Public participates in
Golden Rice consultations
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Golden Rice is a new type of rice developed to contain beta
carotene in its grain. This nutrient, which is similar to what is found in
orange-colored fruits and vegetables, is converted to vitamin A in the body as
needed.
Set on July 18 and July 19, public consultation will allow
community members in Nueva Ecija and Isabela to ask questions about the proposed
field trial and submit their comments to DA-BPI.
“This empowers the communities to participate responsibly in a
critical biosafety decision-making process. The communities will be provided
with all the information about the project and Golden Rice, which were also
posted in the community’s most accessible areas,” Dr. Reynante Ordonio, project
leader, said.
Dr. Ordonio added that the public will be further involved in a
30-day comment period and hearing.
PhilRice, the government’s agency that is leading the
development of Golden Rice in the Philippines applied for a biosafety permit to
conduct field trials on February 28, 2017 following the requirements of the
Joint Department Circular No. 1 series of 2016.
The DA-BPI has also made public the consolidated risk assessment
report containing the recommendations of the Scientific and Technical Review
Panel (STRP), Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Biosafety
Committee (DENR-BC), Department of Health – Biosafety Committee (DOH-BC), and
Socio-economic, Ethical and Cultural (SEC) expert to “grant the biosafety
permit to conduct the field trial.” The report can be accessed via the DA-BPI
website. Transparency and public participation are key components of regulatory
applications under the JDC.
Local government officials, farmers, consumers, women’s groups,
members of the academe, health workers, and other local community members are
set to join the public consultation.Earlier this year, GR2E Golden Rice
received positive food and safety assessments from three leading regulatory
agencies: Food Safety Australia New Zealand, Health Canada, and the United
States Food and Drug Administration. They concurred that Golden Rice is as safe
and nutritious as ordinary rice with the added benefit of beta-carotene in the
grain. Similar applications have likewise been lodged in the Philippines and
Bangladesh and are awaiting results.
Golden Rice is being developed by PhilRice and the International
Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a potential complementary food-based intervention
to address vitamin A deficiency.“PhilRice and IRRI are committed to carry out
the completion of Golden Rice development and satisfy all regulatory
requirements under the JDC to have well-documented, science-based evidence on
the efficacy and safety of Golden Rice,” Ordonio concluded.
Hybrid Rice Cultivated Over 800,000 Hectares During Current
Season: PARC
The hybrid rice had been cultivated
over 800,000 hectares of land across the crop producing areas of the country in
order to give boost to the local output of the commodity and enhance the farm
income particularly the small scale and medium land holders to maximize their
farm income
ISLAMABAD,(UrduPoint / Pakistan
Point News - 7th Aug, 2018 ) :The hybrid rice had been cultivated over 800,000
hectares of land across the crop producing areas of the country in order to
give boost to the local output of the commodity and enhance the farm income
particularly the small scale and medium land holders to maximize their farm
income.
The area under hybrid rice production was gradually increasing and
it was phasing-out the trend of conventional seed, which would help in boosting
the local output and also resulted in enhancing the exports to fetch more foreign exchange for economic development of the country,
said Member Plant Science of the pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) Dr Muhammad
Yousuf.
Talking to APP here on Tuesday, he
said that hybrid rice cultivation across the crop sowing areas during current
season had registered significant increase and it is expected that the trend of
hybrid rice seed would gain momentum during the next season.
He said that rice had been cultivated over approximately 2.8 million hectares of land to produce about
7.4 million tons of the above mentioned commodity during
the current sowing season. He said that out of the total produces, 60 percent
was consumed locally, where as 40 percent was exported.
Meanwhile, he informed that a group of Chines hybrid rice experts
and scientists would come Pakistan during next month (September) to impart training to local scientists for
the promotion and development of hybrid seed verities across the crop sowing
areas of the country to boost local output.
In first phase a batch of 40 scientists selected all across the country would be trained to promote
and develop the hybrid rice production technology in the country, He said that Pakistan and Chines Government had signed a memorandum of
understanding for the promotion of hybrid rice verities in Pakistan as well as capacity building of local
scientists in field of hybrid rice.
Under the agreement, he said that 28 scientists all across the country were selected for the
training programme and they had completed their training form China and now they were extending their services
for the promotion and development of hybrid rice seed in the country.
It is worth mentioning here that country earned US$ 2.073 billion by exporting about 4.106 million tons of rice during 12 months of last
financial year as compared the exports of 3.523 million tons valuing US$ 1.606 billion of the corresponding period oflast years.
During the period from July-June, 2017-18, about 520,759 metric tons
of basmati rice worth US$ 540.231 million were exported as against 496,263 metric
tons valuing US$ 453.441 million of same period of last year, showing an increase of
19.14 percent growth.
New greenhouse technology aids the
rice industry, controls growing conditions
"We can control light, we can control humidity, and of
course, temperature," Scott said. "So this is very much a
state-of-the-art greenhouse."
STUTTGART, Ark. (KTHV) - Nearly
half of the rice grown in America comes from Arkansas.
And now local farmers have a new tool to get the most out of their crop. Its
goal is to help them keep their cool when the summer temperature rises.
The
University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture recently
celebrated the grand opening of its newest greenhouse at its Rice
Research and Extension Center. This one was designed to create a
variety of rice that can better withstand warm nighttime temperatures.
“Temperatures that get into the
upper 70s, even the lower 80s at night, can cause problems with rice,” Bob
Scott, the center’s director, said. “They can reduce rice yields, and also when
the rice is harvested and goes to the mill, it can cause chalkiness and other
milling and rice quality issues.”
Farmers and researchers reached
that conclusion during the summer of 2016, which was abnormally hot in
Arkansas. The response from the state’s Rice Research and Promotion Board:
donating nearly $1.9 million to build a specialized facility where UA
scientists could solve that problem.
“We can control light, we can
control humidity, and of course, temperature,” Scott said. “So this is very
much a state-of-the-art greenhouse.”
The building is approximately 3,200
square feet and allows rice to grow year-round. The breeders who oversee the
greenhouse will test different genes to see if they can make a variety of rice
that grows better during warm nights. Though the ribbon-cutting ceremony was
held last week, Scott said the greenhouse had been operational for a couple of
months.
“It’s pretty impressive that, in
less than two years, the facility is up and running, and we’re already starting
to see some results,” he stated.
The building also includes a
reverse-osmosis water filtration system, to make sure no outside particles
contaminate the research, and two bedroom-sized growth chambers for scientific
comparisons.
“These are computer operated,”
Scott explained, “so you can set the conditions in growth chamber one, and then
you can take the exact same plants and put them in our second growth chamber
under more normal conditions, or lower nighttime temperatures.”
Arkansas rice farms face threats
from products like “cauliflower rice,” and rice from foreign countries,
including a recent indictment of two Chinese nationals accused of stealing
proprietary information from researchers in Arkansas and Kansas.
“Rice is a commodity, and it faces
a lot of competition,” Scott acknowledged while he said he hopes that hot
nights can be removed from that list.
Scott said he hopes his team will
develop a heat-tolerant variety of rice in as little as a couple years, but
mentioned it might take them as many as seven years.
Scott added that this greenhouse is
just the latest partnership between his center and the state’s rice farmers.
They recently contributed to an upgrade of the center’s foundation seed
building, where new seeds can be cleaned and packaged for delivery to Arkansas
rice farms.
“And this is a new,
state-of-the-art facility,” Scott said. “We had a few hiccups getting it up and
running, as you can imagine with something this complicated, but we are 100
percent at capacity and running, now.”
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Duterte threatens to break open
warehouses with hoarded rice and seize it
August 7, 2018, 2:39 PM
By Genalyn Kabiling
Invoking national security,
President Duterte has threatened to break open the warehouses filled with
hoarded rice and seize the commodity.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque
(MANILA BULLETIN)
(MANILA BULLETIN)
Presidential spokesman Harry
Roque said the President has vowed to use the full force of the state against
traders illegally hoarding rice during a Cabinet meeting last Monday.
“The President, consistent with
his pronouncement on the SONA (State of the Nation Address), made it very clear
that he would not hesitate to use the entire power of the state to utilize
police power, even to order the seizure of hoarded rice in the warehouses of
these rice hoarders,” Roque said during a Palace press briefing.
