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USA Rice CFO Linda Sieh Retires
By Lisa Gargano
WASHINGTON, DC -- Wednesday evening,
USA Rice staff and members celebrated Linda Sieh, who retired from USA Rice as
its CFO on April 30, after 16 years of service. Sieh began her career at
USA Rice as the Director, Human Resources and Administration, and two years later, moved into the VP, Finance and Administration
position. She has been the CFO of USA Rice since 2014.
USA Rice member Keith Glover, president & CEO of Producers Rice Mill and also a CPA, noted that Sieh was consistently awarded clean, unqualified audits during her tenure at USA Rice which solidified members' assurance in her behind-the-scenes ability to manage USA Rice's finances.
One of Linda's USA Rice claims to fame was as the much-anticipated headliner at the July Annual Business Meeting general session. When it was her turn to present the financials, Linda parsed accounting humor that was received in a way that surprised even her. As Michael Klein, USA Rice vice president of marketing and communications, said the first time he witnessed Linda on stage: "She's killing it, and now I have to follow behind her presentation and try to keep the momentum going. Next year, I'm going first!"
"Linda's ability to cut through the details and present a big picture that everyone could understand was one of her greatest assets," said USA Rice President & CEO Betsy Ward. Linda also mentored more than one staff member on accounting and finances, all of whom have acknowledged their appreciation for her ability to teach accounting to non-accountants in a way that helped them perform their jobs better at USA Rice.
In her remarks to the reception attendees, Sieh said that, "for people who do accounting, they can do it in just about any organization, but what makes it different is the people you interact with on a daily basis and the organization you work for, and I am really proud to be associated with all of you."
Finally, Linda shared that her GPS told her it would only take 45 minutes to get from her home to the reception, so she left an hour and a half early...and it took her two hours to get there. The one thing she won't miss in retirement is driving in DC rush hour traffic!
USA Rice member Keith Glover, president & CEO of Producers Rice Mill and also a CPA, noted that Sieh was consistently awarded clean, unqualified audits during her tenure at USA Rice which solidified members' assurance in her behind-the-scenes ability to manage USA Rice's finances.
One of Linda's USA Rice claims to fame was as the much-anticipated headliner at the July Annual Business Meeting general session. When it was her turn to present the financials, Linda parsed accounting humor that was received in a way that surprised even her. As Michael Klein, USA Rice vice president of marketing and communications, said the first time he witnessed Linda on stage: "She's killing it, and now I have to follow behind her presentation and try to keep the momentum going. Next year, I'm going first!"
"Linda's ability to cut through the details and present a big picture that everyone could understand was one of her greatest assets," said USA Rice President & CEO Betsy Ward. Linda also mentored more than one staff member on accounting and finances, all of whom have acknowledged their appreciation for her ability to teach accounting to non-accountants in a way that helped them perform their jobs better at USA Rice.
In her remarks to the reception attendees, Sieh said that, "for people who do accounting, they can do it in just about any organization, but what makes it different is the people you interact with on a daily basis and the organization you work for, and I am really proud to be associated with all of you."
Finally, Linda shared that her GPS told her it would only take 45 minutes to get from her home to the reception, so she left an hour and a half early...and it took her two hours to get there. The one thing she won't miss in retirement is driving in DC rush hour traffic!
USA RICE DAILY
CRISPR
gene-editing could help feed future generations
The
answer will likely lie in technology. And one of the most promising
contributions comes from a gene-editing tool called CRISPR, which scientists can
use to create crops that are more resilient to climate change and have higher
yields.
A team of researchers from Purdue University
and the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently demonstrated the potential of
CRISPR in an intriguing new study. By making mutations in 13 genes, the
scientists produced a crop of rice with 25-31 percent high yield. Without the
aid of CRISPR, the crop would’ve required trial and error with millions of
plants to reach a similar goal, according to the researchers.
To create the crop, the researchers used CRISPR
to precisely snip out undesired genes that play a double role, increasing
stress tolerance and suppressing growth. So although the crop had a higher
yield, it was less resilient to environmental stress. Still, in field tests in
Shanghai and on Hainan Island, China, the researchers found little impact to
stress tolerance but significant gains in grain production.
“An
important fact concerning CRISPR technology is its immediate applicability to
agricultural problems,” Jian-Kang Zhu, a
plant biologist at Purdue who led the study, told Digital Trends. Although much
of the attention and investment surrounding CRISPR has been in medical
research, Zhu pointed out that “the successful applicability of this incredible
technology to medicine is much farther in the future.”
After
all, plants and microbes aren’t entangled with the same bioethical concerns that keep scientists from performing certain
animal studies. “We can make genetic crosses and clones with plants
and we can discard our mistakes,” Zhu said. “Obviously [those are] not ethical
pursuits in human biology.”
Moving forward, Zhu and his colleagues will use
this same tool on “elite” strains of rice, with the hope that the production
boosts transfer over. They also plan to apply their approach to different
crops.
A paper detailing the study was published this
month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
British government sparks new green revolution with £100m investment in
'super-crops'
·
25 MAY 2018 • 5:51PM
Britain is helping breed a new generation of “super-crops” not
only resistant to climate change, pests and disease but also fortified with
vital vitamins and minerals.
The initiative could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of
children who die each year from poor nutrition in developing countries as well
as supplementing diets in the west.
The Department for International Development (Dfid) has quietly
invested more than £100m into breeding the new generation of super-crops which
now stand poised to create what experts are calling a “second green revolution”.
The crops include iron-rich beans that can withstand a 4 degree
Celsius jump in temperature, “scuba” rice that comes back to life after two
weeks underwater in flooded fields and drought-tolerant maize rich in vitamin
A.
The first green
revolution reached at least 1bn people and was a huge success. If we can reach
our target of 1bn, then potentially it is the next biggest thing
Importantly, they have been created through traditional breeding
techniques rather than being genetically modified which means they can be
planted without waiting for regulatory approval.
“The first green revolution reached at least one billion people
and was a huge success. If we can reach our target of one billion, then
potentially it is the next biggest thing,” said Howarth Bouis, a US economist
whose organisation HarvestPlus has received £87.4m from Dfid to breed and
distribute crop varieties fortified with Vitamin A, Iron and Zinc.
About 30 million people – around six million households – have so
far benefited from the new crops, primarily in Africa, but the aim is to reach
one billion by 2030. A further six million farmers in Asia are using scuba rice
but the aim is 18 million by 2028.
Scientists believe that if they achieve the one billion target
they will effectively halve the world’s estimated two billion suffering from
what is known as “hidden hunger” or micronutrient malnutrition.
The first green revolution, which occurred in the early to mid
1900s, won its instigator Norman Borlaug a Nobel Peace Prize and spawned
disease-resistant, high-yielding wheat strains which are credited with saving
250 million lives worldwide.
Agricultural breakthroughs trump medical innovations such as
antibiotics and vaccinations for lives saved historically because food is so
central to life.
Agronomist
Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his
contributions to world peace through increasing food supply CREDIT: MICHELINE
PELLETIER/SYGMA VIA GETTY IMAGES
The new super-crops not only replicate the traits of the first green
revolution in having higher yields but also have been – or are being –
cross-bred further to incorporate genes that protect from disease, pests,
floods, drought and heat.
“Our centres are developing climate adaptive crops. Farmers like
them not only because they are climate tolerant but also high yielding. We just
need to get them into mainstream markets and piggy back on them with our
vitamin strains,” said Bouis.
For the “heat-beater” beans, a staple in Rwanda where the
fortified varieties provide up to half a person’s recommended daily intake of
iron, scientists in Colombia trawled a gene bank of 36,000 samples to find a
Mexican strain capable of withstanding temperature rises expected over the next
century due to climate change.
It will not only safeguard the 50 per cent of land that would
have been lost to farmers due to higher temperatures but could also open up new
markets in tropical areas for the beans.
“Even if they can only handle a three-degree rise, that would
still limit the land lost to climate change to about 5 per cent,” said Steve
Beebe, head of bean breeding for the International Centre for Tropical
Agriculture.
Scuba rice was created after scientists tracked down an Indian
rice variety with a gene, SUB1A, which was activated when the plant was
submerged. It was crossed with India’s top-selling, high-yielding Swarni rice
to counter the annual loss of 4m tonnes of rice to flooding in India and
Bangladesh, enough to feed 30m people.
Dr Uma Shankar Singh, a director of the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI), said: “Sustaining productivity is the most important
factor and we now have six million farmers cultivating 3 million hectares. At
minimum it is adding 3 million tonnes of rice. We have also developed SUB1
varieties with salt, drought and stagnant flooding tolerance.”
Biofortified
beans in Rwanda CREDIT: HARVESTPLUS
Dfid is now the biggest funder of HarvestPlus, whose work into
fortified crops was started in 2003. Nottingham University professor Martin
Broadley, a research fellow with Dfid, said the genesis of the programme came
from research showing how expensive and inefficient it was to deliver
supplements or fortified processed foods like bread to rural areas.
“Upfront investment in breeding iron, vitamin A and zinc dense crops
is the most cost-effective way to improve nutrition compared with other
approaches,” he said.
According to the World Health Organization, every $10-$15
invested in, for example, the vitamin A rich orange sweet potato produces one
extra year of good quality life per individual.
