br />
Protecting wide spreading low quality fragrant rice trading in Cambodia<br />
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By Sophea<br />
May 21, 2012<br />
<br />Phnom Penh – Angkor Kasekam Roonroeung, a leading rice exporter, has secured all the right for the name of “Neang Malis”, says Adisorn Chieu, the company director.<br />
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Neang Malis is a special name Angkor Kasekam Roonroeung uses for the rice breed that is grown under the company since year 2000. “This rice have been carefully developed and purified by us with our contract farming members for more than 10 years, but lately some dishonest rice trader just simply use “Neang Malis” name to confuse the rice buyers” Adisorn said in the interview.<br />
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Angkor Rice has been exporting rice for more than 10 years, and has been a pioneer to bring the Cambodian rice taste to the world rice consumer. The philosophy of producing Neang Malis is to use pure rice breed without mixing with other type of seed. The rice processing cycle is strictly controlled by Angkor Rice which no one in the rice industry is able to do. <br />
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But since the booming of the rice industry in Cambodia, a number of rice investors has been using Neang Malis name but pack it with low quality rice and sell to foreign rice traders. “This is destroying the Cambodian rice reputation and bringing the whole industry standard down, the same thing happens to the Thai fragrant rice industry where a lot of traders mix their product with low grade rice and sell as Hom Mali Rice” he added.Kareinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06540490495187976293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-13035583670645068432012-05-09T22:47:00.004+07:002012-05-10T16:56:59.324+07:00NHK's Asia In View: Cambodia's Rice Pride<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZjX4glzIy90" width="420"></iframe>
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On Air : 16 March 2012
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Produced by : NHKAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16852986839939558621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871645925878571651.post-4752255137741409492012-04-19T15:37:00.002+07:002012-04-19T15:42:56.282+07:00Angkor Rice Standard 2011<span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">We are publishing "Angkor Rice Standard 2011" in our website. This is to promote extensive rice trading from Cambodia to oversea.</span></span><br /><br /><span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">Our rice standard, 2011 version, is very similar to the Thai Rice standard. </span></span><br /><br /><span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">You can access to this rice standard at the link below.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkpaAbOdLKxldE5kQ3kwVUdRellkRjRqTmtmV1hBbmc" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkpaAbOdLKxldE5kQ3kwVUdRellkRjRqTmtmV1hBbmc</a><br /><br /><iframe width='420' height='300' frameborder='0' src='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AkpaAbOdLKxldE5kQ3kwVUdRellkRjRqTmtmV1hBbmc&single=true&gid=0&output=html&widget=true'></iframe>AKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16852986839939558621noreply@blogger.com