Rising seas threaten Vietnam’s top rice producer
Viet Nam News/Asia News Network / 06:37 PM
September 26, 2018
Rice uploading for export at the Southern Food Company in
Hồ Chí Minh City. Saltwater intrusion in 2017 destroyed over 30,455 ha of rice
fields in Kiên Giang Province, heavily affecting the country’s rice export. VŨ
SINH, VIET NAM NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
KIEN GIANG, Vietnam — After nearly two decades, Kien
Giang Province may lose its position as the country’s leading rice producer.
Because of climate change, Kien Giang province is
struggling to maintain its place as Vietnam’s biggest rice producer – a
distinction it has held for nearly two decades.
The province is well positioned to produce rice. Located
on the coast, in an area in Cuu Long (Mekong Delta) with some of the country’s
richest soil, Kien Giang is home to more than 357,000 ha of rice paddies. It
produces an average of over four million tonnes of rice each year.
But ever-rising seas have deposited saltwater deeper into
the province, contaminating the three key production areas of Long Xuyen
Quadrangle, West Hau River and U Minh Thuong and killing off hundreds thousands
of hectares of rice over the last few years.
“Climate change is affecting the growth of local
agriculture,” said deputy director of the province’s agriculture and rural
development department Do Minh Nhut.
He cited drought and the intrusion of saltwater as
factors that had damaged more than 56,500 ha of fields in 2016 alone, reducing
that year’s yield by more than 481,200 tonnes compared to the previous year.
Saltwater intrusion continued in 2017, destroying over
30,455 ha. Heavy rain and flooding damaged an additional 7,150 ha.
Aquaculture
Agriculture in Kien Giang is not only about rice. As a
seaside province, it has developed its aquaculture by focusing on farming
shrimp, fish, crabs, and clams.
According to the municipal Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development, aquaculture areas have grown steadily since 2015, producing
more than 217,000 tonnes of seafood last year.
“Aquaculture has helped increase the value of Kien
Giang’s agriculture sector, lifting farmers out of poverty and raising their
quality of life,” said department director Nguyen Van Tam.
“However, annual productivity has not yet reached its
potential, especially in shrimp farming. One important factor is certainly the
negative impact of climate change.”
Tam said prolonged drought and the intrusion of saltwater
had cost farmers more than 22,188 ha of shrimp farms in the 2015-2016 season.
Similar environmental factors caused the loss of 6,000 ha in 2017 and 10,000 ha
so far this year.
With its economy threatened by climate change, Kien Giang
is pushing ahead with new irrigation facilities to manage the rapid invasion of
saltwater.
The province is investing VND950 billion (US$42.2
million) to finance new sluice gates along the An Bien-An Minh coastal dyke
that will prevent saltwater intrusion and retain as much fresh water as possible.
The funds will also go towards a massive network of irrigation channels in the
Long Xuyen Quadrangle and West Hau River agricultural areas.
Although the province had already invested much of its
own money, Kien Giang People’s Committee chairman Pham Vu Hong said it would
need more financial support from the central Government to protect its
agricultural sector from climate change.
Promising future for
rice exporters
VNA WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 - 19:01:00 PRINT
Vietnamese rice exports are
expected to grow stronger by the end of the year (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese rice exports are expected to grow stronger by the end of the year after a brief lulling period, said Tran Van Cong, Deputy Director of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Over the first nine months of the year, Vietnam shipped 4.9 million tonnes of rice abroad, earning 2.5 billion USD, up 22 percent from the same period last year.
Cong said that this is an impressive result, attributing the achievement to the effective rice sector restructuring programme which channels focus on developing high-quality and fragrant rice to bolster exports to choosy markets.
Up to 80 percent of exports now are classified as high-quality rice and sold at more than 500 USD per tonne, he said, adding that market diversification has been a catalyst for Vietnamese rice shipments.
China’s sudden imposition of a 50 percent tariff on rice imports from July affected rice consumption in this market, especially sticky rice. At some points, Chinese traders paid only 380 USD per tonne for sticky rice, compared to the 530-540 USD per tonne at the beginning of the year. However, Vietnamese firms have worked to enhance rice exports to Iraq, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Ivory Coast, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In particular, the Government’s new Decree No.107/2018/ND-CP, which will take effect from October 1, will remove difficulties and legal barriers for rice exporters to expand foreign markets. Accordingly, rice exporters will no longer be required to own rice storage, paddy milling, and grinding facilities with processing capacities of 5,000 tonnes of rice. In addition, customs procedures will be simplified, creating favourable conditions for enterprises to export more to large consuming markets like China, Europe, Africa, Iraq, Cuba, and the UAE.
In the coming time, purchase demand will pick up in some countries, such as the Philippines which will be needing to import an additional 500,000-800,000 tonnes of rice by the end of this year to refill exhausted reserves and stabilise the domestic rice price.
Chinese enterprises have been working with firms from the Mekong Delta region to seek cooperation in rice trading. Meanwhile, Indonesia and several African countries also hold high demands for rice imports in response to output decline due to floods and storms.
Local firms are seeking ways to boost sticky rice shipments to Indonesia to reduce its dependence on the Chinese market. The move has increased the cost of sticky rice from just below 400 USD per tonne in July and August, to 440 USD per tonne now.
Furthermore, as local firms reduce export costs, Vietnamese rice will gain a competitive edge over that grown in India and Thailand, Cong noted.–VNA
Thailand sells rice to China for first time in six months
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 / 9:48 AM
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BANGKOK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Thailand’s government on Wednesday
said it had sold 100,000 tonnes of rice to China, the first such sale since
March.Chinese state-owned food trader COFCO had halted purchases over the last
few months due to ample rice supply in the country.
Thailand had previously supplied 500,000 tonnes of rice to China
as part of a pledged government-to-government deal for 1 million tonnes of the
grain struck in 2015.
The latest purchase of the 5-percent grade of white rice will be
shipped next month, supporting local prices, Commerce Minister Sontirat
Sontijirawong said in a statement.
“This is also a positive sign that the Chinese market’s demand
for Thai rice has returned and China might order more rice in 2018,” he said.Thailand
has exported 8.22 million tonnes of rice so far in 2018, almost 3 percent
higher than a year earlier. That amount is worth around 134 billion baht ($4.13
billion).
Thailand aims to export 11 million tonnes of rice this year. ($1
= 32.4400 baht) (Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Panarat Thepgumpanat
Editing by Joseph Radford)
https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL4N1WC1WO
Food
Innovation is Data Driven
By Lesley Dixon
WASHINGTON,
DC -- Journalists, experts, and industry leaders gathered last Friday at the
International Food Information Council's Food Innovation Summit to discuss
innovations in food technology and trends in consumer demand. Topics ranged
from marketing buzzwords to advances in gene editing and blockchain, and
discussion largely revolved around consumer trust in the agriculture industry.
Panelists
tackled difficult questions about how to communicate effectively with the
public in a world of rapid scientific advancements and rampant
misunderstandings when it comes to labels like "natural" and
"GMO."
"The
consumer has multiple definitions of freshness, and natural, and healthy, and
unprocessed, so there's multiple ways to reach them based on what their
perceptions are," said Samantha Cassetty, a nutritionist and food
columnist with NBC. "We have to come up with the solutions for letting
people know where their food is coming from and create these authentic stories
for them."
A
central theme of the talks was how increased transparency in supply chains and
better management of data can aid the agriculture industry, from farmers to
retailers, in providing the trust that consumers are increasingly demanding
from their food sources.
"When
you gain trust you have a better chance of getting acceptance or getting a
message across than when you just go up against it. Consumers don't like to
hear that their deeply held beliefs are wrong," continued Cassetty.
"There's such a lack of understanding about farming and farming practices
among consumers. People think of farms as Big Industry, and they don't realize
that most farms are family businesses supporting communities, farms that have
been around for 100 years. These farmers care about the sustainability of their
land. That's their family business."
Tejas
Bhatt, senior director at Walmart and a research scientist with a background in
computer science, believes that blockchain could be a boon to greater
transparency in food supply chains, and is spearheading Walmart's effort to
implement the technology throughout its 28-country operation. "Blockchain
is radically transforming the way we enable transparency and traceability
across the supply chain. It's foundational to enabling that level of
transparency before we get to the customer."
Bhatt
also emphasized the shared benefit to stakeholders up and down the supply chain
of adopting blockchain. "We approached this from a shared value
proposition. We're telling our supply chains that if you give us visibility
back to the farm, we will give you visibility to our stores. And you can see
how your product is going from the distribution centers, to our stores, to the
customers."
There
was general agreement among panelists and participants that strong, clear
communication with consumers about the food they eat is more important than
ever in the ag industry, considering the technological and scientific advances
of recent years.
"It's
quite incredible when you think about historical farming versus modern farming
today, traceability, and all the steps we take to ensure food safety,"
said dairy farmer Brian Fiscalini with Fiscalini Cheese. "I have the
equivalent of a Fit Bit on every single cow."
World Rice
Conference to be held in Hanoi
HANOI (Xinhua) – The 10th World Rice
Conference will take place here on October 10-12, with the participation of
rice millers, exporters, merchants, experts and policy makers from many
countries, the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade said yesterday.
During the three-day conference,
500-600 participants from such countries as China, Indonesia, Japan, the
Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Uruguay will center this discussions on
Vietnam’s rice industry and market outlook, key drivers of the world rice
trade, and rice technology and value addition.
They are to analyse various kinds
of rice, including fragrant rice, broken rice, parboiled rice, basmati rice and
glutinous rice to reveal key issues which will shape regional and international
markets. The world’s best rice and rice market achievement award 2018
presentation ceremony will be held on October 12.
In the first eight months of this
year, Vietnam exported over 4.4 million tons of rice worth more than 2.2
billion US dollars, posting respective year-on-year rises of 8.2 percent and
23.6 percent.
Vietnam is focusing on using
better rice growing, harvesting, postharvest, storage and transport practices
and types so that rice will have uniform moisture contents, high weight, no
foreign material, low percentage of discoloured, broken and damaged kernels, no
presence of insects and molds, and high protein and vitamin content, said the
ministry.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50537076/world-rice-conference-to-be-held-in-hanoi/
LSU AgCenter researchers conduct
plant host study on Roseau cane scale
Posted: Sep 26, 2018 11:16 AM CDT
Updated: Sep 26, 2018 11:16 AM CDT
Leslie Avilés, a graduate student
in entomology, inspects Roseau cane that is part of plant host experiment she
conducted at a greenhouse on the LSU campus.
BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU AgCenter
scientists conducting research on Roseau cane scale said a recent study showed
this insect has not attacked commercial crops or marsh grasses important to
Louisiana.
The scale could be one of the
culprits causing die-off of Roseau cane in marshes within the lower Mississippi
River Delta.
AgCenter entomologist Rodrigo
Diaz said farmers were concerned that the scale may also find its way to grass
crops.
Leslie Avilés, an entomology
graduate student working with Diaz, conducted studies in the greenhouse and in
the field on 17 types of grasses including agronomic crops sugarcane, corn,
rice and sorghum and native marsh plants smooth cordgrass and California
bulrush.
Avilés planted stems from each
individual grass in containers. She also added a stem of Roseau cane heavily
infested with the scale to each container and tied the stems together.
“For the experiment, we collected
infested Roseau cane from the Mississippi River Delta,” Avilés said.
She also included scale-free
Roseau cane in a container with infested cane as the control.
After a month she checked the
stems for infestations.
The first generation of the scale
is called crawlers. Avilés said they hatch and attempt to move to a new stem to
infest.
Avilés found crawlers on bulrush
and cordgrass. They had attempted unsuccessfully to settle on those native
grasses but did not mature into adulthood. No crawlers were found on the
commercial crops.
“Our studies show that the scale
was not a threat to agronomic crops and appears to be restricted to Roseau
cane,” Diaz said.
Avilés also went to the mouth of
the Mississippi where heavy infestations are found to see if the scale was
infesting native grasses in the marsh.
“We found native grasses growing
next to heavily infested Roseau cane,” Avilés said. “We peeled back hundreds of
samples from several species of marsh grasses and searched for the scale but
didn’t find any.”
Diaz said several state agencies,
including the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, were interested in this study.
These results are good news to
LDAF personnel because Louisiana farmers already have numerous pest issues that
significantly effect crop yields and quality. LDAF implemented a quarantine
that restricted movement of infested Roseau cane to mitigate movement of the
pest across the state.
LDWF uses smooth cordgrass and
bulrush in coastal restoration projects, and this information supports the
continuation of that work. Also, agents with LDWF have been instrumental in
getting Diaz and his researchers into areas in the marsh where scale
infestations are prevalent.
“The logistics of getting to
these locations is complicated,” Diaz said. “Typically, we are taking a boat
ride for an hour to remote places of the Mississippi River Delta.”
Diaz said these marshes are
vitally important to the ecology and economy of Louisiana.
LSU AgCenter associate vice
president Rodgers Leonard said these research efforts are offering initial
information about the biology and ecology of this pest, which can be used to
better understand the impacts on Louisiana’s natural resources and provide the
basis for future management tactics
https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/community/growing-strong/lsu-agcenter-researchers-conduct-plant-host-study-on-roseau-cane-scale/1476900183
China Focus: Researchers expand test of saline
soil rice to Loess Plateau
Source:
Xinhua| 2018-09-26 14:41:03|Editor: Liangyu
XI'AN, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The saline soil rice R&D team of
Yuan Longping, the prestigious pioneer of hybrid rice, is expecting a harvest
from a test field in the Loess Plateau, the world's highest soil erosion area.
The test field in Nanniwan, about 50 km away from the city of
Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is among six testing bases
selected in May to pilot the team's rice growing technique.
Liu Zhaoliang, from the Qingdao Yuance Biological Group Co.
Ltd., said the team has grown the rice in 53 hectares in Nanniwan, and the
harvest will be made this week.
He said based on the current rice growing momentum, the
per-hectare yield is estimated at 6,000 kg, which can meet the target for the
pilot project.
"The barren land has been treated using a soil improvement
technique. We have also introduced smart farming technology to help control the
growing conditions," said Liu.
The team is known for developing saline-alkali tolerant rice in
China's coastal city of Qingdao and completing the first batch of
drought-resistant rice varieties in Dubai.
Nanniwan is a highland area, where late Chinese leader Mao
Zedong mobilized a campaign in the 1940s, urging a revolutionary spirit to
reclaim farmland from the dry soil to become self-reliant on the grain supply.
However, rice fields in Nanniwan have declined from 467 hectares
to 20 hectares due to low yield, as traditional farming can only reap about
3,000 kg of rice per hectare, which is far lower than the averaged yield in
plain areas.
Liu said the team plans to take three to five years to recover
the rice fields back to 467 hectares in Nanniwan and achieve a per-hectare
yield of 9,000 kg.
About two-thirds of the people in China depend on rice as a
staple food. Yuan, who developed the world's first hybrid rice in 1974, has set
multiple world records in hybrid rice yields in previous years. The latest
record was set in the super hybrid rice field in southwest China's Yunnan
Province -- 17 tonnes per hectare.
Yuan's team selected six testing bases this year with different
soil conditions in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,
northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, as well as Shandong and Zhejiang
provinces in east China.
