How healthy are YOU? Experts share the ultimate clean eating grocery list - so how many have you got in your cupboard?
Clean eating is
the buzz phrase of the last few years, the trend that encourages you to
replaced processed foods with nutrient-packed meals.Kale and trendy alternative
sugars such as agave nectar and maple syrup have come to symbolise this craze.But
what other foods would you need to buy in order to change your lifestyle and
become a clean eating fanatic?
A healthy lifestyle website has put together the ultimate grocery list of everything you could ever need to stock your cupboards
full of goodness. But be warned: buying everything on the list will set
you back a whopping £230.
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FEMAIL worked out how much it would
cost to buy everything on this ultimate clean eating grocery list, adding up the sums for every food 'category'. The total came
to more than £230
The list was put together by
healthy lifestyle website 'Healthy. Happy.
Smart.'
It breaks down foods by category, such as beans and pulses, dairy,
and protein. By far the biggest category on the list is fruits and
vegetables.
The grocery list is only a guide to the kinds of foods a clean eating fanatic should be stocking their cupboards with.
But when FEMAIL did the sums, we
worked out that it would cost a grand total of £230.51 if you bought all the
ingredients on the list.
To buy all the fruits and veg you'd
need for clean eating recipes, it would cost you £61.31, while buying healthy fats such
as coconut oil and every type of nut will set you back £61.81.
The high cost of the list is down to the large number of obscure,
and expensive, items on the list, many of which can only be sourced from
specialist food shops, such as safflower oil, tempeh and adzuki beans.
The website advises to buy
organic wherever possible.
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Rice sector
upgradation on the cards
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises
(UNISAME) urged Chaudhry Alamgir the chief executive officer (CEO)
of the Technical Upgradation and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC) to
consider technical upgradation of the rice sector which is in doldrums.
UNISAME president Zulfikar Thaver said the rice units
in Sindh and Punjab as well are far behind in milling and processing and need
to be upgraded.
He said the system of paddy drying, milling and
parboiling need upgradation on urgent basis.
Thaver also pointed out that the steaming process
also needs to be adopted to enable us to compete with our competitors.
Needless to state that even our packing as compared
to our competitors is lacking the attractiveness.
The cost of production is high resulting in uncompetitiveness.
We need to study why our yield is less.Our seeds have become old and we need
new varieties with higher yields.
The rice research institutes need to roll up their
sleeves and come up with superior seeds for better grains with high yield, good
look, more aroma especially in basmati rice and more length and look in
non basmati rice.
One rice exporter suggested that to increase profit
the farmers of Sindh should grow superior varieties instead of coarse
rice.
The CEO TUSDEC requested the Union chief to gather
rice millers and stakeholders for a meeting to study of their
requirements for upgradation next week in Karachi.
The rice exports have fallen and Pakistan cannot
afford to lose the markets gained by exporters because of technological gap.
TUSDEC can play an important role and UNISAME is
confident Pakistan can regain lost markets with the help of TUSDEC
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market to grow at 15.47% CAGR to 2021
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The price of growing rice
Sahina Shrestha
Can Nepal regain self-sufficiency in paddy production? Experts
say yes.Eighty per cent of Nepalis live off the farm. Agri-culture accounts for
one-third of Nepal’s GDP, but the country has turned from a net exporter to
importer of rice.
Investment in irrigation, high-yield seeds, mechanisation, and
pricing incentives can easily boost rice production and
create jobs on the farm for Nepalis. All it needs is for agriculture to have
more government priority than it currently receives.
The food balance sheet for
2015-16 shows a deficit of 1,106,892 tons in rice as production plummeted to
4.3 million tons. Things are looking better this year as harvests are up by 21
per cent to 5.23 million tons because of a good monsoon. The Prime Minister
Agriculture Modernisation Project, if properly implemented, could decrease
dependency on food imports, especially rice from India.
Since most farms are rain-fed,
the single most important contribution to boosting productivity would be irrigation. Only 1.3 hectares of farms in Nepal get
year-round irrigation – 18 per cent of the total arable land. Monsoon rice is
planted in 1,450,000 hectares, while only 112,000 hectares grow spring rice
because of the lack of irrigation.
