Philippines eyes extra rice imports amid ‘crisis’ in Mindanao
August 28, 2018 | 12:32 am
An Aug. 2 handout photo of the
Customs bureau shows its head, Isidro S. Lapeña, inspecting smuggled rice
seized at a warehouse in Calamba, Laguna.
THE GOVERNMENT’s Agriculture
chief said on Monday that he has proposed the importation of an additional
132,000 tons of rice by the private sector to address “very limited” supplies
of the staple food in the country’s southern provinces.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F.
Piñol said he had formally recommended the “special” importation to President
Rodrigo R. Duterte, and the National Food Authority (NFA) Council would meet on
Tuesday to consider the request.
The Philippines’ additional
demand for rice could help underpin export prices in Vietnam and Thailand,
traditionally its main suppliers, which have already shipped in more than 1
million tons this year.
In Vietnam, export prices of rice
have been flat this month after falling steeply in June and July, although
traders have reported rumors about possible new deals with the Philippines.
Mr. Piñol said residents of the
provinces of Tawi-Tawi, Sulu and Basilan and Zamboanga City in Mindanao have
been scrambling for rice supplies in recent weeks following a crackdown on
smuggling.
The southern regions have for
years relied on smuggled rice believed to come from Vietnam and Thailand,
shipped via the Malaysian state of Sabah, forcing local farmers to quit rice
growing, he said.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad and Mr. Duterte met last month and agreed to stop smuggling
activities in the countries’ borders, he said.
The end of smuggling was a
success in the government’s campaign against illegal activities, but it had
resulted in a crisis, Mr. Piñol said in a statement posted on his Facebook
page.
Last week, Zamboanga City and
Isabela City in Basilan declared a state of calamity, citing the high prices of
rice, he said.
He described the situation in
Tawi-Tawi as “precarious” as residents lined up for rice at prices as high as
P100 per kilogram, almost triple the price of government-subsidized rice.
“The rice crisis was declared to
have ended the other day in Zamboanga City with the arrival of new rice stocks
from farmers cooperatives… and the NFA, (but) Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi are
still gripped with very limited supply of rice,” Mr. Piñol said. — Reuters
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo
may import 2 million tons of rice this year, falling short of
fulfilling his 2014 presidential campaign promise of rice
self-sufficiency.Since 2015, Indonesia has imported 3.35 million tons of rice.
This year the imports are going to be increased, as severe droughts are
expected to disrupt harvests. A price
spike in the country’s staple food would not be beneficial
to the president who is seeking reelection next year.
Last week, the Ministry of
Trade issued a permit for the the national procurement agency, Bulog,
to import 1 million tons of medium quality rice for the second half of the
year. The year’s total rice imports would then become 2 million tons, the
highest since 2011.
Said Abdullah, coordinator of the
People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty (KRKP), a farmers’ advocacy group, said
droughts may continue until the end of the year, making it hard for the
government’s rice production target of 47 million tons to be achieved.
“Rice harvests dropped by at
least 50 percent due to droughts, even there are regions that failed 100
percent, especially those far from rivers, lacking irrigation,” Said told
the Jakarta Globe on Sunday (27/08).
According to the Meteorology,
Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), most of the country’s rice-producing
regions, especially in Java, will see no rains before October.
Bulog data shows in mid-August
the agency’s rice supplies were 2 million tons in its warehouses
across the country. The amount, Said said, should be at least 3 million tons to
be safe.
Nailul Huda, economist at the
Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), said this year’s
imports are meant to secure Bulog’s rice supplies during the 2019
election campaign.
“As harvests are between
April and May, the beginning of next year is the most crucial time, because
there is a risk of price fluctuations. Importing rice at that time would
be [politically] suicidal. Therefore, the safest way is to issue import permits
this year, with less political risk,” Nailul said.
Trade Minister Enggartiasto
Lukita said the rice imports are meant to keep the inflation rate at
3.5 percent, in accordance with this year’s state budget, not because of the
upcoming election.
“We are not talking about the
election, we are talking about inflation, the rising prices, so we cannot leave
it unattended,” Enggartiasto told reporters on Monday.
“We need to import … because we
see there is a tendency for the prices to increase while the supplies decrease.
We need to fill the stock,” Enggartiasto said.
Jokowi
has been importing rice since 2015, the highest imports so far were
in 2016, with 1.28 million tons, up a 49 percent from a year earlier. The
country’s imports then decreased by 76 percent to only 305,275 tons last year.
According to data from the
Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesians will consume 33.8 million tons of
rice this year, compared with 30.65 million tons in 2017. Last year,
47 million tons were produced domestically.
Edhy Prabowo, a Great
Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) lawmaker who sits at House of
Representatives Commission IV, which oversees agriculture, has
questioned the government’s decision to import rice again, as to him
rice supplies seem sufficient.
“I can’t understand the logic of
importing rice again. Programs that we provide in the agriculture sector are
supposed to have fulfilled the country’s rice needs for one year … Import is
allowed only if [a commodity] is not available domestically,” Edhy said.
Rice consumption in Indonesia is
among the highest in the world, with the average citizen consuming 114
kilograms every year. In comparison, the average annual consumption of rice in
Vietnam is 191 kilograms per person, in Thailand 147 kilograms, in India 78
kilograms and in China 75 kilograms, according to data compiled by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2016.
Rice fund: Counting
the harvest before seeds sprout
BIZLINKS - Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star) - August
30, 2018 - 12:00am
We all have heard of this plan to impose as much as 180 percent
tariff on imported rice and to establish a Rice Competitiveness Enhancement
Fund (RCEF), both of which are expected to bring down rice prices by as much as
P7 per kilo, as promised by the President in his recent State of the Nation
Address.
Somehow, we’ve heard something like this before. And,
unfortunately, that plan did not have a happy-ending.
The Lower House recently passed on third and final reading House
Bill 7735, or the Revised Agricultural Tariffication Act which proposes to
impose a 40-percent Most Favored Nation tax rate on the first 350,000 MT of
rice imports from non-ASEAN members and 180 percent for import volumes in
excess of the 350,000 MT.
HB 7735 also proposes the creation of the RCEF, where taxes
derived from rice imports will be set aside for the establishment of a rice
endowment fund, loans, and grants for rice farmers and financing for
infrastructure to improve rice farms.
If the grand plan goes as envisioned, the RCEF will enable
Filipino farmers to export their rice at globally competitive price levels.
This would also mean that the local market prices for rice would be cheaper.
Parallels
Few readers will remember that more than two decades ago, in
1996, the Agricultural Tariffication Act was passed, which called for taxes on
the importation of agricultural products including sugar, but excluding rice.
It also called for the establishment of the Agricultural Competitiveness
Enhancement Fund (ACEF).
Starting 2000 when ACEF became operational, more than P12
billion had been set aside by the national government for the loan and grant
program to benefit the agricultural and fisheries sectors. The fund’s life has
been extended several times, the most recent in 2016, good for six more years
until 2022.
Management of ACEF by the Department of Agriculture had been
plagued by problems from the onset, and the hoped-for trickle-down benefits to
vegetable farmers, sugar producers, and fisher folk has not materialized, much
less prepared farmers for global competition.
To save ACEF from becoming one of the worst programs of the
Philippine government, lawmakers amended guidelines on loan procurement, making
them stricter to ensure that intended beneficiaries would truly benefit from
the soft loans.
The parallelism of the Agricultural Tariffication Act and ACEF
with the proposed Rice Tariffication Law and RCEF are just uncannily too
glaring to pass over without making a comment.
Let’s just hope that two decades of mistakes in the
implementation of the Agricultural Tariffication Act and ACEF will make the
proposed rice tariff law and its fund bolster our rice farming sector to become
globally competitive.
Sweetener
The Senate still has to pass its own version of the rice tariff
bill before any bicameral work can start, although the President has already
certified the passage of the measure as urgent.
Senator Cynthia Villar, who chairs the Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Food, is proposing for the allocation of P10 billion from the
national coffers as a sort of sweetener for the RCEF, to be augmented yearly by
taxes collected from the importation of rice.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol estimates that the rice
tariffs could amount to about P20-to P25-billion annually, which he stressed
should go directly to the RCEF. He adds that any benefit from the RCEF, if used
correctly, would only be seen in three to four years.
If the bill is passed into law before the year ends, Piñol is
hopeful that Filipinos will be able to see rice prices drop by as much as P7
per kilo – as the President had promised – most likely only just before his
term ends in 2022.
Of course, all this presupposes a perfect-world scenario.
Unfortunately, things do not always work out as we wish.
Slow pace
The hurried push to define a tariff system for imported rice
comes after the government finally decided to ditch the old quota system on
rice importations, and thus honor its commitment with the World Trade
Organization.
In 1995, to prepare Filipino rice farmers for the eventual easing
of global trade barriers, the WTO allowed the Philippines to impose a 10-year
quota system for rice importation, which was extended in 2004, and again, in
2014 until June 2017.
All those years have passed without seeing any improvement in
our rice farms. Instead, we see continued poor land productivity, shrinking
rice field acreage, an aging and diminishing rice farming population, no
improvement in rice planting techniques and technology, degradation of
irrigation canals, a countryside still without enough farm-to-market roads, and
the growing vulnerability of rice farms to climate changes.
Instead, too, we have increased our importation of rice (and
would occasionally wreak havoc on world rice prices because of knee-jerk rice
orders), and our people would see domestic rice prices rising, especially when
unscrupulous traders manipulate the market.
Legislative work to shift rice importation from a quota system
to a tariff regime started in early 2017, but discussions to amend the 1996
Agricultural Tariffication Act has not progressed as quickly as planned. Still,
things are moving along.
This does not mean, though, that we will have a perfect law, or
that the Department of Agriculture will be able to judiciously spend every
single peso that is earned from higher tariffs to truly improve the
competitiveness of our rice sector.
Still, we hope we get it right this time, and that our harvests
in the coming years will become more bountiful.
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Farmers
assured of P20B subsidy from rice tariffs
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August 28, 2018
·
Written by Jester P. Manalastas
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Published in Nation
RICE farmers will be getting P20
billion worth of subsidy from the proposed Rice Tariffication law.This is
according to ANAC-IP party-list Rep. Jose Panganiban Jr., chairman of the House
Committee on Agriculture and Food, as he pushed for the final approval of the
measure.
In the House of Representatives,
members overwhelmingly approved on third and final reading earlier this month
House Bill 7735 which seeks to liberalize rice imports by replacing the
quantitative import restrictions on rice with tariffs, and create the Rice
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund.
“Kapag naipasa ang rice
tariffication bill na ito, marami tayong magagamot na problema. Una na dito ang
ating commitment sa WTO (World Trade Organization). Pangalawa, mapapababa natin
ang presyo ng bigas sa merkado at matutulungan natin ang ating magsasaka. Kaya
lahat dito panalo sa rice tariffication bill na ito,” Panganiban said.
Panganiban said the country will
have about P29 billion to P30 billion that will directly benefit the rice
sector.
The P20 billion will come from
the annual rice tariff, while the additional P9 billion from the Department of
Agriculture (DA).
“Doon sa P20 bilyon na
makokolekta sa taripa, meron na po yang percentage kung saan mapupunta gaya ng
subsidy sa binhi, pataba, mechanization at subsidy sa pag-improve ng irrigation
system,” he added.
PHILIPPINES
SET TO PURCHASE EXTRA 132,000 T OF RICE
8/29/2018
MANILA, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The
Philippines will import an additional 132,000 tonnes of rice to boost stocks in
southern provinces, where prices have surged in recent weeks amid limited
supply, its agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
The plan approved by regulators
includes the "immediate procurement" of 32,000 tonnes of the staple
grain, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol told reporters.
The National Food Authority (NFA),
the country's food security agency that buys most of the country's import
requirements, will issue import permits for the balance of 100,000 tonnes after
the usual bidding process, he said.
Pinol had proposed the additional
importation as residents of Tawi-Tawi, Sulu and Basilan and Zamboanga City in
Mindanao scrambled for rice supplies in recent weeks following what he said was
a crackdown on smuggling.