The pilot is aimed at introducing smart farming techniques and
drought-resistant rice strains to develop water-saving farms suitable for areas
with harsh soil conditions.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/26/c_137494015.htm
How to win friends online: It's not which groups you join, but
how many
Rice
scientists crunch social media data to explain how communities affect
friendships
Date:September
26, 2018
Source:Rice
University
Summary:The
chances that people will form new friendships primarily depends on the number
rather than the types of organizations, groups and cliques they join, according
to an analysis of six online social networks by data scientists.
Your chances of forming online
friendships depend mainly on the number of groups and organizations you join,
not their types, according to an analysis of six online social networks by Rice
University data scientists.
"If a person is looking for
friends, they should basically be active in as many communities as
possible," said Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer
science at Rice and co-author of a peer-reviewed study presented last month at
the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks
Analysis and Mining in Barcelona, Spain. "And if they want to become
friends with a specific person, they should try to be a part of all the groups
that person is a part of."
The finding is based on an
analysis of six online social networks with millions of members, and
Shrivastava said its simplicity may come as a surprise to those who study
friendship formation and the role communities play in bringing about
friendships.
"There's an old saying that
'birds of a feather flock together,'" Shrivastava said. "And that
idea -- that people who are more similar are more likely to become friends --
is embodied in a principal called homophily, which is a widely studied concept
in friendship formation."
One school of thought holds that
because of homophily, the odds that people will become friends increase in some
groups. To account for this in computational models of friendship networks,
researchers often assign each group an "affinity" score; the more
alike group members are, the higher their affinity and the greater their
chances of forming friendships.
Prior to social media, there were
few detailed records about friendships between individuals in large
organizations. That changed with the advent of social networks that have
millions of individual members who are often affiliated with many communities
and subcommunities within the network.
"A community, for our
purposes, is any affiliated group of people within the network,"
Shrivastava said. "Communities can be very large, like everyone who
identifies with a particular country or state, and they can be very small, like
a handful of old friends who meet once a year."
Finding meaningful affinity
scores for hundreds of thousands of communities in online social networks has
been a challenge for analysts and modelers. Calculating the odds of friendship
formation is further complicated by the overlap between communities and subcommittees.
For instance, if the old friends in the above example live in three different
states, their small subcommunity overlaps with the large communities of people
from those states. Because many individuals in social networks belong to dozens
of communities and subcommunities, overlapping connections can become dense.
In 2016, Shrivastava and study
co-author Chen Luo, a graduate student in his research group, realized that
some well-known analyses of online friendship formation failed to account for
any factors arising out of overlap.
"Let's say Adam, Bob and
Charlie are members of the same four communities, but in addition, Adam is a
member of 16 other communities," Shrivastava said. "The existing
affiliation model says the likelihood of Adam and Charlie being friends only
depends on the affinity measures of the four communities they have in common.
It doesn't matter that each of them are friends with Bob or that Adam's being
pulled in 16 other directions."
That seemed like a glaring
oversight to Luo and Shrivastava, but they had an idea of how to account for it
based on an analogy they saw between the overlapping subcommunities and the
overlapping similarities between webpages that must be taken into account by
internet search engines. One of the most popular measures for internet search
is the Jaccard overlap, which was pioneered by Google scientists and others in
the late 1990s.
"We used this to measure
overlap between communities and then checked to see if there was a relationship
between overlap and friendship probability, or friendship affiliation, on six
well-studied social networks," Shrivastava said. "We found that on
all six, the relationship more or less looked like a straight line."
"That implies that
friendship formation can be explained merely by looking at overlap between
communities," Luo said. "In other words, you don't need to account
for affinity measures for specific communities. All that extra work is
unnecessary."
Once Luo and Shrivastava saw the
linear relationship between Jaccard overlap of communities and friendship
formation, they also saw an opportunity to use a data-indexing method called
"hashing," which is used to organize web documents for efficient
search. Shrivastava and his colleagues have applied hashing to solve computational
problems as diverse as indoor location detection, the training of deep learning
networks and accurately estimating the number of identified victims killed in
the Syrian civil war.
Shrivastava said he and Luo
developed a model for friendship formation that "mimicked the way the
mathematics behind the hashing work."
The model offers a simple
explanation of how friendships form.
"Communities are having
events and activities all the time, but some of these are a bigger draw, and
the preference for attending these is higher," Shrivastava said.
"Based on this preference, individuals become active in the most preferred
communities to which they belong. If two people are active in the same
community at the same time, they have a constant, usually small, probability of
forming a friendship. That's it. This mathematically recovers our observed
empirical model."
He said the findings could be
useful to anyone who wants to bring communities together and enhance the
process of friendship formation.
"It seems that the most
effective way is to encourage people to form more subcommunities,"
Shrivastava said. "The more subcommunities you have, the more they
overlap, and the more likely it is that individual members will have more close
friendships throughout the organization. People have long thought that this
would be one factor, but what we've shown is this is probably the only one you
have to pay attention to."
The research was supported by the
National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the
Office of Naval Research.
Rice University. "How to win friends online: It's not which
groups you join, but how many: Rice scientists crunch social media data to
explain how communities affect friendships." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily,
26 September 2018.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180926110103.htm
Kharif
food-grain output to be record high, show initial government estimates
Sep 26, 2018, 04.07 PM IST
Sugarcane
production is estimated at 383.89 million tonnes, higher by 6.99 million tonnes
from the last year.
India
is likely to post record high food-grain production this kharif season, with monsoon rains being
normal in main crop-producing states, the government’s initial estimates show.
Production of rice, sugarcane and oilseed is expected to be higher than last year, show the first advance estimate of the agriculture ministry, released on Wednesday. Coarse cereals, pulses and cotton are expected to see a fall in output.
Production of kharif crops that are cultivated during the rainy season is expected to be 141.59 million tonnes in 2018-19, which is 0.61%, or 0.86 million tonnes, more than last year’s 140.73 million tonnes, which is the highest so far. This will be 11.94 million tonnes more than the average production for the five years through 2016-17.
These are preliminary estimates and will undergo revisions based on further feedback from states, the government said. Cumulative rainfall in the country during the monsoon season till date has been 9% lower than the Long Period Average. However, rains in north-west and central India and southern Peninsula have been normal and hence most of the major crop producing states have witnessed normal rainfall, the government said.
Production of rice, the main kharif crop, is estimated to be 99.24 million tonnes, or 1.78% more than the previous year.
“The bumper production is a good sign for exports,” said BV Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters’ Association. The excess production can be exported to China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, he said.
The next round of paddy planting will now take place in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and “we expect 13-14 million tonnes of rice more production by February”, Rao said.
The output of kharif pulses such as tur, moong and urad is estimated at 9.22 million tonnes, less than last year’s production of 9.34 million tonnes.
Bimal Kothari, vice chairman of the India Pulses & Grains Association, said prices were ruling below the minimum support price (MSP), discouraging farmers from planting pulses. "Tur MSP is Rs 58.50 a kg while the government is selling at Rs 35-37 a kg. Same is the case for urad and moong. Prices will now remain stable and government has to ensure prices reach the MSP level to help farmers. Ban on imported pulses should continue,” he said.
Production of oilseeds such as groundnut, soyabean and castorseed is estimated to increase 5.66% over the previous year to 22.19 million tonnes, the government said. “Soyabean is definitely high but groundnut is down. The government now needs to ensure that farmers gets the price so as to ensure higher planting this rabi season,” said BV Mehta, executive director at the Solvent Extractors Association.
Sugarcane production is estimated at 383.89 million tonnes, higher by 6.99 million tonnes from the last year.
With area under cotton being 0.89% lower this kharif season, the government estimates production to fall to 32.48 million bales (of 170 kg each) from 34.88 million bales in 2017-18. However, Atul Ganatra, president of the Cotton Association of India, said there could be a revision in production figures as the season progresses. The industry said the crop could be 33-35 million bales, which would still be lower than the previous year when it had estimated production at 36.5 million bales.
Total production of coarse cereals has decreased to 33.13 million tonnes as compared to 33.89 million tonnes in 2017-18. Production of maize is expected to be 21.47 million tonnes, which is higher by 1.23 million tonnes from last year, show the government estimates.
Production of rice, sugarcane and oilseed is expected to be higher than last year, show the first advance estimate of the agriculture ministry, released on Wednesday. Coarse cereals, pulses and cotton are expected to see a fall in output.
Production of kharif crops that are cultivated during the rainy season is expected to be 141.59 million tonnes in 2018-19, which is 0.61%, or 0.86 million tonnes, more than last year’s 140.73 million tonnes, which is the highest so far. This will be 11.94 million tonnes more than the average production for the five years through 2016-17.
These are preliminary estimates and will undergo revisions based on further feedback from states, the government said. Cumulative rainfall in the country during the monsoon season till date has been 9% lower than the Long Period Average. However, rains in north-west and central India and southern Peninsula have been normal and hence most of the major crop producing states have witnessed normal rainfall, the government said.
Production of rice, the main kharif crop, is estimated to be 99.24 million tonnes, or 1.78% more than the previous year.
“The bumper production is a good sign for exports,” said BV Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters’ Association. The excess production can be exported to China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, he said.
The next round of paddy planting will now take place in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and “we expect 13-14 million tonnes of rice more production by February”, Rao said.
The output of kharif pulses such as tur, moong and urad is estimated at 9.22 million tonnes, less than last year’s production of 9.34 million tonnes.
Bimal Kothari, vice chairman of the India Pulses & Grains Association, said prices were ruling below the minimum support price (MSP), discouraging farmers from planting pulses. "Tur MSP is Rs 58.50 a kg while the government is selling at Rs 35-37 a kg. Same is the case for urad and moong. Prices will now remain stable and government has to ensure prices reach the MSP level to help farmers. Ban on imported pulses should continue,” he said.
Production of oilseeds such as groundnut, soyabean and castorseed is estimated to increase 5.66% over the previous year to 22.19 million tonnes, the government said. “Soyabean is definitely high but groundnut is down. The government now needs to ensure that farmers gets the price so as to ensure higher planting this rabi season,” said BV Mehta, executive director at the Solvent Extractors Association.
Sugarcane production is estimated at 383.89 million tonnes, higher by 6.99 million tonnes from the last year.
With area under cotton being 0.89% lower this kharif season, the government estimates production to fall to 32.48 million bales (of 170 kg each) from 34.88 million bales in 2017-18. However, Atul Ganatra, president of the Cotton Association of India, said there could be a revision in production figures as the season progresses. The industry said the crop could be 33-35 million bales, which would still be lower than the previous year when it had estimated production at 36.5 million bales.
Total production of coarse cereals has decreased to 33.13 million tonnes as compared to 33.89 million tonnes in 2017-18. Production of maize is expected to be 21.47 million tonnes, which is higher by 1.23 million tonnes from last year, show the government estimates.
Rice
basmati weakens on low demand
PTI | Sep 26,
2018, 14:48 IST
New
Delhi, Sep 26 () Rice basmati prices drifted lower by Rs 100 per quintal at the
wholesale grains market Wednesday owing to slackened demand against ample
stocks position.
However,
wheat strengthened on increased offtake by flour mills. Traders said fall in demand from stockists and rice mills against sufficient stocks position on increased arrivals from growing regions mainly weighed on rice basmati prices.
In the national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa-1121 variety were down by Rs 100 each to Rs 7,700-7,800 and Rs 6,650-6,750 per quintal, respectively.
Non-basmati rice permal raw, wand, sela and IR-8 also settled lower at Rs 2,350-2,375, Rs 2,450-2,500, Rs 2,900-3,000 and Rs 1,975-2,000 as compared to previous levels of Rs 2,375-2,400, Rs 2,500-2,550, Rs 3,000-3,100 and Rs 2,000-2,050 per quintal, respectively, in line with basmati trend.
On the other hand, wheat dara (for mills) edged up by Rs 15 to Rs 2,035-2,040 per quintal. Atta chakki delivery followed suit and traded higher by a similar margin to Rs 2,040-2,045 per 90 kg.
Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
Wheat MP (desi) Rs 2,350-2,450, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 2,035-2,040, Atta Chakki(delivery) Rs 2,040-2,045, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 250-280, Shakti Bhog (10 kg) Rs 275-310, Roller flour mill Rs 1,080-1,100 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,180-1,190 (50 kg) and Sooji Rs 1,240-1,250 (50 kg).
Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super Basmati rice Rs 9,900, Basmati common new Rs 7,700-7,800, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs 6,650-6,750, Permal raw Rs 2,350-2,375, Permal wand Rs 2,450-2,500, Sela Rs 2,900-3,000 and rice IR-8 Rs 1,975-2,000.
Bajra Rs
1,360-1,365, Jowar yellow Rs 1,600-1,650, white Rs 2,800-2,850, Maize Rs
1,420-1,425, Barley Rs 1,650-1,660. SUN KPS SHW SHW
‘PITC rice
imports must use government funds’
September 26, 2018
Agriculture
Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol (PNA)
THE National Food Authority Council (NFAC) could approve the
Philippine International Trading Corp.’s (PITC) proposal to import rice on the
condition that it will use its own funds instead of tapping money from the
private sector, the agriculture chief has said.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol, who is also chairman of
the NFAC, told the BusinessMirror that the PITC’s proposed rice importation was
tackled by the council on Monday and eventually deferred as it was deemed
disadvantageous to other
accredited importers.
accredited importers.
Under its proposal, the PITC—a government-owned and -controlled
corporation attached to the Department of Trade and Industry—would only serve
as a consolidator and that private firms would finance the imports, which would
be shipped at zero tariffs, according to Piñol.
“Actually, the NFAC said it will allow the importation if PITC
funds are used,” he said via SMS. “Because if it would be the private
investors, then the distribution of rice will not be controlled. Plus, they
will also not pay tariffs.”
Piñol said the NFAC asked the PITC to revise its proposal and
resubmit it to the council.
The NFAC did not give the PITC a deadline but, in case they
resubmit their proposal, it would be taken up immediately, he said.
Furthermore, Piñol pointed out that existing laws are clear that
the authority to import rice is vested in the National Food Authority (NFA).
“The law is very clear that all rice importation could only be done through the
NFA,” he said.
The power to import rice and regulate its entry to the local
market is vested in the NFA by virtue of Presidential Decree (PD) 4, which
created the National Grains Authority, the forerunner of the NFA.
Furthermore, Republic Act 8178, or the Agricultural
Tariffication Act, amended PD 4 and gave the NFA the power to delegate the
authority to import rice to accredited traders and importers.
However, Presidential Spokesman Harry L. Roque Jr. on Tuesday
announced that the PITC had already conducted an open tender for its rice
imports that are expected to arrive in two weeks’ time.
Furthermore, Roque said the PITC’s rice importation did not need
the NFAC’s approval.
“This importation doesn’t need the [NFA] Council’s approval.
This information was given by [Trade Undersecretary] Ruth [Castelo] to the
President in Benguet, when we visited Benguet,” Roque said.
“And [Undersecretary] Ruth said that they imported rice of
25-percent brokens, which is sold [by the NFA] at P27 per kilogram,” Roque
added.The DTI proposed earlier this month to allow the PITC to import about 150,000
metric tons of rice to beef up the NFA’s current stockpile.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/pitc-rice-imports-must-use-government-funds/
Promising
future for rice exporters
Vietnamese
rice exports are expected to grow stronger by the end of the year (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese rice exports are expected to grow stronger by the end of the year after a brief lulling period, said Tran Van Cong, Deputy Director of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Over the first nine months of the year, Vietnam shipped 4.9 million tonnes of rice abroad, earning 2.5 billion USD, up 22 percent from the same period last year.
