Rice exports
post 10.78 percent increase in four months
Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:22
Posted
by Imaduddin
ISLAMABAD: Rice exports from the country during
first four months of current financial year posted 10.78 percent growth as
compared to the exports of corresponding period of last year.During the period
from July-October, 2015 about 898,603 metric tons of rice worth US$ 339.92
million exported as against exports of 657,420 metric tons valuing US$ 306.89
million in same period last year.According the data of Pakistan Bureau of
Statistics, rice exports on month basis also grew by 24 percent during the
month of October as compared to same month of last year.During the month of
October about 347,685 metric tons of rice worth US$121.66 million was exported
as compared to 22,948 metric tons valuing US$ 9.493 million of same month last
year.However, the data reveled that exports of basmati rice decreased by 31.22
percent in first four months of current financial year and reached at 131,160
metric tons from 174,191 metric tons of same period of last financial year.
During the period under review, country managed
to earned US$ 145.43 million by exporting the basmati rice as against US$
11.319 million of same period last year, it added.Meanwhile, wheat exports
registered 100 percent increase as about 1,061 metric tons of wheat were exported
during the period from July-October, 2015 and earned US$ 0.220 million.The data
revealed that vegetable exports during last four months has also witnessed an
increase of 89 percent as the country was able to export 195,659 metric tons of
fish vegetables of different kind and fetched US$56.779 million for the
country.The vegetable exports during first four months of last financial year
was recorded at 85,420 metric tons valuing US$ 28.689 million, the data
revealed.During the period from July-October, 2015, meat and meat preparations
exports grew by 36.32 percent about 25,925 metric tons of meat and meat
products worth US$ 90.218 million exported, it added.
Meat and meat preparation exports from country
was recorded at 21,433 metric tons valuing US$ 66.183 million in first four
months of last financial year, the data said.However, overall food group
exports from the country during first four months remained to declining trend
as it reduced by 8.17 percent as compared to same period of last year.During the
period under review, food exports came down from US$ 1.205 billion to US$ 1.107
billion as exports of some items including rice basmati,fish and fish
preparations, fruits and leguminous recorded negative growth in their
exports.It may be recalled here that food group imports in country decreased by
12.89 percent as compared to same period of last year which were recorded at US
$1.705 billion as compared to the imports of $1.954 billion in July-October
(2014-15).The food imports on year-on-year basis also decreased by 3.42 percent
from $524.363 million in October 2014 to $506.438 million in October 2015.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan),
2015
Asia rice prices high in Vietnam on tight supply
Wednesday, 25
November 2015 17:14
Posted by
Imaduddin
HANOI: Asian rice markets saw little movement
over the past week due to thin demand, while tight supply kept prices high in
Vietnam and purchases by China and some Middle East clients failed to move up
Thai prices, traders said on Wednesday.The rice export markets in Thailand and
Vietnam, the world's second and third biggest exporters of the grain after
India, could stay quiet until early 2016 as most demand has been met before the
holidays, traders said."Vietnamese prices are high and they won't decrease
as supply is tight," said a trader in Ho Chi Minh City.Vietnam's 5-percent
broken grain has been idle over the past month at $375-$380 a tonne,
free-on-board (FOB) Saigon Port, while the 25-percent broken grain fell to
$360-$365 a tonne from $362-$365 a tonne a week ago.
The next harvest is due to start in late February
2016 in the southern Mekong Delta food basket.Prices have been firm due to
tight supply, especially of the 15-percent broken rice bought by Indonesia in a
deal involving 1 million tonnes, traders said.Rising rice prices following
Vietnam's sales to the Philippines and Indonesia have contributed to a 0.31
percent gain in the country's November food prices, the first month-on-month
rise since February 2015, the government said.China, the biggest buyer of
Vietnamese rice, imported 199,350 tonnes from its southern neighbour in
October, up 81 percent from a year ago, Chinese customs data shows.This brought
China's total purchases from Vietnam in the first 10 months of 2015 to nearly
1.6 million tonnes, up 42 percent from a year ago.
