Monday, March 12, 2018

12th March,2018 daily global regional local rice e-newsletter


PHL rice stocks fall to 5-month low

Philippine rice inventory as of February 1 fell to its lowest in five months due mainly to the depletion of the National Food Authority’s (NFA) stockpile, according to the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
Data from the PSA showed that the country’s rice stocks declined by nearly 22 percent to 1.795 million metric tons (MMT), from 2.296 MMT recorded in February 2017.
The rice inventory during the period was the lowest since September 2017, when it reached 1.422 MMT, PSA data showed. The PSA said the total rice inventory as of February 1 was sufficient for 53 days.
The NFA’s rice stockpile as of February 1 plunged to its lowest level in two decades. It also declined by 86.8 percent to 61,400 MT, from the previous year’s 465,260 MT. Data from the PSA showed that nearly 89 percent of the food agency’s buffer stock was comprised of imported rice.
“Year-on-year, rice stocks inventory level dropped in the households, commercial warehouses and NFA depositories by 5 percent, 5.74 percent and 86.8 percent, respectively,” the PSA said in its monthly report titled, “Rice and Corn Stocks Inventory,” published recently.
“With reference to the previous month’s rice stocks inventory level, a decrease of 17.93 percent was observed in the households, 24.58 percent in commercial warehouses and 42.54 percent in NFA depositories,” it added.
Of the total rice inventory as of February 1, about 60.58 percent were from households, 36 percent were held by commercial warehouses and 3.42 percent were in NFA depositories, according to the PSA.
The total volume of rice held by households during the period reached 1.087 MMT, while those in the commercial warehouses amounted to 646,560 MT.
The government periodically monitors rice inventory to determine whether it would need to import the staple to boost local stocks.
During the period, PSA data also showed that total corn-stock inventory stood at 410,300 MT, 6.65 percent lower than the last year’s record of 439,570 MT.
The corn-stock inventory as of February 1 declined by more than half from the 951,600 MT recorded in January.
The PSA said the bulk of corn-stock inventory in February, or 81.84 percent, was in commercial warehouses, while households accounted for 18.06 percent. NFA depositories accounted for a mere 0.10 percent.
Corn stocks in commercial warehouses amounted to 335,820 MT, 74,120 MT in households and 390 MT in NFA warehouses.
“Corn stocks both in the households and NFA depositories decreased in comparison to their levels in the previous year. Stocks dropped by 51.27 percent in the households and 83.56 percent in NFA depositories. However, an increase of 17.79 percent was recorded in commercial warehouses,” the report read.
“Compared with the previous month, corn-stocks inventory level in all sectors decreased. Stocks dropped by 1.16 percent in the households, 61.67 percent in commercial warehouses and 9.07 percent in NFA depositories,” it added.
The PSA sources its data for the rice inventory held by household from its monthly Palay and Corn Stocks Survey, which covers farming and nonfarming households  nationwide. The survey, which is done in the first four days of the month, covers all provinces except Batanes.
Meanwhile, the data on commercial stocks are sourced from registered grains businessmen through the Commercial Stocks Survey, conducted by the NFA, the results of which are submitted to PSA. NFA stocks are monitored from their warehouses/depositories, according to the PSA.
‘Aggressive palay buying’
To beef up its stockpile, the NFA said over the weekend that it is ready to compete with private traders for local palay during the summer crop harvest from March to May.
NFA Administrator Jason Aquino said in a statement that the food agency will focus all its logistics, funds and personnel on aggressive palay buying as harvest starts to peak in some areas.
As early as January, palay procurement funds had already been remitted to areas expected to start harvesting earlier than the others. These include Iloilo, Aklan, Bukidnon, La Union, Bulacan, Pampanga, Bataan, Batangas, San Jose and Mamburao in Mindoro Occidental, Sultan Kudarat, and other areas in Mindanao.
The agency attached to the Office of the President said it plans to deploy mobile procurement teams in far-flung areas to buy paddy directly from farmers. They are instructed to buy even freshly harvested or wet palay based on the respective drying capacities of each NFA provincial and regional office.
Almost all NFA provincial offices and half of its buying stations across the country have mechanical driers and solar drying facilities.
All NFA buying stations will also be opened and utilized during the whole harvest period. Procurement personnel shall be required to render overtime work if necessary, Aquino said.
“Historically when harvest peaks, ex-farm prices go down, though minimal, during the summer crop because this is the season when farmers produce better quality palay than during the wet crop so traders also buy aggressively,” Aquino said.
“Farm-gate prices may go down as rice from the private sector’s minimum access volume imports start to be released in the market. When that happens, the NFA shall seize the opportunity to also aggressively buy local harvest,” he added.
Aquino said the NFA has made it easier for famers to sell their palay to the agency by simplifying its procedures and payment scheme. In less risky areas, NFA will pay palay deliveries in cash on the same day.
NFA buys palay at P17 per kilogram (kg) clean and dry with an additional P0.20 per  kg drying incentive and P0.20-P0.50 per kilogram delivery incentive. For farmer organizations an additional P0.30 per kilogram  is given as cooperative development incentive fee. Effectively, the NFA said its palay buying price ranges from P17.70 per kg to P18.00 per kg.
During year-round Ugnayan meetings with farmers and local government officials, NFA reminds them that in selling palay to NFA, an individual farmer only needs to secure a passbook to prove that he is a legitimate farmer. The passbook is given free of charge.
Also, the NFA said a farmer needs to submit an information sheet with identification picture, and certification from the barangay captain, municipal agriculturist, municipal agrarian officer or national irrigation administration where his farm is located. For farmer organizations, a master passbook must be secured by submitting their certificate of registration, assembly resolution and master list of members.
But even without a passbook, a farmer can still sell his produce to the NFA up to 200 bags for the first time. Farmers may also deliver more than their marketable surplus provided there is a certification on the volume of their harvest from the municipal agriculture officer.
For 2018, NFA targets to buy 6 million bags of palay, equivalent to 300,000 MT, to boost the government’s buffer stock and rice distribution requirements.