Cong said that this is an impressive result, attributing the achievement to the effective rice sector restructuring programme which channels focus on developing high-quality and fragrant rice to bolster exports to choosy markets.
Up to 80 percent of exports now are classified as high-quality rice and sold at more than 500 USD per tonne, he said, adding that market diversification has been a catalyst for Vietnamese rice shipments.
China’s sudden imposition of a 50 percent tariff on rice imports from July affected rice consumption in this market, especially sticky rice. At some points, Chinese traders paid only 380 USD per tonne for sticky rice, compared to the 530-540 USD per tonne at the beginning of the year. However, Vietnamese firms have worked to enhance rice exports to Iraq, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Ivory Coast, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In particular, the Government’s new Decree No.107/2018/ND-CP, which will take effect from October 1, will remove difficulties and legal barriers for rice exporters to expand foreign markets. Accordingly, rice exporters will no longer be required to own rice storage, paddy milling, and grinding facilities with processing capacities of 5,000 tonnes of rice. In addition, customs procedures will be simplified, creating favourable conditions for enterprises to export more to large consuming markets like China, Europe, Africa, Iraq, Cuba, and the UAE.
In the coming time, purchase demand will pick up in some countries, such as the Philippines which will be needing to import an additional 500,000-800,000 tonnes of rice by the end of this year to refill exhausted reserves and stabilise the domestic rice price.
Chinese enterprises have been working with firms from the Mekong Delta region to seek cooperation in rice trading. Meanwhile, Indonesia and several African countries also hold high demands for rice imports in response to output decline due to floods and storms.
Local firms are seeking ways to boost sticky rice shipments to Indonesia to reduce its dependence on the Chinese market. The move has increased the cost of sticky rice from just below 400 USD per tonne in July and August, to 440 USD per tonne now.
Furthermore, as local firms reduce export costs, Vietnamese rice will gain a competitive edge over that grown in India and Thailand, Cong noted.–VNA
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/promising-future-for-rice-exporters/139035.vnp
NFA expects debt to swell after rice imports
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:20 AM September 27,
2018
The National Food Authority’s (NFA) debt is
seen to balloon by about P49 billion to P185.9 billion as it plans to increase
its rice imports for this year until the next to support the country’s rice
requirement.
Based on NFA’s computation, the importation
of about 250,000 metric tons (MT) of rice could cost the government P7 billion.
With the NFA Council’s approval to import 750,000 MT of rice this year and its
standby approval to import an additional million ton in 2019, the grains agency
would need to borrow about P49 billion from the Bureau of the Treasury.
This would put the agency’s total debt to
the national government at about P185.9 billion.
The agency’s decision came after Typhoon
“Ompong” left some 517,175 hectares of rice farms destroyed, leaving in its
trail production losses of about 750,000 MT of rice.
After Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel
Piñol’s first meeting with the agency as the head of the NFA Council on Monday,
additional imports were approved to ensure there would be enough rice supply despite
the calamity.
As of Wednesday, NFA’s pending loans stood
at P136.9 billion—the bulk of which was incurred during the time of the Arroyo
administration. During that time, in an effort to satisfy both farmers and
consumers, the agency subsidized both the farm-gate and the market price of
rice, which proved to be unsustainable.
Asked whether the NFA has the ability to
pay off its loans, spokesperson Rex Estoperez said the agency has always been
able to pay the Treasury through the proceeds it gets from selling NFA rice
variants in the market. These variants are sold at a constant P27 and P32 a
kilogram, depending on the quality.
Just a few weeks ago, an agricultural group
filed a graft complaint against former NFA Administrator Jason Aquino for
allegedly diverting a portion of the agency’s funds to pay off its maturing
loans instead of using the money to stabilize the supply and prices of grains.
For the first semester of 2018, NFA
received the largest subsidy from the government’s coffers at P5.2 billion,
higher than the subsidy received by the National Irrigation Administration at
P2.996 billion.
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Duterte removes non-tariff barriers to agri imports
Duterte’s Administrative Order (AO) No. 13 is directed
at the Department of Agriculture (DA), National Food Authority (NFA), Sugar
Regulatory Authority (SRA) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Christina Mendez (The Philippine Star) -
September 26, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — As prices
of goods continue to soar, President Duterte has issued an order removing
non-tariff barriers to importation of rice and other agriculture products and
streamlining administrative procedures for accrediting importers.
Duterte’s Administrative Order
(AO) No. 13 is directed at the Department of Agriculture (DA), National Food
Authority (NFA), Sugar Regulatory Authority (SRA) and Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI).
The Palace issued the order after
the country’s economic advisers recommended that steps be immediately taken to
arrest inflation, which accelerated to 6.4 percent in August from 5.7 percent
the previous month.
AO 13 also sought to minimize the
processing time for applications for importation.
“There is an urgent need to tame
the price spikes of basic agricultural commodities by adopting measures that
remove non-tariff barriers and streamline administrative procedures to allow
importation,” the order stated.
In issuing AO 13, the
administration said it seeks to address the shortfall in supply and ensure
stable prices of agricultural products in the domestic market.
The Palace also seeks to
liberalize the issuance of permits and accreditation to traders as well as
temporarily allow importation by sugar-using industries to lower their input
cost – but subject to reasonable regulations.
“(This) will facilitate the
importation of food beyond what we call as the authorized Minimum Access Volume
(MAV). This means that traders can import more and all the fees will be
removed,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said yesterday, explaining the
AO.
“There is a need to liberalize
the issuance of permits and the accreditation of traders who import rice to
break the monopoly of rice hoarders; and to temporarily allow direct
importation of those utilizing sugar to import sugar if needed,” Roque added.
The President is also authorizing
the NFA Council to approve additional rice importation beyond the MAV
commitment for allocation to the private sector.
The DA is also allowed to issue
the appropriate Certificate of Necessity to allow the importation of adequate
volumes of fish to augment the 17,000 metric tons of fish already being
distributed in the market.
In the order, the President
directed the Bureau of Customs “to prioritize the unloading and release of
(imported) agriculture products” to minimize or eliminate red tape.
In signing the order, Duterte
invoked Republic Act 7581 or the Price Act, which mandates that the state
“ensure the availability of basic necessities and prime commodities at
reasonable prices at all times without denying legitimate business a fair
return on investment.”Based on the order, it’s the duty of the state to
“provide effective and sufficient protection to consumers against hoarding,
profiteering and cartels with respect to supply, distribution, marketing and
pricing of said goods, especially during periods of calamity, emergency,
widespread illegal price manipulation and other similar
situations.”
In AO 13, Duterte also ordered
the creation of a surveillance team comprising the DTI, NFA, National Bureau of
Investigation and Philippine National Police to monitor the importation and
distribution of agricultural products.
The group is tasked to ensure the
immediate distribution of agriculture products to warehouses and retail
outlets, as well as prevent price manipulation.
As this developed, Executive
Secretary Salvador Medialdea also signed Memorandum No. 26 for President
Duterte directing the DA and the DTI to adopt measures aimed at reducing the
gap between farm gate prices and retail prices of agriculture products.
It also mandated the setting up
of public outlets and cold storages where producers of agricultural
commodities, as well as poultry producers, can sell directly to consumers.
Hearing deferred
Fearing further economic backlash
from the effects of the controversial Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion
(TRAIN) Law, the Senate committee on ways and means is suspending
deliberations on the second tranche of the tax reform measure at least until
the Department of Finance (DOF) is able to present credible data that the
proposed measure would not lead to loss of jobs.
The committee held its first
hearing yesterday on the proposed Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High
Quality Opportunities (TRABAHO) bill passed by the House of Representatives.
Senators said they were not satisfied with the explanation of DOF officials.
“The government should really
take this issue on jobs seriously. The bill should stay true to its name – that
it would create more jobs rather than kill them,” Sen. Sonny Angara, chairman
of the committee, told Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua.
The senator also expected the
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to present its cost-benefit
analysis of the incentives contained in the measure. But no representative from
NEDA was present during the hearing.
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman
of the economic affairs committee, said a cursory examination of the measure
left him confused as it showed the allocation of as much as P6 billion to fund
safety nets for workers who may be displaced with the enactment of the bill.
“We’re branding the bill as
creating work but we’re receiving mixed signals here,” Gatchalian said.
The senators said they welcome
the intention of the bill to rationalize fiscal incentives to businesses by
making them performance-based, time-bound and transparent to make sure that
those benefitting from tax breaks and other incentives really contribute to the
economy.
Director Dominique Tutay of the Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE) told the panel the bill might lead to job
losses.
Tutay said DOLE and DOF
have yet to complete their joint study on the impact on jobs of the measure.
She revealed that based on their
job displacement monitoring, 30,000 jobs in the industry and services sectors
were lost in the first quarter of 2018.
Job loss fears
Following the passage of bill in
the House, the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines
Foundation Inc. (SEIPI) released a statement warning that the bill would force
them to lay off 140,000 workers.
They said several multinationals
are now locating their expansions outside the country, largely due to the
uncertainty over the status of their current tax incentives.
The House version provides for
P500 million to be used for cash grants for displaced workers. An additional
P500 million would be allocated for targeted training and skills upgrading.
Chua explained the allocations
are just “contingency funds for possible job losses.”
Based on data from the DOF, a
total of 1.7 million direct and seven million indirect jobs were generated by
companies registered with investment promotion agencies (IPAs).
Angara has stressed the primary
goal should be to create high-paying jobs, especially in the countryside.
“It seems that the grant of
incentives is uneven across regions. We want to spread growth and development
in the provinces,” he said.
DOLE official Tutay said the
agency would be able to complete its study on the impact on jobs in two weeks.
The leadership of the House of
Representatives, meanwhile, will start hearing on Monday the fourth package of
TRAIN.
“This is a reform as significant
as the recently signed TRAIN law that it aims to complement as it deals with
the financial sector which contributes a lot to the economy and plays a crucial
role in financing large-scale investments such as the build, build, build
program,” committee on ways and means chair Rep. Estrellita Suansing said,
referring to House Bill 8252 which seeks to provide neutrality in tax
treatment, tax system, tax competitiveness and increase capital mobility and
financial inclusion.
DOF’s Chua, who was present
during the committee briefing, said the revenue impact of this measure is
around P13 billion on its first year. It is expected to decline as some tax
rates become lower.
The finance official also
stressed the government should look at the measure from a long-term
perspective.
“Sometimes, when we just look at
one provision of one package, we do not see the full benefit,” he said,
apparently referring to the much-maligned TRAIN 1, widely blamed for rising
inflation.
Chua said the government aims to
address the deficiencies of the financial sector and institute necessary
reforms to at least achieve revenue neutrality so that important government
projects get regular and adequate funding.
Suansing, an ally of Speaker Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo and who took over the post of her predecessor lone Quirino
Rep. Dakila Cua, said TRAIN 4 aims to make taxes on capital income and
financial intermediaries simpler, fairer and more efficient.
HB 8252 or TRAIN 4 is authored by
Suansing and her husband, incumbent Rep. Horacio Suansing Jr. of Sultan
Kudarat.
Package 2 or the Trabaho bill
seeks to lower corporate income tax while expanding the tax base.
Train Package 3 proposes
improvements in the valuation of property so that the government can finance
many of its local social services and programs.
The last package, also called
“Package 2 Plus,” targets taxes on mining and excise taxes on alcohol and
tobacco. – with Paolo Romero, Delon Porcalla
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/09/26/1854856/duterte-removes-non-tariff-barriers-agri-imports
With rice tariffication, what happens to food
security?
September 27, 2018
“We’re a blessed Nation
because we can grow our own food and, therefore, we’re
secure. A Nation that can feed its people is a nation more secure.”
· President George Bush, on the
occasion of the signing of the US Farms Bill (2002), which is renewed every
five years and which allocates massive subsidy to American agriculture.
With the proposed lifting of the
quantitative restrictions on rice, the private sector shall be able to import
rice – freely so long as it pays for the tariffs set by the government.
No more importation monopoly of the National Food Authority (NFA).
No more rice inflation? No more rice pila’s?
Price stability is the main
argument of the proponents of rice importation liberalization. To them,
food security is simply the ability of a country to buy agricultural products
wherever they are produced, cheaply. This is the theory of the
agricultural trade liberalizers. This is the reason the country tariffied
agriculture in 1995 (with the exception of sugar and rice), after the Senate
ratified Philippine membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The proponents of agricultural
trade liberalization embellished the food security argument further by adding
that small farmers who cannot compete with cheap producers in other countries
need not worry. They can shift to the production of higher-value
agricultural products. Accordingly, Philippine agriculture would be a runaway
winner under agricultural trade liberalization. They even came up in
1994, at the height of the Senate debates on WTO membership, with the following
macro-economic forecasts: agricultural gross value added of P60 billion a year,
agricultural net export earnings of P3.2 billion a year, and 500,000 new jobs
in the agri sector every year.
And yet, Philippine agricultural
performance from 1995 to the present has been dismal, if not catastrophic —
widening net agricultural trade deficits, share of the agricultural sector in
the GDP shrinking to less than 10 percent, deepening massive poverty in the
countryside, and, food inflation, averaging close to five percent a year from
1995 to 2017. Thus, with rice tariffication, a number of farmer and civil
society organizations such as the PATAMABA, Integrated Rural Development
Foundation and Freedom from Debt Coalition are raising critical issues which
policy makers are still unable to answer.
First, with tariffication, is the
government surrendering the entire rice industry business to the private rice
traders, who have a leech-like hold on palay trading, rice storage and rice
distribution? Numerous Congressional hearings, from the time of President
Corazon Aquino up to the present, have come up with ugly findings on the cartel-like
behavior of the traders, including cases of smuggling and collusion with
corrupt NFA officials on the hoarding and mislabeling of rice. With the
tariffication and the further downsizing, if not abolition, of the NFA, these
traders shall now have the whole business field to themselves — from
palay procurement at home to rice importation, from milling to storage, and
from wholesale to retail distribution. They can dictate the farm gate prices
that palay farmers would get and the prices for various rice varieties that
consumers are willing to buy. How can the government then level the
playing field? Who will prevent the rice importers-traders from re-milling
cheap imported rice and mixing this with quality rice produced in the
Philippines and sell this as “regular milled rice”?
Second, what happens to the goal
of rice self-sufficiency? With the influx of cheap imported rice, how can
the marginal rice farmers compete? Some of the answers to competitiveness
are well known: better seed varieties, cheap and efficient irrigation, land
mechanization, grain dryers, good transport facilities from the farms, and
quality rice mills. These have been identified and discussed in past
studies. These have been the object of the Agriculture and Food Modernization
Act (AFMA) and the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Act (ACEF).
And yet, both the billion-peso AFMA and ACEF programs have failed to deliver
the promised modernization and prosperity for the farmers. The culprits:
the big C (corruption) and the lack of a strong visionary leadership in the
agricultural sector. Now what is the assurance that the so-called tariff
revenues to be set aside for the local rice-farming sector shall be able to
transform the sector?
Most likely, the land areas
devoted to rice farming will continue to shrink. The rice industry in
Central Luzon and Region IV has been disappearing since the 1980s due to
urbanization and industrial development. In a study by Elvira Manalad of
Paragos-Philippines, huge swathes of rice lands all over the country are also
disappearing because of the widespread “conversion” of lands supposedly covered
by agrarian reform and the unchecked “land banking” operations of the big
realty companies and housing/village/resort developers. The rainfed rice
lands are the most vulnerable to the agents of these companies and
developers. Their job is made easier by the absence of a National Land
Use law and the weak monitoring by the Department of Agrarian Reform of the
land conversions.