The additional imports will be part
of the unallocated portion of the maximum 805,200 tonnes the private sector is
allowed to bring in each year under a quota system.
"The first 32,000 (tonnes)
will be delivered after (NFA's) procurement process is completed in 15-20 days
(and) that will be good for two months," Pinol said.
The Philippines, one of the world's
biggest rice importers, usually buys from top producers Thailand and Vietnam,
where prices have been flat this month after falling steeply in June and July.
The southernmost provinces of the
Philippines have for years relied on smuggled rice believed to come from
Vietnam and Thailand, shipped via the Malaysian state of Sabah, causing many
local farmers to quit growing rice, Pinol said.
Malaysia and the Philippines have
recently agreed to stop smuggling activities along the countries' borders,
resulting in "very limited" rice supplies in the southern regions, he
said. (Reporting by Enrico dela Cruz; Editing by Tom Hogue)
NFA 'failed' in mandate
to buy, sell cheap rice: Villar
ABS-CBN News
MANILA - The National Food
Authority failed to fulfill its mandate to buy rice from local farmers and sell
the grain at an affordable price to consumers, Senator Cynthia Villar said
Tuesday.
The agency faced abolition calls
last week after a rice shortage forced a state of calamity in Zamboanga City
while some 130,000 sacks of government-subsidized rice was found infested with
"bukbok" or weevils in Subic Bay.
The NFA has funds to buy rice
from farmers at P17 per kilo, mill it and sell it at P27 to P32 -- cheaper than
commercial grain retailing for P43 to P55 per kilo, said Villar, who chairs the
Senate committee on agriculture and food.
However, the agency last year
diverted billions of pesos from its budget to pay off maturing loans instead of
using funds to buy grain, said the senator, citing a Commission on Audit
report.
"I guess they failed in
their mandate," Villar told radio DZMM.
The NFA had encountered delays in
unloading rice at its warehouses, where stocks have been depleted since March.
Remaining supplies are "very limited," preventing the agency from
influencing market prices, NFA administrator Rex Estoperez said.
"Walang naiiwan sa atin so
dependent tayo sa padating na importation," he said in a separate DZMM
interview.
(We have no more stocks so we are
dependent on the upcoming importation.)
The NFA and National Bureau of
Investigation have created a task force to ensure that rice traders are not
hoarding rice to spike prices, said Estoperez.
Inonesias Rice Imports to be
largest since 2011
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo
may import 2 million tons of rice this year, falling short of fulfilling
his 2014 presidential campaign promise of rice self-sufficiency.Since 2015,
Indonesia has imported 3.35 million tons of rice. This year the imports are
going to be increased, as severe droughts are expected to disrupt
harvests. A price spike in the country’s staple food would
not be beneficial to the president who is seeking reelection next year.
Last week, the Ministry of
Trade issued a permit for the the national procurement agency, Bulog,
to import 1 million tons of medium quality rice for the second half of the
year. The year’s total rice imports would then become 2 million tons, the
highest since 2011.
Said Abdullah, coordinator of the
People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty (KRKP), a farmers’ advocacy group, said
droughts may continue until the end of the year, making it hard for the
government’s rice production target of 47 million tons to be achieved.
“Rice harvests dropped by at
least 50 percent due to droughts, even there are regions that failed 100
percent, especially those far from rivers, lacking irrigation,” Said told
the Jakarta Globe on Sunday (27/08).
According to the Meteorology,
Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), most of the country’s rice-producing
regions, especially in Java, will see no rains before October.
Bulog data shows in mid-August
the agency’s rice supplies were 2 million tons in its warehouses
across the country. The amount, Said said, should be at least 3 million tons to
be safe.
Nailul Huda, economist at the
Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), said this year’s
imports are meant to secure Bulog’s rice supplies during the 2019
election campaign.
“As harvests are between
April and May, the beginning of next year is the most crucial time, because
there is a risk of price fluctuations. Importing rice at that time would
be [politically] suicidal. Therefore, the safest way is to issue import permits
this year, with less political risk,” Nailul said.
Trade Minister Enggartiasto
Lukita said the rice imports are meant to keep the inflation rate at
3.5 percent, in accordance with this year’s state budget, not because of the
upcoming election.
“We are not talking about the
election, we are talking about inflation, the rising prices, so we cannot leave
it unattended,” Enggartiasto told reporters on Monday.
“We need to import … because we
see there is a tendency for the prices to increase while the supplies decrease.
We need to fill the stock,” Enggartiasto said.
Jokowi
has been importing rice since 2015, the highest imports so far were
in 2016, with 1.28 million tons, up a 49 percent from a year earlier. The
country’s imports then decreased by 76 percent to only 305,275 tons last year.
According to data from the
Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesians will consume 33.8 million tons of
rice this year, compared with 30.65 million tons in 2017. Last year,
47 million tons were produced domestically.
Edhy Prabowo, a Great
Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) lawmaker who sits at House of
Representatives Commission IV, which oversees agriculture, has
questioned the government’s decision to import rice again, as to him
rice supplies seem sufficient.
“I can’t understand the logic of
importing rice again. Programs that we provide in the agriculture sector are
supposed to have fulfilled the country’s rice needs for one year … Import is
allowed only if [a commodity] is not available domestically,” Edhy said.
Rice consumption in Indonesia is
among the highest in the world, with the average citizen consuming 114
kilograms every year. In comparison, the average annual consumption of rice in
Vietnam is 191 kilograms per person, in Thailand 147 kilograms, in India 78
kilograms and in China 75 kilograms, according to data compiled by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2016.
Snatching of pistol: Lawyers demand
prosecution of Ebonyi Rice Miller’s chairman, Ununu
August 29, 2018
By
Lawyers in Ebonyi State, under the
aegis of Izzi Lawyers’ Forum (ILF), have called on the Inspector General of
Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to order the investigation and prosecution of the
chairman of Abakaliki Rice Millers’ Association, Mr. Joseph Ununu.
The lawyers said their call was
over the alleged snatching of a police pistol and other nefarious activities.
In a petition obtained by DAILY
POST, they alleged that Ununu and others on May 10, 2018 at a marriage ceremony
of Ununu’s daughter, manhandled and snatched the service pistol of one Sgt
Nwali Emeka, who also happens to be the suspect’s nephew.
The Izzi lawyers, through a
committee they set up to wade into the matter, headed by Barr. Pius I. Awoke,
alleged that Sgt Nwali with “Force No. 4338683” attached to Federal SARS,
Abakaliki, Ebonyi State command headquarters, was detained and later dismissed
from the police for losing his gun.
In the petition entitled “Cultism,
violent attack, snatching of police pistol and other nefarious activities on
Sgt Nwali Emeka by Hon. Joseph Ununu, a.k.a ‘Zuma Rock’ and his gang members”,
the lawyers called for the arrest and prosecution of those found culpable in the
act.
Speaking on the development, the
chairman of the Lawyers’ committee, Barr. Pius I. Awoke said that following a
petition his committee wrote to the state police command, they learnt that the
gun was returned and Sgt Nwali, who was earlier dismissed after being detained,
was reinstated but no arrest or prosecution took place.
“The matter was supposed to be
charged to court twice but I don’t know what stopped it. I’m not aware that
police continued with the investigation let alone charging anybody to court.
All we know is that the gun was returned and that Sgt Nwali earlier dismissed
was reinstated into the police force.
“I’m a lawyer, to leave the matter
inconclusive is not good. If there is anything anybody or Inspector General of
Police can do to make Ebonyi police continue with the investigation and
prosecute those involved, please they should do so.
“The perpetrators of that act are
known and not one of them was arrested; I’m not part of the people who would
want that matter swept under the carpet,” Barr. Awoke said.
In his reaction to the allegation
when contacted, the chairman of Abakaliki Rice Millers Association, Mr. Ununu,
denied involvement in snatching of anybody’s gun or any other nefarious
activities as alleged, admitting, however, that he was invited by the police
and he went to made statement to that effect.
“I never snatched any gun, what am
I doing with gun? I was invited by the police and I went to make statement,”
Ununu said.
When contacted, the Ebonyi State
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Loveth Odaa, an Assistant
Superintendent of Police (ASP) acknowledged being aware of the matter, but
noted that she could not give details on its status.
The PPRO recalled that the matter
was personally handled by the state Commissioner of police, Titus Lamorde, and
promised to get update from the commissioner before she could speak further on
the matter
The personal counsel to Sgt Nwali,
Barr. Clement Aiyamekhue, when contacted, stated that he was not aware that the
snatched gun had been returned, neither was he aware that his client had been
reinstated, as he has not been briefed on that
Lake Rice: LASG assures of price stability,
availability
August 28, 2018
By
Lagos State Government on Tuesday
said the price of Lake Rice would remain stable as the commodity floods markets
across the state.
Mr Toyin Suarau, Commissioner for
Agriculture, said this in a statement signed by Mr Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, Director
of Publicity in the ministry.
Suarau said it had come to the
notice of the state government that prices of rice had gobe up in the market.
He said the consistency in quality
of the Lake Rice and its availability was aimed at stopping the importation of
the commodity.
“You will recall that it was in a
bid to ensure availability of the commodity in Lagos that the state government
sought the participation of major rice distributors.
“Lake Rice is of good quality. The
difference between the commodity and foreign variety is that the imported
commodity has a minimum storage life span of five to six years.
“Lake Rice is fresh and wholesome
and the price remain the same to ensure affordability for residents,’’ Suarau
said.
Suarau said that measures had been
put in place by the state government to protect the price and avoid
adulteration.
He stressed that part of the
measures include constituting a committee to strictly monitor the product in
the market.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that 50kg of the commodity fetches N12,000; N6,000 per 25kg and N2,500
per 10kg.
Rice import to drop on higher yield
August 29, 2018 / LAST
MODIFIED: 01:14 AM, August 29, 2018
Rice imports nosedived in the past
two months and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted total import would
dip to 6 lakh tonnes in 2018-19 due to higher production in boro season and
reinstatement of import tariff.The private and public sectors imported 38.92
lakh tonnes of rice in July-June of 2017-18, the highest in the last three
decades, according to food ministry data.
Since July of the current fiscal
year, 38,060 tonnes of rice grains were imported.
The US agency linked the slumping
rice import to the imposition of a 28 percent import duty in July to protect
growers.
“Due to bumper boro rice production,
the paddy price at the farm gate fell, causing significant financial loss for
farmers,” said the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service in its Bangladesh Grain and
Feed Update, released in the middle of this month.
“Understanding the situation, the
government of Bangladesh took a quick initiative to protect farmers from lower
market prices of paddy,” it said. However, the agency said, “The high rate of
import duty may deter imports and increase paddy prices indirectly, but it also
may affect the price in the retail market and transfer the burden to
consumers.”
The US agency has kept its forecast
on Bangladesh's wheat import at 65 lakh tonnes for 2018-19. The country
imported 58.80 lakh tonnes of wheat in fiscal 2017-18, up 3.35 percent from the
previous year.
It, however, raised the corn import
forecast to 20 lakh tonnes on strong industrial consumption demand. The USDA
estimated corn imports by Bangladesh at 16 lakh tonnes in 2017-18.
The agency has revised down the
total rice production to 3.44 crore tonnes in May-April of the marketing year
2018-19 on slightly lower boro acreage because of downpours in harvesting
season and lower aus harvesting area due to expected flooding. The USDA in its
report said less than 1 percent of the boro rice crop was damaged by higher
water level due to heavy rainfall in the present harvesting season.
“Farmers in some locations claimed
production losses due to the effects of rice blast. The disease reportedly
resulted from temperature extremes, prolonged dew, adverse weather, lower
quality seed, and late planting,” it added.
The report said aus rice production
is progressing on schedule. The overall monsoon rains have been normal thus far
and seedling production for planting broadcast aman rice is progressing well
under adequate soil moisture conditions.
