Rice in the Tropics
Rice in the Tropics

Author: Robert Flint Chandler

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0891583629

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The importance of rive as a world crops, and its principal characteristics. The modern rice plant and the new technology: Greater potentials for rice production in the tropics. Problems of postharvest technology. Rice marketing. Some successful rice production programs. Promising rice research. Elements of a successful accelerated rice production program. A national rice program: putting the ingredients together.

Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia
Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia

Author: Paul H. Kratoska

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781349269396

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The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945 brought with it severe food shortages, largely arising from organizational failures and inadequate transportation. the nine essays in this volume examine the situation in food exporting countries such as Burma, Thailand and Vietnam, in food deficit areas such as Malaya, the Philippines and Java, and in Sarawak which was largely self-sufficient. Two essays examine in detail the famine that struck the Tonkin area of northern Vietnam in 1945.

Rice Market Liberalization and Poverty in Viet Nam
Rice Market Liberalization and Poverty in Viet Nam

Author: Nicholas Minot

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 0896291170

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Rice production an policy context; Structure and performance of Rice markets; Food Demand and Calorie Consumption; Poverty and Rice Prices; Impact of Further liberalization of Rice markets; Conclusions and policy implications; Methods to analyze market integration; Derivation of Welfare Measures; Foreign demand elasticity for Vietnamese Rice; Description of the Viet Nam Agricultural Spatial equilibrium Model.