Upfront investment in
breeding iron, vitamin A and zinc dense crops is the most cost-effective way to
improve nutrition compared with other approaches
HarvestPlus deliberately spurned genetic modification in favour
of natural methods. “If we’d invested our money in GM, they could have been
left sitting on the shelf. Conventional breeding is not as powerful a science
but at least we can do a lot of good with it without the blockages you have
with transgenics,” said Bouis.
Government agriculture centres and NGOs are supporting the
distribution of the seeds. As it seeks to reach 1 billion, Dfid has put in an
extra £4 million to get private seed producers to take up the “super-crops” and
achieve the necessary increase in uptake.
The roll-out of the seeds has been supported by promotions
including a radio soap opera, My Children, in Uganda to advance the orange
sweet potato, a rap song by Rwandan musicians to encourage use of iron-rich beans
and Yellow Cassava, a Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) film highlighting the
nutritional benefits of the vitamin A rich crop.
Women clear wet
mud alongside the bank of the river in Satkhira, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is one
of the continental countries most vulnerable to climate change. CREDIT: ZAKIR/HOSSAIN
CHOWDHURY/BARCROFT
At least 14 studies are being carried out to establish whether
eating the fortified crops improve the health of the communities consuming
them. The early results are encouraging.
In Uganda, the orange sweet potato, taken up by 60 per cent of
farms in the area studied, saw a significant increase in vitamin A uptake among
families, a 9 per cent fall in those with low vitamin A and a drop of up to 19
per cent in diarrhoea among children.
Children eating orange maize in Zambia saw improvements in their
sight through increased vitamin A. Women given fortified beans in Rwanda
reversed their iron deficiency, reducing anaemia. College students in Rwanda
aged 17 to 25 who ate the beans scored significantly better in cognitive tests
of memory and speed after just 18 weeks.
Studies into
whether eating fortified crops improves the health of the communities have
yielded promising results CREDIT: HOWARD
BURDITT /REUTERS
A Dfid spokesman said: “Biofortification is highly
cost-effective as it provides a single intervention which benefits both this
generation and future generations to come. By providing farmers with seeds and
planting material, they and their households can grow, sell and consume foods
that are already vitamin-rich, with no need for additional supplements.
“The crops remain high yielding and vitamin rich for future
harvests. This compares with supplements which need to be repeated, or
fortification which needs to be continuously added to food products.”
More controversially, Dfid is backing one of a potential new
generation of GM crops now closing in on market readiness. It is funding work
on modifying plants’ photosynthetic efficiency so their water use is cut by 25
per cent by changing the expression of a single gene.
A potential breakthrough has also emerged in Mozambique’s
field trials of more water-efficient GM maize (WEMA). Early results suggest it
is not only resistant to drought but also the devastating stem borer and fall
army worm pests.
Ohio State University scientists are working to create a GM
“golden potato”, which would provide 42 per cent of a child’s daily vitamin A.
By providing
farmers with seeds and planting material, they and their households can grow,
sell and consume foods that are vitamin-rich CREDIT: BLOOMBERG
Uganda is trialling a “golden banana” high in vitamin A created
by Australia’s Queensland University of Technology by inserting a gene from a
Papua New Guinea banana into the commercially-successful Cavendish banana.
It is named after William Cavendish, the sixth Duke of
Devonshire, a passionate horticulturalist who developed it on his Derbyshire
estate in the 19th century.
Public and political scepticism, however, remains a major hurdle
for GM. The salutary lesson on this is “golden rice”, a GM strain engineered to
boost vitamin A. More than a decade after it was hailed as a potential
game-changer, its progress to farmers’ fields has stalled in a blizzard of
regulation and public opposition.
If the next green revolution is to come, harnessing nature rather
than genetically modifying it may prove to be quickest and most efficient
route.
Science For
The Win: Golden Rice Gets The Nod From FDA
By ACSH
Staff — May 25, 2018
In an official responsefrom the U.S. Food and Safety
Administration, GR2E Golden Rice, a provitamin-A biofortified rice variety,
managed by the International Rice Research
Institute(IRRI), received a positive food safety evaluation
regarding its safety and nutrition. GR2E Golden Rice is the first
nutritionally enhanced genetically modified rice to receive regulatory approval
for use in food.
Since Golden Rice does not have a corporate owner with a phalanx
of attorneys to wend its way through government regulatory approval,
environmental lawyers from organizations like Greenpeace, with the support of
anti-science activists like Center for Science in the Public Interest, Natural
Resources Defense Council, and Union of Concerned Scientists, have been able to
prevent its approval in numerous countries.
Yet in developed nations they have had less success blocking
progress. The FDA follows Canada and New Zealand in validating its safety and
benefits. With enough thought leaders on its side, this will be approved in
countries that need it most, and the peril of Vitamin A deficiency, a
pervasive public health problem worldwide which afflicts an estimated 250
million preschool-age children, will be eliminated. Because rice is already
widely grown and eaten, bio-fortified rice varieties like Golden Rice can
easily provide 30-50% of the estimated average requirement for Vitamin A of
women and children.
IRRI is also working with
national research partners to create healthier rice varieties with more iron,
zinc, and beta-carotene content to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable
populations with limited access to diverse diets.
A Warming Planet Could Zap Nutrition From
Rice That Feeds The World
May 24, 20184:04 PM ET
Scientists find that rice grown under elevated carbon conditions
loses substantial amounts of protein, zinc, iron and B vitamins, depending on
the variety.
Maximilian Stock, Ltd./Getty Images/Passage
Grains are the bedrock of civilization. They led humans from
hunting and gathering to city-building. According to the Food and Agriculture
Organization, the fruits of three grasses provide the world with 60 percent of
its total food: corn, wheat and rice. Aside from energy-rich carbohydrates,
grains feed us protein, zinc, iron and essential B vitamins.
But rice as we know it is at risk.
As humans expel billions of
metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere and raze vast swaths of forests, the
concentration of carbon dioxide in our air hurries ever higher. That has the
potential to severely diminish the nutritional value of rice, according to a
new study published on Wednesday in Science
Advances. For people who depend heavily on rice as a staple in
their diets, such a nutritional loss would be devastating, says Kristie Ebi, a professor at the University of
Washington and an author on the study. "When you look at a country like
Bangladesh, three out of every four calories comes from rice. Obviously, that
means any decline in nutritional value is very significant."
To study how rice responds to different concentrations of carbon
dioxide, the researchers grew several varieties of rice in experimental fields
in Japan and China. For each variety, they set aside one rice paddy as a
control, and one neighboring enclosed rice paddy with tubing running through
the field. They blew carbon dioxide out of the tubing, raising the ambient
carbon dioxide inside the enclosure to some 580 parts per million, the expected
carbon dioxide concentration in the next half century if there are no further
attempt to curb emissions or deforestation. "The fields have the same
sunshine, same water, same characteristics," Ebi says. "So the
experiment sees what happens to the same rice under different carbon dioxide
concentrations."
Ebi says that the rice grown under the elevated carbon scenario
lost substantial amounts of protein, zinc, iron and B vitamins per grain. Iron,
zinc and protein losses ranged from 5 percent to 20 percent. Vitamins B1 and B5
dropped up to 30 percent, depending on the variety. "Folate [vitamin B9]
declines across the nine rice varieties ranged from 10 percent to 45 percent.
So, it's a lot," she says.
Of course, many foods can be a rich source of these essential
nutrients, but Ebi says food other than rice is not always available to people.
Among the poorest in the world, the grain can make up an overwhelming portion
of their diet, Ebi says. "In the paper, we looked at the most
rice-dependent countries in Asia. Using a weighting scheme focusing on those
with the fewest resources, we estimate this decline in nutrient quality will
affect about 600 million people."
A mass deficiency in vitamin B9, also known as folate or folic
acid, would have particularly severe public health consequences. The nutrient
is critical to fetus development, and a lack of vitamin B9 can result in
defects of the brain, spine or spinal cord at birth. "It can be a
catastrophic birth anomaly," Ebi says.
The study's finding is
disheartening, if not surprising, to researchers in the field. Scientists
already knew that higher carbon dioxide concentrations can decrease protein,
zinc and iron levels in important crops, and this study shows a similar effect
for B vitamins, says Camilo
Mora, a climate change scientist at the University of Hawaii Manoa
who was not involved with the new work. "It's just another piece of
evidence to show how bad climate change is," he says.
For non-experts, the phenomenon
may seem a little odd, considering carbon dioxide is food for plants. Plants
that share the same photosynthesis pathway as rice and wheat do indeed grow
larger and produce greater yields in higher carbon dioxide concentrations by
creating more carbohydrates, says Lisa Ainsworth, a biologist at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the U.S. Department of. Agriculture who did
not work on the study. But they don't increase the amount of other nutrients in
their grains relative to that yield gain. "They're basically getting a
dilution effect of the nutrients in the grains," she says.
Some varieties of rice may not experience as severe of a
nutrient loss as carbon dioxide levels go up. For instance, the rice variety
Liang You 84 (a hybrid style grown in China) lost around 45 percent of its
vitamin B9 content whereas the Koshihikari rice (a short-grained sushi rice
from Japan) lost roughly 30 percent of its B9 content in the elevated carbon
scenarios. That knowledge gives researchers an opportunity, given enough
funding, to breed climate change-resistant strains of rice.
