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Vietnam’s rice exports to
crash to 8-year low in 2016
By VnExpress
November 21, 2016 | 12:02 pm GMT+7
A woman packs rice into bags at a factory in
Tri Thuy village, outside Hanoi. Photo by Reuters
The country’s rice exports
could plummet by 27 percent this year. The Vietnam Food Association has revised
down its full-year forecast for rice exports twice this year, attributing the
downturn to a lack of demand from key markets and Thailand’s sales of its
massive stockpiles.Export volume, including sales across the border to top
buyer China, is projected to fall by more than 2 million tons from last year’s
6.56 million tons, the Saigon Times cited industry experts as saying.Meanwhile, India and Thailand,
which are Vietnam’s main competitors in the global market, have performed well
so far this year. Vietnam is the world's third-largest rice exporter after
India and Thailand.
India, which overtook Thailand as the world's
largest rice exporter in 2015, shipped about 8.1 million tons in the first 10
months of the year, down 9.9 from the same period last year. Thailand exported
6.9 million ton of rice, up 3.7 percent on-year.
According to industry experts, after Thailand
announced plans to clear its state stockpiles, estimated at around 9 million
tons in August, Vietnamese rice has become less competitive in major markets
across Asia.
Customs data shows that from January–October,
Vietnam’s rice exports to the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, which
account for 40 percent of its total annual volume, slumped 42.2 percent to
940,000 tons.
Another key factor is that Vietnam has long
been focused on quantity rather than quality, which has actually backfired on
the country’s rice exports.Vietnamese rice exporters are also faced with the
risk of being banned from the United State after a series of pesticide residue
scandals.
Between January 2012 and August 2016, 412
containers or 10,000 tons of rice shipped from Vietnam to the U.S. were
returned due to hygiene and safety issues, statistics from the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) show.The FDA said it found eight active chemicals in
the Vietnamese rice shipments above the permissible limits set by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
http://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/vietnam-s-rice-exports-to-crash-to-8-year-low-in-2016-3502019.html
Rice farming in India much older
than thought, used as ‘summer crop’ by Indus civilization
Latest research on archaeological sites of the ancient Indus
Civilisation, which stretched across what is now Pakistan and northwest India
during the Bronze Age, has revealed that domesticated rice farming in South
Asia began far earlier than previously believed, and may have developed in
tandem with – rather than as a result of – rice domestication in China.
LATEST RESEARCH ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES OF THE ANCIENT
INDUS CIVILISATION, WHICH STRETCHED ACROSS WHAT IS NOW PAKISTAN AND NORTHWEST
INDIA DURING THE BRONZE AGE, HAS REVEALED THAT DOMESTICATED RICE FARMING IN
SOUTH ASIA BEGAN FAR EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED, AND MAY HAVE DEVELOPED
IN TANDEM WITH – RATHER THAN AS A RESULT OF – RICE DOMESTICATION IN CHINA.
The research also confirms that
Indus populations were the earliest people to use complex multi-cropping
strategies across both seasons, growing foods during summer (rice, millets and
beans) and winter (wheat, barley and pulses), which required different watering
regimes. The findings suggest a network of regional farmers supplied assorted
produce to the markets of the civilisation’s ancient cities.
Evidence for very early rice use
has been known from the site of Lahuradewa in the central Ganges basin, but it
has long been thought that domesticated rice agriculture didn’t reach South
Asia until towards the end of the Indus era, when the wetland rice arrived from
China around 2000 BC. Researchers found evidence of domesticated rice in South
Asia as much as 430 years earlier.
The new research is published today in the journals Antiquity and Journal of Archaeological
Science by researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Division of
Archaeology, in collaboration with colleagues at Banaras Hindu University and
the University of Oxford.
The Land, Water, Settlement project excavations in northwest
India.CREDIT
Cameron Petrie
Cameron Petrie
“We found evidence for an entirely separate domestication
process in ancient South Asia, likely based around the wild species Oryza nivara. This led to the local development of a mix of ‘wetland’ and
‘dryland’ agriculture of local Oryza sativa indica rice agriculture before the truly
‘wetland’ Chinese rice, Oryza sativa japonica, arrived around 2000 BC,” says study co-author Dr Jennifer
Bates
“While wetland rice is more
productive, and took over to a large extent when introduced from China, our
findings appear to show there was already a long-held and sustainable culture
of rice production in India as a widespread summer addition to the winter
cropping during the Indus civilisation.”
Co-author Dr Cameron Petrie says
that the location of the Indus in a part of the world that received both summer
and winter rains may have encouraged the development of seasonal crop rotation
before other major civilisations of the time, such as Ancient Egypt and China’s
Shang Dynasty.
“Most contemporary civilisations
initially utilised either winter crops, such as the Mesopotamian reliance on
wheat and barley, or the summer crops of rice and millet in China – producing
surplus with the aim of stockpiling,” says Petrie.
“However, the area inhabited by
the Indus is at a meteorological crossroads, and we found evidence of year-long
farming that predates its appearance in the other ancient river valley civilisations.”
The archaeologists sifted for
traces of ancient grains in the remains of several Indus villages within a few
kilometers of the site called Rakhigari: the most recently excavated of the
Indus cities that may have maintained a population of some 40,000.
As well as the winter staples of
wheat and barley and winter pulses like peas and vetches, they found evidence
of summer crops: including domesticated rice, but also millet and the tropical
beans urad and horsegram, and used radiocarbon dating to provide the first
absolute dates for Indus multi-cropping: 2890-2630 BC for millets and winter
pulses, 2580-2460 BC for horsegram, and 2430-2140 BC for rice.
Millets are a group of small
grain, now most commonly used in birdseed, which Petrie describes as “often
being used as something to eat when there isn’t much else”. Urad beans,
however, are a relative of the mung bean, often used in popular types of Indian
dhal today.
In contrast with evidence from
elsewhere in the region, the village sites around Rakhigari reveal that summer
crops appear to have been much more popular than the wheats of winter.
The researchers say this may have
been down to the environmental variation in this part of the former
civilisation: on the seasonally flooded Ghaggar-Hakra plains where different
rainfall patterns and vegetation would have lent themselves to crop
diversification – potentially creating local food cultures within individual
areas.
This variety of crops may have
been transported to the cities. Urban hubs may have served as melting pots for
produce from regional growers, as well as meats and spices, and evidence for
spices have been found elsewhere in the region.
While they don’t yet know what
crops were being consumed at Rakhigarhi, Jennifer Bates points out that: “It is
certainly possible that a sustainable food economy across the Indus zone was
achieved through growing a diverse range of crops, with choice being influenced
by local conditions.
“It is also possible that there
was trade and exchange in staple crops between populations living in different
regions, though this is an idea that remains to be tested.”
“Such a diverse system was
probably well suited to mitigating risk from shifts in climate,” adds Cameron
Petrie. “It may be that some of today’s farming monocultures could learn from
the local crop diversity of the Indus people 4,000 years ago.”
The findings are the latest from
the Land, Water and Settlement Project, which has been conducting research on
the ancient Indus Civilisation in northwest India since 2008
Rice farming in India much older than thought,
used as 'summer crop' by Indus civilization
Credit: Cameron Petrie
Latest
research on archaeological sites of the ancient Indus Civilisation, which
stretched across what is now Pakistan and northwest India during the Bronze
Age, has revealed that domesticated rice farming in South Asia began far
earlier than previously believed, and may have developed in tandem with -
rather than as a result of - rice domestication in China. The research also confirms that Indus populations were the earliest people to use complex multi-cropping strategies across both seasons, growing foods during summer (rice, millets and beans) and winter (wheat, barley and pulses), which required different watering regimes. The findings suggest a network of regional farmers supplied assorted produce to the markets of the civilisation's ancient cities.
Evidence for very early rice use has been known from the site of Lahuradewa in the central Ganges basin, but it has long been thought that domesticated rice agriculture didn't reach South Asia until towards the end of the Indus era, when the wetland rice arrived from China around 2000 BC. Researchers found evidence of domesticated rice in South Asia as much as 430 years earlier.
The new research is published today in the journals Antiquity and Journal of Archaeological Science by researchers from the University of Cambridge's Division of Archaeology, in collaboration with colleagues at Banaras Hindu University and the University of Oxford.
"We found evidence for an entirely separate domestication process in ancient South Asia, likely based around the wild species Oryza nivara. This led to the local development of a mix of 'wetland' and 'dryland' agriculture of local Oryza sativa indica rice agriculture before the truly 'wetland' Chinese rice, Oryza sativa japonica, arrived around 2000 BC," says study co-author Dr Jennifer Bates
"While wetland rice is more productive, and took over to a large extent when introduced from China, our findings appear to show there was already a long-held and sustainable culture of rice production in India as a widespread summer addition to the winter cropping during the Indus civilisation."
