Company Dismisses Allegation Of Poisonous Rice In Abakaliki
September 3, 2018
The
chairman of Abakaliki Rice Millers company, Ebonyi State, Deacon Joseph Nnunu,
at the weekend dismissed the rumours making round that a poisonosus rice was
being distributed and sold within the Abakaliki Rice mill section of the State,
describing it as the handiwork of his political detractors.
Deacon
Nnunu, who made the disclosure in Abakaliki while briefing journalists insisted
that some persons who are desperate to stop his political ambition are behind
the rumor, adding that nobody in the entire state had been reported to have
consumed the alleged poisonous rice, became hospitalized and or died.
Nnunu,
who is contesting the State House of Assembly election in the state, said the
development was put in place to discredit him, his political ambition of
running for the position of the member to represent Abakaliki South
Constituency at the State House of Assembly come 2019 and put him in a
disadvantaged position with the state government.
The
embattled chairman who expressed his unalloyed support for the government of
Governor David Umahi-led administration, further blamed the development on
gimmicks of his opponents in the state who are jittery because of his
popularity and success at the mock primaries conducted recently by the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP in the State.
“As
we are talking now, nobody in the state has complained about eating any
poisonous rice in Abakaliki. How can I allow such to happen having been in this
business for more than two decades. I want this matter properly investigated
and the culprits brought to book. This rice mill is our legacy and nobody
because of political interest or selfishness can rubbish it. I remain an ardent
supporter of Governor David Umahi and I cannot work against him and the state.
It is my wish to represent my people at the State House of Assembly and if God
says yes nobody can say no.
“This
case of poisonous rice came into being when I went out of town and I am not
happy about it. This mill is the hope of the common man including the elderly.
We don’t produce poisonous rice here please.
“Nobody
has come to me to complain about our rice. The complainer should prove beyond
reasonable doubt.
“Our
dear customers should ignore this unnecessary rumour. Abakaliki rice is our
legacy and we must protect it against destructive elements. The rice we sell
here are recognised internationally because it has international standard; it
is very nutritious. Nobody should bring politics into what we eat and feed out
children”.
“This
is political period and people do anything because they want to win election
but they should not do that with our legacy and pride as Ebonyi people. Am
coming out to contest because I want to provide hope for my people who are
suffering. I want to empower them in cash and kind. They deserve the best and
am ready to give them the best come 2019.”
he
Abakaliki poisonous rice
On Tuesday, the Ebonyi state
Government ordered the immediate closure of the popular Abakaliki Rice Mill
following the discovery of adulterated rice believed to have emanated from the
factory.
It instantly ordered investigations into the development.
However, the mill was reopened 48 hours later after it was discovered that some traders in the rice market in the town had re-bagged the commodity with a mix of adulterated rice and put them out for sale to unsuspecting members of the public.
The shops where the poisonous rice was discovered were shut down and the chairman of the Abakaliki Millers Association, Joseph Ununu, was suspended as a result of the discovery.
The action of the traders is condemnable coming at the time Nigerians were being encouraged to patronise home-made products.
They should be treated not only as economic saboteurs but also as murderers.
The Abakaliki development is coming on the heels of the recent alarm raised by the Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service to the effect that Nigerians should be wary of buying any kind of rice because poisonous bags of the commodity had flooded the market, requiring emergency response from relevant regulatory and law enforcement agencies.
The command confirmed that some unpatriotic Nigerians have conspired with a clique of importers to smuggle, through land borders, expired and deadly bags of rice into the country.
Hundreds of bags of rice said to be deadly, seized by men of the command, were paraded before newsmen.
Area Comptroller of the Command, Udo-Aka Emmanuel, who made the observation at a press briefing in Ibadan, said the expired products were brought into the country every day, adding that its consumption is dangerous to health.
Blueprint Weekend is appalled by the massive importation of food most of them unfit for human consumption especially rice, wheat, sugar and fish.
Characteristically, rice is the staple food for most homes in Nigeria probably because of its relatively low cost, high calorie density, long shelf life and strong nutritional qualities.
The federal government has expressed determination to end the importation of food items that could be grown locally and save the country the massive depletion of her foreign reserves.
We commend its determination in this regard.
However, it is sad to note that Nigerians now have to contend with imported and local poisonous rice.
This is quite unacceptable.
We call on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), which is the government regulatory body responsible for the regulation and control of food product manufacturing, importation, exportation, advertisement, sale and distribution in Nigeria, to be more proactive and vigilant in the discharge of its statutory mandate.
Other regulatory and enforcement agencies like the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), among others, should rise to the challenge of policing our borders and preventing miscreants and other criminals from perpetrating unwholesome practices that are injurious to our economic and human wellbeing.
In the meantime, we call for a declaration of emergency aimed at identifying, mopping up and destroying all the imported poisonous rice in Nigerian markets.
The Nigerian consumers must heed the warning of the Customs Service and be wary of imported rice.
Nigerians should not risk their lives as a result of what they eat.
We commend the Ebonyi state Government for swiftly addressing the infraction at the rice market in the town… the pre-eminent cultivator of the product in the country.
Also, the adulterators of the product should be severely sanctioned to serve as deterrent to their ilk that may not have been unmasked.
Their action is capable of frustrating the federal government’s drive to make the country less dependent on foreign rice which has constituted a huge drain on our foreign exchange earnings for decades
It instantly ordered investigations into the development.
However, the mill was reopened 48 hours later after it was discovered that some traders in the rice market in the town had re-bagged the commodity with a mix of adulterated rice and put them out for sale to unsuspecting members of the public.
The shops where the poisonous rice was discovered were shut down and the chairman of the Abakaliki Millers Association, Joseph Ununu, was suspended as a result of the discovery.
The action of the traders is condemnable coming at the time Nigerians were being encouraged to patronise home-made products.
They should be treated not only as economic saboteurs but also as murderers.
The Abakaliki development is coming on the heels of the recent alarm raised by the Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service to the effect that Nigerians should be wary of buying any kind of rice because poisonous bags of the commodity had flooded the market, requiring emergency response from relevant regulatory and law enforcement agencies.
The command confirmed that some unpatriotic Nigerians have conspired with a clique of importers to smuggle, through land borders, expired and deadly bags of rice into the country.
Hundreds of bags of rice said to be deadly, seized by men of the command, were paraded before newsmen.
Area Comptroller of the Command, Udo-Aka Emmanuel, who made the observation at a press briefing in Ibadan, said the expired products were brought into the country every day, adding that its consumption is dangerous to health.
Blueprint Weekend is appalled by the massive importation of food most of them unfit for human consumption especially rice, wheat, sugar and fish.
Characteristically, rice is the staple food for most homes in Nigeria probably because of its relatively low cost, high calorie density, long shelf life and strong nutritional qualities.
The federal government has expressed determination to end the importation of food items that could be grown locally and save the country the massive depletion of her foreign reserves.
We commend its determination in this regard.
However, it is sad to note that Nigerians now have to contend with imported and local poisonous rice.
This is quite unacceptable.
We call on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), which is the government regulatory body responsible for the regulation and control of food product manufacturing, importation, exportation, advertisement, sale and distribution in Nigeria, to be more proactive and vigilant in the discharge of its statutory mandate.
Other regulatory and enforcement agencies like the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), among others, should rise to the challenge of policing our borders and preventing miscreants and other criminals from perpetrating unwholesome practices that are injurious to our economic and human wellbeing.
In the meantime, we call for a declaration of emergency aimed at identifying, mopping up and destroying all the imported poisonous rice in Nigerian markets.
The Nigerian consumers must heed the warning of the Customs Service and be wary of imported rice.
Nigerians should not risk their lives as a result of what they eat.
We commend the Ebonyi state Government for swiftly addressing the infraction at the rice market in the town… the pre-eminent cultivator of the product in the country.
Also, the adulterators of the product should be severely sanctioned to serve as deterrent to their ilk that may not have been unmasked.
Their action is capable of frustrating the federal government’s drive to make the country less dependent on foreign rice which has constituted a huge drain on our foreign exchange earnings for decades
Brown rice is better
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM September 04,
2018
One of our favorite restaurants in Los Baños allows
customers ordering “plain rice” to opt for brown rather than white rice. There
ought to be many more like them.
I’ve written before of why Filipinos stand to achieve a
win-win with brown rice. At this time of surging rice prices traced to
distortions caused by inordinate government control over rice trade, it’s well
worth reminding ourselves why consuming more brown rice can be a solution to
our country’s perennial rice woes.
The brown rice I speak of is not of a different rice variety
whose grains are naturally red, brown or even black—the kind we find only in
specialty stores or shelves, fetching a much higher price than the ordinary
rice we know. I refer simply to unpolished rice, or any rice variety that has
not gone through the last stage of milling that removes the coating of bran,
leaving only the white grain.
“Once upon a time, unpolished rice was the only rice that
Filipinos knew, back when pounding and winnowing were the only means our
ancestors had for milling rice,” asserts professor Ted Mendoza, crop scientist
at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
“People across Asia ate unpolished rice in great
quantities a century and a half ago,” add development scholars Robin Broad and
John Cavanagh. It was after Westerners introduced rice mills over a century ago
that white rice consumption dominated brown rice, they wrote. The latter became
associated with poverty, even considered inferior and “dirty,” while white rice
was seen as modern and sophisticated.
But the “modern” and “sophisticated” form of the food
also made it unhealthy. Polishing takes away most of the healthy nutrients
found in rice, including protein and vitamin B1 or thiamine, the lack of which
causes problems with our cardiovascular and nervous systems. Polishing also
removes nutrients that guard against diabetes, and raises blood sugar levels
more rapidly than brown rice does, further raising diabetes risk.
Other documented advantages of brown rice include reduced
risk of gallstones; lower buildup of arterial plaque that causes heart disease;
high fiber content that helps prevent colon cancer and promotes weight loss;
presence of calcium, potassium, selenium, manganese, magnesium and silica, an
important mineral for bone health and slowing the aging process… the list goes
on. In short, the more polished rice is, the less healthy it becomes.
But there’s more. The milling of brown rice removes only
around 28 percent of the husk, 10 percent less than with white rice. Thus, we
can get up to 10 percent more rice volume from the same amount of palay if
milled as brown rather than white rice. Brown rice is also more filling, as
whole grains generally contain more nutrients per calorie than polished and
refined grains.
Mendoza estimates that Filipinos would eat up to 20-40
percent less rice if consumed as brown rice, or only about 84 kilos per capita,
versus the current level of around 110 kilos. Even if only half of Filipinos
opt for brown rice, he figures that we wouldn’t have to import rice at all.
So why don’t we eat more brown rice? Common answers are
“white rice tastes better” or “our children find white rice easier to digest.”
Some note that brown rice takes longer to cook, thus needing more fuel. Brown
rice also invites more insects, attracted to the same nutrients that make it so
much healthier for humans. But these concerns can be addressed with presoaking
before cooking, and better storage and packaging, among others.
A valid concern is that brown rice is harder to find, and
once found, turns out to be more expensive than white rice. But that is simply
because rice mills don’t make enough of it, even if it’s cheaper to produce.
More demand would change that.
The Asia Rice Foundation favors the term “whole grain
rice,” to give brown rice the same appeal to the health-conscious as whole
grain cereal products in general. Professor Mendoza is confident that, with
wider consumption of unpolished rice, the millers would respond appropriately,
and eventually make healthier brown rice both widely accessible and affordable.
But we Filipino consumers need to make the first—and wise—step.
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5 questions we should be asking
on the rice shortage
Rene Pastor
Published 6:00 PM, September 03, 2018
Updated 6:00 PM, September 03, 2018
A lot of things in the
Philippines are not as clear-cut as they seem. The rice shortage is one of them.
There are a number of basic questions that appear to have been lost in the
competing press releases handed out by government officials.As a matter of
policy, the government would keep a buffer of rice in its warehouses of around
15-20 days’ worth of daily consumption. The buffer was aimed at keeping prices
under control and prevent a runaway spike.With prices surging, we are left with
a number of questions.
First, why were rice inventories
in government warehouses allowed to fall to less than 2 days of consumption? In
effect, the government was disarmed in keeping rice prices stable.
It seems running the government’s
rice stock to practically nothing was done deliberately. The shortage appears
to be man-made.
Which leads to the next question
that is just as disturbing.
Who would benefit from an
emergency order for imports of around a million tons because government rice
stocks were artificially run down?
If they are rice millers and/or
importers, how are they connected to the Philippine government?
Was the shortage for their
benefit?
Are these rice importers
supporters of this government?
And do they donate to its
politicians and their campaigns?
One friend tartly commented that
with the elections set for next year, it is time for “fund-raising.”
In these kinds of cases, the best
thing to do really is to follow the money. It works for nailing crooked
politicians.
While rice farmers may enjoy some
benefits from the current high prices, what happens to the consumers who have
to pay for the staple food of the 105 million Filipinos? Inflation shoots up, which of course hits
everyone in sight.
According to the Philippine
Statistics Authority (PSA), the latest data they have showed retail prices of
well-milled rice have hit 46.35 pesos/kg in the third week of August, up almost
10% from the level last year.
As for wholesale well-milled
rice, the price has jumped 11.5% from last year to 43.81 pesos/kg.
Shrinking arable land
While the shortage is top of mind
in the Philippines, the more fundamental issue is why rice production in the
country is always falling short.
The amount of arable land in the
country is limited and it is shrinking as the number of people increase.
When I was growing up in the last
century, Parañaque was salt pans and the southern stretches beyond Muntinlupa
were rice or coconut farms. Today, you have Festival Mall in Alabang and the
Ayala developments in Laguna.
In the April to June quarter
alone, the PSA said the harvested area for rice fell to 939,790 hectares, from
947,190 million hectares in the same period last year.
Yields have also remained flat in
the second quarter at 4.38 tonnes per hectare, the PSA added.
It is incredibly hard to boost
production of rice when both yields and your farms are shrinking.
The growing weather has also been
atrocious for pretty much this decade, and there is every indication the future
may well get worse.
Since 2012, a typhoon or several
of them in succession has struck the Philippines during the last quarter of the
year. This included typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan, which nearly obliterated Tacloban
from the map.
Why is the last quarter important
for rice? The last quarter is when most of the rice in the Philippines is
harvested. If the main rice areas in Luzon, Mindanao, Iloilo and Leyte-Samar
are hit, that pretty much guarantees Manila will be forced to import rice the
following year.
Imports of rice have happened
every year since.
Climate change and global warming
is not doing the country any favors either. With warmer oceans, the typhoon
season is lasting longer and becoming more intense. Even the monsoon rains are
firing up because of the warm waters surrounding the country.
That’s science.
The country is also vulnerable to
El Niño, which happens every 3-7 years and always seems to hit the Philippines
with drought. Since most of the rice farms are rain-fed, a dry spell is the
last thing Filipino farmers need.
One severe El Niño hit the
country a few years ago. The US Climate Prediction Center forecast another is
likely to develop after the northern hemisphere summer ends this month and
batter the Philippines in 2019.
Will tariff work?
Now the government of President
Rodrigo Duterte is pushing to replace the current system for rice imports with
a tariff system.
But even with a 35% tariff on
imported rice, the price will still come around to about 30 pesos/kg, sharply
below current levels of 42 to 46 pesos/kg.
Will the plan being pushed by the
government help? The farmers’ groups in the Philippines are already squawking
against it.
As always in things of this
nature, the devil is in the details.
The proper question on this
proposal to allow unlimited rice imports is, who gets the business?
Will the importers be the
government's friends?
Money talks. – Rappler.com
Rene Pastor is a long-time
journalist who wrote about commodity issues for an international news agency
and has written extensively about the rice situation in the Philippines. He is
based outside New York City.
Rice millers donate 130 MT rice to Kerala flood
victims in Kakinada
THE
HANS INDIA | Sep 03,2018 , 01:48 AM IST
East Godavari Collector Kartikeya
Misra and Joint Collector A Mallikarjuna flagging off six trucks carrying 130
MT of rice to Kerala flood victims in Kakinada on Saturday evening
Kakinada:
East
Godavari Collector Kartikeya Mishra and Joint Collector A Mallikarjuna flagged
off convoy of six trucks carrying rice to Kerala state at Collectorate here on
Saturday evening.
East
Godavari Rice Millers Association donated 130 MT rice for the flood-affected in
Kerala.
Speaking
on the occasion, Mishra complemented rice millers association for donating rice
for flood victims on humanitarian grounds.
District
Rice Millers Association president Ambati Ramakrishna Reddy who was
present said that the millers were donating it as social responsibility to help
the needy in Kerala state.
Civil
Supplies official Jayaram, Kakinada Rice Exporters Association president BV
Krishna Rao and others participated
Bank
guarantee condition not justified, say millers
Tribune News Service
Ropar, September 2
Sep 3, 2018, 1:22 AM; last updated: Sep 3, 2018, 1:22 AM
(IST)
Reacting to the
Punjab Custom Milling of Paddy Policy, local rice millers have decided to
refuse milling of paddy procured by various government agencies here on Sunday.
They said asking all millers to submit a bank guarantee equal to the value of 5
per cent of acquisition cost of total paddy to be stored in the mill was not
justified.
The millers said
the state government could not punish all millers for the crime of a few.
Members of the Rupnagar Rice Millers Association led by its president Sanjay
Bhoot said if the government failed to drop this condition from the new policy,
they would not accept any paddy for milling when the procurement season starts
on October 1. Tightening its noose around defaulting rice millers, the state
Cabinet recently while approving the new policy had decided to adopt a
benchmark of credit rating history of rice millers for the allocation of paddy
for milling. According to the new policy, the millers have to submit certified
credit report along with complete Credit Information Bureau India Limited
(CIBIL) report and they need to have a CIBIL score not below 600 to get
allocation of paddy.
To prevent incidents of siphoning off paddy bags, the millers
will have to submit a bank guarantee equal to the value of 5 per cent of
acquisition cost of the total paddy to be stored in the mill.
The paddy is
allocated for delivery of rice into the Central pool from more than 3,710 mills
in the state. In Ropar, over two dozen rice mills are established where nearly
5 lakh metric tonne of paddy is milled every year.
Bhoot said a few
of the millers in connivance with government officials had committed paddy
fraud last year, while a majority of the millers were honest with unblemished
record. With the new condition of bank guarantee, crores of rupees of millers
would be blocked which would further create corruption, he added.
‘Don’t punish
all for crime of few’
·
Millers said
asking all millers to submit a bank guarantee equal to the value of 5 per cent
of acquisition cost of total paddy to be stored in the mill was not justified.
·
They said the
state government could not punish all millers for the crime of a few.
Available rice for tolerable poverty
September 2, 2018 | 8:40 pm
Corporate Watch
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
WORKERS carry sacks of rice at a
National Food Authority warehouse in Manila — AFP
Mang Pedro, temporary
construction helper, married, father of three, could not even afford the
P38-lunch sold on the sidewalk. He squatted in a corner, away from the other
workers boisterously competing for the bigger slices and the more generous-looking
rice portions of Aling Rosa’s food. He carefully opened his “baon”
(packed lunch). It was plain boiled white rice — but twice the quantity of
Aling Rosa’s serving. No viand. Over the rice, he squeezed the ketchup from the
frayed foil packet that he picked up from a fast food outlet.
“Ayos. Basta may kanin!”
(Ok, as long as there’s rice.)
In the Philippines, rice is the
major staple, accounting for nearly half of the calorie intake of the
population. Of 105 million Filipinos, about one-fifth or about 21 million are
poor. Availability of rice at affordable price can be the palliative for
tolerable poverty. What if rice is scarce and expensive?