White rice is associated with diabetes

Mar 11, 2018 10:29 am 
Large consumption of white rice increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new American survey. The findings confirm that paddy brown rice is healthier and reduces the risk of diabetes. Replacement of white rice, which increases blood sugar, brown rice and other whole grains may reduce the likelihood of diabetes by one-third.
People who eat at least five servings of white rice a week are 17% more likely to develop diabetes than those who eat less than one serving per month (each portion is estimated to be 150 grams). On the other hand, those who eat two or more servings of brown rice a week have an 11% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who eat less than one serving a month.
The study, which examined 22-year-old data from 197,000 adults, was conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine, according to Reuters and French BBC.
According to the researchers, replacing the consumption of white rice and other processed cereals with whole grains and brown rice helps reduce the risk of diabetes. Even replacing on a daily basis only one-third of rice (about 50 grams) of a typical white portion of white with the same amount of brown rice may reduce the risk of diabetes by 16%. Replacing white rice with other full grains can reduce the risk of diabetes by 36%


Three new varieties of rice to boost Bengal's paddy production 
Team MP |  11 March 2018 11:53 PM Kolkata: Scientists of the state Agriculture department have discovered three new varieties of rice, which will ensure further increase in paddy production in Bengal. The scientists of the department, who are posted in its different research institutes, had been working for a period of time on it. The three new varieties of rice that the people of Bengal are going to get soon in the market are Bhupesh, Rajdip and Dhruba. The production of these varieties has already been started in some places, following necessary tests by the department's scientists. Asish Banerjee, the state Agriculture minister, said: "All the three varieties of rice will ensure further increase in paddy production in the state.
" The state Agriculture department has chalked out an elaborate plan to ensure that all the three varieties are produced in the entire state. The varieties of aromatic flavor will further increase demand of rice from Bengal. This comes at the time when the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has written to the state Food and Supplies department to supply rice for distribution in three states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Jharkhand. According to experts, the demand was made as Bengal is the highest producer of rice in the country and several varieties of rice are cultivated here. Moreover, production has increased in the past few years, with several steps being taken by the Mamata Banerjee government. Besides organising training programmes for farmers, tools required for agriculture were also distributed among them. The new varieties of rice will be cultivated across the state and the production will increase manifold, which will be beneficial for the farmers. At the same time, a new variety of jute has also been discovered by scientists of the state Agriculture department. The name of the new variety of jute is ARO 4 and cultivating this variety of the crop will help farmers make some profit as its production is comparatively lesser. It may be recalled that the state Agriculture department has also taken a major step to utilise its land, which remained unused for the most part of a year and sought suggestions of scientists who are working in the field of agriculture.

http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/three-new-varieties-of-rice-to-boost-bengals-paddy-production-289031
http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/three-new-varieties-of-rice-to-boost-bengals-paddy-production-289031