Co-author Dr Cameron Petrie says that the location of the Indus in a part of the world that received both summer and winter rains may have encouraged the development of seasonal crop rotation before other major civilisations of the time, such as Ancient Egypt and China's Shang Dynasty.
"Most contemporary civilisations initially utilised either winter crops, such as the Mesopotamian reliance on wheat and barley, or the summer crops of rice and millet in China - producing surplus with the aim of stockpiling," says Petrie.
"However, the area inhabited by the Indus is at a meteorological crossroads, and we found evidence of year-long farming that predates its appearance in the other ancient river valley civilisations."
The archaeologists sifted for traces of ancient grains in the remains of several Indus villages within a few kilometers of the site called Rakhigari: the most recently excavated of the Indus cities that may have maintained a population of some 40,000.
As well as the winter staples of wheat and barley and winter pulses like peas and vetches, they found evidence of summer crops: including domesticated rice, but also millet and the tropical beans urad and horsegram, and used radiocarbon dating to provide the first absolute dates for Indus multi-cropping: 2890-2630 BC for millets and winter pulses, 2580-2460 BC for horsegram, and 2430-2140 BC for rice.
Millets are a group of small grain, now most commonly used in birdseed, which Petrie describes as "often being used as something to eat when there isn't much else". Urad beans, however, are a relative of the mung bean, often used in popular types of Indian dhal today.
In contrast with evidence from elsewhere in the region, the village sites around Rakhigari reveal that summer crops appear to have been much more popular than the wheats of winter.
The researchers say this may have been down to the environmental variation in this part of the former civilisation: on the seasonally flooded Ghaggar-Hakra plains where different rainfall patterns and vegetation would have lent themselves to crop diversification - potentially creating local food cultures within individual areas.
This variety of crops may have been transported to the cities. Urban hubs may have served as melting pots for produce from regional growers, as well as meats and spices, and evidence for spices have been found elsewhere in the region.
While they don't yet know what crops were being consumed at Rakhigarhi, Jennifer Bates points out that: "It is certainly possible that a sustainable food economy across the Indus zone was achieved through growing a diverse range of crops, with choice being influenced by local conditions.
"It is also possible that there was trade and exchange in staple crops between populations living in different regions, though this is an idea that remains to be tested."
"Such a diverse system was probably well suited to mitigating risk from shifts in climate," adds Cameron Petrie. "It may be that some of today's farming monocultures could learn from the local crop diversity of the Indus people 4,000 years ago."
The findings are the latest from the Land, Water and Settlement Project, which has been conducting research on the ancient Indus Civilisation in northwest India since 2008
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/uoc-rfi111816.php
Cameroon:
government proposes cancelling VAT (19.25%) on rice from 2017
Saturday, 19 November 2016 09:00
(Business in Cameroon) - After
reinstating in 2016 the customs duty of 5% on rice imports, which had been
cancelled after the February 2008 hunger riots, the Cameroonian government is
once again considering eliciting a drop in the prices of this mass consumption
product, much sought after by local populations. Indeed, in the 2017 Finance
bill, which will be reviewed by Parliament in the coming days, the government
proposes that rice be exempted from the payment of added value tax (VAT). If
this proposal is approved by parliamentarians, the price per kilogram of rice
on the Cameroonian market (FCfa 300) could drop by 19.25%, which is the
equivalent of the VAT rate applicable in the country.
A small rice producer with about
100,000 tons on average per year, Cameroon is a big consumer of imported rice.
For example, for 2015 only, the statistics of the National Payment Balance
Technical Committee reveal that 707,200 tons of rice were imported in Cameroon,
for a financial value of FCfa 181 billion
http://www.businessincameroon.com/public-management/1911-6695-cameroon-government-proposes-cancelling-vat-19-25-on-rice-from-2017
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Rice Comment
Rice futures
ended with gains. January is now challenging resistance at $9.80 and March is
testing the $10 level. Weekly exports of 77,400 tons weren't enough to inspire
buying interest
Cambodia
expects to yield 5 million tons of paddy surplus
Submitted by Eleven on Tue,
11/22/2016 - 10:09
rasmei kampuchea/asia news
network
RATTANAKIRI, Cambodia (Rasmei
Kampuchea Daily/ANN) - Cambodia's premier has revealed that the local farmers
can produce more paddy this year as compared to 2015. This year,
Cambodia will yield more than 5 million tons of rice, according to the Cambodian
prime minister’s projection.Prime Minister Hun Sen projected this morning that
the rice yields this year may higher than the previous year.
“After keeping some for local
consumption and seeds, there would be about 5 million tons of paddy rice left
for export this year’s yield ” he underlined at the inauguration ceremony of a
portion of the National Road No. 76 held in Rattanakiri- a northeastern
province.At the same time, Premier Hun Sen also shared some suggestions to the
farmers in order to prevent the rice price falling.Premier Hun Sen encouraged
the farmers to keep and dry up their rice yields well and said the rice price
falling is not only happening in Cambodia, but other countries in the region
and the world.For the next year’s rice export target, the premier encouraged
the rice millers to see the potential destination, including EU, and China, and
Vietnam.During Chinese President Xi Jinping ’s visit, China pledged to
buy the Cambodian rice until
http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/business/6724
PM Asks for
Help for Rice Farmers
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday
called on financial institutions to consider setting up a mechanism to delay
loan repayments for farmers whose present harvest season comes during a low
price for paddy rice.The premier made the appeal yesterday during the
inauguration of Chinese-funded National Road 76, which connects Mondulkiri and
Rattanakiri provinces.Mr. Hun Sen said that the recent decline in the global
price of rice is definitely affecting farmers who are growing the grain and it
will be difficult for those who took out loans to support their farming.
“I would like to call on the
microfinance institutions [MFIs] that give loans to farmers, please
understand about the farmers’ difficulties who are facing a drop in rice
prices,” he said.“The drop isn’t just happening in Cambodia because now all
other countries are facing the same – including rice and other agricultural
products like rubber.” Recently, rice prices in the region, particularly
in Thailand, dropped due to the slowdown in demand on the global market.Hun
Lak, vice president of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said he welcomed the
prime minister’s request, which would also help facilitate financial issues for
rice millers as well.
“It will help farmers whose rice
crop has been damaged, hence affecting their quality,” he said.“The price of
rice in neighboring countries also decreased which brings less traders to buy
from our farmers – so the price locally is not high.”Related to rice millers,
the CRF recently asked relevant government institutions, especially the
Ministry of Commerce, to ease loan pay back for rice millers since the price of
rice is down, Mr. Lak said.Meanwhile, the harvest season has started in many
areas and the volume of paddy rice is growing, Mr. Hun Sen added, telling
farmers to dry the paddy rice properly, store it well and not to rush to sell
it at the low price offered by brokers.
“While the world and region face
a price crisis in paddy rice – it is not only Cambodia but Thailand, Vietnam
and other countries that are also facing a fall in price. I would like to
suggest to our farmers to keep the paddy rice or dry the paddy, stock it for a
while and once the price goes up, start selling,” he said.“Please don’t sell
the wet rice that will be reduced in price by brokers. The brokers are lowering
the price because they see that your paddy rice has not been properly dried,”
warned Mr. Hun Sen.
“I have learned that if our
farmers can be a bit patient [to sell], the paddy rice will not get a low price
from brokers if you can manage to store it properly.”
Bun Mony, CEO of Sathapana Bank,
said that the growth of both banks and MFIs depends on the prosperity of their
clients.“We work carefully and seek to understand our clients carefully. If the
clients fail to pay back a loan, we don’t confiscate the clients’ collateral on
our own. It is a judicial matter,” he said. “As banks and MFIs, our
growth depends on the growth of clients. Without it we cannot grow, so the two
parties are relatively connected.”
Cambodia’s rice exports rose
slightly by 3.3 percent in the first 10 months of the year, up to 421,000 tons
of milled rice from 408,000 tons in the same period last year, according to
data from the Ministry of Agriculture released last week
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32212/pm-asks-for-help-for-rice-farmers/
Lae
Rice Company,
Homestate, invests in Rice cultivation
Morobe Governor, Kelly Naru also
attended along with representatives of the Provincial Executive Council,
including the Lae city Lord Mayor.The governor says the Morobeen Provincial
Government is willing to support the industry.