So one of the biggest concerns of
farm unions and CSOs is the waning capacity of the government, in a liberalized
and deregulated economy, to pursue food security and agricultural
sovereignty. Like in the United States and other countries, these unions
and CSOs define food security as the capacity of the nation to grow its own
food and feed its own people. Food security means that whatever the
volatility in agricultural commodities in the global market there are, the
country will be able to survive because domestic production is stable and
sufficient. Of course, food security does not mean stopping all
agricultural imports. The point is that the Philippines, given its land
resources and knowhow, should be able to produce in sufficient quantity its
basic food requirements.
In the case of rice, the goal of
self-sufficiency remains an important one because rice is one of the thinly
traded commodities in the world market. Thus, if a rice shortage occurs
in the two major sources of imported rice, Thailand and Vietnam, the Philippines
is likely to have a political and economic problem that is too hot to handle.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/with-rice-tariffication-what-happens-to-food-security/
NFA must
continue buying local rice
September 26, 2018
The Senate is currently stepping up efforts to convert
the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice into tariffs, a move that is expected
to bring rice prices down and ease inflation. Economic managers have been
banking on the scrapping of the rice quota to make rice more affordable,
particularly to the poor, who spend at least a fifth of their income on the
staple. The poor, who cannot afford to buy more expensive sources of protein,
such as pork or chicken, consume more rice to fill their stomachs.
By removing the QR on rice, Manila is effectively signaling to
the world that it is ready to allow the entry of cheaper rice. The QR on rice,
or import quota, has allowed the Philippines to limit the entry of cheaper
staple from neighboring Southeast Asian countries, such as Vietnam and
Thailand. With the removal of the nontariff barrier, economic managers expect
that the average retail price of rice would go down by as much as P7 per
kilogram (kg).
The downside of the removal of rice QR is the competition cheap
rice imports would pose to locally produced palay. Based on the
BusinessMirror’s computation, 5 percent broken rice from Vietnam can be
purchased at P20 per kg. Even at a 40-percent tariff, the landed cost is
anywhere from P28 to P30 per kg. The amount is much lower than the current
average price of P43.86 per kg, according to data from the Philippine
Statistics Authority.
Assuming that rice imports would not be hoarded by unscrupulous
traders (unlike other farm products, rice can be stored longer), the influx of
cheap rice would spell doom for farmers who remain uncompetitive compared to
their counterparts in Vietnam and Thailand. If importing rice is more
cost-efficient, traders who used to scramble for locally produced palay would
rethink their plans. Farm-gate price could go down if traders suddenly become
uninterested in local rice. While consumers will have their cheap staple, some
2.4 million rice farmers would be hard-pressed to look for alternative crops.
This scenario can be avoided if Congress would still allow the
National Food Authority (NFA) to buy palay from farmers. There are proposals
from economic managers to stop the NFA from intervening in the market, which
means the agency should stop buying and selling rice. But this should not be
done right after Congress has removed the QR on the staple. The food agency
must be allowed to at least continue buying rice from farmers for
buffer-stocking purposes for two years.
This is one of the measures that we believe the government
should consider when it crafts a plan that would help farmers adjust to a new
rice-trade regime. Congress can consider allocating part of the Rice
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund for the NFA’s palay-buying program.
The tariffication of rice is expected to be completed this
month, and the Department of Agriculture would unveil its road map for the
sector once the measure is signed into law. We hope that the DA is conducting
the necessary consultations with sectors affected by the removal of the quota.
This will ensure that strategies employed by the government will have an impact
on those whose lives have long depended on the most important grain in the
country.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/nfa-must-continue-buying-local-rice/
‘NFA incentives
to rice farmers like hiking palay buying price’
In
Photo: Photo shows farmers harvesting rice in La Union.
THE National Food Authority Council (NFAC) has effectively
increased the government’s support price for palay to P20 per kilogram (kg)
when it decided to approve the grant of more incentives to rice farmers.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol made the pronouncement
on Monday, but clarified that the National Food Authority’s (NFA) direct
support price for palay remains at P17 per kg.
Piñol is currently the chairman of the NFAC, the highest
policy-making body of the NFA.
“The buying price of NFA remains at P17 per kg but we will come
up with incentives that when quantified would reach P20 per kg,” Piñol said in
a news briefing following the NFAC’s first meeting under his chairmanship.
He said the NFA would give additional transportation incentives
to farmers who would sell their crops to the government. They would also be
entitled to receive farm equipment, among others.
The grant of additional incentives is effective immediately,
according to Piñol.
He said the NFA would also be “flexible” with its 14-percent
moisture content requirement for palay and would purchase even wet palay.
“We will be flexible in terms of the moisture content. The
government must help the farmers,” he said. “The farmers would say the
NFA’s support is limited. The government is out there to help the people. Our
directive is to help the farmers.”
Despite the increase in the NFA’s palay support price, the food
agency’s selling price would remain at P27 per kg for regular-milled rice and
P32 per kg for well-milled rice, Pinol said.
At present the NFA buys palay from farmers at a support price of
P17 per kg and gives additional incentives totaling P0.70 for individual
farmers and P1 for cooperatives.
The NFA has been pushing for an increase in its support price as
farmers prefer to sell to traders who buy palay at P20 per kg to P25 per kg.
Piñol have repeatedly stated that the NFA will not be able to
purchase palay locally if their buying price would remain at P17 per kg.
The agriculture chief said traders could even hike their offer
and cause the average farm-gate price to remain above the P20-per-kg mark this
main harvest season following the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong in some
rice-producing provinces.
Lawmakers belonging to the Makabayan Bloc have recently filed a
resolution to provide the NFA a supplemental budget of P10 billion to beef up
its palay procurement program. The resolution also mandates the NFA to
automatically buy palay at P20 per kg.
NFA stockpile
The NFA buys uNmilled rice from farmers to beef up its
stockpile, which is also made up of imports.
The depletion of the NFA’s rice buffer stock, is being tagged as
one of the major factors behind the increase in the retail price of commercial
rice.
On Tuesday Presidential Spokesman Harry L. Roque Jr. said rice
imports were delayed because NFA Administrator Jason Aquino had preferred the
government-to-government (G2G) mode of importation.
Because of the delay, Roque said prices of goods went up and
forced the government to import more food items, including rice.
Roque claimed that it was Aquino who “purposely delayed” the
importation. He said some importers may sue the NFA chief because of this.
“The Council has given the authority to import but he delayed it
because he has a preference for G2G,” he said, noting that the G2G importation
is the “worst” mode of importation as this is prone to corruption.
“So many [importers] will be filing cases against him because of
the losses sustained by them as a result of orchestrations so that they cannot
import pursuant to the open tender system,” Roque added.
Roque said he is also thinking of filing graft and corruption
and technical malversation cases against Aquino once he leaves the Cabinet.
“Since he did not spend the money to buy rice from local farmers
so that the government will have enough buffer stock, we are importing now and
we are giving money to foreign farmers,” he added.
President Duterte is set to appoint retiring Army chief Lt. Gen.
Rolando Bautista to replace Aquino, whose resignation he already accepted,
according to Roque.
During his televised interview with Chief Presidential Legal
Counsel Salvador S. Panelo, Duterte said Aquino had asked to be relieved from
his post since he is “tired.
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Palace to NFA: Release rice stocks to markets
Malacañang on Tuesday issued
Memorandum Order No. 28 directing the National Food Authority (NFA) to
immediately release existing rice stocks in its warehouses to boost rice supply
in the market and protect consumers from profiteers and hoarders.
Workers unload sacks of NFA rice at the NFA Warehouse in Visayas
Ave, Quezon City, June 26 2018.
(Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
(Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
In the order, Executive Secretary
Salvador Medialdea directed the NFA to “immediately release to markets
approximately 230,000 metric tons of rice currently in stock in the warehouses
across the country.”Aside from this, the food agency has also been ordered “to
release 100,000 metric tons of rice previously contracted to be delivered
before the end of September.”“Subject to applicable laws and issuances, the NFA
is further directed to adopt measures to ensure access by consumers to regular
milled and well-milled rice,” the order read.
It noted that certain
administrative constraints and fees unduly add to the costs of importation of
basic agricultural commodities and contribute to price increases.
“There is a need to promulgate
measures to stabilize the prices of basic agricultural commodities at
reasonable levels, to maintain their sufficient supply in the domestic market
and to provide effective and sufficient protection to consumers against
hoarding, profiteering, and cartels with respect to the supply, distribution,
marketing and pricing of said goods,” the memorandum read.
Seamless delivery
Malacañang likewise issued two
other directives to ensure efficient delivery of imported agriculture products
to the markets.
In Memorandum Order No. 27, the
Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP) and Metro Manila Development Authority
(MMDA) have been directed to adopt measures to ensure the efficient and
seamless delivery of imported agriculture and fishery products from the ports
to markets.
The concerned agencies have been
authorized to issue “food lane passes for truckers and suppliers carrying
agricultural products.”
Memorandum Order No. 26, on the
other hand, directed the DAand DTI to adopt measures to reduce the gap between
farm gate prices and retail prices of agricultural products.
Among the measures include
establishment of public outlets and cold storages where producers of
agricultural commodities as well as poultry producers can directly sell to
consumers.
The concerned agencies have been
directed to submit to the Office of the Executive Secretary a progress report
within a month.
The three memorandum orders,
signed by Medialdea by the authority of President Duterte last September 21,are
effective immediately.
Incentives
Meanwhile, the NFA Council, the
highest policy-making body of National Food Authority (NFA), said it is
planning to give incentives to farmers who will sell rice at government’s
buying price of P17 per kilo.
This was revealed by Agriculture
Secretary Emmanuel Piñol, who now chairs the NFA Council. The NFA has been
using the low buying price of palay as an excuse not to procure palay from
local farmers and instead relied on the importation of rice from other
countries to boost its stock.
The agency claimed that local
farmers prefer selling their produce to private traders at P20 per kilo or
more.
Data from the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA) released this month showed that the average farmgate
price of palay has reached P23.66 per kilogram nationwide.
The highest farmgate prices of
palay were reported at P29.00/kg in Lanao del Norte and P28.00/kg. in
Pangasinan and Laguna. (With a report from Madelaine B. Miraflor)
QC council passes 2 ordinances increasing rice subsidy to
employees
Published
By Chito Chavez
The Quezon City Council passed
two ordinances increasing the quarterly rice subsidy for city hall personnel
from P1,500 to P2,000 and the longevity pay for career civil servants from P200
to P300 for every five years of service.
Quezon City Vice-Mayor Joy Belmonte. (Mark Balmores/MANILA
BULLETIN)
“We need to make sure that our
own city employees have a decent living. In light of the rising prices of
goods, we want to start by helping with the most basic commodity – rice,”
Quezon City Vice Mayor Belmonte, the presiding officer of the city council
said.
Authored by Councilor Victor
Ferrer Jr., ordinance No. 2727 states the quarterly rice subsidy for all Quezon
City hall regular employees will increase from P1,500 to P2,000.
The assistance is “in consonance
with the city government’s desire to alleviate the economic plight of its own
workers from the widespread crisis and prolonged high-cost of rice”. The
subsidy will be given at the end of every quarter.
Ordinance No. 2728 also authored
by Ferrer mandates the increase in longevity pay of career civil service
employees of the local government of Quezon City from P200 for every five years
of service to P300 for the same period.
The civil servants must have
rendered at least five years of continuous service to avail of the loyalty
bonus.
According to the ordinance, career civil service employees “deserve to be rewarded financially by the virtue of their loyalty and dedication to public duty”.
According to the ordinance, career civil service employees “deserve to be rewarded financially by the virtue of their loyalty and dedication to public duty”.
For both increases, the vice
mayor pointed out that, “Incentives such as this help us reduce corruption by
making sure that the public servants in Quezon City are well-compensated.”
Belmonte stressed the need for
the city government to provide ample support to the city’s honest and dedicated
public servants especially during these rough times.
She said she is currently working
on a scheme that will provide more incentives and reward local government
employees for their honesty and good behavior.
“We will make sure that bad
behavior is punished and penalized, but good behavior is rewarded because
values ang gusto natin baguhin dito (we want to change values here),” she said.
Bumper rice harvest in eastern granary county(1/6)
2018-09-26 13:34:49Ecns.cnEditor :Yao Lan
A drone photo shows rice
harvesting in a field in Taihe County, East China’s Jiangxi Province, Sept. 25,
2018. The county is one of China’s commodity grain bases. (Photo: China News
Service/Sima Tianmin)
Xi Jinping
inspects rice farms in northeast China's Heilongjiang
Chinese President Xi Jinping on
Tuesday arrived in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province for an inspection
tour.
Xi started his tour Tuesday
afternoon at the Jiansanjiang branch of Heilongjiang Farms and Land Reclamation
Administration to inspect the conditions of grain production and harvest.
Known as China's "green rice
city," Jiansanjiang is one of the most important commodity grain bases in
the country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (C)
conducts an inspection tour in Jiansanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province, September 25, 2018. /Xinhua Photo
Chinese President Xi Jinping
conducts an inspection tour in Jiansanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province, September 25, 2018. /Xinhua Photo
It is located in the heartland of the
Sanjiang Plain, an alluvial plain created by three rivers.
There are currently 15 large and
medium-sized state-owned farms in Jiansanjiang, covering an area of 12,400
square kilometers. It has 754,667 hectares of arable land and 678,667 hectares
are used to grow rice, according to the branch's official website.
A total of 96.35 billion kilograms
of grain have been produced in Jiansanjiang over the past 60 years, including
86.75 billion kilograms of commodity grain, the website shows.
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Rising seas threaten Vietnam’s top rice producer
Viet Nam News/Asia News Network / 06:37 PM
September 26, 2018
Rice uploading for export at the Southern Food Company in
Hồ Chí Minh City. Saltwater intrusion in 2017 destroyed over 30,455 ha of rice
fields in Kiên Giang Province, heavily affecting the country’s rice export. VŨ
SINH, VIET NAM NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
KIEN GIANG, Vietnam — After nearly two decades, Kien
Giang Province may lose its position as the country’s leading rice producer.
Because of climate change, Kien Giang province is
struggling to maintain its place as Vietnam’s biggest rice producer – a
distinction it has held for nearly two decades.
The province is well positioned to produce rice. Located
on the coast, in an area in Cuu Long (Mekong Delta) with some of the country’s
richest soil, Kien Giang is home to more than 357,000 ha of rice paddies. It
produces an average of over four million tonnes of rice each year.
But ever-rising seas have deposited saltwater deeper into
the province, contaminating the three key production areas of Long Xuyen
Quadrangle, West Hau River and U Minh Thuong and killing off hundreds thousands
of hectares of rice over the last few years.
“Climate change is affecting the growth of local
agriculture,” said deputy director of the province’s agriculture and rural
development department Do Minh Nhut.
He cited drought and the intrusion of saltwater as
factors that had damaged more than 56,500 ha of fields in 2016 alone, reducing
that year’s yield by more than 481,200 tonnes compared to the previous year.
Saltwater intrusion continued in 2017, destroying over
30,455 ha. Heavy rain and flooding damaged an additional 7,150 ha.
Aquaculture
Agriculture in Kien Giang is not only about rice. As a
seaside province, it has developed its aquaculture by focusing on farming
shrimp, fish, crabs, and clams.