The USDA kept its forecast on wheat
production for July-June period of 2018-19 unchanged at 11.8 lakh tonnes
assuming normal weather conditions and marginal yield increase compared to last
year.
It cut corn production estimates to
34 lakh tonnes owing to reduced cultivation area of summer corn and early
flooding in low land areas as a result of heavy rains.
The USDA said corn was one of the
most popular cereal crops in Bangladesh, while on the other hand, rice was
treated as a principal crop that farmers feel compelled to produce whether it
is profitable or not.
“Farmers prefer producing corn, as
it is somewhat resistant to adverse weather, and has high market demand.
Increasing demand for industrial use and comparatively higher margins than rice
and wheat have increased farmers' interest to produce more corn,” said the
report.
The USDA said farmers reduced
summer corn (March to July) cultivation area due to a lack of availability of
highly competitive land, which is alternatively used for comparatively
profitable vegetable crop cultivation.
Transferring sorghum's weed-killing power to rice
August 28, 2018
by Sandra Avant, Agricultural Research Service
ARS
scientists are waiting to see if these rice plants will successfully produce a
natural weed-killing compound called sorgoleone. Credit: Agricultural Research
Service
Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
scientists have transferred a biochemical pathway found in sorghum, which
produces a weed-killing compound, into rice plants.
The compound sorgoleone, secreted
by sorghum, helps the plant combat weeds. It works so well that some other
crops struggle to grow in fields where sorghum has been raised, causing
problems for growers who want to rotate different crops in those fields.
Scientists at ARS's Natural Product
Utilization Research Unit (NPURU) in Oxford, Mississippi, are investigating
whether sorghum's weed-inhibiting properties can be transferred to other crops
like rice and used as a bioherbicide. Producing sorgoleone in other crops would
potentially give those plants the ability to fight weeds and reduce reliance on
synthetic herbicides, says NPURU molecular biologist Scott Baerson.
Prior to this research, nothing was
known about the genes that make sorgoleone, Baerson says. After years of
research, the NPURU team, which include Baerson and molecular biologist
Zhiqiang Pan, recently reached a milestone that allowed them to transfer the
sorgoleone compound into rice. The impact of this research, part of which was
recently published in New Phytologist, is twofold, according to Pan
and Baerson. The rice plants that produce sorgoleone
should require less herbicides to control weeds. At a minimum, the natural
compound could reduce the amount of synthetic chemicals sprayed onto food
crops. Secondly, growers would spend less on buying and applying chemicals—a
major part of their overhead cost.
In addition, a crop that produces
its own herbicide potentially would be more efficient—increasing profits for
farmers and food processors. Ultimately, these savings could be passed on to
consumers, Baerson adds.
In earlier studies, the researchers
successfully increased sorgoleone to make sorghum more resistant to weeds,
which would help growers who do not rotate sorghum with other crops. They also
stopped sorghum plants from producing sorgoleone, which would benefit farmers
who want to rotate different crops with sorghum.
The next step is to see if rice plants
grown in the laboratory will produce sorgoleone as they grow and have the same
weed-fighting ability as sorghum.
More information: Zhiqiang Pan et al. A cytochrome P450 CYP71 enzyme expressed
in Sorghum bicolor root hair cells participates in the biosynthesis of the
benzoquinone allelochemical sorgoleone, New Phytologist (2018). DOI: 10.1111/nph.15037
Leveraging economic links between
ASEAN countries to gain a foothold
Golden Sunland is not only focusing on Myanmar's domestic rice
market, it hopes to bring its products to Singapore and elsewhere in the
region.
WED, AUG 29, 2018 - 5:50 AM
Golden Sunland works with rice farms in Myanmar to grow high-yield
hybrid rice and has been finding ways to add value throughout the supply chain.
FOUNDED in late 2016, rice
company Golden Sunland is not a typical agriculture firm. That's because
despite basing its rice farming operations in Myanmar, the company is actually
a Singapore one.
While it might be challenging for
a Singapore company to enter the rice farming industry, let alone in Myanmar,
Golden Sunland made use of the economic links between ASEAN countries to
effectively conduct its business in the country.
Golden Sunland realised that
other markets like Vietnam or Thailand were already developed and Myanmar, as
an emerging market for the rice sector, had more potential for long-term growth.
Furthermore, apart from rice
exports, Myanmar has a large and relatively untapped domestic market for rice
which the firm could easily take advantage of.
The firm works with both the
Singapore and Myanmar governments, and has received support from Enterprise
Singapore (ESG). For example, with ESG's help, Golden Sunland was able to
receive its rice mill permit, which would allow the firm to move from rice
planting and harvesting to milling and exporting the rice.
The new rice mill is expected to
be operational in the third quarter of next year, and can support up to 15,000
acres of farmland or 7,500 farmers.
ESG also helped the company to
access micro-financing from Fullerton Financial Holdings, increasing the
capacity of contract farming for Golden Sunland through farmer loans.
On top of that, ESG introduced
Golden Sunland to the SG Food Garden Atrium in August, as well as the
International Rice Congress 2018, to help the company build up a stronger
regional brand before launching its products in Singapore and Myanmar.
Golden Sunland is not only
focusing on Myanmar's domestic rice market, it hopes to bring its products to
Singapore and elsewhere in the region.
TARGET MARKET
Golden Sunland targets
mass-market consumers in both Singapore and Myanmar. It said its rice would
soon be available for ordering online, with its first delivery expected to be
in the fourth quarter this year.
Chief operating officer David
Chen said: "We work with farmers in Myanmar on the ground at a village
level, partnering with them to improve the rice farming sector as a
whole."
The company manages all aspects
of rice supply from farming to retail as there are problems in the Myanmar rice
sector.
Said Mr Chen: "Myanmar used
to be a traditional rice-growing powerhouse, but because of the structural
inefficiencies the rice sector has been facing, this is no longer the
case."
Golden Sunland works from the
ground up with local farmers and villages to correct these inefficiencies. One
of the problems in the Myanmar rice sector is that local varieties of rice have
a relatively low yield, so Golden Sunland has developed a hybrid rice variety
with a significantly higher yield.
It provides seeds to the farmers,
and will then buy the paddy back from the farmers at a pre-agreed price, which
the company said is 20 per cent higher than the official government recommended
buyback price. This provides a degree of income stability for these farmers.
Mr Chen said the hybrid rice that
the company developed was not the result of genetic modification. Rather, it
was the product of artificial selection as well as cross-breeding techniques.
However, increasing rice yields
alone is not enough to create a sustainable business model, said chief
financial officer Peng Jingkai. There is also a lack of coordination in
planting and harvesting schedules, as well as a lack of modern farming
facilities, finance, and knowledge.
"The problem is that there
is a lack of cooperation between farmers which results in, for example,
counter-productive pest and disease management practices. Without proper
coordination, these problems are merely being moved temporarily from one farm
to another instead of being entirely eradicated," Mr Peng explained.
By partnering various local
farmers in a local area, Golden Sunland also seeks to be the consolidated farm
manager of the area, allowing for centralised resource and finance management,
synchronised planting and harvesting schedules, and collective pest and disease
management systems.
The firm cited several ways that
collective farm management practices can benefit all stakeholders. Consolidated
land management would allow for a better implementation of mechanised farming
methods, as well as more efficient water and resource management systems, like
irrigation, due to economies of scale.
The ease of using water would let
planting schedules be standardised, greatly reducing the variability in
harvesting times, which would then allow downstream rice millers to work more
efficiently. Collective pest and disease management practices would also be
more efficient and effective at stamping out such outbreaks.
The increase in farming yield
could break farmers' reliance on third-party support, such as expensive forms
of micro-finance or exploitative contract farming arrangements.
STREAMLINING
Instead of focusing on the
farming process alone, the company has been finding ways to add value
throughout the supply chain. Apart from developing a high-yield hybrid rice
crop, it is also coordinating farm management practices like irrigation and
pest control, and acting as an integrated intermediary between farmer and
consumer.
Many local rice mills, which
process the rice after harvesting, now tend to be under-utilised owing to the
unstaggered upstream harvesting schedules. Also, Mr Chen said, the lack of
planning means rice mills tend to mix rice grains of different sizes into a
common milling machine, resulting in higher rate of rice breakage, which is not
favoured by international traders.
Hence the company sees the
potential for it to be an integrated downstream agent, streamlining the
post-harvesting process from farmer to consumer.
Golden Sunland has its own
milling machines, which mill the rice that it collects from the farmers it
works with, and the company also seeks to play the role of trader, wholesaler
and retailer.
By streamlining the downstream
supply chain, Golden Sunland says it hopes that a greater proportion of the
revenue can reach the individual farmers themselves. Golden Sunland is not just
about profit, Mr Chen said, adding that one of the most important aspects of
the business is in improving the livelihoods of the individual farmers.
This was why he felt it was
important to develop a business model that took their interests into account.
Mr Chen said the firm's long-term
goal is to enable farmers to break through the poverty trap by giving them the
tools and the systems to wean them off costly micro-finance loans and contract
farming work. He hopes farmers will eventually be able to act as an independent
collective capable of running a highly mechanised and efficient farming process
for themselves.
Burglars strike at rice miller’s house at
Hanuman Junction
MACHILIPATNAM, AUGUST
29, 2018 00:00 IST
Burglars allegedly made away with Rs. 8 lakh in cash and nearly
40 tolas of gold from the house of a rice mill owner by breaking open the rear
door of the house when the residents were away, in Gudivada road area at
Hanuman Junction of Krishna district. The incident had reportedly occurred
after the complaint had left for Vijayawada for his wife’s medical treatment on
August 24.
Ragipindi Lakshmi Reddy said in his complaint to the police on
Tuesday that the theft occurred when he left for Vijayawada for his wife’s
medical treatment on August 24. When they returned home they fund hat the house
was burgled. Mr. Reddy owns a rice mill and a provision store.
The police said that however, the burglars left another 50 tolas
in teh hosue untocuhed, leaving a clue as top why they did not steal the whole
gold.
Snatching of pistol: Lawyers demand
prosecution of Ebonyi Rice Miller’s chairman, Ununu
August 29, 2018
By
Lawyers in Ebonyi State, under the
aegis of Izzi Lawyers’ Forum (ILF), have called on the Inspector General of
Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to order the investigation and prosecution of the
chairman of Abakaliki Rice Millers’ Association, Mr. Joseph Ununu.
The lawyers said their call was
over the alleged snatching of a police pistol and other nefarious activities.
In a petition obtained by DAILY
POST, they alleged that Ununu and others on May 10, 2018 at a marriage ceremony
of Ununu’s daughter, manhandled and snatched the service pistol of one Sgt
Nwali Emeka, who also happens to be the suspect’s nephew.
The Izzi lawyers, through a
committee they set up to wade into the matter, headed by Barr. Pius I. Awoke,
alleged that Sgt Nwali with “Force No. 4338683” attached to Federal SARS,
Abakaliki, Ebonyi State command headquarters, was detained and later dismissed
from the police for losing his gun.
In the petition entitled “Cultism,
violent attack, snatching of police pistol and other nefarious activities on
Sgt Nwali Emeka by Hon. Joseph Ununu, a.k.a ‘Zuma Rock’ and his gang members”,
the lawyers called for the arrest and prosecution of those found culpable in
the act.
Speaking on the development, the
chairman of the Lawyers’ committee, Barr. Pius I. Awoke said that following a
petition his committee wrote to the state police command, they learnt that the
gun was returned and Sgt Nwali, who was earlier dismissed after being detained,
was reinstated but no arrest or prosecution took place.
“The matter was supposed to be
charged to court twice but I don’t know what stopped it. I’m not aware that police
continued with the investigation let alone charging anybody to court. All we
know is that the gun was returned and that Sgt Nwali earlier dismissed was
reinstated into the police force.
“I’m a lawyer, to leave the matter
inconclusive is not good. If there is anything anybody or Inspector General of
Police can do to make Ebonyi police continue with the investigation and
prosecute those involved, please they should do so.