But getting people to switch to new grains is not always easy,
Ainsworth says. "I think culturally it is difficult. People eat different
rice for different meals and events."
Other strategies are available, too. Investing in ways to
increase access to different kinds of food beyond rice would help, for
instance, she points out.
Or, Mora says, humanity could always work together to mitigate
climate change and carbon emissions so the problem doesn't arise in the first
place.
Angus Chen is a journalist in
New York. He's on Twitter @angrchen.
Meetings with USDA, FAS Focus on Trade, Compliance
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, USA Rice held its tri-annual
World Market Price Subcommittee meeting with members from across the country
gathered here to participate in a series of sessions focused on rice stocks,
trade issues, and the global rice outlook.
In a meeting with representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), subcommittee members compared USDA projected numbers with their own planting and production projections. Overall, the numbers of actual acres planted estimated by members were higher than what NASS published in the March Prospective Plantings report, particularly in California that could come in as much as 50,000 acres above initial estimates.
The newly installed Administrator at USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), Ken Isley, and several of his staff joined the meetings for discussions of critical trade issues including several ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) cases, a country-by-country overview of rice imports, exports, and consumption, and a robust discussion of the impacts of Brexit on U.S.-EU-UK trade.
FAS reported that two rice-related WTO cases are proceeding on schedule. One deals with a U.S. challenge to the level of China's support to corn, wheat, and rice producers. USA Rice was a driving force behind this case because China is subsidizing growers of these crops well in excess of what is allowed by WTO rules. A decision by the WTO is expected in early 2019. The other case is newer, and challenges the way China administers the allocation of import licenses for wheat, rice, and corn under the country's tariff rate quotas.
Earlier this month, the United States filed a first-of-its-kind "counter notification" in the WTO that listed India's support for rice and wheat producers. This counter notification demonstrated that support from the Indian government makes up about three quarters of the value of India's rice production. India's allowable level of support within the WTO is 10 percent and it has been surmised that this is the explanation for India suddenly jumping up to be the world's number one exporter of rice.
On Brexit, FAS staff explained that negotiations are expected between the United States and the European Union over the allocation of exiting EU tariff rate quotas, including for U.S. rice. At this time, the EU is seeking to allocate a portion of each TRQ to the departing UK and retain the remainder of the TRQs with the EU. USA Rice joins the U.S. government and many other WTO members in arguing that all exiting TRQs should remain with the EU, but especially the rice TRQ that was established in 1995 when Sweden, Finland, and Austria joined the EU and has nothing to do with the UK.
Finally, serious concerns were raised over insufficient reporting of exports and sales to FAS's Export Sales reporting system. Subcommittee members emphasized support for compliance with this reporting requirement. FAS representatives stressed significant work was being done to minimize inadequate reporting and welcomed support from the industry.
"The World Market Price Subcommittee meetings provided a great forum to cover a broad range of domestic and policy issues with key officials from USDA, including Administrator Isley," said Bob Cummings, USA Rice COO. "Having producer, miller, and merchant leadership in town also complements USA Rice's PAC and outreach efforts on Capitol Hill."
In a meeting with representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), subcommittee members compared USDA projected numbers with their own planting and production projections. Overall, the numbers of actual acres planted estimated by members were higher than what NASS published in the March Prospective Plantings report, particularly in California that could come in as much as 50,000 acres above initial estimates.
The newly installed Administrator at USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), Ken Isley, and several of his staff joined the meetings for discussions of critical trade issues including several ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) cases, a country-by-country overview of rice imports, exports, and consumption, and a robust discussion of the impacts of Brexit on U.S.-EU-UK trade.
FAS reported that two rice-related WTO cases are proceeding on schedule. One deals with a U.S. challenge to the level of China's support to corn, wheat, and rice producers. USA Rice was a driving force behind this case because China is subsidizing growers of these crops well in excess of what is allowed by WTO rules. A decision by the WTO is expected in early 2019. The other case is newer, and challenges the way China administers the allocation of import licenses for wheat, rice, and corn under the country's tariff rate quotas.
Earlier this month, the United States filed a first-of-its-kind "counter notification" in the WTO that listed India's support for rice and wheat producers. This counter notification demonstrated that support from the Indian government makes up about three quarters of the value of India's rice production. India's allowable level of support within the WTO is 10 percent and it has been surmised that this is the explanation for India suddenly jumping up to be the world's number one exporter of rice.
On Brexit, FAS staff explained that negotiations are expected between the United States and the European Union over the allocation of exiting EU tariff rate quotas, including for U.S. rice. At this time, the EU is seeking to allocate a portion of each TRQ to the departing UK and retain the remainder of the TRQs with the EU. USA Rice joins the U.S. government and many other WTO members in arguing that all exiting TRQs should remain with the EU, but especially the rice TRQ that was established in 1995 when Sweden, Finland, and Austria joined the EU and has nothing to do with the UK.
Finally, serious concerns were raised over insufficient reporting of exports and sales to FAS's Export Sales reporting system. Subcommittee members emphasized support for compliance with this reporting requirement. FAS representatives stressed significant work was being done to minimize inadequate reporting and welcomed support from the industry.
"The World Market Price Subcommittee meetings provided a great forum to cover a broad range of domestic and policy issues with key officials from USDA, including Administrator Isley," said Bob Cummings, USA Rice COO. "Having producer, miller, and merchant leadership in town also complements USA Rice's PAC and outreach efforts on Capitol Hill."
Rice: Recorded
May 24
Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 10:30am
Dr. Bobby Golden, Extension rice and soil fertility agronomist,
and Dr. Jason Bond, weed scientist with the MSU Delta Research and Extension
Center, discuss flooding rice fields. Recorded May 24, 2018
Indonesian diaspora professors in the US invent
protein-rich rice
Jakarta | Fri, May 25, 2018 | 08:25 am
Two Indonesian diaspora professors living in
the United States have invented a protein-rich rice variety they call
Cahokia.The rice contains about 50 percent more protein than common rice.
Herry Utomo and Ida Utomo, who are professors
at Louisiana State University, said their creation is expected to reduce
malnutrition across the world.
“There are millions of people whose lives rely
on rice. They have meals three times days, but they do not consume enough
protein because they cannot afford to buy meat,” Ida said in a statement issued
on Thursday. “I think, by increasing the protein content of rice, we can
address serious malnutrition cases.”
One portion of rice, she explained, normally
consists of 4 grams of protein, while the same amount of Cahokia rice has 6
grams of protein.
Cahokia rice has been patented and is now being
sold in US supermarkets.
Blake Gerard, a farmer who has been cultivating
rice for 18 years, said he had harvested the new rice variety five times,
adding that the protein content was consistent and the yield was also good.
The rice is also safe for diabetics because it
has a lower glycemic index, which means a slower conversion process from
carbohydrate into glucose, Ida said.
Herry assured that Cahokia rice did not require
additional costs in the planting and harvesting process. Each hectare can
produce up to 150 kilograms of additional pure protein, which is equal to 550
kg of meat and 4,500 liters of milk.
The US, which has 1.8 million hectares of rice
fields, could potentially produce 0.23 million tons of additional protein, he
said.
“If it is planted in Indonesia, which has
four-and-a-half times more rice fields than the US, the additional pure protein
[they produce] can reach 1 million tons or equal to 3.6 million tons of meat,”
Herry added. (bbn)
Bangladesh’s summer rice output may hit 19.7mt
| Update: 12:29,
May 25, 2018
The
South Asian country emerged as a major rice importer in 2017 after floods
damaged its crops, sending domestic prices to record highs.
Despite
some losses due to heavy pre-monsoon rains, the summer crop will surpass the
target, based on information from the fields, Mohammad Mohsin, director general
of Department of Agriculture Extension, told Reuters.
The
summer-sown crop, also known as ‘Boro’, usually contributes more than half of
Bangladesh’s typical annual rice production of around 35 million tonnes.
Rice
prices in Bangladesh jumped around 40 per cent last year due to depleting
inventory, forcing the government to seek supplies from Asian countries like
India, Thailand and Vietnam.
The
price increase prompted farmers to expand areas under Boro to more than 4.9
million hectares, exceeding the target of 4.7 million hectares, Mohsin said.
“Farmers
didn’t leave any land unplanted this season due to higher prices,” he added.
Last
year, the country’s Boro rice crop fell about 5 per cent from a year earlier to
18 million tonnes, the lowest in seven years.
Rice is
a staple food for Bangladesh’s 160 million people and high prices pose a
problem for the government which faces a national election this year.
In
April, industry officials said Bangladesh’s rice imports could plunge 66
percent from a year ago to 1.2 million tonnes in 2018/19 on expectations of a
bigger summer crop.
In
August, the government cut an import duty on rice for the second time in two
months. The lower duty has prompted purchases by private dealers, with most of
the deals struck with neighbouring India.
Bangladesh
imported a record of more than 3.7 million tonnes of rice in the July-April
period, data from the country’s food ministry showed.
Monsoon enters parts of Bay of Bengal, South Andaman Sea; seen
advancing further
Satellite image as of 1.30 pm IST.
'Mekunu' is
now an extremely severe cyclone; landfall advanced
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 25
The monsoon has entered parts of
South-East Bay of Bengal, South Andaman Sea and Nicobar Islands this afternoon,
India Met Department (IMD) has announced.
