Tests Show Levels of Arsenic in US Rice Two hundred different types of rice and rice products tested by both the non-profit research group, Consumer Reports, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA], contained varying levels of different forms...
Agriculture Report - Rice Production Grows, but Not Everywhere This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations is expecting the world to harvest more rice in twenty twelve than was produced last year. The UNs Food and Agricultu...
Scientists Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice Scientists are developing a salt-resistant variety of rice. The move was prompted, in part, by last year's Japan tsunami, which flooded some 20,000 hectares of rice paddies. The rice varieties Japanese farmers...
AMERICAN STORIES - Science Fiction: 'A Princess of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Part 4) BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Welcome to the fourth and last part of our program, A Princess of Mars. The story is fro...
American Stories - Science Fiction: A Princess of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Part 2) BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the VOA Special English program, American Stories. (MUSIC) Last week we brought you the first of four programs called A Princess of Mars. Our s...
American Stories - Science Fiction: 'A Princess of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burrough (Part 1) BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the Special English program, American Stories. (MUSIC) Today, we begin a new series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The bo...
WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Rice originated(起源) in China, a team of U.S. genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary（进化的） history through large-scale gene re-sequencing. Their findings,...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – April 23, 2002: Genetic Map of Rice By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Scientists have identified almost all the genes found in rice. Two teams p...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – April 16, 2002: New Rice For West Africa By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. A new kind of rice is coming to West Africa. The new rice is said to...
Broadcast: January 7, 2003 By Mario Ritter This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rice is the world's most important crop. Much has been done to increase its productivity. Modern genetic...
