NFA holds bidding for MAV rice
imports
By Jed Macapagal
June 26, 2018
The National
Food Authority (NFA) has conducted an auction for the service fee for the
minimum access volume (MAV) rice importation program.
The said process is being done in order to assure the price of rice that will be imported by the private sector under MAV will be competitive.
NFA administrator Jason Aquino said at least 348 private corporations, cooperatives, and farmers organizations (FOs) participated in the bidding.
Earlier, the NFA Council set the minimum bid price for the auction at P250 per metric tons (MT) with succeeding bid offers at increments of P250 per MT but was lowered to P100 per MT and increment of P10 per MT.
However, the agency clarified that only those which applied, pre-qualified, and were awarded eligibility to bid (ETB) by them may submit bids.
Under the importation guidelines, rice traders are allowed to source from countries with a specific quota (CSQ) or from other rice-producing countries.
For the volume per origin, Thailand and Vietnam again have the highest maximum volume set for countries with specific quota at 293,100 MT each.
China, India and Pakistan were given 50,000 MT limit each, followed by Australia with 15,000 MT, and El Salvador with 4,000 MT.
Rice imports from omnibus origin were limited to 50,000 MT. This will fulfill the importation of 805,200 MT of rice under the MAV scheme of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The rice importation will only be limited to local importers composed of corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorship, joint ventures or farmers’ organizations. Each company will have a volume limit of 50,000 MT for non-FOs while a single FOs can only import up to 5,000 MT.
However, “to ensure that the bidding will not be monopolized by big companies, only 80 percent of the import volume will be allocated to non-FOs while the remaining 20 percent will be allocated for FO’s. This is equivalent to 161,000 MT for FO’s, and 644,000 MT for non-FOs,” Aquino noted.
Allocations for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are also proportioned based on the 2018 national daily consumption requirements. Of the total rice imports, 467,000 MT will be for Luzon (58 percent), 153,000 MT for Visayas (19 percent), and 185,000 MT for Mindanao (23 percent).
Aquino said the schedule of arrival of the rice imports will be in two phases during the lean months so as not to affect the buying price of local palay among local traders.
First phase will start arriving in July until Aug. 31, 2018, while the second phase will be on Dec. 20, 2018 until Feb. 28, 2019.
Last year, 805,200 MT of rice was also approved for importation under MAV but only 746,962 MT were allocated.
Arrival of rice import scheduled for the Phase II of 2017 MAV is ongoing until Aug. 30, 2018 with 200,673 MT still expected to arrive.
MAV is the volume allowed for a specific agricultural product that is imported to the country at a lower tariff due to the country’s commitment under the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of the WTO.
Annually, MAV importation is shouldered by the private sector.
The said process is being done in order to assure the price of rice that will be imported by the private sector under MAV will be competitive.
NFA administrator Jason Aquino said at least 348 private corporations, cooperatives, and farmers organizations (FOs) participated in the bidding.
Earlier, the NFA Council set the minimum bid price for the auction at P250 per metric tons (MT) with succeeding bid offers at increments of P250 per MT but was lowered to P100 per MT and increment of P10 per MT.
However, the agency clarified that only those which applied, pre-qualified, and were awarded eligibility to bid (ETB) by them may submit bids.
Under the importation guidelines, rice traders are allowed to source from countries with a specific quota (CSQ) or from other rice-producing countries.
For the volume per origin, Thailand and Vietnam again have the highest maximum volume set for countries with specific quota at 293,100 MT each.
China, India and Pakistan were given 50,000 MT limit each, followed by Australia with 15,000 MT, and El Salvador with 4,000 MT.
Rice imports from omnibus origin were limited to 50,000 MT. This will fulfill the importation of 805,200 MT of rice under the MAV scheme of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The rice importation will only be limited to local importers composed of corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorship, joint ventures or farmers’ organizations. Each company will have a volume limit of 50,000 MT for non-FOs while a single FOs can only import up to 5,000 MT.
However, “to ensure that the bidding will not be monopolized by big companies, only 80 percent of the import volume will be allocated to non-FOs while the remaining 20 percent will be allocated for FO’s. This is equivalent to 161,000 MT for FO’s, and 644,000 MT for non-FOs,” Aquino noted.
Allocations for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are also proportioned based on the 2018 national daily consumption requirements. Of the total rice imports, 467,000 MT will be for Luzon (58 percent), 153,000 MT for Visayas (19 percent), and 185,000 MT for Mindanao (23 percent).
Aquino said the schedule of arrival of the rice imports will be in two phases during the lean months so as not to affect the buying price of local palay among local traders.
First phase will start arriving in July until Aug. 31, 2018, while the second phase will be on Dec. 20, 2018 until Feb. 28, 2019.
Last year, 805,200 MT of rice was also approved for importation under MAV but only 746,962 MT were allocated.
Arrival of rice import scheduled for the Phase II of 2017 MAV is ongoing until Aug. 30, 2018 with 200,673 MT still expected to arrive.
MAV is the volume allowed for a specific agricultural product that is imported to the country at a lower tariff due to the country’s commitment under the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of the WTO.
Annually, MAV importation is shouldered by the private sector.
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Private
traders to import 780,000 MT of rice under MAV
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SHARES
Published June
26, 2018, 10:01 PM
By Madelaine B. Miraflor
Private traders are set to import 780,000 metric tons (MT) of
rice under the Minimum Access Volume (MAV) program.
The National Food Authority (NFA) conducted on Monday night the
auction for 2017 to 2018 MAV rice importation program in compliance with
Philippines’ commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Under this scheme, the country has to fulfill the importation of
805,200 MT of rice as we gave up the WTO-backed import quota for the staple.
NFA Grains and Marketing Chief Rocky Valdez said yesterday that
of the total volume, only 19,000 MT, or those that are supposed to come from El
Salvador and Australia, were not allocated.
To be specific, 348 private corporations, cooperatives, and
Farmers Organizations (FO) participated in the bidding.
Valdez said that of these, only 15 to 20 percent will be awarded
with supply contracts.
Under the importation guidelines, rice traders are allowed to
source from countries with a specific quota (CSQ) or from other rice-producing
countries (omnibus origin).
For the volume per origin, Thailand and Vietnam again have the
highest maximum volume set for countries with specific quota at 293,100 MT
each.
China, India, and Pakistan were given 50,000 MT limit each,
followed by Australia with 15,000 MT, and El Salvador with 4,000 MT. Rice
imports from omnibus origin was limited to 50,000 MT.
The rice importation was limited to local importers composed of
corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorship, joint ventures or farmers’
organizations.
Each company has a volume limit of 50,000 MT for non-FO while a
single FO can only import up to 5,000 MT.
Allocations for Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are also
proportioned based on the 2018 national daily consumption requirements.
Of the total rice imports, 467,000 MT will be for Luzon (58
percent), 153,000 MT for Visayas (19 percent), and 185,000 MT for Mindanao (23
percent).
NFA Administrator Jason Aquino said that the schedule of arrival
of the rice imports will be during the lean months so as not to affect the
buying price of local palay prices among local traders.
The arrival of the rice imports is divided in two phases.
“First phase will start arriving in July until August 31, 2018,
while the second phase will start on December 20, 2018 until February 28,
2019,” Aquino said.
Last year, 805,200 MT of rice was also approved for importation
under MAV but only 746,962 MT were allocated.
Arrival of rice import scheduled for the Phase II of 2017 MAV is
still ongoing until August 30, 2018 with 200,673 MT still expected to arrive.
Tariffs collected from MAV importation will go to Agricultural
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, which is allocated to the agriculture sector.
The MAV importation is on top of the importation of 500,000 MT
of rice through a government-to-government and government-to-private bidding
that just recently took place.
Unchecked GM seed imports could hurt rice exports
June 25, 2018
AS officials and traders rejoice in the rice crop’s success, rice
production and its exports —which stand second only to cotton exports — are
already in jeopardy.
Reports of genetically modified rice seed invading the market, and
thus affecting production, have generated fears in the industry regarding
exports.
According to the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan’s (REAP)
data, the country now produces 7.4 million tonnes of rice — a record unto
itself. Production swelled by 8.7 per cent from 6.8m tonnes last year.
The Department of Plant Protection detained the consignments of
around 1,800 tonnes of hybrid rice seed suspecting them to be genetically
modified
As per the economic survey of 2017-18, the area cultivated under
rice crop increased by 6.4pc from 6.72m acres in 2016-17 to 7.14m acres this
year. Therefore, exports registered a 29pc increase in the first three quarters
(July-March) of the current fiscal as compared to the corresponding period last
year.
The income from exports grew from $1.17 billion to $1.49bn this
year. This success has a context. The Ministry of Food Security and Research
took an initiative in 2015 for improving yield and trade surpluses; they
involved the Chinese government and companies in rice production and started
importing a better quality hybrid rice seed.
For the next two years, both sides were sending and receiving a
number of delegations, with Chinese and Pakistani rice experts frequenting each
others’ fields and markets. This resulted in producing better varieties of
hybrid seeds, with the addition to yield outpacing the increase in area under
production.
The average yield has jumped from 825 kilogramme per acre in
2010-11 to over 1,000kg/acre this year. These statistics have generated
optimism and rightly so. However, this success came after a massive trade in
imported seeds from China, ranging from 7,000 tonnes to 10,000 tonnes.
Pakistan, with few interventions at its ports and in the
distribution network, was never expected to keep the supply chain fully clean.
During random sample checking at the port early this year, some consignments
from China were found to be carrying genetically modified (GM) rice seed and
were detained.
The Department of Plant Protection (DPP), which checks for quality
and purity, detained the consignments of around 1,800 tonnes of hybrid seed and
made them undergo the testing process.
The matter was complicated further when one laboratory in Karachi
tested the consignment positive for genetic modification, but another lab in
Faisalabad contradicted it. Yet another official lab tested it positive. As the
issue snowballed, the Chinese embassy and the Punjab government stepped in.