According to the municipal Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development, aquaculture areas have grown steadily since 2015, producing
more than 217,000 tonnes of seafood last year.
“Aquaculture has helped increase the value of Kien
Giang’s agriculture sector, lifting farmers out of poverty and raising their
quality of life,” said department director Nguyen Van Tam.
“However, annual productivity has not yet reached its
potential, especially in shrimp farming. One important factor is certainly the
negative impact of climate change.”
Tam said prolonged drought and the intrusion of saltwater
had cost farmers more than 22,188 ha of shrimp farms in the 2015-2016 season.
Similar environmental factors caused the loss of 6,000 ha in 2017 and 10,000 ha
so far this year.
With its economy threatened by climate change, Kien Giang
is pushing ahead with new irrigation facilities to manage the rapid invasion of
saltwater.
The province is investing VND950 billion (US$42.2
million) to finance new sluice gates along the An Bien-An Minh coastal dyke
that will prevent saltwater intrusion and retain as much fresh water as possible.
The funds will also go towards a massive network of irrigation channels in the
Long Xuyen Quadrangle and West Hau River agricultural areas.
Although the province had already invested much of its
own money, Kien Giang People’s Committee chairman Pham Vu Hong said it would
need more financial support from the central Government to protect its
agricultural sector from climate change.
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Promising future for
rice exporters
VNA WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 - 19:01:00 PRINT
Vietnamese rice exports are
expected to grow stronger by the end of the year (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese rice exports are expected to grow stronger by the end of the year after a brief lulling period, said Tran Van Cong, Deputy Director of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Over the first nine months of the year, Vietnam shipped 4.9 million tonnes of rice abroad, earning 2.5 billion USD, up 22 percent from the same period last year.
Cong said that this is an impressive result, attributing the achievement to the effective rice sector restructuring programme which channels focus on developing high-quality and fragrant rice to bolster exports to choosy markets.
Up to 80 percent of exports now are classified as high-quality rice and sold at more than 500 USD per tonne, he said, adding that market diversification has been a catalyst for Vietnamese rice shipments.
China’s sudden imposition of a 50 percent tariff on rice imports from July affected rice consumption in this market, especially sticky rice. At some points, Chinese traders paid only 380 USD per tonne for sticky rice, compared to the 530-540 USD per tonne at the beginning of the year. However, Vietnamese firms have worked to enhance rice exports to Iraq, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Ivory Coast, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In particular, the Government’s new Decree No.107/2018/ND-CP, which will take effect from October 1, will remove difficulties and legal barriers for rice exporters to expand foreign markets. Accordingly, rice exporters will no longer be required to own rice storage, paddy milling, and grinding facilities with processing capacities of 5,000 tonnes of rice. In addition, customs procedures will be simplified, creating favourable conditions for enterprises to export more to large consuming markets like China, Europe, Africa, Iraq, Cuba, and the UAE.
In the coming time, purchase demand will pick up in some countries, such as the Philippines which will be needing to import an additional 500,000-800,000 tonnes of rice by the end of this year to refill exhausted reserves and stabilise the domestic rice price.
Chinese enterprises have been working with firms from the Mekong Delta region to seek cooperation in rice trading. Meanwhile, Indonesia and several African countries also hold high demands for rice imports in response to output decline due to floods and storms.
Local firms are seeking ways to boost sticky rice shipments to Indonesia to reduce its dependence on the Chinese market. The move has increased the cost of sticky rice from just below 400 USD per tonne in July and August, to 440 USD per tonne now.
Furthermore, as local firms reduce export costs, Vietnamese rice will gain a competitive edge over that grown in India and Thailand, Cong noted.–VNA
Thailand sells rice to China for first time in six months
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 / 9:48 AM
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BANGKOK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Thailand’s government on Wednesday
said it had sold 100,000 tonnes of rice to China, the first such sale since
March.Chinese state-owned food trader COFCO had halted purchases over the last
few months due to ample rice supply in the country.
Thailand had previously supplied 500,000 tonnes of rice to China
as part of a pledged government-to-government deal for 1 million tonnes of the
grain struck in 2015.
The latest purchase of the 5-percent grade of white rice will be
shipped next month, supporting local prices, Commerce Minister Sontirat
Sontijirawong said in a statement.
“This is also a positive sign that the Chinese market’s demand
for Thai rice has returned and China might order more rice in 2018,” he said.Thailand
has exported 8.22 million tonnes of rice so far in 2018, almost 3 percent
higher than a year earlier. That amount is worth around 134 billion baht ($4.13
billion).
Thailand aims to export 11 million tonnes of rice this year. ($1
= 32.4400 baht) (Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Panarat Thepgumpanat
Editing by Joseph Radford)
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Ricela
BCL
SVROil
Vaighai agro products
A.P. Refinery
3F Industries
Sethia Oils
BIRBHUM OILS INDUSTRIES
Jain Group of Industries
Tsuno Rice Fine Chemicals
Agrotech International
Shivangi Oils
Kamal
Balgopal
Oryza Oil & Fat Chemical
King rice oil group
Habib Industries
Wilmar International
Surin Bran Oil
Suriny
RITO
RiceBran Technologies
Wanyuan Food & Oil
Qaxld
Jinrun
Honghulang Rice Industry
Hubei Tianxing
BCL
SVROil
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A.P. Refinery
3F Industries
Sethia Oils
BIRBHUM OILS INDUSTRIES
Jain Group of Industries
Tsuno Rice Fine Chemicals
Agrotech International
Shivangi Oils
Kamal
Balgopal
Oryza Oil & Fat Chemical
King rice oil group
Habib Industries
Wilmar International
Surin Bran Oil
Suriny
RITO
RiceBran Technologies
Wanyuan Food & Oil
Qaxld
Jinrun
Honghulang Rice Industry
Hubei Tianxing
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Extraction
Squeezing
Squeezing
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Food
Cosmetic
Industry
Others
Cosmetic
Industry
Others
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WASHINGTON,
DC -- Journalists, experts, and industry leaders gathered last Friday at the
International Food Information Council's Food Innovation Summit to discuss
innovations in food technology and trends in consumer demand. Topics ranged
from marketing buzzwords to advances in gene editing and blockchain, and
discussion largely revolved around consumer trust in the agriculture industry.
Panelists
tackled difficult questions about how to communicate effectively with the
public in a world of rapid scientific advancements and rampant
misunderstandings when it comes to labels like "natural" and
"GMO."
"The
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unprocessed, so there's multiple ways to reach them based on what their
perceptions are," said Samantha Cassetty, a nutritionist and food
columnist with NBC. "We have to come up with the solutions for letting
people know where their food is coming from and create these authentic stories
for them."
A
central theme of the talks was how increased transparency in supply chains and
better management of data can aid the agriculture industry, from farmers to
retailers, in providing the trust that consumers are increasingly demanding
from their food sources.
"When
you gain trust you have a better chance of getting acceptance or getting a
message across than when you just go up against it. Consumers don't like to
hear that their deeply held beliefs are wrong," continued Cassetty.
"There's such a lack of understanding about farming and farming practices
among consumers. People think of farms as Big Industry, and they don't realize
that most farms are family businesses supporting communities, farms that have
been around for 100 years. These farmers care about the sustainability of their
land. That's their family business."
Tejas
Bhatt, senior director at Walmart and a research scientist with a background in
computer science, believes that blockchain could be a boon to greater
transparency in food supply chains, and is spearheading Walmart's effort to
implement the technology throughout its 28-country operation. "Blockchain
is radically transforming the way we enable transparency and traceability
across the supply chain. It's foundational to enabling that level of
transparency before we get to the customer."
Bhatt
also emphasized the shared benefit to stakeholders up and down the supply chain
of adopting blockchain. "We approached this from a shared value
proposition. We're telling our supply chains that if you give us visibility
back to the farm, we will give you visibility to our stores. And you can see
how your product is going from the distribution centers, to our stores, to the
customers."
There
was general agreement among panelists and participants that strong, clear
communication with consumers about the food they eat is more important than
ever in the ag industry, considering the technological and scientific advances
of recent years.
"It's
quite incredible when you think about historical farming versus modern farming
today, traceability, and all the steps we take to ensure food safety,"
said dairy farmer Brian Fiscalini with Fiscalini Cheese. "I have the
equivalent of a Fit Bit on every single cow."
World Rice
Conference to be held in Hanoi
HANOI (Xinhua) – The 10th World Rice
Conference will take place here on October 10-12, with the participation of
rice millers, exporters, merchants, experts and policy makers from many
countries, the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade said yesterday.
During the three-day conference,
500-600 participants from such countries as China, Indonesia, Japan, the
Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Uruguay will center this discussions on
Vietnam’s rice industry and market outlook, key drivers of the world rice
trade, and rice technology and value addition.
They are to analyse various kinds
of rice, including fragrant rice, broken rice, parboiled rice, basmati rice and
glutinous rice to reveal key issues which will shape regional and international
markets. The world’s best rice and rice market achievement award 2018
presentation ceremony will be held on October 12.
In the first eight months of this
year, Vietnam exported over 4.4 million tons of rice worth more than 2.2
billion US dollars, posting respective year-on-year rises of 8.2 percent and
23.6 percent.
Vietnam is focusing on using
better rice growing, harvesting, postharvest, storage and transport practices
and types so that rice will have uniform moisture contents, high weight, no
foreign material, low percentage of discoloured, broken and damaged kernels, no
presence of insects and molds, and high protein and vitamin content, said the
ministry.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50537076/world-rice-conference-to-be-held-in-hanoi/
LSU AgCenter researchers conduct
plant host study on Roseau cane scale
Posted: Sep 26, 2018 11:16 AM CDT
Updated: Sep 26, 2018 11:16 AM CDT
Leslie Avilés, a graduate student
in entomology, inspects Roseau cane that is part of plant host experiment she
conducted at a greenhouse on the LSU campus.
BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU AgCenter
scientists conducting research on Roseau cane scale said a recent study showed
this insect has not attacked commercial crops or marsh grasses important to
Louisiana.
The scale could be one of the
culprits causing die-off of Roseau cane in marshes within the lower Mississippi
River Delta.
AgCenter entomologist Rodrigo
Diaz said farmers were concerned that the scale may also find its way to grass
crops.
Leslie Avilés, an entomology
graduate student working with Diaz, conducted studies in the greenhouse and in
the field on 17 types of grasses including agronomic crops sugarcane, corn,
rice and sorghum and native marsh plants smooth cordgrass and California
bulrush.
Avilés planted stems from each
individual grass in containers. She also added a stem of Roseau cane heavily
infested with the scale to each container and tied the stems together.
“For the experiment, we collected
infested Roseau cane from the Mississippi River Delta,” Avilés said.
She also included scale-free
Roseau cane in a container with infested cane as the control.
After a month she checked the
stems for infestations.
The first generation of the scale
is called crawlers. Avilés said they hatch and attempt to move to a new stem to
infest.
Avilés found crawlers on bulrush
and cordgrass. They had attempted unsuccessfully to settle on those native
grasses but did not mature into adulthood. No crawlers were found on the
commercial crops.
“Our studies show that the scale
was not a threat to agronomic crops and appears to be restricted to Roseau
cane,” Diaz said.
Avilés also went to the mouth of
the Mississippi where heavy infestations are found to see if the scale was
infesting native grasses in the marsh.
“We found native grasses growing
next to heavily infested Roseau cane,” Avilés said. “We peeled back hundreds of
samples from several species of marsh grasses and searched for the scale but
didn’t find any.”
Diaz said several state agencies,
including the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, were interested in this study.
These results are good news to
LDAF personnel because Louisiana farmers already have numerous pest issues that
significantly effect crop yields and quality. LDAF implemented a quarantine
that restricted movement of infested Roseau cane to mitigate movement of the
pest across the state.
LDWF uses smooth cordgrass and
bulrush in coastal restoration projects, and this information supports the
continuation of that work. Also, agents with LDWF have been instrumental in
getting Diaz and his researchers into areas in the marsh where scale
infestations are prevalent.
“The logistics of getting to
these locations is complicated,” Diaz said. “Typically, we are taking a boat
ride for an hour to remote places of the Mississippi River Delta.”
Diaz said these marshes are
vitally important to the ecology and economy of Louisiana.
LSU AgCenter associate vice
president Rodgers Leonard said these research efforts are offering initial
information about the biology and ecology of this pest, which can be used to
better understand the impacts on Louisiana’s natural resources and provide the
basis for future management tactics
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China Focus: Researchers expand test of saline
soil rice to Loess Plateau
Source:
Xinhua| 2018-09-26 14:41:03|Editor: Liangyu
XI'AN, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The saline soil rice R&D team of
Yuan Longping, the prestigious pioneer of hybrid rice, is expecting a harvest
from a test field in the Loess Plateau, the world's highest soil erosion area.
The test field in Nanniwan, about 50 km away from the city of
Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is among six testing bases
selected in May to pilot the team's rice growing technique.
Liu Zhaoliang, from the Qingdao Yuance Biological Group Co.
Ltd., said the team has grown the rice in 53 hectares in Nanniwan, and the
harvest will be made this week.
He said based on the current rice growing momentum, the
per-hectare yield is estimated at 6,000 kg, which can meet the target for the
pilot project.
"The barren land has been treated using a soil improvement
technique. We have also introduced smart farming technology to help control the
growing conditions," said Liu.
The team is known for developing saline-alkali tolerant rice in
China's coastal city of Qingdao and completing the first batch of
drought-resistant rice varieties in Dubai.
Nanniwan is a highland area, where late Chinese leader Mao
Zedong mobilized a campaign in the 1940s, urging a revolutionary spirit to
reclaim farmland from the dry soil to become self-reliant on the grain supply.
However, rice fields in Nanniwan have declined from 467 hectares
to 20 hectares due to low yield, as traditional farming can only reap about
3,000 kg of rice per hectare, which is far lower than the averaged yield in
plain areas.
Liu said the team plans to take three to five years to recover
the rice fields back to 467 hectares in Nanniwan and achieve a per-hectare
yield of 9,000 kg.
About two-thirds of the people in China depend on rice as a
staple food. Yuan, who developed the world's first hybrid rice in 1974, has set
multiple world records in hybrid rice yields in previous years. The latest
record was set in the super hybrid rice field in southwest China's Yunnan
Province -- 17 tonnes per hectare.
Yuan's team selected six testing bases this year with different
soil conditions in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,
northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, as well as Shandong and Zhejiang
provinces in east China.
The pilot is aimed at introducing smart farming techniques and
drought-resistant rice strains to develop water-saving farms suitable for areas
with harsh soil conditions.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/26/c_137494015.htm
How to win friends online: It's not which groups you join, but
how many
Rice
scientists crunch social media data to explain how communities affect
friendships
Date:September
26, 2018
Source:Rice
University
Summary:The
chances that people will form new friendships primarily depends on the number
rather than the types of organizations, groups and cliques they join, according
to an analysis of six online social networks by data scientists.
Your chances of forming online
friendships depend mainly on the number of groups and organizations you join,
not their types, according to an analysis of six online social networks by Rice
University data scientists.
"If a person is looking for
friends, they should basically be active in as many communities as
possible," said Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer
science at Rice and co-author of a peer-reviewed study presented last month at
the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks
Analysis and Mining in Barcelona, Spain. "And if they want to become
friends with a specific person, they should try to be a part of all the groups
that person is a part of."
The finding is based on an
analysis of six online social networks with millions of members, and
Shrivastava said its simplicity may come as a surprise to those who study
friendship formation and the role communities play in bringing about
friendships.