“The perpetrators of that act are
known and not one of them was arrested; I’m not part of the people who would
want that matter swept under the carpet,” Barr. Awoke said.
In his reaction to the allegation
when contacted, the chairman of Abakaliki Rice Millers Association, Mr. Ununu,
denied involvement in snatching of anybody’s gun or any other nefarious
activities as alleged, admitting, however, that he was invited by the police
and he went to made statement to that effect.
“I never snatched any gun, what am
I doing with gun? I was invited by the police and I went to make statement,” Ununu
said.
When contacted, the Ebonyi State
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Loveth Odaa, an Assistant
Superintendent of Police (ASP) acknowledged being aware of the matter, but
noted that she could not give details on its status.
The PPRO recalled that the matter
was personally handled by the state Commissioner of police, Titus Lamorde, and
promised to get update from the commissioner before she could speak further on
the matter
The personal counsel to Sgt Nwali,
Barr. Clement Aiyamekhue, when contacted, stated that he was not aware that the
snatched gun had been returned, neither was he aware that his client had been
reinstated, as he has not been briefed on that.
Thrust Laid on Fulfilling Prime Minister’s Dream of Doubling
Farmers’ Income: International Rice Research Institute Expert
August 29, 2018
A Correspondent
JORHAT: The Department of
Agriculture, Government of Assam, Assam Agricultural University (AAU)
and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) arranged an exposure visit and
technology showcasing at a glittering function held at the Regional Agricultural Research
Station (RARS) at Titabor. The function was attended by Binod
Seshan, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of Assam, Sudanshu
Singh, co-coordinator of IRRI Team-India, Dr Ashok Bhattacharjee, Director
Research, AAU, and Dr Tomiuddin Ahmed, chief scientist of RARS-Titabor.
Scientists and farmers gathered at the day-long Implements and Instruments
demonstration programme held at RARS experimental field on Tuesday.
“The thrust is on doubling the
income of farmers by 2040, which is a dream plan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The World Bank has come forward to assist the department, especially in the
paddy-growing areas of the country,” said Sudhangshu Singh, the team leader of
IRRI, India. “In this project, we are trying to bring a number of rice
varieties like Swarna-56, Bahaduur-56 and Ranjit-56 which are tolerant to flash
floods. Even if a flood occurs for two weeks, they either survive or regenerate
and almost give equal yield in comparison to the normal variety. IRRI is also
introducing drought-tolerant varieties in collaboration with Assam Agricultural
University as well as a multi-tolerant variety which will survive both in flood
as well as drought,” he added.
Earlier, Dipak Sarma, the
District Agriculture Officer (DAO), Dr. Ashok Bhattacharyya, Director of
Research (AAU), Dr. Tomiuddin Ahmed, chief scientist of RARS-Titabor, discussed
about doubling farmers’ income by reducing the cost of production of farmers in
the field by utilizing instruments which need less manpower for agricultural
sorting.
ARS scientists
work to give rice a weed-killing compound
08.29.2018
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) scientists have transferred a
biochemical pathway found in sorghum, which produces a weed-killing compound,
into rice plants.
According to the ARS, the compound
sorgoleone, secreted by sorghum, helps the plant combat weeds. It works so well
that some other crops struggle to grow in fields where sorghum has been raised,
causing problems for growers who want to rotate different crops in those
fields.
Scientists at ARS’s Natural Product Utilization
Research Unit (NPURU) in Oxford, Mississippi, U.S., are
investigating whether sorghum’s weed-inhibiting properties can be transferred
to other crops like rice and used as a bioherbicide. Producing sorgoleone in
other crops would potentially give those plants the ability to fight weeds and
reduce reliance on synthetic herbicides, said NPURU molecular biologist Scott
Baerson.
Prior to this research, nothing was
known about the genes that make sorgoleone, Baerson said. After years of
research, the NPURU team, which include Baerson and molecular biologist
Zhiqiang Pan, recently reached a milestone that allowed them to transfer the sorgoleone
compound into rice. The impact of this research, part of which was recently
published in New Phytologist, is
two-fold, said Pan and Baerson.
“The rice plants that produce
sorgoleone should require less herbicides to control weeds,” the ARS said. “At
a minimum, the natural compound could reduce the amount of synthetic chemicals
sprayed onto food crops. Secondly, growers would spend less on buying and
applying chemicals — a major part of their overhead cost.”
In addition, a crop that produces
its own herbicide potentially would be more efficient — increasing profits for
farmers and food processors,” Baerson said. “Ultimately, these savings could be
passed on to consumers.”
The ARS noted that in earlier
studies, the researchers successfully increased sorgoleone to make sorghum more
resistant to weeds, which would help growers who do not rotate sorghum with
other crops. They also stopped sorghum plants from producing sorgoleone, which
would benefit farmers who want to rotate different crops with sorghum.
The next step is to see if rice
plants grown in the laboratory will produce sorgoleone as they grow and have
the same weed-fighting ability as sorghum.The ARS has five patents on the
technology.
Scholars Object to Honor for Condoleezza Rice
By Colleen Flaherty
August 29, 2018
Dozens of political scientists have signed a petition asking the
American Political Science Association to rescind a major award to Condoleezza
Rice, former U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser and current
Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at Stanford University.
The petition also asks the political science association to create an oversight
committee for nominations for public service awards, “so as to screen out those
who have participated in policies that have had the consequence of the
systematic violation of the human rights of others.” The association announced last week
that Rice is the 2018 recipient of the Hubert H. Humphrey Award for public
service, citing her strong record. But some political scientists object to that
call, based on Rice’s involvement in decisions about the Iraq War and foreign
policy more generally under President George W. Bush.
Giving Rice the Humphrey award honors “a person who actively
participated in creating a rationale for the illegal invasion of Iraq,
participated in and defended the creation of policies of rendition and torture
against foreign nationals, supported the creation of a concentration camp at
Guantanamo Bay, and aided and abetted the deliberate and systematic lies that
were told to the American public to encourage their support for the invasion of
Iraq, which, from its inception and to this day, has had catastrophic
consequences for the world,” reads the petition drafted by
Thomas L. Dumm, William H. Hastie ’25 Professor of Political Science at Amherst
College, and circulated by Jodi Dean, professor of political science at Hobart
and William Smith Colleges. The association, which convenes in Boston later
this week for its annual meeting, did not immediately respond to a request for
comment. Rice backed out of speaking at commencement at Rutgers University in
2014, following protests by some
students and faculty members
Rice
productivity across Asia is being driven by mutation breeding
Irradiation
induces changes in the DNA and speeds up the natural process of mutation in
plants, increasing the diversity in crop varieties available to farmers.
IAEA 29 Aug 2018, 06:58 PM Bangladesh, India, Vietnam
Rice is the staple crop in many countries, particularly in Asia,
but yields of traditional varieties have fallen in recent years due to changing
weather patterns, including higher temperatures, severe droughts, floods,
salinity, and diseases, coupled with more erratic rainfall. (Image Credit:
Pexels)
The use of radiation in improving
crop varieties offers an effective means of adapting agricultural crops to
changing weather conditions, while also increasing yields to feed a growing
population, agreed speakers at a session at the International Symposium on Plant Mutation Breeding and
Biotechnologyyesterday.
Rice is the staple crop in many
countries, particularly in Asia, but yields of traditional varieties have
fallen in recent years due to changing weather patterns, including higher
temperatures, severe droughts, floods, salinity, and diseases, coupled with
more erratic rainfall.
Irradiation induces changes in
the DNA and speeds up the natural process of mutation in plants, increasing the
diversity in crop varieties available to farmers. These new varieties possess
favorable traits – some including stronger climate resilience and higher
yields.
Speakers from several countries
shared success stories on the contribution and impact of mutant varieties
developed through irradiation on agricultural productivity
and therefore food security.
Vietnam: Producing crop diversity
Through mutation breeding,
Vietnam’s Institute of Agriculture and Genetics has over the last three decades
introduced 46 new varieties of rice suited to the different production areas of
the country.
Supported by the IAEA and
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vietnamese
rice farmers have witnessed an increase in rice yields, shorter growth duration
for rice crops, as well as increased resistance to erratic weather conditions.
For example, over 3 million farmers have benefitted from the adoption of the
DT-10 rice mutant variety, which has a 40% higher yield than traditional
varieties.
Mutation breeding has had many
advantages for Vietnam, said Ham Le Huy of the Institute of Agriculture and
Genetics. “Vietnam used to be very poor and therefore had little funding to
work with, as well as low technical capacities,” he said. “Mutation breeding is
therefore very relevant to developing countries in order to increase
agricultural production.”
Bangladesh: Rice variety in
drought
Similarly, rice is a staple in
Bangladeshi cuisine and meals are not considered complete without it. However,
“the population of Bangladesh is increasing and the land is
decreasing,” said Mirza Mofazzal Islam from the BangladeshInstitute of Nuclear Agriculture,
highlighting the need for increased yields in conjunction with the improved
sustainability of agricultural practices.
Additionally, droughts have
become one of the greatest challenges to agricultural productivity in
Bangladesh. Most of the damage occurs between March and June, the hottest
months of the year, Mofazzal Islam said.
In response, plant breeders from
the Institute developed improved mutant rice lines, which can be cultivated in
dry conditions. As the starting point, they took a rice variety called New Rice
for Africa (NERICA), developed in West Africa, treated it with radiation and
tested the different mutant lines for their growth duration, plant height, and
adaptability to Bangladesh’s climate. Two out of the six mutant lines have been
selected for early maturity, higher yield, and adaptability, and will soon be
released for commercial cultivation.
India: Increasing high-value
crops of rice
India is the world’s largest
exporter of rice, but its farmers face major agricultural constraints in rice
production, said Vikash Kumar of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. These
include salinity, consequences of climate change, including the resurgence of
diseases, and the underutilization of the range of rice varieties found in
India.
There is a need also for
improving quality and satisfying the demand for different types of rice across
the country while increasing farmers’ income, he said.
This has led experts to produce a
wide range of rice varieties, including the variety CSR-30, developed in the
early 2000s, which has improved salt tolerance and is, therefore, best suited
for coastal regions.
On top of using their gamma
irradiator, researchers at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are considering using
electron beam and ion beam technologies, in order to produce further mutant
rice varieties.
Mutation
Breeding of Rice Increases Food Security across Asia
29 Aug 2018
,
The International Symposium on Plant Mutation Breeding and
Biotechnology is taking place at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from
27 to 31 August 2018. (Photo: F. Nassif/IAEA)
The use of radiation in improving
crop varieties offers an effective means of adapting agricultural crops to
changing weather conditions, while also increasing yields to feed a growing
population, agreed speakers at a session at the International Symposium on
Plant Mutation Breeding and Biotechnology yesterday.
Rice is the staple crop in many
countries, particularly in Asia, but yields of traditional varieties have
fallen in recent years due to changing weather patterns, including higher
temperatures, severe droughts, floods, salinity and diseases, coupled with more
erratic rainfall.
Irradiation induces changes in
the DNA and speeds up the natural process of mutation in plants, increasing the
diversity in crop varieties available to farmers. These new varieties possess
favourable traits – some including stronger climate resilience and higher
yields.
Speakers from several countries
shared success stories on the contribution and impact of mutant varieties
developed through irradiation on agricultural productivity and therefore food
security.
Vietnam: Producing crop diversity
Through mutation breeding,
Vietnam’s Institute of Agriculture and Genetics has over the last three decades
introduced 46 new varieties of rice suited to the different production areas of
the country.
Supported by the IAEA and the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vietnamese rice
farmers have witnessed an increase in rice yields, shorter growth duration for
rice crops, as well as increased resistance to erratic weather conditions. For
example, over 3 million farmers have benefitted from the adoption of the DT-10
rice mutant variety, which has a 40% higher yield than traditional varieties.
Mutation breeding has had many
advantages for Vietnam, said Ham Le Huy of the Institute of Agriculture and
Genetics. “Vietnam used to be very poor and therefore had little funding to
work with, as well as low technical capacities,” he said. “Mutation breeding is
therefore very relevant to developing countries in order to increase
agricultural production.”