In a letter to the federal government in April this year, Punjab
informed the food ministry that despite a policy of zero tolerance towards
import and export of GM rice, consignments with such content are reported every
now and then.
REAP has also been reporting rejections of export consignments due
to the same reason. It has thus requested to strengthen the inspection process
by involving nationally reputed laboratories.
In a similar letter, the Chinese government, which had duly
cleared the consignments, also wrote to the food ministry claiming that
Pakistan imports 7,000 to 10,000 tonnes of hybrid rice seed from China every
year.
China neither allows production nor export of GM rice seed to any
of its companies. Citing discrepancies in the testing results, it asked the
ministry to intervene and test the consignment in the presence of experts from
both sides to resolve the matter.
Beyond this diplomatic row, the industry here needs to be more
cautious as its stakes in the crop are even higher now given the recent success
of the crop grown with the help of the Chinese.
According to the traders of the seed, with the massive expansion
in the seed business, some trading houses, which have neither research nor
testing facilities, got involved in the business on either side.
GM rice seed will keep infiltrating the Pakistani market until and
unless both sides set up a registration process and a monitoring system to keep
the supply chain clean. The food ministry on its part needs to understand that
its policy initiative, for which it is claiming credit, could become a national
liability if it does not move quickly to plug these holes.
If consignments keep getting stopped or rejected for such reasons,
the entire initiative will fizzle out and additional production will remain
stuck in the country, leading to economic chaos, as has happened with wheat.
The reports of GM content, which are sporadic so far, should not
be allowed to gain any momentum otherwise Pakistan would quickly lose foreign
markets, which have no tolerance for such commodities.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, June 25th,
2018
For more live updates, follow Dawn.com's official news Instagram
account @dawn.today
Unchecked
GM seed imports could hurt rice exports
June 25, 2018
AS officials and traders rejoice in the rice crop’s success, rice
production and its exports —which stand second only to cotton exports — are
already in jeopardy.
Reports of genetically modified rice seed invading the market, and
thus affecting production, have generated fears in the industry regarding
exports.
According to the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan’s (REAP)
data, the country now produces 7.4 million tonnes of rice — a record unto
itself. Production swelled by 8.7 per cent from 6.8m tonnes last year.
The Department of Plant Protection detained the consignments of
around 1,800 tonnes of hybrid rice seed suspecting them to be genetically
modified
As per the economic survey of 2017-18, the area cultivated under
rice crop increased by 6.4pc from 6.72m acres in 2016-17 to 7.14m acres this
year. Therefore, exports registered a 29pc increase in the first three quarters
(July-March) of the current fiscal as compared to the corresponding period last
year.
The income from exports grew from $1.17 billion to $1.49bn this
year. This success has a context. The Ministry of Food Security and Research
took an initiative in 2015 for improving yield and trade surpluses; they
involved the Chinese government and companies in rice production and started
importing a better quality hybrid rice seed.
For the next two years, both sides were sending and receiving a
number of delegations, with Chinese and Pakistani rice experts frequenting each
others’ fields and markets. This resulted in producing better varieties of
hybrid seeds, with the addition to yield outpacing the increase in area under
production.
The average yield has jumped from 825 kilogramme per acre in
2010-11 to over 1,000kg/acre this year. These statistics have generated
optimism and rightly so. However, this success came after a massive trade in
imported seeds from China, ranging from 7,000 tonnes to 10,000 tonnes.
Pakistan, with few interventions at its ports and in the
distribution network, was never expected to keep the supply chain fully clean.
During random sample checking at the port early this year, some consignments
from China were found to be carrying genetically modified (GM) rice seed and
were detained.
The Department of Plant Protection (DPP), which checks for quality
and purity, detained the consignments of around 1,800 tonnes of hybrid seed and
made them undergo the testing process.
The matter was complicated further when one laboratory in Karachi
tested the consignment positive for genetic modification, but another lab in
Faisalabad contradicted it. Yet another official lab tested it positive. As the
issue snowballed, the Chinese embassy and the Punjab government stepped in.
In a letter to the federal government in April this year, Punjab
informed the food ministry that despite a policy of zero tolerance towards
import and export of GM rice, consignments with such content are reported every
now and then.
REAP has also been reporting rejections of export consignments due
to the same reason. It has thus requested to strengthen the inspection process
by involving nationally reputed laboratories.
In a similar letter, the Chinese government, which had duly
cleared the consignments, also wrote to the food ministry claiming that
Pakistan imports 7,000 to 10,000 tonnes of hybrid rice seed from China every
year.
China neither allows production nor export of GM rice seed to any
of its companies. Citing discrepancies in the testing results, it asked the
ministry to intervene and test the consignment in the presence of experts from
both sides to resolve the matter.
Beyond this diplomatic row, the industry here needs to be more
cautious as its stakes in the crop are even higher now given the recent success
of the crop grown with the help of the Chinese.
According to the traders of the seed, with the massive expansion
in the seed business, some trading houses, which have neither research nor
testing facilities, got involved in the business on either side.
GM rice seed will keep infiltrating the Pakistani market until and
unless both sides set up a registration process and a monitoring system to keep
the supply chain clean. The food ministry on its part needs to understand that
its policy initiative, for which it is claiming credit, could become a national
liability if it does not move quickly to plug these holes.
If consignments keep getting stopped or rejected for such reasons,
the entire initiative will fizzle out and additional production will remain
stuck in the country, leading to economic chaos, as has happened with wheat.
The reports of GM content, which are sporadic so far, should not
be allowed to gain any momentum otherwise Pakistan would quickly lose foreign
markets, which have no tolerance for such commodities.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, June 25th,
2018
For more live updates, follow Dawn.com's official news Instagram
account @dawn.today
Syndicate behind rice price hike: experts
Moinul
Haque | Published: 23:30, Jun 24,2018 | Updated: 23:51, Jun
24,2018
A rice seller waits for customers at a shop in Dhaka recently. —
New Age file photo
Traders,
despite bumper yield of paddy, have increased prices of rice on the pretext of
the reinstatement of 28 per cent import duty on the staple.
Market experts suspect a syndicate behind the recent hike of rice prices in the wake of the resumption of the import duty early this month to protect the local growers.
They say that despite having a huge supply of rice in market, the price hike indicates market manipulation.
The prices of rice have been on a rising trend in Bangladesh capital’s wholesale markets since the announcement in the budget for the financial year of 2018-19 on June 7 that the government reinstated 28 per cent import duty on the staple.
The high price of rice hit the retail market following Eid-ul-Fitr and the prices of all varieties of rice increased by Tk 1-3 a kilogram.
Experts blame a syndicate and lack of government monitoring, saying that imposition of import duty is appropriate but the government should monitor the market of the vital commodity.
‘There is no reason to increase the price of rice as more than 40 lakh tonnes of Boro rice have already entered market,’ agricultural economist Abdul Bayes told New Age on Sunday.
The country’s rice market is fully controlled by a syndicate and the quarter is increasing price of the staple to make excessive profits using duty imposition as an excuse, he says.
‘I appreciate reinstatement of import duty on rice but it was not timely. The government should have reinstate the import duty just after the harvesting season of Boro,’ Abdul Bayes, also director of BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, said.
Of both the growers and consumers, no one gets the benefit of import duty as it has been imposed at a time when small and medium farmers have already sold their stocks of rice at low prices while the consumers are forced to pay higher prices, he explains.
He suggests that the government form a price commission to ensure a win-win situation for both growers and consumers.
Ghulam Rahman, president of Consumers Association of Bangladesh, says that despite having a huge supply of rice, a quarter is trying to manipulate the market.
There is no acceptable reason to increase the price of rice as the country witnessed bumper production of rice in last two seasons, he says.
‘I think if the government takes necessary measures, the attempt to manipulate market by a quarter will not be successful,’ Ghulam Rahman said.
Traders, however, have alleged that immediately after the reinstatement of 28 per cent import duty on rice, importers and mill owners have squeezed the supply of rice and increased the price.
A kilogram of coarse variety of rice was selling at Tk 43-45 a kg on Sunday in the city markets.
The fine variety of Najirshail rice was retailing at Tk 65-70 a kg and its standard variety at Tk 60-65 a kg.
BR-28 rice was retailing at Tk 50-54 a kg while Miniket was selling at Tk 62-68 a kg.
Syed Monirul Islam, proprietor of Barisal Rice Agency at Mohammadpur Krishi Bazar, said that rice importers and mill owners increased the prices of all varieties of rice and they also squeezed the supply as the government re-imposed import duty on the item.
Kawser Alam Khan, vice-president of Bangladesh Rice Merchants Association, said every year the prices of rice increased a little bit after Eid in the absence of production at the rice mills during to Eid vacation.
He said that it would not be logical to increase the rice prices on the pretext of import duty but all traders would not run their business abiding by ethics and few traders or importers could take the advantage.
‘We have sufficient domestic production of rice and we need not to impost the item at this moment,’ Kawser added.
KM Layek Ali, general secretary of Bangladesh Auto Major and Husking Mill Owners Association, alleged that the government imposed import duty aiming to increase the prices of rice.
Market experts suspect a syndicate behind the recent hike of rice prices in the wake of the resumption of the import duty early this month to protect the local growers.
They say that despite having a huge supply of rice in market, the price hike indicates market manipulation.
The prices of rice have been on a rising trend in Bangladesh capital’s wholesale markets since the announcement in the budget for the financial year of 2018-19 on June 7 that the government reinstated 28 per cent import duty on the staple.
The high price of rice hit the retail market following Eid-ul-Fitr and the prices of all varieties of rice increased by Tk 1-3 a kilogram.
Experts blame a syndicate and lack of government monitoring, saying that imposition of import duty is appropriate but the government should monitor the market of the vital commodity.