“He invoked national security in
this regard so we warn rice hoarders the the president will use full force of
the state and force open the warehouses where the hoarded rice may be found,”
he added.
Roque said the President has
already obtained intelligence report from authorities about the location of
warehouses that contained hoarded rice.
“He has identified where these
warehouses. He has given them notice and that if they persist in hoarding, he
will break open the warehouses,” he said.
“But it hasn’t reached the point
anyway that we have to do that,” he added.
Roque admitted that the President’s
latest directive against rice hoarding came amid concerns about the country’s
rising inflation. He acknowledged that the price of rice was one of major
factors pushing the inflation rate.
“That’s why the President has
made it very clear, he will use the full power of the state to break open if
need be the warehouses of rice hoarders,” he added.
In his SONA last month, the
President warned rice hoarders and cartels to “stop messing with the Filipino
people” or else full the force of the law will be used against them for
triggering artificial rice shortage.
Duterte has also directed
authorities to unmask the perpetrators of the “economic sabotage” and bring
them to justice.“To help stabilize rice prices, we also need to address the
issue of artificial rice shortage. I now ask all the rice hoarders, cartels and
their protectors, you know that I know who you are: Stop messing with the
people,” Duterte said in his annual address before the joint session of
Congress.
“Power sometimes is not a good
thing. But I hope I will not have to use it against you. Consider yourselves
warned; mend your ways now or the full force of the State shall be brought to
bear upon you,” he added.On a long-term solution to lower rice prices, Duterte
has certified as urgent the rice tarification bill to ensure its swift passage
in Congress.He said the country must switch from the current quota system in
importing rice to a tariff system where rice can be imported more freely.
Low genetically modified rice to manage HIV
You can now grind rice seeds and turn it into an antiretroviral
medicine for managing HIV, thanks to these scientists from the UK and Spain and
their recent study.
Editorial Team | Updated: August 6, 2018 1:39 pm
Apart from feeding maximum number of people, globally and
being the staple food for crores of Asians, rice is all set to serve another
remarkable purpose. A group of scientists have recently found rice to
have HIV preventing
properties. They have come up with a genetically modified (GMO) variant that
will generate HIV-neutralising proteins,
according to a recent media report. It has been observed that three proteins
present in rice seeds can neutralise HIV.
Being the second largest producer of rice in the world,
India gets an upper hand as rice seeds can be applied as a topical cream to
prevent HIV, say the scientists. Ground rice seeds can be used as an
antiretroviral medication that could counterbalance the viruses.
While GMO has been used earlier to fight malnutrition and
climate change, these scientists from the UK and Spain have worked on a strain
that has the potential to tackle HIV symptoms.
This option can be a lucrative one to manage HIV in those countries where
antiretroviral medication is inaccessible.
Also, the treatment is affordable as the production costs
of manufacturing this cream are marginal once the rice is grown. It is
considered to be the most effective way of controlling HIV symptoms in developing
countries as the infrastructure for growing rice is already available. The
study has been published in the proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
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In Memory: 'Uncle Jimmy' Richard
James Rodney Richard, Jr., known as "Uncle
Jimmy" to many in the rice industry, passed away on Sunday, August
5. Jimmy worked for Riviana Rice in Abbeville from 1975 until the closing
of that facility, when he continued to serve the rice industry as a rice broker
for Richard Independent Rice Brokers.
"Jimmy had a huge impact on the Louisiana rice
industry," said Steve Linscombe, USA Rice staff who recently retired as
director of the Louisiana State University AgCenter Rice Research Center.
"He was intimately involved in the marketing and milling industry
especially in Vermilion Parish. More importantly Jimmy was a really good
guy and a friend of everyone he ever met."
Visiting hours will be observed at Vincent Funeral Home
in Abbeville, 209 S. St. Charles St., on
Wednesday, August 8, from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.,
with a rosary being prayed at 7:00 p.m.; and Thursday, August 9, from 8:00 a.m. until
10:45 a.m.when the procession will depart for the church.
USA
Rice Daily
The Fortified Rice Revolution Captivates
at Protein Conference
By Sarah
Moran
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN -- Last week, USA Rice's Food Security Consultant Rebecca Bratter was a featured speaker on a panel about "Affordable Protein Supply for Institutional Meals Around the World" at a conference sponsored by the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH).
The event was part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cochran Fellowship program designed to provide technical training and information to help global trade partners create their own successful school and hospital feeding programs with U.S. commodities. More than 25 attendees from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America participated in the week-long training here.
While the program was focused on protein, USA Rice was invited to speak about the role of fortified rice in nutrition, as a complement to protein.
"There is still a lack of detailed information about the role of fortified rice in nutritional formulations as it is a new commodity in U.S. global feeding programs," said Bratter. "Almost all of the questions I received after our panel were about fortified rice and how different countries can procure and incorporate this product into their national school feeding and nutritional programs. People were interested in procuring both the blended fortified rice as well as the fortified kernels to blend with their own home grown rice."
Many of the representatives in attendance have participated in the implementation of McGovern Dole School Feeding Programs that have concluded, and are now responsible for creating national programs to ensure the continuation of the nutritional benefits of school feeding.
"This is a new opportunity for U.S. rice around the world and falls in the gray area between food assistance and commercial import. We look forward to following up with the contacts made and exploring this new potential end use," Bratter concluded.
USA Rice Daily
Grain retailers: Allow NFA to import 500,000 MT more rice
August 6, 2018
THE Grain Retailers’
Confederation of the Philippines Inc. (Grecon) is backing the proposal to allow
the National Food Authority (NFA) to import more rice to tame the country’s
inflation and bring down the retail prices of the staple.
Grecon President Jaime O.
Magbanua said they support Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s proposal to allow
the NFA to purchase an additional 500,000 MT to 800,000 MT of rice with
staggered deliveries over the next five to six months.
“She is right. We support her
proposal. The imported volume of NFA is not enough to have an effect on the
market,” Magbanua told the BusinessMirror in an interview.
“We support [the additional
imports], and we hope that it could arrive the soonest possible time so that we
could ease tension [on prices],” Magbanua added.
As the country is at its lean
season of rice production, farm-gate price of palay has been steadily
increasing, according to Magbanua.
For example, the buying price of
wet palay in Western Visayas has now reached P25 per kilogram, which would be
around P29 per kilogram when dried, he explained. This, according to Magbanua,
easily translates into a retail price of P50 to P58 per kilogram of rice.
The industry’s rule of thumb is
that the retail price of rice is double the farm-gate price of palay.
“We are appealing [to the
government] to increase the volume of NFA rice in our area so that prices would
go down,” he said.
Arroyo proposal
In a Facebook post, Albay Rep.
Joey S. Salceda disclosed that Arroyo proposed that the NFA should purchase an
additional 500,000 MT to 800,000 MT of well-milled rice with staggered
deliveries over the next five to six months.
“In particular, the most basic
item—rice, there is a plan to import 500,000 MT up to 800,000 MT with staggered
delivery to minimize impacts on farm prices during the harvest season,” said
Salceda, Arroyo’s special focal person for Counter-Inflation Measures.
The NFA has purchased 500,000 MT
of rice abroad to revitalize its depleted stockpile and to resume the presence
of affordable rice in the market.
The food agency is currently
completing the unloading of the 250,000 MT it imported via
government-to-government scheme. Meanwhile, the remaining 250,000 MT the NFA
purchased via open tender is set to start arriving by end of the month.Last
month, NFA Administrator Jason Y. Aquino said they are proposing to import an
additional 500,000 MT of rice before the year ends to prevent the depletion of
its stockpile and the loss of affordable rice in the domestic market anew.
Philippine
economists back tariff-free food imports pitched by Arroyo
August 6, 2018
LOCAL economists threw their
support behind the proposal of Speaker Gloria Mapacagal-Arroyo to cut tariffs
on certain food items to temper inflation.
However, some of them urged the
government to calibrate the tariff cuts to ensure that farmers and fishermen
would not be harmed by the entry of more imports.
Last week Arroyo proposed to the
President’s economic team the temporary removal of the tariffs for meat and
fish products to stabilize commodity prices.
“Allowing more imports of food by
lowering tariffs will be a temporary solution. In the long run, the fishermen
and farmers will be adversely affected,” Ateneo Eagle Watch fellow Leonardo A.