Bangladesh: Rice variety in drought
Similarly, rice is a staple in
Bangladeshi cuisine and meals are not considered complete without it. However,
“the population of Bangladesh is increasing and the land is decreasing,” said
Mirza Mofazzal Islam from the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture,
highlighting the need for increased yields in conjunction with improved
sustainability of agricultural practices.
Additionally, droughts have
become one of the greatest challenges to agricultural productivity in
Bangladesh. Most of the damage occurs between March and June, the hottest
months of the year, Mofazzal Islam said.
In response, plant breeders from
the Institute developed improved mutant rice lines, which can be cultivated in
dry conditions. As the starting point, they took a rice variety called New Rice
for Africa (NERICA), developed in West Africa, treated it with radiation and
tested the different mutant lines for their growth duration, plant height and
adaptability to Bangladesh’s climate. Two out of the six mutant lines have been
selected for early maturity, higher yield and adaptability, and will soon be
released for commercial cultivation.
India: Increasing high value crops of rice
India is the world’s largest
exporter of rice, but its farmers face major agricultural constraints in rice
production, said Vikash Kumar of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. These
include salinity, consequences of climate change, including the resurgence of
diseases, and the underutilization of the range of rice varieties found in
India.
There is a need also for
improving quality and satisfying demand for different types of rice across the
country, while increasing farmers’ income, he said.
This has led experts to produce a
wide range of rice varieties, including the variety CSR-30, developed in the
early 2000s, which has improved salt tolerance and is therefore best suited for
coastal regions.
On top of using their gamma
irradiator, researchers at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are considering using
electron beam and ion beam technologies, in order to produce further mutant
rice varieties.
Participants at the International Symposium on Plant Mutation
Breeding and Biotechnology which is taking place at the IAEA
headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 27 to 31 August 2018. (Photo: F.
Nassif/IAEA)
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Rice trading center seen to solve rice smuggling in ZamBaSulTa
by UNTV News | Posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
The Department of Agriculture
(DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) are currently studying the
establishment of a rice trading center in ZamBaSulTa — Zamboanga City, Basilan,
Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.
Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol
said the measure can curb rice smuggling in the area.
Based on the estimation of the
agriculture department, about 2,000 metric tons or 4 million sacks of rice from
Vietnam and Thailand are being shipped by smugglers every year.
Piñol said that smuggling is
causing the government to lose P2 billion worth of revenues that end up in the
pockets of corrupt officials.
Smuggled rice has also made its
way to Central Visayas which threatens local farmers in Mindanao who are losing
farmhands.
The secretary added that the
government’s intensified anti-smuggling campaign caused the dwindling of rice
supply in ZamBaSulaTa which resulted in the price hike.
“They[ NFA Council] agreed that
smugglers there should be paying taxes to the government and become legal
suppliers of rice for the region,” Piñol said.
ZamBaSulaTa is only able to
harvest 10 percent of their annual rice requirement of 201,000 metric tons.
The NFA is also currently
processing the permit for private importation of 132,000 metric tons of rice
through minimum access volume. These will be allocated to affected areas only.
Loans given to farmers through
production loan easy access are also expected to boost rice production. — Rey
Pelayo
Nagaland
waits for Assam rice truck
Rahul Karmakar
GUWAHATI , AUGUST
29, 2018 00:59 IST
A man pulling a rickshaw through a flooded street in Dimapur after
heavy rain.
Heavy rain in July damaged
Dimapur-Kiphire road, making essential goods scarce
A district in rain-hit Nagaland is awaiting a truck carrying
some 300 bags of rice.
The truck that left eastern Assam’s Jorhat town on Tuesday is
expected to reach Kiphire town, the headquarters of Nagaland’s Kiphire district
bordering Myanmar, in three days. The wait could be longer for the district and
its 74,004 people if it rains heavily.
The Jorhat-Kiphire road – distance here is measured by hours
taken to travel – is not the ‘normal’ route. The one from Dimapur, Nagaland’s
commercial hub and only railhead, via State capital Kohima is.
Heavy rain on July 26-27 damaged the 265 km Dimapur-Kiphire road
at two stretches in Phek district adjoining Kiphire. The nearest stretch from
Kiphire town is about three hours’ drive in an SUV.
The district has since been finding it hard to procure essential
commodities, primarily rice, the staple food, and fuel.
“Landslides have disrupted the movement of heavy vehicles
between Kiphire and Dimapur for almost four weeks now, leading to shortage of
essentials in the former district. The damaged stretch of road between Meluri
and Kiphire towns needs to be repaired urgently so that people get some
respite,” K. Chumseli Anar, chief of a local students’ body, said.
The roads were cleared of debris, but movement of loaded trucks
has been restricted owing to soft soil and muddy conditions. Trucks carrying up
to 10 tonnes of goods, instead of the normal 18 tonnes, have been allowed to
ply.
Three such trucks carrying rice reached Kiphire on Friday when
the conditions were favourable. “People surrounded the trucks in the hope of
buying some rice,” Mr. Anar said.
Work on diversion
Kiphire Deputy Commissioner Mohammed Ali Shihab said the situation
has been manageable so far with. some consignments having been delivered by the
Indian Air Force choppers as well as the State government.
“But the weather often does not permit chopper service. And rain
disrupts travel on the road so that for a loaded truck takes more than 12 hours
from Dimapur,” Mr. Shihab told The Hindu.
The Phek district administration and National Highways Authority
of India have been working on a war-footing to make a diversion, he said.
The diversion needs some soiling to be usable by heavy vehicles.
The longer, less used but no less treacherous alternative road
from Jorhat via Zunheboto district has thus become the temporary lifeline for
Kiphire. “We are praying that it reaches in three days and the diversion gets
ready for the situation to normalise in a week to 10 days’ time,” Mr. Shihab
said.
“Not much rice is grown in Kiphire, so the demand is high. Most
other foodstuff are grown locally. We have a stock of 200 bags of rice at the
district headquarters and 50-100 bags in eight subdivision headquarters for
emergency situation,” he said.
The rice bags coming in are being regulated so that all the
subdivisions and 104 villages of Kiphire get them uniformly, according to
“population size and remoteness”. In Kiphire town, the Commissioners of 11
wards have been entrusted with monitoring the distribution.
Navy seizes 13,803 bags of smuggled rice in Calabar
Rear Admiral Mathew Emuekpere, the Flag Officer Commanding,
Eastern Naval Command, Nigerian Navy, said the command seized over 13,803 bags
of smuggled rice valued at N220.8 million in the past seven months.
Emuekpere disclosed this on Tuesday in Calabar, Cross River,
during the handing over of the command’s leadership to his successor, Rear
Admiral David Adeniran.
He said the rice was seized due to the sustained patrol of the
maritime domain by personnel of the command.
According to him, the anti-smuggling operation was carried out
in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy of enhancing and promoting
local production of rice.
“Gladly, in the last seven months, we have been able to achieve
some of our set targets in view of the numerous challenges.
“To a great extent, we have successfully dealt with illegal
bunkering, crude oil theft, smuggling, human trafficking, piracy and sea
robbery in Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Rivers states that are under the command.
“Within this period, the command seized over 13,803 bags of
imported rice valued at N220.8 million at N16,000 per bag and several
contraband.
“These were made possible by continuous deployment of various
platforms within the command area of responsibility throughout my stay as the
Flag Officer Commanding.
“Within this period also, the command was able to shut down over
150 illegal refineries through sustained operation, while over 90 suspects were
arrested for various maritime crimes,” he said.
Receiving the flag of leadership, the new FOC, Adeniran,
commended Emuekpere for his dynamic leadership in improving the welfare of
personnel and protecting the maritime domain.
“I want to commend the former FOC for his development drive in
the command and also urge officers and men of this command to accord me the
needed support to move the Nigerian Navy forward.
“Our purpose is to fight all forms of illegality to ensure that
our maritime domain is safe for business to thrive.
“We are military men, involving in politics or social media
activities is not accepted,” he said.
NAN reports that Emuekpere has been deployed to Navy
Headquarters in Abuja as the Head of Administration.
USA Rice Attends Grain Trade Conference in Mexico
NUEVO VALLARTA, MEXICO -- USA Rice
participated in the 25th annual APPAMEX-NAEGA forum held in Nayarit state last
weekend. APPAMEX is the sister organization of the North American Export
Grain Association (NAEGA) and counts among its membership nearly all of the
major grain traders, end-user groups, railroad, and logistic companies in
Mexico moving product between the U.S. and Mexico.
The primary theme for this year's forum was the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and policies of the incoming administration in Mexico that could impact the future of North American grain trade.
Of particular importance to USA Rice were presentations by Melinda Sallyards, Minister Counselor for Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Embassy; Rosaura Castaneda, Chief, International Negotiations Unit, Secretariat of Economy; and Dr. Miguel Garcia Winder, Undersecretary of Agriculture Designate for incoming President Lopez Obrador.
Regarding possible new agricultural policies, Dr. Garcia stressed that the incoming government's focus is on helping the 50 million Mexicans living in poverty while at the same time providing assistance to farmers trying to make a living on small plots of land.
Dr. Garcia also mentioned the election promise from President-Elect Lopez Obrador which listed several products including corn, wheat, dry beans, rice, and dairy, where the government will focus on increasing production. It is unknown how the new Administration will provide assistance regarding these products but Dr. Garcia did emphasize that the focus is on the small farmer.
"U.S. - Mexico agricultural trade is at a critical period as a new NAFTA is being negotiated while at the same time a new Mexican Government with new policy changes will be installed on December 1," said Sallyards. "The APPAMEX-NAEGA conference has been an important forum to discuss possible effects on grain trade with Mexico. Thanks to USA Rice for their participation at this important meeting."
The primary theme for this year's forum was the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and policies of the incoming administration in Mexico that could impact the future of North American grain trade.
Of particular importance to USA Rice were presentations by Melinda Sallyards, Minister Counselor for Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Embassy; Rosaura Castaneda, Chief, International Negotiations Unit, Secretariat of Economy; and Dr. Miguel Garcia Winder, Undersecretary of Agriculture Designate for incoming President Lopez Obrador.
Regarding possible new agricultural policies, Dr. Garcia stressed that the incoming government's focus is on helping the 50 million Mexicans living in poverty while at the same time providing assistance to farmers trying to make a living on small plots of land.
Dr. Garcia also mentioned the election promise from President-Elect Lopez Obrador which listed several products including corn, wheat, dry beans, rice, and dairy, where the government will focus on increasing production. It is unknown how the new Administration will provide assistance regarding these products but Dr. Garcia did emphasize that the focus is on the small farmer.
"U.S. - Mexico agricultural trade is at a critical period as a new NAFTA is being negotiated while at the same time a new Mexican Government with new policy changes will be installed on December 1," said Sallyards. "The APPAMEX-NAEGA conference has been an important forum to discuss possible effects on grain trade with Mexico. Thanks to USA Rice for their participation at this important meeting."
USA Rice daily
Insect problems emerge as row rice acreage increases
Billbugs,
weevils that cannot survive in standing water, are feeding on row rice.
AUG 29, 2018U of A System Division of Agriculture/Aaron Cato
DAMAGE -- Billbug larvae in rice. Taken near Newport,
Ark.
Billbugs, once an occasional pest
of rice that cannot survive in standing water, are putting increased pressure
on crops as row rice acreage rises.Billbugs are weevils whose larvae bore into
the side of rice tillers, or stems, which deprives developing grain heads of
nutrients. This leads to “blank heads,” or heads that never developed kernels.
Billbugs cannot survive aquatic conditions, making row rice, which does not
hold a continuous flood, an ideal environment.
“We’ve been saying for the last
few years as row rice becomes more popular, we’re going to have a billbug
problem,” said Nick Bateman, Extension rice entomologist for the University of
Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. “And there have been some reports over
the past couple of years, but this is one of the first years we’ve seen, at
least in pockets, a substantial number of billbugs.”