According to a study of the
government think-tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS No.
2011-11, May 2011), rice consumption had been increasing: from 84 kilograms
(kg) in 1990, annual per capita consumption has risen to 120 kg by 2009. Add
that the population continued to grow at a rapid clip (2% annually), further
accelerating the growth of demand. Since the growth of domestic supply has not
kept pace with growth of demand, the country started to import rice, the PIDS
said (Ibid.).
In 2007-2008 world food prices
increased dramatically causing political and economic instability and social
unrest in both poor and developed nations. Causes identified were droughts in
grain-producing nations and rising oil prices, which increased the costs of
fertilizers, food transportation, and industrial agriculture. Some analysts
said the increasing use of biofuels in developed countries (e.g., corn) also
exacerbated the world-wide food shortage (The New York Times. April 10, 2008).
A similar price-spike emergency happened again in 2013, when world rice
availability was a major challenge to the Philippines, which held the dubious
reputation as top rice importer of the world since 2004.
“Why does the Philippines import
rice?” economists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
effectively asked themselves (D.C. Dawe, P.F. Moya, C.B. Casiwan, 2004). For IRRI,
the largest nonprofit agricultural research center in Asia, was set up in the
1960s by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Government of
the Philippines purposely to “reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of
rice farmers and consumers, and ensure environmental sustainability of rice
farming” (IRRI website). Dawe et al. premise that the Philippines imports rice
because it is a nation of islands without any major rice deltas like those in
Thailand and Vietnam, the world’s top two rice exporters. But it has been
economic history more than geography.
In globalization and its
liberalized trade, quantitative restrictions (QRs) set by the World Trade
Organization (WTO) upon food exporting countries tried to temper the imbalance
between demand and supply, and to ensure availability, fair pricing and
distribution of food. Calibrated tariffication balanced importations vis-à-vis
the local supply, to protect farmers and local suppliers. Rice, the staple food
of nearly one-half of humanity (IRRI, 2015) has been an exemption for many
countries from the WTO standards. “The Philippines, second most heavily
populated in the region after Indonesia with about 105 million people, consumes
roughly 11.7 million tons of rice every year. The country limits private rice
imports to protect its farmers, buying up to 805,200 tons of rice with a 35
percent import tariff, under the WTO deal” (Reuters June 19, 2018).
The PIDS explains that “QRs are
enforced through the import monopoly provided by law to the National Food
Authority (NFA), a state-owned agency. The volume to be imported by the NFA is
set annually by the NFA Council, upon recommendation of an interagency
committee. The NFA is mandated to stabilize rice prices and supply both at the
producer and consumer level, and ensure food security throughout the country.
To do this, the NFA tries to ensure that farm gate prices are high enough for
farmers to gain reasonable returns, retail prices remain affordable to
consumers, and rice distribution is restored quickly in calamity stricken areas
(PIDS, op. cit.).
“Following its mandate, the NFA
engages in procurement (buying rice free of tariffs) and distribution, setting
a procurement price for palay while subsidizing retail price
(buy high, sell low) of milled rice. It also maintains a food security reserve,
with rice stocks kept at levels equivalent to 15 days of consumption
year-round, rising to not less than 30 days equivalent consumption every first
of July” (Ibid.)
What panic when in February, NFA
Administrator Jason Aquino said in a media briefing that “the inventory of NFA
rice is very low, but we have high supplies in the commercial and household.
There is no rice shortage, but we don’t have much to give to the poorest of the
poor.” The NFA takes care of 10 percent of the total rice consumption of the
country, for Classes D and E, or around 8 to 10 million Filipinos. Aquino said
with the only 1.2 million bags of rice remaining with the NFA, their stocks can
only assist the poor for 18 days (CNN Philippines, Feb 7, 2018).
Aquino said that with the NFA
rice shortage, the masses have to resort to buying commercial rice — the price
of which has already hiked up due to the lack of supply. NFA rice is more
affordable at P27 to P32 per kilo compared to commercial rice, which sells from
P36 to P65 per kilo (Ibid.). Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol accused private
rice traders of resorting to spreading rumors of a shortage to escalate prices
(Ibid.).
The NFA blamed the 10-member
multi-agency NFA Council headed by Cabinet Secretary Leoncio “Jun” Evasco
(directly reporting to President Rodrigo Duterte) for delaying, since November,
a request to import 250,000 metric tons of rice, which will take 45 days to
arrive. The required 15-day buffer stock or around 400,000 metric tons that the
NFA should have in store at any given time is raised to 30 days or 800,000
metric tons from July to September every year, when there is almost no rice
production due to the storms that hit the country around that time, Aquino
explained (Ibid.).
President Duterte intervened,
directing immediate rice importation, leaving it to the NFA Council to
determine process and procedure. One pro-Duterte commentator cited by Rappler
asked why Evasco’s NFA Council opted to go G2P (government-to-private) which
would take 45 to 60 days instead of the traditional G2G
(government-to-government) importation which takes only 30 days — was there
something about corruption here? (Rappler Mar 24, 2018).
And Duterte’s men accusatively
pointed to at each other in mainstream and social media, diverting attention
from the most urgent problem of (possible) food scarcity and further food
inflation, especially as it threatens the most vulnerable — the poor.
In Senate hearings on the rice
shortage, opposition Senators Francis Pangilinan and Paolo Benigno Aquino IV
called for the resignation of Duterte-appointed Jason Aquino as NFA
Administrator for inefficiency. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian topped the
opposition’s recommendation by pushing for the total abolition of the NFA
(Rappler Aug. 29, 2018). Citing financial data, Gatchalian said NFA’s revenue
shrank 38 % to P17.93 billion in 2017, from P29.3 billion in 2016. NFA’s
losses, on the other hand, swelled to P150 billion (Ibid.).
Piñol pushes for tariffication as
the solution, saying that if the Philippines would import around two million
metric tons of rice under the proposal, about 40% tariff would be collected
which is equivalent to US$400 million or P21.6 billion a year. He clarified,
though, that the measure would reduce rice prices by only about P1.00 per
kilogram, but it is primarily to protect Filipino rice farmers against the
influx of imported rice (ph.news.yahoo.com Aug 2, 2018.)
Farmer groups and rice research
organizations do not agree with the House of Representatives’ move to lift the
QRs on rice imports and instead apply a 35% tariff on unlimited rice
importation. “This will practically decrease farmgate prices, said IBON, but
not necessarily lower retail rice prices as government claims” (mindanaoexaminer.com Aug.
10, 2018).
“Then senator Macapagal-Arroyo
pushed for the country’s entry to the World Trade Organization in 1995, and
after decades, rice farmers’ livelihood were ravaged by the influx of imported
rice, but still, prices remain unaffordable to the poor, and now, the Duterte
administration is doing a repeat, but worse, as it will unleash the flooding of
imported rice in the local market,” Anakpawis party-list Rep. Ariel “Ka Ayik”
B. Casilao said during a protest (conceptnewscentral Aug. 6, 2018).
Yes, that is perhaps the most
discerning of the rice situation, and the more prudent action/reaction that can
be done at this time: Focus on rice availability and its critical impact on the
government’s professed objective of inclusion of the poorest of the poor. Look
inward, and not mimic and mime what the big boys in global liberalized trading
are doing — for themselves, and not for the struggling developing countries
like the Philippines. Perhaps drastic tariffication, and/or dismantling of the
NFA can be studied more deeply, before hasty decision and implementation.
Address the simple problem of
internal regulation for the procurement, pricing, and distribution for today’s
rice situation. Curb smuggling and profiteering. Address government officials’
accountability. Government must do its job, and not shunt responsibility to the
new rules for Tomorrow.
Amelia H. C. Ylagan is a Doctor
of Business Administration from the University of the Philippines.
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$2.3bn rice import contradicts FG’s position
September 3, 2018
By
Contrary to the Bank of Agriculture
(BOA)’s claim that Nigeria had saved N288 billion ($800 million) from rice
imports, there are indications that the country has spent N828 billion ($2.3
billion) importing the grain between 2017 and August, 2018, New Telegraph has
learnt.
The bank had earlier stated that the Federal Government had succeeded in encouraging local production through its assistance to farmers.
According to the bank’s Executive Director, Finance and Risk Management, Niyi Akenzua, BoA had disbursed N150 billion to assist farmers between 2017 and 2018.
He noted in Lagos that farmers received N100 billion last year, while a total of N50 billion had been disbursed this year out of the N250 billion earmarked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s intervention scheme.
However, import data from a global trade portal, Index Mundi, revealed that the country had imported some 5.6 million tons so far, between 2017 and 2018 at a global price of $410 per ton despite the ban imposed on the importation of the grain through the land borders.
The trade portal noted that local production had been statistic since 2015, leaving a room for more importation through the neighbouring port.
Besides, it revealed that Nigerian milled rice production had remained at 3.78 million in the last two years.
Instead of downward reduction in the 2.1 million tons recorded in 2015, this newspaper gathered that last August, Nigeria imported three million tons of the grain.
Also, it was learnt that 2.6 million tons of the grain were imported in 2017, while domestic consumption had climbed to 6.9 milliuon tons as at last August from 6.4 million tons in 2015.
Last year, it would be recalled that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said that some tons of rice valued at N597.7 billion were seized between January and August 2016.
It was also said that 497,279 bags of imported rice were confiscated from smugglers between 2015 and August, 2017 with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N3.8 billion.
Its Comptroller-General, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd), said that 90,073 bags of rice were seized in 2015 with DPV of N693 million, while 280,109 bags of rice were impounded in 2016 with DPV of N2.156 billion.
Also, he said that in the first eight months of 2017, some 127,097 bags of rice were seized with DPV of N978 million.
Ali added that four enterprises registered with Tinapa Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Calabar in Cross River State syndicated the importation of 533 containers of rice last year.
Worried by the spate of rice smuggling, the NCS Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Command, Abdullahi Maiwada, told this newspaper that the command had been proactive in fighting rice smuggling.
Maiwada attributed the rise in smuggling activities to the porous nature of the nation’s borders.
According to him, smugglers were creating unemployment in their own country and creating jobs in foreign countries as a result of their activities.
The spokesman added that the service had interfaced with traditional rulers to dissuade people in their domains from smuggling, saying many were reluctant to quit the illegal business.
He said: “Our approach is carrot and stick. We sensitise and educate. We have a school in Idiroko, which is meant for host communities so that their wards should go back to school; schooling is the best and you cannot compare it with smuggling.
He said: “Our borders are indeed porous. We have the creeks; we have so many outlets that lead to Benin Republic within Ogun. We use our little resources in order to man the borders. Although there may be some shortcomings, we are doing our best.”
The bank had earlier stated that the Federal Government had succeeded in encouraging local production through its assistance to farmers.
According to the bank’s Executive Director, Finance and Risk Management, Niyi Akenzua, BoA had disbursed N150 billion to assist farmers between 2017 and 2018.
He noted in Lagos that farmers received N100 billion last year, while a total of N50 billion had been disbursed this year out of the N250 billion earmarked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s intervention scheme.
However, import data from a global trade portal, Index Mundi, revealed that the country had imported some 5.6 million tons so far, between 2017 and 2018 at a global price of $410 per ton despite the ban imposed on the importation of the grain through the land borders.
The trade portal noted that local production had been statistic since 2015, leaving a room for more importation through the neighbouring port.
Besides, it revealed that Nigerian milled rice production had remained at 3.78 million in the last two years.
Instead of downward reduction in the 2.1 million tons recorded in 2015, this newspaper gathered that last August, Nigeria imported three million tons of the grain.
Also, it was learnt that 2.6 million tons of the grain were imported in 2017, while domestic consumption had climbed to 6.9 milliuon tons as at last August from 6.4 million tons in 2015.
Last year, it would be recalled that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said that some tons of rice valued at N597.7 billion were seized between January and August 2016.
It was also said that 497,279 bags of imported rice were confiscated from smugglers between 2015 and August, 2017 with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N3.8 billion.
Its Comptroller-General, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd), said that 90,073 bags of rice were seized in 2015 with DPV of N693 million, while 280,109 bags of rice were impounded in 2016 with DPV of N2.156 billion.
Also, he said that in the first eight months of 2017, some 127,097 bags of rice were seized with DPV of N978 million.
Ali added that four enterprises registered with Tinapa Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Calabar in Cross River State syndicated the importation of 533 containers of rice last year.
Worried by the spate of rice smuggling, the NCS Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Command, Abdullahi Maiwada, told this newspaper that the command had been proactive in fighting rice smuggling.
Maiwada attributed the rise in smuggling activities to the porous nature of the nation’s borders.
According to him, smugglers were creating unemployment in their own country and creating jobs in foreign countries as a result of their activities.
The spokesman added that the service had interfaced with traditional rulers to dissuade people in their domains from smuggling, saying many were reluctant to quit the illegal business.
He said: “Our approach is carrot and stick. We sensitise and educate. We have a school in Idiroko, which is meant for host communities so that their wards should go back to school; schooling is the best and you cannot compare it with smuggling.
He said: “Our borders are indeed porous. We have the creeks; we have so many outlets that lead to Benin Republic within Ogun. We use our little resources in order to man the borders. Although there may be some shortcomings, we are doing our best.”
Philippines edging toward food
crisis – senators
Christina Mendez, Edith Regalado (The Philippine Star) -
September 3, 2018 - 12:00am
DAVAO CITY, Philippines —
President Duterte yesterday warned rice traders he would not hesitate to order
military and police raids on warehouses as part of emergency measures to
address any rice shortage.
“I will not allow Filipinos to go
hungry. Do not force me to resort to emergency measures,” the President
said in a pre-departure press briefing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport
before leaving for Israel and Jordan on an official visit.
Duterte made the warning
following reported rice shortages in certain parts of the country.
He said he would exercise his
powers as chief executive should an artificial rice shortage prevail.
“If I see something amiss,
I will not hesitate to exercise the powers of the President. And I
will ask the military and police to raid your warehouses, bodegas, and I will
just subject (you) of course to just compensation,” Duterte said. “I can do
that, but do not force me.”
Duterte warned traders against
resorting to hoarding.
“Because if you do that and time
is very limited, and if there is an artificial scheme going around, I do not
care if it is really the forces of the market that will impact on the situation.
I will really raid your warehouses,” he said.
Sen. Francis Escudero said the
President should instead declare a state of calamity given the dire situation
of the ountry’s food supply.
He said the country is edging
towards a full-blown food crisis and with declaration of a state of calamity,
the government could impose price controls and bear down on greedy rice
traders.
“What if we declare a state of
calamity and impose price controls lest the situation worsens and the people
suffer more?” Escudero said.
He warned that it was not only
rice and galunggong (round scad) that are in short supply but also
other food items like vegetables.
Escudero earlier asked the
Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Bureau of Investigation to look
into the possible filing of economic sabotage charges against certain rice
importers and traders, who are not only undervaluing their imports but also
jacking up prices.
“It’s clear that we’re being
exploited by greedy businessmen,” he said, adding even if the unscrupulous
importers and traders would declare the correct value of their rice imports and
pay the right duties, they would still earn a healthy profit.
Escudero agreed with Sen. Cynthia
Villar who said that if the President is not inclined to declare a state of
calamity, he can order the Department of Trade and Industry to set price
ceilings on rice and other commodities where violators can be penalized,
including closure of their establishments.
Villar last week warned rice
cartels that continue to operate with impunity. She chided the Department of
Agriculture and the DOJ for not going after them.
Escudero attributed the country’s
current food woes to the bickering, as well as lack of expertise of officials,
particularly Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol and National Food Authority
(NFA) chief Jason Aquino.
He claimed Aquino used up bulk of
the NFA budget allocation for rice this year to pay the agency’s debts while
officials close to Duterte failed to advise him to set rice tariffs when
Congress went on a break last month.
“The question is why did he
(Aquino) do that (pay debts instead of buying rice)? Is he just pea-brained? Is
he useful? If you have some logic, you won’t do that,” he said.
Escudero also lamented that
current officials do not seem alarmed while remaining clueless on how to
resolve the situation.
Former solicitor general
Florin Hilbay urged Piñol to resign for inflicting a double-whammy on
fishermen and the country by pushing importation from China as a means to lower
prices of fish in the market.
“Our fishermen are losing their
livelihoods and they (Piñol) are letting China profit from it when the fish was
caught in the West Philippine Sea,” Hilbay said in a statement.
He said fish supposedly imported
from China would be laced with formalin, a preservative, as a “bonus” for
Filipinos.
Hilbay said the Department
of Agriculture (DA) should look for other means, rather than focus on
importation, as it will affect the livelihood of fishermen.
Hilbay earlier called on
authorities to investigate whether the NFA distributed the imported rice to its
intended beneficiaries and not to rice hoarders who want to control the price
of the staple food.
Piñol, Aquino and the NFA council
have been blamed for the prevailing rice shortage and rising rice prices for
their failure to handle the situation.
No need to fire people
Duterte said he is not firing
Piñol and Aquino over their supposed failure to control the problem on rice
supply.
He said the problem could be a
result of weak laws but that it doesn’t mean there is a need to fire
people.
“Maybe the laws are weak or
uncomfortable. All we have to do is improve on those laws. Not necessarily
fire people,” the President said.
“You know, all officials,
including me are bound by laws on the matter of rice or whatever it is, there
are laws of the land,” he said.
Duterte said he does not see any
serious offense committed by Piñol and Aquino to warrant their dismissal from
office.
“And I do not see any serious
offense there. We have not lost anything except that there is an
aberration in the market,” the President added.
Rep. Jose Panganiban Jr. of
party-list ANAC-IP agreed with the President against firing Piñol and Aquino.
Panganiban said heads should not
roll because closer coordination is all that is needed.
Panganiban noticed that the DA’s
two agencies – the Aquino-led NFA and the NFA Council which solely approves
rice importations – only need to have better coordination in the future.
Minority Leader Danilo Suarez of
Quezon, however, said Piñol’s remarks on the importation of agricultural and
fishery products instead of protecting local farmers and fishermen, and pushing
the legalization of rice smuggling are enough reasons for his resignation.
“Their solutions will put further
strain on our agricultural sector. The importation of rice
and galunggong will impress upon the idea of encouraging further
importation, potentially on other agricultural products at the costly expense
of our farmers and fishermen,” Suarez said.
‘Legalize’ rice smuggling
Duterte, on the other hand,
disagreed with Piñol’s proposal to legalize rice smuggling.
Piñol earlier proposed to make
rice smugglers turn their operations into legitimate rice trading, subject to
tariffs and import rules, to address the supply shortage in southern Mindanao.
Piñol stressed this was the most
practical option to address the rice shortage.
“No, of course not. The smuggling
itself? No, of course not. It is destructive to the economy,” Duterte said.
Piñol had envisioned the
establishment of a “trading center” for rice in the region of
Zamboanga-Basilan-Sulu-Tawi-Tawi, which he claimed has always been
the traditional practice in the area.
The island provinces actually
source their rice from the neighboring areas of East Malaysia, particularly
Sabah.
The President rejected Piñol’s
proposal even if the move would make government earn as much as P2 billion from
tariffs that would be collected.
“Smuggled rice, unrestrained,
will promote disorder in this country. Well, those smuggled rice have not
paid any taxes, or tariff or whatever,” Duterte said.
The President said he would
rather confiscate the smuggled rice and sell them to the public at a lower
price even if government loses revenues.