Pakistan rice exports register 27% growth

  Last Updated On 12 March,2018 01:19 pm
This year, Pakistan exported total 2.59 million metric tons of rice amounting to US$ 1.224 billion.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - Rice exports from Pakistan have seen sizeable growth of overall 27% at the end of February, 2018. This statement was given by Mr. Rafique Suleman, Senior Vice Chairman Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan, while talking with news reporters.
He shared the figures of rice exports during the period of July to February 2018. He said that at the end of February 2018, rice exports for fiscal year 2017-18 (July to Feb 2018) a significant growth has been observed as compared to last fiscal year 2016-17 (July to Feb 2017).
He said that this year we exported total 2.59 million metric tons of rice amounting to US$ 1.224 billion, whereas last fiscal year in the same period we had exported 2.27 Million Metric Tons of rice amounting to US$.961 Million, which shows over all a significant growth of 27% in terms values and 14% in terms of quantity.
He expressed his pleasure to inform the media persons that by the grace of Almighty Allah, we have come out of the crisis which we have been observing since last three years. Further with the coordination of REAP Office Bearers with Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and Customs, value of rice export trade is showing improvement which is a good sign for our country. Further, REAP members are putting their untiring efforts and aggressive marketing to increase the rice exports and to earn valueable foreign exchange for our beloved country Pakistan.
He informed that last month REAP had organized International Buyers Recognition Awards in Dubai and as a result we are observing that rice exports to UAE showing good growth. In 8 months of current fiscal year, we have exported more than 100,000 Metric tons of rice amounting to US$ 67 Million. Kenya is the largest buyer of Pakistani Non Basmati rice and during eight months of this fiscal year (July to Feb 2018) we have exported 323,000 Metric Tons of rice amounting to US$ 118 Million. He also said that China is the 2nd largest destination for Pakistani Non Basmati rice. As at the end of February 2018, we have exported 233,000 Metric tons of rice valueing US$ 83 Million. He expressed his gratitude to authorities of Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan for obtaining more benefits for Pakistani rice in the recent negotiations during 2nd round of Pakistan China Free Trade Agreement which will result into substantial growth in rice exports to China.
He briefed that right now international demand for rice has been increased around the globe. He was happy to inform that this year we had a very good crop in terms of quality and quantity. Further, prices of Pakistani rice are comparatively cheaper than our competitors, Thailand, Vietnam etc. which is also in our favour.
He added that Pakistani rice exporters are putting their extra ordinary efforts for fetching valueable foreign exchange for the growth of economy of our beloved country and making huge investment for installing world’s latest rice machinery and most modern technology for value addition in rice.
https://dunyanews.tv/en/Business/430819-Pakistan-rice-exports-growth-February

Global and Chinese Rice Milling Machinery Industry – 2017

The Manufacturing and Construction Report has been published today. It provides updated in 2018 year analysis of manufacturing and construction industries.
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Firstly, the report provides a basic overview of the industry including its definition, applications and manufacturing technology. Then, the report explores the international and Chinese major industry players in detail. In this part, the report presents the company profile, product specifications, capacity, production value, and 2012-2017 market shares for each company.
Through the statistical analysis, the report depicts the global and Chinese total market of the Rice Milling Machinery industry including capacity, production, production value, cost/profit, supply/demand and Chinese import/export. The total market is further divided by company, by country, and by application/type for the competitive landscape analysis. The report then estimates 2017-2022 market development trends of the Rice Milling Machinery industry. Analysis of upstream raw materials, downstream demand, and current market dynamics is also carried out.
In the end, the report makes some important proposals for a new project of the Rice Milling Machinery Industry before evaluating its feasibility. Overall, the report provides an in-depth insight of 2012-2022 global and Chinese Rice Milling Machinery industry covering all important parameters.
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https://www.military-technologies.net/2018/03/11/global-and-chinese-rice-milling-machinery-industry-2017-2/