Because billbug larvae bore into
the side of rice tillers, most damage isn’t seen until it’s too late.
“The damage doesn’t stop the head
from forming, but it kills the tiller, so in turn it’s killing that head
as it’s trying to push out of the boot,” Bateman said. “Now that rice is mostly
headed out, we’re starting to see a lot of blank heads.”
Scouting is difficult
Billbugs tend to stay near the
bottom of the plant, making scouting extremely difficult, but there are clues.
“They’re most likely not moving
up and down the plant a lot, so we could maybe get down on our hands and knees
and scout for them, but that’s just not feasible,” Bateman said. “Similar to
rice water weevils, billbugs come out of a tree line. So it’s going to be the
high end of the field in row rice or on levees and it’s going to be near a tree
line.”
It is still unclear which form of
control will be effective, but there are trials in place this year and more
planned for the future. Because there is a period of time between when adults
migrate to the field and when damage appears, Bateman is hoping to test timed
foliar applications as well as seed treatments.
“We’re exploring seed treatment
combinations and we’re hoping there’s some combination that will give us some
control,” Bateman said, “We’re also trying to look at whether it’s based on the
growth stage of the rice or maybe a calendar event, so that we could maybe time
a foliar application.”
The race is on with billbugs in
Arkansas. Although infestations aren’t widespread, row rice acreage is
increasing and extension entomologists are working on a solution.
“We have to get information out there
to people,” Bateman said. “With the popularity of row rice right now we have to
get information to our growers quickly and that’s our plan moving forward.
We’re going to double down on billbug research and try to find some way to deal
with this pest, especially in a row rice setting.”
For more information on insect control in rice contact your
county Extension office or visit www.uaex.edu.
Texas rice growers see near-record yields, good
grain quality
Rice maturing near Beaumont —
photo courtesy Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo
Texas rice farmers are seeing near-record yields of good quality
grain, and many are considering a second harvest, according to Texas A&M
AgriLife Research experts.Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research crop physiologist,
Beaumont, says despite a few problems for some growers, a near-record yield is
expected for producers who planted their fields early in spring.Producers in
the state’s rice-growing coastal region who were able to take advantage of
planting windows before late March avoided heavy spring rains that caused
delays for other growers. Delays into April exposed late-planted rice to hot
spells that may have hurt yields.
“Folks that planted late got hit by hot periods in July,”
Tarpley says. “Daytime temperatures were in the upper-90s to over 100 degrees with
nights above 77 degrees, which decrease yield when they coincide with
flowering.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Texas green yields
were 9,000-11,000 pounds per acre with good quality. There were also reports of
market uncertainty and falling prices related to ongoing trade disputes with
China and negotiations with Mexico and Canada regarding the North American Free
Trade Agreement.
Dr. M.O. Way, AgriLife Research entomologist, Beaumont, says
about 190,000 acres of rice were planted this season, and half the acreage was
planted in hybrid varieties. Way says good growing conditions have many farmers
considering growing a ratoon crop, that is to allow another crop to grow from
the stubble left after harvest.
Ratoon cropping could produce an additional 35-50 percent of the
main harvest, he says, with fewer input costs beyond fertilization and water.
About 60 percent of Texas rice acres are ratoon cropped typically.“Main crop
yields and quality are excellent in general,” he says. “I estimate early
harvested fields, which are usually the highest yielding, averaged about 8,000
pounds per acre wet with some fields over 10,000 pounds per acre wet.”
Way says there was plenty of water for rice fields in 2018, but
there were a few problems, including rice water weevil, stink bugs and injury
to some fields from a new herbicide. Damages from birds and wild pigs were a
problem, and producers noted increased wild pig activity.
Producers controlled pests for the most part, and other crop
damage was limited, Way says. But heat damage to later-maturing fields was
reported as high nighttime temperatures caused some panicle blanking.
Way also says increased rice acreage and good yields have caused
problems with storage of rice post-harvest because there are not enough
facilities to accommodate the crop.
Tarpley says ratoon cropping early planted fields might improve
net profits. Later-planted fields could be ratoon cropped if temperatures
remain above 50 degrees into early November.
“I don’t have a good feel for what percentage of producers will
ratoon this year,” he says. “But if it stays warm they could see another
harvest with less input costs, and that could mean a better bottom line.”
Texas A&M AgriLife Research contributed this article.
Pakatan Govt Targets 80% Instead Of 150% Rice
Self-Sufficiency By 2022
Malaysia was supposed to be 100% self-sufficient in rice
production-supply by 2000 and not 80% by 2022
(FMT) – Malaysia targets to
achieve 80% self-sufficiency in rice by 2022, moving up from the current 70%,
said Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Salahuddin Ayub.He said
efforts were being made in that direction, such as increasing the rice variants
and fertiliser and opening the door for technology transfer from China, Taiwan
and Japan.
“Achieving that rice
self-sufficiency is our dream and mission,” he told reporters after launching
the countdown for the Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism Show
2018 (Maha 2018) at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang here
today.Salahuddin said the country would have to import rice even after
attaining self-sufficiency because of food security and there would be people
who still chose to consume imported rice like basmati.
In his speech, Salahuddin said he
was impressed with the strength of China’s food security whereby it had a rice
stockpile to last two years compared to Malaysia’s 22 days.
“Thailand has stocks for six
months. We have to quickly learn the technology to raise production to provide
high quality and sufficient food for the people,” he said.
HOW
TO MAKE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEMS MORE SUSTAINABLE
This is
a critical time for our planet. What we eat and how we get our food will shape
its future
·
Thursday
17 May 2018 16:09
Last October,
movie director James Cameron and
his wife Suzy Amis Cameron launched an organic pea protein operation in
Saskatchewan. Once it is up and running, this facility will be the top producer
of organic pea protein in North America.At a news conference, Cameron said he
was “not unsympathetic” to the cattle industry, but that he was concerned with
the environmental impacts of animal agriculture, and wanted to help
reduce meatconsumption and greenhouse gas emissions and improve
health.
This is a critical time for our planet. What we
eat and how we get our food will shape its future.
Climate change, destructive weather, volatility in food
production and the rise of non-communicable diseases (diabetes and elevated
blood pressure, for example) that have become the leading causes of premature
death worldwide demand that we think hard about what we eat and call for more
sustainability in our global food systems.
Powered
by plants
Last year set the stage for plant-based eating
with the release of the Impossible Burger and other plant-based proteins that
resemble beef. People can live well eating plant-based diets and the appetite
for them is growing.
The Impossible
Burger is a plant-based burger made from wheat, coconut oil, potatoes and heme (Impossible Foods)
A 2016 survey found that 17 per cent of
Americans adhere to a plant-based diet exclusively or predominantly, while
another 60 per cent are cutting back on meat-based products. Similar trends are
taking hold in Europe and Asia.
A decrease in meat eating could help
governments save billions in health care costs. High levels of meat and
saturated fat consumption are linked to a growing burden of chronic conditions,
such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and some cancers.
In Canada, a recent report found that
provincial health-care spending could rise to 80 per cent of budgets by 2030 if
diets and lifestyles remained unchanged. These escalating costs are mostly
driven by an increase in the use of drugs, medical technology and human
resources to treat these diseases.
Planting
ahead
Global food systems are increasingly generating
severe human, social, environmental and economic costs. In an effort to boost
efficiency, productivity and profits, we have intensified and mechanised
agricultural processes, including plant and animal breeding.
As a result, our food production and
consumption habits have become major drivers of climate change, water stress,
land grabs, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, deforestation and the depletion of
fish stocks.
We need smarter, healthier and kinder
approaches.
For example, it is grossly inefficient to grow
grains and feed them to livestock. It would be 10 times more efficient if
humans ate these grains and seeds instead.
It would also be more equitable. The price of
grains increases when feedstocks are channelled to industrial animal
agriculture, and puts them out of reach of marginalised populations.
A
food makeover
Both the United Nations and the Food and
Agriculture Organisation have called for reforms in food and farming systems.
The evidence gathered reveals the need for limits on chemical-intensive
agriculture, intensive livestock production, the mass production and mass
marketing of ultra-processed foods and for sustainability practices to drive
needed improvements to long and deregulated global commodity supply chains.
Cattle ranching
is a leading cause of deforestation in Brazil (Shutterstock)
In short, they are advocating for more
sustainable diets across the planet. Sustainable diets seek to achieve positive
outcomes for people, animals and the planet by taking into account health,
environment and equity in diet, as well as lifestyle.
Independent
research groups, such as IPES-Food, are also collaborating with citizens and
social movements to shape policies and encourage the transition to more sustainable food systems.
In a recent report, IPES-Food and the Global
Alliance for the Future of Food highlighted the many ways food is connected to
our lives. They urge governments, industry and citizen-consumers to build more
integrity into food systems by applying reliable approaches that are holistic,
publicly supported and that replace poor outcomes with inspiring and
sustainable results.
Succulent
opportunities
Innovation with greens and plant-based foods is
already worth billions and is only expected to keep growing. With plant-based
businesses growing exponentially, traditional food companies are seizing
opportunities to invest in plant-based brands.
Maple Leaf Foods, Canada’s largest meat
distributor, extended its product line to include plant-based protein foods by
acquiring Lightlife Foods and Field Roast, which offer grain-based “meat” and
vegan cheese products. These are not lightweight businesses: Field Roast had
approximately $38m in sales in 2016.
Tyson Foods, a prominent US meat producer,
has also enlarged its stake in the plant-based company Beyond Meat, and the
multinational food company Danone acquired WhiteWave, a plant-milk company.
Many more business opportunities await those
with imagination. More succulent foods are anticipated in the market and some
will include pea protein from the facility launched by James Cameron and team.
The future could mean cleaner air, water and
fortified soils, along with healthier and more equitable lifestyles – all
powered by delicious plant foods.
Kathleen
Kevany is an associate professor in sustainable food systems and the
director of the Rural Research Centre at Dalhousie
University. This article was first published in The Conversation (theconversation.com)
Malaysia
targets 80% rice self-sufficiency by 2022
By Bernama
August 29, 2018
Salahuddin
Ayub says Malaysia still has to import rice even after attaining
self-sufficiency. (Bernama pic) 
SERDANG: Malaysia targets to
achieve 80% self-sufficiency in rice by 2022, moving up from the current 70%,
said Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Salahuddin Ayub.
He said efforts were being made
in that direction, such as increasing the rice variants and fertiliser and
opening the door for technology transfer from China, Taiwan and Japan.
“Achieving that rice
self-sufficiency is our dream and mission,” he told reporters after launching
the countdown for the Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism Show
2018 (Maha 2018) at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang here today.
Salahuddin said the country would
have to import rice even after attaining self-sufficiency because of food
security and there would be people who still chose to consume imported rice
like basmati.
In his speech, Salahuddin said he
was impressed with the strength of China’s food security whereby it had a rice
stockpile to last two years compared to Malaysia’s 22 days.
“Thailand has stocks for six
months. We have to quickly learn the technology to raise production to provide
high quality and sufficient food for the people,” he said.
Indian spot Curry in a Hurry now open in downtown Raleigh
food hall
Photo: Curry in a Hurry/Yelp
By Hoodline
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 06:09PM
Hungry?
A new neighborhood Indian spot has you covered. Located at 411 W. Morgan St. in
downtown Raleigh, the newcomer is called Curry in a Hurry.The
business started off as a food truck and is helmed by chef and owner Alaksha
Surti, according to the restaurant's website. It recently opened its first brick-and-mortar
location at the Morgan Street Food Hall & Market.The menu offers an array of curries, including green curry chicken with peppers, bamboo shoots, lemongrass and fresh basil. Vegan? Check out the channa masala: chickpeas cooked in a blend of spices and tomato to create a thick and rich curry.
Sides include plain naan, a traditional Indian bread baked in a clay oven and topped with clarified butter; garlic naan, which is cooked with fresh garlic and cilantro; and small vegetable samosas, which are spiced potatoes wrapped in a crispy pastry and served with a sweet date and tamarind chutney.