“So, they are confiscated at
a disposal of government. Maybe I will distribute it for free or go down to the
market prices. Maybe I will distribute it for free or sell at lowest prices,”
he said.
The DA pointed out that
Zamboanga City only has a rice sufficiency rating of 55 percent; Basilan at
five percent; Sulu, two percent, and Tawi-Tawi with only one percent
registered. The lower figures were a result of local traders having given up on
selling since their price ceilings could not compete with smuggled rice priced
at only P29 per kilo.
Duterte stressed he wanted to
import rice and risk losing revenues but he could not allow smuggling.
“Maybe we can import and lose. We
import rice then sell them at a lower price any Filipino can afford,” he said.
Duterte said government could
lose along the way if it sells rice at very low prices.
“We can lose (revenues) but we
cannot allow smuggling in this country. The other way around, we import
rice even if it is a losing venture to sell them at lower prices. At least we
have that benchmark how much we are willing to lose in terms of revenues,” the
President said. – With Delon Porcalla, Christina Mendez, Paolo
Romero, Jack Castaño
Relief rice sweetens
festival in Nagaland district
GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 03, 2018 23:12 IST
Cheer amid gloom: Rice being
distributed in Kiphire town of Nagaland. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement
Kiphire
has been cut off due to landslides caused by incessant heavy rainfall
Seven truckloads of PDS rice
received in the nick of time has sweetened a tribal festival in Nagaland’s
Kiphire district that has been cut off due to landslides caused by incessant
heavy rainfall.
Mongmong is a major festival of
the Sangtams, the largest of the three principal tribes in Kiphire district
bordering Myanmar. It is celebrated from September 1-6 every year as a festival
of togetherness, forgiveness and prayer for a bountiful harvest.
A tough monsoon made one of the
most precious commodities – rice – scarce. Procuring rice had been an uphill
task because a 300-metre stretch of the arterial road from Nagaland’s
commercial hub Dimapur to Kiphire district headquarters Kiphire had been
damaged.
“We are thankful to the Nagaland
government and specially the district administration for going out of their way
in ensuring rice, albeit rationed, for us. This has really brightened up the
festival that appeared to have been doomed earlier,” R. Tsithongse Sangtam,
general secretary of United Sangtam Likhum Punji (apex organisation of the
Sangtam tribe) told The Hindu.
Each of the days of Mongmong
festival has a special significant, but Monday was the most important day, Mr.
Sangtam said.
Kiphire Deputy Commissioner
Mohammed Ali Shihab said distribution of rice started on September 1 in the
district headquarters. Relief had also been distributed to all the subdivisions
for servicing the villages.
“The distribution of rice in
measured quantities to every household was done in the district headquarters
through the 11 ward commissioners,” Mr. Shihab said, adding that 200 bags of
rice have been stocked at the district headquarters for emergency. Each of the
eight subdivisions in the district have also stocked 50-100 rice bags.
The Nagaland government
has said roads at 359 locations across the State have been cut off due to
rain-induced landslides. Since July, at least 12 people have lost their lives
while more than 3,000 have been displaced.
Worst
affected districts
Apart from Kiphire, the worst
affected districts are Tuensang and Phek.
These two districts adjoin
Kiphire, where Saramati, Nagaland’s highest peak, is situated.
“We need at least Rs. 800 crore
for restoration of the damage caused by landslides and floods,” a government
spokesperson said.
Floods have happened mainly in
Dimapur and adjoining low-lying areas. The Nagaland beyond is hilly.
Domestic rice prices hit record
levels
THIHA KO KO 03 SEP 2018
A rice shop at Bogyoke Aung San
Road in August. Aung Htay Hlaing/The Myanmar Times
The
price of high quality domestic rice has risen the most in five years, driven by
rising demand, inflation and potential price manipulation, local traders said.
According
to data from the Myanmar Rice Federation and Myanmar Rice and Paddy Traders
Association, a bag of Ayeyarwady Paw San rice had hit K52,000 in August, which
is up by almost 60 percent since the start of the year. Meanwhile, a bag of
Shwebo Paw San rice cost K62,000 in August, up nearly around 35pc over the same
period.
On
the other hand, the prices of lower quality Ei Mahta and broken rice, which are
mainly exported, appear to be stable, officials from Myanmar Rice and Paddy
Traders Association said.
U
Aung Than Oo, chair of the association, told The Myanmar Times that the price
of Paw San rice is actually at its highest since 2014 and that the sudden spike
in prices is “unusual. Prices weren’t this high last year when supply was
scarcer. This could represent changing consumer demands in favour of higher
quality rice,” he said.
Cornered
market?
Yet,
there could also be some price manipulation involved. According to U Aung Kyi
Soe, a rice agent, “the bigger and richer farms, merchants and rice mills are
cornering the market by going to the rural areas and buying up all the Paw San
rice. After calculating the paddy price, they will name the price at which they
want to sell processed rice to agents, which is driving up the price,” he said.
In
general though, paddy prices have been rising due to inflation. In Myanmar, the
increase in the price of rice is tied closely to paddy prices. Currently,
Ayeyarwady Paw San paddy is trading at around K1.3-K1.4 million per basket. “As
prices of other commodities rise, it also impacts the price of staple food,
which is rice,” said U Nay Lin Zin, joint-secretary of the Myanmar Rice
Federation.
During
this monsoon season, more than 16 million acres of monsoon paddy were planted.
However, more than 300,000 acres of paddy fields have been destroyed due to
floods in the recent months, resulting in more volatile prices.
Since
then, 100,000 acres has been replanted, so the floods are not expected to
affect this year’s paddy production rate, said U Myo Tint Tun, deputy permanent
secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation.
Exports
earnings
Things
are more stable on the export side. As Myanmar exports only lower quality rice,
the spike in price of Paw San rice has not affected the export market, said U
Than Oo, secretary of Bayintnaung Rice Wholesale Center.
“The
export market is stable even though the domestic rice market has obviously been
rising. There is no high demand for Myanmar rice from China so far so prices
seem to be stable,” said U Than Oo.
At
800,000 tonnes between April and July, rice export volumes are so far lower by
around 100,000 tonnes compared to the same period last year, according to the
Myanmar Rice Federation.
https://www.mmtimes.com/news/domestic-rice-prices-hit-record-levels.html
PNP seeks cooperation in running after rice hoarders, cartels
September 3, 2018, 10:49 PM
By Martin Sadongdong
The Philippine National Police
(PNP) on Monday urged concerned government agencies to work with law enforcers
in busting the operations of rice hoarders and cartels in the country.
In a press briefing at Camp
Crame, Senior Superintendent Benigno Durana, PNP spokesperson, said the work to
bring down illegal rice traders involves not only the police force but also
other government agencies and even the community.
Philippine National Police Spokesperson Senior Supt. Benigno
Durana Jr.
(Kevin Tristan Espiritu / MANILA BULLETIN)
(Kevin Tristan Espiritu / MANILA BULLETIN)
“This will be a whole government
approach. We may have intelligence information, the AFP [Armed Forces of the
Philippines] may also have, as well as other government agencies like the NFA
[National Food Authority], DA [Department of Agriculture], and others so it’s
best to put our efforts together,” he said.
He added that community intelligence
plays a key role in the fight against rice hoarders and cartels. He urged the
public to report to police any information that could lead to the busting of
illegal rice trading.
Prior to his departure for Israel
and Jordan, President Duterte said Sunday night that he could use his emergency
powers to run after hoarders and cartels if there is indeed a rice shortage in
the country.
He added that he could deploy
police and military to raid warehouses that store hoarded rice.
In response, Durana said the PNP
is ready for the task but added that they “need support in conducting law
enforcement operations against rice cartels and hoarders.”
In the latter part of July, PNP
chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde warned illegal traders, particularly
those targeting rice and other food products, to stop manipulating market
forces or they would wage a war against them.
The price of rice in the country
have consistently surged in the past months, indicating a shortage in the
supply of the commodity.
Lapeña favors rice trading center in Zambasulta
September
3, 2018 | Filed under: Regional | Posted by: Tempo Desk
By
NONOY E. LACSON
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Customs
Commissioner Isidro Lapeña favors the proposal of Agriculture Secretary
Emmanuel Piñol to legalize the operations of rice smugglers in the Zamboanga,
Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi area by establishing a rice trading center in
Jolo, Sulu or in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi and for smugglers to directly bring their
rice and sugar commodities to the area for payment of Customs duties.
Lapeña said the proposal is good
as it will generate a substantial collection for the BoC but a directive
or a memorandum order must be issued by President Duterte for the guidance of
the authorities directly involved in the anti-smuggling operations in this part
of the country.
The Department of Agriculture
(DA) pledged to deliver before the coming planting season five 100-horsepower
large tractors and other farm implements to Tawi-Tawi, which is aiming to
develop its own rice industry.In "Regional"
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China's
Scientists Log Record Yield of Super Hybrid Rice in Yunnan
TANG SHIHUA
DATE: MON, 09/03/2018 -
16:45 / SOURCE:YICAI
China's
Scientists Log Record Yield of Super Hybrid Rice in Yunnan
(Yicai
Global) Sept. 3 -- Chinese scientists have verified a new production record of
super hybrid rice which is more resistant to harsh weather conditions and
insects than the traditional version.
A
rice variety named “chao you qian hao,” which was planted in the city of Gejiu
in southwestern China's Yunnan province, has generated a record output of over
1,152 kilograms on average, exceeding 17 tons per hectare, state-backed
newspaper Science and Technology Daily reported from a yield test event that
was organized by the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and China National
Hybrid Rice R&D Center.
The
6.67-hectare test plot was planted by the Hunanese research center at an
altitude of almost 1,300 meters on March 23, transplanted in April, and
harvested yesterday. The growth of plants was balanced and no major diseases
were found. The field is flat and has a large irrigation system for water
supply while the region has an annual average temperature of 20 °C and rainfall
of 700-900 millimeters.
The
location was selected by Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy
of Engineering, who is also known as 'China's father of hybrid rice.' He set
the target of 17 tons per hectare last year in April at the First International
Forum on Rice in Sanya, Hainan province, as reported by state-backed Xinhua
News Agency.
In
2015, China's average yield of super hybrid rice reached over 1,067 kg, setting
a world record. Next year, the figure rose to 1,088 kg while last year the
harvest declined to about 1,074 kg on average due to heavy rainfall.
Rody ready to use extra powers vs rice hoarders
President
Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday warned rice hoarders not to test his patience, saying
he would not hesitate to use his emergency powers against them amid the
country’s rice woes.
“I’m
just warning the traders, especially if it concerns the stomachs of Filipinos,
do not force me to resort to emergency measures,” Duterte in a mix of English
and Filipino at a press conference before flying out to Israel and Jordan.
He
said he would not hesitate to order law enforcers to raid their warehouses and
vowed not to let Filipinos go huntry.
“If
I see any hoarding, I will not hesitate to exercise the powers of the President
and I will ask the military and the police to raid your warehouses, bodegas,”
Duterte said. “I can do that, and if you force me, I will,” he added.
Senate
Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, however, said the government should focus its
efforts to improve the poor agricultural infrastructure that has stymied the
growth of the industry.
“The
government should take a closer look at the state of agriculture infrastructure
in the country if it wants to enhance agricultural productivity in order to
prevent rice shortage and stop unscrupulous traders from taking advantage of
the situation,” Drilon said.
Drilon
said, “it is unfortunate that the Philippines, considered an agricultural
country, has no sufficient rice on the table, which is a staple food of
millions of Filipinos.”
“Why
did it happen? Because our farmers do not get the support they need in terms of
infrastructure resulting in low harvest each year. We must therefore
provide them infrastructure that can boost their production,” he said.
Drilon
urged the government to include in its Build-Build-Build program more
infrastructure support in the agriculture sector.
Several
farmer groups said sustained investment in the rice industry is “the only
sustainable solution” to recurring food security problems, even as the
government moves toward imports.
The
Federation of Free Farmers and 25 other farmer organizations said there is no
guarantee that rice prices will go down once the rice trade is liberalized
through the removal of the quantitative restrictions.
The
farmers groups said they fear that importers will only maximize their profits,
sell their rice at the highest price possible, and take advantage of the
situation.
“Hoarding,
price manipulation, and cartelized trading will not disappear. There is a
possibility that a large portion of the rice trade will be taken over by
well-financed speculators who will instigate sudden movements in rice prices in
order to make a quick profit, regardless of its effect on consumers,” the
farmer groups said.
They
speculated that a sudden surge in the demand for rice imports will lead to a
higher international market price for the grain.
“If
large rice consuming countries like China and Indonesia suddenly decide to
import rice, the Philippines might not even be able to source enough rice from
its traditional suppliers,” they said, calling on the government planners to
analyze comprehensively the repercussions of rice trade liberalization so as to
place necessary measures before the removing quantitative restrictions.
“At
present, government planners are simply claiming that the QR removal will allow
more and cheaper imports to come in, leading to lower prices of rice for
consumers,” they said.
“However,
their analysis does not measure the long-run effects on rice farmers who will
have to absorb lower prices for their products, and on rural communities that
will be affected correspondingly,” they added.
To
expand and intensify the programs of the Department of Agriculture improving
the competitiveness and profitability of rice farmers, the farmer groups backed
the proposal to establish the so-called Rice Competitiveness Fund.
RCEF
will be funded from tariffs collected on rice imports, stakeholders said.
“Additionally,
the fund can be used to provide farmers with safety nets in the event of
natural calamities, market disruptions, and personal emergencies,” they said,
emphasizing that the Agriculture department should formulate guidelines and policies
for proper usage of the said fund.
Senator
Francis Pangilinan, meanwhile, said if government officials can stomach
weevil-infested rice, the people they serve cannot.
His
comment was in response to Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol’s assurances that
it was all right to eat weevil-infested rice, since the insects could be
removed with washing.
Water scarcity endangers rice cultivation in upper
Sindh
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
LARKANA: The Sindh Abadgar Board
(SAB) on Sunday expressed profound concerns over failure of the Irrigation
department in ensuring sufficient amount of water supply from the Indus River
to thousands of acres of paddy fields in Larkana, Dadu, Khairpur,
Kamber-Shahdadkot, Kashmore and Jacobabad districts.
Reportedly, SAB representative
Gada Hussain Mahesar informed the media that 40 percent of the total area of
paddy fields has been facing an acute water shortage, and sowing of the crop has
been delayed.
“Farmers are not even certain
whether or not they will be able to harvest the crop as it requires an abundant
amount of water for cultivation,” he said, adding that 50 percent of the
cultivation has been severely affected in Sindh.
He stated that agricultural
economy would suffer a loss of millions of rupees. The paddy farmers have been
protesting against the shortage of water supply, however, their hue and cry has
been ineffective for the concerned authorities to take action. In the recent past,
the protesting farmers had staged several sit-ins and observed hunger strikes
but the authorities turned a blind eye to the critical issue.
According to the paddy farmers,
the water shortage issue did not only hit the rice crop but developed water disputes
amongst members of different communities of growers in Sindh.
He asserted that influential
growers had paid bribe to divert water from the Indus River to their paddy
fields via water channels and drains, whereas poor growers in tail-end fields
suffered ‘devastating losses’.
The SAB leader accused Irrigation
department engineers of not responding to their calls and being absent from
their offices in this kharif season.
He was staggered to observe
sowing of rice in the month of September rather than mid-August, and said that
farmers were busy in sowing paddy crop without any knowledge that there would
be no yield.
He revealed that due to water
scarcity and adverse climate changes a vast swath of land in upper Sindh has
become arid.
Mahesar said that over 2.7
million acres of fertile lands of paddy crop produced approximately 2.4 million
tons of rice, which was highest production of any crop in the province.
Irrigation water is released in
water channels, drains and canals during the month of May or June, but this
year 45-day delay was recorded.
He appealed to the Pakistan
Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for taking notice of the
situation and implement effective measures to prevent losses.
Labourer appeals to Bilawal for
medical treatment of his ailing sons
Two youths have been suffering
from an unknown illness which robbed them of the ability to walk and talk since
their birth in Vikro village near Mohenjo Daro.
Reportedly, a labourer Manthar
Ali told the media on Sunday that his two sons including 18-year-old Muhammad
Sachal and 13-year-old Aqib Ali were suffering, whereas his third son
15-year-old Majid Ali died from the same disease.
He said that he had consulted
several doctors who told him that their treatment was not available in Pakistan.
He stated that he needed to
travel abroad for their medical treatment costing Rs 5 million.
He said that he could not afford
their treatment and appealed to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal
Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah and
philanthropists for supporting him.
Water scarcity making country wasteland, govt’s attention needed: PEW
September 2,
2018
30
ISLAMABAD
: The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said the scarcity of water is
transforming the country into a desert which requires the immediate attention of
the government.
A
country dependent on agriculture has framed its first National Water Policy
after seventy long years while the provinces like Punjab and Sindh have yet to
announce their water policies, it said.
President
PEW Dr. Murtaza Mughal said that water scarcity has been felt across the
country but nobody seems concerned about water management to reduce its
wastage.
He
said that per capita availability of water in Pakistan stood at 5,260 cubic
metres in 1951 which was reduced to 1000 cubic meters by 2016 and it is likely
to further drop to about 860 by 2025 which will be a doomsday scenario for the
country.
Dr.
Murtaza Mughal said that the Indus River system receives an annual influx of
about 134.8 million acre-feet (MAF) of water of which water worth sixty billion
dollars is wasted.
Reduced
supply and increased demand has forced people, mostly farmers, to extract
around 50 million acre-feet of groundwater which is unsustainable, he said.
Around
ninety-five percent of the available water is utilised by the agricultural
sector which a major chunk is wasted by water-intensive crops of sugarcane and
rice.
The
area under cultivation for water and rice continue to increase which should be
seen as a threat, he demanded.
Dr.
Mughal said that government should discourage sugarcane and rice crops by
diverting farmers to other crops as Pakistan use more than double water as
compared to other Asian countries to get one kilogram of rice while its uses
1500 to 3000 litres of water to get one kilogram of sugar.
Why
we shouldn’t sign Phase II of Pak-China FTA
September 03, 2018
PAKISTAN and China are set to sign
the second phase of the Pakistan-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA); ten rounds
of talks have already concluded in Beijing and Islamabad.
In the first phase, Pakistan gave
concessions on 5,686 tariff lines to China; while China gave concessions on
6,418 tariff lines. Chinese exports to Pakistan grew from $4.2 billion to
around $12bn, whereas Pakistan’s exports to the country only moved up
marginally from $0.6bn to $1.6bn.
Besides the terms of trade under
the FTA, several other barriers to trade should be discussed, including
sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade. These were
not reviewed before the first phase of the agreement was signed.
In the first phase, Pakistan gave
concessions on 5,686 tariff lines to China while China gave concessions on
6,418 tariff lines. Chinese exports to Pakistan grew from $4.2 billion to
around $12bn, whereas Pakistan’s exports to the country only moved up
marginally from $0.6bn to $1.6bn
One hurdle in increasing exports to
China is the Association of South East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) trade agreement,
which regulates the FTAs with new countries.
Since Pakistan cannot become a
member of the ASEAN, as member nations have reservations about its entry, China
cannot grant the same trade favours to Pakistan which it has given to its ASEAN
trading partners.
Furthermore, the Asia Pacific Trade
Agreement, under which China continues to grant favourable trade terms to
Bangladesh and India, is hampering Pakistan’s exports to China.
We did not sign a Mutual Recognition
Agreement (MRA) with China, under which harmonisation efforts could have been
undertaken. Therefore, our rice, beef, leather and yarn are going to China via
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, and not directly.