‘There is no reason to increase the price of rice as more than 40 lakh tonnes of Boro rice have already entered market,’ agricultural economist Abdul Bayes told New Age on Sunday.
The country’s rice market is fully controlled by a syndicate and the quarter is increasing price of the staple to make excessive profits using duty imposition as an excuse, he says.
‘I appreciate reinstatement of import duty on rice but it was not timely. The government should have reinstate the import duty just after the harvesting season of Boro,’ Abdul Bayes, also director of BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, said.
Of both the growers and consumers, no one gets the benefit of import duty as it has been imposed at a time when small and medium farmers have already sold their stocks of rice at low prices while the consumers are forced to pay higher prices, he explains.
He suggests that the government form a price commission to ensure a win-win situation for both growers and consumers.
Ghulam Rahman, president of Consumers Association of Bangladesh, says that despite having a huge supply of rice, a quarter is trying to manipulate the market.
There is no acceptable reason to increase the price of rice as the country witnessed bumper production of rice in last two seasons, he says.
‘I think if the government takes necessary measures, the attempt to manipulate market by a quarter will not be successful,’ Ghulam Rahman said.
Traders, however, have alleged that immediately after the reinstatement of 28 per cent import duty on rice, importers and mill owners have squeezed the supply of rice and increased the price.
A kilogram of coarse variety of rice was selling at Tk 43-45 a kg on Sunday in the city markets.
The fine variety of Najirshail rice was retailing at Tk 65-70 a kg and its standard variety at Tk 60-65 a kg.
BR-28 rice was retailing at Tk 50-54 a kg while Miniket was selling at Tk 62-68 a kg.
Syed Monirul Islam, proprietor of Barisal Rice Agency at Mohammadpur Krishi Bazar, said that rice importers and mill owners increased the prices of all varieties of rice and they also squeezed the supply as the government re-imposed import duty on the item.
Kawser Alam Khan, vice-president of Bangladesh Rice Merchants Association, said every year the prices of rice increased a little bit after Eid in the absence of production at the rice mills during to Eid vacation.
He said that it would not be logical to increase the rice prices on the pretext of import duty but all traders would not run their business abiding by ethics and few traders or importers could take the advantage.
‘We have sufficient domestic production of rice and we need not to impost the item at this moment,’ Kawser added.
KM Layek Ali, general secretary of Bangladesh Auto Major and Husking Mill Owners Association, alleged that the government imposed import duty aiming to increase the prices of rice.
Rice-import LCs on zero margin facility scrapped
Staff Correspondent | Published: 22:19, Jun
26,2018
Bangladesh
Bank on Tuesday asked all commercial banks not to open any letter of credit on
zero margin for import of rice.
The margin will be decided based on banker-client relationship and risk of the loan for import of rice, the central bank said in a circular.
Banking regulation and policy department of the central bank issued the circular which also said that effectiveness of its previous two circulars issued on June 19 and June 21 in last year providing zero margin facility on import of rice expired on December 31.
The BB at that time had instructed the banks to open LCs without margin or taking any advance payment from the importers against the LCs to expedite rice import and contain the prices of the essential product on the local market following an abrupt rise in the rice prices.
The decision had been taken as the supply of rice faced a shortfall as flash floods in the haor areas caused a significant loss to rice production.
At that time, the BB had also restricted the tenure of payment or adjustment of current credit or overdraft facility (pledge and hypothecation) to 30 days from 45 days for the mill owners and rice traders.
In the latest circular to all managing directors and chief executive officers of banks, the BB said that rice production in the current year was satisfactory due to convenient weather.
The government has also taken various steps to ensure fair price of rice for local farmers and producers as well as to encourage them to cultivate rice.
The government is also working to ensure food security by raising the food-stock level to the expected level.
In this situation, banks are advised to determine the rate of margin in opening LCs for rice import considering the risk of loans for the purpose.
‘LCs should not be opened, at anyway, on zero margin,’ the circular said.
Rice millers and traders must have to adjust the current credit/ overdraft (pledge and hypothecation) with the banks within 45 days.
The mill owners and rice traders have to adjust or pay the current credit with the banks within 30 days, the circular added. Usually, banks open LCs for all imported items with keeping margin at various rates up to 100 per cent of credit based on bank-customer relationship.
The margin will be decided based on banker-client relationship and risk of the loan for import of rice, the central bank said in a circular.
Banking regulation and policy department of the central bank issued the circular which also said that effectiveness of its previous two circulars issued on June 19 and June 21 in last year providing zero margin facility on import of rice expired on December 31.
The BB at that time had instructed the banks to open LCs without margin or taking any advance payment from the importers against the LCs to expedite rice import and contain the prices of the essential product on the local market following an abrupt rise in the rice prices.
The decision had been taken as the supply of rice faced a shortfall as flash floods in the haor areas caused a significant loss to rice production.
At that time, the BB had also restricted the tenure of payment or adjustment of current credit or overdraft facility (pledge and hypothecation) to 30 days from 45 days for the mill owners and rice traders.
In the latest circular to all managing directors and chief executive officers of banks, the BB said that rice production in the current year was satisfactory due to convenient weather.
The government has also taken various steps to ensure fair price of rice for local farmers and producers as well as to encourage them to cultivate rice.
The government is also working to ensure food security by raising the food-stock level to the expected level.
In this situation, banks are advised to determine the rate of margin in opening LCs for rice import considering the risk of loans for the purpose.
‘LCs should not be opened, at anyway, on zero margin,’ the circular said.
Rice millers and traders must have to adjust the current credit/ overdraft (pledge and hypothecation) with the banks within 45 days.
The mill owners and rice traders have to adjust or pay the current credit with the banks within 30 days, the circular added. Usually, banks open LCs for all imported items with keeping margin at various rates up to 100 per cent of credit based on bank-customer relationship.
Closure of land borders:
Bigger questions loom
Audu Ogbeh
CITING the menace of organised smuggling to the revival of
its domestic rice programme, Nigeria is about to shut its land borders with its
West African neighbours. Not surprisingly, the Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, declared that the imminent closure was aimed at
protecting the production of rice by local farmers. Nigeria has witnessed a
mini-revolution in domestic rice production in the past two years, but the
revival faces a massive threat from cross-border smuggling.
In truth, this rare success story is under a heavy attack
by the countries that surround Nigeria. Although this country’s imports are
down because of several measures put in place, its neighbours’ rice imports
have tripled. Benin Republic, which used to import 400,000 metric tonnes
annually, has seen its rice imports climb to 1.2 million MT. Other countries
like Cameroon and Niger also flood their coasts with rice from Thailand.
These countries are manipulating the West African Free
Trade Protocol, which allows ECOWAS countries to move goods and services at
preferential tariff rates. With our porous borders, weak immigration and
compromised customs control, most of the rice from Asia ends up in Nigeria
through the back door. This kills the local efforts to sustain production.
Besides, the country loses revenue because duties are not
paid on smuggled goods. Therefore, the Muhammadu Buhari administration is right
to clamp the land borders shut, even if temporarily, to protect Nigeria’s
interest. It is an extreme diplomatic move, but it sends a clear message to our
neighbours. However, it is not the first time. At the height of cross-border
banditry in 2003, the then Olusegun Obasanjo administration shut the border
with Benin Republic. The closure had an instant impact: cross border crime
reduced and has not attained that scary level since the border was reopened.
Indeed, rice is regarded as a staple in Nigeria. In spite
of this, the country abandoned rice farming, perhaps because it was flush with
cheap petrodollars. Profligately, it depended heavily for decades on imported
rice to feed its population. Nigeria imported rice in 2015 at $1.65bn, the
Federal Government said. This is not sustainable. From Thailand alone, Nigeria
imported 664,131 metric tonnes of rice in the one year to September 2016. In
2008, the government had unwisely released N80bn from the Natural Resources Development
Fund to import 500,000MT of rice. This money, ploughed into a domestic
cultivation programme, would have transformed rice farming in Nigeria.
With economic recession underlined by high cost of foreign
exchange to procure imports, the government, through the Central Bank of
Nigeria, launched the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, which channelled N100bn soft
loans to rice farmers. In 2015, the CBN included rice among the 43 prohibited
items not eligible for foreign exchange at a concessionary rate. A 60 per cent
import duty was also placed on the item.
These sweeping measures revived domestic production. By
September 2017, rice import from Thailand had declined sharply by 90 per cent
to 20,000MT. From five million rice farmers in 2015, the number climbed to 11
million in 2017, the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria stated. Production
has climbed to seven million MT from four million MT.
Apart from cross-border smuggling, salient questions,
however, remain in the drive to be self-dependent and ban rice import
completely by 2020. The Nigeria Customs Service, as currently constituted,
lacks the mettle to contain the activities of smugglers. The borders – which
cannot even be closed indefinitely – are also porous. Thirdly, the government
is too weak and distracted to prosecute effectively smugglers.
As cars, prohibited items like processed food and frozen
poultry are being smuggled heavily into Nigeria. Customs headed by Hameed Ali,
have looked helpless as refined petroleum products, which Nigeria imports at a
damaging cost to its economy, are smuggled across the border. In addition, arms
and ammunition flow into Nigeria through this negligence. The United Nations
has said that 350 million out of the 500 million small and light weapons
circulating in West Africa are in Nigeria. The NCS is only able to seize a
fraction, as it did in 2017 on three separate occasions. This fuels banditry,
kidnapping, armed robbery, Fulani herdsmen massacres and the Boko Haram
insurgency. Zamfara State is under siege from local and trans-border bandits.
Insecurity is exacerbated by the laxity of the
dysfunctional Nigeria Immigration Service. The government approved only 84
official border points of entry into Nigeria. Puzzlingly, there were 1,499
illegal border routes as of 2013, the then Minister of Interior, Abba Moro,
said. Criminals and insurgents, therefore, easily infiltrate the country,
causing mayhem. Therefore, closing the land borders alone is not an integrated
solution to the menace of rice smuggling.