Lanzona Jr. told the BusinessMirror.
Philippine Institute for
Development Studies (PIDS) senior fellow Roehlano Briones said, however, that
the entry of more imported farm products at lower tariffs would help keep food
affordable.
The proper implementation of the
zero-tariff scheme for some food items, according to Ateneo Center for Economic
Research and Development (ACERD) Director Alvin P. Ang, should be of paramount
importance to the government.
Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, Arroyo’s
special focal person for Counter-Inflation Measures, said “vigorous economic
measures” would cut inflation to 4.4 percent by December.
Salceda said the Duterte
administration has committed to import fish, feed wheat, vegetables and rice.
However, “no firm figures on the volume except for rice.”
Earlier, the lawmaker said Arroyo
wants the President to consider reducing tariffs on fish and meat imports to
zero but needs Congress to be in recess. Under its legislative calendar,
Congress will take a break from August 16 to 27.
Salceda added that the Speaker
also wants the National Food Authority to purchase 500,000 metric tons of rice
with staggered deliveries over five to six months.
He said he suggested to the
Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Regulatory Commission and other regulators
to defer regulated price adjustments, “which add to cost pressures until
inflation goes back comfortably to the 2 percent-to-4 percent target band.”
The Speaker, he said, also urged
the DOE to consider deferring the implementation of a regulation that requires
the addition of z-ethane in oil products, as well as the new feed-in-tariff
allowance, which increased from P0.18 to P0.26/kwh, as this contributed to the
hike in Meralco rates.
‘Alarming inflation’
Lanzona said the forecast of the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas that inflation would reach 5.8 percent in July is
“alarming,” as this is above industry and government expectations.
To tame inflation, Lanzona said
there is a need to improve the efficiency in the use of petroleum. He added
various infrastructure projects need to be implemented to bring down the cost
of public transportation.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/philippine-economists-back-tariff-free-food-imports-pitched-by-arroyo/
Fishers hit plan for ‘unli’ rice, fish imports
August 6, 2018
THE Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang
Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Monday slammed the proposal
of former President and now Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the Duterte
administration’s economic managers to allow what it described as “unli” or
unlimited rice and fish importation through the lifting of the quantitative
restriction on rice and the imposition of zero tariffs on imported fish.
Hog risers and poultry raisers
had earlier cautioned against the strategy of scrapping the tariffs on meat and
fish imports, which Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol was quoted to have
expressed qualified support—that whatever move is taken will not “sacrifice”
the local food producers.
A national organization of small
fisherfolk federations and organizations, Pamalakaya described Arroyo’s
proposal as the last nail in the coffin for Filipino farmers and fishermen.
A major producer of fish, the
Philippines has experienced slight drops in production since 2015.
Fish production dropped by 5.62
percent to 4.194 million metric tons in 2016, from the 4.444 million MT in
2015. This continued in 2017 when fisheries production was down by 1
percent to 4.150 million MT from 4.194 million MT in 2016. The price of
wild-caught fish —such as tuna, blue marlin, skipjack and grouper fish—is
higher, with some reaching up to P300 to P450 per kilo.
Tilapia and bangus, the most common fish species
raised in fish cages, cost P180 to P220 per kilo, depending on the size.
The Philippines imports meat and fish to augment its local supply and keep
prices down to an affordable level.
Arroyo, along with the economic
managers of the Duterte administration, said the proposed policy on importation
will address inflation as prices of goods, particularly basic commodities
—mainly staple food, meat and fish—continue to go up.
Like hog raisers and poultry
suppliers, Pamalakaya said the lifting of QR and zero tariffs on rice and fish
will bring economic disaster to local food producers.
“We are already importing an
average of 500,000 metric tons of fish every year. To set the tariff on
imported fish down to zero will completely kill the livelihood of Filipino
fisherfolk because the domestic market will primarily depend on marine and
aquatic products coming from the foreign market. Everything on our table from
rice to entrée will be imported,” Fernando Hicap, Pamalakaya chairman, said in
a statement.
The fisherfolk group claims
shortage can never be the reason for the country’s relying on imports because,
in the first place, it exports tons after tons of fish products every year. The
group said, from 1994 up to the present, the Philippines’s marine exports rose
to 120 percent, or a total of 333, 465 metric tons in 2013 alone. Pamalakaya
noted the robust exports figure comes vis-a-vis the 15-percent loss of fish
consumption in the country yearly.
“The unlimited importation of
rice and fish will render the domestic market and local prices unstable. But,
moreover, it will leave small farmers and fishers at the losing end because,
while the government focuses on imports, local production remains backward as
ever due to agriculture and economic policies dictated by foreign markets,”
said the
Pamalakaya head.
Pamalakaya head.
“Flooding our local market with
imported agricultural products will never bring food sustainability,” he added.
What is needed is “to develop our agriculture through livelihood subsidy and
our country to separate from unfair global economic and trade deals that
promote liberalization, such as the World Trade Organization.”
US sanctions on Iran cast shadow on
Indian exports
Still optimistic A file picture of a worker carrying a bag of
rice at a wholesale market in Mumbai. The rice exporters’ body is hopeful that
shipments will not be affected as it is an essential commodity - Dhiraj Singh
Future of
rice, tea shipments to depend on continued oil imports, exemptions to food
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 6
With the new US sanctions against
Iran set to come into effect on Tuesday, the fate of India’s rice and tea
exports may now depend on the possible exemption of food and medicines from the
sanctions and the agreement on oil imports reached between New Delhi and
Tehran.“We are keen to study the details of the US sanctions against Iran. If
food and medicines are exempt, it would be good news for exporters of rice and
maybe of tea as well. But, exports also depend on India’s continued oil imports
from Iran in the absence of which it might be difficult to work out a suitable
payment mechanism,” a government official told BusinessLine.
As the fresh US sanctions are to
be largely targeted towards graphite, raw or semi-finished metals (aluminium,
steel, coal), or software for integrating industrial processes, New Delhi is
hopeful that food and medicines supply would be exempted.
Restrictions are also expected on
purchase or acquisition of US dollar banknotes by Iran and the trade in gold or
precious metals.
“If rice and tea are exempted
from sanctions, a part of the problem of Indian exporters is solved. But much
would depend on the payment mechanism worked out between India and Iran for
these exports as there would be sanctions against dollar payment,” the official
said.
A rupee-rial payment mechanism,
through the existing arrangement in the UCO Bank or a similar one worked out
with Iran’s Pasargad bank’s proposed branch in Mumbai, could work out well but
on one condition.
“Iran’s interest in continued
imports of rice and tea from India and working out a suitable payment mechanism
could be tied to India’s decision to continue a substantial part of its oil
import from the Islamic country after November 4, when US sanctions on oil are
operationalised,” the official added. Continued oil imports might also lead to
Iran increasing its imports from India to reduce the existing trade gap so that
the “barter-like’’ rupee-rial mechanism works to its full potential, he added.
India’s imports from Iran in 2017-18, dominated by petroleum, were valued at
$11.11 billion while exports were worth just $2.65 billion and comprised mainly
of rice and tea.
The situation for exporters to
Iran, at present, is uncertain, agrees Ajay Sahai from the Federation of Indian
Export Organisation. “We have to wait and seen what India decides on imports of
oil from Iran. Only when oil payments are to be made, will there be a mechanism
for remittance of money due on oil imports,” Sahai explained.
No directions to banks
While officially there are no
directions to Indian banks to stop payments for trade with Iran, with US
sanctions in place some may be reluctant in negotiating export documents and
releasing payments, another exporter added.
Vijay Setia from the All Indian
Rice Exporters’ Association is hopeful that rice exports will not be affected
as it was an essential commodity and was sure to be exempted from sanctions. “Once
it is clear that rice is exempted, the payment mechanism can be worked out as
the sanctions would only be against the US dollar and not against other
currencies,” he said.
Key ministries, including
petroleum, external affairs, finance and commerce, are in discussions amongst
themselves and with the US and Iran, on what the country’s future strategy on
oil imports from Iran would be. While the US wants oil imports from Iran to be
cut down to zero by November 4, India may not be keen to do so.
“One factor that cannot be
over-looked while analysing India’s possible stance on oil imports from Iran is
how the Trump regime would react to countries that do not follow the sanctions.