Since trade or import safety
measures were not undertaken in the first phase of the Pak-China FTA, the
Federal Board of Revenue lost more than Rs32 billion due to FTA imports from
China.
Moving on to the second phase of
FTA negotiations with China. China wants zero import duties on 6,000 tariff
lines instead of the original 2,600. This will be disastrous for Pakistan.
Unfortunately, we do not have enough export surplus to ask for similar
concessions from China.
Pakistan’s major export product is
cotton and its made ups. We produce around 12-13 million bales of cotton and
import two million for high-end value addition for exports.
Another important export item is
rice; nearly seven million tonnes of rice are produced and four million tonnes
are exported, fetching $2bn. China does not import basmati rice— the variety we
produce in surplus. When it comes to leather, China imports more from Thailand
and Vietnam than from us.
China is importing marble, chrome
and hides from Pakistan and selling finished products worldwide at much higher
rates. Thus, we do not have valuable commodities to export to China for the
next three to four years, until we achieve high growth rates of cotton and
rice.
To narrow the trade deficit with
China, one option is to ask it to relocate its labour-intensive industries to
Pakistan, as it has done in Vietnam and Cambodia, and export from these set
ups.
Secondly, Chinese imports of
finished consumer products must be curbed through regulatory duties and quota
barriers. They should be persuaded to assemble these products in Pakistan;
which will in turn generate employment and taxes, and develop vendor
industries. We must provide export rebates or subsidies on items which can
enter China but are not doing so owing to ASEAN tariffs.
Finally, Pakistan should be allowed
to participate freely in Chinese exhibitions and trade fairs. Pakistani
products must be given equal importance in such fairs. This will gradually
build the base of our products in China. China ought to entertain these demands
as we accommodated theirs in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
NFA says hands tied on rice imports, domestic procurement funding
September 3, 2018 | 9:35 pm
THE NFA RICE stored at a Quezon City
warehouse. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS
THE National Food Authority (NFA)
said it was not responsible for the rice supply crisis because it was not
allocated sufficient funds to increase domestic procurement, and added that its
advice was not heeded on the timing of imports.
“All of these present problems —
thin buffer stocks, the wrong timing of import arrivals leading to delays in
discharging and infestation on board the vessels, the high price of commercial
rice in view of low government stocks — are the result of the rejection of
NFA’s proposals since 2017 either to increase its palay procurement
price for the agency to procure more locally, or to import at the proper time
to prevent a depletion of stocks and make the agency effective and efficient in
stabilizing the market,” the NFA management committee said in a statement on
Monday.
The NFA said earlier that it
received P5.1-billion worth of government subsidies from the Department of
Budget and Management based on a Notice of Cash Allocation issued on Feb. 24,
2017. Of the total, the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) automatically deducted 10% or
P510 million as payment for the previous years’ guarantee fee while
P2.5-billion was set aside for its annual contribution to service the P8-billion
worth of 10-year Treasury Bonds issued in February 2008.
The agency said that it received
net proceeds of only P2.09-billion out of the total subsidy.
In a committee hearing at the
House of Representatives on Monday, NFA Administrator Jason L.Y. Aquino said
that “the P2.09-billion was used to pay for loans.”
The NFA said it increased the
level of supply for the Zamboanga region to 4,000 from 2,000 bags per day, or
about 80% of the region’s daily requirement of 5,340 bags. NFA rice is priced
at P27 per kilo.
Meanwhile, more than 4,000 NFA
employees wore red to protest against lawmakers’ proposals to abolish the
agency, including proposals by Senators Cynthia A. Villar and Sherwin T.
Gatchalian.
“The problem of rising rice
prices and low supply is not the NFA’s fault, but the result of shortsighted
decisions and wrong assumptions by people who work in the boardrooms unaware of
what is happening in the rural areas, island provinces, highly populated urban
areas and remote places across the country,” the NFA employees said in a
statement. — Reicelene Joy N. Ignacio
Reorganize NFA Council, include
agriculture dept – Villarin
Ralf Rivas
Published 8:15 PM, September 03, 2018
Updated 8:37 PM, September 03, 2018
GRILLED. National Food Authority
Administrator Jason Aquino answers tough questions from lawmakers. Photo by
Darren Langit/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – A National
Food Authority (NFA) which lacks authority – this was the sentiment of some
legislators during the second budget briefing of the agency on Monday,
September 3.
Lawmakers pressed NFA
Administrator Jason Aquino on
why the agency failed to address the high prices of rice and the late arrival
of imports. (READ: Who is NFA chief Jason Aquino and
why is he controversial?)
Aquino responded in length, yet
the main theme of his answers included "our hands are tied," and
"that is a decision by the [NFA] Council."
This prompted lawmakers to ask,
"Who is this all-powerful council?" They're now suggesting that the
NFA Council be revamped.
Akbayan Representative Tom Villarin suggested
that the Department of Agriculture (DA) should be included and actually head
the NFA Council.
He also proposed that some
agencies like the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) and Department of Finance (DOF)
be booted out of the council.
"These are mainly the
economic agencies and the concern of this council is to lessen the subsidy for
rice and let full liberalization of imports happen," Villarin said on the
sidelines of the briefing.
Villarin also said the economic
analyses of the various agencies which are part of the council are clashing.
He said the NFA's primary mandate
is "to subsidize consumers," while the other economic agencies are
relying on imports to ignite market competition and lower prices.
"The logic [of these
economic agencies] is you allow importations to lower the price, but that is
not happening," the lawmaker said.
Inflation soared to a 9-year high
of 5.7% last July despite the arrival of rice imports from
Thailand and Vietnam. (READ: Imports to address inflation?
Support farmers instead – Bam Aquino)
Villarin said subsidy-based
agencies like the NFA and DA should head the NFA Council to increase the
productivity of farmers, which in turn would lead to lower rice prices.
Who's in the NFA Council? The council is currently composed of 17 people. These are:
Vice chairman:
- NFA Administrator Jason Aquino
Members:
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor
Nestor Espenilla Jr
- Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP)
Chairman Alberto Romulo
- Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank)
President and CEO Alex Buenaventura
- Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III
- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Secretary Ramon Lopez
- National Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA) Secretary Ernesto Pernia
- Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea
- Farmer Sector Representative Edwin
Paraluman
- Irwin Peña as acting corporate secretary
Alternate members and principal
representatives:
- BSP Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo
- DBP Director Rolando Metin
- Landbank Executive Vice President Julio
Climaco
- National Treasurer Rosalia de Leon
- DTI Undersecretary Ruth Castelo
- NEDA Assistant Secretary Mercedita
Sombilla
- Assistant Secretary of the Office of the
Executive Secretary Aurora Ignacio
The DA is not part of the
council, but is responsible for supporting farmers, such as by providing loans
and high-quality grains. The DA also aims to lower the production cost of
farmers by improving how they farm, which in turn, lowers the cost of rice in
markets.
The NFA Council decides how the
NFA should act, including when to import and the mode of importation.
The council drew flak for
allegedly acting late, which led to the depleted buffer stocks of the NFA and
the elevated prices of rice. (READ: Taming rice prices: What lawmakers,
experts say)
The conflict between the NFA and
the council was exposed to the public eye through what President Rodrigo
Duterte called a "turf war" between Aquino and then-NFA Council
Chairman Leoncio Evasco Jr. (READ: TIMELINE: Clashes between Evasco
and NFA's Aquino)
Evasco was booted out of the
council by Duterte.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol was
previously quoted as saying that they "do not understand the word
'urgency.'"
Aquino said Villarin's proposal
to change the council's composition is in the hands of legislators.
Several senators and
experts have called for the abolition of the NFA. But for Villarin, the agency
should just be reformed. – Rappler.com
It’s ‘rice’ to see this growing in Illinois
·
Karen Binder AgriNews
Publications
Aug 31, 2018 Updated Aug 31, 2018
·
Alexander
County farmer Blake Gerard pulls a sample from one of his rice fields. By the
time harvest starts in late September, these waist-high plants will turn a
golden yellow.
AgriNews photos/Karen Binder
MCCLURE,
Ill. — As the rice season progresses, Alexander County farmer Blake Gerard is
busy watching water levels in his fields and preparing for harvest.
Gerard
is the first Illinois farmer planting rice as a commodity grain, with a couple
of his neighbors recently picking up the crop. His farming interests are “mixed
and intermingled,” including soybeans, long-grain rice, seed rice, a higher
protein rice and a cleaning and bagging facility in Cairo.
This
is the second season for his Cahokia Rice, a proprietary variety developed by
Louisiana State University that contains 1.5 times more protein than typical
rice. In all, he has about 1,000 acres in rice.
He
recently shared some insights into his rice operations at a University of
Illinois Extension Summer Twilight Series meeting:
Better
nutrition. Besides
containing 5 to 6 grams of protein per serving, Cahokia Rice performs better on
the glycemic index.
Planting
and fertilizing. While
planting may start in April, Gerard said he planted as late as May 25 with a
grain drill.
Once
the plant tillers emerge, the fields are fertilized with urea and flooded with
about two inches of water, which helps hold the nitrogen and reduce weeds.
Around
July 4, a second fertilizer dose is applied as the rice plants start to develop
joints, much like wheat. Then it’s a matter of keeping the fields sealed and
not losing any water.
The
rice heads emerge around Aug. 1, and the fields are drained once half of the
plant heads turn straw color, typically between Aug. 25 and Sept. 1.
Harvest. Gerard is looking at
harvest beginning Sept. 10 to 15. Again, like wheat, careful attention is paid
to lodging and getting into the fields before the stalks lay down and create
issues with the header.
He
noted that use of semi dwarf varieties is critical for this reason. Running the
combine at 2 to 3 mph as opposed to 0.5 mph, stopping and backing up is
expensive.
“The
earliest rice is typically the best rice,” Gerard said.
Moisture
content. The
rice needs time to air dry. While an 18 percent moisture content is ideal, the
climate this far north creates a slower process. Gerard tends to harvest
between 19 percent and 20 percent.
Yes,
he has driers on the farm. But because rice is a field-to-table grain, unlike
corn or soybeans, more quality standards are at play. Rice is never dried
higher than 100 degrees or risk fissuring that splits the rice grains.
Any
“broken” rice is separated and sold off to either dog food producers or to beer
makers, namely Budweiser.
Marketing. There are regional language
differences when selling rice. While Gerard and his cohorts in the south talk
about a 45-pound bushel, the Louisiana growers mention 162-pound barrels.
And
in California, where Gerard says the best rice is grown because of its “100
percent sunshine,” they sell in sacks based on 100-pound weights. Yet, it’s the
Chicago Board of Trade’s standard of 100-pound weights that matters most.
Price. These days, Gerard’s rice
is about $4.50 a bushel or $10 per hundredweight.
Sustainability. Use of river overflow and
ditch water may deliver “muddy water” into the rice fields, but Gerard said
that water contains soil components that help supplement the plant. The rice
fields act like a sort of simple and shallow wetlands that filters the water.
Besides
the environmental benefits for water reuse, creation of wildlife habitat and
soil preservation, these practices are economically sustainable, too, he said.
“Rice
has the greatest sustainability story of all the commodities,” he added. “We
like working with nature, and by nature, I mean that big river over there.”
Will we see the last of the rice cartels?
Published September 4, 2018, 12:05 AM
#MINDANAO
By JOHN TRIA
John Tria
LALA, Lanao del Norte. Passing through these inner towns of
Lanao del Norte, we see wide vistas of rice paddies due for harvest in a
month’s time. I pass by a large mechanical dryer installed by the Department of
Agriculture, and a few rice mills all filled with palay stocks from recent harvests.
All this I see as I hear the DA
look forward to another bumper harvest of the staple by year’s end. The first
quarter’s harvest puts rice up by 4.6% by adding about 200,000 more metric tons
to last year’s period, and hoping for the same in the coming quarter’s harvest
season.
There have also been importations
last summer by the NFA, totaling about 380,562 tons. (http://www.nfa.gov.ph/images/files/announcement/2018/vsr_g2g.pdf)
However, all these scenes and
numbers do not seem to add up when you see recent reports of spikes in
Zamboanga to as high as 70 to 80 pesos per kilo. And the recent importation of
rice via the government-to-government (G2G) scheme gave us shipments allegedly
infested with weevils.
This old G2G scheme is often
pointed to as the reason for recurrent shortages and, sources say, is
favored by cartels in cahoots with NFA officials.
Nonetheless, we ask: Where did
all the rice go? Are more Filipinos buying more? Has the smuggling of Malaysian
rice actually stopped?
Many are up in arms at the
current NFA administration for this seemingly recurrent problem, accusing
officials of being cartel protectors and seeking their relief.
It seems that the rice issue will
not go away soon, even as President Duterte makes that historic trip to Israel.
Rather than avoid it, however, he
does the opposite. In his predeparture statement, he issued the strongest words
yet against the unscrupulous rice traders, warning them that the might of the
recently envigorated police and military can be called in if they continue to
play footsie with rice prices. Tokhang for the cartel?
What makes the rice issue
interesting is that it seems that only the President recognizes that one of its
root causes is the existence of cartels that aim to control importation, and
the local price of rice. His detractors from across the spectrum are eerily
mum. Past governments favored G2G.
For so long we have known that
there exists a lobby to keep us importing rice using this G2G system. This
allows rice to be cheaply imported with government money, while keeping local
prices high since importations are often delayed, whether intentionally or not,
allowing buffer stocks to sink. This leaves control of imports in the hands of
a few unscrupulous traders collectively known as the cartel.
It is in the interest of cartels
that price fluctuations do not happen, or in case they do, that they are barely
felt or happen slowly. What they do love is a tight supply situation as it
allows them to play with the system for their benefit.
Nonetheless, swings and spikes
like the one in Zamboanga are bad for cartels, as it may indicate that there
are members who are no longer going along with the rest of the cabal, either
selling cheap to allow prices to dive or hoarding supply to artificially raise
prices. That it happened in one area means the cartel’s control over everyone’s
price may be slipping.
Either way, the emerging equation
is enforcement against cartels and boosting supply. More supply is better than
tight supply, as it lowers prices and limits the capacity of these cartels to
game the system.
Allowing freer importation
through means such as rice tarrification can increase supply and drive prices
down. This means that cartels can no longer control the supply that in turn
dictates prices. Tarrification is something cartels do not like. Expect them to
lobby against it. Do not be surprised if there are those insisting that the old
scheme is better.
In addition, we look forward and
hope for more harvests to help lessen our dependence on foreign rice and the
need to engage imports that can be ganed by cartels.
After all, boosting the
production capacities of 2 million rice farmers also means upping their
livelihood and making it more sustainable. At this point, around P655 billion
in agricultural loans have been issued in the first half of the year by the
Landbank. This level of financing is not something we have seen before.
This means that if those funds
were used to plant crops in the middle of the year, we will see more and better
harvests by year’s end, as more credit access means more seeds and inputs, and
larger areas to till.
This may also mean a smaller
dependence on often usurious trade financing by the same cartels and traders
which many of our farmers are left to bite due to the absence of credit for
them in the past.
Along with mechanization and
creating better storage facility such as the ones I saw in Lanao del Norte
makes our local harvests more efficient and lowers wasteage. This is another
way to increase supply. It is hoped that the DA can mobilize more persons to
help farmers with more credit increase yields as they expect.
With measures such as
mechanization and better technology, increased credit and more supply through
rice tarrification, we look forward to more livelihoods for farmers, and more
food on the table.
As the cartels’ control seems to
be slipping, we hope their eventual doom may come.
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Duterte
warns of using emergency powers to tackle rice hoarders
President vows to raid warehouses
to contain runaway prices of commodities
Image Credit: AP
Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte
Published:
14:48 September 2, 2018
Manila:
President Rodrigo Duterte has warned unscrupulous traders that he will not
hesitate to use emergency powers to keep prices of commodities stable.
“Do
not force me to resort to emergency measures. I will use the powers of the
president and ask the military and police to raid warehouses if you insist on
hoarding rice,” Duterte warned traders on Sunday afternoon before leaving for
Israel where he is due for a three-day visit.
“If
it concerns the stomachs of Filipinos, I will do it (order emergency
measures),” the President said.
The
prices of rice, just like most other commodities in the country had been rising
as a result of high inflation and supply concerns. The president said in most
cases, the increase in the price of staple is artificially driven as
unscrupulous businessmen hoard stocks with the intention of drawing greater
profit.
The
price of rice had reached unprecedented levels in some parts of the
Philippines, including in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi which traditionally enjoyed low
prices of commodities due to its proximity to Sabah, Malaysia.
Barter
traders before had shipped goods like rice and other commodities across the
border resulting in stabilised prices. However in recent months, moves by
Malaysia to seal its borders had caused the price of the staple cereal to
double, according to Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol.
In
the departure speech he gave at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal
2, the President rejected suggestions that “legalised smuggling” of rice be
allowed to lower down prices.
“Government
would rather lose money than allow smuggling. No, of course not. I will not
allow it (smuggling). It will be destructive for the economy. It will promote
disorder in this country,” he said.
“All
officials are bound by laws,” he added.
The
president said that if traders insist on smuggling rice into the country, these
would be confiscated and either distributed for free to those who are in need.
“Well,
those smuggled rice have not paid any taxes or tariff, or whatever. So, they
are confiscated, at disposal of the government and maybe I shall distribute it
for free or go down to the last prices, prevailing market prices,” the
president said.
Although
the country is predominantly agricultural with vast tracts of rice fields, the
country often times had to resort to importing the staple cereal. The
archipelagic nature of the Philippines coupled with frequent calamities, make
it difficult for farmers to predict harvest success
Study: Hotter climate puts crop-chomping
insects in the mood, leads to rise in food prices
Saturday, September 1st 2018
As temperatures continue to get
hotter, swarms of hungry insects are projected to wipe out millions more tons
of wheat, corn and rice – causing an increase in food prices, researchers say.
(Photo: Pixabay)
SEATTLE – As temperatures
continue to get hotter, swarms of hungry insects are projected to wipe out
millions more tons of wheat, corn and rice – causing an increase in food
prices, researchers say.
It’s like a domino effect, as
temperatures rise, so do insects metabolism and reproduction rates, which leads
to more hungry critters and vanishing crops, according to experts from the study,
including those from the University of Washington.
America, the world’s largest corn
maker, is estimated to see it’s corn loss rise by 40 percent – or 20 million
tons a year.
A majority of the world relies on
corn, rice and wheat, with demand increasing by a third by 2050, according to
the United Nations. But with one in nine people already lacking enough food and
the world’s population expected to reach 9.8 billion that same year, things
aren’t looking too hot for us.
For every one degree Celsius rise
in surface temperatures, insects will eat an extra 2.5 percent of the world’s
rice, corn and wheat crops. So, if it increases to two degrees Celsius, 213
million tons of these staple crops would be eaten by insects – up from 166
million tons now.
Europe, which is considered the
world’s most productive wheat-growing region, is expected to lose up to 16
million tons of wheat by 2050. And China, where a third of all rice is
produced, could see about 27 million tons of rice eaten by insects annually.
And even if countries meet their
climate goals in limiting their carbon emissions, insects are still expected to
chomp away millions more tons of wheat, corn and rice by 2050
IRRI teams up
to build capacity, network of young
scientists
Photo courtesy of IRRI.
08.31.2018
LOS BAÑOS, THE PHILIPPINES — IRRI
and Corteva Agriscience have partnered to build a global community of
scientists that will drive solutions to the challenge of food security.