Conditions are favourable for its
further advance into South Arabian Sea, Comorin-Maldives, more parts of South
Bay, Andaman Sea, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands in two days.
Arabian Sea 'Arm'
The monsoon is likely to advance
into more parts of of South Arabian Sea, Lakshadweep, South Kerala, South Tamil
Nadu during the subsequent two days.
This is even as a very severe
cyclonic storm ‘Mekunu’ over West-Central Arabian Sea intensified into a
extremely severe cyclone ahead of landfall midnight tonight.
IMD located it at 180 km
South-Southeast of Salalah. It is likely to cross South Oman-Southeast Yemen
coasts close to south of Salalah, around midnight.
Earlier this morning, IMD had
advanced the landfall, with the US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre in agreement.
This had prompted IMD to shorten the window for the likely onset of monsoon
over South Andaman Sea, its first port of call in the Indian territory, anytime
during today.
'Extremely severe'
Meanwhile, an extremely severe
cyclone is the penultimate class in IMD's protocol of assessing storms in terms
of strength and intensity, topped off by a super cyclone.
The Oman Directorate-General of
Meteorology said this morning that 'Mekunu' is located 200 km away off Salalah
city, with the main convective band only 50 km away.
Surface winds speeds had risen to
130-148 km/hr. The main convective band would approach the Dhofar coast later
this morning accompanied by gale-force winds and rain.
The rainfall could range from
20-30 cm and set off flash floods. Sea waves along the Al-Wusta coasts could
range from a phenomenal 26- to 39 feet in height. This is the outlook for the
last full day of the cyclone's active life over the waters, after it blasted
into the island feature of Socotra, off South Yemen, last night and picked up
speed.
Past cyclone tracks
According to the UK Met Office,
cyclones of the strength of 'Mekunu' have made landfall over the Arabian
Peninsula in the recent past. In 2015, cyclone 'Chapala' brought flash flooding
as it came ashore over Yemen. Cyclone 'Phet' brought strong winds and heavy
rain to North Oman when it made landfall in 2010.
The strongest on record to make
landfall over the Arabian Peninsula was super cyclone 'Gonu' in 2007 which hit
North-East Oman with highest wind speeds recorded at 270 km/hr. In contrast,
'Mekunu' is much smaller, impacting the central part of the Arabian Peninsula
close to the border between Oman and Yemen.
The historical record reveals
that strong cyclones over this part of the peninsula are relatively rare. The
most recent to make landfall close to the city of Salalah occurred in 1963 and
1959. The former produced over 20 cm of rain and caused severe sandstorms. The
latter caused flooding and severe damage to buildings, the UK Met Office said.
Monsoon build-up
Even as 'Mekunu' has spun away
its compliment of incoming monsoon flows and moisture, the other end of the
Arabian Sea (off India's coast) has been witnessing cloud build-up. Satellite
pictures this morning showed the islands of Lakshadweep, Maldives, and Sri
Lanka along with India's South-West coast (Kerala) masked by thunderclouds
rising into the heights.
The clouding now extends fully
into the adjoining Bay of Bengal, starting off from the Tamil Nadu coast, the
South-West and adjoining West-Central Bay and the Andaman Sea. This is where
IMD expects the Bay 'arm' of the monsoon precipitating either today or
tomorrow, with the Arabian Sea 'arm' likely materialising over the Bay early
next week.
It has warned fishermen from
venturing into South-East Arabian Sea, Lakshadweep and off Kerala from tomorrow
in view of likely strengthening of winds in the region.
Published on May 25, 2018
Tanzania: Relief As Rice Prices
Decrease
Rice.
By Halili Letea
Dar es Salaam — Rice prices, both retail and wholesale, have
started to fall in various markets in the city, this is thanks to ongoing
harvests of the commodity in different parts of the country.A random survey by
The Citizen in different markets in the city this week has shown that there has
been an increase in the supply of the commodity.
The survey found that the wholesale prices for a 100-kilo bag of
rice has gone down to Sh160,000 as of May 16 from Sh220,000 recorded on April
16, this year.
This has resulted in the decrease of the average retail prices
to around Sh2,000 per kilo from around Sh3,000 per kilo recorded in April this
year.
Mr Peter Kato, a retailer and wholesaler of grains, including
rice at Temeke-Double Cabin Market in Dar es Salam told The Citizen that the
volume of rice he received over the past two weeks has increased.
"I current receive up to 300 bags of rice a day compared to
less than 150 bags during the past months," Mr Kato, who manages 41 stores
of grain in Temeke, said.
Tandika-Market chairman Mohamed Mwekya said the fall of pries
happens between May and July every year, but price harvested last year continue
to remain high.
"People (hotel and small restaurant owners) prefer old rice
than the new one that is why sellers raise prices for them," he said.
"Most of our rice in the city originates from upcountry,
especially Kyela District, Mbeya Region, Morogoro and Shinyanga," he said.
The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) monthly economic Review for April
showed that prices of rice decreased by 0.4 per cent in March to Sh185,735 per
100 kilos from Sh186,509 recorded in February this year.
However, on annual basis, the commodity price increased by 8.1
per cent in March from Sh171,760 recorded in March 2017.
Rice
Production In Maine ‘Growing Exponentially' Amid Increasing Demand
By ABIGAIL
CURTIS - BANGOR DAILY NEWS • 18 HOURS AGO
Maine might seem to be an unusual place to
grow rice, but for the last six years, Ben Rooney from Wild Folk Farm in Benton
has shown it can be done.
He’s also found that Mainers are hungry for
locally-grown rice, with demand far outpacing the amount of the grain that the
small paddy system on his farm — the only Maine farm commercially growing rice —
can supply.
“The demand for rice seems to be growing
exponentially,” Rooney said. “People want rice here.”
That’s why he is particularly excited that
the Maine Rice Project, a non-profit he helped start which has a goal of
getting more people to grow and eat sustainably grown rice and grain throughout
Maine, is expanding. A $25,000 grant the project recently received from the
Maine Technology Institute is helping Rooney and others to search for new sites
to grow rice in Maine. They are hoping to partner with existing farms where
farmers would like to incorporate rice paddies into their business plan. They
are also interested in leasing farmland that would be good for growing rice.
“There’s a lot of people who have locations
that are good for rice paddies,” Rooney said.
A good site for a rice paddy will have clay
soil, an uphill pond with good capacity, a slight slope for water management
and be identified in the United States Department of Agriculture’s plant
hardiness map as in Zone 4b or warmer. For farmers who can and want to grow
rice on their farms, Rooney and others from the Maine
Rice Projectwill work with them to design and build paddy systems
based on individual site characteristics. Some of the knowledge of how to build
paddies on Maine farms came from his own years of trial and error at Wild Folk
Farm, where rice growing began somewhat experimentally.
“I got into rice because I got interested
in small-scale grain growing and human-powered grain growing,” Rooney said. “I
tried most of the normal [grains] and the only one that did well on the farm
was rice.”
That was in 2012, when he planted a few
grains of rice seed obtained through the USDA. Since then, his rice-growing
abilities have grown a lot. Last summer, using the one-acre paddy system
constructed at Wild Folk Farm, he grew between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds of rice,
and sold about 2,000 pounds of rice as food. Bags of rice from Wild Folk Farm
can be found at locations around the state, including Good Tern Natural Foods
in Rockland, the Portland Food Co-op, Morning Glory in Brunswick, Meridians in
Fairfield, Rising Tide in Damariscotta, 47 Daisies in Vassalboro, the Blue Hill
Co-op and the Belfast Co-op.
But he also has learned that Wild Folk Farm
is not, in fact, ideal for growing rice.
“There are two problems,” Rooney said. “One
is that we have an amazing bobolink population. Their name means ‘grass eater.’
We start growing rice and they eat it.”
Ducks in the rice paddies at
Wild Folk Farm in Benton.
CREDIT
COURTESY OF WILD FOLK FARM / VIA BANGOR DAILY NEWS
The other problem is that the uphill pond
is not big enough to give a sufficient amount of water to the rice paddies.
“The farm should be growing half the amount
of rice it’s growing,” he said. “So we’re downscaling. We’re growing less rice
in the paddies than we used to and more upland rice in our garden plots. The
reason for the expansion [of the Maine Rice Project] is that there’s a lot more
people who want rice, and Wild Folk can’t be supplying more. I’m trying to find
some places that are more favorable for growing rice. Places that are warmer,
with a good watershed and a nice pond.”
So far, he’s scoped out about a dozen
prospective sites, and would like to look at one or two dozen more before settling
on the right farms. Once the farms are chosen, site work on the one to four
acre paddy systems should begin in the spring of 2019. For paddy construction,
they’re looking for places where ponds can be built uphill so that gravity can
bring the water down to the paddies. And as for the varieties of rice that can
grow in Maine rice paddies, there are a lot. Even though most Maine grocery
stores carry just a handful of types, more than 40,000 varieties of cultivated
rice are said to exist. At Wild Folk Farm,
is growing
around a dozen different varieties right now, and selling eight of them. They
include a red rice from Uzbekistan, a risotto-type rice from Italy and a couple
of light-brown, short-grain varieties from Japan.
“Rice grows in all these places that have a
similar climate to Maine,” Rooney said.
