Pakistan Food Security Bulletin, Issue 6
(January - June 2017)
REPORT
16
Aug 2017
Highlights
·
According to the Food Security and Nutrition
Strategic Review for Pakistan, food insecurity is among the greatest challenges
for Pakistan. The overall Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) is estimated to
be about 18 percent of the entire population.Preliminary findings of IPC
Chronic conducted for 18 districts of Sindh province rank 7 districts in Level
4 (Severe Chronic Food Insecurity), 10 in Level 3 (Moderate Chronic Food
Insecurity), 1 in Level 2 (Mild Chronic Food Insecurity) while no single
district in Level 1 (Minimal Chronic Food Security).
·
Initial
findings of IPC Acute Analysis conducted in 4 drought prone districts of Sindh
province indicates 3 districts are in Phase 4 (Emergency), and 1 district in
Phase 3 (Crisis).
·
Total
national wheat crop production for 2016-17 has been estimated at 25.75 million
MT, showing a marginal growth of 0.4 percent from 25.6 million MT in 2015-16.
·
Production
of rice, the second main staple crop of Pakistan, has been estimated at 6.85
million MT (milled basis), reflecting a negligible increase by 0.7 percent from
6.8 million MT in 2015-16.
·
Prices
of staple crops (wheat, wheat flour) slightly decreased, and prices of several
non-cereal food commodities significantly decreased. However, the prices of
live chicken, cooking oil and vegetable ghee increased. The fuel prices
slightly increased for both Super Petrol and HSD during January-April 2016,
remained unchanged in May and slightly declined in June 2017.
·
Terms-of-Trade
(ToT) increased by 6.2 percent from December 2016 due to decreased wheat flour
price.
·
Some
29,398 families returned to their areas of origin in FATA during the reporting
period, reaching a total of 424,525 families (90 percent of total). However,
29,398 families are still in displacement and the Government has announced to
compete the return by December 2017.
http://reliefweb.int/disaster/dr-2014-000035-pak12:00 AM, August 16, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:00 AM, August 16,
2017
Imports rise 9pc as economy heats
up
Star Business Report
More than $47 billion worth of goods were brought in to the
country last fiscal year, according to data from the Bangladesh Bank.
Bankers attributed the import growth to the rising economic
activities and development works.
“Lots of machineries, from spinning to textile, re-rolling mills,
auto rice mills, paper mills and power plants, are being imported,” said Mirza
Elias Uddin Ahmed, additional managing director of Jamuna Bank.
In 2016-17, the import of capital machinery soared 37.39 percent
from a year earlier to about $4.85 billion, propelled by power and energy,
garment, pharmaceuticals, telecom, food-processing and packaging sectors.
Industrial raw material imports rose 3.52 percent year-on-year to
$16.22 billion.
A senior BB official said the import of intermediate goods such as
coal, hard coke, clinker and scrap vessels also increased in addition to raw
materials for the garment and textile sectors. “It's a good sign for the
economy that the import of machineries and raw materials is on the rise,” Ahmed
added.
A senior treasury official of Prime Bank echoed the same.Industrial
activities are rising and the growth in import indicates that production,
development and employment will increase in the days to come, he added.The
import of petroleum products based on the settlement of letters of credit
increased 3.3 percent to $2.52 billion in 2016-17. Food grains -- rice and
wheat -- imports grew about 3 percent from a year earlier to $1.15 billion.
Rice import has increased significantly in recent months,
according to Ahmed.The central bank took a number of steps in the last couple
of months of 2016-17 to increase the rice import to boost stock and stabilise
the price level of the staple such that inflationary pressures can be
contained.
The efforts paid off as food inflation in July declined 0.56
percentage points to 6.95 percent -- the lowest in three months. The decline in
the food inflation most likely resulted from a moderation in rice prices,
brought about by a surge in imports.
http://www.thedailystar.net/business/imports-rise-9pc-economy-heats-1449247
BD to cut duty on rice imports to cool local prices
DHAKA: Bangladesh will slash the
duty on rice imports to cool high local prices of the staple grain, the
country´s food minister said on Wednesday, the second cut in less than two
months.
The import duty on rice will be
lowered to 2 percent from 10 percent, Food Minister Kamrul Islam told
reporters, down from 28 percent in June. Bangladesh, the world´s fourth-biggest
rice producer, has emerged as a major importer of the grain this year due to
depleted stocks and record high local prices following flash floods in April
that cut around 1 million tonnes of rice production.
"We have taken the decision
anticipating major floods that could further cut rice production," Islam
said, adding the circular outlining the cut would be issued in a day or two.
Growing demand from Bangladesh could help stoke Asian rice prices that hit
multi-year highs in June.
The government is making a frantic
effort to build buffer stocks as it aims to import as much as 1.5 million
tonnes of rice in the year to June.
Bangladesh has bought 250,000
tonnes of rice from Vietnam in a state-to-state deal and is issuing a series of
tenders after its initial plans to import the grain from Thailand and India
suffered a setback over high prices.
The government is in talks with
Cambodia and Myanmar to import rice while it is also engaged in a second round
of discussions with Thailand and India. Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh’s
160 million people and high prices pose a problem for the government which
faces a national election next year. Bangladesh produces around 34 million
tonnes of rice annually but uses almost all its production to feed its
population. It often requires imports to cope with shortages caused by floods
or droughts.
Bangladesh also has a major wheat
import need after floods damaged its crops but tough state purchasing
conditions and slow ship unloading in ports mean trading houses are unwilling
to sell grain to the Asian country.
BD to cut duty on rice imports to cool local prices
DHAKA: Bangladesh will slash the
duty on rice imports to cool high local prices of the staple grain, the
country´s food minister said on Wednesday, the second cut in less than two
months.
The import duty on rice will be
lowered to 2 percent from 10 percent, Food Minister Kamrul Islam told
reporters, down from 28 percent in June. Bangladesh, the world´s fourth-biggest
rice producer, has emerged as a major importer of the grain this year due to
depleted stocks and record high local prices following flash floods in April
that cut around 1 million tonnes of rice production.
"We have taken the decision
anticipating major floods that could further cut rice production," Islam
said, adding the circular outlining the cut would be issued in a day or two.