If the US government decides to impose secondary sanctions against such countries,
the situation could be serious,” said Biswajit Dhar, Professor, Jawaharlal
Nehru University.
Published
on August 06, 2018
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Rice
imports fail to tame inflation in July 2018
Ralf Rivas
Published 1:30 PM, August 07, 2018
Updated 10:30 PM, August 07, 2018
RICE TARIFFS. Farmers and
advocacy groups say rice tariffication will not solve the country's rice
problems. File photo by Maria Tan/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) –
The government imported some
250,000 metric tons of rice from Thailand and Vietnam last June, yet this move
failed to bring down prices of rice in the local market.
Data from the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA) released on Tuesday, August 7, showed that rice inflation
rose to 5% from the previous 4.7%.
Overall inflation in July reached
5.7%. The figure is within the upper end of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
estimate. The average retail price of regular milled rice rose to 8.91%
year-on-year in the 2nd week of July, the fastest for 2018.Regular milled rice
is currently priced at an average of P41.21 per kilo.
Rice prices started to soar this
year when the supply of National Food Authority (NFA) got depleted in April.
(READ: Rice prices soar as Duterte marks
2nd year in office)
In theory, importation of rice
would increase the supply of rice in the market and bring prices down. This did
not happen and imports failed to make an impact on prices.Finance
Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua underscored the importance of rice supply in
bringing down inflation.He cited Central Luzon's inflation which was only at
2.7%, which he said illustrated the need for sufficient rice supply for
inflation to be manageable.
"It was raining constantly
so we cannot bring the rice down [from the ships]. If rice gets wet, it is
spoiled," Chua said.Economic managers are pushing for the passage of rice tariffication and
the lifting of rice import quotas to spur competition and bring down rice
prices by as much as P7 per kilo."Part of the supply problem is the
country's declining rice stock inventory – caused by weather disturbances in
the country and in other rice-producing countries like Thailand and Vietnam –
which is taking a toll on the prices of rice," economic managers said.
Speaker Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo also pushed for the measure and discussed it with
President Rodrigo Duterte's economic team.But Bantay Bigas spokesperson Cathy
Estavillo slammed the move. She warned that bringing in even more cheaper
imported rice would hurt local farmers.Estavillo also said rice imports have
failed to curb inflation. – Rappler.com
House OKs
on 2nd reading bill on revised agricultural tariffication
Mara Cepeda
Published 6:54 PM, August 07, 2018
Updated 6:54 PM, August 07, 2018
RICE TARIFFICATION. A lady checks
out the rice being sold at a market. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – The House
of Representatives approved on 2nd reading the bill seeking to replace
quantitative restrictions on rice imports with the imposition of tariffs or
taxes.
On Tuesday, August 7, lawmakers
gave their nod to House Bill (HB) No. 7735 or the Revised
Agricultural Tariffication Act through viva voce voting or a vote of ayes and
nays.
ANAC-IP Representative Jose
Panganiban, chairperson of the House commitee on agriculture and food,
sponsored the bill on second reading at the plenary.
Rice tariffication is one of the
means identified by
Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic
managers that would help address soaring inflation, which hit 5.7% in July based
on the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority.
Under HB 7735, the National Food
Authority (NFA) would have the sole authority to undertake direct rice
importation to ensure food security and maintain national buffer stocks. The
NFA would also have the power to allocate import permits and issue guidelines
for rice and corn importation.
The same bill would set the bound
rate for rice to the following:
- 40% most favored nation (MFN) rate for
importation within the metric ton maximum access volume from non-members
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the World Trade
Organizations
- 180% MFN out quota tariff rate
- The import duty rate commitments of the
Philippines in the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement will be applied for
imported rice from ASEAN member states.
A Rice Competitiveness
Enhancement Fund would also be created, which shall consist of all duties
duties collected from rice imports. The Rice Fund will be broken down as
follows:
- 20% for the establishment of a rice
endowment fund
- 20% for credit subsidy or grants to
modernize and increase production of rice farms
- 20% for rice crop finance
- 20% for postharvest facilities, logistics,
storage, transportation facilities, and infrastructure projects
- 10% for rice scholarships and vocational
education
- 10% for research and development
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary
Ernesto Pernia previously said replacing the quantitative restriction on rice
with tariffs will lower rice prices and
increase revenues for agricultural programs like crop diversification.
"To the extent that rice
importation will be liberalized, the private sector will start importing. The
more private sector imports, the supply of rice enlarges and therefore the
price of rice goes down,” said Pernia.
Now that HB 7735 has been
approved on 2nd reading, the bill will have to be passed on 3rd and final
reading to hurdle the House of Representatives. The Senate version of the
measure remains pending at the agriculture and food panel. –
Rappler.com
Inflation hits new five-year high
MANILA. Protesters from the National Federation of Peasant Women
(Amihan), Anakpawis Partylist and Bantay Bigas display empty rice pots to dramatize
their objection to House Bill 7735 or the Agricultural Tariffication Act on
August 6, 2018. The government's economic team is pushing for rice
tarrification to bring down the price of the staple. (Alfonso Padilla/SunStar
Philippines)
MANILA. Protesters from the National Federation of Peasant Women
(Amihan), Anakpawis Partylist and Bantay Bigas display empty rice pots to
dramatize their objection to House Bill 7735 or the Agricultural Tariffication
Act on August 6, 2018. The government's economic team is pushing for rice
tarrification to bring down the price of the staple. (Alfonso Padilla/SunStar
Philippines)
MANILA. Protesters from the National Federation of Peasant Women
(Amihan), Anakpawis Partylist and Bantay Bigas display empty rice pots to
dramatize their objection to House Bill 7735 or the Agricultural Tariffication
Act on August 6, 2018. The government's economic team is pushing for rice
tarrification to bring down the price of the staple. (Alfonso Padilla/SunStar
Philippines)
MANILA. Protesters from the National Federation of Peasant Women
(Amihan), Anakpawis Partylist and Bantay Bigas display empty rice pots to
dramatize their objection to House Bill 7735 or the Agricultural Tariffication
Act on August 6, 2018. The government's economic team is pushing for rice
tarrification to bring down the price of the staple. (Alfonso Padilla/SunStar
Philippines)
MANILA. Protesters from the National Federation of Peasant Women
(Amihan), Anakpawis Partylist and Bantay Bigas display empty rice pots to
dramatize their objection to House Bill 7735 or the Agricultural Tariffication
Act on August 6, 2018. The government's economic team is pushing for rice
tarrification to bring down the price of the staple. (Alfonso Padilla/SunStar
Philippines)
August 7, 2018
AS PROJECTED, the inflation rate accelerated further in July,
reaching a new five-year high of 5.7 percent, the Philippine Statistics
Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday, August 7.
The PSA said the uptrend, from 5.2 percent in June 2018 and 2.4 percent in June 2017, was mainly due to the higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages.The food index alone registered an annual inflation rate of 6.8 percent. Nine out of 11 commodity groups under the food basket registered higher annual increases in July.The government's economic team, in a joint statement issued shortly after PSA released the July inflation rate, traced the uptick to supply constraints that have further pushed consumer prices up.
The PSA said the uptrend, from 5.2 percent in June 2018 and 2.4 percent in June 2017, was mainly due to the higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages.The food index alone registered an annual inflation rate of 6.8 percent. Nine out of 11 commodity groups under the food basket registered higher annual increases in July.The government's economic team, in a joint statement issued shortly after PSA released the July inflation rate, traced the uptick to supply constraints that have further pushed consumer prices up.
“The current price pressures emanate mainly from supply-side factors. Addressing supply constraints to curb inflation is the utmost priority of the government,” the joint statement read.The team - composed of the Department of Budget and Management, Department of Finance, and National Economic and Development Authority - urged stronger government measures, "most especially in improving agriculture productivity."The team also called for a strategic trade policy in the short term to address the supply constraints.
The team noted, meanwhile, that while the overall price level picked up, the month-on-month inflation eased to 0.5 percent in July, from 0.6 percent in the previous month.The July inflation rate still falls within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) forecast range of 5.1 percent to 5.8 percent.