In simple terms, the Federal Government needs radical
initiatives to save the situation. This is what India and Pakistan do at their
joint borders, which is about 3,300 kilometres long. Out of this, nearly 2,000
kilometres is floodlit. Troops from both sides patrol their side of the borders
with intense scrutiny owing to fears of Islamist terrorism. Unlike Nigeria,
these governments give no excuse to their citizens.
For that reason, the closure of the land borders should be
accompanied by an overhaul of the Customs, in which officers have to work with
high-end technology. The current system of chasing smugglers in the hinterland
is inescapably obsolete. Detection ought to occur at the borders; those caught
should be prosecuted swiftly. Government should set a target for the NCS to
drastically reduce smuggling.
To protect the 100,000 miles of the American coastline,
the US Coast Guard employs over 56,000 officers to operate a multi-mission,
interoperable fleet of 243 Cutters, 201 fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, and
over 1,600 boats. Immediately, the NIS has to be restructured for efficient
service delivery. Its capacity should be enhanced, with air surveillance
established to monitor remote illegal border crossings.
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Rice
prices continue to soar
Delayed
distribution of more affordable NFA rice partly causes unabated increase
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:14 AM June 26, 2018
Rice
prices have continued to increase, due in part to the delayed distribution of
imported cheap rice by the National Food Authority.
According
to the Philippine Statistics Authority’s monitoring report on last week prices,
regular-milled and well-milled rice are selling at P40.44 and P44.13 a kilo,
respectively.
Compared
to the same period last year, both have risen by 7.18 percent and 5.55 percent,
respectively, said the PSA report released yesterday.
This was
the 23rd straight week that rice prices have increased, according to the PSA.
In a phone
interview, NFA spokesperson Rex Estoperez said retail prices of rice would
likely continue to rise until there is enough cheap rice in the market.
The
elevated prices of rice have contributed to the acceleration of inflation,
which hit 4.5 percent year-on-year in April, the fastest pace in more than five
years.
The NFA
expects, however, rice prices to go down by at least P1 to P2 a kilo once the
imported rice shipments are distributed nationwide.
Based on
the NFA’s original time frame, rice imports should have been distributed across
the country by now, in a bid to stem the unabated increase in rice prices.
The NFA
said, however, that its distribution operations had been delayed by bad weather
and port congestion issues.
The
subsidized rice is expected to improve the plight of less affluent consumers
who have been suffering from rising prices of basic commodities such as rice.
NFA rice
variants are priced at just P27 to P32 a kilo, depending on the quality, and
are consumed by some 10 million Filipinos.
Another
250,000 metric tons (MT) of rice are expected to arrive from Thailand and
Vietnam by July and August in preparation for the country’s lean months.
The period
usually runs from July to September when there is hardly any local harvest.
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Syndicate behind rice price increase must face actions
Published:
00:05, Jun 26,2018
Rice
prices recently registered a rise in Dhaka kitchen markets. The high rice
prices hit the retail market after Eid-ul-Fitr, as New Age reported on Monday,
and prices of all varieties of rice increased by Tk 1-3 a kilogram. The recent
increase defies any market logic as there has been a bumper rice production in
the past two seasons and more than 40 lakh tonnes of boro rice have already
entered the market. Rice traders tried to justify the increase saying that the
reinstatement of 28 per cent import duty on rice in budget proposal would
affect their business. The government reinstated the duty to ensure that local
growers get fair prices of their harvest. While experts appreciate the attempt
to protect local growers, they blame the government for failing to regulate the
market as a syndicate has been in control of rice market for some time now.
They think that the import duty should have been in place long before as small
and medium farmers have sold their rice stock. A large majority of farmers sold
their produce at a low price. It is a failure on part of the government that
time and again it has allowed the rice market to be under the control of vested
quarters.
Vested quarters are reportedly controlling the market of most everyday kitchen items. Amidst increased demand in Ramadan, some traders created an artificial shortage to charge higher. This is what is exactly is happening in the case recent rice price increase. A rice agency proprietor has supported the claim as he he said that rice importers and mill owners increased prices of all varieties of rice by squeezing the supply. Consumers rights advocates suggest that market manipulation has become the norm as the government mechanism to monitor is ill-equipped. They also alleged that, instead of monitoring the market, government officials often serve the interest of the syndicate. The incumbents should immediately form a price commission, as suggested by experts, to set a price range to protect small growers but is within the purchasing power of the public.
While the government must take immediate steps to tackle the situation at hand and control rice prices, it must also take lasting initiatives to resolve the problem of undue influence of unscrupulous syndicated traders and wholesalers. In doing so, it must judiciously investigate market manipulation by vested quarters and take full control of the market. There must be a foolproof mechanism through which market forces can control syndicates. It must also involve the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection to protect consumer rights in everyday transactions.
Vested quarters are reportedly controlling the market of most everyday kitchen items. Amidst increased demand in Ramadan, some traders created an artificial shortage to charge higher. This is what is exactly is happening in the case recent rice price increase. A rice agency proprietor has supported the claim as he he said that rice importers and mill owners increased prices of all varieties of rice by squeezing the supply. Consumers rights advocates suggest that market manipulation has become the norm as the government mechanism to monitor is ill-equipped. They also alleged that, instead of monitoring the market, government officials often serve the interest of the syndicate. The incumbents should immediately form a price commission, as suggested by experts, to set a price range to protect small growers but is within the purchasing power of the public.
While the government must take immediate steps to tackle the situation at hand and control rice prices, it must also take lasting initiatives to resolve the problem of undue influence of unscrupulous syndicated traders and wholesalers. In doing so, it must judiciously investigate market manipulation by vested quarters and take full control of the market. There must be a foolproof mechanism through which market forces can control syndicates. It must also involve the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection to protect consumer rights in everyday transactions.
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Is Basmati the
way forward?
The 13 percent YoY increase in exports for 10MFY18 was led in
part by food exports, of which rice accounted for 40 percent. Nearly 80 percent
of Pakistan’s rice exports are of non-Basmati rice. On average Basmati rice is
over a $1,000 per ton as compared to less $500 per ton for non-Basmati rice, as
per PBS data. That is a differential of nearly 150 percent which is why the
premium-priced Basmati gets the spotlight a lot more than its brethren.
Basmati rice, similar to non-Basmati rice, has different
varieties. As per REAP export data, there were mainly 6 different varieties of
non-Basmati rice exported in FY15 and 4 different varieties of Basmati rice.
The least expensive variety of Basmati – Basmati brown rice – was nearly 40
percent more expensive that the most expensive non-Basmati variety i.e. blended
rice.
Globally the Basmati market (including raw, parboiled, and
steamed) stood at $10.5 billion in 2017 and is growing at a CAGR of over 10
percent to reach $17.8 billion by 2023. EU, one of Pakistan’s main markets for
Basmati rice, is growing at a CAGR of 3.2 percent and is expected to reach $615
million by 2023.
The non-Basmati rice has many exporting countries with players
from ASEAN taking the lead. Basmati rice on the other hand is famed from
originating from the sub-continent making India Pakistan’s main competitor.
Here, Pakistan has an advantage as EU has banned Indian rice for having high
level content of a fungicide called Tricyclazole. (Read “India’s loss –
Pakistan’s gain”, published on June 6, 2018 for more information). While this
restriction is in place for EU alone at the moment, Jordan earlier, this year,
denied permission for off loading containers carrying Indian Basmati for
similar reasons.
Thus it is possible that it is a challenge that India will
continue to face, especially if other countries jump on this band wagon. Since
it will take a minimum of three harvests to bring down Tricyclazole content to
permissible level, Pakistan has time to elbow in and increase market share.
It has been said innumerable times that Pakistan’s exports are
non-diversified and dependent on resource goods. This is a state of affairs
that is not possible to address in the short and medium term. If Pakistan has
to depend on agri goods in the foreseeable future, why not ensure that they are
at least premium priced such as Basmati rice?
Rice Leadership Session II:
How To on Trade, Equipment, and Media Training
By Emily Woodall
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- During their second session last week,
the 2018-20 Rice Leadership Development Class traveled to Illinois, Arkansas,
and Mississippi to learn about the rice futures market, communication skills,
and rice production in the Mid-South.
The session began with a tour of the Chicago Board of Trade
followed by a train ride to Moline, Illinois, where the class toured the John
Deere Harvester Works plant, and Deere & Company's World Headquarters.
"Coming from a small family farm it was somewhat surreal
to go to the Chicago Board Of Trade and see the actual trading floor where the
product I produce is being traded throughout the world," said Zach
Worrell, a rice farmer from Hornersville, Missouri. "The visit to John Deere was just as
remarkable. What started out as loose
parts at the beginning stations quickly turned into a fully functioning
combine. You could tell everyone
employed there took pride in their work and had a goal to deliver equipment to
farmers that is as efficient and reliable as possible."
The class then traveled to Arkansas for sessions on public
speaking and media communication skills.
As practice, each class member gave a short presentation to their peers
as well as a recorded media-style interview, and received feedback on how to
improve on presentation skills.
After surviving the interviews, the class joined Arkansas
industry leadership and Rice Leadership Program alumni at Five Oaks Lodge for
dinner. More than 45 fellow rice
associates from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi attended.
The group finished up the week with visits to Producers Rice
Mill, Riceland Foods, Inc., and the University of Arkansas Rice Research and
Extension Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as well as Farmers Grain Terminal,
Inc., in Greenville, Mississippi.
"This was my first visit to the Mid-South and it was
impressive. The production practices and
rotations are much different than what I am used to," said Brian McKenzie,
a rice farmer from Plumas Lake, California.