Growing demand from Bangladesh could help stoke Asian rice prices that hit
multi-year highs in June.
The government is making a frantic
effort to build buffer stocks as it aims to import as much as 1.5 million
tonnes of rice in the year to June.
Bangladesh has bought 250,000
tonnes of rice from Vietnam in a state-to-state deal and is issuing a series of
tenders after its initial plans to import the grain from Thailand and India
suffered a setback over high prices.
The government is in talks with
Cambodia and Myanmar to import rice while it is also engaged in a second round
of discussions with Thailand and India. Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh’s
160 million people and high prices pose a problem for the government which
faces a national election next year. Bangladesh produces around 34 million
tonnes of rice annually but uses almost all its production to feed its
population. It often requires imports to cope with shortages caused by floods
or droughts.
Bangladesh also has a major wheat
import need after floods damaged its crops but tough state purchasing
conditions and slow ship unloading in ports mean trading houses are unwilling
to sell grain to the Asian country.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/223905-BD-to-cut-duty-on-rice-imports-to-cool-local-priceshttps://www.thenews.com.pk/print/223905-BD-to-cut-duty-on-rice-imports-to-cool-local-prices
400 acres submerged due to drain closure
THE HANS INDIA | Aug 17,2017 , 03:30 AM IST
400 acres submerged due to drain closure
Pithapuram:
Farmers on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the submersion of 400 acres
of paddy following the closure of drain as part of the expansion of National
Highway. They said the bypass road works were going on as part of highway
expansion.
The
works included those near the Rice Millers’ Association Kalyana Mandapam,
because of which the drain near the road has been filled with gravel. This has
resulted in paddy crop remaining under water, as the let-out has been closed.
This was causing hardship to our crops, the farmers stated.
They
maintained that even before the launch of work, the contractor was briefed
about the crop getting submerged. Yet he had disregarded their plea and
negligently closed the drain, the farmers alleged. They demanded immediate
stoppage of work and creation of a facility to let out the drain water.
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2017-08-17/400-acres-submerged-due-to-
Nigeria to Save N300 Billion
Annually From Rice Import
By Bayo Amodu
and Ruth Tene Natsa
Abuja — Nigeria will be saving about N300 billion it spends
annually on importation of rice as local production of the commodity has now
reached 15 million metric tonnes, the federal ministry of Agriculture disclosed
yesterday.
The director of Agriculture at the Kano office of the ministry,
Muhammad Adamu, who gave the hint, while inaugurating the Rice Millers
Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) in the state, said in Kano alone, 1.2 million
metric tonnes of rice was produced in 2016.
He noted that, with the significant increase in local production
and the effort to make the local variety qualitative and more attractive to
Nigerians, the country expects to begin exporting rice to West African
countries between 2018 and 2019.
Adamu said presently, 34 states in Nigeria are producing rice,
with most of them now producing three times in a year.
He disclosed that investigation carried out by the federal
government revealed that rice imported to Nigeria stay up to10-15 years and are
preserved with chemicals that are capable of causing cancer.
In his remarks, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Rice
Miller's Association, Peter Dama, said the association was established to
promote local milling of rice that is fresh, healthy and nutritious.
According to him, the association
is willing to collaborate with the Nigeria Customs Service to stem smuggling of
expired rice into Nigeria. Dama added that
the association intended to work closely with regulatory agencies and
policymakers to ensure standard in local rice milling.
On his part, the Customs officer in charge of rice enforcement,
Ado Hassan, warned that any Customs officer caught conniving with rice
smugglers will have themselves to blame.
He said in less than one year, the zonal command of the agency
confiscated 800,000 bags of rice in Kano and Jigawa States.
Noting that about 9000 bags of rice are still in stores of the
agency, he stated that most of the bags were being given to internally
displaced persons after being certified fit for consumption by the National
Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Meanwhile, the federal government has announced that it will
stop issuing fish importation quota to importers, saying the venture was no
longer sustainable.
Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator
Heineken Lokpobiri, said this during a meeting with the Ijebu Development
Initiative on Poverty Reduction (IDIPR) in Abuja, yesterday.
The minister pointed out that stopping the trade will help boost
local production of fish and other aspects of agriculture in the country.
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Noting that the current deficit in fish in Nigeria is over two
million tonnes, he urged citizens to invest to boost fish production and create
jobs in the sector.
Lokpobiri said, "We realised that fish import is no more
sustainable and what we did was to encourage those that import it to think of
the backward integration by reducing the quota year by year in agreement with
the CBN.
"Very soon, we are not going to give quota for fish
importation. We want everybody to set up their fish farms, employ our people
and create jobs for our people.
"When we came last two years, Nigeria was producing about
700,000 tonnes of fish but this has increased to about 1.2 million tonnes which
means that there has been increment of 400 tonnes. This increase represents
more than 50 per cent of what we were producing".
Lokpobiri who commended the IDIPR for contributing to fish
production in the country, advised other states to emulate the community's
agricultural initiative.
He said the federal government will soon complete and commission
the fish feed mill located at Eriwe village farm in Ijebu community of Ogun
State.
The minister quoted the United Nations' Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) as saying that Ijebu community has the highest number of
fish clusters in the world.
Earlier, the Chairman, Board of Directors of the initiative,
Prof. Olanipekun Alausa, listed some challenges hindering the agricultural
initiative to include inadequate access to loans and lack of modern
agricultural tools for mechanised farming.
Alausa who said the initiative was currently supplying food
items to nine local government areas in the state appealed for more support
from the federal government to enhance the initiative's performance.
He said the scheme, which was established in 1999 as a non-governmental
organisation, was geared towards community development to reduce poverty and
improve the livelihood of people, using agriculture and micro-credit among
others.The chairman said the scheme was involved in poultry, piggery,
bee-keeping and cocoa farming to ensure poverty reduction and contribute to
agricultural development in the country.
His words: "We want provision of access roads in the farm
villages, access to direct credit and government's grants toward our poverty
reduction programme.The change in the life of the poor is visible as the needs
and well-being of women and other disadvantaged groups in our community are
being met.
"Hundreds of young graduates now see agriculture as a
thriving business and cluster innovation farming platform has been proved
beyond doubt that it is capable of making fortune".