 Progress to more salt resistant rice

brian wang | March 10, 2018 


China improve its resilience to climate change, seawater rice could help bring 200,000 square kilometers of land with salty, alkaline soil into production, according to Chinese media site Xinhua. Even cultivating an additional 670 square kilometers of formerly unproductive land with seawater rice could provide an extra 30 billion kilograms of rice a year – enough to feed 80 million people.
In 2013, 13% of China’s grain was imported, according to Qian Keming, chief economist of China’s Ministry of Agriculture. This is expected to rise to 15% in 2020.
The water used to irrigate Yuan’s seawater rice trials had salt content of 0.6%. On average, the salinity of seawater is between 2-3.5% in coastal waters.
Yuan’s most recent trial batch is selling well at 54 yuan a kg (US$8) – eight times the cost of normal rice. South China Morning Post reports that there had been almost 1000 orders for seawater rice on the online retail platform Tmall.com. They hope to sell rice worth 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) in 2017.
Salt from coastal flooding and tides has left just a fraction of China’s total land open to freshwater rice farming, and in Dongying, a region on China’s eastern coast, 40 percent of land has a salt concentration higher than 0.5 percent, according to the World Bank. Experts expect the rising waters from global climate change to exacerbate this problem.
For his research, Longping planted 200 different saltwater-tolerant rice strains at the Qindao Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center on the Yellow Sea. According to China’s Xinhua News Agency, his efforts yielded 8,030 pounds of rice per acre. For comparison, most commercial U.S. growers harvest between 7,200-7,600 pounds per acre annually.
Though promising, Longping’s experiment did not mimic the actual conditions in China, instead using water with a much lower salt concentration than could be found in nature.
Longping’s rice could also free up freshwater lands that are currently reserved for rice to grow other foods. More affluent Chinese citizens are demanding more meatand less grain-based food, but meeting that need has proven increasingly difficult given the amount of freshwater land reserved for rice cultivation.

Trade deficit expands despite export growth: High import dependency persistent weakness

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Despite an impressive export growth last year, the trade deficit of US$9.6 billion was the country’s highest trade deficit. Although exports reached a record high of US$11.4 billion, imports increased to US$21 billion. The high propensity to import has been the underlying cause for large trade deficits.
Import dependency
Imports exceeding exports has been a regular feature of the country’s trade balance. In the 67 years since 1950 there were only 5 years of a trade surplus. The last trade surplus was as far back as forty years ago in 1977, when a small trade surplus was achieved with stringent import and exchange controls. This reveals the endemic import dependency of the Sri Lankan economy.
Balance of payments surpluses
Nevertheless, the balance of payments has been in surplus in many more years owing to earnings from services, remittances and capital inflows. In recent years the significant growth in workers’ remittances have offset as much as about 70 percent of the trade deficit. This important source of funds has decreased last year by 1.1 percent mainly due to political upheavals and security conditions in some Middle Eastern countries.
Despite this setback, remittances of US$7.2 billion and tourist earnings of US$3.6 billion offset the trade deficit of US$9.6 billion and the balance of payments recorded a surplus of US$2 billion last year.
Trade performance in 2017
In 2017 exports expanded by 10.2 percent to reach a new high of US$11.4 billion. However the trade deficit expanded to a massive US$9.6 billion owing to imports increasing to US$21 billion. Consequently, the trade deficit increased from US$8.4 billion in 2016 to US$9.4 billion in 2017.
Import composition
Sri Lanka’s import dependency is in all three categories of imports: consumer goods, intermediate goods and capital goods. In recent years capital goods imports have been significant owing to huge infrastructure projects that require machinery, transport equipment and other capital goods. Such projects have also increased imports of intermediate goods like cement, fuel and steel. However in 2017, capital goods imports declined slightly from US$4.5 billion to 4.3 billion.
Of the total imports of US$21 billion, capital goods imports accounted for US$4.9 billion, intermediate goods for US$11.4 billion and consumer goods imports for US$4.2 billion. Therefore the largest component of imports is intermediate imports that constituted over half (54.3 percent) of imports in 2017. These include essential items such as fuel imports that increased by 39 percent last year. Other essential imports include textiles, fertiliser, chemicals and iron.
These are all essential items and there is very little possibility of cutting down such imports. In fact most exports have a high import content. Import expenditure on these items are dependent on international prices and fuel prices are especially significant. In 2017 there was both an increase in the amount of oil imports and an increase in prices.
Food
Despite near self-sufficiency in rice in normal years, food imports are significant. Last year’s food imports were high owing to a shortfall in food crops, especially rice, owing to a prolonged drought. Food imports amounted to US$1.8 billion last year. This excludes the major item of wheat that is classified as an intermediate good as it is processed to flour locally. Wheat imports increased by 43 percent last year, but constituted only a small proportion of total imports at a cost of only US$356 million.
Therefore total food imports cost U$2.5 billion or 11.5 percent of total imports. Food imports include many basic and essential items such as wheat, sugar, milk, dhal and basic foods. In brief, import expenditure in 2017 was the highest ever at US$21 billion. This large increase was owing to higher imports of fuel and rice and wheat mainly owing to the prolonged drought. In addition, expenditure on gold also increased significantly during the year. However, import expenditure on machinery and equipment, sugar, spices and fertiliser declined during the year.
Policy implications
The reduction of the trade deficit is of fundamental importance in improving the balance of payments and strengthening foreign reserves. Unfortunately there was a deterioration in the trade performance last year owing to higher imports of food, fuel and essential intermediate goods. It is therefore vital that non-essential imports are contained.
Fiscal and monetary policies should be designed to reduce imports. However some of the budgetary proposals are likely to increase imports, while fuel costs may rise owing to international prices increasing. Already electric car imports have increased. Rice and wheat imports are likely to decrease in the second half of this year owing to better harvests. Vigilance on other imports such as motor vehicles is vital to achieve a lesser trade deficit in 2018.
BOP surplus vital
In view of the very large foreign debt repayments in 2019 and beyond, it is vital for the country’s balance of payments to generate a significant surplus. The key to an improvement in the trade balance is much higher export earnings and enhanced earnings from services. The setback in tourism must be corrected and much higher earrings must be from IT services. Fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies must be geared to increasing exports and restraining imports.
In the context of the increasing trade deficit, where export growth was nullified by higher import growth, there has to be a concerted set of policies that would restrain non-essential imports. Fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies should be geared to restrain imports. There does not seem to be an adequate policy thrust to restrain aggregate demand. There is a need to change the policy stance on interest rates to restrain aggregate demand.
Concluding reflections
All things considered, Sri Lanka’s prospects lie in enhancing exports significantly. Some commentators have pointed out quite rightly that our exports have a high import content and that tourist earnings and remittances too increase imports. This being so there is a need to expand exports exponentially to ensure a trade surplus. The scope for reduced import expenditure is limited owing to the essential nature of most imports.