"There's an old saying that
'birds of a feather flock together,'" Shrivastava said. "And that
idea -- that people who are more similar are more likely to become friends --
is embodied in a principal called homophily, which is a widely studied concept
in friendship formation."
One school of thought holds that
because of homophily, the odds that people will become friends increase in some
groups. To account for this in computational models of friendship networks,
researchers often assign each group an "affinity" score; the more
alike group members are, the higher their affinity and the greater their
chances of forming friendships.
Prior to social media, there were
few detailed records about friendships between individuals in large
organizations. That changed with the advent of social networks that have
millions of individual members who are often affiliated with many communities
and subcommunities within the network.
"A community, for our
purposes, is any affiliated group of people within the network,"
Shrivastava said. "Communities can be very large, like everyone who
identifies with a particular country or state, and they can be very small, like
a handful of old friends who meet once a year."
Finding meaningful affinity
scores for hundreds of thousands of communities in online social networks has
been a challenge for analysts and modelers. Calculating the odds of friendship
formation is further complicated by the overlap between communities and subcommittees.
For instance, if the old friends in the above example live in three different
states, their small subcommunity overlaps with the large communities of people
from those states. Because many individuals in social networks belong to dozens
of communities and subcommunities, overlapping connections can become dense.
In 2016, Shrivastava and study
co-author Chen Luo, a graduate student in his research group, realized that
some well-known analyses of online friendship formation failed to account for
any factors arising out of overlap.
"Let's say Adam, Bob and
Charlie are members of the same four communities, but in addition, Adam is a
member of 16 other communities," Shrivastava said. "The existing
affiliation model says the likelihood of Adam and Charlie being friends only
depends on the affinity measures of the four communities they have in common.
It doesn't matter that each of them are friends with Bob or that Adam's being
pulled in 16 other directions."
That seemed like a glaring
oversight to Luo and Shrivastava, but they had an idea of how to account for it
based on an analogy they saw between the overlapping subcommunities and the
overlapping similarities between webpages that must be taken into account by
internet search engines. One of the most popular measures for internet search
is the Jaccard overlap, which was pioneered by Google scientists and others in
the late 1990s.
"We used this to measure
overlap between communities and then checked to see if there was a relationship
between overlap and friendship probability, or friendship affiliation, on six
well-studied social networks," Shrivastava said. "We found that on
all six, the relationship more or less looked like a straight line."
"That implies that
friendship formation can be explained merely by looking at overlap between
communities," Luo said. "In other words, you don't need to account
for affinity measures for specific communities. All that extra work is
unnecessary."
Once Luo and Shrivastava saw the
linear relationship between Jaccard overlap of communities and friendship
formation, they also saw an opportunity to use a data-indexing method called
"hashing," which is used to organize web documents for efficient
search. Shrivastava and his colleagues have applied hashing to solve computational
problems as diverse as indoor location detection, the training of deep learning
networks and accurately estimating the number of identified victims killed in
the Syrian civil war.
Shrivastava said he and Luo
developed a model for friendship formation that "mimicked the way the
mathematics behind the hashing work."
The model offers a simple
explanation of how friendships form.
"Communities are having
events and activities all the time, but some of these are a bigger draw, and
the preference for attending these is higher," Shrivastava said.
"Based on this preference, individuals become active in the most preferred
communities to which they belong. If two people are active in the same
community at the same time, they have a constant, usually small, probability of
forming a friendship. That's it. This mathematically recovers our observed
empirical model."
He said the findings could be
useful to anyone who wants to bring communities together and enhance the
process of friendship formation.
"It seems that the most
effective way is to encourage people to form more subcommunities,"
Shrivastava said. "The more subcommunities you have, the more they
overlap, and the more likely it is that individual members will have more close
friendships throughout the organization. People have long thought that this
would be one factor, but what we've shown is this is probably the only one you
have to pay attention to."
The research was supported by the
National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the
Office of Naval Research.
Rice University. "How to win friends online: It's not which
groups you join, but how many: Rice scientists crunch social media data to
explain how communities affect friendships." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily,
26 September 2018.
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Kharif
food-grain output to be record high, show initial government estimates
Sep 26, 2018, 04.07 PM IST
Sugarcane
production is estimated at 383.89 million tonnes, higher by 6.99 million tonnes
from the last year.
India
is likely to post record high food-grain production this kharif season, with monsoon rains being
normal in main crop-producing states, the government’s initial estimates show.
Production of rice, sugarcane and oilseed is expected to be higher than last year, show the first advance estimate of the agriculture ministry, released on Wednesday. Coarse cereals, pulses and cotton are expected to see a fall in output.
Production of kharif crops that are cultivated during the rainy season is expected to be 141.59 million tonnes in 2018-19, which is 0.61%, or 0.86 million tonnes, more than last year’s 140.73 million tonnes, which is the highest so far. This will be 11.94 million tonnes more than the average production for the five years through 2016-17.
These are preliminary estimates and will undergo revisions based on further feedback from states, the government said. Cumulative rainfall in the country during the monsoon season till date has been 9% lower than the Long Period Average. However, rains in north-west and central India and southern Peninsula have been normal and hence most of the major crop producing states have witnessed normal rainfall, the government said.
Production of rice, the main kharif crop, is estimated to be 99.24 million tonnes, or 1.78% more than the previous year.
“The bumper production is a good sign for exports,” said BV Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters’ Association. The excess production can be exported to China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, he said.
The next round of paddy planting will now take place in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and “we expect 13-14 million tonnes of rice more production by February”, Rao said.
The output of kharif pulses such as tur, moong and urad is estimated at 9.22 million tonnes, less than last year’s production of 9.34 million tonnes.
Bimal Kothari, vice chairman of the India Pulses & Grains Association, said prices were ruling below the minimum support price (MSP), discouraging farmers from planting pulses. "Tur MSP is Rs 58.50 a kg while the government is selling at Rs 35-37 a kg. Same is the case for urad and moong. Prices will now remain stable and government has to ensure prices reach the MSP level to help farmers. Ban on imported pulses should continue,” he said.
Production of oilseeds such as groundnut, soyabean and castorseed is estimated to increase 5.66% over the previous year to 22.19 million tonnes, the government said. “Soyabean is definitely high but groundnut is down. The government now needs to ensure that farmers gets the price so as to ensure higher planting this rabi season,” said BV Mehta, executive director at the Solvent Extractors Association.
Sugarcane production is estimated at 383.89 million tonnes, higher by 6.99 million tonnes from the last year.
With area under cotton being 0.89% lower this kharif season, the government estimates production to fall to 32.48 million bales (of 170 kg each) from 34.88 million bales in 2017-18. However, Atul Ganatra, president of the Cotton Association of India, said there could be a revision in production figures as the season progresses. The industry said the crop could be 33-35 million bales, which would still be lower than the previous year when it had estimated production at 36.5 million bales.
Total production of coarse cereals has decreased to 33.13 million tonnes as compared to 33.89 million tonnes in 2017-18. Production of maize is expected to be 21.47 million tonnes, which is higher by 1.23 million tonnes from last year, show the government estimates.
Production of rice, sugarcane and oilseed is expected to be higher than last year, show the first advance estimate of the agriculture ministry, released on Wednesday. Coarse cereals, pulses and cotton are expected to see a fall in output.
Production of kharif crops that are cultivated during the rainy season is expected to be 141.59 million tonnes in 2018-19, which is 0.61%, or 0.86 million tonnes, more than last year’s 140.73 million tonnes, which is the highest so far. This will be 11.94 million tonnes more than the average production for the five years through 2016-17.
These are preliminary estimates and will undergo revisions based on further feedback from states, the government said. Cumulative rainfall in the country during the monsoon season till date has been 9% lower than the Long Period Average. However, rains in north-west and central India and southern Peninsula have been normal and hence most of the major crop producing states have witnessed normal rainfall, the government said.
Production of rice, the main kharif crop, is estimated to be 99.24 million tonnes, or 1.78% more than the previous year.
“The bumper production is a good sign for exports,” said BV Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters’ Association. The excess production can be exported to China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, he said.
The next round of paddy planting will now take place in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and “we expect 13-14 million tonnes of rice more production by February”, Rao said.
The output of kharif pulses such as tur, moong and urad is estimated at 9.22 million tonnes, less than last year’s production of 9.34 million tonnes.
Bimal Kothari, vice chairman of the India Pulses & Grains Association, said prices were ruling below the minimum support price (MSP), discouraging farmers from planting pulses. "Tur MSP is Rs 58.50 a kg while the government is selling at Rs 35-37 a kg. Same is the case for urad and moong. Prices will now remain stable and government has to ensure prices reach the MSP level to help farmers. Ban on imported pulses should continue,” he said.
Production of oilseeds such as groundnut, soyabean and castorseed is estimated to increase 5.66% over the previous year to 22.19 million tonnes, the government said. “Soyabean is definitely high but groundnut is down. The government now needs to ensure that farmers gets the price so as to ensure higher planting this rabi season,” said BV Mehta, executive director at the Solvent Extractors Association.
Sugarcane production is estimated at 383.89 million tonnes, higher by 6.99 million tonnes from the last year.
With area under cotton being 0.89% lower this kharif season, the government estimates production to fall to 32.48 million bales (of 170 kg each) from 34.88 million bales in 2017-18. However, Atul Ganatra, president of the Cotton Association of India, said there could be a revision in production figures as the season progresses. The industry said the crop could be 33-35 million bales, which would still be lower than the previous year when it had estimated production at 36.5 million bales.
Total production of coarse cereals has decreased to 33.13 million tonnes as compared to 33.89 million tonnes in 2017-18. Production of maize is expected to be 21.47 million tonnes, which is higher by 1.23 million tonnes from last year, show the government estimates.
Rice
basmati weakens on low demand
PTI | Sep 26,
2018, 14:48 IST
New
Delhi, Sep 26 () Rice basmati prices drifted lower by Rs 100 per quintal at the
wholesale grains market Wednesday owing to slackened demand against ample
stocks position.
However,
wheat strengthened on increased offtake by flour mills. Traders said fall in demand from stockists and rice mills against sufficient stocks position on increased arrivals from growing regions mainly weighed on rice basmati prices.
In the national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa-1121 variety were down by Rs 100 each to Rs 7,700-7,800 and Rs 6,650-6,750 per quintal, respectively.
Non-basmati rice permal raw, wand, sela and IR-8 also settled lower at Rs 2,350-2,375, Rs 2,450-2,500, Rs 2,900-3,000 and Rs 1,975-2,000 as compared to previous levels of Rs 2,375-2,400, Rs 2,500-2,550, Rs 3,000-3,100 and Rs 2,000-2,050 per quintal, respectively, in line with basmati trend.
On the other hand, wheat dara (for mills) edged up by Rs 15 to Rs 2,035-2,040 per quintal. Atta chakki delivery followed suit and traded higher by a similar margin to Rs 2,040-2,045 per 90 kg.
Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
Wheat MP (desi) Rs 2,350-2,450, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 2,035-2,040, Atta Chakki(delivery) Rs 2,040-2,045, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 250-280, Shakti Bhog (10 kg) Rs 275-310, Roller flour mill Rs 1,080-1,100 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,180-1,190 (50 kg) and Sooji Rs 1,240-1,250 (50 kg).
Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super Basmati rice Rs 9,900, Basmati common new Rs 7,700-7,800, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs 6,650-6,750, Permal raw Rs 2,350-2,375, Permal wand Rs 2,450-2,500, Sela Rs 2,900-3,000 and rice IR-8 Rs 1,975-2,000.
Bajra Rs
1,360-1,365, Jowar yellow Rs 1,600-1,650, white Rs 2,800-2,850, Maize Rs
1,420-1,425, Barley Rs 1,650-1,660. SUN KPS SHW SHW
‘PITC rice
imports must use government funds’
September 26, 2018
Agriculture
Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol (PNA)
THE National Food Authority Council (NFAC) could approve the
Philippine International Trading Corp.’s (PITC) proposal to import rice on the
condition that it will use its own funds instead of tapping money from the
private sector, the agriculture chief has said.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol, who is also chairman of
the NFAC, told the BusinessMirror that the PITC’s proposed rice importation was
tackled by the council on Monday and eventually deferred as it was deemed
disadvantageous to other
accredited importers.
accredited importers.
Under its proposal, the PITC—a government-owned and -controlled
corporation attached to the Department of Trade and Industry—would only serve
as a consolidator and that private firms would finance the imports, which would
be shipped at zero tariffs, according to Piñol.
“Actually, the NFAC said it will allow the importation if PITC
funds are used,” he said via SMS. “Because if it would be the private
investors, then the distribution of rice will not be controlled. Plus, they
will also not pay tariffs.”
Piñol said the NFAC asked the PITC to revise its proposal and
resubmit it to the council.
The NFAC did not give the PITC a deadline but, in case they
resubmit their proposal, it would be taken up immediately, he said.
Furthermore, Piñol pointed out that existing laws are clear that
the authority to import rice is vested in the National Food Authority (NFA).
“The law is very clear that all rice importation could only be done through the
NFA,” he said.
The power to import rice and regulate its entry to the local
market is vested in the NFA by virtue of Presidential Decree (PD) 4, which
created the National Grains Authority, the forerunner of the NFA.
Furthermore, Republic Act 8178, or the Agricultural
Tariffication Act, amended PD 4 and gave the NFA the power to delegate the
authority to import rice to accredited traders and importers.
However, Presidential Spokesman Harry L. Roque Jr. on Tuesday
announced that the PITC had already conducted an open tender for its rice
imports that are expected to arrive in two weeks’ time.
Furthermore, Roque said the PITC’s rice importation did not need
the NFAC’s approval.
“This importation doesn’t need the [NFA] Council’s approval.
This information was given by [Trade Undersecretary] Ruth [Castelo] to the
President in Benguet, when we visited Benguet,” Roque said.
“And [Undersecretary] Ruth said that they imported rice of
25-percent brokens, which is sold [by the NFA] at P27 per kilogram,” Roque
added.The DTI proposed earlier this month to allow the PITC to import about 150,000
metric tons of rice to beef up the NFA’s current stockpile.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/pitc-rice-imports-must-use-government-funds/
Promising
future for rice exporters
Vietnamese
rice exports are expected to grow stronger by the end of the year (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese rice exports are expected to grow stronger by the end of the year after a brief lulling period, said Tran Van Cong, Deputy Director of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Over the first nine months of the year, Vietnam shipped 4.9 million tonnes of rice abroad, earning 2.5 billion USD, up 22 percent from the same period last year.
Cong said that this is an impressive result, attributing the achievement to the effective rice sector restructuring programme which channels focus on developing high-quality and fragrant rice to bolster exports to choosy markets.
Up to 80 percent of exports now are classified as high-quality rice and sold at more than 500 USD per tonne, he said, adding that market diversification has been a catalyst for Vietnamese rice shipments.
China’s sudden imposition of a 50 percent tariff on rice imports from July affected rice consumption in this market, especially sticky rice. At some points, Chinese traders paid only 380 USD per tonne for sticky rice, compared to the 530-540 USD per tonne at the beginning of the year. However, Vietnamese firms have worked to enhance rice exports to Iraq, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Ivory Coast, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In particular, the Government’s new Decree No.107/2018/ND-CP, which will take effect from October 1, will remove difficulties and legal barriers for rice exporters to expand foreign markets. Accordingly, rice exporters will no longer be required to own rice storage, paddy milling, and grinding facilities with processing capacities of 5,000 tonnes of rice. In addition, customs procedures will be simplified, creating favourable conditions for enterprises to export more to large consuming markets like China, Europe, Africa, Iraq, Cuba, and the UAE.