Government earlier projected that inflation will taper off towards the end of 2018.“Part of the supply problem is the country’s declining rice stock inventory — caused by weather disturbances in the country and in other rice-producing countries like Thailand and Vietnam — which is taking a toll on the prices of rice,” the economic team said.Rice stocks of 2.36 million metric tons (MT) in July 2018 declined by 8.2 percent year-on-year, from 2.57 million MT in July 2017, and fell 18.8 percent from the preceding month’s 2.91 million MT.
The National Food Authority’s rice buffer is almost depleted, the team said.They reiterated their position that amending Republic Act No. 8178 or the Agricultural Tariffication Act to replace quantitative restrictions on rice imports with tariffs will significantly improve the rice market, bringing down the price of the grain.“This reform in agriculture will also provide a P10-billion enhancement fund for rice farmers that will help them have better access to technology and, thereby, ramp up their production,” they said. (SunStar Philippines with PR)
5 INDUSTRY MONOPOLIES RECENTLY THREATENED BY THE PAKATAN HARAPAN
GOVERNMENT
For those of us who have only
recently started out on our own, buying food can make us go “Wah lao has food
always been this expensive?! I don’t remember paying RM2 and
thirty centsfor teh ais ikat tepi when I was studying!”
Yep, food (along with many other
things) have gotten more expensive over the years, and a lot of reasons were given
for that, from the removal of government
subsidies, global price increase, glitches because of the SST/GST/SST switch, low supply, and
a mamak favorite, minyak naik. But
perhaps not many people would link expensive roti canai to the
industry monopoly in Malaysia.
If the game was frustrating,
imagine playing it in real life. Img from Memecenter.
According to Dr Mohd
Yusof Saari, UPM’s Head of Agriculture and Food Policy
Laboratory, themarket structure in Malaysia allows for monopoly among
big firms, and with no real competition to keep them in check,
they can control the price of
their products however they wish, and even restrict supply if
they want.
“For instance, when it comes to food, small
and medium-sized food enterprises depend on a small number of big firms for
their fresh produce and ingredients. And these big firms are
controlling the retail trade, including wholesale, which is a
big component in the industry’s value chain… When these few big firms determine
the price of goods, they also have control over the amount of supply in
the market, which explains why Malaysia sometimes experience shortage of
particular food items,” – Dr Mohd Yusof Saari, to Astro Awani.
This problem isn’t just limited
to the food industry, and solving it involves liberalizing the market, which is
when the government loosens up their regulations and restrictions a bit, allowing
more private companies to play in a monopolized industry. The
Pakatan government had pledged to do something about it in their manifesto, and recently several ministries got together and
formed a committee to review our monopolies.
So far, several industries have
been looked at, and we’ve compiled a handy-dandy list on those for you to catch
up. Starting with…
1. MSM Malaysia Holdings Bhd’s raw sugar import
Despite being called the Sugar
King, Kuok’s wealth came from refining sugar, not planting them. Img from The Star Online.
No, we’re not talking about that
kind of sugar. Think of the kind that gives you diabetes instead of heart
attacks. Malaysians have been consuming more and more
sugar over the years, and to keep up with that demand we depend heavily on imported raw sugar. As
much as 99% of our raw sugar is imported,
according to a 2010 news report, and this raw sugar will be processed into the
normal sugar we know and love in sugar refineries.
The two biggest sugar refinery
companies in Malaysia that are allowed to import raw sugar are MSM
Malaysia Holdings Bhd (MSM) and Central
Sugars Refinery Sdn Bhd (CSR), with MSM controlling about 60%
of our sugar market in 2014. However, in recent times
their business had hit a few bumps, particularly when the government allowed more people to
directly import refined sugar back in 2014, instead of
buying it from them.
MSM’s previous CEO Datuk
Sheikh Awab had lamented the
government’s move, saying that it’s hurting local refiners like them
when a huge segment of the local market buys cheaper sugar. They had since
asked the government to do something to protect
them, as they see it as an unfair policy.
“These companies don’t even have to pay import duties for the
sugar while other countries in the region would not even allow imports of sugar
or impose import duties,” – the late Sheikh Awab, as reported
by the Malaysian Reserve.
Some may think they’re refining
salt, but no. It’s sugar. Img from Healthy Lifestyle Zone.
Now, despite MSM and Central
Sugars claiming that there is no such thing as a sugar
monopoly in Malaysia (technically, it’s a duopoly),
the government is now considering liberalizing the Approved
Permit (AP) to break the monopoly on raw sugar
import in a move to make sugar cheaper.
At the time of writing, this move is still being considered.
2. Pharmaniaga Bhd’s medicine
import
The big pharma. Img from New Straits Times.
A few months back the Galen
Center for Health and Social Policy raised the issue of Pharmaniaga Bhd,
a Government-Linked Company that was said to essentially act as a
middleman between the government and international drug
companies. Azrul Mohd Khalib, Galen’s CEO,
had claimed that the lack of competition stunted the development of the public
healthcare system and limited patients’ access to
life-saving drugs.
“Pharmaniaga is the sole concession holder to
purchase, store, supply and distribute both branded and generic approved drugs
and medical products to 148 government hospitals and 2,871 clinics and district
health offices nationwide. With 100% market share of the government concession,
more than RM1 billion goes to Pharmaniaga annually,” – Azrul
Mohd Khalib, to FMT.
The Health Ministry had refuted such claims,
saying that there are also other vendors supplying directly to
health facilities under the Ministry. However, later that week a
document was leaked, alleging several things about the
medicine industry. One of them was that six main tendering agents
controlled 90.93% of all medicine tender awards between 2013 and 2016,
with the top three awarded 75.9%.
Wait… six companies… is it still
a monopoly? Sexopoly? Img from KnowYourMeme.
These agents belonged to companies
owned by high-ranking officials and/or politicians, and they
are said to conspire with international pharmaceutical companies to rig the
bidding process. The Health Minister had said that it will look into these
claims, but the document’slisting of 20 companies did
confirm that Pharmaniaga does not hold a monopoly in
the business.
So yeah, this case is more
corruption-linked than monopoly-linked, so that’s that. After a review of
Pharmaniaga’s contract, the Health Ministry has decided to continue it as
the company had done no wrong.
3. Syarikat Padiberas Nasional
Berhad’s rice import
Because lower rice price is
pricelessly nice. Img from The Star Online.
In June, the Cabinet had announced their intention to end the
monopoly on rice imports by Syarikat
Padiberas Nasional Berhad, or Bernas for
short. Besides lowering the price of rice, Salahuddin
Ayub, the Minister of Agriculture, also believes that it
will indirectly ensure food
security for the people.
“I’m certain the termination of this monopoly can lower or
control the price of rice as it’s related
to supply and demand. When we break this monopoly, there will
be competition. Bernas will still exist, but we want to open the
monopoly to individuals in line with the Pakatan Harapan
Manifesto,” – Salahuddin Ayub, translated
from Sinar Harian.
Wah… is rice that expensive, and
is it because of Bernas’s monopoly? Well, according to Chong Chieng Jen,
a Sarawak state chairman, the prices of imported fragrant and white rice are
influenced by the profit gained by Bernas. He had stated that Bernas
gains an annual gross profit of RM104 million from the import of rice in
Sarawak alone, so abolishing the monopoly may enable the price
of rice to go down by 20-30% nationwide.
This move, however, did not go
well with Bernas. According to its CEO Ismail Mohamed Yusof, the current system should be
maintained as it has never failed consumers, and liberalizing
the market will not make rice any cheaper than it already
is. He went on to say that about
60% of rice consumed in Malaysia is white rice, which is price-controlled, and
another 30% come from imports, which as a rule cannot be sold cheaper than
local rice.
Img from Good Ok Bad.
Also, Ismail had stressed that
the government failed to take into account the social obligations of
Bernas over the years, like subsidizing
the price of local rice with profits gained from importing
rice, and still buying rice from the farmers even
if the produce is infected.
“There has been no issue with rice since you were born,
until now, has there? You face shortages in other (kinds of) food, but never
rice. We always had supplies of rice in the market, our paddy
is among the highest in the region and our rice is among the cheapest in the region.
This proves that the current system works so it should be maintained,” – Ismail
Mohamed Yusof, as reported by the MalayMail.