The grant should take the Maine Rice
Project through the winter and the completion of three or four paddy designs
with participating farmers. He hopes that will just be the beginning of the
rice expansion here. If farmers see that they can recoup the cost of
constructing a paddy in just two or three years, it’s possible that more
farmers will decide to grow rice, he said.
“My goal all along has been to have more
paddies in Maine,” he said.
MAY 25, 2018 / 1:03 PM / UPDATED A DAY AGO
Nagpur
Foodgrain Prices Open- May 25, 2018
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open
Market-May 25, 2018
Nagpur, May 25 (Reuters) – Gram and
tuar prices showed weak tendency in Nagpur Agriculture
Produce Marketing Committee (APMC)
on poor buying support from local millers amid good supply
from producing regions. High
moisture content arrival, easy condition in Madhya Pradesh pulses
and release of stock from stockists
also pushed down prices.
About 5,000 bags of gram and 1,500
bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according
to sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Desi gram moved down in open market here in absence of buyers amid
increased supply
from producing belts.
TUAR
* Tuar varieties ruled steady in open market here on subdued demand from
local
traders amid ample stock in ready
position.
* Batri dal reported higher in open market here on good demand from
local traders amid weak supply from
producing belts.
* In Akola, Tuar New – 4,400-4,450, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,000-6,300, Udid
Mogar (clean)
– 7,000-8,000, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,200-8,100, Gram – 3,600-3,700, Gram
Super best
– 4,600-4,800
* Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and settled at last levels in weak trading activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market
prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS
Available prices Previous
close
Gram Auction
3,050-3,330 3,100-3,370
Gram Pink Auction
n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction
3,450-3,970 3,500-4,050
Moong Auction
n.a. 3,900-4,200
Udid Auction
n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction
n.a. 2,600-2,800
Wheat Mill quality Auction
1,600-1,726 1,600-1,750
Gram Super Best Bold
5,000-5,200 5,000-5,200
Gram Super Best
n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best
4,500-4,800 4,500-4,800
Gram Dal Medium
n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality
3,450-3,500 3,450-3,550
Desi gram Raw
3,450-3,525 3,500-3,575
Gram Kabuli 9,000-12,000 9,000-12,000
Tuar Fataka Best-New
6,100-6,300 6,100-6,300
Tuar Fataka Medium-New
5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New
5,700-5,900 5,700-5,900
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New
5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600
Tuar Gavarani New
4,150-4,250 4,150-4,250
Tuar Karnataka
4,450-4,550 4,450-4,550
Masoor dal best
4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000
Masoor dal medium
4,500-4,700 4,500-4,700
Masoor
n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold (New)
7,500-8,300 7,500-8,300
Moong Mogar Medium
6,700-7,200 6,700-7,200
Moong dal Chilka
6,000-7,000 6,000-7,000
Moong Mill quality
n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best
7,500-8,500 7,500-8,500
Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,500
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)
5,500-6,500
5,500-6,500
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)
5,700-6,000
5,700-6,000
Batri dal (100 INR/KG)
5,150-5,550 5,100-5,500
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)
2,700-2,800 2,700-2,800
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
3,800-4,000 3,800-4,000
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)
5,300-5,600
5,300-5,600
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)
2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100
Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG)
1,950-2,050
1,950-2,050
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)
2,250-2,400
2,250-2,400
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG)
2,300-2,450
2,300-2,450
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG)
2,100-2,200 2,100-2,250
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG)
n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG)
3,200-4,000
3,200-4,000
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)
2,400-2,800
2,400-2,800
Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG)
3,200-3,800
3,200-3,800
Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG)
2,700-2,900
2,700-2,900
Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG)
2,700-2,900
2,900-2,900
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG)
2,600-2,800
2,600-2,800
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG)
2,500-2,600
2,500-2,600
Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG)
4,200-4,600
4,200-4,600
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG)
3,800-4,000
3,800-4,000
Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG)
5,300-5,800 5,300-5,800
Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG)
4,600-5,100
4,600-5,100
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG)
9,500-14,000
9,500-14,000
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG)
5,000-7,500
5,000-7,500
Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG)
6,200-6,500
6,200-6,500
Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG)
5,800-6,000
5,800-6,000
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)
2,000-2,200 2,000-2,100
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
1,800-2,000 1,700-2,000
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 44.7 degree Celsius,
minimum temp. 27.5 degree Celsius
Rainfall : nil
FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky.
Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 45 and 27 degree Celsius
respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are
excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices)
REUTERS
Rice Prices
as on :
25-05-2018 02:53:52 PM
Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market.
Arrivals
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Price
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Current
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%
change |
Season
cumulative |
Modal
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Prev.
Modal |
Prev.Yr
%change |
|
Rice
|
||||||
Bangalore(Kar)
|
2536.00
|
9.08
|
39463.00
|
4250
|
4250
|
1.19
|
Burdwan(WB)
|
394.00
|
3.41
|
1908.00
|
2400
|
2400
|
14.29
|
Varanasi(Grain)(UP)
|
300.00
|
1.69
|
8513.00
|
2290
|
2285
|
-0.43
|
Guskara(Burdwan)(WB)
|
205.00
|
1.49
|
866.00
|
2500
|
2500
|
8.70
|
Bahraich(UP)
|
197.50
|
-6.62
|
5110.60
|
2250
|
2200
|
0.90
|
Bindki(UP)
|
180.00
|
18.42
|
24530.00
|
2240
|
2240
|
-
|
Siliguri(WB)
|
168.00
|
1.82
|
6000.00
|
2700
|
2700
|
NC
|
Shahjahanpur(UP)
|
140.00
|
-3.78
|
2388.40
|
2350
|
2345
|
-
|
Gondal(UP)
|
135.00
|
7.14
|
7529.50
|
2165
|
2165
|
2.12
|
Sainthia(WB)
|
133.00
|
-2.21
|
666.00