Says Mukunda Bhusal, Crop
Production Officer at Department of Agriculture: “Rice imports will go down if
we can increase the production of spring rice, but that needs irrigation.”
However, Nepalis are moving away
from the land or migrating overseas for work as soon as they leave school.
Booming real estate prices and urban expansion have reduced total cultivated
area. And cheap rice from India does not make it worthwhile for Nepali farmers to
grow paddy.
“The other way is to change the
food habits of Nepalis and replace rice with other grains,” says Bhusal. But
that may be easier said than done in a country where “Have you eaten rice
today?” is a form of greeting, and people in the mountains are turning to rice
from traditional millet and buckwheat.
The trend is most visible in
Morang, once Nepal’s grain basket. Out-migration of young men and the economics
of agriculture has meant that it does not make sense to invest labour in paddy
farming.
“In Morang alone, 10,000 hectares
of land has gone fallow in the past decade,” says Rajendra Uprety of the
Regional Directorate of Agriculture in Biratnagar, “land that was previously
farmed is now used for non-agricultural purposes.”
Along the border, Indian
businessmen often come to Nepal to buy harvested paddy in bulk, dehusk it in
their mills and sell the rice back to Nepal. Farmers are also forced to sell
paddy at a lower rate to rice mills when there is a surplus in India and the
excess rice dumped in Nepal.
Government apathy, lack of
support and subsidies mean that there is little cushion for farmers if the crops don’t do well, or don’t
sell. There is no minimum price for food grain, although the Department of
Agriculture has asked the Nepal Food Corporation to buy paddy, spring paddy and
wheat at a minimum cost if sales are down.
Economist Rajendra Pradhan of the
Department of Agriculture says there is little Nepal can do to stop cheap imports from
across the open border. But boosting productivity would enhance food security so
that with the spreading road network domestic supply can meet demand in remote
areas.
Pradhan explains, “For national
food security, production is not enough. People should have access to food and
there should be opportunities of employment in agriculture as well.
http://nepalitimes.com/article/nation/can-nepal-be-self-sufficient-in-rice,3598
Vietnam.
Ministry denies rice licence costs $20,000
20.03.2017
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has denied
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Late in February, local media reported that Ngo Van Nam, general director of ADC Company Ltd, said at a conference on proposed amendments to a decree on rice exports that it “costs no less than $20,000” to obtain a licence.The ministry decided to set up a team to verify the accuracy of this information, and directed relevant authorities to report to the ministry.
After working with the HCM City-based company and Ngo Van Nam, the ministry said it had not received any request for a rice export licence from ADC Company Ltd.Ngo Van Nam confirmed that he and his company did not apply for a rice export licence.He also claimed the media did not accurately report his comments and said he would work with press agencies to explain and clarify the misrepresentation.
Late in February, local media reported that Ngo Van Nam, general director of ADC Company Ltd, said at a conference on proposed amendments to a decree on rice exports that it “costs no less than $20,000” to obtain a licence.The ministry decided to set up a team to verify the accuracy of this information, and directed relevant authorities to report to the ministry.
After working with the HCM City-based company and Ngo Van Nam, the ministry said it had not received any request for a rice export licence from ADC Company Ltd.Ngo Van Nam confirmed that he and his company did not apply for a rice export licence.He also claimed the media did not accurately report his comments and said he would work with press agencies to explain and clarify the misrepresentation.
A November 4, 2010, Government’s Decree 109/2010/ND-CP on rice exports was aimed at re-organizing the export business by setting up minimum requirements for long-term investment in rice production and export. The decree required rice exporters to have at least one warehouse with a capacity to store 5,000 tonnes of paddy, and a mill with a minimum capacity of 10 tonnes of paddy per hour.