IISc bangalore and US researchers develop new 2-D flat material gallenene



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Banglore's  Indian Institute of Science and US researchers have developed a method to make atomically flat gallium that shows promise for nanoscale electronics. 
Pulickel Ajayan, Rice University lab of materials scientist and IISc scientists created two-dimensional gallenene, a thin-film of conductive material that is to gallium what graphene is to carbon.
Extracted into a two-dimensional form, the novel material appears to have an affinity for binding with semiconductors like silicon and could make an efficient metal contact in two-dimensional electronic devices, the researchers said.
The new material was introduced in Science Advances.
Gallium is a metal with a low melting point; unlike graphene and many other 2-D structures, it cannot yet be grown with vapour phase deposition methods. Moreover, gallium also has a tendency to oxidise quickly. And, while early samples of graphene were removed from graphite with adhesive tape, the bonds between gallium layers are too strong for such a simple approach.
So Atanu Samanta, a student at the Indian Institute of Science, and the  the Rice team led by co-authors Vidya Kochat, a former postdoctoral researcher at Rice, used heat instead of force.
Rather than a bottom-up approach, the researchers worked their way down from bulk gallium by heating it to 29.7 degrees Celsius (about 85 degrees Fahrenheit), just below the element's melting point. That was enough to drip gallium onto a glass slide. As a drop cooled just a bit, the researchers pressed a flat piece of silicon dioxide on top to lift just a few flat layers of gallenene.
They successfully exfoliated gallenene onto other substrates, including gallium nitride, gallium arsenide, silicone and nickel. That allowed them to confirm that particular gallenene-substrate combinations have different electronic properties and to suggest that these properties can be tuned for applications.
"The current work utilises the weak interfaces of solids and liquids to separate thin 2-D sheets of gallium," said Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, principal investigator on the project he completed at Rice before becoming an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, India. "The same method can be explored for other metals and compounds with low melting points."
Gallenene's plasmonic and other properties are being investigated, according to Ajayan. "Near 2-D metals are difficult to extract, since these are mostly high-strength, nonlayered structures, so gallenene is an exception that could bridge the need for metals in the 2-D world," he said.

BREEDING BUGS TO FEED THE SALMON AROUND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - Scientists at UC Davis have come up with a new way to save the salmon population in Northern California.
Posted: Mar. 9, 2018 4:39 PM
Updated: Mar. 9, 2018 4:39 PM
Posted By: Jafet Serrato
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - Scientists at UC Davis have come up with a new way to save the salmon population in Northern California.
The fish are often cut off from their traditional food source of bugs, which are mostly in the rice fields.
Researchers want local farmers to harvest "water fleas" in rice fields, this mimics floodplains where salmon traditionally went to get their "fish food.”
The bugs reproduce by the millions and the fish food then flows into the river, where salmon can feed.
Scientists say that so far, the results have been impressive.
“They're robust, they're strong, they have shoulders and a belly, they've packed their lunch, they're ready for that long journey to the ocean and they have a much better likelihood of surviving,” said Jacob Kratz.
Thus far, a handful of farmers have opened up their rice fields to grow bugs.
The goal is to have the movement spread throughout the state