"In California, rice is not commonly rotated, it is rice year after
year. In Arkansas and Mississippi, if
you are a rice grower, then you are most likely a soybean producer as
well. Whether the crop is milled and
bagged, parboiled, or shipped out mid-stream, the massive processing facilities
are gearing up to take on a really good looking rice crop."
Over the course of the week, events were hosted by John
Deere, Arkansas members of the Class of 2013, Producers Rice Mill, Riceland
Foods, George Dunklin, Farmers Grain Terminal, and Sidney Robnett, a member of
the 2016-18 class.
John Deere Company, RiceTec, Inc., and American Commodity
Company are sponsors of the Rice Leadership Development Program through a grant
to The Rice Foundation, and USA Rice manages the program.
Maroon shirts are Rice Leadership Class members, others are
Arkansas Rice Research Center staff.
From left: Zach Worrell, Brian
McKenzie,
Brad Doyle, Bob Scott, Adam Famoso, Scott Savage, Zach
Urrutia,
Glenn Bathke, Matthew Sligar, Xueyan Sha
What
Do Rice and Wheat Have to Do With Chinese Views on Sex?
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Why you should care
Because a stark divide in
attitudes to premarital sex has strange roots.Rural or urban. Poor or rich. Educated or not. Rock or pop. Researchers are constantly trying to divide China into helpful categories to explain patterns and proclivities.
But when Yang Hu, a sociologist at the University of Essex in England, delved into views on sexual behavior he found a novel divide:
People who
live in China’s rice-growing provinces are 33 percent more likely to approve of
premarital sex than those in wheat-growing areas.
Much has been written about the
sexual revolution in China. In surveys from 1989, only 15 percent of
respondents said they’d had sex before marriage. Five years later, that figure
was up to 40 percent; by 2012, 71 percent. When researchers put this rapid
change in behavior into a national context, it was often framed as an
urban-rural split. And the usual explanations were trotted out: Western
influence and/or economic development.Yet Hu found something unexpected when he looked at the 2010 China General Social Survey of more than 11,000 people across 30 Chinese provinces. Views on premarital sex and homosexuality — both considered “nontraditional” sexual practices — couldn’t be fully explained by factors such as income or Western influence when controlled for other individual criteria like age. “The recent changes didn’t really explain a large portion of variation in sex ideology across China,” says Hu. Differences in views seemed to fall more along geographic lines, with the south of China having significantly more liberal views than the north.
But Hu didn’t think geography itself was the key factor. It was more about how the surveyed communities made a living. The provinces that traditionally harvested rice were more accepting of premarital sex and homosexuality compared with the seemingly more conservative wheat-growing provinces. For example, only 7 percent of respondents in wheat-growing Xinjiang approved of premarital sex, and just 2 percent gave the nod to homosexuality. In rice-growing Guangdong, by contrast, 54 percent of those surveyed were fine with premarital sex, and 24 percent had a live-and-let-live attitude toward homosexuality.
So, what’s up with crops as predictors of sexual attitudes? As you might expect, some researchers have developed a theory, and it goes like this. Rice harvesting, which requires a larger amount of irrigation than growing wheat, promotes cooperation among workers and increased interdependency. Growing wheat is more manageable with farmers working alone. The need for cooperation in rice-growing regions could lead to a culture of more mutual understanding and tolerance — or at least an awareness of the need to not rock the boat with your neighbors. “The assumption is that if you have to rely on each other for subsistence, you have to be more tolerant of each other,” says Hu.
Thomas Talhelm, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, has pioneered much of the work around the rice theory. He says its application to explain sexual attitudes makes sense. “I tend to avoid the word ‘cooperation’ because that sounds really fun and nice,” says Talhelm. “It isn’t like being on a basketball team. It’s more like ‘my behavior affects other people, so I have to be careful.’” What he noticed anecdotally from his time in China, and later through research, was the conflict avoidance of residents in rice-growing areas. “You don’t swing your elbows as much,” he says. In fact, in one of Talhelm’s inventive experiments, he studied whether Chinese Starbucks patrons from different regions were willing to move chairs placed in their paths.
In a way, explains Hu, wheat growers are more individualistic. Not in an ideological sense, but in how they can afford to make enemies by judging the behavior of others — especially if that behavior occurs behind closed doors.
But wait, what about wheat-growing regions of Europe or North America? Shouldn’t they be more sexually conservative than Asia rather than the other way around? Hu says the rice theory, and the accompanying pressures of subsistence farming, is only one explanation for culture. Other, more powerful factors, including religion, can override economic forces.
Hu says he isn’t sure how long cultural differences between rice- and wheat-growing regions will last. He’s hesitant to speak about the topic without data. But he speculates that eventually there might be a convergence in attitudes. For one, access to media and its content are becoming more standardized across the country.
You might call it a monoculture.
SAU, Chinese academy sign MoU
HYDERABAD: Guangxi Academy of
Agricultural Sciences (GXAAS) China and Sindh Agriculture University (SAU)
Tandojam signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday for research and
development and information sharing in sugarcane, rice, and other food crops,
specifically in the deltaic region.
The MoU aims to develop the
agriculture sector by encouraging scientists, researchers, faculty members and
students from both institutes to cope with the challenges of food security and
impacts of climate change on crops in the region.
As per the MoU, experts from
GXAAS would setup crop variety technological demonstration plot for germplasm
development at SAU sub-campus Umerkot for development of dry land agriculture.
This memorandum sets out the
terms and conditions under which GXAAS and SAU will join preparation and
submission of international demand driven projects, exchange scientific
information through capacity building programmes, and simultaneously initiate
talented young scientist programme (TYSP).
SAU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr
Mujeeb-u-ddin Sahrai emphasised the importance of strengthening collaboration
between China and Pakistan, which would support the knowledge-based economy of
the region.
This, he said would ultimately
be helpful for the development of the agriculture sector.
The VC said the university and
its sub-campus Umerkot would engage the most suitable faculty, including
various departments - entomology and biotechnology - to establish Science
Technology Park for the development of dry land agriculture in the arid zones
of Sindh.
Guangxi Academy of Agricultural
Sciences Sugarcane Research Centre Director Yang-Rui Li said the MoU would
support the scientists and researchers to conduct collaborative research for
rice and sugarcane technology.
This MoU would help in
fundamental research in biotechnology, crops variety demonstration and
evaluation, germplasm exchange, training programme, scientific information
exchange, reception of postdoctoral candidates from Pakistan, talented youth
scientists programme, and split MSc MPhil and PhD programme.
Yang-Rui Li further expressed
hope that this initiative would help develop long-term collaboration for joint
research programmes for both countries through the China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor programme.
Before signing the MoU, Prof Dr
Jan Muhammad Marri, Director, Sindh Agriculture University Sub-Campus Umerkot
welcomed the distinguished guests and highlighted the importance of the MoU for
research and development.
University Advancement and
Financial Assistance Director Prof Dr Muhammad Ismail Kumbhar said the MoU
would benefit students in conducting research on genetic engineering, molecular
marker technique and in vitro propagation and plant protection (pest and
disease management).
Crop Biotechnology Center now
underway
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Department of Agriculture
Secretary Manny Piñol had approved the construction of a Crop Biotechnology
Center at Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Science City of
Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.
To be completed next year, the
Center will serve as the hub for implementing effective and efficient
agricultural biotechnology research and development agenda.
The P302M-building will house
laboratories, theater, and multipurpose hall that can hold 500-800 people.
These advanced facilities will also host biotechnology programs on other
priority crops such as corn, coconut, coffee, sugarcane, and banana.
In the Philippines, the
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research (SEARCA) in
Agriculture stated that biotechnology had improved farmers’ practices and
income and the environment.
“The farm level economic benefit
of planting biotech maize in the [country from 2003 to 2015] is estimated to
have reached US$642 million,” as published on its website.
SEARCA, one of the oldest
regional centers of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization,
also noted that “farms planted with Bt maize in the Northern Philippine
provinces have significantly higher populations of beneficial insects such as
flower bugs, beetles, and spiders than those planted with
conventional hybrid maize.”
In rice research, biotechnology
has shortened the breeding of the country’s staple food from 10-12 to 5-7 years.
Through biotech, PhilRice has produced 14 climate change-ready varieties
including El Niño-ready NSIC Rc 272 (Sahod Ulan 2) and NSIC Rc 346 (Sahod Ulan
11).
Golden Rice is also being
developed to address vitamin A deficiency, which affects 2.1 million Filipino
children.
“I’m excited for this Crop
Biotechnology Center. I’m sure that this will improve biotechnology research in
the Philippines, especially now that food demands are more challenging. I hope
it will help our farmers grow additional high yielding crops with resistance to
climate change and stress. Through this, lives of Filipinos will be more
improved,” Julianne Suarez, a research assistant of Central Mindanao
University, said.
Public Law-480 program, known as
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, also funded the Center.
Journalist assaulted, shot at in Uttar
Pradesh's Bisalpur
Satyendra Gangwar, a journalist, was assaulted and shot at
by Aman Jaiswal and his aide on June 24 in Uttar Pradesh's Bisalpur. The Times of India reported
that a first information report (FIR) was filed by Gangwar's
brother, Jitendra.
Jaiswal had allegedly fired at Satyendra near the railway station,
hitting the journalist in the left leg and lower back, Times of India reported.
Jitendra was quoted by Times
of India as telling the Pilibhit superintendent of police (SP)
Balendu Bhushan Singh, “Jaiswal is a part of the mining mafia, who grabs
contracts for the food department’s procurement centres in the district during
the Rabi and Kharif seasons every year. He is extremely well-connected
politically. In order to appease ministers and MLAs, he extorts money from rice
millers."
Jitendra added that his brother, Satyendra, had been
reporting on the various illegal activities of Jaiswal. Earlier, on March 22,
Jaiswal along with five of his men had assaulted Satyendra with sticks and
edged weapons when the journalist had gone to cover a dispute between
Jaiswal and another person, the brother claimed, adding that on that occasion,
too, his brother was fired at but Jaiwal missed his mark.