Guided by the symposium’s theme,
“Same Field, Better Yield,” plant breeders on rice, wheat, maize, and
coconuts have shared their latest practices and research findings with around
200 graduate students from different universities.
One of the highlights of the
symposium is the lecture of Cornell University’s Mark Sorrells. He concluded
his lecture on molecular breeding and high throughput phenotyping in the 21st
century by highlighting the importance of collaboration among different
specialists in modern-day plant breeding.
“Days are long gone when plant
breeders work on isolation,” Sorrell said. “The best plant breeders today are
those who work with a team with complementary expertise to develop varieties
today.”
Participants expressed their
appreciation for the symposium.
“The symposium was a great
opportunity for young scientists to gain international exposure and network,”
Juniper Boroka Kiss, a plant biology student from the Aberystwyth University,
Wales. “Not only we had leading scientists sharing their experience in
breeding, but the poster session kept the conversations going throughout the
evening.
She is in the country as a
participant of the Rice: Research to Production Course, an IRRI Education
program for early career researchers and students.
“It has been brilliant to spend a
day in the company of a great scientific community in the Philippines,"
Juniper added.
Another symposium participant,
Margaret Anne Pelayo from Ghent University, said that she was able to gain a
better understanding on current and emerging technologies in plant breeding,
agriculture, and biotechnology.
“I can apply this on my work on
shoot meristem maintenance in model plant systems with a focus on increasing
yield,” Pelayo said.
The symposium was organized by the
Association of Fellows, Scholars, Trainees and Residents of IRRI (AFSTRI).
“Together with AFSTRI, we are
conducting the Plant Sciences Symposium to empower future scientists through
enhancement of graduate education and networking,” said Jason Rauscher, Corteva
Agriscience academic relations manager. “We are very excited that IRRI is being
a part of this global series to build the capacity of young plant scientists.”
This symposium is a part of a
worldwide, student-driven symposia series inaugurated and supported by Corteva
Agriscience in 2008.
Scientists:
Less Food for People as Global Warming Makes Insects Eat More
September
02, 2018 0:49 AM
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Direct
link
A
new U.S. study finds that when temperatures around the world start creeping up,
insects that eat crops will not only become hungrier, their numbers will grow.
Scientists say this will mean more insect damage to wheat, corn and rice crops,
and therefore less food on the dinner table. VOA's Mariama Diallo reports.
Click next link to watch the video:
https://www.voanews.com/a/scientists-less-food-for-people-as-global-warming-makes-insects-eat-more/4554327.html
Solving our 'unli' rice crisis
Teddy Casiño
Published 9:30 PM, September 01, 2018
Updated 9:30 PM, September 01, 2018
Practically every Philippine president, save for Erap
Estrada due to his short stint, has had to face a rice crisis. This
happens when supply shortages combine with steep price increases enough to
cause public anger, merit a congressional investigation, and result in a frenzy
of finger-pointing in
and among government agencies.
Eventually supply stabilizes
albeit at a higher price, congressmen and senators get tired berating National Food Authority
(NFA) officials and rice traders, and some poor scapegoat is
dressed down or gets the ax. People calm down. Until the next crisis comes.
A chronic problem
Analysts often point out 4 factors behind the chronic crisis of our rice industry.
One is high population growth. Simply put, the increase in the number of Filipinos eating rice outpaces any increase in rice production. Unfortunately, this will be a given for the next few years since a country’s population rate takes decades to change.
Two is low yield coupled with high cost of production. While our rice-producing neighbors like Vietnam and Thailand produce an average of 5 to 8 tons per hectare at a cost of P5 to P9 per kilo, our farmers produce a lower average of 3 to 6 tons per hectare at a higher cost of P11 to P14 per kilo. On top of that, most rice farmers have to share their income with landowners, traders, and money lenders who all charge usurious rates for land, farm inputs, and interest.
Because of the difficulties faced by our rice farmers, many have opted to just sell out to land developers eager to convert their farms to residential or industrial uses. Low yield and high production cost, coupled with the decreasing land area devoted to palay, is a triple whammy for rice production. In fact, palay’s share in the economy’s gross value added has been falling by 10.4% annually for the last 4 years, indicating a dangerous trend of shrinking production.
Three is hoarding and price manipulation. Rice traders act like a cartel and, in connivance with officials of the NFA, Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and law agencies, are able to constrict supply at will, creating artificial shortages and price spikes.
The NFA, whose mandate is to ensure national food security and stabilize supply and prices of staple cereals both in the farm and consumer levels, has become a ghost of its original self. It’s capacity to purchase at least 10% of total palay production is down to a mere 1% to 2%, even less in some years, making no dent in farmgate or retail prices.
A chronic problem
Analysts often point out 4 factors behind the chronic crisis of our rice industry.
One is high population growth. Simply put, the increase in the number of Filipinos eating rice outpaces any increase in rice production. Unfortunately, this will be a given for the next few years since a country’s population rate takes decades to change.
Two is low yield coupled with high cost of production. While our rice-producing neighbors like Vietnam and Thailand produce an average of 5 to 8 tons per hectare at a cost of P5 to P9 per kilo, our farmers produce a lower average of 3 to 6 tons per hectare at a higher cost of P11 to P14 per kilo. On top of that, most rice farmers have to share their income with landowners, traders, and money lenders who all charge usurious rates for land, farm inputs, and interest.
Because of the difficulties faced by our rice farmers, many have opted to just sell out to land developers eager to convert their farms to residential or industrial uses. Low yield and high production cost, coupled with the decreasing land area devoted to palay, is a triple whammy for rice production. In fact, palay’s share in the economy’s gross value added has been falling by 10.4% annually for the last 4 years, indicating a dangerous trend of shrinking production.
Three is hoarding and price manipulation. Rice traders act like a cartel and, in connivance with officials of the NFA, Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and law agencies, are able to constrict supply at will, creating artificial shortages and price spikes.
The NFA, whose mandate is to ensure national food security and stabilize supply and prices of staple cereals both in the farm and consumer levels, has become a ghost of its original self. It’s capacity to purchase at least 10% of total palay production is down to a mere 1% to 2%, even less in some years, making no dent in farmgate or retail prices.
The “bukbok issue” highlights not
just the NFA’s incompetence but the folly of rice importation as the simple,
go-to solution to the chronic rice crisis.
Four is our flawed importation
policy. With expensive local supply unable to cope up with demand and cartels
manipulating the market to keep prices high, a stop gap measure has always been
to just import cheaper rice. But massive rice importation, including of
smuggled rice, has become the rule. Despite this, imports have failed to impact
significantly on supply and prices.
In many instances, imports arrive late, coinciding with the harvest season. This tends to depress local farmgate prices, serving as another disincentive for farmers to plant palay. Worse, the NFA has served as a mere facilitator of private sector importation, further reducing its capacity to influence prices. It has actually connived with private traders in profiteering operations involving smuggled rice.
Short term solutions to a long term problem
The systemic, deep-seated problems afflicting our rice industry require equally systemic and radical reforms. Sadly, we tend to act only during the most acute stages of the crisis, by which time we are left with limited, stop-gap options, namely price controls, emergency importation, and the public shaming of NFA officials and the Binondo rice cartel.
In many instances, imports arrive late, coinciding with the harvest season. This tends to depress local farmgate prices, serving as another disincentive for farmers to plant palay. Worse, the NFA has served as a mere facilitator of private sector importation, further reducing its capacity to influence prices. It has actually connived with private traders in profiteering operations involving smuggled rice.
Short term solutions to a long term problem
The systemic, deep-seated problems afflicting our rice industry require equally systemic and radical reforms. Sadly, we tend to act only during the most acute stages of the crisis, by which time we are left with limited, stop-gap options, namely price controls, emergency importation, and the public shaming of NFA officials and the Binondo rice cartel.
The response to the present
crisis is typical of this “too little, too late” approach. The NFA and the DA
identified the looming supply problem middle of last year. The default solution
was rice importation, with the debate on whether to do it government to
government or via the private sector delaying the process, leading to the early
depletion of the NFA’s buffer stock.
The “bukbok” issue highlights not just the NFA’s incompetence but the folly of rice importation as the simple, go-to solution to the chronic rice crisis. The logical conclusion of such thinking is the harebrained proposal by no less than the secretary of agriculture to legalize rice smuggling.
In the mid-1990s, government economists were even proposing to convert rice fields to cut flower farms to maximize income and then just import rice from Thailand or Vietnam. This prompted farmers to ask if you could cook sinangag na sunflower for breakfast.
Yet the evidence suggests that rice importation does not necessarily lead to lower retail prices. As IBON Foundation notes, the years of highest importation are also the years of the highest price increases.
But even if the imports come on time and help reduce prices, that still would not address the problem of having to rely on imports for our most important staple crop that, in the early '80s, we actually grew in abundance enough to export.
The unli rice challenge
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an agriculture secretary to see what needs to be done. Long term solutions are actually contained in countless policy papers, program designs and pieces of legislation. The problem is that no government has had the perseverance and political will to actually see them through.
The “bukbok” issue highlights not just the NFA’s incompetence but the folly of rice importation as the simple, go-to solution to the chronic rice crisis. The logical conclusion of such thinking is the harebrained proposal by no less than the secretary of agriculture to legalize rice smuggling.
In the mid-1990s, government economists were even proposing to convert rice fields to cut flower farms to maximize income and then just import rice from Thailand or Vietnam. This prompted farmers to ask if you could cook sinangag na sunflower for breakfast.
Yet the evidence suggests that rice importation does not necessarily lead to lower retail prices. As IBON Foundation notes, the years of highest importation are also the years of the highest price increases.
But even if the imports come on time and help reduce prices, that still would not address the problem of having to rely on imports for our most important staple crop that, in the early '80s, we actually grew in abundance enough to export.
The unli rice challenge
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an agriculture secretary to see what needs to be done. Long term solutions are actually contained in countless policy papers, program designs and pieces of legislation. The problem is that no government has had the perseverance and political will to actually see them through.
The following goals are key:
First, increase rice yield to keep up with population growth while lowering the cost of production.
It is simply not true that we can't compete with our ASEAN neighbors. We are endowed with the same resources and weather conditions like Thailand and Vietnam. What we lack are the infrastructure, farmer support and industry development programs that they have put in place, many of which were learned, ironically, from Filipino scientists and technologists from UP Los Baños.
First, increase rice yield to keep up with population growth while lowering the cost of production.
It is simply not true that we can't compete with our ASEAN neighbors. We are endowed with the same resources and weather conditions like Thailand and Vietnam. What we lack are the infrastructure, farmer support and industry development programs that they have put in place, many of which were learned, ironically, from Filipino scientists and technologists from UP Los Baños.
Everyone claims that imported
rice is cheaper but it’s still sold at a premium price way beyond the price of
local rice. Such profiteering by rice traders and importers must be checked.
To achieve this goal, 4 things
have to be done: 1) roll out massive and adequately funded projects and
programs to provide farm inputs, technology and machinery, affordable
financing, research and development to our rice farmers; 2) rehabilitate
existing irrigation systems and construct new ones to double or even triple the
yield of existing farms; 3) stop the conversion of agricultural land,
especially irrigated rice land, to non-agricultural purposes; and 4)
reconfigure and complete the agrarian reform program to provide free land to
qualified rice farmers and dismantle the remaining feudal structures and
mindsets that discourage them from tilling the land and adopting better farming
technologies.
All these presuppose good management, transparency, accountability and focus from the lowest to highest levels of government. If only half of the energy and focus given to the drug war were given to agriculture and rice production, we would already be better off.
Second imperative is to dismantle the cartel and establish policies and mechanisms to prevent cartel-like behavior and other abuses of market power.
To do this, the NFA would have to be revamped into a pro-active agency with the capacity to buy palay at competitive rates and in enough volume to actually influence supply and prices. From procuring a mere 1% to 2% of local palay, regulating rice imports and maintining a 90-day buffer stock, the NFA would have to drastically increase its palay procurement program, directly import rice on a government-to-government basis to keep costs low, ensure fair farm gate prices and serve as a check on private sector profiteering.
This is easier said than done. The rice cartel is a rich, powerful and well-entrenched lobby group. Its allies in government include not just the politicians they fund but the neoliberal technocrats who still believe in the myth of the free market. No one would be happier if the NFA were abolished and import restrictions lifted than the members of the rice cartel.
Third is to supplement local production by importing rice at the right amount at the right time. Admittedly in the short term, we can't do without importation. What is important however is that imports should not flood the market to the detriment of our local farmers. Limiting imports to just the lean months or to meet actual shortages is essential.
In this light, the pending rice tarrification bill in Congress that does away with quantitative restrictions on rice is dangerous. Absent the above-mentioned reforms, allowing the unlimited importation of rice, even if slapped with high import taxes, will adversely impact on our rice industry, including close to 20 million Filipinos dependent on it. A study by the Philippine Institute of Development Studies estimates a 29% reduction in farmers’ income due to rice tarrification.
Fourth is to regulate the price of rice. It is frustrating for our farmers that even as retail prices are skyrocketing, the farm gate price for palay has hardly changed. Worse, everyone claims that imported rice is cheaper but it's still sold at a premium price way beyond the price of local rice. Such profiteering by rice traders and importers must be checked.
All these things can’t be done by the private sector using free market mechanisms. The government will have to play a central and overarching role. And although that may seem sacriligious to the neolibalist trio who hold the reins of economic policy – Sonny Dominguez, Ernie Pernia, and Ben Diokno – it’s a reality that we all have to face.
Unless we come up with such long term, radical solutions, we will be reeling time and again with the same problems. The worst thing that can happen out of the current crisis is that we don't learn our lesson. Again. – Rappler.com
All these presuppose good management, transparency, accountability and focus from the lowest to highest levels of government. If only half of the energy and focus given to the drug war were given to agriculture and rice production, we would already be better off.
Second imperative is to dismantle the cartel and establish policies and mechanisms to prevent cartel-like behavior and other abuses of market power.
To do this, the NFA would have to be revamped into a pro-active agency with the capacity to buy palay at competitive rates and in enough volume to actually influence supply and prices. From procuring a mere 1% to 2% of local palay, regulating rice imports and maintining a 90-day buffer stock, the NFA would have to drastically increase its palay procurement program, directly import rice on a government-to-government basis to keep costs low, ensure fair farm gate prices and serve as a check on private sector profiteering.
This is easier said than done. The rice cartel is a rich, powerful and well-entrenched lobby group. Its allies in government include not just the politicians they fund but the neoliberal technocrats who still believe in the myth of the free market. No one would be happier if the NFA were abolished and import restrictions lifted than the members of the rice cartel.
Third is to supplement local production by importing rice at the right amount at the right time. Admittedly in the short term, we can't do without importation. What is important however is that imports should not flood the market to the detriment of our local farmers. Limiting imports to just the lean months or to meet actual shortages is essential.
In this light, the pending rice tarrification bill in Congress that does away with quantitative restrictions on rice is dangerous. Absent the above-mentioned reforms, allowing the unlimited importation of rice, even if slapped with high import taxes, will adversely impact on our rice industry, including close to 20 million Filipinos dependent on it. A study by the Philippine Institute of Development Studies estimates a 29% reduction in farmers’ income due to rice tarrification.
Fourth is to regulate the price of rice. It is frustrating for our farmers that even as retail prices are skyrocketing, the farm gate price for palay has hardly changed. Worse, everyone claims that imported rice is cheaper but it's still sold at a premium price way beyond the price of local rice. Such profiteering by rice traders and importers must be checked.
All these things can’t be done by the private sector using free market mechanisms. The government will have to play a central and overarching role. And although that may seem sacriligious to the neolibalist trio who hold the reins of economic policy – Sonny Dominguez, Ernie Pernia, and Ben Diokno – it’s a reality that we all have to face.
Unless we come up with such long term, radical solutions, we will be reeling time and again with the same problems. The worst thing that can happen out of the current crisis is that we don't learn our lesson. Again. – Rappler.com
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10 Gluten-Free Grains to Add to Your Diet
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Whether
you’re sensitive to gluten or just wanting to eat less of it, here are 6
gluten-free grains that offer many health benefits:
AMARANTH
Amaranth
has a unique and earthy flavor and is high in fiber and protein. Technically,
it is neither a grain nor a grass but a plant that is related to spinach and
Swiss chard. Originally from Mexico, the plant was used extensively in the
diets of ancient Aztecs. The plant produces flowers that have a large number of
seeds, which can be cooked as a grain or ground into a flour. It is rinch in
the amino acid lysine, making it an excellent choice to treat viral-related
conditions and infections, including cold sores and arthritis.
Additionally,
it is an excellent source of iron, calcium, and vitamin E. It is high in
protein, having about 26 grams per cup of
amaranth. One cup of the uncooked grain has approximately 86 percent of the
daily requirement for iron. It has also been found to contain plant sterols
that regulate cholesterol levels. It can be used in place of most grains or as
flour in baking, but it also makes a great alternative to porridge for
breakfast.
BROWN
RICE
Unlike
white rice, brown rice is high in fiber and vitamin E. Vitamin E is
essential for healthy skin, immune function and many other critical functions
in your body. During the processing of brown rice into white, these nutrients
are largely lost. Brown rice also contains high amounts of the minerals
manganese, magnesium and selenium. It also contains tryptophan, which helps
with sleep. Selenium helps ward off cancer. Brown rice can easily replace white
rice in almost any recipe: soups, stews, stir-fries and even to make a
dairy-free milk substitute.
BUCKWHEAT
The
name is a bit misleading. Buckwheat is not related to wheat and is both
wheat- and gluten-free. It’s not even technically a grain but a seed that’s a
relative of rhubarb. It is high in fiber, manganese, magnesium, tryptophan and
copper. Research shows that the regular consumption of buckwheat reduces the
incidence of high blood pressure or high cholesterol. The combination of
vitamin C and the flavonoid rutin give buckwheat its ability to prevent blood
clumping and to keep blood moving smoothly through blood vessels. Research in
the medical journal Nutrition Research found that buckwheat may be
helpful in the management of diabetes by improving insulin resistance—a
condition in which the body does not respond sufficiently to insulin, resulting
in excessively high blood sugar levels.
FORBIDDEN
RICE
It
is believed that in ancient China, black rice was revered and only the emperor
was allowed to eat it, resulting in its name “forbidden rice.” In modern times,
black rice, or purple rice as it is also called, is one of over 40,000
varieties of rice, but is now readily available in most grocery or health food
stores. Forbidden rice, or black rice as it is also known, is also showing
promise in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders caused by Helicobacter
pylori, which include ulcers, according to research published in Molecular
Nutrition and Food Research. Black rice is gluten-free and tends
to be low-allergenic so most people with food sensitivities or allergies can
handle it. Technically, black rice like other types of rice is a seed, not a
grain, so it can be eaten even on most grain-free diets. It has a slightly
chewy texture and a delicious nutty flavor.
MILLET
Similar
in texture to couscous, millet is high in manganese, phosphorus, tryptophan and
magnesium. Phosphorus is a key component of ATP—your body’s energy currency.
ATP helps ensure that your body has the energy it needs for every function.
Tryptophan is the amino acid that helps your body make melatonin which in turn
helps you sleep like a baby at night. Magnesium has been shown in studies to
reduce the severity of headaches and asthma. And, according to new research
published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, foods high
in insoluble fiber like millet can help reduce the incidence of gallstones.
