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                    [Title] => Cash prizes await winners of rice photo, stamp design tilts
                    [Summary] => 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 for the photo contest has been moved to Aug. 17 while that of the stamp design contest has been reset to Aug. 20. Entries in both contests should revolve around the IYR 2004 theme "Rice is Life".
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First proposed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and then endorsed and supported by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Philippines, the International Year of Rice celebrates not only the cultural and culinary importance of rice, but also seeks to highlight the major challenges still facing one of the world’s most vital industries, an industry that feeds almost three billion daily and employs hundreds of millions more.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462159 [AuthorName] => Lilybeth G. Ison [SectionName] => Real Estate [SectionUrl] => real-estate [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231584 [Title] => RICE IS LIFE [Summary] => 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 Department of Agriculture (DA) with other agencies such as the Philippine-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) which provides valuable researches on improved rice varieties and production to more more than 90 countries worldwide.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200604 [Title] => UN okays 2004 as International Year of Rice [Summary] => 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 Year of Rice (IYR).

The IYR will be the most important event in Asia in 2004, said Duncan Macintosh, head of IRRI’s Visitors and Information Services.

IYR, he added, will bring nations together to focus attention on the role that rice plays in providing food security and in eradicating poverty.
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                    [Title] => Cash prizes await winners of rice photo, stamp design tilts
                    [Summary] => 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 for the photo contest has been moved to Aug. 17 while that of the stamp design contest has been reset to Aug. 20. Entries in both contests should revolve around the IYR 2004 theme "Rice is Life".
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 257136 [Title] => Rice is life [Summary] => 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 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Philippines, the International Year of Rice celebrates not only the cultural and culinary importance of rice, but also seeks to highlight the major challenges still facing one of the world’s most vital industries, an industry that feeds almost three billion daily and employs hundreds of millions more.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462159 [AuthorName] => Lilybeth G. Ison [SectionName] => Real Estate [SectionUrl] => real-estate [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231584 [Title] => RICE IS LIFE [Summary] => 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 Department of Agriculture (DA) with other agencies such as the Philippine-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) which provides valuable researches on improved rice varieties and production to more more than 90 countries worldwide.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200604 [Title] => UN okays 2004 as International Year of Rice [Summary] => 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 Year of Rice (IYR).

The IYR will be the most important event in Asia in 2004, said Duncan Macintosh, head of IRRI’s Visitors and Information Services.

IYR, he added, will bring nations together to focus attention on the role that rice plays in providing food security and in eradicating poverty.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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