Stewardship will be critical for preserving Provisia rice
Farmers will need to consider crop rotation planning before they
begin planting Provisia rice varieties in 2018 or 19.
Tim Walker says it’s been 15 or
16 years since scientists with the LSU AgCenter and officials with American
Cyanamid and Horizon Ag announced the Clearfield technology that helped change
weed control in rice.
Dr. Walker, general manager of
Horizon Ag, and BASF are now preparing growers to begin planting the new
Provisia rice, which is tolerant to quizalofop or Provisia herbicide, on a
limited basis in 2018.
Hopefully, it won’t be 15 or 16
more years before another new technology is developed, but Dr. Walker is urging
growers to practice good stewardship when they try Provisia in 2018 or 2019.
That includes using the proper crop rotation strategies such as not planting
Provisia rice following Clearfield varieties.
He and other speakers discussed
the new system and other new Clearfield varieties during presentations at the
Horizon Ag Field Day on the Mark Wimpy Farm near Jonesboro, Ark., on Aug. 10.
To learn more about Provisia
rice, visit http://www.deltafarmpress.com/rice/provisia-rice-variety-measuring-louisiana-demonstration.
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Global Warming Will Sear Three of
Four Major Grain Crops, Says New Meta-study
Maize and wheat especially
vulnerable, rice will hurt and only soybeans seem relatively impervious to
rising temperatures
Ruth Schuster Aug 16, 2017 12:13 PM
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On the banks of the Jordan River, Neanderthals
ate turtles 60,000 years agoThree of the four major grains on which the growing
world population depends are vulnerable to global warming, says a new
meta-analysis based on more than 70 studies.
Farmers have probably known that
plants have optimal ranges in which they grow best since planting the first
wheat some 23,000 years ago. Now science has proved the point.The four crops on
which humankind depends most are wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans. These are
responsible for two-thirds of human caloric intake, says the team.
The starting point of the meta study
was that the effect of climate change on these crop yields was not certain. Now
they are. "Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in
four independent estimates," the scientists state in the title of their
paper title. At least soybean turns out to be relatively resilient to warmer
temperature, within limits.One degree change, 7% drop in crop
The sheer multiplicity of parameters
make climate change prediction extremely difficult, but, as the team points
out, understanding temperature and other impacts of the change is critical to
future food security. Especially as scientists now agree that keeping median
global warming less than 2 degrees Celsius will be almost impossible.
The meta-analysis by Chuang Zhao,
Senthold Asseng of the University of Florida and others encompassed studies
based on multiple analytical methods, including modeling global and local crop
yields in response to temperature changes; statistical regression models based
on historical weather and yield data; and artificial field warming experiments.
All methods indicate that rising
temperatures are likely to hurt the global yields of wheat, rice, and maize,
and significantly so – though, the team qualifies, specific results were highly
heterogeneous across crops and geographical areas, and there were also some
positive impact estimates.
Gringing maize, a staple food, in
Kenya: The corn species turns out to be highly vulnerable to rising
temperatures.Thomas Mukoya, Reuters
Each 1-degree Celsius increase in
global mean temperature is projected to reduce average global yields of wheat
by 6%, rice by 3.2%, and maize by 7.4%, the team estimates, assuming no
corrective methods, such as farming adaptations or genetic crop modifications
to make them more resilient.
Soybean yields were hardier. How
temperatures affected soy yields varied widely across crops and geographical
areas, the team said: in some places, yields increased.
Their conclusion: the world needs to
develop crop- and region-specific adaptation strategies to ensure food security
for an increasing world population.
Rice is produced almost entirely in
Asia, but corn for instance, a staple in the West, is grown around the world –
which should be an advantage, for humankind. But part of the problem is that
multiple areas on which the world depends are increasingly likely to get hit at
the same time.
For instance, drought in the U.S.
and China at the same time, which is now entirely feasible, could decimate the
global corn supply: "Our simulations indicate that that type of scenario
is possible in the current climate," researcher Chris Kent told Bloomberg.
Just last month, China admitted that its north is suffering the worst drought
in its history and that crops are suffering. Beijing, at least, is not in
climate change denial.
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/riman-to-support-ncs-in-curbing-rice-smuggling/
Imported rice
could be dangerous – millers
August 15, 2017
Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Association in Kano,
Tuesday, National President of the Association, Mr. Peter Dama, added that
imported rice were preserved for these amount of time with chemicals which
could be dangerous to human health.
The Association appealed the Federal Government to instruct
NAFDAC to undertake periodic evaluation of imported rice while asking Nigerians
to revert to the consumption of locally farmed rice, describing Nigerian rice
as more nutritious and healthier
He, however, tasked local rice farmers in the country on the
quality of their produce adding that up till date, Nigerians were still
complaining about the quality of locally produced rice. Alhaji Mohammed Munir Shehu Adamu, the State Director, Federal
Ministry of Agriculture, Kano State, recalled that though the journey of the
rice revolution in Nigeria begun in 2012 , it however has been enjoying an
unprecedented impetus under the present Buhari administration.
He said that today, annual
production of locally farmed rice had multiplied into several folds while
investments in the sector were running in millions of Naira.
He disclosed that Nigeria had the
potentials to produce over 15 million metric tones of rice annually adding that
very soon and at the present pace, Nigeria would be producing rice for the
whole of West Africa.
“There is no reason why Nigeria
should be the biggest importers of rice in the globe when we can easily become
the largest producers of rice” he stated.
The meeting was attended by
members of the Association from across Nigeria, the Comptroller of the Nigeria
Customs Service and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,
among others.
C.V.
Anand attributes award to team work
HYDERABAD, August 17, 2017 00:00 IST
Updated: August 17, 2017 04:49 IST
Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V. Anand, who received State Excellence Award from Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao on Independence Day attributed it to the collective effort of all employees in the department. Speaking to the employees of Civil Supplies and Legal Metrology and rice millers association representatives who congratulated him on winning the award here on Wednesday, Mr. Anand said that anything was possible to achieve if one worked with honesty and commitment.