GLUTEN-FREE
OATS
Oats
are naturally gluten-free; however, they are often grown or processed alongside
wheat which means they can become contaminated with gluten. So, if you have a
severe gluten sensitivity or intolerance, gluten-free oats may not be right for
you. However, if you’re just trying to eat less gluten, you might enjoy some of
the benefits of gluten-free oats, which are good for your body in many ways.
They help stabilize blood sugar and lower cholesterol, and are high in protein
and fiber. Oats are available in many forms including instant, steel-cut,
rolled, bran, groats, flakes and flour. The best options are the less refined
ones like steel-cut, rolled, flakes, and bran. Oat flour is an excellent
substitute for wheat flour in baking recipes. A good source of minerals like
manganese, selenium, magnesium and the sleep aid tryptophan, in many studies
oats also assist with lowering cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart
disease.
QUINOA
Quinoa,
a staple of the ancient Incas who revered it as sacred, is not a true grain,
rather the seed of an herb. Unlike most grains quinoa is a complete protein and
is high in iron, magnesium, B-vitamins and fiber. In studies, quinoa is a
proven aid for migraine sufferers and, like most whole grains, lessens the risk
for heart disease. It also contains the building blocks for superoxide dismutase—an
important antioxidant that helps protect the energy centers of your cells from
free radical damage.
SORGHUM
Introduced
to North America in 1757, sorghum is actually thousands of years old. Depending
on the variety, the plant can grow to between 5 and 12 feet tall. The kernels
from the plant are high in protein and have a mellow taste and light texture,
making it great to eat as a grain or ground and used as a flour in baked goods,
since it makes them less dense. It is a good source of niacin, as well as the
minerals calcium, phosphorus and potassium. It is a natural antioxidant and
has anti-inflammatory properties.
TEFF
Originating
from North Africa, teff is a staple in many traditional African diets and is
most known for its role in Ethiopian cusine. If you’ve ever eaten injera, a
type of large, fermented crepe that is used as the basis of many Ethiopian
dish, you’ve probably eaten teff. It is the smallest grain in the world being
about the size of a poppy seed. With its unique and slightly nutty taste, it
impoarts a delicious flavor and lots of nutrition to baked goods. In a study of 1800 people with celiac disease,
those who ate teff had a significant reduction in symptoms. Similar to quinoa,
it is a complete protein. Additionally, it is high in lysine, calcium, copper
and iron. Use it to make savory flatbread that can be eaten alongside
African-inspired dishes. You can also add it to baked goods to impart a nutty
flavor and increase the protein and overall nutritional quality of gluten-free
baking.
WILD
RICE
Like
millet and quinoa, wild rice is not a true grain. It’s actually a type of
aquatic grass seed native to the United States and Canada. It tends to be a bit
pricier than other grains, but its high content of protein, and nutty flavor
make wild rice worth every penny. It’s an excellent choice for people with
celiac disease or those who have gluten or wheat sensitivities. Wild rice also
has a lower caloric content than many grains at only 83 calories per half cup
of cooked rice. And it is high in fiber. Add wild rice to soups, stews, salads
and pilaf. It’s important to note that wild rice is black. There are many
blends of white and wild rice, which primarily consist of refined white rice.
Be sure to use only real wild rice, not the blends.
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Danilo Suarez urges DA to go in different direction in solving
rice, galunggong shortage
2
Sep 1, 2018 @ 13:47
Quezon 3rd District Representative Danilo Suarez called on the
Department of Agriculture (DA) to go in a direction in solving the current rice
and fish shortage.DA Secretary Manny Piñol earlier proposed to import rice and
galunggong to address the “very limited” supply of rice and fish in the
southern parts of the country. Suarez said Piñol’s proposed solution will not
solve the problem in the long term.
“Maybe it would be better to spend a substantial amount in
research and development of rice, crops, fisheries, and other aquatic
resources, and in providing adequate protection to our farmers and fishermen,
to provide them stable livelihood and help them rise above poverty,” he said.
“I see this as a more effective step in securing long-term
solutions to food shortage,” Suarez added.
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Jasoriya Rice Mill
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Yihai Kerry Investments
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India
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Silica
Steel Industry
Ceramics & Refractory
Rubber
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Baked Goods & Bakery Fillings
Confectionery Coatings & Liquorice
Dairy Desserts & Yoghurt
Dairy Fruit Preparations
Body Powder
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Other
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Europe (Germany, France, UK,
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Structure, Process Analysis
Chapter 10, Rice Starch Market Forecast
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Applications
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Extraction
Squeezing
Extraction
Squeezing
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Checkmating menace of rice
smuggling
There has been indeed an
increasing concern especially by operators in the nation’s agricultural sector
over the massive importation of certain food items into Nigeria which by all
intents and purposes could be produced in the country. Without mincing words,
one of the agricultural produce with high rate of importation essentially
through smuggling, which has been roughening feathers and stifling the growth
of non-oil economy, is rice.
Rice, a major grain, has very
high level of consumption across the country. But which rice do Nigerians
consume; locally produced, imported or smuggled rice?
At the inception of the current
administration, President Muhammadu Buhari sounded it loud and clear that
Nigerians must produce what they consume. The watchword became less emphasis on
imported goods, especially consumables. Backward integration and agricultural
revolution policy initiatives were rolled out. Increased attention was paid to
local rice production after the rice millers and local rice farmers across the
country showed eagerness to embark on massive rice production. Indeed,
Nigerians soon discovered that locally made rice have more nutritional value
than imported or foreign rice.
Due to increasing interest in
local rice, some operators, in their wisdom, converged under the umbrella of
Rice Investors Group (RIG). The vision and mission of the group includes
boosting the federal government’s agricultural and industrial revolution plan
with the cardinal objective of promoting value chain of the commodity (rice)
across the country.
RIG was also meant to fast track
the urgent realisation of the government’s inward-looking initiative by
increasing local rice production for guaranteed food security in Nigeria.
Again, the association was set up
to ensure self-sufficiency on rice for the country through encouraging the
government to promote investment as well as drive the campaign on less
dependent on imported rice in order to eliminate the menace of smuggled rice in
the nation’s economy. Investigations by our correspondent show that the rice
farmers and miller were really out to sustain and stabilise the sector.
They started cultivating rice
farms across the country as well as establishment of rice mills and other
post-production facilities for improved rice production in order to meet local
demand and consumption. Example, Olam Nigeria Limited cultivates an estimated
10,000 hectares of rice farm in Doma, Nasarawa State.
Stallion Group or Popular Foods
Limited has an estimated 1, 000 hectares of rice farm. Elephant Group is spreading
its tentacle beyond Moniya, Oyo State, to other parts of the country, while
Dana boasts an ultra-modern state-of-the-art production facilities, same for
Flour Mills, among other rice producing firms.
Menace of rice smuggling
However, something went totally
wrong concerning local rice production and consumption. According to, a rice
seller at Onigbongbo Market, Maryland, Lagos, Mrs. Folashade Abimbola, “local
rice has since been scarce because smuggled rice have succeeded in pushing the
paddy rice out of the markets. We can’t even see the paddy rice to buy for
re-sell; they don’t produce them much again because of unfair competition.
Imported rice is cheaper and you know, people go for cheap things.”
The federal government’s zero-oil
economic pursuit is indeed predicated mainly on the potential and
potentialities of the nation’s agricultural sector. The agro-allied sector
alone could net in for the federal government billions of naira revenue if
driven with proper promotional and protectionist policies, stakeholders aver.
Regrettably, the government, nay
the economy, has been losing billions of naira daily due to the nefarious
activities of rice smugglers. The minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Audu Ogbeh, stated that smuggling was costing the country $5millon
daily. Worse still, rice producers and millers have been the hardest hit of the
menace.
We gathered that rice smugglers
are now at their best elements especially those using Nigeria’s porous land
borders. Million of bags of smuggled rice are said to come into the country
weekly especially from Republic Du Benin. Instead of using trucks or lorries to
bring in the commodity, the smugglers have since devised the means of using
motor bikes to convey the bags from Cotonou end into Nigeria. They have been
beating the men of the Nigeria Customs Service, one insider at Seme disclosed.
One Okada could load about 10bags
of rice at once, and can make 10 or more trips daily. Once the bags are inside
the country, there are already buyers waiting to take deliveries and so in this
process, Nigeria is daily flooded with smuggled rice.
To a Lagos-based businessman,
Okenze Emenike, Cotonou has become the hub of smuggling business in the
sub-region; adding that 80 per cent of goods that come into Benin Republic from
other countries are headed for Nigeria.
“That is why Nigeria is losing,
while a small country like Benin Republic is gaining because the duties that
are supposed to be paid to our government agencies are diverted to Cotonou.
This malpractice has been going on for a long time. We thought that the present
administration would tackle the issue of smuggling but unfortunately it is
becoming worse,” the businessman regretted.
According to a stakeholder, Taye
Sobowale, smuggling is a monster as far as market share of genuine products is
concerned.
Way forward
Stakeholders would therefore want
the government to tighten the noose against rice smuggling. Something urgent
and radical should be done to check the high volume of smuggled goods across
the nation’s borders. The government’s economic policy, especially as it
affects increased agricultural produce including rice, requires that we all go
back to the land; we need to cultivate rice in abundance in order to feed our
teeming population, provide jobs for large army of unemployed youths and
diversify the nation’s economy.
The Asian Tigers are what they
are today due to the inward-looking orientation and mission of their leaders.
“Nigerians found ourselves importing rice from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia,
Hong kong, India and so on whereas we have been blessed with good climate and
abundant arable land,” another stakeholder, Folorunsho Attah, declared.
An official of the Manufacturers
Association of Nigeria (MAN) believes that the federal government’s robust engagements
with officials of Benin Republic, Chad Republic, Niger Republic and Republic of
Cameroon, would go a long way to tackling the menace of trade malpractices and
smuggling.
As for the former minister of
Commerce and Industry, Chief Charles Ugwuh, local rice farmers and millers can
deliver local rice far cheaper than they produce the commodity if the
government restricts imports, deploys a viable quota system to import or
encourage the governments of neighbouring countries to maintain high tariff
levels on rice in order to protect Nigeria’s borders. Ugwuh, who is also a
one-time President of MAN, maintained that Nigeria must make determined efforts
to give market access and patronage to locally milled rice that are properly
graded.
According to minister of state,
Federal ministry of agriculture, Senator Heinekan Lokpobiri, “The federal
government has a challenge of smuggling. All the efforts and achievements
recorded both in the fishery sector and in the rice sector, which we are doing
excellently well, will be reversed if we do not combat the issue of smuggling.
“It has a whole lot of problems;
it affects our daily existence as a country because today we have been able to
create a lot of jobs through agriculture and if smuggling is allowed to
continue, the likelihood is that, that will be reversed; there will be more
social problems.”
The minister revealed that one of
the measures put in place by the federal government to combat smuggling was the
setting up of the committee headed by the vice president, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo, which he said is working round the clock to ensure that we combat the
issue of smuggling.
Indeed, it is the consensus of
stakeholders that the issue of high rate of rice smuggling and its catastrophic
consequences on Nigeria’s economy should be decisively checkmated especially
for the overall benefit of local rice farmers and millers.
It will be recalled that in June,
Ogbeh threatened to shut land borders with neighbouring country- Cotonou – in
order to halt the smuggling of rice into Nigeria.
The minister said that “shutting
the borders has become necessary as smuggling was costing the country five
million dollars daily.”
GDP: ‘Economy still struggling out of
recession’
September 2, 2018
By
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
growth report, released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday,
indicated that agriculture GDP growth slowed down to 1.19 per cent in the Q2
2018. It grew at 3.0 per cent in the first quarter of 2018.Also, crop
production under agriculture grew by 1.49 per cent in Q2 — the slowest growth
experienced since 1987 when it contracted by -4.0 per cent.
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) shrank by 0.45 per cent points in the second quarter of 2018,
according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), extending a slowdown into
a second quarter as the oil sector contracted.The latest figures showed that
this was against the 1.95 per cent made in the first quarter of 2018.
“Broadly speaking, growth in Q2
2018 was driven by developments in the non-oil sector as Services sector
recorded its strongest positive growth since 2016,” the report read.
“However, the relatively slower
growth when compared to Q1 2018 and Q2 2017 could be attributed to developments
in both the oil and non-oil sectors.”The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
projects that the Nigerian economy will grow by 2.1 per cent in 2018.Speaking
on the figures on Arise TV, Kale had said: “Surprisingly, but I expected the
numbers should be much better it is looking very similar to the first quarter.
I think the economy is still struggling out of recession and that is what the
numbers are showing.
“For example, we have seen challenges in agriculture because
of the clashes that are happening in different parts of the country. Obviously,
if people cannot go to the farms, it is going to be a problem.“Agriculture is
not just crops; when you destroyed a farmland or even cattle rearing is also
part of agriculture, so the back and forth are affecting both crop production
and livestock and agriculture is the biggest part of our GDP and that is
slowing down the economy.”
Speaking on the development,
Managing Director Financial Directives Limited, Mr. Bismark Rewane said the
shrink could also be pinned to the reduction in agriculture, notably the
herdsmen/farmer.
“It (the Q2 GDP figure) just shows
you that the economy is very vulnerable to oil in the South-South and herdsmen
and pastoral conflict in the Middle Belt of Nigeria,” Rewane told Punch.
“And
then there is a time lag between when you have policies and when you get
results. The lesson is that Nigeria should stop celebrating too early. We tend
to celebrate even before we see the real impact.
“So, we have some major
macroeconomic challenges ahead of us, and we are going to see the external
reserves declining; we are going to see oil production vulnerable.“The good
news is that oil production is going to go up in October. But in the fourth
quarter, we are going to see another slow growth in petroleum sector.”
He added that “There is going to be
increased inflation in August and September; there is going to be increased
unemployment and flat growth.“So the annual growth projection, instead of 2.1
per cent, is going to come in at about 1.8 per cent, which will be a
disappointment.
“What is important is that it
is time to now consider very seriously a reduction in interest rates because
there is a need for activities.“There is a broad market solution which will
drive industries, and the Small and Medium Enterprises.”
Agriculture contributes 40 per cent
of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs about 70 per cent of the
working population in Nigeria.Speaking on the poor performance of agriculture
in the review period, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
on Wednesday blamed the scarcity of local rice in the Nigerian markets to
disconnect between integrated rice millers and the supply chain.
Fatimah Aliyu, a Deputy Director,
Rice Value Chain in the ministry, stated this in Abuja. Mrs. Aliyu spoke at the
2nd National Congress, Policy Dialogue and Inauguration of the Board of
Trustees of Rice Assured Advocacy Forum (RAAF), facilitated by John A. Kufuor
Foundation (JAKF).
She said though there was a huge
market for local rice, integrated millers was reluctant to push out their
products for fear of price competition with imported rice.Mrs. Aliyu was
responding to complaints by representatives of some rice millers who claimed
that most Nigerians preferred imported rice to local rice because of its cheap
price.
The millers blamed the high price
of local rice on production cost, resulting from poor power supply, high
transport fare and smuggling of foreign rice.“There is market for Nigerian
rice. There are people willing to pay the high price for it because of its high
nutritional value, but they cannot get it to buy. There is that market
disconnect that has to be looked into,’’ Mrs. Aliyu said.
She urged stakeholders in the
rice value chain under the RAAF’s platform to brainstorm on the issue and come
out with suggestions on how to tackle the problem.
Three militants killed
in an stumble upon with security forces in Bandipora
By Arlie Kozey
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September
1, 2018
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7:52PMSrinagar, Sep 1 (UNI) Three militants were killed in an stumble upon with
security forces in north Kashmir district of Bandipora on Saturday.
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Nonetheless, when security forces were sealing a particular explain, militants hiding there, fired at them with computerized weapons. “The safety forces additionally retaliated ensuing in an stumble upon,” he said.
Col Kalia said that three militants were killed within the stumble upon and broad cache of arms and ammunition became once recovered from the placement.
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Nonetheless, when security forces were sealing a particular explain, militants hiding there, fired at them with computerized weapons. “The safety forces additionally retaliated ensuing in an stumble upon,” he said.
Col Kalia said that three militants were killed within the stumble upon and broad cache of arms and ammunition became once recovered from the placement.
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No limits - Philippines gears up to scrap
caps on rice imports
A farmer removes weeds growing
alongside with ride stalks at a ricefield in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro in
Philippines, August 27, 2018. Picture taken August 27, 2018.
REUTERS/Erik De Castro
MANILA -
The Philippines is gearing up to scrap more than
two-decade-old caps on riceimports in the face of raging
inflation and the possible threat of trade sanctions over the policy, a revamp
that could bring relief to consumers but pain to farmers.
The move would also be a boon to
the Philippines' main overseas suppliers of the grain, Vietnam and
Thailand, with imports seen potentially doubling to 3 million tonnes
a year, making the nation the world's No.2 buyer after China.
Rice prices in the Southeast
Asian country's shops and markets climbed about 9 percent from January to July
to an average 42 pesos (78 U.S. cents) per kilo amid limited supplies due to
import delays.
That jump has hit consumers hard
in a country where rice is at the heart of people's diets, and has
helped keep inflation at its highest in over nine years.
"Pulling
down rice prices is crucial to poverty reduction because this staple
is a major driver of inflation," Gil Beltran, undersecretary in the
department of finance, told Reuters.
President Rodrigo Duterte, whose government has been
suffering signs of decline in opinion polls in the wake of the high inflation,
has been pushing for Congress to give the go-ahead to replace the
import limits with a system of tariffs.
The policy shift was approved by
the lower house in early August, and head of the Senate food and agriculture
committee Cynthia Villar said this week that the upper chamber would start
deliberations on the issue "any day now".
Under the move, supply from
Southeast Asia will be charged a 35 percent tariff and imports from
elsewhere will face duty of up to 180 percent, with proceeds used to
help farmers by financing projects to modernise the industry and boost its
efficiency. Only about 1 percent of imports come from countries
outside Southeast Asia.
Even with a 35 percent tariff,
imported rice would cost around 30 pesos a kilo, over 10 pesos
cheaper than current prices for local grain.
The government could
raise up to 27 billion pesos annually, or about $500 million,
from rice tariffs, according to finance department calculations.
But farmer groups said in a paper
presented to lawmakers in July that the step would drive down prices for their
produce, hurting their business and impacting local supply chains.
"The
whole rice market chain will be affected as millers, traders,
truckers and other service providers could be dislocated by the influx of
massive volumes of rice imports that will displace local
produce," they said.
Production costs are much lower
in Vietnam and Thailand, which are blessed with wide plains irrigated by large
river systems that allow them to churn out large rice surpluses.
"Once the market gates are
fully opened and without any restrictions in place, no safety nets can protect
the local rice industry from the influx of
massive rice imports," said Antonio Flores, secretary general of
farmer group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.
To view a graphic on
Philippine rice industry, click: https://tmsnrt.rs/2LAKqH5
SPECIAL TREATMENT
The Philippines was
allowed to keep the cap when it joined the World Trade Organisation and lifted
non-tariff barriers on other agricultural products in 1995.
It limits private sector imports to 805,200 tonnes a year.
That special treatment aimed at
protecting local farmers was extended several times until 2017, but some WTO
members bargained for non-rice trade concessions. Manila decided not to
seek any further extension to avoid more trade-offs.
"We are technically in
violation of the WTO agreement, which means they can impose sanctions on us
anytime," said Roehlano Briones, a research fellow at policy think-tank
Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
The price spikes have been
much more pronounced in the country's southern provinces, where residents
recently scrambled for limited supplies following a crackdown
on rice smuggling that had remained unchecked for years.