The Homestate Rice Experiment
comes after Trukai carried out its own experiments and is involving local
farmers throughout the country.Kumal Consolidated Holdings director, Moses
Maladina was present today, without giving too much, the director says KCH is
looking to invest into the rice industry.An estimated over K500 million is
spent on rice imports every year. Now there is a general shift with rice
companies starting to grow their own crops. The effort involves small holder
farmers across the country.Last month saw Goodman-Fielder International launch
a new brand of rice; Trukai has been investing in rice farming and; now
Homestate is stating it is in it for the long run.Kumul consolidated Holdings
is talking to Trukai, Homesate and Goodman-Fielder International for a possible
partnership in the near future.
http://www.emtv.com.pg/news/2016/11/lae-rice-company-homestate-invests-in-rice-cultivation/
NEDA bats for competitive rice
tariff after QR lifting
(The Philippine Star) | Updated November 22, 2016 - 12:00am
In a recent interview, NEDA
deputy director general Rosemarie Edillon said imposing a competitive tariff on
rice imports after the expiration of the quantitative restriction (QR) next
year would significantly reduce the cost of the staple that eats up 20 percent
of the budget of the poor. File photo
MANILA, Philippines - The removal of the
special tax treatment on rice imports is a “major strategy in bringing down the
country’s poverty incidence to between 13 to 15 percent” by the end of the
Duterte administration in 2022, the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA) said.In a recent interview, NEDA deputy director general Rosemarie
Edillon said imposing a competitive tariff on rice imports after the expiration
of the quantitative restriction (QR) next year would significantly reduce the
cost of the staple that eats up 20 percent of the budget of the poor. At the
same time, it would enable the agricultural sector to transition to the
production of more high-value crops, she said.
“If we remove the QR, that would lead to lower
prices of rice and many of the poor are net rice consumers. On the part of the
producers, that actually induces them to more efficiently allocate their
resources,” said Edillon.
Many rice famers, she said, are attracted to
plant rice even if their lands are not suitable to the crop because of the high
support price. “If they can transition to high-value crops they would earn
more. So instead of imposing a QR, we will impose tariff so there would be
revenues that may be plowed back into the sector in the form of technical
assistance for crop and income diversification,” she said.
NEDA projects additional revenues of P15
billion annually from duties on rice imports assuming a tariff rate of around
35 percent – consistent with the tariff on rice imports within ASEAN – is
imposed. Allowing free importation of rice would mean less domestic production
because of competition but this does not mean the government would abandon the
provision of support to rice farmers entirely, said Edillon. “We are looking at
provinces that can really compete under a new regime. What the government will
do is to implement productivity-enhancing strategies in these areas to increase
production,” she said.
“We don’t mind less production. What we are
looking at more is the bottom line, that more farmers will graduate from
poverty. Right now, they can sell rice at a high price but the production cost
is also very high. That is the reason they can’t compete,” she added. The
extended QR, which would lapse in June 2017, is meant to protect the livelihood
of Filipino rice farmers while they are strengthening their production
capability. This extension was borne out of two years of negotiations with the
World Trade Organization (WTO) and various member countries under the Aquino
administration. Through the QR, the Philippines imposes a high tariff of 35
percent on imported rice, the volume of which has been restricted to 805, 200
metric tons (MT). Importing outside the QR is even more expensive as inbound
shipments would be levied a duty of 40 to 50 percent. To fill the supply gap,
the National Food Authority (NFA) imports rice through tenders and intervenes
in the market by selling the staple at a cheaper price.
There is already consensus in the economic
cluster of the Duterte Cabinet to remove the QR but the Department of Agriculture
is still firmly against it. “It would be a high-level Cabinet discussion. We
are preparing the necessary technical data for that. It is now in the economic
cluster but it has to be raised to Cabinet level,” she said. The removal of the
special tax treatment on rice is among NEDA’s main strategies for lowering the
poverty incidence in the country by the end of Duterte’s term. The government
is raising its target for the reduction of poverty incidence to between 13 to
15 percent by the end of Duterte’s term in 2022 from the previous target of 17
percent. This would be driven by rural and regional development coupled with
addressing the capacity constraints in other economic sectors.
International Rice Leadership Class - Lessons from Great Britain
and Spain
GREAT BRITAIN
& SPAIN -- Earlier this month, the 2016 International Rice Leadership Class
traveled to Europe to get an overview of the market for U.S. rice in the UK and
to learn about the Spanish rice market. The class met with a diverse
group of industry representatives including importers, exporters, and millers,
and U.S. government officials working in London and Madrid.
Members of this year's International Rice Leadership Class are alumni from previous Rice Leadership Development classes and include: Brandon Bauman, Stuttgart, AR; Wes Long, Benton, AR; Robert Petter, DeValls Bluff, AR; A.J. Sabine, Baton Rouge, LA; and Eric Unkel, Kinder, LA.
The group traveled to Cambridge, England, where Peter Walker, general sales manager with S & B Herba Foods, Ltd., led a mill tour and talked about how they import and market U.S. rice. In London, the class met with U.S. Agricultural Counselor Stan Phillips, Agricultural Specialist Steve Knight, and Agricultural Marketing Specialist Julie Vasquez-Nicholson who gave an overview of the British rice market.
Next was a session with Iain Forbes of The Garden Marketing and PR firm, USA Rice's promotion coordinator in Great Britain, who talked in detail about marketing programs used to promote U.S. rice. He led the group on a tour of various wholesale and retail stores to observe the different ways U.S.-grown rice is packaged and marketed there.
"After the tours and talks in the UK, I believe the consumer market needs a variety of different approaches including a more emotional and personal connection being made between the rice people are eating and where it comes from, said Arkansas rice farmer Robert Petter.
In Madrid, Spain, the group met with U.S. Agricultural Attaché Rachel Bickford and Agricultural Specialist Marta Guerrero where they learned that Spain produces both long grain and medium grain rice but only exports long grain.
Members of this year's International Rice Leadership Class are alumni from previous Rice Leadership Development classes and include: Brandon Bauman, Stuttgart, AR; Wes Long, Benton, AR; Robert Petter, DeValls Bluff, AR; A.J. Sabine, Baton Rouge, LA; and Eric Unkel, Kinder, LA.
The group traveled to Cambridge, England, where Peter Walker, general sales manager with S & B Herba Foods, Ltd., led a mill tour and talked about how they import and market U.S. rice. In London, the class met with U.S. Agricultural Counselor Stan Phillips, Agricultural Specialist Steve Knight, and Agricultural Marketing Specialist Julie Vasquez-Nicholson who gave an overview of the British rice market.
Next was a session with Iain Forbes of The Garden Marketing and PR firm, USA Rice's promotion coordinator in Great Britain, who talked in detail about marketing programs used to promote U.S. rice. He led the group on a tour of various wholesale and retail stores to observe the different ways U.S.-grown rice is packaged and marketed there.
"After the tours and talks in the UK, I believe the consumer market needs a variety of different approaches including a more emotional and personal connection being made between the rice people are eating and where it comes from, said Arkansas rice farmer Robert Petter.
In Madrid, Spain, the group met with U.S. Agricultural Attaché Rachel Bickford and Agricultural Specialist Marta Guerrero where they learned that Spain produces both long grain and medium grain rice but only exports long grain.
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After one day in
Madrid, the class boarded a bullet train to Valencia, along the Mediterranean
Sea in southern Spain, where they met with Luis Marques Falco, director of
Copsemar, a cooperative of rice seed producers that produces 50 percent of the
seed rice in Spain.
"It was interesting to hear how the industry in Spain is so label specific. For instance, rice produced in Valencia not only has origin listed on the label but also has to have a special seal designating it as a product of Valencia," said rice producer Brandon Bauman.
Next on the schedule was a tour of Arroz Dacsa, the second largest rice mill in Spain, and the final stop was at IVIA-Sueca, the main public institution for rice research in Spain where the group met with Dr. Concha Domingo to discuss their rice research program.
Arkansas rice consultant Wes Long came away from the trip with a new outlook and some words of advice for the U.S. industry. "The romance the Spanish articulated for their rice was powerful. Rice was not just a crop but a centerpiece of pride. In the southern U.S. we seem to think of rice as just another commodity, another revenue stream, and we have chosen to commoditize our harvest rather than celebrate it," said Long. "In Spain rice is THE centerpiece of their social gatherings and a source of pride for their countrymen. The Spanish take a great deal of pleasure in relaxing with friends and family to enjoy a lunch of hearty paella made with locally sourced rice. It is a good model to learn from. I wish we in the U.S. could slow down, take more time with friends to enjoy what life has to offer, and really celebrate the fruits of our labor."
The Rice Leadership Development Program is sponsored by John Deere Company, American Commodity Company, and RiceTec, Inc. through a grant to The Rice Foundation and is managed by the USA Rice Federation.
"It was interesting to hear how the industry in Spain is so label specific. For instance, rice produced in Valencia not only has origin listed on the label but also has to have a special seal designating it as a product of Valencia," said rice producer Brandon Bauman.
Next on the schedule was a tour of Arroz Dacsa, the second largest rice mill in Spain, and the final stop was at IVIA-Sueca, the main public institution for rice research in Spain where the group met with Dr. Concha Domingo to discuss their rice research program.
Arkansas rice consultant Wes Long came away from the trip with a new outlook and some words of advice for the U.S. industry. "The romance the Spanish articulated for their rice was powerful. Rice was not just a crop but a centerpiece of pride. In the southern U.S. we seem to think of rice as just another commodity, another revenue stream, and we have chosen to commoditize our harvest rather than celebrate it," said Long. "In Spain rice is THE centerpiece of their social gatherings and a source of pride for their countrymen. The Spanish take a great deal of pleasure in relaxing with friends and family to enjoy a lunch of hearty paella made with locally sourced rice. It is a good model to learn from. I wish we in the U.S. could slow down, take more time with friends to enjoy what life has to offer, and really celebrate the fruits of our labor."