He said that the award had only increased the responsibility of the department. The Department gained good reputation and recognition from the Government as the employees worked honestly. Transparency, accountability, getting immediate results using technology and reforms and austerity and efforts of employees got the appreciation.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/cv-anand-attributes-award-to-team-work/article19506717.ece
Nigeria To Save N300bn Annually From Rice Import
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BY BAYO AMODU and RUTH TENE NATSA, Abuja
Nigeria will be saving about N300
billion it spends annually on importation of rice as local production of the
commodity has now reached 15 million metric tonnes, the federal ministry of
Agriculture disclosed yesterday.
The director of Agriculture at
the Kano office of the ministry, Muhammad Adamu, who gave the hint, while
inaugurating the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) in the state, said
in Kano alone, 1.2 million metric tonnes of rice was produced in 2016.
He noted that, with the
significant increase in local production and the effort to make the local
variety qualitative and more attractive to Nigerians, the country expects to
begin exporting rice to West African countries between 2018 and 2019.
Adamu said presently, 34 states
in Nigeria are producing rice, with most of them now producing three times in a
year.
He disclosed that investigation
carried out by the federal government revealed that rice imported to Nigeria
stay up to10-15 years and are preserved with chemicals that are capable of
causing cancer.
In his remarks, the chairman of
the Board of Directors of Rice Miller’s Association, Peter Dama, said the
association was established to promote local milling of rice that is fresh,
healthy and nutritious.
According to him, the association
is willing to collaborate with the Nigeria Customs Service to stem smuggling of
expired rice into Nigeria.
Dama added that the association
intended to work closely with regulatory agencies and policymakers to ensure
standard in local rice milling.
On his part, the Customs officer
in charge of rice enforcement, Ado Hassan, warned that any Customs officer
caught conniving with rice smugglers will have themselves to blame.
He said in less than one year,
the zonal command of the agency confiscated 800,000 bags of rice in Kano and
Jigawa States.
Noting that about 9000 bags of
rice are still in stores of the agency, he stated that most of the bags were
being given to internally displaced persons after being certified fit for
consumption by the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and
Control (NAFDAC).
Meanwhile, the federal government
has announced that it will stop issuing fish importation quota to importers,
saying the venture was no longer sustainable.
Minister of State for Agriculture
and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, said this during a meeting
with the Ijebu Development Initiative on Poverty Reduction (IDIPR) in Abuja,
yesterday.
The minister pointed out that
stopping the trade will help boost local production of fish and other aspects
of agriculture in the country.
Noting that the current deficit
in fish in Nigeria is over two million tonnes, he urged citizens to invest to
boost fish production and create jobs in the sector.
Lokpobiri said, “We realised that
fish import is no more sustainable and what we did was to encourage those that
import it to think of the backward integration by reducing the quota year by
year in agreement with the CBN.
“Very soon, we are not going to
give quota for fish importation. We want everybody to set up their fish farms,
employ our people and create jobs for our people.
“When we came last two years,
Nigeria was producing about 700,000 tonnes of fish but this has increased to
about 1.2 million tonnes which means that there has been increment of 400
tonnes. This increase represents more than 50 per cent of what we were
producing”.
Lokpobiri who commended the IDIPR
for contributing to fish production in the country, advised other states to
emulate the community’s agricultural initiative.
He said the federal government
will soon complete and commission the fish feed mill located at Eriwe village
farm in Ijebu community of Ogun State.
The minister quoted the United
Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as saying that Ijebu community
has the highest number of fish clusters in the world.
Earlier, the Chairman, Board of
Directors of the initiative, Prof. Olanipekun Alausa, listed some challenges
hindering the agricultural initiative to include inadequate access to loans and
lack of modern agricultural tools for mechanised farming.
Alausa who said the initiative
was currently supplying food items to nine local government areas in the state
appealed for more support from the federal government to enhance the
initiative’s performance.
He said the scheme, which was
established in 1999 as a non-governmental organisation, was geared towards
community development to reduce poverty and improve the livelihood of people,
using agriculture and micro-credit among others.
The chairman said the scheme was
involved in poultry, piggery, bee-keeping and cocoa farming to ensure poverty
reduction and contribute to agricultural development in the country.
His words: “We want provision of
access roads in the farm villages, access to direct credit and government’s
grants toward our poverty reduction programme.
The change in the life of the
poor is visible as the needs and well-being of women and other disadvantaged
groups in our community are being met.
“Hundreds of young graduates now
see agriculture as a thriving business and cluster innovation farming platform
has been proved beyond doubt that it is capable of making fortune
https://niyitabiti.net/2017/08/nigeria-to-save-n300bn-annually-from-rice-import/
LT Foods: Huge demand for Basmati
Filed on August 14, 2017
The company exports 60 per cent of its products
The Middle East
is one of the biggest markets for Indian basmati rice
LT Foods, a leading Indian basmati
exporter, has been in the business for more than 50 years now."Our first
export container was sent to the Middle East in 1989," recalls Ashwani
Arora, Managing Director and CEO of the company. "The company revenue was
just Rs30 million then. Today, it is Rs30 billion."
The Middle East is one of the
biggest markets for Indian basmati rice. About 65 per cent of the company's
exports are to the Middle East, with Dubai being the major market.
"Our strong markets are
India, U.S. and the Middle East," explains Arora. According to him, demand
from the Middle East is expanding at 10 per cent annually. Many countries in
the Middle East, including Iran and Iraq are also moving from ordinary rice to
Basmati varieties, he adds.
LT Foods has set up a processing
plant in the Netherlands. According to Arora, about 90 per cent of its business
is accounted for by Basmati rice.
"Over the next five years
our plan is to grow our core," says Arora. "We want to be a
billion-dollar company by then." Basmati rice would account for about $700
million of turnover and the rest would be from organic and other products.
Currently, the company exports 60
per cent of its products. However, with Basmati consumption growing in India,
he sees huge demand from the domestic market. "As per capita income
increases, demand for Basmati rice will also grow," says Arora.The company
has a full-fledged sales and marketing office in Dubai for the last 10 years
UPDATE
2-Bangladesh to cut duty on rice imports to cool local prices
* Second cut in rice duty in less than two months
* Bangladesh a major rice importer after floods cut output
* High prices a worry; Dhaka seeks to buy 1.5 mln T
* Bangladesh demand could stoke Asia rice prices (Add imports
target, details)
By Ruma Paul
DHAKA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Bangladesh will slash the duty on rice
imports to cool high local prices of the staple grain, the country's food
minister said on Wednesday, the second cut in less than two months.