|
2480
|
2460
|
12.22
|
Gorakhpur(UP)
|
130.00
|
-10.34
|
3100.00
|
2145
|
2135
|
2.14
|
Agra(UP)
|
128.00
|
2.4
|
2208.00
|
2550
|
2570
|
-3.77
|
Katwa(WB)
|
115.00
|
1.77
|
643.00
|
2500
|
2500
|
8.70
|
Lucknow(UP)
|
96.00
|
NC
|
1570.00
|
2300
|
2300
|
6.98
|
Kalipur(WB)
|
86.00
|
2.38
|
1644.00
|
2600
|
2600
|
13.04
|
Allahabad(UP)
|
85.00
|
13.33
|
4278.50
|
2485
|
2485
|
13.99
|
Pilibhit(UP)
|
80.00
|
-4.76
|
2944.00
|
2445
|
2440
|
9.15
|
Chandabali(Ori)
|
79.50
|
NC
|
477.00
|
1600
|
1600
|
-33.33
|
Kasimbazar(WB)
|
78.00
|
NC
|
2099.50
|
2780
|
2750
|
12.10
|
Aligarh(UP)
|
75.00
|
-6.25
|
1515.00
|
2520
|
2500
|
-1.56
|
Indus(Bankura Sadar)(WB)
|
75.00
|
-6.25
|
2025.00
|
2750
|
2750
|
7.84
|
Kopaganj(UP)
|
70.00
|
12.9
|
1821.00
|
2145
|
2150
|
-0.69
|
Basti(UP)
|
67.50
|
31.07
|
2454.00
|
2150
|
2150
|
1.65
|
Bazpur(Utr)
|
65.50
|
69.25
|
1623.70
|
2205
|
1875
|
-10.00
|
P.O. Uparhali Guwahati(ASM)
|
60.00
|
-35.83
|
453.00
|
2400
|
2400
|
7.62
|
Ghaziabad(UP)
|
60.00
|
-25
|
2855.00
|
2665
|
2660
|
11.04
|
Faizabad(UP)
|
57.50
|
-8.73
|
998.50
|
2200
|
2175
|
-2.22
|
Gauripur(ASM)
|
50.00
|
25
|
1556.00
|
4500
|
4500
|
NC
|
Chintamani(Kar)
|
47.00
|
291.67
|
281.00
|
2000
|
2000
|
-4.76
|
Jorhat(ASM)
|
41.00
|
49.09
|
419.00
|
3200
|
3200
|
14.29
|
Bareilly(UP)
|
41.00
|
70.83
|
710.40
|
2400
|
2375
|
-
|
Cachar(ASM)
|
40.00
|
NC
|
1740.00
|
2400
|
2400
|
9.09
|
Teliamura(Tri)
|
40.00
|
25
|
140.00
|
3100
|
3100
|
-
|
Etawah(UP)
|
40.00
|
-13.04
|
1603.00
|
2390
|
2385
|
5.52
|
Hapur(UP)
|
40.00
|
-20
|
1605.00
|
2670
|
2670
|
17.11
|
Dadri(UP)
|
40.00
|
-11.11
|
609.00
|
2650
|
2645
|
11.58
|
Naanpara(UP)
|
40.00
|
-25.23
|
1008.80
|
2190
|
2180
|
-1.13
|
Akbarpur(UP)
|
40.00
|
14.29
|
3247.50
|
2160
|
2175
|
-1.37
|
Karimpur(WB)
|
40.00
|
14.29
|
360.00
|
3700
|
3600
|
17.46
|
Sahiyapur(UP)
|
39.00
|
-12.36
|
1880.50
|
2155
|
2150
|
-
|
Kolar(Kar)
|
36.00
|
-62.5
|
199.00
|
1318
|
1270
|
-22.47
|
Jayas(UP)
|
36.00
|
28.57
|
1246.00
|
2110
|
2110
|
8.21
|
Junagarh(Ori)
|
35.41
|
15.57
|
516.49
|
2200
|
2200
|
4.76
|
Gajol(WB)
|
35.10
|
30
|
1078.10
|
3550
|
3550
|
22.41
|
Mathura(UP)
|
34.00
|
3.03
|
464.00
|
2540
|
2545
|
0.79
|
Muzzafarnagar(UP)
|
29.00
|
20.83
|
1214.50
|
2670
|
2665
|
-
|
Jhargram(WB)
|
29.00
|
-3.33
|
190.00
|
3050
|
3000
|
27.08
|
Kalahandi(Dharamagarh)(Ori)
|
28.72
|
-27.69
|
531.68
|
2200
|
2200
|
4.76
|
Sitapur(UP)
|
28.00
|
7.69
|
526.00
|
2210
|
2220
|
-
|
Gazipur(UP)
|
28.00
|
7.69
|
816.00
|
2280
|
2280
|
7.29
|
Safdarganj(UP)
|
28.00
|
12
|
766.00
|
2200
|
2225
|
2.33
|
Puranpur(UP)
|
26.00
|
-29.73
|
1736.20
|
2370
|
2365
|
-
|
Auraiya(UP)
|
25.00
|
4.17
|
809.70
|
2450
|
2490
|
11.36
|
Partaval(UP)
|
25.00
|
-20.63
|
286.00
|
2135
|
2140
|
3.14
|
Tamkuhi Road(UP)
|
25.00
|
38.89
|
736.00
|
2150
|
2150
|
-
|
Nadia(WB)
|
25.00
|
25
|
259.00
|
3700
|
3900
|
NC
|
Rampur(UP)
|
24.00
|
20
|
300.50
|
2380
|
2380
|
-
|
Lakhimpur(UP)
|
24.00
|
-22.58
|
121.00
|
2270
|
2185
|
4.61
|
Saharanpur(UP)
|
23.00
|
9.52
|
835.50
|
2670
|
2670
|
12.90
|
Jangipura(UP)
|
22.00
|
-54.17
|
868.00
|
2230
|
2230
|
-
|
Robertsganj(UP)
|
21.50
|
16.22
|
417.30
|
2270
|
2275
|
14.94
|
Balrampur(UP)
|
20.00
|
11.11
|
204.00
|
2125
|
2350
|
1.19
|
Mainpuri(UP)
|
20.00
|
NC
|
1079.00
|
2720
|
2740
|
-
|
Chorichora(UP)
|
20.00
|
25
|
495.50
|
2140
|
2145
|
-
|
Alipurduar(WB)
|
20.00
|
NC
|
560.00
|
2800
|
2800
|
21.74
|
Jaunpur(UP)
|
19.00
|
11.76
|
1136.70
|
2200
|
2200
|
4.76
|
Tamluk (Medinipur E)(WB)
|
19.00
|
5.56
|
296.00
|
2800
|
2850
|
21.74
|
Bharthna(UP)
|
18.00
|
-10
|
6132.00
|
2400
|
2400
|
-
|
Purulia(WB)
|
18.00
|
-10
|
254.00
|
2920
|
2920
|
24.26
|
Champadanga(WB)
|
18.00
|
28.57
|
293.00
|
3250
|
3300
|
18.18
|
Kolaghat(WB)
|
18.00
|
5.88
|
283.00
|
2800
|
2850
|
21.74
|
Banda(UP)
|
17.00
|
21.43
|
507.00
|
2215
|
2230
|
-
|
Karsiyang(Matigara)(WB)
|
16.50
|
3.12
|
490.90
|
3000
|
3000
|
11.11
|
Dhekiajuli(ASM)
|
16.00
|
-15.79
|
164.00
|
2300
|
2350
|
NC
|
Giridih(Jha)
|
15.64
|
-22.38
|
331.73
|
3500
|
3500
|
NC
|
Badayoun(UP)
|
15.00
|
-11.76
|
431.00
|
2375
|
2365
|
-
|
Jasra(UP)
|
15.00
|
50
|
890.50
|
2350
|
2300
|
-
|
Madhoganj(UP)
|
14.00
|
33.33
|
2190.00
|
2240
|
2230
|
4.67
|
Ghatal(WB)
|
14.00
|
7.69
|
169.50
|
2600
|
2600
|
6.12
|
Udala(Ori)
|
13.00
|
44.44
|
69.00
|
2650
|
2650
|
-1.85
|
Kayamganj(UP)
|
13.00
|
-7.14
|
452.00
|
2280
|
2270
|
NC
|
Islampur(WB)
|
13.00
|
NC
|
611.50
|
3300
|
3300
|
46.67
|
Raiganj(WB)
|
13.00
|
NC
|
700.00
|
3200
|
3200
|
26.73
|
Jhansi(UP)
|
12.00
|
-
|
12.00
|
2245
|
-
|
-
|
Pukhrayan(UP)
|
12.00
|
-36.84
|
403.00
|
2120
|
2140
|
-
|
Karvi(UP)
|
11.50
|
-8
|
178.00
|
2220
|
2210
|
-0.45
|
Fatehpur(UP)
|
11.00
|
-26.67
|
1161.10
|
2240
|
2245
|
1.82
|
Khurja(UP)
|
11.00
|
10
|
583.50
|
2590
|
2590
|
-
|
Nagpur(Mah)
|
10.00
|
-
|
10.00
|
2425
|
-
|
-
|
Khair(UP)
|
10.00
|
25
|
1145.00
|
2550
|
2600
|
NC
|
Mahoba(UP)
|
9.20
|
-10.68
|
315.70
|
2150
|
2160
|
-
|
Deogarh(Ori)
|
9.00
|
NC
|
385.00
|
2500
|
2500
|
NC
|
Dibrugarh(ASM)
|
7.20
|
33.33
|
396.50
|
2920
|
2920
|
29.78
|
Bolangir(Ori)
|
7.00
|
NC
|
191.00
|
2800
|
2800
|
16.67
|
Baberu(UP)
|
7.00
|
366.67
|
26.50
|
2175
|
2150
|
-
|
Kannauj(UP)
|
6.80
|
4.62
|
137.20
|
2230
|
2240
|
1.36
|
Muradabad(UP)
|
6.50
|
-18.75
|
257.50
|
2475
|
2450
|
-
|
Maudaha(UP)
|
6.50
|
-7.14
|
183.90
|
2260
|
2250
|
7.62
|
Mirzapur(UP)
|
6.00
|
-20
|
498.50
|
2210
|
2215
|
-
|
Kosikalan(UP)
|
5.50
|
83.33
|
70.00
|
2520
|
2515
|
-
|
Raibareilly(UP)
|
5.00
|
-87.65
|
210.00
|
2150
|
2150
|
1.42
|
Buland Shahr(UP)
|
5.00
|
-16.67
|
107.00
|
2650
|
2630
|
13.25
|
Chhibramau(Kannuj)(UP)
|
5.00
|
25
|
299.50
|
2240
|
2250
|
NC
|
Farukhabad(UP)
|
4.50
|
7.14
|
181.50
|
2375
|
2380
|
7.47
|
Shikohabad(UP)
|
4.00
|
-20
|
122.00
|
2880
|
2860
|
8.68
|
Ramkrishanpur(Howrah)(WB)
|
3.80
|
-49.33
|
97.30
|
3000
|
3000
|
15.38
|
Kalyani(WB)
|
3.50
|
-66.67
|
100.40
|
3400
|
3400
|
NC
|
Kasganj(UP)
|
2.20
|
-15.38
|
45.30
|
2650
|
2660
|
-
|
Chandausi(UP)
|
2.00
|
-16.67
|
90.90
|
2245
|
2250
|
-7.42
|
Shamli(UP)
|
2.00
|
-20
|
22.50
|
2680
|
2670
|
-
|
Bangarmau(UP)
|
1.60
|
33.33
|
32.00
|
2175
|
2150
|
6.10
|
Kalimpong(WB)
|
1.60
|
6.67
|
10.60
|
4300
|
4200
|
65.38
|
Tundla(UP)
|
1.20
|
20
|
100.10
|
2560
|
2580
|
-
|
Fatehpur Sikri(UP)
|
0.80
|
-11.11
|
24.60
|
2550
|
2540
|
0.79
|
Khairagarh(UP)
|
0.80
|
NC
|
73.10
|
2550
|
2550
|
1.19
|
Published
on May 25, 2018
The carbon
dioxide we pump into the atmosphere is making our food less nutritious
A less nutritious rice. (Reuters/Kham)
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May 24, 2018
The carbon dioxide humans pump
into Earth’s atmosphere is doing more damage to the global food system than
once thought. Beyond physically changing weather conditions and the land on
which farmers grow crops, new evidence shows excess carbon dioxide is
deteriorating the nutritional quality of some food plants.
A study published this week in the journal Science
Advances specifically focuses on rice, which under higher carbon dioxide
concentrations experiences a reduction in iron, zinc, protein, and vitamins B1,
B2, B5, and B9.