Parched in State’s rice bowl

PALAKKAD, MARCH 10, 2018 22:21 IST
UPDATED: MARCH 11, 2018 16:38 IST

Palakkad hots up like never before posing threat of water scarcity

If there is anything that has put people in Palakkad into a tizzy these days, it is the blistering heat, which shows no sign of abating any time soon. With the mercury soaring above 40 degrees Celsius in the first fortnight of March itself, the entire district is now inching towards a blazing summer with extreme scarcity of drinking water and frequent outbreak of epidemics.
With the much awaited summer showers nowhere in sight, areas such as eastern Attappady and Chittur have started wilting under the blistering heat. Drinking water has already turned into a precious commodity even in urban areas like Ottappalam, Pattambi and Thrithala.
The highest temperature is now being recorded in Malampuzha, Mundur and Pattambi where people prefer to keep themselves indoors to avoid sunstroke.
Flouride content in water
While eastern Attappady depends heavily on water-carrying tanker lorries, the water situation remains extremely precarious in Eruthempathy, Kozhinjampra and Vadakarapathy grama panchayats of Chittur taluk, where groundwater remains inconsumable due to high fluoride content. The poor allocation of Kerala’s share from the Aliyar reservoir under the inter-State Parambikulam-Aliyar Project (PAP) has affected the drinking water supply projects in the three panchayats adversely. The arid regions located close to Pollachi in Tamil Nadu have also been hit by water shortage.
As far as people in the tribal regions of Attappady are concerned, the drinking water situation is showing a little improvement with the construction of make shift check-dams in the Siruvani river using sand bags, ignoring stiff opposition from Tamil Nadu.

Millers condemn Revanth’s allegations on Etela

Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, District Rice Millers Association president Bachu Bhaskar termed the allegation as false and said the State government had taken the decision as about 3,000 millers staged a dharna at Indira Park on November 12, 2015.

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By AuthorTelanganaToday  |   Published: 10th Mar 2018  10:57 pm
Karimnagar: Karimnagar Rice Millers Association condemned Congress leader A Revanth Reddy’s allegation that Finance and Civil Supplies Minister Etela Rajender enhanced custom milling charges by accepting a bribe from rice millers.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, District Rice Millers Association president Bachu Bhaskar termed the allegation as false and said the State government had taken the decision as about 3,000 millers staged a dharna at Indira Park on November 12, 2015.
All political parties, including TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy, was also extended support for their protest. Realising their demand, the government had taken the decision.
Reacting to another allegation that rice millers were supplying rice to the Civil Supplies Corporation by polishing normal rice into fine rice, he said that there was no such machine in the world to convert normal rice into fine variety ones.
There was no truth in the allegation that Laxman, who was booked under PD Act for illegally transporting rice, was the follower of the Finance Minister. Laxman belongs to Jagityal. The opposition was not interested in continue rice mills in the State, he opined.

Rice exports up 14 percent in eight months

KARACHI: Rice exports from Pakistan have seen sizeable growth of 14 percent in quantity and 27 percent in value during the eight months of the current fiscal year; July 2017-February 2018, Rafique Suleman, senior vice chairman, Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) said on Friday.
Sharing the figures, Suleman said this year they exported 2.59 million tons amounting to $1.224 billion, whereas last fiscal year in the same period 2.27 million tons amounting to $.961 million were exported, which shows a growth of 27 percent in value terms and 14 percent in terms of quantity.
He said they had come out of the crisis, which was observed in the last three years.
Due to the coordination of REAP office bearers with Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and Customs, he said, value of rice export trade was showing improvement which was a good sign for the country.
The senior vice chairman said last month REAP had organised International Buyers Recognition Awards in Dubai, and as a result they observed that rice exports to UAE showed good growth. In eight months of the current fiscal year, more than 100,000 tons of rice amounting to $67 million were exported to UAE.
Kenya is the largest buyer of Pakistani non-Basmati rice and during eight months of this fiscal year, 323,000 tons of rice, amounting to $118 million, were exported to Kenya.
China came out as the second largest destination for Pakistani non-basmati rice, as 233,000 tons valuing $83 million were exported to the country.
He expressed his gratitude to authorities of Ministry of Commerce for obtaining more benefits for Pakistani rice in the recent negotiations during the 2nd round of Pakistan-China Free Trade Agreement which will result into substantial growth in rice exports to China.
Rafique Suleman said the international demand for rice has increased around the globe. He was happy to inform that this year the country had a very good crop in terms of quality and quantity. “Further, prices of Pakistani rice are comparatively cheaper than our competitors, Thailand, Vietnam etc, which is also in our favour,” he said.
Pakistani rice exporters were putting in efforts for fetching valuable foreign exchange for the growth of the economy, he said, and added that they were making a huge investment for installing the world’s latest rice machinery and most modern technology for value-addition in the commodity.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/290547-rice-exports-up-14-percent-in-eight-months

