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Cash prizes await winners of rice photo, stamp design tilts

July 25, 2004 - 12:00am

Cash prizes and citations await winners in two contests launched as among the activities celebrating International Year of Rice (IYR) 2004. The ongoing tilts are the photo and national stamp design contents. Deadline...

Agriculture

Rice is life

By Lilybeth G. Ison | July 11, 2004 - 12:00am

The United Nations has declared 2004 as the International Year of Rice with the theme "Rice is Life." First proposed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and then endorsed and supported...

Real Estate

RICE IS LIFE

By Rocel Felix | December 14, 2003 - 12:00am

Rice, the world’s major staple, and the Philippines’ most socially-sensitive commodity, is getting much-deserved focus. The "2004 International Year of Rice" was kicked off yesterday by the...

Agriculture

UN okays 2004 as International Year of Rice

By Rudy A. Fernandez | March 28, 2003 - 12:00am

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Upon the proposal of the Philippine government and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) here, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has declared 2004 as International...

Business