The Rice Leadership Development Program is sponsored by John Deere Company, American Commodity Company, and RiceTec, Inc. through a grant to The Rice Foundation and is managed by the USA Rice Federation.
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How Rice Forms Resistant Starch Good news for Asia’s rice-loving
diabetics:
scientists may have found a way to increase rice’s content of
resistant-starch. Asian Scientist Newsroom | November 21, 2016 | In the Lab
AsianScientist (Nov. 21, 2016) - Researchers in China have identified a genetic
mutation that increases the production of resistant starch in rice. Their
results have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. Resistant starch refers to starch and starch degradation products
that escape from digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. Foods
high in resistant starch could potentially protect against infection, diarrhea,
inflammatory bowel disease and even diabetes, but the global average intake of
resistant starch is dramatically lower than the levels recommended for
beneficial health.
Hot cooked rice, for example, typically contains less than three
percent resistant starch. Improving the amounts and properties of resistant
starch is an important goal for rice breeding, but strategies to increase
resistant starch production in rice are limited due to a lack of knowledge of
its molecular basis. Now, groups led by Professor Li Jiayang at the Institute
of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and
Professor Wu Dianxing at Zhejiang University have used map-based cloning to
identify a gene responsible for high resistant starch production. When the
soluble starch synthase gene (SSIIIa) was mutated, the resulting rice had a
modified starch granule structure, high amylose, lipid and amylose-lipid
complexes. In-depth studies showed that resistant starch production is
dependent on the high-expression of the Waxya allele.
Based on these findings and previously published results, researchers
proposed that the loss of function of SSIIIa disrupts the formation of a
protein complex containing the enzymes PPDK and AGPase, thereby increasing the
levels of lipids. At the same time, the lack of SSIIIa increases the level of
non-resistant starch (amylose). The higher levels of lipids and amylose in turn
give rise to an increased formation of amylose-lipid complexes characteristic
of resistant starch. The discovery not only provides a promising approach to
develop new rice lines rich in resistant starch but also sheds light on
resistant starch biosynthesis in other major cereal crops, the authors said.
The article can be found at: Zhou et al. (2016) Critical Roles of Soluble
Starch Synthase SSIIIa and Granule-bound Starch Synthase Waxy in Synthesizing
Resistant Starch in Rice. ——— Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences; Photo:
Shutterstock. Disclaimer: This article does not necessarily reflect the views
of AsianScientist or its staff. Tags: China, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Food Science, Resistant Starch, Rice Read more from Asian Scientist
Magazine at: http://www.asianscientist.com/2016/11/in-the-lab/resistant-starch-rice-food/
Develop rice
varieties to cope with climate change: M S Swaminathan
He, however, cautioned scientists to develop
such farm technologies which are economically sound
Press Trust of India | New
Delhi November 21, 2016 Last Updated at 15:35 IST
270 million ton foodgrain production expected
this year: ICARIndian, Australia scientists partner to develop salt-tolerant
riceParthasarathi Shome:Water wars: Yesterday, today and tomorrowNitin Gadkari
stresses on need for agricultural revolutionAt Hiroshima, Obama calls for
'moral revolution'Stating that rice is going to be the future crop and the
"food security saviour", renowned agriculture scientist M S
Swaminathan on Monday said there is no time for scientists to relax but develop
varieties that can better adapt to climate change and boost rice yields.
No doubt introduction of the first
"semi-dwarf rice variety IR8" by International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) way back in 1967-68 and subsequent other varieties triggered
Green Revolution in India, but much more need to be done as the country's rice
yields are very low at 3.5 tonnes/hectare despite being the second biggest rice
producer, he said.
"It is not wheat but rice is going to be
the crop of future in terms of climate change. Wheat cannot, as night
temperatures are important. If a temperature goes up by two degrees, wheat
production will fall by 6 million tonnes," Swaminathan said at an event
organised by IRRI to commemorate 50 years of the introduction of rice variety
IR8.
Since rice is going to be the food security
saviour, he urged IRRI and Indian scientists to develop new rice varieties that
can cope with challenges of climate change.
Swaminathan, who is known as Father of India's
Green Revolution, however, cautioned scientists to develop such farm
technologies which are economically sound."Indian farmers are ready to
adopt technologies provided they are economically sound," he said.Noting
that many are doing good research in rice and for example, hybrid rice is
making an impact in China, Swaminathan said, "But still there is no time
to relax. ...The only option is to raise yields to meet the future needs."
Emphasising the need to protect traditional
rice varieties, Minister of State for Agriculture Sudarshan Bhagat said Indian
farmer prefer to grow traditional varieties and they need to be saved while
promoting new ones.
Since 50% of India's rice area is in the
northeast which is prone to floods and drought, more research needs to be done
on rice varieties suitable for this region, he said.Bhagat also said that the
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) should play a key role in
achieving the government's target of doubling farm income by 2022.
Stressing
on the need to increase rice yields, ICAR Director General and Secretary
Department of Agricultural Research and Education Trilochan Mohapatra said,
"We are still struggling to get 8 tonnes per hectare mark.""I am
told there are lines with the potential to cross 10 tonnes per hectare mark.
Use the experience of IRRI and take advantage of India's interest and come out
with such varieties to boost yields and achieve the Prime Minister's aim of
doubling farm income," he said.This month marks the 50 years of the
world's first high- yielding rice variety 'IR8' that sparked the Green
Revolution in Asia and saved the region from famine in the 1960s and 70s.
India grows rice in 44 million hectare land and
output is estimated at 104.32 million tonnes in 2015-16 crop year.On challenges
of raising rice yields in India, IRRI Representative for South Asia Nafees Meah
said, "There is a huge difference between west and eastern region of India
as far as yields are concerned. Rice yields in Punjab average at 6 tonne per
hectare. There is more scope to work in eastern parts."IRRI is trying to
address these challenges and working on climate resilient varieties, he said.http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/develop-rice-varieties-to-cope-with-climate-change-swaminathan-116112100474_1.html
Local scientists help area farmers learn best irrigation
practices
Monday
Posted
Nov 21, 2016 at 3:30 PM
By Dawn Teer / Stuttgart Daily Leader
Editor's Note: This is the seventh
article in a series of question and answer sessions with local scientists at
the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center (UARREC) in
Stuttgart.
Name: Chris Henry
Education: Ph.D. in biological and
agricultural engineering
Field of study or expertise: Irrigation and water
management
When did you become interested in rice research?
When I interviewed for the job, I
realized that rice irrigation is very unique and specialized. It is irrigated
differently than any other crop. I grew up on a diversified row crop farm in
northeast Kansas, so farming is in my blood. Arkansas has been very rewarding
and interesting, because I have had the opportunity to learn more about rice,
peanuts and cotton — crops that are not produced where I grew up.
What courses did you take that steered you into the field that
became your career?
I took an irrigation and drainage
course in college, right before they stopped teaching the subject for
agricultural engineers. It was one of my favorite classes and I have used many
of the concepts I learned in that class throughout my career. Some of the other
related courses I have taken in college include: Non-point source pollution,
air quality engineering, fluid dynamics, advanced hydrology, natural resources
engineering, soil chemistry and soil microbiology.
What do you do at UARREC?
I lead the University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture Water Management Program. Our mission is to conduct
innovative applied research and Extension programming for irrigation water
management. We integrate research results into educational materials for
irrigators and conduct programming to disseminate new knowledge. Basically we
are here to help farmers improve irrigation practices so that they can improve
their profits and that can sustain our aquifers. My door is always open to
anyone who wants help to improve the irrigation on their farm.
What are you currently working on or developing? And why?
We work with farmers to demonstrate
and improve irrigation water management (IWM) practices. These include
computerized hole selection, surge irrigation, soil moisture sensors and
monitoring, irrigation initiation and termination, evaporation and
transpiration (ET) based scheduling and optimizing pumping plants. We have
demonstrated a 24 percent reduction in water use in soybeans while maintaining
equivalent yields using these tools. We also are working to develop and improve
new tools and practices for multiple inlet rice irrigation and furrow irrigated
rice.
It is estimated by the Arkansas
Natural Resource Commission that to become sustainable in groundwater withdraws
we would need to essentially shut down half of all irrigation wells in
Arkansas. With no changes in how we irrigate, eventually the aquifers will not
be useable for agriculture. It is hard to imagine the economic impact of this
to Stuttgart and Arkansas. This is why we work so hard every day to develop
solutions for farmers so that they can maintain their profitability.
What research that you have done has been able to help the average
rice farmer?
Many of the practices that we help
people learn to use can reduce their irrigation use and costs by 20-50 percent.