The Times of India report states that the
police had filed an FIR against the six accused under Section 307 (attempt to
murder) of the Indian Penal Code in that case. "Three of the accused had
been arrested; Jaiswal had allegedly been putting pressure on Satyendra to
withdraw the FIR," the report states.
Another FIR has been lodged against Jaiswal and an
unidentified person under Section 307 of IPC after the Sunday incident, TOI quoted Madho
Singh Visht, station house officer of Bisalpur Kotwali police station, as
saying.
A 28-member delegation of local media persons met the SP on
Monday, June 25, demanding Jaiswal’s immediate arrest.
Rice-import LCs on zero margin facility scrapped
Staff Correspondent | Published: 22:19, Jun
26,2018
Bangladesh
Bank on Tuesday asked all commercial banks not to open any letter of credit on
zero margin for import of rice.
The margin will be decided based on banker-client relationship and risk of the loan for import of rice, the central bank said in a circular.
Banking regulation and policy department of the central bank issued the circular which also said that effectiveness of its previous two circulars issued on June 19 and June 21 in last year providing zero margin facility on import of rice expired on December 31.
The BB at that time had instructed the banks to open LCs without margin or taking any advance payment from the importers against the LCs to expedite rice import and contain the prices of the essential product on the local market following an abrupt rise in the rice prices.
The decision had been taken as the supply of rice faced a shortfall as flash floods in the haor areas caused a significant loss to rice production.
At that time, the BB had also restricted the tenure of payment or adjustment of current credit or overdraft facility (pledge and hypothecation) to 30 days from 45 days for the mill owners and rice traders.
In the latest circular to all managing directors and chief executive officers of banks, the BB said that rice production in the current year was satisfactory due to convenient weather.
The government has also taken various steps to ensure fair price of rice for local farmers and producers as well as to encourage them to cultivate rice.
The government is also working to ensure food security by raising the food-stock level to the expected level.
In this situation, banks are advised to determine the rate of margin in opening LCs for rice import considering the risk of loans for the purpose.
‘LCs should not be opened, at anyway, on zero margin,’ the circular said.
Rice millers and traders must have to adjust the current credit/ overdraft (pledge and hypothecation) with the banks within 45 days.
The mill owners and rice traders have to adjust or pay the current credit with the banks within 30 days, the circular added. Usually, banks open LCs for all imported items with keeping margin at various rates up to 100 per cent of credit based on bank-customer relationship.
The margin will be decided based on banker-client relationship and risk of the loan for import of rice, the central bank said in a circular.
Banking regulation and policy department of the central bank issued the circular which also said that effectiveness of its previous two circulars issued on June 19 and June 21 in last year providing zero margin facility on import of rice expired on December 31.
The BB at that time had instructed the banks to open LCs without margin or taking any advance payment from the importers against the LCs to expedite rice import and contain the prices of the essential product on the local market following an abrupt rise in the rice prices.
The decision had been taken as the supply of rice faced a shortfall as flash floods in the haor areas caused a significant loss to rice production.
At that time, the BB had also restricted the tenure of payment or adjustment of current credit or overdraft facility (pledge and hypothecation) to 30 days from 45 days for the mill owners and rice traders.
In the latest circular to all managing directors and chief executive officers of banks, the BB said that rice production in the current year was satisfactory due to convenient weather.
The government has also taken various steps to ensure fair price of rice for local farmers and producers as well as to encourage them to cultivate rice.
The government is also working to ensure food security by raising the food-stock level to the expected level.
In this situation, banks are advised to determine the rate of margin in opening LCs for rice import considering the risk of loans for the purpose.
‘LCs should not be opened, at anyway, on zero margin,’ the circular said.
Rice millers and traders must have to adjust the current credit/ overdraft (pledge and hypothecation) with the banks within 45 days.
The mill owners and rice traders have to adjust or pay the current credit with the banks within 30 days, the circular added. Usually, banks open LCs for all imported items with keeping margin at various rates up to 100 per cent of credit based on bank-customer relationship.
Global Rice
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Beauty In Pakistan
In the past, men thought of shaving or getting a haircut as
nothing more than a routine. They wanted it as quickly as possible and used to
give less attention to its details. They used to believe that health and
beauty care is for women only. Today, that perception has changed up to some
extent. Men are spending money to get better skin and hair to look more
presentable. As demand is directly proportional to the supply, we saw a
noticeable growth in men’s hair and skincare products.
Men’s Skin Care Trends
Men never cared how sunrays were damaging their skin. Some of
them still don’t. For them, the rough and tough look is more masculine. A
man with rough and dark skin is considered more man type. That’s a
wrong perception.
Men usually have oily skin which makes it more open to
acne, pimples and other skin problems. Men equally need to take care
of their skin and themselves as a whole as in our patriarchal society, most of
the duties are on their shoulders. As the time is changing, with the changing
trends men are also learning to take care of their skin and health overall.
Many brands have now introduced only-for-men skin and hair care
products which are attracting a considerable population of men proving that the
time is changing.
Men’s Hair Care Trends
Not too long ago, men considered short hair as normal and
standard hairstyle for their gender. They never wanted to change their
hair and didn’t even care about them. Even some of the people, I know, just
used to wash their hair with soap as the shampoo was a female thing for
them. also, There were not many proper hair salons for men . Even in Islamabad,
there was only ‘Zash’ hair salon which was open for both men and women as there
were less male customers. It was very hard to find only for men’s salon around
there. But now, the situation is very different – thanks to the internet
and the new media technologies. People are now more aware of the latest trends,
latest news, their rights and what not?
Men, these days, are now totally aware of what haircut would suit
them. What haircut should they have for different ocassions, what color
they should dye their hair with and the list goes on….
Some of the men also go for waxing and laser process. Salons for
men are providing every facility these days.
The products
for men’s hair are also increasing on the departmental shelves and being sold.
It’s all about trends and fads. It’s about being different and presentable at
the same time and everyone has the right to look beautiful.
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KRBL
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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
Kohinoor Rice
Aeroplane Rice
Tilda Basmati Rice
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Hanuman Rice Mills
Adani Wilmar
HAS Rice Pakistan
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Pakistani Basmati Rice
Kenya Basmati Rice
Other
Pakistani Basmati Rice
Kenya Basmati Rice
Other
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Analysis By Applications :
Direct
Edible
Deep Processing
Deep Processing
Regional
Analysis Include Regions:
Europe (Germany, France, Russia, UK, and Italy)
South America (Argentina and Brazil)
North America (Canada, Mexico, and the USA)
The Middle East and Africa (South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
and Nigeria)
Asia-Pacific (China, South Korea, Thailand, India, Vietnam,
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Asia Pacific. The Worldwide market remains in its explorative stage in most of
the regions however it holds the promising potential to flourish steady in
coming back years. The major corporation’s finance in Basmati Rice market
are settled in Canada,
U.K, The US, India, China and some more countries of Asia Pacific area.
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calculable to carry over half of the market shares, put together in coming back
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Industry Summary of Basmati Rice Market
2. Global Market Size by Type and Application (2018-2023)
3. Company Manufacturers Profiles
4. Global Basmati Rice Market Competition Analysis by Players
5. The United States Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
6. EU Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
7. Japan Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
8. China Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
9. India Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
10. Southeast Asia Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
11. Basmati Rice Market Forecast by Regions, Applications, and Types (2018-2023)
12. Basmati Rice Market Dynamics
13. Basmati Rice Market Factors Analysis
14. Research Conclusions
15. Appendix
2. Global Market Size by Type and Application (2018-2023)
3. Company Manufacturers Profiles
4. Global Basmati Rice Market Competition Analysis by Players
5. The United States Basmati Rice Development Status and Outlook
6. EU Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
7. Japan Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
8. China Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
9. India Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
10. Southeast Asia Basmati Rice Market Development Status and Outlook
11. Basmati Rice Market Forecast by Regions, Applications, and Types (2018-2023)
12. Basmati Rice Market Dynamics
13. Basmati Rice Market Factors Analysis
14. Research Conclusions
15. Appendix
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http://www.ghananewsagency.org/economics/ghana-imports-over-us1-162-billion-worth-of-rice-annually-minister-134724
Tuesday 26th June, 2018
Ghana
imports over US1, 162 billion worth of rice annually - Minister
By Yaw Ansah/Julius K. Satsi, GNA
Accra,
June 26, GNA - Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, Minister of Food and Agriculture has
disclosed that Ghana spends almost over a billion dollars to import rice into
the country annually since 2015.
“This
is an understatement because these figures are only coming from official
sources in Tema and Takoradi. There are other routes where rice is smuggled
into that country and figures from these places are unknown.
It
is really scary that we have fertile lands in Central, Ashanti, Volta, Greater
Accra and Eastern Region and in the Northern parts of Ghana to grow rice and
even feed the whole West Africa but we are importing rice to that tune,” he
said.
Describing
the situation as a disaster and worrying, Mr Afriyie-Akoto said statistics
available indicated that from the year 2007 to 2015, the importation of rice, a
leading import commodity in the country, rose from about 151 to 1,162 million
dollars.
The
sector Minister, who disclosed this at the meet-the-press series, explained
that government had put in place a number of measures to cause a permanent
change in the structure of the sector by halting the importation of basic commodities,
especially rice, and increase export.
He
highlighted government’s interventions, which include, horticulture
development, perennial crop development, irrigation development, agriculture
mechanization promotion, agriculture financing and private sector investments.
Dr
Afriyie-Akoto stated that government, under the Planting for Food and Jobs, was
supporting farmers with certified seeds, marketing services, e-agriculture,
fertilizer and extension services to boost crop production in the country, the lowest
in the sub-region.