For now, the Cabinet has
announced drafting a working paper on
breaking up the monopoly, as well as forming a technical
committee from nine ministries to study
Bernas’s monopoly over the country’s rice supply. They’re also drafting a new
model to replace the monopoly. The results are expected in
September.
4. Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s high
speed broadband
Img from The Star Online.
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) is the biggest access provider of
fast broad band, and other companies, like Celcom, Digi, Maxis, U Mobile and
others are access seekers.
TM is pretty big (third biggest telco company in
the world), but it has built a reputation of charging
more than telco companies in the region while also being
among the slowest.
Wah. Why liddat? Well, some
industry experts believe that this is because there is no real competitor for
TM in the fixed broadband space. TM is a monopoly
(although they’ve denied it),
but it’s a bit different than the other ‘monopolies’ on this list, being a natural monopoly. It basically
means that even if there are no policies or laws protecting TM’s
position, potential competitors would still find it
pretty hard to compete with it due to the high
starting cost of the industry, like in laying cables, digging
channels, setting up towers and other sorts of infrastructure.
Cables saves lives… and
deadlines. Img from Reddit.
This is perhaps why there had
been so much talk on breaking TM’s monopoly in
the past, but it remained supreme. However, that might change soon, as Gobind
Singh Deo, the Communications and Multimedia Minister, had
announced that TM’s ducts (like
underground water pipes, but for Internet fibre) will
soon be open to fibre from other companies as
well. This will save some cost in terms of digging new ducts and dealing with
state authorities, but at a price, of course.
“The process of opening the ducts to all eliminates
the need for players to dig the ground to lay fibre, which is a
costly process, or to deal with state agencies/local councils.
Instead, they just need to run fibre alongside TM’s in its existing
carriageway. These options are significant for players to allow for access and
extension of their networks without having to dig the ground and face
challenges,” – Gobind Singh Deo, to the Star.
Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), another company with the infrastructure to deliver Internet,
is also a potential competitor to
TM in the future if it decides to lease out its infrastructureto
other telco companies, but as of the time of writing no word on that yet.
5. Grab’s ride-hailing services
It started out with a pinch how
did it end up like this. Img from Financial Tribune.
Back then, you can choose
either Uber (Uber Technologies
Inc) or Grab if you’re too lazy to
drive or find parking. Well, there’s also MyCar,
but who uses that, amirite? They had a sort of rivalry, but
in March Uber sold its business in
SouthEast Asia to Grab, making Grab the biggest
e-hailing service in the region.
With no substantial competition
in sight, the Transport Ministry soon received numerous
complaints on increased Grab prices, and Malaysia saw a monopoly risk in
the ride-hailing market. The government had since assigned
the Malaysia Competition
Commission (MyCC) to study this risk.
“We don’t want any services to be involved in
monopoly. And if we find any elements of it, we will take
action against them. Our concern is always the fare implemented by these
companies on the end user. It must be reasonable,” – Anthony
Loke, Transport Minister, to the Sun Daily.
As such, as of July 12th ride-hailing
services were regulated in Malaysia, with Grab drivers being
subjected to the same regulations as taxi drivers.
This is hoped to ‘create a level-playing field among
e-hailing and taxi drivers‘. Among other things, Grab drivers will
have to undergo a six-hour driving
training module at RM300 per person, but the commission rates
set by the companies will be capped, so that’s nice.
Img from KnowYourMeme.
By subjecting ride-sharing
services with the same regulations imposed on taxis, does Grab still have a
monopoly in Malaysia? Guess we have to wait for the MyCC study to find out the
technicalities, but having read about all these instances of ‘monopoly’, one
may wonder…
What’s wrong with some good ol’
monopoly?
Stop being such communists,
people. Img from KnowYourMeme.
While it may seem that nothing
good can come out of monopolies, they do have their advantages,
and going through the cases you might have spotted some of them already.
Monopolies usually rake in huge profits, and these can be used to fund better
research and development, leading to better
competitiveness in global markets. Those extra funds can also
be used to subsidize good but not-very-profitable causes,
like Bernas’s claim of subsidizing rice using profits from rice imports.
However, it can be hard to defend
monopolies as it has been proven that industries get more
efficient when they have rivals. Still, while freeing
up the market may seem like a generally good idea, it can put pressure on all
players involved, and some may cope with the competition through cost-cutting
measures at the expense of the people, like using cheaper
sambal for a nasi lemak and selling it at the same price.
“Opening up the market is a good start, but it has to be complemented
by other regulatory changes such as product quality
checks, reducing red-tape or bureaucracy challenges, and perhaps encouraging
more local based content and participation by local supply chain partners,”
– Lau
Zheng Zhou, of the the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute,
to the Malaysian Reserve.
If the government is to look at
all monopolies in Malaysia eventually, it might take a while as there are a lot of them.
But still, these five industries are as great a place to start as any, and
we’ll be keeping a close look at how it all plays out.
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Climate
Change Threatens Midwest's Wild Rice, A Staple For Native Americans
August 7, 20184:57 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Wild rice grows along the edges of the Kakagon River in
Wisconsin.
Joe Proudman/Courtesy of University of California Davis
"It's a really long
process," he says. "It starts with identifying the area where you are
going to go ricing and knowing those areas in a very intimate way."
Northern wild rice, also known as
manoomin, is a staple food in Ojibwe communities across the Upper Midwest,
where it's also used in traditional ceremonies. And, like any wild crop, some
years yield more than others, depending on the weather.
"When wild rice is bad, that means ... families go without
wild rice that year, which can be really tough," explains Jennings, a
spokesperson for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, or
GLIFWC.
There have been a lot of bad
years recently, as invasive species and a series of catastrophic floods have
damaged rice beds. And the trend may continue, as climate change brings more
frequent and severe rainstorms and warmer temperatures to the region.
"A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for
heavy rainfalls," explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute
Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can
hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain
for longer and resulting in more floods.
"Over the last 60 years or
so, the upper Midwest and the Northeast have been the two regions experiencing
the biggest increase in heavy rainfall," explains Vavrus.
Warmer air temperatures may also be a problem for wild rice
plants. As average temperatures rise, the growing season is extending. That may
sound like good news — more time to flourish and produce rice kernels — but
wild rice is adapted to a relatively short growing season. A 2014 paperwarned that rising temperatures could
threaten wild rice harvests in tribal communities around the Great Lakes.
Ecologists say more warm months
may favor other plants, creating new competition for wild rice. Preliminary
data gathered in northern Wisconsin suggests the cumulative effects of climate
change may already be hurting wild rice harvests on some lakes.
A 2008 report by the Minnesota Department of Natural
Resources delivered a similar warning, noting that climate change presents the
most serious long-term threat to wild rice in the state.
For people who grew up harvesting
wild rice, it's clear things are already changing. "Personally I've
noticed on a lot of inland lakes over last few years, things that I don't
remember seeing," says Jennings. Rice beds are thinner than they were a
generation ago and there are more rice worms living on plants and more silt
deposited by floods.
So far there are limited strategies for protecting wild rice
harvests. Diverting runoff or slowing down floodwater so it doesn't
destroy plants could help, but rising temperatures may ultimately lead the
plant's range to shrink northward into Canada.That would be bad news for people
who currently harvest wild rice on reservations. "Migration as an
adaptation strategy for tribes is not really an option," says Melonee Montano,
who works on traditional ecological knowledge outreach at GLIFWC. "Our
land is fixed. All we can do is to work together to improve awareness and look
for solutions."
Pakistan. Rice crop in danger due to
water shortage
06.08.2018 | UkrAgroConsult
Severe water shortage for rice crop in upper Sindh has been
troubling farmers as it has delayed the sowing of the crop. Farmers are not
even certain whether they will be able to harvest the crop.They have been
waiting for water to sow rice in the thousands of acres of paddy fields in
Larkana, Dadu, Khairpur, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Kashmore and Jacobabad districts.
The crop requires an extensive amount of water and without abundant supply of
water, its cultivation cannot be started.
The paddy farmers have been protesting against the shortage of
water, however, their hue and cry is apparently not affecting the authorities.
The protesting farmers have staged sit-ins and observed hunger strikes in the
last few weeks but the ongoing political wrangling due to the elections has
become so all-encompassing that the authorities concerned have turned a blind
eye to the issue.