There isn’t
a deep body of evidence yet on the topic of how carbon dioxide changes
nutritional profiles, even though the effects of such a phenomenon could
dramatically impact the lives of hundreds of millions—particularly those in
less developed countries that rely on grains as a major source for calories. As
part of their research, the scientists specifically focused on countries where
more than half of the average person’s calories come from rice. The rate of
impact is still unclear.
“It’s something that we need to
be aware of and it’s something that we need to evaluate,” says Lewis Ziska, a
US Department of Agriculture plant physiologist who is on the research team.
“The risk is going to be especially egregious for the poorest people in the
world.”
In wealthier societies with
access to more diverse diets, people are less likely to feel the impact as
acutely. Still, Ziska cautions that every living thing has the potential of
being affected. More research needs to take place, but Ziska wonders how the
plant-
effects of rising carbon dioxide
levels might impact bees, or species that already have a limited number of food
sources. Pandas, for instance, eat only bamboo, and koala bears munch mostly on
eucalyptus tree leaves.
As part of their research, the
scientists grew 18 varieties of rice at sites in China and Japan. At each site
they also built a 17-meter-wide (56 feet) plastic piping system placed about 30
centimeters (1 foot) above the tops of the plants. The pipes would release
carbon dioxide into the environment, which was measured by a network of sensors
and monitors.
“This technique allows us to test
the effects of higher carbon dioxide concentrations on plants growing in the
same conditions that farmers really will grow them some decades later in this
century,” says Kazuhiko Kobayashi, a co-author of the study from the University
of Tokyo, in a press release.
The study made a point to
specifically mention the more than 600 million people living in Bangladesh,
Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Vietnam,
and Madagascar as being particularly at the greatest risk if the quality of
their primary food plummets.
Latest research aims to strengthen
Thai reputation as world rice leader
By The Nation
MAY 24, 2018 5:50 PM
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha
Chakri Sirindhorn on Wednesday presided over the opening ceremony of the Fifth
National Rice Academic Conference 2018 which was held in Bangkok under the
banner of “Thai Rice Research Moves Towards Thailand 4.0”.
Nine agencies involved in studying
rice collaborated on the conference themes focused on strengthening the rice
sector in Thailand, by improving productivity and processing from upstream to
downstream to add value to the nation’s foremost crop and its position as the
world’s foremost rice trader.
Presenters from government and
private agencies discussed their research and shared new knowledge, joined by
specialists in local communities throughout the Kingdom, said Agriculture
Minister Krisada Boonraj.
The Agricultural Research
Development Agency (ARDA) was this year’s major conference host, and its
director, Phanpimol Chanyanuwat explained the agricultural research funding
agency’s role, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives
– improving the quality of life of farmers, especially Thai rice farmers,
through earning a stable income.
The agency was ready to work with
research agencies, and other agencies, to create knowledge, enhance Thai rice
competitiveness through technology and innovation, while also helping Thai
farmers reduce production cost, and ensure quality production, she added.
Thai farmers should not only be
able to sell their paddy rice or milled rice, but also process rice into other
high value-added products and create more effective distribution channels for
farmers, Phanpimol said.
Farmers should be able to grow rice
without
the environment, so that producers and consumers have high
quality lives, while also helping Thailand maintain its position as the world’s
major exporter of sustainably harvested rice, she added.
The May 23-24 conference also
featured two major exhibitions at a hotel in the government complex, in
Chaengwattana, Bangkok. The first exhibition honoured the Royal Institute to
commemorate the resolutions of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, His Majesty
King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
The second exhibition featured the
nine allied agencies under the major theme of presenting research and
innovation on rice. It highlighted research that was consistent with goals of
national development.
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Amira Nature Foods
LT Foods
Best Foods
Kohinoor Rice
Aeroplane Rice
Tilda Basmati Rice
Matco Foods
Amar Singh Chawal Wala
Hanuman Rice Mills
Adani Wilmar
HAS Rice Pakistan
Galaxy Rice Mill
Dunar Foods
Sungold
Amira Nature Foods
LT Foods
Best Foods
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Aeroplane Rice
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improvement patterns and promoting channels are divided. This report also
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global into major key regions, with use, income, market share, and development
rate of Basmati Rice in these regions.
Basmati Rice Market Includes
North America (Canada, Mexico, and the USA), Europe (Germany, France, Russia,
UK, and Italy), Asia-Pacific (China, South Korea, Thailand, India, Vietnam,
Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan), South America (Argentina and Brazil), The
Middle East and Africa (South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Nigeria).
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Basmati Rice Market Size,
Status and Forecast 2023
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2 Global Basmati Rice Competition Analysis by Players
3 Basmati Rice Company Profiles
4 Global Basmati Rice Market Size by Type and Application (2018-2023)
5 United States Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
6 EU Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
7 Japan Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
8 China Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
9 India Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
10 Southeast Asia Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
11 Market Forecast by Regions, Type, and Application (2018-2023)
12 Basmati Rice Market Dynamics
13 Market Effect Factors Analysis
14 Research Finding/Conclusion
15 Appendix
2 Global Basmati Rice Competition Analysis by Players
3 Basmati Rice Company Profiles
4 Global Basmati Rice Market Size by Type and Application (2018-2023)
5 United States Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
6 EU Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
7 Japan Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
8 China Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
9 India Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
10 Southeast Asia Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
11 Market Forecast by Regions, Type, and Application (2018-2023)
12 Basmati Rice Market Dynamics
13 Market Effect Factors Analysis
14 Research Finding/Conclusion
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Worries pile up for border farmers, paddy season on, but wheat
not sold
Villagers
distressed as harvested rabi crop lies dumped in deserted shelling-hit villages
People move to safer areas after heavy shelling at Jora Farm along the International Border in Jammu. Tribune Photo
Arteev Sharma
Tribune News Service
Arnia, May 24
The recurrent Pakistan shelling and firing on
Indian villages along the 198-km-long International Border (IB) have left the
entire farming community in despair as farmers have been not able to carry out
normal agricultural activities in their fields.
During the last one week, thousands of farmers
from border villages have fled their homes and taken refuge at relief camps
following intense shelling on the entire border belt from Paharpur on the
Kathua-Punjab border to the Chicken’s Neck area of Akhnoor in Jammu district.
The agricultural land within the radius of five
kilometres from the IB, measuring about 1.25 lakh hectares, falls under the
firing and shelling range.
The rabi crops, especially wheat, have been
lying unattended in deserted houses, even as the farmers’ concern about the
next paddy crop is mounting. The villagers are unable to get their fields ready
to raise seedlings prior to the transplantation of paddy.
Another worry is the non-availability of labour
from outside the state. Labourers, particularly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh,
are not ready to work in fields under the present hostile border conditions.
“We had a bumper crop of wheat this year but it
is now lying unattended at our homes in Treva, a village close to the IB which
has been heavily shelled by Pakistan. The situation turned volatile on the
border just after we harvested wheat crop. We did not get the time to sell our
produce in the market. We don’t have any other source of income, how will we
sustain our families?” asked Rattan Lal, a 58-year-old farmer staying at a
relief camp in Government Higher Secondary School, Salehar, Jammu.
Choudhary Dev Raj, president of the RS Pura
Basmati Rice Growers Association, claimed that nearly 1 lakh to 1.25 lakh
hectares in the border area, known for its world-class basmati, was directly
affected by Pakistan shelling.
“This is the most suitable time for border
farmers to start the preparation for the paddy crop. A delay of even 15 days
will lead to either a low yield or just no crop. Farmers do not want much from
the government, all that they seek is peace on the border,” said Raj.
The rice association president said: “We had
been demanding a special budget for border farmers as they come in direct line
of enemy shelling. They have been facing losses forthe last three years due to
the shelling, but no compensation has been paid to them so far”.
Ganshyam Sharma, president, Border Kissan
Welfare Union, Kathua, said: “Farmers in our areas are totally dependent on
rain as there is no irrigation facility. They have migrated to safer places
without any source of livelihood and if this situation continues, our worries
are what will they eat?”
Study claims climate change is
having a 'devastating' effect on the nutrition of rice
LAURA BREHAUT
Published:May 24,
2018
May 24, 2018 9:58
AM PDT
A decrease in the
nutritional value of rice could have a severe effect on human health. Getty
Images
New research
suggests that rice grown in higher carbon dioxide environments is less
nutritious
Rice – the staple
food of billions – will become less nutritious as carbon dioxide (CO2) levels
increase, a new study suggests.
Through
cultivating the grain in the high CO2 environments projected for the second
half of the century, researchers found a drop in essential nutrients such as
protein, zinc, iron, and various B vitamins.
A finding that
could have “devastating effects” on health, particularly in Southeast Asia
where roughly 600 million people rely on rice for at least 50 per cent of their
daily calories and protein requirements, according to the study in Science
Advances.
“Rice is not just
a major source of calories, but also proteins and vitamins for many people in
developing countries and for poorer communities within developed countries,”
said study co-author Kazuhiko Kobayashi of the University of Tokyo.
Nutritional
deficiencies, the researchers note, “can directly (cognitive development,
metabolism, and immune system) and indirectly (obesity, type 2 diabetes
mellitus) affect human health on a panoptic scale.”
The researchers
chose to examine the effect of heightened CO2 levels on rice because of the
fact that more than two billion people worldwide depend on it as a primary
food. According to Ricepedia, 90 per cent of the world’s rice is eaten in Asia,
where demand for the grain continues to grow.