The
Minister explained that one of the challenges in the sector was the lack of
effective extension services, and as a result, a total of 2,700 personal would
be employed this year to help educate farmers on improving farming technologies.
He
said as at 2016, the ratio of extension services was one officer to 2,500
farmers and out of that number, 80 per cent were almost due to retire from
active service.
The
Minster said the government had commenced efforts to re-build the extension
service from the scratch by employing about 2,700 agriculture graduates to
boost technology delivery.
To
facilitate their movement, Dr Afriyie-Akoto hinted that government had procured
3,000 motorbikes to be distributed to extension officers to reach out to
farmers in the hinterlands.
”Already,
with the support of the government of Canada a total of 216 Nissan pick-ups and
protective clothing’s had been handed over to Agric offices.
The
Minister said to reduce post-harvest losses and ensure a smooth marketing of
produce, the various warehouses that were infested with rats and cobwebs had
been cleaned and put to good use.
He
said the MoFA and the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives had budgeted
to build 80 warehouses with storage capacities of 1,000 metric tonnes this
year, as well as rehabilitate grains storages in the country with capacities of
94,000 metric tons.
Dr
Afriyie-Akoto said, in collaboration with the Ministry of Roads, the MoFA was
going to prioritise the rehabilitation of feeder roads in all major food
production centres to facilitate the movement of produce to various centres.
The
Minister said the MoFA was working in cooperation with the Ministry of
Education to supply the caterers of the School Feeding Programme with produce
from the buffer stock.
He
reiterated that governments of Ghana and Israel have signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) for 50 Ghanaian agricultural graduates to undergo an
11-month practical attachment on farms in Israel.
While
in Israel, he said the graduates will be attached to cooperative farms called
Kibbutz, where they will work on the field for five days and one day in the
classroom.
GNA
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‘Golden rice is Dengvaxia
in agriculture’ – advocates, farmers
“Instead of
promoting golden rice, the government must conduct researches on the
nutritional values of indigenous vegetables and fruits.”
MANILA — In a
forum, June 24 at Mandala Park, Mandaluyong, farmers and advocates of organic
farming called on the public to support their campaign against the field
testing of golden rice in the Philippines.
Pending before the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau
of Plant Industry is the application for field testing of genetically-modified
golden rice. The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) claim that the golden rice is
the solution to Vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice is
genetically modified rice with a gene from the maize plant and a soil bacterium
(Erwinia uredovora) ,which forces the rice plant to artificially express
beta-carotene.
Cris Panerio,
national coordinator of Masipag, sees a problem with the proponents’ claims. He
said there have been no independent and evidence-based research on the effects
of golden rice on health and its impacts on the environment.
Panerio fears that the golden rice “might be the
Dengvaxia in agriculture.” “As a genetically-modified crop, it has the ability
to reproduce and might contaminate traditional varieties of rice. The impacts
would be irreversible,” Panerio told Bulatlat in an
interview.
Dengvaxia is the
dengue vaccine that became a controversy after the drug company Sanofi admitted
that it might lead to severe dengue infection for those who have not been
previously infected by dengue virus. Hundreds of Filipino public students were
vaccinated by Dengvaxia even as the Department of Health did not complete its
safety testing.
Panerio explained
that the proponents’ argument of “substantial equivalence” does not hold water.
“Golden rice is not substantially equivalent to the rice we eat. We have not
eaten rice with a gene of a bacteria and gene of a corn. This is why we’ve been
asserting precautionary principle on golden rice,” he said.
The Masipag
national coordinator said golden rice should be subjected to scientific studies
such as proteonomics and metabolonomics to determine its impacts on the human
health.
Quijano said
infectious viral pesticides used in GMO crops introduce new chemicals that can
lead to allergies and new infectious diseases. “The disruption of gene ecology
leads to new toxic substances that can cause various diseases including cancer,”
he said.
Like the Dengvaxia
fiasco, Panerio fears that it would be difficult to demand accountability once
damage has been done. “Under our law, proponents of golden rice would have no
legal liability,” he said.
Farmers who would
lose their livelihood due to contamination of GMO crop might not file for
damages, Panerio said.
Alternatives
Masipag, Pesticide
Action Network Philippines (PANAP) and Stop Golden Rice Network showcased
different traditional varieties of rice, which they said are better alternatives
to golden rice.
Virgie Nazareno, a
farmer from Quezon province, called on the public to patronize products of
organic farmers. Nazareno said there are alternatives to commercial and harmful
pesticides and fertilizers.
Rowena Buena of
Masipag lamented the government’s importation of rice. “The government should
instead support local farmers to achieve food security.”
Meanwhile, Nona
Andaya-Castillo of the Nurturers of the Earth and Tibak na Vegan also shared a
recipe for fortified lugaw using indigenous vegetables rich in Vitamin A.
“Instead of promoting golden rice, the government must
conduct researches on the nutritional values of indigenous vegetables and
fruits,” Castillo said.
World's
smallest 'computer' makes a grain of rice look huge
The University of Michigan presents the
'world's smallest computer.' (© Courtesy of Universtity of Michigan)
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Published Tuesday, June 26, 2018 8:01AM EDT
Researchers
at the University of Michigan in the U.S. have developed the "world's
smallest computer." With sides measuring just 0.3 mm, the device is
dwarfed by a grain of rice.
Although the jury's still out on whether it can technically be defined as a
"computer," this tiny device features a processor, RAM and
wireless transmitters and receivers.
It
receives and transmits data with visible light. A base station provides light
for power and programming, and it receives the data. The research was carried
out in partnership with Fujitsu.
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For the
time being, the only practical application of this light-powered 0.04mm3
wireless and batteryless sensor system is as a precision temperature sensor.
The
device is capable of reporting temperatures in minuscule regions -- such as a
cluster of cells -- with an error of about 0.1°C. It could, therefore, find use
as a precision measurement tool in the medical field, with applications in
oncology, for example, for measuring temperatures in tumors.
The news
comes after IBM unveiled a 1x1mm "computer," smaller than a of grain
of rock salt, in March 2018. This fully autonomous device essentially comprises
of hundreds of thousands of transistors and some RAM, and, like its tiny rival,
is powered by a photovoltaic cell.
IBM's
device is billed for use as a kind of trust anchor, attached to or embedded in
a product as a mark of its authenticity or for traceability purposes, in a bid
to help stamp out counterfeits, for example.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/world-s-smallest-computer-makes-a-grain-of-rice-look-huge-1.3988985S
Littleton Middle School
Students Showcase World Research at Country Expo
Previous
Elyse
Barry explains the geography, animal life and food of Antigua and Barbuda on
June 7 at the Country Expo. [Courtesy Photo]
Kallie
Ramistella, left, and Norah Kobaly stand in front of their projects on Oman and
Nepal at Littleton Middle School’s Country Expo held June 7 in the school gym..
[Courtesy Photo]
Tyler
Castillo presents his research on the Maldives on June 7 at the Country Expo.
[Courtesy Photo]
Elyse
Barry explains the geography, animal life and food of Antigua and Barbuda on
June 7 at the Country Expo. [Courtesy Photo]
Kallie
Ramistella, left, and Norah Kobaly stand in front of their projects on Oman and
Nepal at Littleton Middle School’s Country Expo held June 7 in the school gym..
[Courtesy Photo]
Tyler
Castillo presents his research on the Maldives on June 7 at the Country Expo.
[Courtesy Photo]
Elyse
Barry explains the geography, animal life and food of Antigua and Barbuda on
June 7 at the Country Expo. [Courtesy Photo]
Next
Sixth-grade students at Littleton Middle School displayed
projects they had been working on since March at the school’s Country Expo held
June 7 in the school gym.
The Country Expo helped students to build their understanding of
different parts of the world. The event is the culmination of an
interdisciplinary project that incorporates components of social studies,
science, math and English/language arts.
Students shared their research they did into the geography,
culture, politics, current events and other facts of the country they studied.
Presentations also included food samples from the more than 100 countries that
were represented.
The multicultural menu included foods like guacamole, fried
rice, poi, tres leches cake, milk fudge and Iranian chicken and rice.
The projects and expo helped students explore the research
process, the design process for their poster boards and sharpened their public
speaking and presentation skills
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Rice
Prices
as on : 26-06-2018
12:05:41 PM
Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market.
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Bahraich(UP)
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92.50
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6122.70
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2275
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2270
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2.02
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Hapur(UP)
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60.00
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50
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1825.00
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2700
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2700
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18.42
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Cachar(ASM)
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40.00
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NC
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2200.00
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2400
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2400
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9.09
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Naanpara(UP)
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32.00
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52.38
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1315.80
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2240
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2225
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1.13
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Gajol(WB)
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31.50
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-11.02
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1398.00
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3550
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3550
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22.41
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Gazipur(UP)
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30.00
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-11.76
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944.00
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2290
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2285
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7.76
|
|
Naugarh(UP)
|
29.40
|
-3.61
|
308.90
|
2010
|
2085
|
-3.13
|
|
Lakhimpur(UP)
|
20.00
|
-13.04
|
1590.00
|
2310
|
2310
|
6.94
|
|
Giridih(Jha)
|
18.37
|
48.87
|
445.39
|
3500
|
3500
|
NC
|
|
Atarra(UP)
|
12.00
|
NC
|
251.00
|
2300
|
2200
|
15.00
|
|
Shahganj(UP)
|
7.00
|
-50
|
84.50
|
2110
|
2140
|
0.48
|
|
Mirzapur(UP)
|
6.50
|
8.33
|
590.00
|
2240
|
2245
|
-
|
|
Khurja(UP)
|
6.00
|
-25
|
677.50
|
2575
|
2580
|
-
|
|
Dibrugarh(ASM)
|
4.00
|
-42.86
|
466.80
|
2920
|
2920
|
29.78
|
|
Bonai(Bonai)(Ori)
|
2.00
|
-33.33
|
315.40
|
2800
|
3000
|
12.00
|
|
Tundla(UP)
|
1.50
|
25
|
115.70
|
2530
|
2530
|
-
|
|
Jagnair(UP)
|
0.80
|
33.33
|
60.20
|
2550
|
2560
|
0.39
|
|
Khairagarh(UP)
|
0.80
|
-27.27
|
84.80
|
2560
|
2560
|
1.59
|
Published
on June 26, 2018
JUNE 26,
2018 / 1:12 PM / 2 DAYS AGO
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUN 26,
2018
Reuters Staff
6 MIN READ
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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices –
APMC/Open Market-June 26, 2018
Nagpur, June 26 (Reuters) –
Gram and tuar prices declined in Nagpur Agriculture Produce
Marketing Committee (APMC) on
poor buying support from local millers. Easy condition on NCDEX in
gram, downward trend in Madhya
Pradesh pulses and high moisture content arrival also pulled down
prices.