According to the paddy farmers, the acute water shortage is not
only feared to hit the rice crop but it has also translated into water disputes
among different communities.“Paddy sowing has been delayed. Normally, we get
the water in mid-May and finish the sowing by July. More than 70% people have
not sown their crop,” said Mohammad Mosa, a farmer who lives near Kamber
taluka.
Mosa and dozens of other farmers blocked the National Highway on
Friday to divert the authorities’ attention towards their plight but they were
dispersed by the police with teargas. “We are now planning to observe hunger
strikes in Larkana city,” he said.
Ameer Ali Mugheri, the chairman of a union council, Lalu Raunk, in
Kamber-Shahdadkot told The Express Tribune that many people who sowed the paddy
sapling had not lost hopes of harvesting the crop.“We spend all night monitoring
the water, but all canals are dried up. Not a single drop can be found here.
Irrigation officials are saying there is no water in the Indus River. They are
telling us to wait for rains,” Mugheri said.
“I personally have sown paddy in around 200 acres, but all
saplings have been gasping,” he said decrying that he had lost the hope that he
could harvest the crop this year.In Larkana division, the Rice Canal is a major
source of water for crops but it is completely dry at present. People from
Naudero and Rato Dero from where Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal
Bhutto Zardari has recently won the elections protested in Larkana city.
“This is the peak season and every year we would see abundant
water in the Rice Canal, which is now shriveled,” explained Jamal Daudpota, a
local journalist. He added that peasants and farmers were staging protests
every day but they were not being reported in the media as the media was only
focusing on the post-elections political scenario.
The water shortage has also reportedly hit the paddy crop in lower
Sindh were it is cultivated in Thatta, Badin, Mirpurkhas and Sanghar districts.Speaking
to The Express Tribune, Sindh Abadgar Board’s Abdul Majeed Nizamani said around
2.2 million acres of paddy crop was yearly harvested in upper and lower Sindh,
however, a major part of the crop would be affected this year due to water
scarcity.Nizamani added that Sukkur and Kotri barrages were major sources of
irrigation in the province from where various canals, including Phuleli, Old
Phuleli, KB Feeder, Rice and Dadu canals, would carry water to different
districts of Sindh. “The water situation
in all the canals is alarming because of shortage of water in the Indus,” he
said.
“We have approached the irrigation secretary and the [relevant]
minister but all in vain,” Nizamani lamented, adding that loss of paddy crop
would be an economic blow for the province this year.Criticising the government
policies, he said growers and famers were vulnerable because they did not get
any relief from elected governments. “In India, the price of urea fertiliser
stands at six dollars per bag, but here we have to pay 15 to 16 dollars,” he
claimed, adding that despite the fact Pakistan was an agrarian country, all
successive governments had ignored the agricultural economy.
Tribune
http://www.blackseagrain.net/novosti/pakistan-rice-crop-in-danger-due-to-water-shortage
Pakistan rice crop in danger due to water shortage: warns international
agriculture watchdog
By TNS1
August 6, 2018 9:06 pm
Kiev, Aug. 6 (TNS): Severe
water shortage for rice crop in upper Sindh has been troubling farmers as it
has delayed the sowing of the crop. Farmers are not even certain whether they
will be able to harvest the crop, Ukraine based international agriculture
watchdog UkrAgroConsult reported on Monday.They have been waiting for water to
sow rice in the thousands of acres of paddy fields in Larkana, Dadu, Khairpur,
Kamber-Shahdadkot, Kashmore and Jacobabad districts. The crop requires an
extensive amount of water and without abundant supply of water, its cultivation
cannot be started.
The paddy farmers have been
protesting against the shortage of water, however, their hue and cry is
apparently not affecting the authorities. The protesting farmers have staged
sit-ins and observed hunger strikes in the last few weeks but the ongoing
political wrangling due to the elections has become so all-encompassing that
the authorities concerned have turned a blind eye to the issue.
According to the paddy farmers,
the acute water shortage is not only feared to hit the rice crop but it has
also translated into water disputes among different communities.“Paddy sowing
has been delayed. Normally, we get the water in mid-May and finish the sowing
by July. More than 70% people have not sown their crop,” said Mohammad Mosa, a
farmer who lives near Kamber taluka.
Mosa and dozens of other farmers
blocked the National Highway on Friday to divert the authorities’ attention
towards their plight but they were dispersed by the police with teargas. “We
are now planning to observe hunger strikes in Larkana city,” he said.Ameer Ali
Mugheri, the chairman of a union council, Lalu Raunk, in Kamber-Shahdadkot told
The Express Tribune that many people who sowed the paddy sapling had not lost
hopes of harvesting the crop.
“We spend all night monitoring
the water, but all canals are dried up. Not a single drop can be found here.
Irrigation officials are saying there is no water in the Indus River. They are
telling us to wait for rains,” Mugheri said.
“I personally have sown paddy in
around 200 acres, but all saplings have been gasping,” he said decrying that he
had lost the hope that he could harvest the crop this year.In Larkana division,
the Rice Canal is a major source of water for crops but it is completely dry at
present. People from Naudero and Rato Dero from where Pakistan Peoples Party
Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has recently won the elections protested in
Larkana city.
“This is the peak season and
every year we would see abundant water in the Rice Canal, which is now
shriveled,” explained Jamal Daudpota, a local journalist. He added that
peasants and farmers were staging protests every day but they were not being
reported in the media as the media was only focusing on the post-elections
political scenario.
The water shortage has also
reportedly hit the paddy crop in lower Sindh were it is cultivated in Thatta,
Badin, Mirpurkhas and Sanghar districts.Speaking to The Express Tribune, Sindh
Abadgar Board’s Abdul Majeed Nizamani said around 2.2 million acres of paddy
crop was yearly harvested in upper and lower Sindh, however, a major part of
the crop would be affected this year due to water scarcity.
Nizamani added that Sukkur and
Kotri barrages were major sources of irrigation in the province from where
various canals, including Phuleli, Old Phuleli, KB Feeder, Rice and Dadu
canals, would carry water to different districts of Sindh. “The water
situation in all the canals is alarming because of shortage of water in the
Indus,” he said.
“We have approached the
irrigation secretary and the [relevant] minister but all in vain,” Nizamani
lamented, adding that loss of paddy crop would be an economic blow for the
province this year.Criticising the government policies, he said growers and
famers were vulnerable because they did not get any relief from elected
governments. “In India, the price of urea fertiliser stands at six dollars per
bag, but here we have to pay 15 to 16 dollars,” he claimed, adding that despite
the fact Pakistan was an agrarian country, all successive governments had
ignored the agricultural economy.
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Rice tariff bill hurdles House on second reading
August 7, 2018 | 9:48 pm
THE House of Representatives,
voting viva voce, passed on second reading the rice tariff bill, which hopes to
broaden rice imports and use the tariffs to fund measures to improve
competitiveness in the rice industry.House Bill 7735, the Revised Agricultural
Tariffication Act, proposes the creation the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement
Fund (RCEF) as the government expands the role of private traders in importing
rice.
The fund will help support
upgrades to farming equipment and provide financing for crop loans and
insurance, among others.The fund will also be used for post-harvest, logistical
projects and rice marketing, rice scholarships and vocational education and
research extension services.Albay Representative Edcel C. Lagman, prior to
voting, moved to introduce a provision to automatically appropriate funds for
RCEF.
“The proceeds from the rice fund
shall automatically be appropriated and periodically released by the DBM
(Department of Budget and Management) to the DA (Department of Agriculture) in
order to sustain the program on rice sufficiency and enhance the small farmers
self-reliance,” Mr. Lagman said. The proposal was accepted by bill sponsor
Representative Jose T. Panganiban.
The measure also proposes to
restore the minimum access volume (MAV) on rice to its 2012 level of 350,000
metric tons (MT).
It also proposed that the bound
rate for rice imported from non-ASEAN World Trade Organization members be set
at the 40% Most Favored Nation (MFN) rate within the 350,000 MT MAV. Beyond the
quota, the rate rises to 180% for MFNs.
Imports from ASEAN will follow
import duty rates set out by the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement.The measure
will also allow the President to make adjustments in the applied rate, or
regulate rice exports as well as imports, and enter into trade negotiations,
relating to bound or maximum rates on rice trade. The president, however, can
intervene for not more than two months.
