Tracking the 'Cedar Pollen Front'

The Annual Japanese Agony of Cedar Pollen

Image from Flickr user Tam Tam.

The map below shows the progression of the cedar pollen front or sugi kafun zensen (スギ花粉前線) across the country. Is your runny nose from a cold?

It isn't flowers that cause hay fever in Japan. The culprit is pollen from trees, in particular the Japanese cedar or sugi (杉, Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese cypress or hinoki (檜, Chamaecyparis obtusa).

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(b) In Asia and the Pacific, the development of hybrid rice, rice biotechnology and rice integrated crop management systems as well as the diversification of the mono rice systems

This is how we cook rice.

Did you taste the rice?

A Golden Rice Opportunity

(Millions of United States dollars)

Rice is used to make a number of items, outside of the traditional bowl of plain white rice.

A tree has fallen. A mighty tree has fallen!

Even Korea and Japan maintain massive duties on imported rice simply to protect the livelihoods of their own rice farmers.

In Indian cooking, the leaf is added whole to biryani, a kind of rice pilaf, made with ordinary rice (as opposed to that made with the premium grade Basmati rice).

I eat a lot of rice.

Now, it imports rice.

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This is extraordinary. Because rice get this rice is known to have 38 thousand genes.

The Rice Cultivators' Association of Uruguay published a special issue on El Arroz en el Mundo to commemorate the Year.

(e) In the Near East, the development of hybrid rice and water efficient rice integrated crop management systems.

(e) World Rice Research Conference To help provide solutions to the many challenges facing the rice industry, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries organized the World Rice Research Conference.

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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) reintroduced more than 750 traditional rice varieties to Cambodia from its rice seed bank in the Philippines.

(a) In Africa, the development of wetlands for the production of NERICA and improved rice varieties, and improvement of input accessibility

In the Cedars the ski slopes opened today.

This is reminiscent of the defiance of the Supreme Court stay order in September 2004 on iron ore that was shipped from Buchanan port over a period of six months.

In view of the recent exposure of rice containing excessive levels of cadmium, rice pollution has become the focus of attention for the whole country.

The land, accounting for 13 percent of the country's rice fields, will become ruins.

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

Reacting to the online debate about rice versus sugar, the HPB clarified that it s not asking people to stop eating rice or that rice alone is the cause of diabetes.

National and international trade and book fairs were used as grounds for promoting rice marketing and nutrition, stimulating interest in various rice technologies, disseminating information to the general public and increasing awareness of the role and importance of rice as a staple food.

The Price of Saving a Tree

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In Malaysia, farmers' associations celebrated the Year with the launching of the 10 Tonne Club for rice farmers, while the Myanmar International Year of Rice Committee published three books Varieties of Rice, Rice Culture and Rice Research Activities.

Japanese media tracks and reports on the pollen season each year in much the same way it reports on the blooming of the cherry blossoms.

And toward the end, he said, If you would know the pine tree, go to the pine tree.

A bowl of white rice in a restaurant in Singapore.