The crisis in Zamboanga, Basilan,
Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces, where residents formed long queues to buy limited
emergency supplies, has prompted calls for the resignation of food security
officials, including Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol.
Smugglers bring as much as
600,000 tonnes a year into the Philippines, based on unverified industry
estimates.
Pinol said in a Facebook post
that while the import caps should be lifted, the country should be
wary of becoming overly dependent on cargoes from abroad, especially as climate
change and population growth could wreak havoc on international supply down the
line.
"There will be a time in the
near future when the demand for food from their own people would effectively
prevent (producers) from exporting," Pinol warned.
"We would
end up paying more ... or we would have the money, but there would be
no riceavailable."
(Reporting by Enrico dela Cruz;
Editing by Joseph Radford)
Piñol
accepts challenge, eats bukbok rice
(philstar.com) - September 1, 2018 - 5:56pm
MANILA, Philippines — Agriculture
Secretary Manny Piñol accepted critics’ challenge to eat bukbok (weevil)-infested
rice in a bid to prove that imported grains with presence of pests are safe for
consumption.
In a Facebook post, Piñol shared
a video of him eating bukbok-infested rice and galunggong (round scad).
The Agriculture chief recently
drew public backlash proposing plans to import more rice and fish, as well as
legalize rice smuggling, in a bid to fight rising inflation. Various groups
even called for Piñol’s resignation, which he strongly rejected.
Lawmakers last month warned the
National Food Authority that the 330,000 bags of rice it imported may be unfit
for human consumption due to weevils. The NFA, for its part, denied that it is
selling bukbok-infested rice in the market amid the continuous fumigation of
imported rice.
“These canards are gross attempts
to discredit the Duterte Administration,” Piñol said.
Inflation has particularly hit
the poor as rice prices continue to surge after government stock of cheap rice
they purchase was depleted and imports have not completely arrived to replenish
it.
Rice is a Filipino main staple,
which accounts for nearly a tenth of the consumer price index used to compute
inflation. A legislative inquiry over rice supply problems is being held.
According to government data,
average retail prices of regular-milled rice rose 12.76 percent, while that of
well-milled rice went up 9.89 percent. Both were the fastest annual increases
for the year.
India's basmati
exports to Iran may get stuck as importer defaults
01 September 2018
India’s hopes to gain from the
resumption of Basmati rice exports to Iran that started in March last year,
looks stuck with an Iranian exported defaulting on payments due for the
aromatic rice exported to the Gulf country, reports quoting an exporter said.
The fraud committed by the Iranian importer is reported to have
resulted in nearly Rs1,000 crore of export proceeds of Indian rice exports
getting stuck.
Iran is the largest buyer of India’s basmati and accounts for a
fourth of India’s annual aromatic rice shipments of around four million tonnes.
The country restarted rice import registration last year between
21 January and 21 June 2017.
The All India Rice Exporters’ Association (AIREA) said the import
fraud was committed by an Iranian company, but said the things are being sorted
out with both governments seized of the matter.
“The industry has around Rs1,000 crore outstanding from Iran,” a
Hindu BusinessLine report quoted Gurnam Arora, joint managing director of
Kohinoor Foods Ltd, as saying.
Vijay Setia, president of AIREA, said one particular Iranian
importer owes a lot of money to Indian exporters. It seems that the Iranian
firm has siphoned off the funds, he said.
The Iranian government has been giving the currency at a
concessional rate to importers so that they can make payments towards exporters
from India.
The Iranian Rial has witnessed a sharp fall of over 100 per cent
against the dollar since March this year on return of US sanctions and
worsening economic crisis.
“Three Indian exporters had given us a complaint which we have
forwarded to the Apeda and Indian embassy in Tehran,” he added.
Rice exporters are also in touch Iranian Embassy in Delhi. When
appraised him of the fraud committed by the Iranian firm, a senior official at
the embassy assured them of all help.
Indian firms exported 4,26,034 tonnes of basmati rice, worth
Rs3,089 crore during the first three months of the current financial year,
according to the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development
Authority (APEDA).
In 2017-18, Iran imported 8,77,422 tonnes of basmati worth Rs5,830
crore, according to the official data.
Checkmating menace of rice
smuggling
There has been indeed an
increasing concern especially by operators in the nation’s agricultural sector
over the massive importation of certain food items into Nigeria which by all
intents and purposes could be produced in the country. Without mincing words,
one of the agricultural produce with high rate of importation essentially
through smuggling, which has been roughening feathers and stifling the growth
of non-oil economy, is rice.
Rice, a major grain, has very
high level of consumption across the country. But which rice do Nigerians
consume; locally produced, imported or smuggled rice?
At the inception of the current
administration, President Muhammadu Buhari sounded it loud and clear that
Nigerians must produce what they consume. The watchword became less emphasis on
imported goods, especially consumables. Backward integration and agricultural
revolution policy initiatives were rolled out. Increased attention was paid to
local rice production after the rice millers and local rice farmers across the
country showed eagerness to embark on massive rice production. Indeed,
Nigerians soon discovered that locally made rice have more nutritional value
than imported or foreign rice.
Due to increasing interest in
local rice, some operators, in their wisdom, converged under the umbrella of
Rice Investors Group (RIG). The vision and mission of the group includes
boosting the federal government’s agricultural and industrial revolution plan
with the cardinal objective of promoting value chain of the commodity (rice)
across the country.
RIG was also meant to fast track
the urgent realisation of the government’s inward-looking initiative by
increasing local rice production for guaranteed food security in Nigeria.
Again, the association was set up
to ensure self-sufficiency on rice for the country through encouraging the
government to promote investment as well as drive the campaign on less
dependent on imported rice in order to eliminate the menace of smuggled rice in
the nation’s economy. Investigations by our correspondent show that the rice
farmers and miller were really out to sustain and stabilise the sector.
They started cultivating rice
farms across the country as well as establishment of rice mills and other
post-production facilities for improved rice production in order to meet local
demand and consumption. Example, Olam Nigeria Limited cultivates an estimated
10,000 hectares of rice farm in Doma, Nasarawa State.
Stallion Group or Popular Foods
Limited has an estimated 1, 000 hectares of rice farm. Elephant Group is
spreading its tentacle beyond Moniya, Oyo State, to other parts of the country,
while Dana boasts an ultra-modern state-of-the-art production facilities, same
for Flour Mills, among other rice producing firms.
Menace of rice smuggling
However, something went totally
wrong concerning local rice production and consumption. According to, a rice
seller at Onigbongbo Market, Maryland, Lagos, Mrs. Folashade Abimbola, “local
rice has since been scarce because smuggled rice have succeeded in pushing the
paddy rice out of the markets. We can’t even see the paddy rice to buy for
re-sell; they don’t produce them much again because of unfair competition.
Imported rice is cheaper and you know, people go for cheap things.”
The federal government’s zero-oil
economic pursuit is indeed predicated mainly on the potential and
potentialities of the nation’s agricultural sector. The agro-allied sector
alone could net in for the federal government billions of naira revenue if
driven with proper promotional and protectionist policies, stakeholders aver.
Regrettably, the government, nay
the economy, has been losing billions of naira daily due to the nefarious
activities of rice smugglers. The minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Audu Ogbeh, stated that smuggling was costing the country $5millon
daily. Worse still, rice producers and millers have been the hardest hit of the
menace.
We gathered that rice smugglers
are now at their best elements especially those using Nigeria’s porous land
borders. Million of bags of smuggled rice are said to come into the country
weekly especially from Republic Du Benin. Instead of using trucks or lorries to
bring in the commodity, the smugglers have since devised the means of using
motor bikes to convey the bags from Cotonou end into Nigeria. They have been
beating the men of the Nigeria Customs Service, one insider at Seme disclosed.
One Okada could load about 10bags
of rice at once, and can make 10 or more trips daily. Once the bags are inside
the country, there are already buyers waiting to take deliveries and so in this
process, Nigeria is daily flooded with smuggled rice.
To a Lagos-based businessman,
Okenze Emenike, Cotonou has become the hub of smuggling business in the
sub-region; adding that 80 per cent of goods that come into Benin Republic from
other countries are headed for Nigeria.
“That is why Nigeria is losing,
while a small country like Benin Republic is gaining because the duties that
are supposed to be paid to our government agencies are diverted to Cotonou.
This malpractice has been going on for a long time. We thought that the present
administration would tackle the issue of smuggling but unfortunately it is
becoming worse,” the businessman regretted.
According to a stakeholder, Taye
Sobowale, smuggling is a monster as far as market share of genuine products is
concerned.
Way forward
Stakeholders would therefore want
the government to tighten the noose against rice smuggling. Something urgent
and radical should be done to check the high volume of smuggled goods across
the nation’s borders. The government’s economic policy, especially as it
affects increased agricultural produce including rice, requires that we all go
back to the land; we need to cultivate rice in abundance in order to feed our
teeming population, provide jobs for large army of unemployed youths and
diversify the nation’s economy.
The Asian Tigers are what they
are today due to the inward-looking orientation and mission of their leaders.
“Nigerians found ourselves importing rice from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia,
Hong kong, India and so on whereas we have been blessed with good climate and
abundant arable land,” another stakeholder, Folorunsho Attah, declared.
An official of the Manufacturers
Association of Nigeria (MAN) believes that the federal government’s robust
engagements with officials of Benin Republic, Chad Republic, Niger Republic and
Republic of Cameroon, would go a long way to tackling the menace of trade
malpractices and smuggling.
As for the former minister of
Commerce and Industry, Chief Charles Ugwuh, local rice farmers and millers can
deliver local rice far cheaper than they produce the commodity if the
government restricts imports, deploys a viable quota system to import or
encourage the governments of neighbouring countries to maintain high tariff
levels on rice in order to protect Nigeria’s borders. Ugwuh, who is also a
one-time President of MAN, maintained that Nigeria must make determined efforts
to give market access and patronage to locally milled rice that are properly
graded.
According to minister of state,
Federal ministry of agriculture, Senator Heinekan Lokpobiri, “The federal
government has a challenge of smuggling. All the efforts and achievements
recorded both in the fishery sector and in the rice sector, which we are doing
excellently well, will be reversed if we do not combat the issue of smuggling.
“It has a whole lot of problems;
it affects our daily existence as a country because today we have been able to
create a lot of jobs through agriculture and if smuggling is allowed to
continue, the likelihood is that, that will be reversed; there will be more
social problems.”
The minister revealed that one of
the measures put in place by the federal government to combat smuggling was the
setting up of the committee headed by the vice president, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo, which he said is working round the clock to ensure that we combat the
issue of smuggling.
Indeed, it is the consensus of
stakeholders that the issue of high rate of rice smuggling and its catastrophic
consequences on Nigeria’s economy should be decisively checkmated especially
for the overall benefit of local rice farmers and millers.
It will be recalled that in June,
Ogbeh threatened to shut land borders with neighbouring country- Cotonou – in
order to halt the smuggling of rice into Nigeria.
The minister said that “shutting
the borders has become necessary as smuggling was costing the country five
million dollars daily.”
Chinese super
hybrid-rice researchers claim new world record yield
By Liu Xuanzun Source:Global Times Published: 2018/9/3 23:18:40
China has set a new world record for super hybrid rice yield
with 17 tons per hectare at a demonstration base in Gejiu, Southwest China's
Yunnan Province.
The rice was planted in 6.67 hectares of a demonstration base in Gejiu, a county-level city located on top of a mountain north of the Red River valley, which flows from Yunnan's Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture to Vietnam.
Researchers harvested 17 tons per hectare of the Xiangliangyou 900 super hybrid rice, Beijing-based newspaper Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday.
Such a yield is "a new world record for large area-planted rice output per hectare," according to a statement released on the website of the rice creator: Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, a division of the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center.
More than 100 officials and scientists from all over China witnessed the harvest on Sunday, in which three smaller fields were chosen randomly and then examined for yield by agriculture experts, the statement said.
"The record shows that China's rice breeding technique continues to improve and that China's rice production potential continues to rise," Li Xinqi, a research fellow at the center, told the Global Times on Monday.
The harvested rice was planted in March, the newspaper reported. The rice grew with plentiful, well-developed seeds and no major diseases or pests were spotted, the report said.
Li said the rice could meet the country's demand for emergency food supplies and help farmers profit.
China's "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping has set a goal of reaching a rice yield of 18 tons per hectare by 2020, with other demonstration bases in China also striving to reach the goal, according to the statement.
"The plantation model has shown similar results in other places," Li said.
The rice was planted in 6.67 hectares of a demonstration base in Gejiu, a county-level city located on top of a mountain north of the Red River valley, which flows from Yunnan's Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture to Vietnam.
Researchers harvested 17 tons per hectare of the Xiangliangyou 900 super hybrid rice, Beijing-based newspaper Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday.
Such a yield is "a new world record for large area-planted rice output per hectare," according to a statement released on the website of the rice creator: Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, a division of the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center.
More than 100 officials and scientists from all over China witnessed the harvest on Sunday, in which three smaller fields were chosen randomly and then examined for yield by agriculture experts, the statement said.
"The record shows that China's rice breeding technique continues to improve and that China's rice production potential continues to rise," Li Xinqi, a research fellow at the center, told the Global Times on Monday.
The harvested rice was planted in March, the newspaper reported. The rice grew with plentiful, well-developed seeds and no major diseases or pests were spotted, the report said.
Li said the rice could meet the country's demand for emergency food supplies and help farmers profit.
China's "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping has set a goal of reaching a rice yield of 18 tons per hectare by 2020, with other demonstration bases in China also striving to reach the goal, according to the statement.
"The plantation model has shown similar results in other places," Li said.
China-Aid
Agriculture Technology Cooperation Project Harvests Hybrid Rice
September 3, 2018
Some
of the Chinese with local leaders at the harvest.China-Aid Agriculture
Technology Cooperation Project, based at the China-Aid Agricultural Technology
Demonstration Center in Suakoko, Bong County, on Saturday August 25, began
harvesting a hybrid rice variety in Foya, Lofa County, to the delight of local
officials and farmers.
The project is funded by the
Chinese Government and implemented by LongPing High-Tech Agriculture
Corporation, Limited, from China, as well as the Agriculture Infrastructure and
Investment Company in Liberia.
Lirong Su, China-Aid Agriculture
Technology Cooperation Project Rice Specialist, who spoke through an
interpreter, said the project’s mission is to help rebuild agriculture in
Liberia, following the devastating Ebola crisis of 2014 and 2015.
Mr. Lirong said at present, his
organization is conducting premium rice varieties extension in Bong, Lofa and
Nimba counties, in order to apply the good experience from the Kpatawee
Farmer-based Organization to other rice producing areas, particularly in
China-Aid operating community.
“In the early stage of the
project, the Central Agriculture Research Institute (CARI), our traditional
partner joined us to conduct rice research and rice varieties selection. We
also tried to operate on Farmers’ Cooperative at Kpatawee Farm in Bong County,
when the Kpatawee Farmer-based Organization had achieved good yield and income
by applying know-how of technical collaboration between us and CARI,” Mr.
Lirong said.
He said that at the three rice
extension programs, China-Aid Agriculture Technology Cooperation Project
provides seeds, agriculture input, rice technical training, and also purchases
and processes the rice seed after harvest.
Mr. Lirong said that the
measurement of these three extension programs adds up to 210 hectares,
something he said will greatly improve rice production skills for farmers.
According to him, the Agriculture
Infrastructure and Investment Company (AIIC) is one of the leading agriculture
companies in Lofa County that undertook the premium rice extension program.
AIIC, Lirong said, collaborated with China-Aid Agriculture Project and also
received technical support from CARI as well as from the local administration
through the county’s agriculture office.
He recounted that the AIIC
carried out a 50 hectares premium rice extension program in Foya (including
upland rice), among which 22 hectares are Chinese hybrid rice.
Mr. Lirong said that in the
process of extension, the company and the farmers carried out techniques such
as wetland nursery, scientific fertilizer application, scientific water
control, diseases and pest control, to ensure high yield of the extension farm.
“In order to benefit more
farmers, we hope AIIC would abridge experiences in the process of extension,
fully apprehend the advanced rice production skills to transfer it to more rice
farmers and rice farming group in this area,” Lirong said.
He pledged China Aid Agriculture
Project’s commitment to providing seed and some other inputs and conducting
technical training to more farmers, “because this way we can add more
contribution to the country’s agriculture development.”
CARI Director General Dr. Marcus
Jones called on farmers to take rice production into their own hands and fight
to reduce rice importation in the country.
According to Dr. Jones, the
importation of European and Asian rice will only be reduced if farmers,
including all Liberians, turn away from eating imported rice. He added that
food security is human security.
Jones used the occasion to extol
the Chinese for the technical and material support to the farmers, and then
called on farmers to take advantage of the Chinese hybrid rice, because the
duration for harvest is shorter and the yield is higher than that of the
country’s traditional rice.
He also challenged the people of
Lofa County to return to their pre-war status of being the country’s “food
basket.”
Foya Statutory District Assistant
Superintendent for Development Moses Sonjor lauded China-Aid for the support.
He said China remains one of the country’s biggest contributors to post-war
development drive since 2006.
Sonjor said that the Chinese have
immensely contributed to the country’s infrastructure and agriculture
development over the last 15 years resulting to increased access to basic
social services across the country mainly through grant to the Liberian
government.
Liberia: China-Aid Agriculture
Technology Cooperation Project Harvests Hybrid Rice
By Marcus Malayea
Some of the Chinese with local leaders at the harvest.
China-Aid Agriculture Technology Cooperation Project, based at
the China-Aid Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in Suakoko, Bong
County, on Saturday August 25, began harvesting a hybrid rice variety in Foya,
Lofa County, to the delight of local officials and farmers.
The project is funded by the Chinese Government and implemented
by LongPing High-Tech Agriculture Corporation, Limited, from China, as well as
the Agriculture Infrastructure and Investment Company in Liberia.
Lirong Su, China-Aid Agriculture Technology Cooperation Project
Rice Specialist, who spoke through an interpreter, said the project's mission
is to help rebuild agriculture in Liberia, following the devastating Ebola
crisis of 2014 and 2015.
Mr. Lirong said at present, his organization is conducting
premium rice varieties extension in Bong, Lofa and Nimba counties, in order to
apply the good experience from the Kpatawee Farmer-based Organization to other
rice producing areas, particularly in China-Aid operating community.
"In the early stage of the project, the Central Agriculture
Research Institute (CARI), our traditional partner joined us to conduct rice
research and rice varieties selection. We also tried to operate on Farmers'
Cooperative at Kpatawee Farm in Bong County, when the Kpatawee Farmer-based
Organization had achieved good yield and income by applying know-how of
technical collaboration between us and CARI," Mr. Lirong said.
He said that at the three rice extension programs, China-Aid
Agriculture Technology Cooperation Project provides seeds, agriculture input,
rice technical training, and also purchases and processes the rice seed after
harvest.
Mr. Lirong said that the measurement of these three extension
programs adds up to 210 hectares, something he said will greatly improve rice
production skills for farmers.
According to him, the Agriculture Infrastructure and Investment
Company (AIIC) is one of the leading agriculture companies in Lofa County that
undertook the premium rice extension program. AIIC, Lirong said, collaborated
with China-Aid Agriculture Project and also received technical support from
CARI as well as from the local administration through the county's agriculture
office.
He recounted that the AIIC carried out a 50 hectares premium
rice extension program in Foya (including upland rice), among which 22 hectares
are Chinese hybrid rice.