The import duty on rice will be
lowered to 2 percent from 10 percent, Food Minister Kamrul Islam told
reporters, down from 28 percent in June.Bangladesh, the world's fourth-biggest
rice producer, has emerged as a major importer of the grain this year due to
depleted stocks and record high local prices following flash floods in April
that cut around 1 million tonnes of rice production.
"We have taken the decision
anticipating major floods that could further cut rice production," Islam
said, adding the circular outlining the cut would be issued in a day or two.Growing
demand from Bangladesh could help stoke Asian rice prices that hit multi-year
highs in June.
The government is making a frantic
effort to build buffer stocks as it aims to import as much as 1.5 million
tonnes of rice in the year to June.Bangladesh has bought 250,000 tonnes of rice
from Vietnam in a state-to-state deal and is issuing a series of tenders after
its initial plans to import the grain from Thailand and India suffered a
setback over high prices.
The government is in talks with
Cambodia and Myanmar to import rice while it is also engaged in a second round
of discussions with Thailand and India.Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh’s
160 million people and high prices pose a problem for the government which
faces a national election next year.
Bangladesh produces around 34
million tonnes of rice annually but uses almost all its production to feed its
population. It often requires imports to cope with shortages caused by floods
or droughts.Bangladesh also has a major wheat import need after floods damaged
its crops but tough state purchasing conditions and slow ship unloading in
ports mean trading houses are unwilling to sell grain to the Asian country.
(Editing by Susan Thomas)
Author Name: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-idUSKCN1AV0WT
Rice output is estimated to be a
record 110.15 million
NEW DELHI: As per the data, rice output is estimated to be a record
110.15 million tonnes in 2016-17 as against 104.41 million tonnes in the
previous year. Previous record was 106.65 million tonnes in 2013-14. Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/60087254.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Red Cross to
send test shipment of rice from Pakistan to stricken Yemen
GENEVA/HODEIDAH, Yemen (Reuters) - The International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) plans to send a test shipment of rice to Yemen this month
in its first attempt since February to deliver food aid via the port of
Hodeidah, which is held by Houthi fighters allied to Iran.
The port has been repeatedly hit by air strikes from a Saudi-led
coalition, which has been fighting in Yemen since 2015 to try to restore the
internationally recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power. It
normally handles some 80 percent of Yemen's food supplies as well as
humanitarian aid,
"A certain number of maritime companies are starting to use
Hodeidah port," ICRC spokeswoman Iolanda Jaquemet said. "We are going
to test the waters, so to speak, and send a cargo of rice from Pakistan."The
shipment was expected to leave Pakistan next week and arrive at the Red Sea
port the week after, she said.
The Saudi-led coalition says the Houthis have been using Hodeidah
to smuggle weapons into the country, and Hadi's government has proposed to the
United Nations that it monitors the facility.The ICRC suspended stopped using
Hodeidah port in February. Jaquemet said it had been bringing in supplies to
Yemen by land from Jordan via Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced at least 2
million and destroyed much of the country's infrastructure, including roads,
hospitals and schools, pushing Yemen to the brink of famine. It has also fanned
the spread of cholera, infecting some half a million people and killing nearly
2,000.
The chairman of the board of Red Sea ports, which includes
Hodeidah, said on Wednesday that the Saudi-led coalition in January had stopped
the delivery of four mobile cranes organized by the World Food Programme (WFP)
to replace cranes destroyed by the coalition last year.The WFP confirmed the
report and said the cranes, which were funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) were sent back to Dubai after waiting
offshore for more than a week.
A coalition spokesman said the WFP had not coordinated with the
alliance before it went ahead and sourced the equipment, adding that the
Houthis wanted the cranes to create a source of income from imports to finance
the war effort.He suggested that the cranes be installed instead in al-Mokha
port, which is under coalition control."It will lift its capacity and help
lift the suffering from the Yemeni people by ensuring that revenues go to the
legitimate government through the central bank to spend on salaries of
Yemenis," Colonel Turki al-Maliki said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-saudi-iraq-idUSKCN1AW1LA
GAO report
looks at dredging at Lower Mississippi River ports
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The Mississippi River at St. Louis. Photo by David
Krapf
In late July, the General Accountability Office (GAO)
released a report on dredging issues at 13 Lower Mississippi River ports
between St. Louis and Baton Rouge, La.
The report, Inland
Harbors: The Corps of Engineers Should Assess Existing Capabilities to Better
Inform Dredging Decisions, reviewed the ports from 2010 through
2015. These ports primarily moved a mix of agricultural commodities (corn,
soybeans, and rice), petroleum products, and crude materials (such as sand and
gravel, among others). However, the ports varied, with some primarily moving
grain, and others moving a variety of commodities. These ports also varied in
tonnage transported, ranging from less than one million tons annually to more
than 10 million tons per year.
A majority of the stakeholders interviewed by the GAO, as well
as Army Corps of Engineers officials, said that funding constraints limit the
Corps’ ability to fully dredge the 13 ports’ harbors, which can affect freight
movement. According to local Corps officials, the agency received about $13.1
million of the $20.6 million needed to fully dredge the 13 ports’ harbors in
fiscal year 2016. Some stakeholders told said that smaller ports are negatively
affected by the Corps’ emphasis on the amount of cargo moved (measured in tons)
when making decisions about which harbors to dredge, the GAO said.
Congress has directed the Corps to consider harbors’
significance and to conduct an assessment of harbors’ use and benefits —
considering factors beyond tonnage — when considering the allocation of
dredging funds. Corps officials said they have not conducted such an assessment
due to funding constraints, and raised concerns about the cost-effectiveness of
conducting such assessments. However, the Corps has developed some tools that
may help it assess inland harbors’ significance, use, and benefits. For
example, Corps officials explained that they have a tool that allows them to
track the amount and type of cargo moving through harbors and to estimate the
value of cargo at risk if a harbor loses depth. However, a Corps official noted
that the “cargo-at-risk” metric was based on deep coastal harbors and would
need to be adapted for inland harbors.