 

Basmati Rice Market Regional Production, Size, Demand, Sales Growth Analysis 2018 to 2025

March 9, 2018
Global Basmati Rice Market Professional Survey Report 2018 provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global Basmati Rice sector. The global Basmati Rice market is expected to reach USD XX billion by 2025, from an estimated USD XX billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of XX% during 2018-2025.
The report covers the factors impacting the market, Porter 5 Forces, Market Share Analysis, Price trend analysis, Product Benchmarking, and company profiles. Basmati Rice Market is segmented based on the additives such as Indian Basmati Rice, Pakistani Basmati Rice, Kenya Basmati Rice, Other. Further, the market is segmented based on the applications such as Direct Edible, Deep Processing. The report segments the geographies by regions, which include
North America: United States, Canada and Mexico
Europe: 
Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia and Turkey etc.
Asia-Pacific: 
China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam)
South America: 
Brazil etc.
Middle East and Africa: North Africa and GCC Countries.
Sales of Basmati Riceon basis of each region for each year is analyzed in the report. Report provides Basmati Ricemarket size by regions, type and applications. It also provides market share by regions, type and applications.
The Basmati RiceMarket report profiles the following companies, which includes KRBL Limited, Amira Nature Foods, LT Foods, Best Foods, Kohinoor Rice, Aeroplane Rice, Tilda Basmati Rice, Matco Foods, Amar Singh Chawal Wala, Hanuman Rice Mills, Adani Wilmar, HAS Rice Pakistan, Galaxy Rice Mill, Dunar Foods, Sungold. Each major player’s companies overview, revenue and financial analysis, revenue split by business segment and by geography, recent news are covered in the report.Competitors regional analysis is done where as high, low and medium penetrating regions are analyzed.
Basmati Rice Market Report gives emphases on market dynamics where general trend, Technological Advancement, growth drivers, challenges ahead, market restraints and market opportunities are considered.Report also provides forecast of basis of trends, trade analysis and on other macro-economic factors.
The report gives in depth industry analysis on Basmati Rice. It gives a detailed picture of the Basmati Ricemarket. It helps in visualizing the composition of the Basmati Ricemarket across each indication, in terms of type and applications, highlighting the key commercial assets and players. Report Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change. This study helps in understanding the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands. The five-year forecasts can help to assess how the market is predicted to develop. This analysis provides a study on the regions that are expected to witness fastest growth during the forecast period. Identify the latest developments, market shares and strategies employed by the major market players by reading complete report @ https://www.marketinsightsreports.com/reports/0308297300/basmati-rice-market-report-by-company-regions-types-and-applications-global-status-and-forecast-to-2025         
There are almost 10 Chapters to deeply display the global Basmati Rice market:
Chapter 1 gives Parent Market Synopsis, Basmati Rice Introduction, product scope, market overview.
Chapter 2 gives executive summary and key insights of Basmati Rice market.
Chapter 3 talks about research methodology used for Basmati Rice market study.
Chapter 4 provides competitors regional and overall analysis with sales, revenue, and price of Basmati Rice in 2017 and 2018.
Chapter 5 will show the global Basmati Rice market by regions, with sales, revenue and market share for year 2017 and 2018.
Chapter 6 analyses the key regions, with sales, revenue and Basmati Rice market share by key countries in these regions.
Chapter 7analysesBasmati Rice market by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application from year 2018 to 2025
Chapter 8 gives insights of Basmati Rice market forecast, by regions, type and Application, with sales and revenue from 2018 to 2025.
Chapter 9 briefs us about Basmati Rice sales channel, distributors, traders and dealers.
Chapter 10 talks about Basmati Rice market dynamics with focusing about growth drivers, growth barriers, general trends,Technological Advancement, market challenges ahead, market restraints and opportunities.
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Global Basmati Rice Market 2018 Research, Industry Trends, Supply, Sales, Demands, Analysis & Insights

MarketResearchNest.com adds “Global Basmati Rice Market Research Report 2018” new report to its research database. The report spread across 118 pages with multiple tables and figures in it.
Global Basmati Rice Market Research Nest 2018 offers a comprehensive study on Basmati Rice Industry including the current Basmati Rice market trends and market status. Global Basmati Rice Market 2018 Research refines essential aspects of the Basmati Rice market and presents them within the form of a united and all-inclusive document. Worldwide Basmati Rice market report focuses on the top leading manufacturers industry.