However, besides the positive effects, implementation of the regulation has revealed some inadequacies. The ministry has proposed to the Prime Minister to amend and supplement the decree.Within its authority, in January this year, the ministry issued a decision to abolish the regulations on conditions for rice export and business, including a limit of 150 on the number of exporters allowed, regulations on construction investment, warehouses and milling stations
http://www.blackseagrain.net/novosti/vietnam-ministry-denies-rice-licence-costs-20-000
Rice basmati
rises on stockist buying
Press Trust of India | New Delhi March 18, 2017 Last Updated at
14:13 IST
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Rice basmati prices firmed up by Rs 100 per quintal at the
wholesale grains market today on increased buying by stockists following
pick-up in demand from retailers.
However, other grains held steady in thin trade.
Traders said, increased buying by stockists due to uptick in demand
from retailers against restricted supplies from producing regions, mainly led
to the rise in rice basmati prices.
In the national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa-1121 variety
rose by Rs 100 each to Rs 7,700-7,800 and Rs 6,250-7,700 per quintal,
respectively.
Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
Wheat MP (desi) Rs 2,350-2,650, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs
1,850-1,860, Chakki atta (delivery) Rs 1,920-1,950, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs
260, Shakti Bhog (10 kg) Rs 260, Roller flour mill Rs 1,030-1,040 (50 kg),
Maida Rs 1,130-1,140 (50 kg) and Sooji Rs 1,250-1,260 (50 kg).
Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super
Basmati Rice Rs 9,700, Basmati common new Rs 7,700-7,800, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs
6,250-7,700, Permal raw Rs 2,275-2,300, Permal wand Rs 2,400-2,450, Sela Rs
3,100-3,200 and Rice IR-8 Rs 2,025-2,050, Bajra Rs 1,400-1,410, Jowar yellow Rs
1650-1700, white Rs 3,350-3,550, Maize Rs 1,540-1,550, Barley Rs 1,550-1,570.
(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is
auto-generated from a syndicated feed.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/rice-basmati-rises-on-stockist-buying-117031800298_1.html
Rice farmers record bumper
harvest but worried over lack of ready market
Rice farmers in the Volta Region who complained of
losses in the past are now heaving a sigh of relief as their situation has been
turned around with recent bumper harvest.
The farmers are attributing the success story to financial, technical and continuous capacity building courses from some agricultural oriented nongovernmental organisations in the region.
Despite the bumper harvest, the farmers are now faced with lack of ready market for their produce, and have thus appealed to government to enter into contract farming with them to ensure further increase in production in the region.
Rice farmers, particularly the peasant farmers in the region, previously lacked the needed technical knowledge in the production of paddy rice, something that never helped to prevent post harvest losses.
They hitherto invested heavily on the rice farms but did not yield them enough produce to make up for the investment, which caused many farmers into bankruptcy The situation resulted in a drastic reduction in rice growing in the region.
But agricultural oriented NGOs like a Sogakope-based agribusiness development and training Organization, FYSSO GH went into the aid of these farmers by offering them periodic rice production skills, especially on the use of suitable seedlings.
The farmers have over a period been equipped with how to develop and maintain rice fields to ensure good harvest. Under the IFDC 2 Scale project, smallholder rice farmers are able to come up with Savings and Loans Association to help themselves financially.
So far 2,500 farmers have benefitted from such training which has resulted in the recent bumper harvest but they say there is no no ready market for their produce, causing them to sell only at local markets in the region.
One of such review training workshops was organized for rice farmers, millers and processors as well as harvesting machine service providers across the region to equip them with the requisite skills in rice production Meanwhile, some of the rice farmers have commended the NGOs whose continuous technical and financial support led to the production of quality paddy rice in the region but called on the government to create a market for them.
The farmers are attributing the success story to financial, technical and continuous capacity building courses from some agricultural oriented nongovernmental organisations in the region.
Despite the bumper harvest, the farmers are now faced with lack of ready market for their produce, and have thus appealed to government to enter into contract farming with them to ensure further increase in production in the region.
Rice farmers, particularly the peasant farmers in the region, previously lacked the needed technical knowledge in the production of paddy rice, something that never helped to prevent post harvest losses.
They hitherto invested heavily on the rice farms but did not yield them enough produce to make up for the investment, which caused many farmers into bankruptcy The situation resulted in a drastic reduction in rice growing in the region.
