May 2, 2008

1. Wide of Philippines President Gloria Arroyo being given a tour of the International Rice Research Institute (I
RRI)
2. Mid of Arroyo (in hat and sunglasses) dur
ing...

English/Nat

Scientists in the Philippines are developing a strain of rice which will yield a bigger, better and quicker harvest to meet the needs of an increasing population in the 21st...

Phillipino researchers claim to have bred a new, highly productive strain of rice. The Philippines based International Rice Research Organisation claims that yields could be up to 25 percent higher than traditional...

Following the Fukushima disaster, the former Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, is expected to appear as a witness before the Nuclear Accident...

LEADIN:

Cambodia's first commercial drone company is promising farmers higher yields if they embrace new technolo
gy.
However...

LEADIN:

Cambodia's first commercial drone company is promising farmers higher yields if they embrace new technolo
gy.
However...

FILE - Yunnan, China - September 1, 2001

1. Wide shot of rice f
ields
2. Close up on rice worker harve
sting rice
3. Workers
harvesting rice
4. Man carrying bucke
ts of...

Cuttak, Orissa, India, Recent, 2009

1. Close up of paddy
crop
2. Shift focus shot of
paddy crop
3. Various of different varietie
s of paddy crop
4. Wide of scientist...

FILE: Tekani, Rangpur Division - 22 May 2013

1. Female villagers carrying
soil
2. Various of villagers carrying bags of harv
ested rice
3. Villager Mosammat Aluma...

New York, US, July 17, 2013

1. Various of beauty therapist Shizuka Bernstein applying bird droppings fa
cial
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shizuka Bernstein, proprietor, Shizuk
a New...

St. Marc - 22 January 2011

1. Wide of Doctors Without Borders cl
inic
2. Mid of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) sign at
the door
3. Wide of clini
c...

This chunk of timber is the highly valued Burmese Padauk. Workers from Myanmar are working in the border town of Ruili to chop, and...

Puerto Rico is going through something of an agricultural renaissance as new farms spring up across the island, supplying an increasing number of farmers' markets and restaurants demanding fresher produce. Agriculture has become one of...

AP Television

Henan Province, China - 22 Sept,
2009
1. Mid of bedridden Ji Xiaoyan while hooked up on electrotherap
y...

Jakarta, 5 May 2008

1. Wide of Indonesian trade minister Marie Pangestu in inte
rview
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marie Pangestu, Indonesian Trade
Minister:
"We (ASEAN trade ministers) agreed...

1. Wide of musicians playing trumpets

2. Procession of sacred
oxen
3. Wide of soothsayers and officia
ls walking
4. Various of ban
d playing music
5. Thai Crown Prince
Maha Vajiralongkorn<
br/>6....

Bern, Switzerland - 29 April 2008

1. Wide of United Nations General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon giving news confe
rence
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban Ki-moon, General-Secretary of the Unit
ed...

1. Various of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon sitting and talking with Myanmar official

2. Ban and officials walking through l
obby
3. Exterior of confer
ence venue
4....

English/Nat

Up in the Ifugao Province in the northern Philippines stands what has been one of the country's pride for thousands of years - the Banaue rice terr
aces.
Today the...

People often see six-legged insects as pests, exotic and something they would never put on their plates...but the United Nations Food and Agriculture...

Rice to feed a nation and a river system to transport it: The Tone River was the basis of Sawara's early prosperity. Located 70 kilometres east of Tokyo, the town is known today for its canals, shrines...

Scientists in Indonesia have come up with an artificial rice.

The food substitute could prove to be vital in the future as Indonesians reportedly eat...

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New Delhi - 6 February 2010

1. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arriving at the Chief Ministers'' meeting on price
rises
2. Wide of delegates taking t
heir seats

3. Wide of hall

4....