The “Revised Agricultural
Tariffication Act,” is among the priority bills listed by the
Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council.Its counterpart measure,
Senate Bill 1839, authored by Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian, remains pending at
the committee level. — Charmaine A. Tadalan
Experts say year won’t pan out well for rice
exports
Cheng Sokhorng | Publication date 07 August 2018 |
10:21 ICT
A farmer works in a parched paddy field in Kampong Speu province’s
Kong Pisei district in 2012. Heng Chivoan
While the Kingdom’s rice exports
have been declining for the past five months, industry insiders predict that
the year’s total will fall as much as 10 per cent compared to last year.The
claims come as data show that rice exports in the first seven of the year have
decreased by more than six per cent compared to the same period last year.
Hun Lak, vice-president of the
Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) claimed that a slow start to the year could
bring annual numbers down.“We had a lot of orders in the beginning of the year,
but we could not supply on time as we do not have enough paddy in stock,” he
said, adding, “Most millers are constrained by limited storage capacities. It
will be hard to surpass last year’s export figure.”
Last year, Cambodia exported
635,679 tonnes of rice, which was an increase of more than 17 per cent from the
year before, according to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture.
However, over the first seven
months of this year, Cambodia exported 297,080 tonnes of rice, which was a 6.3
per cent decline compared to the same period last year.January and June were
the only months this year where rice exports increased from their 2017 totals.Hean
Vanhan, director-general of the general directorate of agriculture at the
Ministry of Agriculture expected that the total rice export this year would
decline around 10 per cent from last year.
“It is the first time that export
figures have kept decreasing consecutively like this,” he said, claiming that
storage capacity was to blame for the decline.The country unveiled four new
rice storage and drying facilities in July, a move which insiders said will
help boost the country’s exports as well as maintain the local price of paddy.Terms
of a massive 250,000-tonne export agreement with Bangladesh have failed to
materialise, with insiders further blaming a lack of storage facilities for the
inability to meet demand.
Chray Son, deputy director of
Capital Food, agreed that the year’s totals would go down, but was more
conservative in his estimate. He speculated that the Kingdom would hit the
500,000-tonne mark.“We still face price challenges with neighbouring markets
... and our storage still limited,” he said.
Cambodia’s
rice export down in 7-month period
Cambodia’s
rice exports during January-July reduces by nearly 6.3 percent year on year.
(Photo: Reuters)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodia’s rice exports in the first seven months of this year reduced by nearly 6.3 percent year on year, or 18,837 tonnes, to 297,080 tonnes, according to statistics of the secretariat of the One-Window Service for Rice Export Formality.
The secretariat attributed the decrease to rice exporters in the region cutting export rice prices to enhance competitiveness.
However, the Ministry of Agriculture said the reduction in rice export is due to insufficient purchase of unmilled rice and limited rice reserves.
According to Hean Vahhan, director general of the general directorate of agriculture, as next month will be the main harvest time, rice export will pick up in the coming months.Last year, Cambodia shipped abroad more than 600,000 tonnes of milled rice, an increase of 17 percent from a year earlier. China was the largest buyer of Cambodian rice with a quota of 300,000 tonnes.-VNA
Basmati rice millers in India offer higher
price to farmers to cut use of chemicals
Updated: Aug 04, 2018, 11.34 AM
IST
Rice
millers are seeking deals with farmers in Jammu where use of pesticides is low.
CHANDIGARH: Amid tightening food safety regulations
overseas, rice millers are
offering cash incentives to Basmati growers in a bid to wean them away from
using pesticides. Farmers
are being promised Rs 500 more per quintal of paddy for not using pesticides
and fungicides that do not confirm to latest global specifications, and also
for limiting dosages of others, traders told ET. The incentive is expected to
double for farmers in Jammu as harvest period draws closer.
Indian rice exporters are worried that Europe’s stringent norms on pesticide residue levels, and the likelihood of similar standards being adopted by Saudi Arabia, will hit exports of basmati if farmers fail to conform. As per a recent circular issued to exporters by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SAUDA), the pesticide residue levels have been restricted by 90%.
“It is not feasible to meet European specifications in exports to Saudi Arabia as exports to the continent are currently restricted to brown PUSA, whereas varieties in demand in the Gulf country are different,” said Sanjiva Rishi, head marketing at Kohinoor Foods.
Rice exporters have been advised by Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to not send high quantities of rice shipments to Saudi Arabia this week. The Gulf nation is warranting certification from exporters about compliance of MRL guidelines on shipments. “There is possibility of shipments getting cancelled till the matter is resolved with the Saudi authorities,” an official at APEDA said.
Akshay Gupta, head of exports at KRBL, said, “Export of rice is already down to Europe and the US due to stringent residue norms and a hurdle in export to Saudi Arabia will affect basmati exports hard. The new norms from Saudi Arabia have come as a surprise as no timeframe has been extended for implementation.”
Rice millers are seeking deals with farmers in Jammu where use of pesticides is low. “The production of rice is around 2 lakh tonnes in the district, but export demand for Europe and Saudi Arabia is over 1 million tonnes,” an exporter said. Where pesticide usage is less, millers are promising higher procurement price in advance. “It is necessary as most of the basmati farmers have small landholdings and they cannot afford crop failure due to attack by pests,” said Tejinder Singh, general manager at Supple Tek Industries.
Indian authorities are already in talks with Saudi officials to resolve the matter favourably for the current season. Saudi Arabia buys on average about a fifth of the over 4 million tonnes of basmati rice exported from India. Rice export to the US and Europe has taken a hit in recent years after the maximum residue levels were reduced.
With the export season set to start by October, exporters are seeking clarity over the new specifications, as most are unsure about how strictly the norms will be implemented. “It is not clear as when the circular will come into effect,” Rishi said. Punjab’s agriculture department has urged pesticide dealers and farmers to not use pesticides and fungicides that can leave higher residue. “Rice millers and agriculture officials are reaching out to farmers through announcements, through Gurudwaras, pamphlets and public meetings,” an official in Amritsar said .
Indian rice exporters are worried that Europe’s stringent norms on pesticide residue levels, and the likelihood of similar standards being adopted by Saudi Arabia, will hit exports of basmati if farmers fail to conform. As per a recent circular issued to exporters by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SAUDA), the pesticide residue levels have been restricted by 90%.
“It is not feasible to meet European specifications in exports to Saudi Arabia as exports to the continent are currently restricted to brown PUSA, whereas varieties in demand in the Gulf country are different,” said Sanjiva Rishi, head marketing at Kohinoor Foods.
Rice exporters have been advised by Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to not send high quantities of rice shipments to Saudi Arabia this week. The Gulf nation is warranting certification from exporters about compliance of MRL guidelines on shipments. “There is possibility of shipments getting cancelled till the matter is resolved with the Saudi authorities,” an official at APEDA said.
Akshay Gupta, head of exports at KRBL, said, “Export of rice is already down to Europe and the US due to stringent residue norms and a hurdle in export to Saudi Arabia will affect basmati exports hard. The new norms from Saudi Arabia have come as a surprise as no timeframe has been extended for implementation.”
Rice millers are seeking deals with farmers in Jammu where use of pesticides is low. “The production of rice is around 2 lakh tonnes in the district, but export demand for Europe and Saudi Arabia is over 1 million tonnes,” an exporter said. Where pesticide usage is less, millers are promising higher procurement price in advance. “It is necessary as most of the basmati farmers have small landholdings and they cannot afford crop failure due to attack by pests,” said Tejinder Singh, general manager at Supple Tek Industries.
Indian authorities are already in talks with Saudi officials to resolve the matter favourably for the current season. Saudi Arabia buys on average about a fifth of the over 4 million tonnes of basmati rice exported from India. Rice export to the US and Europe has taken a hit in recent years after the maximum residue levels were reduced.
With the export season set to start by October, exporters are seeking clarity over the new specifications, as most are unsure about how strictly the norms will be implemented. “It is not clear as when the circular will come into effect,” Rishi said. Punjab’s agriculture department has urged pesticide dealers and farmers to not use pesticides and fungicides that can leave higher residue. “Rice millers and agriculture officials are reaching out to farmers through announcements, through Gurudwaras, pamphlets and public meetings,” an official in Amritsar said .
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