A senior Corps official agreed that it could be useful to inform
Congress of the Corps’ existing tools and capabilities and the resources needed
to adapt these tools and capabilities to address the statutory requirements
related to allocating dredging funds.
Many of the stakeholders interviewed by the GAO said that before
considering alternative-funding options, the federal government should make
more use of the current mechanism for funding dredging: the Harbor Maintenance
Trust Fund. Three other potential options for funding dredging — user fees,
state and local contributions, and the Inland Waterways Trust Fund (which currently
funds new construction and major rehabilitation of locks and dams as well as
other channel and waterway improvements) were discussed. Stakeholders said each
faced challenges. In particular, they noted the financial effects of these
options on users, state and local governments, and the Inland Waterways Trust
Fund. However, some stakeholders identified the benefits of using these
options, such as benefits from industry paying user fees for its infrastructure
use, and state and local governments contributing funds to meet the dredging
needs of harbors in their jurisdiction.
The GAO recommended that the Corps inform Congress whether it
can adapt its existing tools to address factors for allocating dredging funds
from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, and the resources needed to do so. The
Corps concurred with the recommendation.
David Krapf has been editor of
WorkBoat, the nation’s leading trade magazine for the inland and coastal
waterways industry, since 1999. He is responsible for overseeing the editorial
direction of the publication. Krapf has been in the publishing industry since
1987, beginning as a reporter and editor with daily and weekly newspapers in
the Houston area. He also was the editor of a transportation industry daily in
New Orleans before joining WorkBoat as a contributing editor in 1992. He has
been covering the transportation industry since 1989. He has a degree in
business administration from the State University of New York at Oswego, and
also studied journalism at the University of Houston.
https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/gao-report-looks-at-dredging-at-lower-mississippi-river-ports/
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/riman-to-support-ncs-in-curbing-rice-smuggling/
CL
farmers coop bats for fair rice allocations
Published
By
Freddie C. VelezSan Miguel, Bulacan — A farmers cooperative in Region 3 yesterday appealed to the National Food Authority (NFA) to provide them with fair allocations from the rice importations that the country would procure for the lean rice months of July-September.The Federation of Central Luzon Farmer’s Cooperative headed by its president Simeon Sioson of this town is hoping that the minimum access volume (MAV) rice importation for this year will not replicate the rice allocation made in 2015.
The FCLFC president explained that in the 2015 MAV rice importation program, only 10 of farmers’ cooperatives were allocated 12,500 metric tons while big-time traders got 176,000 metric tons.
In a letter sent to NFA Administrator Jason Laurena Aquino dated June 12, 2017, Sioson identified the big-time traders as Alchemo Philippines Inc., Arvin International Mktg. Inc., and Philmico Foods Corporation.
During that time, the processing fee imposed by NFA on the rice importation was R50,000 whether the importer has only a small or big volume allocated to them which is very unfair to the farmers, Sioson said.
RIMAN
to support NCS in curbing rice smuggling
The RIMAN’s Chairman, Board of Trustees, Peter Dharma,
gave this assurance in Kano on Tuesday at the inaugural meeting of the
association.The Rice Millers Association of Nigeria has promised to provide
useful information to the Nigeria Customs Service in its efforts to curb the
smuggling of rice into the country.The RIMAN’s Chairman, Board of Trustees,
Peter Dharma, gave this assurance in Kano on Tuesday at the inaugural meeting
of the association.
He said that Nigerians had, over
the years, been losing enormous resources to the smuggling of food items into
the country.Dharma also pledged that the association would support the Federal
Government’s programme value chain of local rice cultivation, milling,
processing and production.He said: “Our association will work closely with the
regulatory and policy makers to ensure standards in local rice milling.”The
chairman also stated that the association would support research into renewable
energy source, which he said, the association would recommend to its members in
the near future.
Speaking on the occasion, the Area
Commander of the Nigeria Customs Service, Yusuf Abba, hailed RIMAN’s plan, as
according to him, it will yield some economic benefits to the country.
Abba, who was represented by the
Deputy Comptroller Enforcement of the service, Ago Hyacinth, said smugglers
should no longer be allowed to sabotage the nation’s economy.Mallam Muhammed
Munir, a director at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,
said the Federal Government’s injection of money into the sector, would
facilitate employment opportunities for citizens.NAN reports that the
association at the inaugural meeting discussed the various issues surrounding
rice production in the country.
http://news.mb.com.ph/2017/08/15/cl-farmers-coop-bats-for-fair-rice-allocations/
Bangladesh to cut duty on rice imports to cool local prices
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will
slash the duty on rice imports to cool high local prices of the staple grain,
the country's food minister said on Wednesday, the second cut in less than two
months.The import duty on rice will be lowered to 2 percent from 10 percent,
Food Minister Kamrul Islam told reporters, down from 28 percent in June.Bangladesh,
the world's fourth-biggest rice producer, has emerged as a major importer of
the grain this year due to depleted stocks and record high local prices
following flash floods in April that cut around 1 million tonnes of rice
production.
"We have taken the decision
anticipating major floods that could further cut rice production," Islam
said, adding the circular outlining the cut would be issued in a day or two.Growing
demand from Bangladesh could help stoke Asian rice prices that hit multi-year
highs in June.The government is making a frantic effort to build buffer stocks
as it aims to import as much as 1.5 million tonnes of rice in the year to June.Bangladesh
has bought 250,000 tonnes of rice from Vietnam in a state-to-state deal and is
issuing a series of tenders after its initial plans to import the grain from
Thailand and India suffered a setback over high prices.
The government is in talks with
Cambodia and Myanmar to import rice while it is also engaged in a second round
of discussions with Thailand and India.Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh’s
160 million people and high prices pose a problem for the government which
faces a national election next year.
Bangladesh produces around 34
million tonnes of rice annually but uses almost all its production to feed its
population. It often requires imports to cope with shortages caused by floods
or droughts.Bangladesh also has a major wheat import need after floods damaged
its crops but tough state purchasing conditions and slow ship unloading in
ports mean trading houses are unwilling to sell grain to the Asian country.