But agricultural oriented NGOs like a Sogakope-based agribusiness development and training Organization, FYSSO GH went into the aid of these farmers by offering them periodic rice production skills, especially on the use of suitable seedlings.
The farmers have over a period been equipped with how to develop and maintain rice fields to ensure good harvest. Under the IFDC 2 Scale project, smallholder rice farmers are able to come up with Savings and Loans Association to help themselves financially.
So far 2,500 farmers have benefitted from such training which has resulted in the recent bumper harvest but they say there is no no ready market for their produce, causing them to sell only at local markets in the region.
One of such review training workshops was organized for rice farmers, millers and processors as well as harvesting machine service providers across the region to equip them with the requisite skills in rice production Meanwhile, some of the rice farmers have commended the NGOs whose continuous technical and financial support led to the production of quality paddy rice in the region but called on the government to create a market for them.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Rice-farmers-record-bumper-harvest-but-worried-over-lack-of-ready-market-520033
Rice farmers record bumper harvest
http://www.fao.org/economic/est/publications/rice-publications/the-fao-rice-price-update/en/
Pick of rice
market venue soon
Plan for central distribution channel
20 Mar 2017 at 06:30 3,244 viewed1
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| WRITER: PHUSADEE ARUNMAS
A variety of milled rice is available at Or
Tor Kor market in Bangkok. The government plans to set up a central market for
milled rice as a distribution channel for rice traders and farmers.The
government is expected to decide on the venue for a central market for milled
rice as a distribution channel for traders and farmers by mid-year, at a cost
of 300-400 million baht.
Suthatsanee Rajruangrabin, deputy
director-general of the Internal Trade Department, said officials are still
looking for a proper area in Bangkok's outskirts to establish the market.
"The department proposes the
central market for milled rice be located at Talad Thai, Thailand's largest
market for food products, or the planned AEC Trade Center close to Thammasat
University Rangsit Campus," she said. "There has also been a private
proposal to locate it at the rice processing plant of Patum Rice Mill and
Granary Plc."
Ms Suthatsanee said proper locations
need at least 3,000-6,000 square metres and should have complete facilities
such as an office building.
The AEC Trade Center belongs to TCC
Land Asset World Co, a property arm of billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi.
She said the Commerce Ministry is in
the process of asking for 300-400 million baht for the market to be financed by
the additional mid-year budget of 190 billion baht for fiscal 2017, approved by
the cabinet in December.
Some 40 groups of rice farmers and
20 rice operators have agreed to participate in the planned central market for
milled rice.
Although Thailand is a leading
producer and exporter of rice, averaging 20 million tonnes of milled rice a
year, it has no central market for trading milled rice thus far. Such a
marketplace would enable importers, wholesalers and retailers to shop for
different grains.
Late last year the government pitched
the idea of setting up a central market as another distribution channel for
traders and farmers after Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn visited China
last year and observed the Sanyanqiao Grain and Oil Wholesale Market, a large
central market for cereals in Guangdong province operated by the Guangtie
Sanyanqiao Grain Goods Yard.
The Guangdong market spans 100,000
sq m, handling trading services for 2.5 million tonnes of cereals a year.
Mrs Apiradi said earlier a new
central market for milled rice will enable exporters, millers and farmers to
meet potential buyers direct and compare prices. It will also require rice
quality inspections, helping ensure transparency in trading. Farmers can also
sell their grains direct to potential buyers.
Thailand has a central market for
rice paddy.
She said the presence of a central
market for milled rice would further strengthen the local economy.
The cabinet in December approved an
additional mid-year budget of 190 billion baht for fiscal 2017, where more than
half of the fund was earmarked to finance investment in provincial clusters.
Some 115 billion baht will be
allocated for local development of provincial clusters. The government has
sought to increase budgets for provincial clusters, hoping it will spur private
sector investment.
The additional mid-year budget is
expected to start being disbursed by April or May.
Ms Suthatsanee said the ministry set
a target of monthly rice trading at the central market of at least 50 million
baht, or 6,250-7,500 tonnes a month. The market could help boost exports by 1%
or about 95,000 tonnes, worth 1.49 billion baht, she said.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1217769/pick-of-rice-market-venue-soon