Overall, Vietnam's rice exports in
January-November rose 3.6 percent from a year ago to 6.24 million tonnes, the
Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday.China and several buyers in the Middle
East have also been buying small lots of Thai rice, traders said.Thai 5-percent
broken grain was unchanged at $360-$365 on Wednesday, FOB basis."All the
rice needed for holidays like Christmas and New Year's Day has already been
bought months earlier," said a trader in Bangkok, adding that the sale
slump was expected to last until early January 2016.In another development,
Indonesia was expected to sign a memorandum of understanding soon with Pakistan
on rice imports, the Jakarta Post reported last Thursday without giving any
details on price or volume.
http://www.brecorder.com/markets/commodities/asia/263722-asia-rice-prices-high-in-vietnam-on-tight-supply.html
Kerala
scientists develop saltwater-tolerant paddy
saltol jyothi, the new variety of
saltwater-tolerant paddy developed by scientists at the rice research station,
vyttila in kochi.cientists at the rice research
station of kerala agricultural university (kau) at vyttila have developed a new
variety of paddy tolerant to saline intrusion, a major challenge faced by
farmers in the lowlands.the landmark achievement in rice research was made
possible by the introduction of genes tolerant to salinity and iron toxicity
into jyothi, kerala’s most popular rice variety. the project which began in
2008 involved the incorporation of the saltol gene present in pokkali, the most
saline tolerant rice variety in the world, into jyothi.
thus jyothi, known for its superior
grain quality, yet restricted by the lack of saline tolerance, has become
suitable for pokkali fields, kuttanad and kolelands as well, according to the
researchers.the scientists used the introgressive hybridisation technique to
move the saltol gene from pokkali to the gene pool of jyothi. the project was
part of a long-term programme initiated by kau for the development of
stress-tolerant rice varieties for less favourable environments. the saltol
gene is the donor for salinity-tolerant rice breeding programmes all over the
world.“the attempt to introduce saltol into jyothi has borne fruit after seven
years of research. the introgressed jyothi lines have recorded a very high
yield of 6.2 tonnes per hectare,” said p. rajendran, kau vice-chancellor.v.
sreekumar, professor and head, rrs, vyttila, said the introgressed jyothi
variety was suitable for cultivation in the eastern and western coastal areas
of the indian peninsula.
the research team is now working on
the introduction of a submergent tolerant gene (sabl) into jyothi, to make the
rice variety resistant to flash floods up to two weeks.the work is in the final
stage, he said. submergence is another major challenge faced by farmers in the
lowlands.shylaraj, who piloted the research work, said that introgressing the
saline tolerant gene into jyothi was achieved through the marker assisted
backcross breeding (mabb) technique.
kerala agricultural university scientists used
introgressive hybridisation method to achieve this
Association decries rise in rice smuggling
By Damilola Ajadi on November 26, 2015 5:12 am
Bags Of RiceTHE Association of Local Growers and Legal
Importers of Rice has raised the alarm over high level of smuggling of the
product into Nigeria.Chairman of the association, Alhaji Habilu Maishinkafa,
noted that there were reports of hundreds of trailers coming into the country
with expired rice, which he said were dangerous to the health of Nigerians.He
called on the Nigerian Customs Service and the National Agency for Food and
Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) to take urgent steps to stem the rising
wave of rice smuggling into the country.
Maishinkafa noted that with the present tariff of 70
percent, legal importers would not be able to compete with the smugglers who
enjoyed free ride into the nation’s market and coupled with the negligible
tariffs in the neighbouring countries.Recently, the National Rice Millers
Association of Nigeria (NRMAN) complained that the Nigerian
Customs Service erred in its decision to lift the ban on importation of rice
through the land borders.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/11/association-decries-rise-in-rice-smuggling/
Mars' sustainable rice standard more than crop-ticking
exercise
exercise
By Ben Cooper | 26 November 2015
Uncle Ben's owner Mars will only source
"sustainable" rice by 2020
Recent years have seen the launch of numerous
sustainability standards and initiatives across various agricultural
commodities. Ben Cooper assesses the significance of the new standard for
sustainable rice, launched by the Sustainable Rice Platform and Mars Inc.Such
is the attention being paid by food companies to agricultural supply chains, it
is tempting to regard the Sustainable Rice Platform's (SRP) new standard for
sustainable rice, given a high-profile launch last month, as one more
initiative, another crop ticked by a major food company and covered by a
multi-stakeholder sustainable sourcing programme.
But it is arguably far more significant than
that.There are a host of reasons why this first step to standardise – and
notably equalise upwards – environmental and social standards under which rice
is cultivated and sourced globally is a landmark event.Rice supports the
livelihoods of around 150m farmers globally and is the staple food source for
more than 2bn people. Moreover, unlike some other commodities that have become
subject to multi-stakeholder sustainability initiatives, rice is predominantly
consumed as a staple food crop in the world.
http://www.just-food.com/analysis/mars-sustainable-rice-standard-more-than-crop-ticking-exercise_id131789.aspx
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