In the coming time, purchase demand will pick up in some countries, such as the Philippines which will be needing to import an additional 500,000-800,000 tonnes of rice by the end of this year to refill exhausted reserves and stabilise the domestic rice price.
Chinese enterprises have been working with firms from the Mekong Delta region to seek cooperation in rice trading. Meanwhile, Indonesia and several African countries also hold high demands for rice imports in response to output decline due to floods and storms.
Local firms are seeking ways to boost sticky rice shipments to Indonesia to reduce its dependence on the Chinese market. The move has increased the cost of sticky rice from just below 400 USD per tonne in July and August, to 440 USD per tonne now.
Furthermore, as local firms reduce export costs, Vietnamese rice will gain a competitive edge over that grown in India and Thailand, Cong noted.–VNA
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/promising-future-for-rice-exporters/139035.vnp
NFA expects debt to swell after rice imports
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:20 AM September 27,
2018
The National Food Authority’s (NFA) debt is
seen to balloon by about P49 billion to P185.9 billion as it plans to increase
its rice imports for this year until the next to support the country’s rice
requirement.
Based on NFA’s computation, the importation
of about 250,000 metric tons (MT) of rice could cost the government P7 billion.
With the NFA Council’s approval to import 750,000 MT of rice this year and its
standby approval to import an additional million ton in 2019, the grains agency
would need to borrow about P49 billion from the Bureau of the Treasury.
This would put the agency’s total debt to
the national government at about P185.9 billion.
The agency’s decision came after Typhoon
“Ompong” left some 517,175 hectares of rice farms destroyed, leaving in its
trail production losses of about 750,000 MT of rice.
After Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel
Piñol’s first meeting with the agency as the head of the NFA Council on Monday,
additional imports were approved to ensure there would be enough rice supply despite
the calamity.
As of Wednesday, NFA’s pending loans stood
at P136.9 billion—the bulk of which was incurred during the time of the Arroyo
administration. During that time, in an effort to satisfy both farmers and
consumers, the agency subsidized both the farm-gate and the market price of
rice, which proved to be unsustainable.
Asked whether the NFA has the ability to
pay off its loans, spokesperson Rex Estoperez said the agency has always been
able to pay the Treasury through the proceeds it gets from selling NFA rice
variants in the market. These variants are sold at a constant P27 and P32 a
kilogram, depending on the quality.
Just a few weeks ago, an agricultural group
filed a graft complaint against former NFA Administrator Jason Aquino for
allegedly diverting a portion of the agency’s funds to pay off its maturing
loans instead of using the money to stabilize the supply and prices of grains.
For the first semester of 2018, NFA
received the largest subsidy from the government’s coffers at P5.2 billion,
higher than the subsidy received by the National Irrigation Administration at
P2.996 billion.
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Duterte removes non-tariff barriers to agri imports
Duterte’s Administrative Order (AO) No. 13 is directed
at the Department of Agriculture (DA), National Food Authority (NFA), Sugar
Regulatory Authority (SRA) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Christina Mendez (The Philippine Star) -
September 26, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — As prices
of goods continue to soar, President Duterte has issued an order removing
non-tariff barriers to importation of rice and other agriculture products and
streamlining administrative procedures for accrediting importers.
Duterte’s Administrative Order
(AO) No. 13 is directed at the Department of Agriculture (DA), National Food
Authority (NFA), Sugar Regulatory Authority (SRA) and Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI).
The Palace issued the order after
the country’s economic advisers recommended that steps be immediately taken to
arrest inflation, which accelerated to 6.4 percent in August from 5.7 percent
the previous month.
AO 13 also sought to minimize the
processing time for applications for importation.
“There is an urgent need to tame
the price spikes of basic agricultural commodities by adopting measures that
remove non-tariff barriers and streamline administrative procedures to allow
importation,” the order stated.
In issuing AO 13, the
administration said it seeks to address the shortfall in supply and ensure
stable prices of agricultural products in the domestic market.
The Palace also seeks to
liberalize the issuance of permits and accreditation to traders as well as
temporarily allow importation by sugar-using industries to lower their input
cost – but subject to reasonable regulations.
“(This) will facilitate the
importation of food beyond what we call as the authorized Minimum Access Volume
(MAV). This means that traders can import more and all the fees will be
removed,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said yesterday, explaining the
AO.
“There is a need to liberalize
the issuance of permits and the accreditation of traders who import rice to
break the monopoly of rice hoarders; and to temporarily allow direct
importation of those utilizing sugar to import sugar if needed,” Roque added.
The President is also authorizing
the NFA Council to approve additional rice importation beyond the MAV
commitment for allocation to the private sector.
The DA is also allowed to issue
the appropriate Certificate of Necessity to allow the importation of adequate
volumes of fish to augment the 17,000 metric tons of fish already being
distributed in the market.
In the order, the President
directed the Bureau of Customs “to prioritize the unloading and release of
(imported) agriculture products” to minimize or eliminate red tape.
In signing the order, Duterte
invoked Republic Act 7581 or the Price Act, which mandates that the state
“ensure the availability of basic necessities and prime commodities at
reasonable prices at all times without denying legitimate business a fair
return on investment.”Based on the order, it’s the duty of the state to
“provide effective and sufficient protection to consumers against hoarding,
profiteering and cartels with respect to supply, distribution, marketing and
pricing of said goods, especially during periods of calamity, emergency,
widespread illegal price manipulation and other similar
situations.”
In AO 13, Duterte also ordered
the creation of a surveillance team comprising the DTI, NFA, National Bureau of
Investigation and Philippine National Police to monitor the importation and
distribution of agricultural products.
The group is tasked to ensure the
immediate distribution of agriculture products to warehouses and retail
outlets, as well as prevent price manipulation.
As this developed, Executive
Secretary Salvador Medialdea also signed Memorandum No. 26 for President
Duterte directing the DA and the DTI to adopt measures aimed at reducing the
gap between farm gate prices and retail prices of agriculture products.
It also mandated the setting up
of public outlets and cold storages where producers of agricultural
commodities, as well as poultry producers, can sell directly to consumers.
Hearing deferred
Fearing further economic backlash
from the effects of the controversial Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion
(TRAIN) Law, the Senate committee on ways and means is suspending
deliberations on the second tranche of the tax reform measure at least until
the Department of Finance (DOF) is able to present credible data that the
proposed measure would not lead to loss of jobs.
The committee held its first
hearing yesterday on the proposed Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High
Quality Opportunities (TRABAHO) bill passed by the House of Representatives.
Senators said they were not satisfied with the explanation of DOF officials.
“The government should really
take this issue on jobs seriously. The bill should stay true to its name – that
it would create more jobs rather than kill them,” Sen. Sonny Angara, chairman
of the committee, told Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua.
The senator also expected the
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to present its cost-benefit
analysis of the incentives contained in the measure. But no representative from
NEDA was present during the hearing.
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman
of the economic affairs committee, said a cursory examination of the measure
left him confused as it showed the allocation of as much as P6 billion to fund
safety nets for workers who may be displaced with the enactment of the bill.
“We’re branding the bill as
creating work but we’re receiving mixed signals here,” Gatchalian said.
The senators said they welcome
the intention of the bill to rationalize fiscal incentives to businesses by
making them performance-based, time-bound and transparent to make sure that
those benefitting from tax breaks and other incentives really contribute to the
economy.
Director Dominique Tutay of the Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE) told the panel the bill might lead to job
losses.
Tutay said DOLE and DOF
have yet to complete their joint study on the impact on jobs of the measure.
She revealed that based on their
job displacement monitoring, 30,000 jobs in the industry and services sectors
were lost in the first quarter of 2018.
Job loss fears
Following the passage of bill in
the House, the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines
Foundation Inc. (SEIPI) released a statement warning that the bill would force
them to lay off 140,000 workers.
They said several multinationals
are now locating their expansions outside the country, largely due to the
uncertainty over the status of their current tax incentives.
The House version provides for
P500 million to be used for cash grants for displaced workers. An additional
P500 million would be allocated for targeted training and skills upgrading.
Chua explained the allocations
are just “contingency funds for possible job losses.”
Based on data from the DOF, a
total of 1.7 million direct and seven million indirect jobs were generated by
companies registered with investment promotion agencies (IPAs).
Angara has stressed the primary
goal should be to create high-paying jobs, especially in the countryside.
“It seems that the grant of
incentives is uneven across regions. We want to spread growth and development
in the provinces,” he said.
DOLE official Tutay said the
agency would be able to complete its study on the impact on jobs in two weeks.
The leadership of the House of
Representatives, meanwhile, will start hearing on Monday the fourth package of
TRAIN.
“This is a reform as significant
as the recently signed TRAIN law that it aims to complement as it deals with
the financial sector which contributes a lot to the economy and plays a crucial
role in financing large-scale investments such as the build, build, build
program,” committee on ways and means chair Rep. Estrellita Suansing said,
referring to House Bill 8252 which seeks to provide neutrality in tax
treatment, tax system, tax competitiveness and increase capital mobility and
financial inclusion.
DOF’s Chua, who was present
during the committee briefing, said the revenue impact of this measure is
around P13 billion on its first year. It is expected to decline as some tax
rates become lower.
The finance official also
stressed the government should look at the measure from a long-term
perspective.
“Sometimes, when we just look at
one provision of one package, we do not see the full benefit,” he said,
apparently referring to the much-maligned TRAIN 1, widely blamed for rising
inflation.
Chua said the government aims to
address the deficiencies of the financial sector and institute necessary
reforms to at least achieve revenue neutrality so that important government
projects get regular and adequate funding.
Suansing, an ally of Speaker Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo and who took over the post of her predecessor lone Quirino
Rep. Dakila Cua, said TRAIN 4 aims to make taxes on capital income and
financial intermediaries simpler, fairer and more efficient.
HB 8252 or TRAIN 4 is authored by
Suansing and her husband, incumbent Rep. Horacio Suansing Jr. of Sultan
Kudarat.
Package 2 or the Trabaho bill
seeks to lower corporate income tax while expanding the tax base.
Train Package 3 proposes
improvements in the valuation of property so that the government can finance
many of its local social services and programs.
The last package, also called
“Package 2 Plus,” targets taxes on mining and excise taxes on alcohol and
tobacco. – with Paolo Romero, Delon Porcalla
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/09/26/1854856/duterte-removes-non-tariff-barriers-agri-imports
With rice tariffication, what happens to food
security?
September 27, 2018
“We’re a blessed Nation
because we can grow our own food and, therefore, we’re
secure. A Nation that can feed its people is a nation more secure.”
· President George Bush, on the
occasion of the signing of the US Farms Bill (2002), which is renewed every
five years and which allocates massive subsidy to American agriculture.
With the proposed lifting of the
quantitative restrictions on rice, the private sector shall be able to import
rice – freely so long as it pays for the tariffs set by the government.
No more importation monopoly of the National Food Authority (NFA).
No more rice inflation? No more rice pila’s?
Price stability is the main
argument of the proponents of rice importation liberalization. To them,
food security is simply the ability of a country to buy agricultural products
wherever they are produced, cheaply. This is the theory of the
agricultural trade liberalizers. This is the reason the country tariffied
agriculture in 1995 (with the exception of sugar and rice), after the Senate
ratified Philippine membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The proponents of agricultural
trade liberalization embellished the food security argument further by adding
that small farmers who cannot compete with cheap producers in other countries
need not worry. They can shift to the production of higher-value
agricultural products. Accordingly, Philippine agriculture would be a runaway
winner under agricultural trade liberalization. They even came up in
1994, at the height of the Senate debates on WTO membership, with the following
macro-economic forecasts: agricultural gross value added of P60 billion a year,
agricultural net export earnings of P3.2 billion a year, and 500,000 new jobs
in the agri sector every year.
And yet, Philippine agricultural
performance from 1995 to the present has been dismal, if not catastrophic —
widening net agricultural trade deficits, share of the agricultural sector in
the GDP shrinking to less than 10 percent, deepening massive poverty in the
countryside, and, food inflation, averaging close to five percent a year from
1995 to 2017. Thus, with rice tariffication, a number of farmer and civil
society organizations such as the PATAMABA, Integrated Rural Development
Foundation and Freedom from Debt Coalition are raising critical issues which
policy makers are still unable to answer.
First, with tariffication, is the
government surrendering the entire rice industry business to the private rice
traders, who have a leech-like hold on palay trading, rice storage and rice
distribution? Numerous Congressional hearings, from the time of President
Corazon Aquino up to the present, have come up with ugly findings on the cartel-like
behavior of the traders, including cases of smuggling and collusion with
corrupt NFA officials on the hoarding and mislabeling of rice. With the
tariffication and the further downsizing, if not abolition, of the NFA, these
traders shall now have the whole business field to themselves — from
palay procurement at home to rice importation, from milling to storage, and
from wholesale to retail distribution. They can dictate the farm gate prices
that palay farmers would get and the prices for various rice varieties that
consumers are willing to buy. How can the government then level the
playing field? Who will prevent the rice importers-traders from re-milling
cheap imported rice and mixing this with quality rice produced in the
Philippines and sell this as “regular milled rice”?
Second, what happens to the goal
of rice self-sufficiency? With the influx of cheap imported rice, how can
the marginal rice farmers compete? Some of the answers to competitiveness
are well known: better seed varieties, cheap and efficient irrigation, land
mechanization, grain dryers, good transport facilities from the farms, and
quality rice mills. These have been identified and discussed in past
studies. These have been the object of the Agriculture and Food Modernization
Act (AFMA) and the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Act (ACEF).
And yet, both the billion-peso AFMA and ACEF programs have failed to deliver
the promised modernization and prosperity for the farmers. The culprits:
the big C (corruption) and the lack of a strong visionary leadership in the
agricultural sector. Now what is the assurance that the so-called tariff
revenues to be set aside for the local rice-farming sector shall be able to
transform the sector?
Most likely, the land areas
devoted to rice farming will continue to shrink. The rice industry in
Central Luzon and Region IV has been disappearing since the 1980s due to
urbanization and industrial development. In a study by Elvira Manalad of
Paragos-Philippines, huge swathes of rice lands all over the country are also
disappearing because of the widespread “conversion” of lands supposedly covered
by agrarian reform and the unchecked “land banking” operations of the big
realty companies and housing/village/resort developers. The rainfed rice
lands are the most vulnerable to the agents of these companies and
developers. Their job is made easier by the absence of a National Land
Use law and the weak monitoring by the Department of Agrarian Reform of the
land conversions.
So one of the biggest concerns of
farm unions and CSOs is the waning capacity of the government, in a liberalized
and deregulated economy, to pursue food security and agricultural
sovereignty. Like in the United States and other countries, these unions
and CSOs define food security as the capacity of the nation to grow its own
food and feed its own people. Food security means that whatever the
volatility in agricultural commodities in the global market there are, the
country will be able to survive because domestic production is stable and
sufficient. Of course, food security does not mean stopping all
agricultural imports. The point is that the Philippines, given its land
resources and knowhow, should be able to produce in sufficient quantity its
basic food requirements.