Major players in the market are identified through secondary research and their market revenues determined through primary and secondary research. The major players in Global Basmati Rice market include
KRBL Limited, Amira Nature Foods, LT Foods, Best Foods, Kohinoor Rice, Aeroplane Rice, Tilda Basmati Rice, Matco Foods, Amar Singh Chawal Wala, Hanuman Rice Mills, Adani Wilmar, HAS Rice Pakistan, Galaxy Rice Mill, Dunar Foods, Sungold.

Geographically, this report is segmented into several key Regions, with production, consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate of Basmati Rice in these regions, from 2012 to 2023 (forecast), covering
North America, China, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, India.

Highlights of the report:             
1.     A complete backdrop analysis, which includes an assessment of the parent market
2.     Important changes in market dynamics
3.     Market segmentation up to the second or third level
4.     Historical, current, and projected size of the market from the standpoint of both value and volume
5.     Reporting and evaluation of recent industry developments
6.     Market shares and strategies of key players
7.     Global Basmati Rice niche segments and regional markets
8.     An objective assessment of the trajectory of the market
9.     Recommendations to companies for strengthening their foothold in the market


On the basis of product, the Basmati Rice market is primarily split into
1.     Indian Basmati Rice
2.     Pakistani Basmati Rice
3.     Kenya Basmati Rice
4.      

On the basis on the end users/applications, this report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, consumption, market share and growth rate of Basmati Rice   for each application, including:
1.     Direct Edible
2.     Deep Processing.

The research document will answer following questions such as:
1.     How is the Global Basmati Rice market evolving?
2.     What are the key next-generation Basmati Rice technologies/applications?
3.     What are the main applications of Basmati Rice? How do the Basmati Rice fit into the market?
4.     At what stage of development are the key Basmati Rice? Are there any planned, existing or successful demonstration and pilot projects going?
5.     What key challenges do Global Basmati Rice have to overcome to become fully commercially viable? Is their development and commercialization dependent on cost reductions or seeks technological/application wise breakthroughs?
6.     What is the outlook for key Global Basmati Rice?
7.     What difference does performance characteristics of Basmati Rice creates from those of established entities?
8.     Which companies, organizations are involved with Global Basmati Rice growth story?
9.     Which market spaces are the most active in the development of Global Basmati Rice market? How do the conditions for the development and deployment of differ in key regional markets?
10.  What is driving and restraining factors affecting the development and commercialization?

Reasons for Buying this Report:
1.     This report provides pin-point analysis for changing competitive dynamics.
2.     It provides a forward looking perspective on different factors driving or restraining market growth.
3.     It provides a technological growth map over time to understand the industry growth rate.
4.     It provides a five to seven-year forecast assessed on the basis of how the market is predicted to grow.
5.     It helps in understanding the key product segments and their future Outlook.



Three new varieties of rice to boost Bengal's paddy production  Team MP
|  11 March 2018 11:53 PM Kolkata: Scientists of the state Agriculture department have discovered three new varieties of rice, which will ensure further increase in paddy production in Bengal. The scientists of the department, who are posted in its different research institutes, had been working for a period of time on it. The three new varieties of rice that the people of Bengal are going to get soon in the market are Bhupesh, Rajdip and Dhruba. The production of these varieties has already been started in some places, following necessary tests by the department's scientists. Asish Banerjee, the state Agriculture minister, said: "All the three varieties of rice will ensure further increase in paddy production in the state." The state Agriculture department has chalked out an elaborate plan to ensure that all the three varieties are produced in the entire state. The varieties of aromatic flavor will further increase demand of rice from Bengal. This comes at the time when the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has written to the state Food and Supplies department to supply rice for distribution in three states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Jharkhand. According to experts, the demand was made as Bengal is the highest producer of rice in the country and several varieties of rice are cultivated here. Moreover, production has increased in the past few years, with several steps being taken by the Mamata Banerjee government. Besides organising training programmes for farmers, tools required for agriculture were also distributed among them. The new varieties of rice will be cultivated across the state and the production will increase manifold, which will be beneficial for the farmers. At the same time, a new variety of jute has also been discovered by scientists of the state Agriculture department. The name of the new variety of jute is ARO 4 and cultivating this variety of the crop will help farmers make some profit as its production is comparatively lesser. It may be recalled that the state Agriculture department has also taken a major step to utilise its land, which remained unused for the most part of a year and sought suggestions of scientists who are working in the field of agriculture.

http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/three-new-varieties-of-rice-to-boost-bengals-paddy-production-289031

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