The restaurant, which still operates its food truck (check here for its schedule), has a 4.5-star rating on Yelp.
Yelper Chris S., who reviewed it on Aug. 21, wrote, "The Morgan Street location has a narrow menu based upon a few curries and some naans. All curries come on a bed of basmati rice. I have lived in Southeast Asia for two decades and can affirm that Ms. Surti's recipes are delicious, authentic and are clearly made with great eye for quality."
Curry in a Hurry is open daily from 10 a.m.-11 p.m.
https://abc11.com/food/indian-spot-curry-in-a-hurry-now-open-in-downtown-raleigh-food-hall/4081496/
Webinar: Farm Income and
Financial Forecasts, August 2018 Update, Aug. 30 @ 1 PM EDT
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2018
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speaker: Carrie Litkowski
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speaker: Carrie Litkowski
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) releases farm income
statement and balance sheet estimates and forecasts three times a year,
including February, August and November. These core statistical indicators
provide guidance to policy makers, lenders, commodity organizations, farmers,
and others interested in the financial status of the farm economy. ERS' farm
income statistics also inform the computation of agriculture's contribution to
the gross domestic product of the U.S. economy.
During this webinar, economist Carrie Litkowski provides the August
forecast for 2018 as well as first estimates for 2017. See the latest Farm Income Forecast.
Register/Join the
Webinar
Streaming audio will be available through your computer. Test
your computer for compatibility prior to the meeting.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/conferences/webinar-farm-income-and-financial-forecasts-august-2018-update-aug-30-1-pm-edt/
Philippines set to purchase extra 132,000 tons of rice
Reuters
MANILA - The Philippines will
import an additional 132,000 tonnes of rice to boost stocks in southern
provinces, where prices have surged in recent weeks amid limited supply, its
agriculture minister said on Wednesday.The plan approved by regulators includes
the "immediate procurement" of 32,000 tonnes of the staple grain,
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol told reporters.
The National Food Authority
(NFA), the country's food security agency that buys most of the country's
import requirements, will issue import permits for the balance of 100,000
tonnes after the usual bidding process, he said.
Piñol had proposed the additional
importation as residents of Tawi-Tawi, Sulu and Basilan and Zamboanga City in
Mindanao scrambled for rice supplies in recent weeks following what he said was
a crackdown on smuggling.
The additional imports will be
part of the unallocated portion of the maximum 805,200 tonnes the private
sector is allowed to bring in each year under a quota system.
"The first 32,000 (tonnes)
will be delivered after (NFA's) procurement process is completed in 15-20 days
(and) that will be good for two months," Piñol said.
The Philippines, one of the
world's biggest rice importers, usually buys from top producers Thailand and
Vietnam, where prices have been flat this month after falling steeply in June
and July.
The southernmost provinces of the
Philippines have for years relied on smuggled rice believed to come from
Vietnam and Thailand, shipped via the Malaysian state of Sabah, causing many
local farmers to quit growing rice, Piñol said.
Malaysia and the Philippines have
recently agreed to stop smuggling activities along the countries' borders,
resulting in "very limited" rice supplies in the southern regions, he
said.
http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/08/29/18/philippines-set-to-purchase-extra-132000-tons-of-rice
Minister: Malaysia targets 80pc
rice self-sufficiency by 2022
Datuk Salahuddin Ayub speaks during the launch of the
countdown for the Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism Show 2018
(MAHA 2018) in Serdang August 29, 2018. — Bernama pic
SERDANG, Aug 29 — Malaysia
targets to achieve 80 per cent self-sufficiency in rice by 2022, moving up from
the current 70 per cent, said Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister
Datuk Salahuddin Ayub.
He said efforts were being made
in that direction, such as increasing the rice variants and fertiliser and
opening the door for technology transfer from China, Taiwan and Japan.
“Achieving that rice
self-sufficiency is our dream and mission,” he said to reporters after
launching the countdown for the Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and
Agrotourism Show 2018 (MAHA 2018) at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang
here today.
Replying to a question,
Salahuddin said the country would have to import rice even after attaining
self-sufficiency because of food security and there would be people who still
chose to consume imported rice like basmati.
In his speech, Salahuddin said he
was impressed with the strength of China’s food security whereby it had a rice
stockpile to last two years compared to Malaysia’s 22 days.
“Thailand has stocks for six
months. We have to quickly learn the technology to raise production to provide
high quality and sufficient food for the people,” he said. — Bernama
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1667360/minister-malaysia-targets-80pc-rice-self-sufficiency-by-2022
CORRECTED-REFILE-Vietnam Jan-Aug coffee exports seen up 14.8 pct
y/y; rice to rise 8.2 pct y/y
(Corrects to show Vietnam is world’s second-biggest coffee
producer not second-biggest robusta producer in paragraph 3)
HANOI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Vietnam’s coffee exports for the
January to August period rose an estimated 14.8 percent from the same period a
year ago, while rice exports increased an estimated 8.2 percent during the same
period, government data showed on Wednesday.
COFFEE
Coffee exports from Vietnam will rise an estimated 14.8 percent
between January and August from a year ago to 1.3 million tonnes, equal to
21.78 million 60-kg bags, the General Statistics Office said in a report on
Wednesday.Coffee export revenue for Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest coffee
producer, fell 3.1 percent annually to $2.5 billion in the eight-month period,
the report said.August coffee exports were estimated at 135,000 tonnes, worth
$246 million.
RICE
Rice exports in January-August from Vietnam were forecast to
rise 8.2 percent from a year ago to 4.43 million tonnes. Revenue from rice
exports in the period was forecast to rise 23.6 percent year-on-year to $2.23
billion.August rice exports from Vietnam, the world’s third-largest shipper of
the grain, were recorded at 500,000 tonnes, worth $236 million.
ENERGY
Vietnam’s January-to-August crude oil exports plunged 46.6
percent year-on-year to an estimated 2.64 million tonnes.Crude oil export
revenue in the first eight months of 2018 fell 24.6 percent to $1.51
billion.Oil product imports in the eight-month period were estimated at 8.6
million tonnes, while the value of product imports rose 26.4 percent to $5.7
billion.Vietnam’s January-to-August liquefied petroleum gas imports increased
2.9 percent from a year earlier to 972,000 tonnes. (Reporting by Mai Nguyen;
editing by Richard Pullin)
https://www.reuters.com/article/vietnam-commodities-exports/corrected-refile-vietnam-jan-aug-coffee-exports-seen-up-14-8-pct-y-y-rice-to-rise-8-2-pct-y-y-idUSL3N1VJ1WE
Rice import to drop on higher yield
August 29, 2018
Rice imports nosedived in the past
two months and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted total import
would dip to 6 lakh tonnes in 2018-19 due to higher production in boro season
and reinstatement of import tariff.
The private and public sectors
imported 38.92 lakh tonnes of rice in July-June of 2017-18, the highest in the
last three decades, according to food ministry data.
Since July of the current fiscal
year, 38,060 tonnes of rice grains were imported.
The US agency linked the slumping
rice import to the imposition of a 28 percent import duty in July to protect
growers.
“Due to bumper boro rice
production, the paddy price at the farm gate fell, causing significant
financial loss for farmers,” said the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service in its
Bangladesh Grain and Feed Update, released in the middle of this month.
“Understanding the situation, the
government of Bangladesh took a quick initiative to protect farmers from lower
market prices of paddy,” it said. However, the agency said, “The high rate of
import duty may deter imports and increase paddy prices indirectly, but it also
may affect the price in the retail market and transfer the burden to
consumers.”
The US agency has kept its forecast
on Bangladesh's wheat import at 65 lakh tonnes for 2018-19. The country
imported 58.80 lakh tonnes of wheat in fiscal 2017-18, up 3.35 percent from the
previous year.
It, however, raised the corn import
forecast to 20 lakh tonnes on strong industrial consumption demand. The USDA
estimated corn imports by Bangladesh at 16 lakh tonnes in 2017-18.
The agency has revised down the
total rice production to 3.44 crore tonnes in May-April of the marketing year 2018-19
on slightly lower boro acreage because of downpours in harvesting season and
lower aus harvesting area due to expected flooding. The USDA in its report said
less than 1 percent of the boro rice crop was damaged by higher water level due
to heavy rainfall in the present harvesting season.
“Farmers in some locations claimed
production losses due to the effects of rice blast. The disease reportedly
resulted from temperature extremes, prolonged dew, adverse weather, lower
quality seed, and late planting,” it added.
The report said aus rice production
is progressing on schedule. The overall monsoon rains have been normal thus far
and seedling production for planting broadcast aman rice is progressing well
under adequate soil moisture conditions.
The USDA kept its forecast on wheat
production for July-June period of 2018-19 unchanged at 11.8 lakh tonnes
assuming normal weather conditions and marginal yield increase compared to last
year.
It cut corn production estimates to
34 lakh tonnes owing to reduced cultivation area of summer corn and early
flooding in low land areas as a result of heavy rains.
The USDA said corn was one of the
most popular cereal crops in Bangladesh, while on the other hand, rice was
treated as a principal crop that farmers feel compelled to produce whether it
is profitable or not.
“Farmers prefer producing corn, as
it is somewhat resistant to adverse weather, and has high market demand.
Increasing demand for industrial use and comparatively higher margins than rice
and wheat have increased farmers' interest to produce more corn,” said the
report.
The USDA said farmers reduced
summer corn (March to July) cultivation area due to a lack of availability of
highly competitive land, which is alternatively used for comparatively
profitable vegetable crop cultivation.
https://www.thedailystar.net/news/business/rice-import-drop-higher-yield-1626019
Foodgrain output to hit all-time high of 285 mt
RELATED
Modi says agriculture export policy on the anvil
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28
Riding on a near normal monsoon,
output of most food crops is projected to hit record levels in 2017-18 to give
an all-time high foodgrain harvest of 284.83 million tonnes, 3.5 per cent
higher than that of the previous year, according to the 4th advance estimates
released on Tuesday.Rice production is expected to touch a peak of 112.91 mt, 3
per cent more than last year’s, while wheat will just fall shy of the 100-mt
mark, the data released by the Agriculture Ministry showed.
Pulses production, on the other
hand, is seen crossing 25 mt, despite a substantial fall expected in tur
production. The record increase expected in urad and gram will compensate for
the tur shortfall.
Despite an anticipated 17 per
cent drop in soybean output to 10.98 mt, total oilseeds production is projected
to be similar to that of the previous year, at 31.31 mt, thanks to an
impressive recovery expected in groundnut output at 9.18 mt, nearly 23 per cent
higher than the 7.46 mt in 2016-17.
The production of coarse cereals
too is expected to climb to a new high of 46.99 mt, up 3.22 mt from 2016-17,
despite bajra yields being projected to slide 5 per cent.A record 20 per cent
increase in sugarcane production in 2017-18 to 376.9 mt has already
precipitated a severe crisis in the sugar sector, requiring the government to
intervene so that the sugarcane farmers, whose dues from sugar mills have
mounted, get some reprieve.
Cotton output, too, is projected
to go up by more than 2 million bales (of 170 kg each) to 34.89 million bales,
according to the official data.The estimated maize output will be 28.72 mt,
which is nearly 3 mt more than the final production in 2016-17.
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/foodgrain-output-to-hit-all-time-high-of-285-mt/article24803682.ece
Exports of basmati rice up by 5.25%, others 2.85% in first month
of FY2018-19
AUGUST 29, 2018
Rice exports from the country
during first month of current financial year grew by 2.85 percent as compared
the corresponding month of last year and about 212,518 metric tons of rice
worth US$ 110.966 million exported as against the exports of 190,455 metric
tons valuing US$ 107.893 million of same period of last year. During the month
of July, 2018, about 37,661 metric tons of basmati rice worth US$ 34.832
million exported as compared the exports of 31,433 metric tons valuing US$
33.91 million of the corresponding month of last year.
