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Question:

1.What country is the second largest exporter of rice?
How much rice does it export annually?

Answer

Thailand is the world's top exporter of rice, while Vietnam is the second largest. Thailand is also the world's leading exporter of canned pineapple, canned tuna, rubber, chilled fish and prawns.

URL

1. http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/may/06quiz.htm

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Question:

2.What country is the largest importer of rice?
How much does it intend to import in
the next few months to address the coming rice crises?

Answer

The Philippine is considered as an agricultural
country but it is theworld top importer of rice.
Currently the country is importing 2.2 million tons ofrice every year (source:goldsea.com).

URL

1. http://philippinetambayan.com/2008/03/28/
philippines-is-the-world-top-importer-of-rice/

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Question:

3.What percentage of total rice exporter to Africa comes from Asia?
How much is it worth annually?

Answer

1. Africa imports more than one-third of the rice traded in the world.

2. The region imports 40 percent of its rice supplies, accounting for a third of the rice traded in global markets..

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Each Answer has their own Source:

1. http://www.panapress.com/freenews.asp?code=eng041030&dte=23/05/2008
2. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,
contentMDK:21844287~menuPK:258657~pagePK:2865106~piPK:2865128~
theSitePK:258644,00.html

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Question:

4. In 1910,150 glaciers dotted the Glaciers National
Park
in Montana, USA. How many
are there now?

Answer

The Montana park has 26 named glaciers today, down from 150 in 1850.

URL

1. http://www.livescience.com/
environment/060324_glacier_melt.html

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Question:

5.What is Europe’s biggest glacier?

Why is it breaking up?

What are the consequence if it breaks up?

Answer

1. GLASGOW, Scotland -- Europe's largest

glacier is on the verge of breaking up as a
result of increased temperatures, experts say.

2. Researchers' discovery of the imminent
destruction of this gigantic river of ice
demonstrates starkly that global warming
is now making a serious impact on the northern
hemisphere, threatening to melt ice caps and
raise sea levels round the world.

3. The break-up of Breidamerkurjökull
also threatens to destroy a key Icelandic beauty spot.

URL

Each answers have their own sources:

1. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/
10/23/iceland.glacier/index.html

2. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/102200-01.htm
3. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/102200-01.htm

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