“Anything that
impacts rice in terms of its nutritional quality is going to have an impact,”
Lewis H. Ziska, study co-author and plant physiologist at the United States
Department of Agriculture, told The Guardian.
Researchers used
an “open-field method” to simulate real-world growing conditions. Dr. Toshihiro
Hasegawa / National Agriculture and Food Research Organization of Japan
Researchers used
an “open-field method” in paddy fields in China and Japan to analyze the impact
of climate change on 18 different varieties of rice. Octagonal piping systems
were installed above the plants, which were equipped with sensors and monitors
to measure wind speed and CO2 levels.
Regardless of rice
paddy location, all crops grown in higher CO2 environments were less
nutritious: “containing about 10 per cent less protein, 8 per cent less iron
and 5 per cent less zinc than rice grown under current levels of carbon
dioxide,” The Guardian reports. All varieties also showed a drop in vitamins
B1, B2, B5 and B9, and contained more vitamin E than the rice of today.
Previous studies
have linked soaring levels of CO2 in the atmosphere to reduced protein and
increased carbohydrates in crops such as barley, potatoes, rice and wheat –
something “math biologist” Irakli Loladze dubbed the “junk-food effect.”
“We still don’t
understand why some plant genotypes show a bigger response to higher levels of
carbon dioxide,” Andrew Leakey, a crop biologist who was not involved in the
new study, told The New York Times. “And that’s important if we want to move
from understanding the problem to solving it.”
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Rice
exporters buoyed by bagging lion’s share of Philippine imports
Economy May 26, 2018 01:00
By THE NATION
FOUR
Thai exporters have won contracts to supply 212,500 tonnes of rice to the
Philippines in a sales coup that makes up 85 per cent of that country’s imports
of that rice type in the latest round of government to government (G2G)
bidding.
Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong said the Philippines’
National Food Agency (NFA) had invited bidding on 250,000 tonnes of the variety
– white rice graded at 25 per cent. The balance of the rice will be provided by
Singapore as a result of the city state’s trading in the commodity.
Delivery of the rice is scheduled for July and August. The four
export deals follow the country’s success in winning a bid from the Philippine
food agency for 120,000 tonnes of the same grade of rice on the G2G basis.
Delivery from that deal is for this month and June.
The latest round of bidding success will help boost Thai export and
maintain the country’s share of the rice market in the Philippines, which is
the world’s biggest rice importer, the Ministry of Commerce said.
It would also help to stabilise prices for Thai rice.
By May 22, rice exports this year totalled 4.276 million tonnes, up
2.64 per cent year on year – by 4.166 million tonnes. By value, the gain was
23.26 per cent, to US$2.182 billion.
The main destinations for Thai rice are China, South Africa,
Indonesia and the Philippines.
This year, shipments of rice are expected to achieve the sales
target of 10 million tonnes.
Adul Chotinisakorn, director-general of Department of Foreign Trade
(DFT), said the global prices for rice are expected to remain high - especially
for the Hom Mali variety - in the third quarter of this year.
Hom Mali rice is trading at around US$1,225 per tonne, compared
with $1,300 per tonne in 2008. White rice of 5 per cent grade is priced at $451
per tonne.
Demand for rice remains high in several countries, including
Indonesia, Adul said. Earlier, Indonesia purchased 1.3 million tonnes of Thai
rice and is expected to buy more, given that an election next year is likely to
stoke demand for rice.
For an upcoming sale of 43,700 tonnes of rice for the home market,
the bids submitted will be presented to a government subcommittee on Monday for
consideration before they are forwarded to the National Rice Policy Committee.
Nine producers placed bids.
An anonymous source from the DFT said that the department planned
to meet exporters, rice traders and rice millers to devise a management plan
for off-season rice in 2018 and in-season rice in the 2018-19 production year.
This would see the rice reach the market in September and October this year.
Neighbouring countries such as Cambodia have had low export prices.
“The rice industry has been concerned over high the high
levels production, with the adequate water available for rice fields and this
year being the 10th in the Thai rice cycle when price prices usually peak, as
in 2008-09,” the source said.
Global warming could bring a serious problem for the two billion people on the planet who depend on one grain for their staple diet: less nutritious rice to sustain them. Scientists have found that rice grown at higher levels of carbon dioxide has an overall lower nutritional value.
The grain contains lower levels of protein, and iron and zinc – metals vital for health in trace form – and also consistent declines in vitamin B.
This finding is not based on computer simulation of a plant’s response to notionally higher atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas CO2, nor on laboratory studies under glass and in artificial conditions. It is based on open air field trials.
That is, extra carbon dioxide is piped to the plants to mimic the ratios expected at the end of the century as ever more people burn ever greater quantities of fossil fuels. And it has been tested in many locations in rice-growing countries over many years.
The finding remains true – although at different levels of impact – for the 18 varieties or hybrids of rice tested so far.
Ten nations depend upon rice for daily food supplies. The people most likely to feel the consequences of reduced nutritional support – and these include impaired cognitive development, a feebler immune system, obesity and diabetes – are likely to be those who are poorest. The researchers estimate that 600 million people for whom rice provides more than half their daily diet could be affected.
Scientists from China, Japan, the US and Australia report in the journal Science Advances that they began their research, using what they call the technique of free air carbon dioxide enrichment, in 1998, to recreate what they expect to be the conditions under which farmers will grow crops a few decades from now.
They found on average that the test rice had 10% less protein, 8% less iron and 5.1% less zinc compared with rice grown by farmers under existing conditions. There were also declines of 17% in the vitamins B1 (thiamine) and of more than 16% in vitamin B2 (riboflavin). Vitamin B5, or pantothenic acid levels, were down more than 12%. Folate or vitamin B9 levels were down 30%.
“People say more CO2 is more plant food – and it is. But how plants respond to that sudden increase in food will impact human health as well, from nutritional deficits, to ethnopharmacology, to seasonal pollen allergies – in ways we don’t yet understand,” said Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the US Department of Agriculture research service, one of the authors.
Hungry billion
Up to a billion people in the world are what bureaucrats politely call “food insecure.” There has already been concern about the impact of higher levels of carbon dioxide on protein in potatoes, maize and other cereals.
As global temperatures rise in response to ever greater levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, harvests of all the staple cereals could in any case decline – sometimes as a response to ever wilder extremes of heat, rain and windstorm – by between 20 and 40%. But so far, there has been little research on the impact of climate change on the nutritional qualities of each staple.
The study puts the case more coolly: “For those populations that are highly rice-dependent, any CO2-induced change in the integrated nutritional value of rice grains could disproportionately affect human health.” And the scientists end their study by saying:
“Overall, these results indicate that the role of rising CO2 on reducing rice quality may represent a fundamental, but under-appreciated, human health effect associated with anthropogenic climate change.”
The grain contains lower levels of protein, and iron and zinc – metals vital for health in trace form – and also consistent declines in vitamin B.
This finding is not based on computer simulation of a plant’s response to notionally higher atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas CO2, nor on laboratory studies under glass and in artificial conditions. It is based on open air field trials.
That is, extra carbon dioxide is piped to the plants to mimic the ratios expected at the end of the century as ever more people burn ever greater quantities of fossil fuels. And it has been tested in many locations in rice-growing countries over many years.
The finding remains true – although at different levels of impact – for the 18 varieties or hybrids of rice tested so far.
Ten nations depend upon rice for daily food supplies. The people most likely to feel the consequences of reduced nutritional support – and these include impaired cognitive development, a feebler immune system, obesity and diabetes – are likely to be those who are poorest. The researchers estimate that 600 million people for whom rice provides more than half their daily diet could be affected.
Scientists from China, Japan, the US and Australia report in the journal Science Advances that they began their research, using what they call the technique of free air carbon dioxide enrichment, in 1998, to recreate what they expect to be the conditions under which farmers will grow crops a few decades from now.
They found on average that the test rice had 10% less protein, 8% less iron and 5.1% less zinc compared with rice grown by farmers under existing conditions. There were also declines of 17% in the vitamins B1 (thiamine) and of more than 16% in vitamin B2 (riboflavin). Vitamin B5, or pantothenic acid levels, were down more than 12%. Folate or vitamin B9 levels were down 30%.
“People say more CO2 is more plant food – and it is. But how plants respond to that sudden increase in food will impact human health as well, from nutritional deficits, to ethnopharmacology, to seasonal pollen allergies – in ways we don’t yet understand,” said Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the US Department of Agriculture research service, one of the authors.
Hungry billion
Up to a billion people in the world are what bureaucrats politely call “food insecure.” There has already been concern about the impact of higher levels of carbon dioxide on protein in potatoes, maize and other cereals.
As global temperatures rise in response to ever greater levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, harvests of all the staple cereals could in any case decline – sometimes as a response to ever wilder extremes of heat, rain and windstorm – by between 20 and 40%. But so far, there has been little research on the impact of climate change on the nutritional qualities of each staple.
The study puts the case more coolly: “For those populations that are highly rice-dependent, any CO2-induced change in the integrated nutritional value of rice grains could disproportionately affect human health.” And the scientists end their study by saying:
“Overall, these results indicate that the role of rising CO2 on reducing rice quality may represent a fundamental, but under-appreciated, human health effect associated with anthropogenic climate change.”
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