About 900 bags of gram and 200
bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to
sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Desi gram raw declined further in open
market here on lack of demand from local
traders.
TUAR
* Tuar reported down in open market here in
absence of buyers.
* Batri dal and Lakhodi dal quoted weak in
open market on poor demand from local
traders amid increased arrival supply
from producing regions.
* In Akola, Tuar New – 3,700-3,850, Tuar dal
(clean) – 5,500-5,800, Udid Mogar (clean)
– 6,900-7,900, Moong Mogar (clean)
7,200-7,900, Gram – 3,300-3,450, Gram Super best
– 4,300-4,700
* Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items
moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and settled at last levels
in thin trading activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market
prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 3,000-3,175 3,000-3,265
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 3,100-3,680 3,100-3,750
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 1,700-1,800 1,700-1,800
Gram
Super Best Bold
4,500-5,000 4,500-5,000
Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best 4,600-4,800 4,600-4,800
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality 3,350-3,400 3,350-3,400
Desi gram Raw 3,300-3,375 3,400-3,500
Gram Kabuli 8,000-10,000 8,000-10,000
Tuar Fataka Best-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000
Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,600-5,700 5,600-5,700
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,400-5,600 5,400-5,600
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,100-5,300 5,100-5,300
Tuar Gavarani New 3,800-3,900 3,850-4,000
Tuar
Karnataka 4,250-4,450 4,250-4,450
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) 7,500-8,000 7,500-8,000
Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-7,200 6,500-7,200
Moong dal Chilka New 5,800-7,000 5,800-7,000
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)
7,400-8,300 7,400-8,300
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,500-6,300 5,500-6,300
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,600-5,900 5,600-5,900
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 4,800-5,000 5,000-5,100
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,600-2,700 2,650-2,750
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,900-4,000 3,900-4,000
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) 2,000-2,075 2,000-2,075
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 Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,200
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) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,800 2,700-2,800
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600
Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,500 4,000-4,500
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000
Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600
Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,900 4,500-4,900
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) 6,500-6,900 6,500-6,900
Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 6,000-6,200 6,000-6,200
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. 35.7 degree
Celsius, minimum temp. 25.4 degree Celsius
Rainfall : Nil
FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky
with chances of light rains. Maximum and minimum temperature
would be around and 36 and 25
degree Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are
excluded from plant delivery prices, but
included in market prices).
Is Basmati the way forward?
The 13 percent YoY increase
in exports for 10MFY18 was led in part by food exports, of which rice accounted
for 40 percent. Nearly 80 percent of Pakistan’s rice exports are of non-Basmati
rice. On average Basmati rice is over a $1,000 per ton as compared to less $500
per ton for non-Basmati rice, as per PBS data. That is a differential of nearly
150 percent which is why the premium-priced Basmati gets the spotlight a lot
more than its brethren.
Basmati rice, similar to non-Basmati rice, has different
varieties. As per REAP export data, there were mainly 6 different varieties of
non-Basmati rice exported in FY15 and 4 different varieties of Basmati rice.
The least expensive variety of Basmati – Basmati brown rice – was nearly 40
percent more expensive that the most expensive non-Basmati variety i.e. blended
rice. Globally the Basmati market (including raw, parboiled, and steamed) stood
at $10.5 billion in 2017 and is growing at a CAGR of over 10 percent to reach
$17.8 billion by 2023. EU, one of Pakistan’s main markets for Basmati rice, is
growing at a CAGR of 3.2 percent and is expected to reach $615 million by 2023.
The non-Basmati rice has many exporting countries with players from ASEAN
taking the lead. Basmati rice on the other hand is famed from originating from
the sub-continent making India Pakistan’s main competitor. Here, Pakistan has
an advantage as EU has banned Indian rice for having high level content of a
fungicide called Tricyclazole. (Read “India’s loss – Pakistan’s gain”,
published on June 6, 2018 for more information). While this restriction is in
place for EU alone at the moment, Jordan earlier, this year, denied permission
for off loading containers carrying Indian Basmati for similar reasons. Thus it
is possible that it is a challenge that India will continue to face, especially
if other countries jump on this band wagon. Since it will take a minimum of
three harvests to bring down Tricyclazole content to permissible level,
Pakistan has time to elbow in and increase market share. It has been said
innumerable times that Pakistan’s exports are non-diversified and dependent on
resource goods. This is a state of affairs that is not possible to address in
the short and medium term. If Pakistan has to depend on agri goods in the
foreseeable future, why not ensure that they are at least premium priced such
as Basmati rice?
Date: 26-Jun-2018
Private traders to import 780,000
MT of rice under MAV
By
Madelaine B. Miraflor Private
traders are set to import 780,000 metric tons (MT) of rice under the Minimum
Access Volume (MAV) program. The National Food Authority (NFA) conducted on
Monday night the auction for 2017 to 2018 MAV rice importation program in
compliance with Philippines’ commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Under this scheme, the country has to fulfill the importation of 805,200 MT of
rice as we gave up the WTO-backed import quota for the staple. NFA Grains and
Marketing Chief Rocky Valdez said yesterday that of the total volume, only
19,000 MT, or those that are supposed to come from El Salvador and Australia,
were not allocated. To be specific, 348 private corporations, cooperatives, and
Farmers Organizations (FO) participated in the bidding. Valdez said that of
these, only 15 to 20 percent will be awarded with supply contracts. Under the
importation guidelines, rice traders are allowed to source from countries with
a specific quota (CSQ) or from other rice-producing countries (omnibus origin).
For the volume per origin, Thailand and Vietnam again have the highest maximum
volume set for countries with specific quota at 293,100 MT each. China, India,
and Pakistan were given 50,000 MT limit each, followed by Australia with 15,000
MT, and El Salvador with 4,000 MT. Rice imports from omnibus origin was limited
to 50,000 MT. The rice importation was limited to local importers composed of
corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorship, joint ventures or farmers’
organizations. Each company has a volume limit of 50,000 MT for non-FO while a
single FO can only import up to 5,000 MT. Allocations for Luzon, Visayas, and
Mindanao are also proportioned based on the 2018 national daily consumption
requirements. Of the total rice imports, 467,000 MT will be for Luzon (58
percent), 153,000 MT for Visayas (19 percent), and 185,000 MT for Mindanao (23
percent). NFA Administrator Jason Aquino said that the schedule of arrival of
the rice imports will be during the lean months so as not to affect the buying
price of local palay prices among local traders. The arrival of the rice
imports is divided in two phases. “First phase will start arriving in July
until August 31, 2018, while the second phase will start on December 20, 2018
until February 28, 2019,” Aquino said. Last year, 805,200 MT of rice was also
approved for importation under MAV but only 746,962 MT were allocated. Arrival
of rice import scheduled for the Phase II of 2017 MAV is still ongoing until
August 30, 2018 with 200,673 MT still expected to arrive. Tariffs collected
from MAV importation will go to Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund,
which is allocated to the agriculture sector. The MAV importation is on top of
the importation of 500,000 MT of rice through a government-to-government and
government-to-private bidding that just recently took place.
Author
Name: https://business.mb.com.ph/2018/06/26/private-traders-to-import-780000-mt-of-rice-under-mav/
Date: 26-Jun-2018
Rice worth $1.8b exported in 11
months
The exports of above
mentioned commodity was recorded at 3.889 million metric tons valuing $1.463
billion during same period of last year, according the data of Pakistan Bureau
of Statistics. During the period from July-May, 2017-18, 461,472 metric tons of
basmati rice worth $478.853 million were exported as against the exports of 406,824
metric tons worth $385.746 of same period last year. In last 11 months of
financial year 2017-18, basmati rice exports grew by 24.14 percent as compared
the exports of the corresponding period of last year, the data further added.
Meanwhile, country earned US$ 1.411 billion by exporting about 3.380 million
metric tons of rice other then basmati rice during the period under review as
compared the exports of 2.860 million metric tons valuing $1.077 billion of
same period last year, it added. It may be recalled that food group exports
during last 11 months of current financial year witnessed about 30.80 percent
growth as different food commodities including rice, fish, fish products, meat,
meat preparations, fruits, vegetables pulses and others worth $4.479 billion
exported. The exports of food commodities during the same period of last
financial year was recorded at $3.425 billion, the data reveled. On the other
hand, rice exports on month on month basis also witnessed tremendous increase
in month of May, 2018 as compared the same month of last year as it went up by
79.62 percent and reached at 376,863 metric tons worth $209.898
million. In last month, exports of basmati rice witnessed 32.83 percent growth
and about 54,061 metric tons of basmati rice valuing $53.384 million
exported as compared the exports of 48,571 metric tons worth $40.190 million of
same month of last year. The exports of rice other then basmati witnessed
104.16 percent growth during the period under review and about 322,802 metric tons
of rice worth $156.514 million exported as against the exports of 173,782
metric tons valuing $76.664 million of same month of last year.