In the case of rice, the goal of
self-sufficiency remains an important one because rice is one of the thinly
traded commodities in the world market. Thus, if a rice shortage occurs
in the two major sources of imported rice, Thailand and Vietnam, the Philippines
is likely to have a political and economic problem that is too hot to handle.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/with-rice-tariffication-what-happens-to-food-security/
NFA must
continue buying local rice
September 26, 2018
The Senate is currently stepping up efforts to convert
the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice into tariffs, a move that is expected
to bring rice prices down and ease inflation. Economic managers have been
banking on the scrapping of the rice quota to make rice more affordable,
particularly to the poor, who spend at least a fifth of their income on the
staple. The poor, who cannot afford to buy more expensive sources of protein,
such as pork or chicken, consume more rice to fill their stomachs.
By removing the QR on rice, Manila is effectively signaling to
the world that it is ready to allow the entry of cheaper rice. The QR on rice,
or import quota, has allowed the Philippines to limit the entry of cheaper
staple from neighboring Southeast Asian countries, such as Vietnam and
Thailand. With the removal of the nontariff barrier, economic managers expect
that the average retail price of rice would go down by as much as P7 per
kilogram (kg).
The downside of the removal of rice QR is the competition cheap
rice imports would pose to locally produced palay. Based on the
BusinessMirror’s computation, 5 percent broken rice from Vietnam can be
purchased at P20 per kg. Even at a 40-percent tariff, the landed cost is
anywhere from P28 to P30 per kg. The amount is much lower than the current
average price of P43.86 per kg, according to data from the Philippine
Statistics Authority.
Assuming that rice imports would not be hoarded by unscrupulous
traders (unlike other farm products, rice can be stored longer), the influx of
cheap rice would spell doom for farmers who remain uncompetitive compared to
their counterparts in Vietnam and Thailand. If importing rice is more
cost-efficient, traders who used to scramble for locally produced palay would
rethink their plans. Farm-gate price could go down if traders suddenly become
uninterested in local rice. While consumers will have their cheap staple, some
2.4 million rice farmers would be hard-pressed to look for alternative crops.
This scenario can be avoided if Congress would still allow the
National Food Authority (NFA) to buy palay from farmers. There are proposals
from economic managers to stop the NFA from intervening in the market, which
means the agency should stop buying and selling rice. But this should not be
done right after Congress has removed the QR on the staple. The food agency
must be allowed to at least continue buying rice from farmers for
buffer-stocking purposes for two years.
This is one of the measures that we believe the government
should consider when it crafts a plan that would help farmers adjust to a new
rice-trade regime. Congress can consider allocating part of the Rice
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund for the NFA’s palay-buying program.
The tariffication of rice is expected to be completed this
month, and the Department of Agriculture would unveil its road map for the
sector once the measure is signed into law. We hope that the DA is conducting
the necessary consultations with sectors affected by the removal of the quota.
This will ensure that strategies employed by the government will have an impact
on those whose lives have long depended on the most important grain in the
country.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/nfa-must-continue-buying-local-rice/
‘NFA incentives
to rice farmers like hiking palay buying price’
In
Photo: Photo shows farmers harvesting rice in La Union.
THE National Food Authority Council (NFAC) has effectively
increased the government’s support price for palay to P20 per kilogram (kg)
when it decided to approve the grant of more incentives to rice farmers.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol made the pronouncement
on Monday, but clarified that the National Food Authority’s (NFA) direct
support price for palay remains at P17 per kg.
Piñol is currently the chairman of the NFAC, the highest
policy-making body of the NFA.
“The buying price of NFA remains at P17 per kg but we will come
up with incentives that when quantified would reach P20 per kg,” Piñol said in
a news briefing following the NFAC’s first meeting under his chairmanship.
He said the NFA would give additional transportation incentives
to farmers who would sell their crops to the government. They would also be
entitled to receive farm equipment, among others.
The grant of additional incentives is effective immediately,
according to Piñol.
He said the NFA would also be “flexible” with its 14-percent
moisture content requirement for palay and would purchase even wet palay.
“We will be flexible in terms of the moisture content. The
government must help the farmers,” he said. “The farmers would say the
NFA’s support is limited. The government is out there to help the people. Our
directive is to help the farmers.”
Despite the increase in the NFA’s palay support price, the food
agency’s selling price would remain at P27 per kg for regular-milled rice and
P32 per kg for well-milled rice, Pinol said.
At present the NFA buys palay from farmers at a support price of
P17 per kg and gives additional incentives totaling P0.70 for individual
farmers and P1 for cooperatives.
The NFA has been pushing for an increase in its support price as
farmers prefer to sell to traders who buy palay at P20 per kg to P25 per kg.
Piñol have repeatedly stated that the NFA will not be able to
purchase palay locally if their buying price would remain at P17 per kg.
The agriculture chief said traders could even hike their offer
and cause the average farm-gate price to remain above the P20-per-kg mark this
main harvest season following the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong in some
rice-producing provinces.
Lawmakers belonging to the Makabayan Bloc have recently filed a
resolution to provide the NFA a supplemental budget of P10 billion to beef up
its palay procurement program. The resolution also mandates the NFA to
automatically buy palay at P20 per kg.
NFA stockpile
The NFA buys uNmilled rice from farmers to beef up its
stockpile, which is also made up of imports.
The depletion of the NFA’s rice buffer stock, is being tagged as
one of the major factors behind the increase in the retail price of commercial
rice.
On Tuesday Presidential Spokesman Harry L. Roque Jr. said rice
imports were delayed because NFA Administrator Jason Aquino had preferred the
government-to-government (G2G) mode of importation.
Because of the delay, Roque said prices of goods went up and
forced the government to import more food items, including rice.
Roque claimed that it was Aquino who “purposely delayed” the
importation. He said some importers may sue the NFA chief because of this.
“The Council has given the authority to import but he delayed it
because he has a preference for G2G,” he said, noting that the G2G importation
is the “worst” mode of importation as this is prone to corruption.
“So many [importers] will be filing cases against him because of
the losses sustained by them as a result of orchestrations so that they cannot
import pursuant to the open tender system,” Roque added.
Roque said he is also thinking of filing graft and corruption
and technical malversation cases against Aquino once he leaves the Cabinet.
“Since he did not spend the money to buy rice from local farmers
so that the government will have enough buffer stock, we are importing now and
we are giving money to foreign farmers,” he added.
President Duterte is set to appoint retiring Army chief Lt. Gen.
Rolando Bautista to replace Aquino, whose resignation he already accepted,
according to Roque.
During his televised interview with Chief Presidential Legal
Counsel Salvador S. Panelo, Duterte said Aquino had asked to be relieved from
his post since he is “tired.
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Palace to NFA: Release rice stocks to markets
Malacañang on Tuesday issued
Memorandum Order No. 28 directing the National Food Authority (NFA) to
immediately release existing rice stocks in its warehouses to boost rice supply
in the market and protect consumers from profiteers and hoarders.
Workers unload sacks of NFA rice at the NFA Warehouse in Visayas
Ave, Quezon City, June 26 2018.
(Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
(Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
In the order, Executive Secretary
Salvador Medialdea directed the NFA to “immediately release to markets
approximately 230,000 metric tons of rice currently in stock in the warehouses
across the country.”Aside from this, the food agency has also been ordered “to
release 100,000 metric tons of rice previously contracted to be delivered
before the end of September.”“Subject to applicable laws and issuances, the NFA
is further directed to adopt measures to ensure access by consumers to regular
milled and well-milled rice,” the order read.
It noted that certain
administrative constraints and fees unduly add to the costs of importation of
basic agricultural commodities and contribute to price increases.
“There is a need to promulgate
measures to stabilize the prices of basic agricultural commodities at
reasonable levels, to maintain their sufficient supply in the domestic market
and to provide effective and sufficient protection to consumers against
hoarding, profiteering, and cartels with respect to the supply, distribution,
marketing and pricing of said goods,” the memorandum read.
Seamless delivery
Malacañang likewise issued two
other directives to ensure efficient delivery of imported agriculture products
to the markets.
In Memorandum Order No. 27, the
Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP) and Metro Manila Development Authority
(MMDA) have been directed to adopt measures to ensure the efficient and
seamless delivery of imported agriculture and fishery products from the ports
to markets.
The concerned agencies have been
authorized to issue “food lane passes for truckers and suppliers carrying
agricultural products.”
Memorandum Order No. 26, on the
other hand, directed the DAand DTI to adopt measures to reduce the gap between
farm gate prices and retail prices of agricultural products.
Among the measures include
establishment of public outlets and cold storages where producers of
agricultural commodities as well as poultry producers can directly sell to
consumers.
The concerned agencies have been
directed to submit to the Office of the Executive Secretary a progress report
within a month.
The three memorandum orders,
signed by Medialdea by the authority of President Duterte last September 21,are
effective immediately.
Incentives
Meanwhile, the NFA Council, the
highest policy-making body of National Food Authority (NFA), said it is
planning to give incentives to farmers who will sell rice at government’s
buying price of P17 per kilo.
This was revealed by Agriculture
Secretary Emmanuel Piñol, who now chairs the NFA Council. The NFA has been
using the low buying price of palay as an excuse not to procure palay from
local farmers and instead relied on the importation of rice from other
countries to boost its stock.
The agency claimed that local
farmers prefer selling their produce to private traders at P20 per kilo or
more.
Data from the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA) released this month showed that the average farmgate
price of palay has reached P23.66 per kilogram nationwide.
The highest farmgate prices of
palay were reported at P29.00/kg in Lanao del Norte and P28.00/kg. in
Pangasinan and Laguna. (With a report from Madelaine B. Miraflor)
QC council passes 2 ordinances increasing rice subsidy to
employees
Published
By Chito Chavez
The Quezon City Council passed
two ordinances increasing the quarterly rice subsidy for city hall personnel
from P1,500 to P2,000 and the longevity pay for career civil servants from P200
to P300 for every five years of service.
Quezon City Vice-Mayor Joy Belmonte. (Mark Balmores/MANILA
BULLETIN)
“We need to make sure that our
own city employees have a decent living. In light of the rising prices of
goods, we want to start by helping with the most basic commodity – rice,”
Quezon City Vice Mayor Belmonte, the presiding officer of the city council
said.
Authored by Councilor Victor
Ferrer Jr., ordinance No. 2727 states the quarterly rice subsidy for all Quezon
City hall regular employees will increase from P1,500 to P2,000.
The assistance is “in consonance
with the city government’s desire to alleviate the economic plight of its own
workers from the widespread crisis and prolonged high-cost of rice”. The
subsidy will be given at the end of every quarter.
Ordinance No. 2728 also authored
by Ferrer mandates the increase in longevity pay of career civil service
employees of the local government of Quezon City from P200 for every five years
of service to P300 for the same period.
The civil servants must have
rendered at least five years of continuous service to avail of the loyalty
bonus.
According to the ordinance, career civil service employees “deserve to be rewarded financially by the virtue of their loyalty and dedication to public duty”.
According to the ordinance, career civil service employees “deserve to be rewarded financially by the virtue of their loyalty and dedication to public duty”.
For both increases, the vice
mayor pointed out that, “Incentives such as this help us reduce corruption by
making sure that the public servants in Quezon City are well-compensated.”
Belmonte stressed the need for
the city government to provide ample support to the city’s honest and dedicated
public servants especially during these rough times.
She said she is currently working
on a scheme that will provide more incentives and reward local government
employees for their honesty and good behavior.
“We will make sure that bad
behavior is punished and penalized, but good behavior is rewarded because
values ang gusto natin baguhin dito (we want to change values here),” she said.
Bumper rice harvest in eastern granary county(1/6)
2018-09-26 13:34:49Ecns.cnEditor :Yao Lan
A drone photo shows rice
harvesting in a field in Taihe County, East China’s Jiangxi Province, Sept. 25,
2018. The county is one of China’s commodity grain bases. (Photo: China News
Service/Sima Tianmin)
Xi Jinping
inspects rice farms in northeast China's Heilongjiang
Chinese President Xi Jinping on
Tuesday arrived in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province for an inspection
tour.
Xi started his tour Tuesday
afternoon at the Jiansanjiang branch of Heilongjiang Farms and Land Reclamation
Administration to inspect the conditions of grain production and harvest.
Known as China's "green rice
city," Jiansanjiang is one of the most important commodity grain bases in
the country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (C)
conducts an inspection tour in Jiansanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province, September 25, 2018. /Xinhua Photo
Chinese President Xi Jinping
conducts an inspection tour in Jiansanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province, September 25, 2018. /Xinhua Photo
It is located in the heartland of the
Sanjiang Plain, an alluvial plain created by three rivers.
There are currently 15 large and
medium-sized state-owned farms in Jiansanjiang, covering an area of 12,400
square kilometers. It has 754,667 hectares of arable land and 678,667 hectares
are used to grow rice, according to the branch's official website.
A total of 96.35 billion kilograms
of grain have been produced in Jiansanjiang over the past 60 years, including
86.75 billion kilograms of commodity grain, the website shows.
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Grant Will Fund Expansion Of Wild Rice Study
Wed, 09/26/2018 - 12:00am
Endangered Species
SUBMITTED BY TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University has received a $168,000 grant from the city of San Marcos to support removal of non-native aquatic species and expand the distribution of native aquatic species including the endangered Texas Wild Rice in the San Marcos River.
Efforts led by The Meadows Center’s Biology Field Crew, in partnership with the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan (EAHCP), have contributed to a 15 percent (or 1,300 m2) increase of the endangered Texas wild rice distribution in the San Marcos River this past year. Since the plan’s implementation in 2013, Texas wild rice has expanded an estimated 4,500 m2.
“Texas Wild Rice is only found in the San Marcos River, which is why it’s important to have a greater aerial coverage to protect the species from what may come in the future,” Chief Science Officer Thom Hardy said. “This past year we’ve been successful at expanding the species’ distribution laterally and longitudinally, which will hopefully help make it more resilient against unanticipated events and human influenced changes.”
The field crew, led by Hardy, is contracted through the EAHCP to rehabilitate aquatic habitats and conduct research to strengthen conservation efforts in the San Marcos River. Services provided by the field crew and other organizations involved in the EAHCP ensure the river meets federal standards.
“Texas Wild Rice will always remain significant ecologically because of its limited location and distribution on a global and regional level,” Hardy said. “We hope to preserve Texas Wild Rice for its own uniqueness as well as the other native species that utilize it for habitat.”
To maintain a healthy habitat for the river, the field crew continuously monitors non-native plants and native plants. Non-native species are removed by hand and sent to composting at Bobcat Blend, while native aquatic plants are grown in the Freeman Aquatic Building at Texas State. Once the native plants mature, they are replanted in the river.
“The community can help Texas Wild Rice thrive by being mindful to not walk through the rice, which could cause harm to the plants,” Hardy said. “I would also encourage our community to help teach others about the uniqueness of this system and why that is important.”
The field crew also provides opportunities for Texas State students to get hands-on experience in biology-related research, which allows them to apply materials learned in the classroom to real-world projects.
“I decided to attend Texas State University because of the unique aquatic ecosystem that originates right on campus, but not knowing exactly where I would go after achieving a degree,” said Chris Mullins, biology field lab student worker. “Being able to participate in the work that the field crew does has transformed my interest into a passion. I now know that I want to continue my education and find a career in conservation biology that will allow me to continue my efforts to preserve other amazing ecosystems and the wildlife within them.”
Habitat restoration is a tough job that needs constant attention. Individuals that are interested in volunteering with the field crew should contact meadowscenter@txstate.edu.
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