Editing by Susan Thomas
https://in.reuters.com/article/india-gold-policy-idINKCN1AW19Y
Rice
basmati rises on increased buying
Wed,
16 Aug 2017-02:24pm , PTI
Rice
basmati prices firmed up by up to Rs 200 per quintal at the wholesale grains
market today on emergence of buying by the stockists.
A
few other bold grains also finished higher on increased offtake by consuming
industries.
Traders
said stockists buying following pick up in demand against restricted supplies
from producing belts mainly led to rise in rice basmati prices.
In
the national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa 1121 variety settled higher
at Rs 6,400-6,500 and Rs 5,150- 5,200 from previous levels of Rs 6,300-6,400
and Rs 4,950- 5,025 per quintal, respectively.
Other
bold grains like, bajra, maize and barley also finished higher at Rs
1,225-1,230, Rs 1,330-1,335 and Rs 1,490-1,500 against last close of Rs
1,190-1,195, Rs 1,310- 1,320 and Rs 1,450-1,460 per quintal, respectively.
Following
are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal): Wheat MP (desi) Rs 2,100-2,350,
Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 1,780-1,785, Chakki atta (delivery) Rs 1,785-1,790,
Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 260-300, Shakti Bhog (10 kg) Rs 255-290, Roller flour
mill Rs 970-980 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,010-1,020 (50 kg)and Sooji Rs 1,040-1,045
(50 kg).
Basmati
rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super Basmati Rice Rs
9,800, Basmati common new Rs 6,400-6,500, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs 5,150-5,200,
Permal raw Rs 2,150-2,175, Permal wand Rs 2,200-2,225, Sela Rs 2,300-2,400 and
Rice IR-8 Rs 1,825-1,850, Bajra Rs 1,225-1,230, Jowar yellow Rs 1,400-1,450,
white Rs 2,800-2,900, Maize Rs 1,330-1,335, Barley Rs 1,490-1,500.
(This article has not been edited
by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
http://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-rice-basmati-rises-on-increased-buying-2531556
Bangladesh signs big rice deal
Sok
Chan / Khmer Times Share:
Two weeks after Bangladesh and Cambodia signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) in Phnom Penh to purchase rice from Cambodia, on Monday of this
week Bangladesh signed a deal to buy 250,000 tonnes of milled rice from
Cambodia.
The purchasing agreement was made after the officials from
state-owned Green Trade Company and the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) flew to
Bangladesh last week to negotiate in detail on the purchasing agreements
between Bangladesh and Cambodia based on the government-to-government MoU.
CRF president Sok Puthyvuth said yesterday that Bangladesh was
interested in Cambodian rice and wanted to have a relationship with Cambodia.
He said that after Bangladesh signed an MoU with Cambodia on
August 2, officials from the CRF and Green Trade flew to Bangladesh to
negotiate directly.
He said that there were tough negotiations and competition with
Thailand, India and Vietnam also wooing Bangladesh to purchase rice from them.
However, Bangladesh chose Cambodia.
Bangladesh, the world’s fourth-biggest rice producer, has
emerged as a major importer of the grain this year after flash floods in April
hit domestic output. As a result, the country is facing dwindling stocks and
high local prices.
“We will work with the CRF’s members, Green Trade and Rural
Development Bank to strengthen the export soon,” Mr Puthyvuth said.
“We want the export to take place as soon as possible,” he said.
“We are not worried as Bangladesh gave us enough time,” he added.
He said that CRF will talk with its members on the amount to
export to Bangladesh and would get feedback soon on their ability to export to
Bangladesh.
“Prices will be based on the market price but we will continue to talk to find a win-win
solution between Cambodian farmers and Bangladesh,” Mr Puthyvuth said.
“At the moment, the price we are offering Bangladesh is
competitive compared with Vietnam, Thailand and India.
“In the next five years, the price will be higher as Cambodia
modernises its agriculture, particularly the rice sector,” Mr Puthyvuth said.
On August 2, the Cambodian Commerce Ministry and Bangladesh
signed the MoU to sell about a million tonnes of rice in the five years to 2022.
Sok Sopheak, under-secretary of state at the Ministry of
Commerce, said the quality of rice and pricing were crucial for Cambodia to
compete with Thailand and India who had also signed MoUs with Bangladesh.
He said costs on such aspects as logistics and terminal handling
charges would be kept as low as possible.
Song Saran, CEO of AMRU Rice, welcomed the agreement with Bangladesh,
saying it opened new markets for Cambodia.
“The private sector is keen to make this agreement work. We will
ensure the Bangladeshis that the rice they get from us will be the best
quality,” he said.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078380/bangladesh-signs-big-rice-deal/
Bangladesh further slashes import duty on rice
to stabilize market amid flash floods
Source:
Xinhua| 2017-08-16 19:28:32|Editor: Zhou Xin
DHAKA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh has decided to cut import
duty on rice further to 2 percent in a bid to rein the instability in prices of
the staple food item amid flash floods.Bangladeshi Food Minister Qamrul Islam
made the announcement at a press briefing Wednesday in the capital of Dhaka."We've
decided to slash the duty to 2 percent from the existing 10," said the
minister.
He said the government decided to import 1.5 million tones of
rice in the current 2017-2018 fiscal year in an effort to replenish reserves
and rein in prices of the staple in the wake of the flooding.Apart from this,
he said Bangladesh will import 500,000 tonnes of wheat in the current fiscal
year.
He said a state agency has already started to import rice
through government-to-government deals from producers of Cambodia, India,
Thailand, Vietnam, as importing via tenders is a lengthy process.After the
second round of flooding in June, the Bangladeshi government eased import duty
on rice to 10 percent from 28 percent in a bid to stabilize the domestic
market.
Owing to higher import duty placed back in 2015 and 2016 to
safeguard local farmers amid cheap prices from neighboring countries, rice
import has dropped to a four-year low this year.
Local importers blamed a 28-percent tariff on rice import for
the decline.
As the domestic rice market has again become volatile in the
wake of reports that paddy production is likely to fall this year due to flash
floods and rice blast disease, prices of rice have continued soaring since
April.In recent months local rice prices have hit a record high and the state
reserves are reportedly at a six-year low.The state-run Trading Corporation of
Bangladesh reportedly recorded an about 50-percent hike in the prices of coarse
rice this month compared to the same period last year.