We have also shown large cost savings by managing pumps or making them more
efficient. We have identified potential energy savings for Arkansas farmers of
more than $112 million annually from improving energy efficiency in irrigation
pumping plants. We have demonstrated this on farms, typically we have shown a
savings of $511 per unit with our on-farm programs.
What are some of the collaborations with DBNRRC?
My team collaborates with Anna
McClung, Jonathan Moser, Ji Rohila and LaDuska Sells on a study looking at the
ability of rice cultivars to manage water stress. This work may eventually help
the breeders develop or identify varieties or genetic markers that would be
more adaptable to alternate wetting and drying, furrow, border and sprinkler
rice-irrigation systems.
Do you have a support staff that assist you in your research? Who
are they and what do they do?
In Stuttgart Jason Gaspar, Phil
Horton, Makala White and Hunter James are on the team. We have also hosted two
visiting scholars from Brazil. I have three graduate students Jay Vickram,
Vaishalli Kandapal and Prashant Borhade. Some in Stuttgart may know my past
graduate student, Merritt McDougall, who is now working for Valley Water
Management. Jason is in charge of the on-station research projects. Phil Horton
manages the on-farm demonstrations and research projects. White and James are
invaluable student workers, helping with research projects, irrigation
evaluations and helping Jason and Phil. My graduate students are working on
research projects with flowmeters and irrigation efficiency practices http://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/news/20161121/local-scientists-help-area-farmers-learn-best-irrigation-practices
YULETIDE: PLASTIC, POISONOUS RICE FROM CHINA FLOODS NIGERIAN MARKETS
November 21, 2016
…How to detect it
Though the warning about the food
crime sounded like a wild joke, it was important because Nigeria remains the
highest consumer of parboiled rice in the West African sub-region. This means
there was a possibility that the bulk of the cancerous shipment would be
emptied in the country through scores of unmanned borders from where smugglers
invade the markets with their man-made rice.
The NCS warning, however,
confirms a recent report by Natural News and Korean Times that alerted that
China was mass producing plastic rice for huge profit, pretending it was not
aware of the grave health challenges.
According to the publications,
the plastic rice is made using a mixture of sweet potatoes and synthetic resin
(plastic). These ingredients are mixed together and formed into “grains” which
very closely resemble natural grains of rice. The rice substitute is then
sprayed with a fragrance to mimic the smell of Wuchang rice (a more expensive
brand in high demand), making it difficult to decipher between the two brands.
The man-made rice looks just the same as the real deal in terms of shape and
size; however, the plastic remains hard after cooking, a development
nutritionists say is dangerous to the human body. The wuchang rice also looks
like some basmati brands from the Indian sub-continent.
It is a well-known fact that some companies use chemicals in their foods, but China’s synthetic rice, according to reports, is fraudulently taking the danger to a whole new level, according to a concerned Nigeria, who prefers to be anonymous.
It is a well-known fact that some companies use chemicals in their foods, but China’s synthetic rice, according to reports, is fraudulently taking the danger to a whole new level, according to a concerned Nigeria, who prefers to be anonymous.
“It is thought that China has
been producing this fake “Wuchang rice” for at least four years. One Chinese
official warned that eating three bowls of this man-made rice would be
equivalent to ingesting one plastic bag”, the report stated.
Findings show that China, having
enjoyed patronage in Asia, have shipped the inorganic rice into various African
nations, especially Nigeria, where consumers rarely query products without
verifiable nutritional data.
More so, as the yuletide season
peaks, with millions of Nigerians warming up for various celebrations, foreign
rice consumption triples and the Customs says smugglers would latch on that
window to flood rice hubs in Daleko, Lagos, Onitsha in Anambra, Aba in Abia,
Abuja and other major markets with contaminated rice which they had stored
poorly for ages awaiting sales opportunities presented by the Christmas and New
Year festivities.
While many Nigerians underrate
the audacity of smugglers who could stop at nothing to eke out a livelihood,
findings show the Customs intelligence has began to crystallise as some people
are beginning to see tiny pieces of rice-shaped plastics delicately mixed with
the real white basmati or Wuchang rice consumed mainly by the higher income
earners in the country.
A 50kg parboiled rice sells for
N22,000 on the average but for the adulterated wuchang rice, it is more than
double of the stated amount.
The price disparity made the
staple food an attractive commodity to the smugglers such that they could
adulterate the basmati brand and make huge profit from its sales. Though no
seizures on plastic rice have been recorded by either Customs or NAFDAC,
Nigerians have been told to be cautious when buying the staple food, especially
those on packaged as ‘basmati’.
Daily Sun’s investigations reveal
that lately, some rice dealers in Lagos have started receiving queries from
worried customers on their shocking discovery of floating pieces of plastics
whenever they wash their lovely ‘basmati’ rice prior to cooking.
A housewife in Ajao Estate in
Lagos, Toyin Oseni, in a telephone interview with Daily Sun lamented: “I bought
basmati rice from the market. But when I opened it and took some to wash before
cooking, a good portion of it floated, while some sank. I thought some portion
of the rice was bad as in, perhaps, attacked by weevils, so I emptied the
entire pillow pack of rice into a big tray, but there were no weevils. I looked
closely and discovered the floating grains were mere plastics. They wouldn’t
soak in water or soften. I was scared and I told my neighbours my awful
experience and warned them to be careful. I went to my rice dealer and she
feigned ignorance; insisting she got the supplies from her usual supplier”,
Oseni stated.
Her account was similar to that
of Ruth Martins, living in Egbeda, a suburb of Lagos, who insisted she was
going to the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)
to lodge an official complaint on what she experienced with plastic rice mixed
with the basmati brand.
How to defeat plastic rice
How to defeat plastic rice
So, how do Nigerians detect the
plastic and poisonous rice to avoid ignorant consumption? The Acting Director
General of NAFDAC, Mrs Yetunde Oni, told Daily Sun, on the sidelines of a
recent stakeholders meeting that good quality rice will be crispy not slippery
and not have foul smell.
“However, rice becomes regulated
by NAFDAG when it is processed and packaged but the good thing about rice is
that from the appearance you can tell whether this is of the right quality or
not. Feel the texture. Rice should be dry and not dampened. It shouldn’t have
pungent or foul smell”, she said.
“We have also ensured that right
from the onset, NAFDAG is a part of the farming. When you’re part of the
farming, you teach the farmers how to apply the pesticides; you teach
them what to do at every particular point in time such that at the end of the
day, you end up with the right product not that we are waiting at the end
to look at the quality of the products”, she said.
But according to the Korean
Times, there are several ways to differentiate the plastic rice from the real
one.
“Stir a tablespoon or two of the
rice into a glass of water and observe. Authentic rice is more dense, and will
sink to the bottom of the glass. Rice formulated with plastic will float.
Number two, cook a small portion of the rice and place it into a container;
leave it to rest on the counter. If after a few days, mold has not begun to
form (as it should on actual rice) you know you have a plastic imposter.
“Thirdly, be observant while
boiling your rice. If a thick layer of residue is formed at the top of the
water during this process – you may have reason for concern. Number four, strike
a match. When a flame is put to fake rice, the “rice” will emit a plastic or
even sweet potato smell. Yes, it will burn as you would imagine plastic
would. So, for peace of mind – light it up. In reality, the container of rice
in your pantry is most likely safe – but stories such as this are in fact real,
eye-opening, and good reminders of why it’s so very important to inform
consumers”, the report added.
Aside the plastic rice debacle,
the Rice Processor Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) in a recent petition to
President Buhari signed by its Chairman Abubakar Mohammed, raised the alarm
that smugglers plan to ship in over one million tons of foreign rice within the
yuletide in what could be described as their last push to make huge gains
because they fear the Federal Government may heed the advice of the Comptroller
General of Customs, Hameed Ali, who is strongly pushing for the total ban on
foreign rice importation by 2017. His calculation is that the country may
likely bridge the rice sufficiency gap next year judging by the aggressive and
audacious rice farming in various states under the Central Bank’s Anchor
Borrowers’ Scheme. About 13 states have come onboard and already cultivated
thousands of hectares of rice; while N23 billion has so far been disbursed to
them.
The Customs chief, at a recent
stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja revealed that 99 per cent of the imported rice
was poisonous and gave of plethora of reasons to support his claim.
“First, the smugglers go for
expired rice overseas, especially from China. The Chinese won’t eat that in
their country so our people go and get them re-bagged and ferry them here.
Secondly, the bags of rice are
preserved with dangerous chemicals and reagents and when the goods arrive in
neighbouring ports of Cotonou and Lome, they warehouse them poorly in dirty,
dilapidated and disused facilities with leaking roofs and poor ventilation as
they await the best time to move into Nigeria with their illegal consignment.
On the sea, rickety boats are used for transporting the rice and sea splashes
on the consignment.
The land borders have many routes
to enter various states. At this point, they smuggle the engine in vehicle
trunks, ambulances, tyres, door levers, bumpers. Our men can’t be everywhere.