Mr. Lirong said that in the process of extension, the company
and the farmers carried out techniques such as wetland nursery, scientific
fertilizer application, scientific water control, diseases and pest control, to
ensure high yield of the extension farm.
"In order to benefit more farmers, we hope AIIC would
abridge experiences in the process of extension, fully apprehend the advanced
rice production skills to transfer it to more rice farmers and rice farming
group in this area," Lirong said.
He pledged China Aid Agriculture Project's commitment to
providing seed and some other inputs and conducting technical training to more
farmers, "because this way we can add more contribution to the country's
agriculture development."
CARI Director General Dr. Marcus Jones called on farmers to take
rice production into their own hands and fight to reduce rice importation in
the country.
According to Dr. Jones, the importation of European and Asian
rice will only be reduced if farmers, including all Liberians, turn away from
eating imported rice. He added that food security is human security.
Jones used the occasion to extol the Chinese for the technical
and material support to the farmers, and then called on farmers to take
advantage of the Chinese hybrid rice, because the duration for harvest is
shorter and the yield is higher than that of the country's traditional rice.
He also challenged the people of Lofa County to return to their
pre-war status of being the country's "food basket."
Foya Statutory District Assistant Superintendent for Development
Moses Sonjor lauded China-Aid for the support. He said China remains one of the
country's biggest contributors to post-war development drive since 2006.
Sonjor said that the Chinese have immensely contributed to the
country's infrastructure and agriculture development over the last 15 years
resulting to increased access to basic social services across the country
mainly through grant to the Liberian government.
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REAP
lauds DPP role in rice export
Our Staff Reporter
September 04, 2018
LAHORE : Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan
(REAP) has appreciated the services of Department of Plant Protection (DPP) for
the promotion of rice exports across the world.
In a statement issued here on Monday, REAP
chairman Ch Samee Ullah Naeem appreciated the remarkable work of Department of
Plant Protection (DPP) DG Dr Waseem Ul Hassan to control all issues on sanitary
& phytosanitary. He stated that DPP took several bold steps for the
detection of GMO, working for strictly compliance for export of rice
consignments as well as import of rice seed consignments.
The REAP chairman showed his serious concerns
on negative propaganda against Director General of Department of Plant
Protection (DPP).
He said that a few months ago some rice
containers were rejected by the USA because of presence of Khapra Beetle. In
this regard, Department of Plant Protection worked together with REAP to uproot
the Khapra Beetle problem in rice consignment.
Department of Plant Protection (DPP) also
visited a lot of rice mills in Pakistan and provided the expert opinion to
eradicate this problem. A Guideline Brochure for safe export of rice consignments
from Pakistan to USA was also printed for exporters with the help of DPP for
smooth export of rice to USA.
He further said that a few months ago Zimbabwe
Plant Protection Department also stopped Pakistani rice consignments due to
phytosanitary certificate.
Water scarcity making country a wasteland
September 3, 2018
News Analysis |
The
Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said the scarcity of water is
transforming the country into a desert which requires the immediate attention
of the government.
A
country dependent on agriculture has framed its first National Water Policy
after seventy long years while the provinces like Punjab and Sindh have yet to
announce their water policies, it said.
Water
scarcity has been felt across the country but nobody seems concerned about
water management to reduce its wastage, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.
The
Pakistan Economy Watch encouraged the government to invest in dams and
formulate an effective water policy to overcome the water scarcity in the
country.
He
said that per capita availability of water in Pakistan stood at 5,260 cubic
metres in 1951 which was reduced to 1000 cubic meters by 2016 and it is likely
to further drop to about 860 by 2025 which will be a doomsday scenario for the
country.
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Dr.
Murtaza Mughal said that the Indus River system receives an annual influx of
about 134.8 million acre-feet (MAF) of water of which water worth sixty billion
dollars is wasted.
Reduced
supply and increased demand has forced people, mostly farmers, to extract
around 50 million acre-feet of groundwater which is unsustainable, he said.
The
Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said the scarcity of water is
transforming the country into a desert which requires the immediate attention
of the government.
Around
ninety-five percent of the available water is utilized by the agricultural
sector where a major chunk is wasted by water-intensive crops of sugarcane and
rice. The area under cultivation for water and rice continue to increase which
should be seen as a threat, he demanded.
Dr.
Mughal said that government should discourage sugarcane and rice crops by
diverting farmers to other crops as Pakistan use more than double water as
compared to other Asian countries to get one kilogram of rice while its uses
1500 to 3000 liters of water to get one kilogram of sugar.
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Pakistan Economy Watch encouraged the government to invest in dams and
formulate an effective water policy to overcome the water scarcity in the
country. It also encouraged the media to educate the people on the proper usage
of water.
China's
Scientists Log Record Yield of Super Hybrid Rice in Yunnan
TANG SHIHUA
DATE: MON, 09/03/2018 - 16:45 / SOURCE:YICAI
China's
Scientists Log Record Yield of Super Hybrid Rice in Yunnan
(Yicai
Global) Sept. 3 -- Chinese scientists have verified a new production record of
super hybrid rice which is more resistant to harsh weather conditions and
insects than the traditional version.A rice variety named “chao you qian hao,”
which was planted in the city of Gejiu in southwestern China's Yunnan province,
has generated a record output of over 1,152 kilograms on average, exceeding 17
tons per hectare, state-backed newspaper Science and Technology Daily reported
from a yield test event that was organized by the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research
Center and China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center.
The
6.67-hectare test plot was planted by the Hunanese research center at an
altitude of almost 1,300 meters on March 23, transplanted in April, and
harvested yesterday. The growth of plants was balanced and no major diseases
were found. The field is flat and has a large irrigation system for water
supply while the region has an annual average temperature of 20 °C and rainfall
of 700-900 millimeters.
The
location was selected by Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy
of Engineering, who is also known as 'China's father of hybrid rice.' He set
the target of 17 tons per hectare last year in April at the First International
Forum on Rice in Sanya, Hainan province, as reported by state-backed Xinhua
News Agency.
In
2015, China's average yield of super hybrid rice reached over 1,067 kg, setting
a world record. Next year, the figure rose to 1,088 kg while last year the
harvest declined to about 1,074 kg on average due to heavy rainfall.
Chinese super hybrid-rice researchers claim
new world record yield
2018-09-04
09:13:23Global TimesEditor : Li YanECNS
China has set a new world record
for super hybrid rice yield with 17 tons per hectare at a demonstration base in
Gejiu, Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The rice was planted in 6.67
hectares of a demonstration base in Gejiu, a county-level city located on top
of a mountain north of the Red River valley, which flows from Yunnan's Dali Bai
Autonomous Prefecture to Vietnam.
Researchers harvested 17 tons per
hectare of the Xiangliangyou 900 super hybrid rice, Beijing-based newspaper
Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday.
Such a yield is "a new world
record for large area-planted rice output per hectare," according to a
statement released on the website of the rice creator: Hunan Hybrid Rice
Research Center, a division of the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center.
More than 100 officials and
scientists from all over China witnessed the harvest on Sunday, in which three
smaller fields were chosen randomly and then examined for yield by agriculture
experts, the statement said.
"The record shows that China's
rice breeding technique continues to improve and that China's rice production
potential continues to rise," Li Xinqi, a research fellow at the center,
told the Global Times on Monday.
The harvested rice was planted in
March, the newspaper reported. The rice grew with plentiful, well-developed
seeds and no major diseases or pests were spotted, the report said.
Li said the rice could meet the
country's demand for emergency food supplies and help farmers profit.
China's "father of hybrid
rice" Yuan Longping has set a goal of reaching a rice yield of 18 tons per
hectare by 2020, with other demonstration bases in China also striving to reach
the goal, according to the statement.
"The plantation model has
shown similar results in other places," Li said.
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Innovations in Climate Smart Agriculture offer South Asian
Farmers Prosperity, Part 1
Part One of a two part series on work in South Asia conducted by
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT) – Long before climate smart
agriculture became a popular term, farmers and scientists were experimenting
with sustainable agriculture techniques to
produce high food staple yields with reduced environmental impact.
Since that work began, the need to boost agricultural production
while building resilience to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas
emissions has become more acute.
Natural resources are under up to five times more stress in
South Asia than elsewhere due to agricultural intensification, urbanization,
population growth, increasing climate change risks, and difficulties related to
land degradation, according to a recent research paper by M.L. Jat,
principal scientist based in New Delhi, India with the International Maize
and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), a non-profit
international research organization headquartered near Mexico City.
“Over the next 30 years, variability in growing conditions for
key staples including rice and wheat resulting effects is projected to lower
crop yields by 10 to 40 percent due to climate change,” Jat says, adding that
total crop failure will become more common.
“Additionally, during the same period, more than half the
current wheat growing area in the key Indo-Gangetic Plains growing area will
likely become unsuitable for production due to heat stress.”
However, despite challenges, the future for farmers in the
region shows promise, largely due to a combination of efforts by Jat, his
CIMMYT scientist colleagues, members of the CGIAR system of agricultural
researchers, national agricultural research centers, including the CGIAR Research
Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, the Borlaug Institute for South
Asia (BISA) and the Cereal Systems Initiative of South Asia (CSISA).
ZERO TILL
Zero tillage techniques with rice-wheat farmers have led to
massive benefits for the agricultural community and beyond.
The practice involves sowing wheat seed directly into the soil
and rice residues left on the fields without burning crop residue or tilling
the soil, leading to environmental and financial benefits from protecting soil
and water resources, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while slashing land
preparation costs for farmers.
“Initially, the concept of not tilling the soil led to reactions
of disbelief from farmers and policymakers,” Jat says. “But now, it’s extremely
rewarding to see farmers are planting in untilled land on almost 2 million
hectares throughout India. The technique also has huge regional potential as
rice-wheat crop rotation systems are widely used throughout Nepal and Pakistan
and are equivalent to almost a quarter of global food production.”
For effective zero tillage, farmers are using Happy Seeder, farm
machinery developed by a collaborative network of scientists, including CIMMYT
scientists. The tractor-mounted implement, which simultaneously chops rice
residues into mulch, cuts open a furrow in the field, plants and covers the
seed, was funded initially by the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR), led by Punjab Agricultural University.
In a recent paper titled “Burning issues of
paddy residue management in northwest fields of India,” Jat described a range
of uses for residues that farmers have traditionally burned to avoid the cost
of removal. Many farmers now also use the residues for animal feed and biofuel,
for example.
“Farmers can either buy the seeder or hire local service
providers to sow their seed on contract if they cannot afford it,” says Jat,
who has also conducted research into the benefits of
greenhouse gas emissions reduction due to zero tillage techniques.
IRRIGATION INITIATIVE
Rice-wheat, rice-maize, or rice-rice rotations on the same
parcel of land, also known as double cropping, sustainably increase production
without harming the environment by expanding farmland into natural growth
ecosystems. Often groundwater is used for irrigation. In some areas overdraw of
groundwater poses a challenge; in other areas, irrigation facilities are not
widely developed.
In northwestern Bangladesh, for example, groundwater irrigation
is used widely to compensate for drought conditions in the
dry winter season. However, in the country’s large coastal region, groundwater
extraction lead to high fuel costs for pumping from groundwater. In some
areas, deep tube wells also present a health risk due to natural arsenic
contamination, says Timothy Krupnik, a CIMMYT systems agronomist who leads
CSISA in Bangladesh. Additionally, in some areas shallow groundwater
has high salt concentrations, which can be bad for crops.
Krupnik worked with a team to identify where
surface water from canals or rivers can be used as a viable irrigation
alternative to encourage double-cropping. The research led to the invention of
an online
geospatial tool to identify surface water irrigation resources
and identify where fallow and low-productivity rainfed cropland can be
converted to higher- and more stable-yielding (and risk reducing irrigated
crops) using this alternative water source. The remote sensing tool developed
with CIMMYT’s Urs Schulthess through CSISA allows users to target ideal places
to expand irrigation.
“Although Bangladesh will likely remain mostly reliant on
groundwater irrigation, the tool identifies available fresh surface water
resources and land that can be sustainably intensified with double cropping,”
Krupnik says.
East End
Foods Spices Festival features celebrity chefs, street food, live music - and
you’re invited
East
End Foods exciting two day festival - on 15 and 16 September - includes a
behind the scenes tour of the West Brom factory
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From the paddy fields of India, to the exotic
grasslands of Thailand and golden glades of Australia – this industrious West
Brom factory grinds and refines some of the highest quality spices in the
world.
And once it is fully satisfied that its imported
produce is as perfect as possible, East End Foods distributes the goods to
customers across the globe.The innovative food supplier has been bringing the
best spices, rices, pulses and lentils to Britain from sustainable producers
across the world for almost 50 years.
And to celebrate its impressive achievements it is
celebrating with its first ever weekend-long Spices Festival, featuring
celebrity chefs, street food, live music – and a rare opportunity to tour the
factory.
East End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich is holding factory
tours during the Spices Festival on September 15 & 16
Entry is free to the event at on Saturday and Sunday
15 and 16 September – from 11am to 5.30pm each day – at East End House, Kenrick
Way, West Bromwich, B71 4EA.
Visitors will get the chance to meet some great
chefs, including Richard Turner, and Maunika Gowardhan and a host of other
Brummie favourites who are joining the exciting line up.
The celebrity chefs will be using products straight
from the factory store to create a range of delicious dishes for visitors to
enjoy on the day.
Richard Turner in his new kitchen at Maribel (Image: Paul Ward)
They will be joined by a range of restaurants who
also buy their ingredients from East End Foods who will be serving a selection
of dishes.
Some of Birmingham’s best loved street food vendors,
who are also regular customer of the family-run company, are also joining the
fun.
The music is being led by Free Radio, Radio XL and
Raj FM who will be hosting live shows over the two days and bringing some of
Birmingham’s top DJs and punjabi and hindi music artists with them.
East End Foods is opening its doors for a factory tour at East
End House during the Spices Festival, September 15 & 16
The action will be filmed by Sony TV.
And the Albion Foundation will also be making a
visit, from the neighbouring ground, The Hawthorns.
There’s even a chance to win £5,000 worth of prizes.
East End Foods supplies some 1,200 lines, specialising
in raw ingredients and artisan sauces ensuring the best curries can be produced
from scratch.
Maunika Gowardhan, author of Indian Kitchen is coming to East
End Foods Spices Festival
A highlight of both days of the Spices Festival
includes a tour of the company’s factory where visitors will get the
opportunity to see the sophisticated, state-of-the-art processes used to purify
and prepare their produce for market.
This will feature a trip round one of the biggest
rice mills in Europe, visited by David Cameron in 2012.Rice
silos outside biggest Rice Mill in Europe at East End Foods ahead of Spices
Festival at East End House, West Bromwich
Visitors will also get a birds-eye view of thousands
of pounds worth of spices being stringently cleaned and prepared for market
Purification processes start with machine shakers
which extract stones and dust and vacuums to ensure produce is residue free.And
to help fully understand the process there will be sampling of food along the
way.
Infomercials will be placed on screens around the
factory to help explain the processes.
The factory contains a flour mill where golden wheat
and multi grain flour is produced for rotis, naans and other breads.
Among its produce lines are soya chunks, brown sugar
nuts, rapeseed oil and award winning sauces.Spices Festival is coming to East
End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich
Jasbir Wouhra, Managing Director, said: “We source
our spices from 45 different countries which produce sustainable crops. We have
been working with many of our suppliers for decades.
“We have developed an art in producing our spices to
the highest and purest quality over 50 years, locking in the aroma and
savouring the pungency.
“Visitors to the festival will see the great detail
and technology that we use to prepare our spices, lentils, pulses, flour and
rice.“The main focus will be on spices which go through six stages in cleaning,
destoning, air aspirating and UV lighting checks for colour specification
before we sell them in multiples, including to Asian grocery stores and online. East
End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich, Hand packaging line.
“Spices are stored at optimum temperatures to bring
out the best flavour, the purity of the product is encouraged throughout the
process and the spices are ground down using specialist processes.
“Visitors will see how UV lighting can help to
distinguish if a particular spice does not meet a certain specification, they
will also see how air aspiration helps elevate any residues from the spices;
the sieving process and grinding process.“We even have a machine that
replicates the traditional farming methods in India where spices were flicked
on a sieve to clear them of debris.
“We are proud of the stringent processes we use to
produce such high quality products which are enjoyed around the world.”
East End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich, Picking/Despatch
area
East End Foods was founded by five brothers more than
40 years ago.They started out from a premises in Wolverhampton selling rice and
spices to the ethnic communities who had emigrated to the UK in the 1950s and
1960s.Their business soon grew and they moved to Digbeth in the 1970s and they
began supplying Indian restaurants, stores and independent retailers.
Today East End Foods is one of the leading suppliers
of Asian food in the UK, Europe and Middle East.East End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich
The
company has a cash and carry outlet in the old HP Sauce Factory in Aston and
its factory and office at East End House in West Bromwich.
It
also has a factory and cash and carry outlets in Smethwick and India and Italy.
Last
year the company reported profits of £82 million. And it is set to go from
strength to strength.
The Spices Festival Line-up
Saturday,
from 11am to 5.30pm
Spicy Paneer Masala Balti by The
Curry Guy, Dan Toombs
All
day factory tours of East End Foods Spices Factory
Alex
Claridge, Head chef from The Wilderness
The
Curry Guy Dan Toombs, The curry guy.
Maunika
Gowardhan, food writer and chef who has worked with Jamie Oliver
Lap-fai
Lee pictured at Aktar Islam's new restaurant Opheem
Nikita
Patel, influencer
Lap-fi
Lee, a Birmingham cook, tutor, food stylist, photographer and food expert
Host:
Tommy Sandhu, British DJ, remixer, producer and television presenter
Free
Radio, with punjabi local music acts from Raj Radio
East
End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich, green sultanas being packaged
Sunday,
from 11am to 5.30pm
All
day factory tours of East End Foods Spices Factory
Dhruv
Barker, Masterchef 2010 winner
Richard
Turner, Head Chef at Maribel
The
Curry Guy Dan Toombs, who lived off curry for a year
Maunika
Gowardhan, food writer and chef who has worked with Jamie Oliver
Nikita
Patel, influencer
Adrian
Chiles (Image: PA)
Adrian
Chiles, BBC Radio 5 Live Presenter for the Albion Foundation with Baggies
Mascots.
Lap-fai
Lee, a Birmingham cook, tutor, food stylist, photographer and food expert
Face
painting
Host
radio station Radio XL
Host
TV station Sony TV
East
End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich, staff unload raw
East End Food in numbers
1
biggest rice mill in Europe
3
years for Royal Basmati rice to be aged so that its vintage grain is at its
best quality, so that when it is cooked it absorbs the water and explodes with
flavour an is of a perfectly fluffy consistency
East
End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich
7
phase process to produce rice, including dedicated stone grinder which retains
nutritious peel while creating refined produce
15
arctic lorries load and unload food from the factory every day
40
years the East End House factory has been operational
East
End Foods celebrates almost 50 years of producing spices for distribution
acorss the world
45
countries around the world where produce is sourced, including India, Pakistan,
Thailand, Australia, Canada
70
spices produced at the factory, including the 10 core spices including chilli,
tumeric, coriander, mustard, ginger,garam masala, cinnamon, cardomom
300+
people work for East End Foods
400
tonnes of food delivered to the West Brom factory every day
East
End Foods, East End House, West Bromwich, labelling department.
1,250
products sold by East End Foods
7,000
- pounds worth of cumin delivered in one 700kg sack
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