Worse, the cyclone, which hit Myanmar's main rice-growing areas, may intensify the worldwide panic over rice supplies, which has already led to food riots in many countries (see article).
Kahang, which produces rice, vegetables, fruits, herbs and seafood, has tours of its rice fields, prawn harvests and wild duck sanctuary.
Not least of the factors making for dissension among the Indonesian islands has been the ratio at which rice, in which Java is usually self-sufficient, exchanges for the products of the normally rice-deficient outer islands.
Meanwhile, the relative price of corn (maize) to rice, which is much more favoured, has jumped by half.
The recent decrease in rainfall has occurred during the country's dry season, and has thus affected only the second rice crop, which accounts for a fifth of the total in a normal year.
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Dr. RICE: Well, I certainly hope that the Congress - which has frankly, for years, in a bipartisan passion, led the way on all matters related to Sudan, including Darfur - will continue to pressure the administration, and in fact, step up the pressure.
Dr Singleton has noticed, for example, that some rats have reproductive cycles which are synchronised to rice-crop cycles.
Indeed, Ms Rice has scolded Arab leaders for using the issue as a shield behind which to hide their own defects.
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Rice has long advocated for increased transparency and lower costs for participants in governmental defined contribution plans which operate similarly to 401(k)s.
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The storm has at least brought the rain to beleaguered rice farmers, but it also heralds the hurricane season which lasts till December.
And now Mike Rice has failed integrity standards that coaches must exude as educators in the face of immense financial pressures which surround Division I revenue sports.
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