But, we impound thousands of bags of rice but they won’t stop smuggling. We
also know some bad eggs within us connive with them and give them the green
light on when to come in. They can wait for months because they know the staple
food will always be sold because Nigeria has a huge population and local
farmers cannot buoy the rice demand yet.
“So, as the rice stays in such
poor condition, humidity and dust will force it to grow moulds and yet when the
smugglers know the coast is clear, they still flood the markets with this
unwholesome rice. Today, you’ll notice even young Nigerians developing cancer
and other terminal ailments. It could be from consuming these contaminated
rice, frozen poultry and all that. Rice smugglers know importing via the
seaports is commercially unattractive, so they smuggle them through land
borders. But we’re pushing for total ban of imported rice. Our brand is even
healthier. We can grow our rice and meet our demands; rather than allowing the
commodity come in by sea. Total ban is it”, he stated.
At a recent stakeholders’ meeting
in Abuja, the Presidential Committee on Trade Malpractices, the Nigeria Customs
Service (NCS), Kebbi State government and the National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in unison vowed to check the massive smuggling
of expired and poisonous rice into Nigeria via various land borders.
The Chairman, Presidential
Committee on Trade Malpractices, Dahiru Ado Kurawa, said at the forum that the
President Muhammadu Buhari administration was determined to end the importation
of rice as the country has the capacity to cultivate rice to meet local demand.He
lamented that Nigeria remains the highest importer of rice in the world,
stressing that the continuous importation of the staple food via seaports not
only puts heavy pressure on the nation’s foreign exchange but retards the
momentum of Nigerians farmers who are working hard to meet local production.
“600 million metric tons of
rice is cultivated worldwide. Nigeria imports 3 million metric tons and
of the 600m metric tons, only 40 million metric tons is traded internationally
across borders. Meaning most countries cultivate and consume. We can also work
hard and meet local demand”, he said.
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Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Doguet’s Rice 2011-2016 65
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of Randallorganic 67
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of Randallorganic 2011-2016 67
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of Randallorganic 2011-2016 68
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Randallorganic 2011-2016 68
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of Sanjeevani Organics 70
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of Sanjeevani Organics 2011-2016 70
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of Sanjeevani Organics 2011-2016 71
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Sanjeevani Organics 2011-2016 71
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of Kahang Organic Rice 73
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of Kahang Organic Rice 2011-2016 73
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of Kahang Organic Rice 2011-2016 74
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Kahang Organic Rice 2011-2016 74
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of RiceSelect 76
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of RiceSelect 2011-2016 76
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of RiceSelect 2011-2016 77
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Doguet’s Rice 2011-2016 65
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of Randallorganic 67
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of Randallorganic 2011-2016 67
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of Randallorganic 2011-2016 68
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Randallorganic 2011-2016 68
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of Sanjeevani Organics 70
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of Sanjeevani Organics 2011-2016 70
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of Sanjeevani Organics 2011-2016 71
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Sanjeevani Organics 2011-2016 71
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of Kahang Organic Rice 73
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of Kahang Organic Rice 2011-2016 73
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of Kahang Organic Rice 2011-2016 74
Figure Organic Rice Production (MT) and Global Market Share of Kahang Organic Rice 2011-2016 74
Figure Organic Rice Picture and Specifications of RiceSelect 76
Table Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT), Price(USD/Kg), Cost(USD/Kg), Gross(USD/Kg), Revenue(Million USD) and Gross Margin of RiceSelect 2011-2016 76
Figure Organic Rice Capacity (MT), Production (MT) and Growth Rate of RiceSelect 2011-2016 77
https://www.whatech.com/market-research/industrial/229561-organic-rice-market-survey-of-product-types-applications-and-projections-to-2021
Indonesia sees rice stocks
soar, no imports planned until end of the year
18-Nov-2016 Intellasia | The
Jakarta Post | 6:00 AM
After
struggling to survive the impact of the El Nino weather phenomenon last year,
Indonesia has finally seen domestic supply of the country’s most important
staple food return to adequate levels, putting aside the need to import by end
of the year.President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said Wednesday that the country’s
national rice stock stood at 1.98 million tonnes in October, soaring from 1.03
million tonnes in the same month last year, an achievement he attributed to
friendly weather throughout this year.
“I can assure
you that there will be no [rice] imports until the end of the year,” he said on
the sidelines of his visit to the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad)
headquarters in Cilodong, on the outskirts of Jakarta.
The El Nino
weather pattern, known to trigger a prolonged dry season, impacted rice
production in the country in the final months of last year.Soon after his inauguration
in late 2014, Jokowi announced that he was targeting achieving rice
self-sufficiency by 2017 and his government would give more incentives to
farmers to meet this objective.In 2014, the government, through the State
Logistics Agency (Bulog), imported at least 425,000 tonnes of rice from
Thailand and Vietnam.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/11/17/indonesia-sees-rice-stocks-soar-no-imports-planned-until-end
of the year.html
http://www.intellasia.net/indonesia-sees-rice-stocks-soar-no-imports-planned-until-end-of-the-year-555223
More than 62.45 lakh (MT) of paddy arrives in mandis
| Sunday, Nov 20 2016 IST Chandigarh | Sunday, Nov 20 2016
IST
More than 62.45 lakh
metric tonnes (MT) of paddy have so far arrived in the period last year, about
56.15 lakh MT paddy had arrived in the mandis. Stating this here today, a spokesman
for the Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department said out of
total arrived paddy, 53.50 lakh MT is leviable. The government procurement
agencies have procured about 53.18 lakh MT and over 9.26 lakh MT was procured
by millers and dealers.
He said more than 12.30 lakh MT has arrived in mandis of
Karnal, more than 11.24 lakh MT paddy in Kurukshetra, more than 7.27 lakh MT in
Ambala, more than 7.23 lakh MT in Kaithal, more than 6.91 lakh MT in Fatehabad,
more than 5.28 lakh MT in Yamunanagar, more than 2.96 lakh MT in Jind, more
than 1.86 lakh MT in Sirsa, over 1.40 lakh MT in Palwal, more than 1.66 lakh MT
in Sonipat, more than 1.21 lakh MT in Panchkula, 78,284 MT in Hisar, 26,720 MT
in Faridabad, 4,877 MT in Mewat, 2,085 MT in Rohtak, 2,730 MT in Jhajjar and
993 MT in Gurugram.
The spokesman said that more than 22.57 lakh MT of paddy
have been purchased by the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs
Department, more than 18.33 lakh MT have been purchased by Hafed, more than
6.30 lakh MT have been purchased by the Haryana Agro-industries Corporation,
more than 5.67 lakh MT have been purchased by the Haryana Warehousing
Corporation and 31,389 MT have been purchased by the Food Corporation of India.
He said that 27,304 MT of bajra has arrived in the mandis,
as compared to 20,527 MT during the corresponding period last year, he added.
While traders have purchased 20,963 MT of bajra, government agencies have so
far procured 6,341 MT.UNI JS AE 1918
-- (UNI) -- C-1-DL0293-1031061.Xml
Demonetization: 40% rice
yield has no takers
The members of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti on Sunday went from village to village to check out the status of unsold crop. According to KSS members, the farmers expressed fear that if the crop yield is not collected now, the farmers may be pushed to a distress situation which compels them to sell at cheap rates.
"Finally, the crops would either perish or have to be sold in distress at cheap rates. If the farmers are forced to sell their crops at cheap rates, the financial situation in the villages would go down severely. Already many farmers have been affected by the demonetization of Rs500 and Rs1000 notes," Kapil Nagar, a farmer from Greater Noida's Patwari village, said.
"First rice is not getting sold at most
villages, second wheat is not getting sown properly. So this will ultimately impact
the supply chain. We are presently taking stock of how each village has been
affected by the demonetization and trying to see how the farmers can be
helped," Nagar added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Demonetization-40-rice-yield-has-no-takers/articleshow/55527989.cms
Nigeria: Anchor Borrowers Programme Crashes
Price of Local Rice - CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the agricultural
initiative, 'Anchor Borrowers Programme' launched by the Federal Government has
led to significant reduction in the price of local rice.Mrs Nkechi Osuji, the
Head, Development Financing Department, CBN, Owerri Branch made the disclosure
on Saturday in Owerri.
She spoke at a sensitisation workshop organised
by the office of Executive Assistant to Gov. Rochas Okorocha on Human Capacity
Development and Poverty Alleviation.The one-day event was attended by local
government representatives of small holder farmers, cooperative societies,
youths and women groups drawn from the 27 local government areas of Imo.
Osuji said as a result of the new agricultural
initiative, a 50kg bag of local rice now sells for N13,000 in some states that
have embraced the Anchor Borrowers Programme.
She said that if more states join the
programme, rice production would be greatly boosted.Osuji told the participants
that the CBN, Bank of Agriculture, Bank of Industry, commercial and
micro-finance banks have provisions to finance agricultural activities.She
advised participants to embrace the programme as it was capable of creating
thousands of jobs as well as boost the overall development of the nation.