Price hike of food items particularly staple rice is a key
concern for the Bangladeshi government as nearly 31.5 percent of its around 160
million people still live below the national poverty line and spend a large
part of their incomes on food purchase.Flash Flood struck the country's
northeastern region in March, causing huge loss of boro (winter) rice. Apart
from this, rice blast disease has also affected boro rice production elsewhere
in the country.
Against such circumstances, prices are seen rising in the short
term on a supply shortage.
The situation seems to have worsened in Bangladesh this week as
floods have reportedly hit 20 districts, mostly in the country's north, leaving
dozens of people dead
Nagpur
Foodgrain Prices Open- August 16, 2017
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-August 16
Nagpur, August 16 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices shot up in
Nagpur Agriculture Produce and
Marketing Committee (APMC) here on increased demand from local
millers amid thin supply from
producing belts. Government restriction on pulses import, healthy
rise in Madhya Pradesh pulses
and reported demand from South-based millers also boosted prices.
About 450 of gram and 400 bags of tuar were available for auctions,
according to sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Gram varieties zoomed up
in open market here on renewed buying support from local
traders amid tight
supply from millers.
TUAR
* Tuar varieties recovered
strongly in open market on increased festival season demand
from local traders amid
weak arrival from producing belts.
* Moong and Udid varieties
firmed up in open market on increased seasonal demand from
local traders amid tight
supply from producing regions.
* In Akola, Tuar New –
5,100-5,400, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,500-6,700, Udid Mogar (clean)
– 8,800-9,300, Moong
Mogar (clean) 6,800-7,400, Gram – 5,500-5,800, Gram Super best
– 8,600-9,000
* Wheat, rice and other
commodities moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and
settled at last levels in thin trading activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC
auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 4,600-5,590 4,600-5,400
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 4,000-4,600 3,800-4,300
Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800
Wheat Mill quality
Auction 1,550-1,715 1,500-1,706
Gram Super Best
Bold 9,000-9,400 8,500-9,000
Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best 8,000-8,400 7,600-8,000
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality 5,400-5,600 5,200-5,350
Desi gram Raw 5,700-5,900 5,400-5,600
Gram Kabuli 12,700-13,800 12,500-13,500
Tuar Fataka
Best-New 6,800-7,000 6,400-6,600
Tuar Fataka
Medium-New 6,200-6,500 5,800-6,100
Tuar Dal Best
Phod-New 6,200-6,400 5,700-6,000
Tuar Dal Medium
phod-New 5,800-6,000 5,500-5,700
Tuar Gavarani New 5,500-5,700 5,200-5,400
Tuar Karnataka 6,000-6,200 5,800-6,000
Masoor dal best 5,000-5,500 5,000-5,500
Masoor dal medium 4,500-4,800 4,500-4,800
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold
(New) 7,000-7,500 6,800-7,200
Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-6,800 6,200-6,500
Moong dal Chilka 5,500-6,000 5,300-5,800
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 7,000-8,000 6,600-7,600
Udid Mogar best (100
INR/KG) (New) 9,000-10,000
8,500-9,500
Udid Mogar Medium (100
INR/KG) 6,600-7,500 6,400-7,200
Udid Dal Black (100
INR/KG) 5,100-5,500 4,700-5,100
Batri dal (100
INR/KG) 5,900-6,100 5,900-6,100
Lakhodi dal (100
INR/kg) 2,900-3,200 2,900-3,200
Watana Dal (100
INR/KG) 2,900-3,100 2,900-3,100
Watana White (100
INR/KG) 3,500-3,700 3,500-3,700
Watana Green Best (100
INR/KG) 3,600-4,800 3,600-4,800
Wheat 308 (100
INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000
Wheat Mill quality (100
INR/KG) 1,800-1,900 1,800-1,900
Wheat Filter (100
INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300
Wheat Lokwan best (100
INR/KG) 2,100-2,400 2,100-2,400
Wheat Lokwan medium (100
INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000
Lokwan Hath Binar (100
INR/KG) n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100
INR/KG) 3,000-3,600 3,000-3,600
MP Sharbati Medium (100
INR/KG) 2,200-2,700 2,200-2,700
Rice BPT new (100
INR/KG) 2,800-3,300 2,800-3,300
Rice BPT best (100
INR/KG) 3,300-3,500 3,300-3,500
Rice BPT medium (100
INR/KG) 3,000-3,100 3,000-3,100
Rice Luchai (100
INR/KG) 2,500-2,800 2,500-2,800
Rice Swarna new (100
INR/KG) 2,350-2,450 2,350-2,450
Rice Swarna best (100
INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,650
Rice Swarna medium (100
INR/KG) 2,300-2,400 2,300-2,400
Rice HMT New (100
INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000
Rice HMT best (100
INR/KG) 4,500-5,000 4,500-5,000
Rice HMT medium (100
INR/KG) 4,100-4,300 4,100-4,300
Rice Shriram New(100
INR/KG) 4,500-4,700 4,600-4,800
Rice Shriram best 100
INR/KG) 6,500-6,800 6,500-6,800
Rice Shriram med (100
INR/KG) 5,800-6,200 5,800-6,200
Rice Basmati best (100
INR/KG) 10,000-13,500 10,000-13,500
Rice Basmati Medium (100
INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500
Rice Chinnor New(100
INR/KG) 4,500-4,800 4,500-4,800
Rice Chinnor best 100
INR/KG) 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000
Rice Chinnor medium (100
INR/KG) 5,400-5,600 5,400-5,600
Jowar Gavarani (100
INR/KG) 2,000-2,200 2,000-2,200
Jowar CH-5 (100
INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,800-2,000
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 34.5 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 23.7 degree
Celsius
Rainfall : Nil
FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky with one or two spells or rains or thunder-showers
likely. Maximum
and minimum temperature would be around and 34 and 24 degree
Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices,
but
included in market prices)
ATTN : Soyabean mandi, wholesale foodgrain market of Nagpur APMC
and oil market in Vidarbha will
be closed tomorrow, Thursday, on the occasion of Pateti, Parsi New
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