Bangladesh
exploring markets for rice export: Quamrul
Food Minister Quamrul Islam said on Sunday
Bangladesh is now exploring markets abroad to export its rice since the country
has already achieved food autarky, reports UNB. We've already achieved sufficiency in food
grains production. Bangladesh exports rice to Sri Lanka. And now it is looking
for more markets abroad," he told the 2nd World Grain Forum-2016 on
Saturday, according to a message received here on Sunday. The two-day World
Grain Forum began in Sochi, a Russian city on the Black Sea, on Friday.
Addressing the meeting, Quamrul said Bangladesh
has achieved a marked progress in fighting poverty and hunger, and it continues
a steady growth of GDP (gross domestic product) with more than 7 percent in
recent years.He said the country's food production increased by three times in
the last three decades and now it has been able to ensure its food security.
"In case of any emergency, we have the capacity to ensure food to our all
people without any support from abroad," the Food Minister said.
The forum was attended by about 2,500
delegates, including representatives of Russian and foreign agribusiness
companies, industrial unions and associations, official foreign delegations
from more than 50 countries, heads of international organisations and financial
institutions, and foreign scientists and analysts.
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/11/20/53727/Bangladesh-exploring-markets-for-rice-export:-Quamrul?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thefinancialexpress-bd%2FIouH+(The+Financial+Express)
GCAP: Making farming a wealth-creating business
By Daniel Kondor
Climate change, slow adoption rate of improved technologies, lack of access to credit, and inappropriate policies among other factors, are affecting subsistence farming in ways that create food supply deficits in many developing countries. Governments spend huge sums of hard-earned revenue importing food, especially rice and meat products as a measure to prevent possible famine.Last year for instance, the country imported 620,000 tonnes of rice at US$282m to supplement what it produced to meet the demand of its growing population, according to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Successive governments have, since the early 1960’s, made efforts at commercial farming, especially in the north of the country which boasts of large tracks of arable land, but has a difficult climate typical of the guinea savanna, with one rainy season. Rice was identified as the commodity that suits large areas of the place, and for which there was a growing demand in the south as urban populations and incomes rose.
Climate change, slow adoption rate of improved technologies, lack of access to credit, and inappropriate policies among other factors, are affecting subsistence farming in ways that create food supply deficits in many developing countries. Governments spend huge sums of hard-earned revenue importing food, especially rice and meat products as a measure to prevent possible famine.Last year for instance, the country imported 620,000 tonnes of rice at US$282m to supplement what it produced to meet the demand of its growing population, according to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Successive governments have, since the early 1960’s, made efforts at commercial farming, especially in the north of the country which boasts of large tracks of arable land, but has a difficult climate typical of the guinea savanna, with one rainy season. Rice was identified as the commodity that suits large areas of the place, and for which there was a growing demand in the south as urban populations and incomes rose.
Under the Convention People’s Party government, rice was produced on state-managed, mechanised co-operative farms organised by the United Ghana Farmers’ Co-operative Council (UGFCC). When the regime was overthrown in 1966, the scheme had had only two years of operation in the north. Rice growers had a guaranteed market, but it did not change the peasant farmers’ lives for the better. Andrew Shepherd, a British sociologist in a 1988 paper, stated there was little reason to believe that the UGFCC’s “prospects of success were great.” In the late 1960’s a substantial investment programme was drawn up to open up the shallow river valleys of the Northern Region for commercial, mechanised farming with the belief that it held the promise of meeting targets set for self-sufficiency in rice production. Initially, rice farmers had been mainly residents of larger towns in the region. Then in the early 1970’s outsiders, mainly civil servants and army officers, joined the system.
In time, rice production in the region increased in acreage from 36,000 in 1970-71 to 140,000 in 1975-76. This was considered as highly commendable. According to Shepherd, a state of national self-sufficiency in rice production was declared, albeit prematurely, after a bumper harvest in 1974-75.The Agricultural Development Bank led the investment in rice production from 1968 onwards, lending to farmers. It was followed later by the National Investment Bank and such foreign banks as Barclays and Standard. Commercial farming in the north continued through the late 1980’s when it started declining. Peasant farmers remained where they were, unable most of the time to access credit from the banks.
The GCAP initiative
But the potential to produce rice for domestic consumption and even for export was never lost on anybody in spite of the huge rice imports. The government has the responsibility to ensure food security in the country by promoting large-scale or commercial agricultural enterprises, providing bulk-storage facilities, and ensuring efficient food distribution.
So in 2012, it initiated the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) under the auspices of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture with a total investment support of US$145m. The project is to improve commercial agriculture in the Accra Plains and the Northern Savanna Ecological Zone, also referred to as the SADA Zone. Of that amount, US$100m is a credit facility from the World Bank’s International Development Association, and the remaining US$45m a USAID grant.
Commercial farming is expected to be upgraded to a level that creates wealth and food security in the country. The objective then is to boost the productivity of both smallholder and nucleus farms in selected areas by providing increased access to reliable water, land, funding, and markets for both agricultural machinery and produce.
GCAP has thus set up a mechanism for matching interested landowning communities with equally interested investors, in a bid to achieve responsible agricultural investments. It has done a study and come out with a land lease concept that is to be fed into a database for land banks in the country. Subsequently, it has published three reports on the concept to ensure easy and secure access to land for commercial farming. GCAP works with the Lands Commission to prepare land titles for lands acquired by investors under the project
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/GCAP-Making-farming-a-wealth-creating-business-488535
Vietnam targets increased rice exportation to
Nigeria
November 21, 2016
The Deputy Director-General at the Vietnam
Ministry of Industry and Trade, Mr. Ngo Hoan, on Monday announced the
Vietnamese government’s plan to facilitate rice exportation to Nigeria.Ngo, who
spoke on the sidelines of a Vietnam/Nigeria Business Forum in Lagos, said that
his government and the Nigerian authorities were already discussing the
proposal.Ngo, a deputy director-general of South West Asia and Africa Market
Department, said that more Vietnamese companies were becoming interested in
Nigeria’s big market for their products.
He said, “The Vietnamese government is
currently working on improving the legal framework for strengthening business
cooperation between Nigeria and Vietnam.“More importantly, we are currently
working on the possibility of signing a Memorandum of Understanding with
Nigeria on rice trade into the Nigerian markets.“If this MoU is signed, Vietnam
hopes to become the stable supplier of rice at reasonable prices to Nigerians.”Ngo
said that the Vietnamese government had already signed such rice supply MoUs
with the Philippines and many African countries.
The Vietnamese government official said that he
led a delegation of 18 Vietnamese companies to Lagos for the companies to study
the Nigerian market and interact with the Nigerian business community.“This
delegation of 18 Vietnamese companies to Lagos is meant to facilitate trade
transactions between Nigeria and Vietnam in the years ahead.“We need to
organise more frequently, many more of such different trade delegations between
our two countries in the future
.http://punchng.com/vietnam-targets-increased-rice-exportation-nigeria/
Indian rice farming older than
China's: Study
Prasun Sonwalkar, Hindustan Times, London
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Updated: Nov 21, 2016 22:36 IST
A farmer sprinkles fertilisers on a rice crop on the outskirts
of Amritsar. (AP File)
Rice farming is supposed to have
arrived from China in 2000 BC, but new research by British and Indian
experts shows it existed in India centuries earlier, and suggests systems of
seasonal crop variation that would have provided a rich and diverse diet for
the Bronze Age residents of the Indus valley.The research on archaeological
sites of the ancient Indus Civilisation, which stretched across what is now
Pakistan and northwest India during the Bronze Age, has revealed that
domesticated rice farming in South Asia began far earlier than previously
believed, and may have developed in tandem with - rather than as a result of -
rice domestication in China.The research also confirms that Indus populations
were the earliest people to use complex multi-cropping strategies across both
seasons, growing foods during summer (rice, millets and beans) and winter
(wheat, barley and pulses), which required different watering regimes.
The findings suggest a network of
regional farmers supplied assorted produce to the markets of the civilisation's
ancient cities, a release from the University of Cambridge said on Monday.Researchers
at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Benares Hindu University found
evidence of domesticated rice in South Asia as much as 430 years earlier. It
has been published in the journals ‘Antiquity’ and ‘Journal of
Archaeological Science’.Evidence for very early rice use has been known from
the site of Lahuradewa in the central Ganges basin, but it has long been
thought that domesticated rice agriculture did not reach South Asia until
towards the end of the Indus era, when the wetland rice arrived from China around
2000 BC.
“We found evidence for an
entirely separate domestication process in ancient South Asia, likely based
around the wild species Oryza nivara. This led to the local development of
a mix of 'wetland' and 'dryland' agriculture of local Oryza sativa indica rice
agriculture before the truly 'wetland' Chinese rice, Oryza
sativa japonica, arrived around 2000 BC,” says study co-author Jennifer
Bates.“While wetland rice is more productive, and took over to a large extent
when introduced from China, our findings appear to show there was already a
long-held and sustainable culture of rice production in India as a widespread
summer addition to the winter cropping during the Indus civilisation.”The
archaeologists sifted for traces of ancient grains in the remains of several
Indus villages within a few kilometres of the site called Rakhigari: the most
recently excavated of the Indus cities that may have maintained a population of
some 40,000.
As well as the winter staples of
wheat and barley and winter pulses like peas and vetches, they found evidence
of summer crops including domesticated rice, but also millet and the tropical
beans urad and horsegram.They used radiocarbon dating to provide the first
absolute dates for Indus multi-cropping: 2890-2630 BC for millets and winter
pulses, 2580-2460 BC for horsegram, and 2430-2140 BC for rice.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/indian-rice-farming-older-than-china-s-study/story-GfOy0rkWemKjpvxn31Gd5M.html
Rice Prices
as on : 21-11-2016 08:10:19 PMArrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market.
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Akbarpur(UP)
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210.00
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-
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420.00
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2170
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-
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7.43
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Cachar(ASM)
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100.00
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66.67
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4670.00
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2200
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2200
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-18.52
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Lanka(ASM)
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50.00
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11.11
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4000.00
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2000
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2000
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15.94
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Pandua(WB)
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48.00
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-7.69
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3412.00
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2900
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2900
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26.09
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Kasimbazar(WB)
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42.00
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-2.33
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3169.00
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2480
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2480
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10.22
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Beldanga(WB)
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38.00
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-15.56
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4426.00
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2500
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2525
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16.28
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Tanakpur(Utr)
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12.60
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-0.79
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206.90
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1950
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2150
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-2.99
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Dibrugarh(ASM)
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8.00
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-31.03
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231.60
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2250
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2250
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-
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North Lakhimpur(ASM)
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7.80
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-20.41
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2275.50
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1900
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1900
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NC
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Cherthalai(Ker)
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6.00
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-25
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480.00
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2200
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2200
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-4.35
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Chandoli(UP)
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6.00
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71.43
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290.50
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2130
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2140
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13.30
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Mirzapur(UP)
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5.00
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11.11
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1859.10
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2165
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2180
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8.52
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Pakur(Jha)
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3.67
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-10.92
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54.29
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3500
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3300
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10.20
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Kalimpong(WB)
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1.00
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-33.33
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61.00
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2650
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2650
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15.22
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/article9369998.ece
Iloilo farmers expand rice output
via SL Agritech Corp.’s hybrid seeds
-
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Rice farmers in Iloilo—the rice
granary of the Visayas—expanded their average output to 10.71 metric tons (MT)
per hectare using the the SL-8H seeds from SL Agritech Corp. (SLAC).Some 10,000
hectares in Iloilo are planted with hybrid-rice seeds, according to SL
Agritech.Despite the severe El Niño, Iloilo remains to be a rice surplus
province, especially as farmers ventured into SL-8H hybrid rice that sent yield
average to 4.09 MT per hectare.
This is an overall increase of
nearly 1 MT (0.86) per hectare compared to the 2015 average of 3.23 per hectare
(based on the Philippine Statistics Authority) for the entire Iloilo, according
to Asst. Provincial Agriculturist Elias V. Sandig Jr.The trend to plant hybrid
rice in Iloilo intensified as a farmer registered a high yield last year.
“In 2015 Marilyn Duco of Patlad,
Dumangas, obtained an average yield equivalent to 14.51 MT per hectare [from
SL-8H hybrid seeds] at 14-percent moisture content,” Sandig said.Along with the
use of good hybrid seeds, Iloilo farmers adopted what is realized now as a
superior fertilization technique—Crop Stand Fertilizer Management.“An honest to
goodness campaign was made to accept SL-8H with instruction to adopt Crop Stand
Fertilizer Management. A total of 10,000 hectares [of hybrid area] was
realized,” Sandig added.
Applying fertilizer based on crop
stand means that fertilizer is applied in reduced amounts. It is applied only
when the color of rice plant is light yellow, signifying a need for fertilizer.“To
date, the 12 top SL-8H farmers had an average production of 10.71 MT per
hectare, equivalent to 9.713 MT per hectare at 14-percent moisture content,“
Sandig said.“Iloilo farmer Teresita S. Setiar of Leganes reaped the highest
yield equivalent of 17.921 MT per hectare at 14-percent moisture content.
She used organic fertilizers with reduced artificial fertilizer,” he added.
Sandig noted that Iloilo has
pioneered on a provincial level the cultivation of hybrid rice using organic
fertilizer.
“Suffice to say that it is only
in Iloilo where hybrid rice is grown organically,” he said.What is auspicious
for some Iloilo farmers with the favorable development on the use of hybrid
rice is those that plant only once a year are now able to harvest as if they’re
planting two seasons a year.“Some areas are just rainfed, so farmers don’t
plant during the dry season. But with their high yield—double from hybrid
rice—it’s as good as they would have planted two times a year,” said Rich
Recoter, SLAC hybrid-rice specialist.
From his rainfed
6,000-square-meter farm, Andres Corras Jr. got this last wet season an
equivalent of an average of 9.68 MT per hectare.
Allan Tabefranca got a yield of 8.5 MT per hectare from
8,000 square meters. He is in an irrigated area and even used direct
seeding, which means he had lesser cost compared to if he transplanted seeds.“Our
campaign is that using the same technology of rice planting, you just change
the seed, but your expense is the same. The seed is for free, so they get
a higher income. Because of this, they have been convinced to go into
hybrid,” Iloilo Provincial Agriculturist Ildefonso T. Toledo said.With the
proper fertilization management, hybrid rice in irrigated areas in Iloilo as of
October produced 4.77 MT per hectare. This average is higher by 1.28 MT
compared to the July-to-September 2016 inbred average yield of 3.491 MT per
hectare.
The use of hybrid rice has been traditionally avoided by farmers
in the wet season due to the prevalence of infestation by bacterial leaf blight
(BLB). But fertilization based on crop stand has apparently eliminated
severe BLB infestation problem.“It’s the first time for many farmers to plant
hybrid in the wet season,” said Geron E. Magbanua, also of the Iloilo
provincial agriculture office. “And [impressively] there are farmers who harvested
10 tons [per hectare] as shown by the contest [Palayabangan introduced by the
Philippine Rice Research Institute].”
Iloilo is 141-percent sufficient in rice. This is computed as
follows: At 60-percent milling recovery, a total of 526,845,600 kilos of milled
rice will be processed. With a population of 1,805,576 and per-capita
consumption of119 kilos per person, there will be a total milled-rice
requirement of 214,863,544. The milled-rice production is 141 percent of
the milled-rice requirement.The province has a total of 135,964 hectares of
rice lands consisting of 48,860 hectares of irrigated ricelands, 85,779
hectares of rainfed rice lands and 1,325 uplands devoted to rice. There are
110,000 rice farmers.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/iloilo-farmers-expand-rice-output-via-sl-agritech-corp-s-hybrid-seeds/
Royal rice research
- 22 Nov 2016
- WRITER: ITSARIN TISANTIA
Thailand is honouring His Majesty King Bhumibol
Adulyadej as the father of Thai rice research and development.Read the
following story from the Bangkok Post to learn more about the issue.The Thai
government said it is honouring His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej as the
father of Thai rice research and development for his decades-long dedication to
improving farming techniques and boosting farmers’ morale and their lives.
NOBLE TITLESAlready perceived by Thais as their revered “father,” the late King is now being accorded a new honorary title by the cabinet in the field of rice, along with his late grandfather King Rama V, who is also honoured as the father of Thai rice reform, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced on the Royal Gazette website.
LAND DEVELOPER
King Rama V brought major changes to rice farming as well as an improvements to the state's management of the rice trade and transportation.
His work included the selection of better rice strains, including those from foreign countries, for field testing. He also encouraged farmers to participate in competitions for the best rice strains, which helped select those most suitable for the country.
The King also supported the expansion of paddy fields and introduced an irrigation system to farmers so they would not need to depend only on rainfall. Ploughing machines were also first tested to help farmers deal with their tough cultivation.
PROBLEM SOLVER
His Majesty also contributed in his efforts to helping Thai farmers both mentally and physically, Prayut said.
He advised on ways to solve acid soil for better farming and suggested that farmers adopt what he called his “New Theory” or integrated farming model.
Under the King’s method, farmers were encouraged to avoid mono-cropping and instead turn to growing rice, vegetables, fruits and herbs as well as setting aside part of their land as a pond to supply water to their farms during the dry season.
GREAT CONTRIBUTORS
The two kings made strong contributions to rice farming and selling in Thailand. It is thus a good opportunity to honour their work at this moment as Thailand is also marking its 100th anniversary of Thai rice research this year, Prayut pointed out.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-entertainment/1137589/royal-rice-research
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