According the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the exports
of above mentioned commodity witnessed about 5.25 percent growth during the
period under review.
During the period under review, about 174,857 metric tons of
rice other then basmati worth US$ 76.138 million exported during the period
under review as against the exports of 159,022 metric tons worth US$ 74.802
million of same period last year, it added. Meanwhile, commenting on the uptick
of the exports of the rice, Chairman Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan
(REAP) Samee Ullah Naheem told APP that due to the implementation of
international set standards and adoption of phytosanitary measures, the demand
of Pakistani rice from Europe and Middle Eastern countries including Saudi
Arabia had witnessed tremendous growth. The demand of basmati rice had also
increased from other markets of the world as the local rice was unique in its
taste and aroma all across the glob and was on high demanded, he remarked and
said that the momentum of exports could further be enhanced by paying little
attention. He informed that the exports of rice would further increase as
arrangements were in progress with Iran as it is another market have huge
potential for the Pakistani rice, adding that rice worth US$ 2 billion were
exported during the year 2017-18.
Besides, Pakistan was also finding other potential markets to
enhance its exports and introduce its products there to fetch further foreign
exchange reserves for the economic development of the country, he observed.
Published in Daily Times, August 29th 2018.
https://dailytimes.com.pk/289610/exports-of-basmati-rice-up-by-5-25-others-2-85-in-first-month-of-fy2018-19/
The antiplatelet aggregation mechanisms of rice bran extract
08/28/2018 / By Michelle
Simmons
Rice bran has been proven to
offer many health benefits for humans. A study, published in the
journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, provided
scientific evidence on the effects and mechanisms of rice bran extract against
platelet aggregation (the clumping of platelets in the blood, leading to clot
formation).
- Researchers from Malaysia and China
conducted the study to identify the antiplatelet function of crude rice
bran extract, wherein policosanol was the targeted bioactive.
- Platelets play a crucial role in the
development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, and their
increased activities could potentially cause arterial clot formation or
serious bleeding disorders.
- Rice bran is a nutritious food that has
been believed to offer health benefits, especially against cardiovascular
diseases.
- The researchers induced platelet
aggregation through adenosine diphosphate (ADP), collagen, and arachidonic
acid (AA).
- They pre-treated rat platelets with
different concentrations of policosanol extract.
- They also analyzed the adhesion of
platelets onto collagen- and laminin-coated surface, and measured the
effect of crude policosanol extract on released proteins from activated
platelets.
- Results revealed that rice bran
policosanol extract substantially prevented platelet aggregation in a
dose-dependent manner.
- Rice bran policosanol extract exhibited antiplatelet
aggregation effect towards ADP, collagen, and AA.
- Crude rice bran policosanol extract
significantly inhibited platelet adhesion to collagen and laminin in a
dose-dependent manner.
- Upon crude extract treatment, cellular
protein secretion of the treated platelets towards various stimulants was
reduced.
- The findings of the study suggested that
crude rice bran policosanol extract could prevent platelet adhesion,
aggregation, and secretion.
In conclusion, rice bran
policosanol extract could potentially be used as a natural treatment for
cardiovascular diseases associated with platelet malfunction.
Read the full text of the study
at this link.
To read more stories on healthy
and medicinal foods, visit FoodScience.news today.
Journal Reference:
Wong W-T, Ismail M, Imam MU,
Zhang Y-D. MODULATION OF PLATELET FUNCTIONS BY CRUDE RICE (ORYZA SATIVA) BRAN
POLICOSANOL EXTRA. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 28 July 2016;
16(252). DOI: 10.1186/s12906-016-1223-9
https://www.science.news/2018-08-28-the-antiplatelet-aggregation-mechanisms-of-rice-bran-extract.html
Makabayan lawmakers seek
House probe into bukbok rice importation
Published
1:49 PM, August 29, 2018
Updated 1:50
PM, August 29, 2018
BUKBOK RICE. Makabayan
legislators want the House of Representatives to investigate the bukbok rice
importation. Photo from Shutterstock
MANILA,
Philippines – Seven lawmakers forming the progressive Makabayan bloc are
seeking a congressional probe into the importation of thousands of bags of rice infested with rice
weevils or bukbok
from Thailand.
The
Makabayan bloc filed House Resolution (HR) No. 2107 on Wednesday, August 29, a
day after Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol dismissed fears that the bukbok
or weevil-infested rice is not safe for consumption. He even offered to eat it.
In HR 2107,
the lawmakers said that 130,000 bags of bukbok rice imported by the
National Food Authority (NFA) arrived at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone from
Thailand on August 2. Weeks later, another 200,000 bags of imported rice set to
be unloaded in Tabaco City, Albay were also discovered to be infested with rice
weevils. (READ: EXPLAINER: What is bukbok?)
Groups like Bantay
Bigas, Amihan peasant women federation, Kilusang
Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, and Pamalakaya-Pilipinas fisherfolk
group have denounced the bukbok rice importation and blamed
the rice crisis on the NFA’s “continued reliance” on imports.
“The groups
asserted the infestation was brought about by long delay of its unloading, as
it usually occurs when rice is stocked for a long period of time, the carrying
out of fumigation is a threat to public health, and the quality of rice is
already downgraded, as rice kernel on where the rice weevil incubates its
offspring and serve as food, naturally crumbles and becomes powdery,” said the
lawmakers.
The
Makabayan bloc said they are seeking the investigation, in aid of legislation,
because Filipino taxpayers deserve to know how much of their money was spent
for the bukbok
rice.
"It is of the people’s interest to
know how much taxpayers’ money were spent for the infested rice, of public
health on how much chemicals were used in fumigation, the determination of the
end quality of the infested stock, and NFA’s plan of the infested stock, such
as would it still be retailed by the NFA at the price of P27 or P32 per
kilogram," said the legislators.
On the same
day, Vice President Leni Robredo also called Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol “insensitive”
for saying the soaring prices of rice supposedly benefit Filipino farmers. –
Rappler.com
Select grains fall on subdued demand
PTI |
Aug 29, 2018, 14:31 IST
New Delhi, Aug
29 () Weak conditions prevailed at the wholesale grains market today as prices
of rice basmati and a few other bold grains fell by up to Rs 100 per quintal on
sluggish demand.
Traders
said subdued demand against sufficient stocks position mainly led to the fall
in rice basmati and a few other bold grain prices. In the national capital, rice basmati common and pusa-1121 variety fell by Rs 100 each to Rs 7,700-7,800 and Rs 6,750-6,850 per quintal, respectively.
Non-basmati rice permal raw, wand and sela also settled lower at Rs 2,375-2,400, Rs 2,500-2,525 and Rs 2,950-3,000 from previous levels of Rs 2,425-2,450, Rs 2,525-2,575 and Rs 3,050-3,150 per quintal, respectively.
Other bold grains like, bajra and barley declined by Rs 20 each to Rs 1,400-1,405 and Rs 1,560-1,570 per quintal, respectively. Maize, too, shed Rs 20 at Rs 1,340-1,345 per quintal.
Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
Wheat MP (desi) Rs 2,320-2,420, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 1,970-1,975, Atta Chakki(delivery) Rs 1,980-1,985, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 250-280, Shakti Bhog (10 kg) Rs 275-310, Roller flour mill Rs 1,070-1,090 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,170-1,180 (50 kg) and Sooji Rs 1,200-1,210 (50 kg).
Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super Basmati rice Rs 9,900, Basmati common new Rs 7,700-7,800, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs 6,750-6,850, Permal raw Rs 2,425-2,450, Permal wand Rs 2,525-2,575, Sela Rs 3,050-3,150 and rice IR-8 Rs 2,025-2,075.
Bajra Rs
1,400-1,405, Jowar yellow Rs 1,800-1,850, white Rs 3,000-3,050, Maize Rs
1,340-1,345, Barley Rs 1,560-1,570. SUN KPS SHW ADI ADI
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/select-grains-fall-on-subdued-demand/articleshow/65592079.cms
Why
rising carbon levels are bad for Indians
Reuters |
Updated: Aug 29, 2018, 09:24 IST
BOSTON:
Millions of Indians are at the risk of becoming nutrient deficient by 2050, as
rising levels of carbon dioxide
(CO2) are making staple crops such as rice and wheat less nutritious, according
to a study.
Researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in the US found that rising CO2 levels from human activity could result in 175 million people worldwide becoming zinc deficient and 122 million people becoming protein deficient by the middle of this century.
The study, published in ‘Nature Climate Change’, also found that over one billion women and children could lose a large amount of their dietary iron intake, putting them at increased risk of anaemia and other diseases.
It found that India would bear the greatest burden, with an estimated 50 million people becoming zinc deficient.
As many as 38 million people in India are at the risk of becoming protein deficient, and 502 million women and children becoming vulnerable to diseases associated with iron deficiency, researchers said.
Other countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and West Asia would also be significantly impacted, they said. “Our research makes it clear that decisions we are making every day — how we heat our homes, what we eat, how we move around — are making our food less nutritious,” said Sam Myers, principal research scientist at Harvard Chan School.
Humans tend to get a majority of key nutrients from plants: 63% of dietary protein comes from vegetal sources, as well as 81% of iron and 68% of zinc, researchers said.
It has been shown that higher atmospheric levels of CO2 result in less nutritious crop yields, researchers said.
Concentrations of protein, iron, and zinc are 3-17% lower when crops are grown in environments where CO2 concentrations are 550 parts per million (ppm) compared with crops grown under current atmospheric conditions, where CO2 levels are above 400 ppm.
Researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in the US found that rising CO2 levels from human activity could result in 175 million people worldwide becoming zinc deficient and 122 million people becoming protein deficient by the middle of this century.
The study, published in ‘Nature Climate Change’, also found that over one billion women and children could lose a large amount of their dietary iron intake, putting them at increased risk of anaemia and other diseases.
It found that India would bear the greatest burden, with an estimated 50 million people becoming zinc deficient.
As many as 38 million people in India are at the risk of becoming protein deficient, and 502 million women and children becoming vulnerable to diseases associated with iron deficiency, researchers said.
Other countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and West Asia would also be significantly impacted, they said. “Our research makes it clear that decisions we are making every day — how we heat our homes, what we eat, how we move around — are making our food less nutritious,” said Sam Myers, principal research scientist at Harvard Chan School.
Humans tend to get a majority of key nutrients from plants: 63% of dietary protein comes from vegetal sources, as well as 81% of iron and 68% of zinc, researchers said.
It has been shown that higher atmospheric levels of CO2 result in less nutritious crop yields, researchers said.
Concentrations of protein, iron, and zinc are 3-17% lower when crops are grown in environments where CO2 concentrations are 550 parts per million (ppm) compared with crops grown under current atmospheric conditions, where CO2 levels are above 400 ppm.
Researchers sought to develop the most accurate analysis of the global health burden of CO2-related nutrient shifts in crops in 151 countries.
The study showed that by the middle of this century, when atmospheric CO2 concentrations are expected to reach around 550 ppm, 1.9% of the global population — or roughly 175 million people, based on 2050 population estimates — could become deficient in zinc.
About 1.3% of the global population, or 122 million people, could become protein deficient, researchers said.
Additionally, 1.4 billion women of childbearing age and children under five who are currently at high risk of iron deficiency could have their dietary iron intakes reduced by 4% or more. Researchers also emphasised that billions of people currently living with nutritional deficiencies would likely see their conditions worsen as a result of less nutritious crops.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/why-rising-carbon-levels-are-bad-for-indians/articleshow/65587544.cms
MSP hike may hit export competitiveness of
non-basmati rice millers
, ET Bureau|Aug
29, 2018, 05.23 PM IST
The ability of
the Indian rice millers to pass on the increase in the MSP would be constrained
by the propensity of the importing countries to switch to cheaper
substitutes.Kolkata: The export competitiveness of domestic non-basmati rice millers may be
negatively impacted in the near to medium-term due to hike in minimum support
price (MSP) by 13% for 2018-19 for the common variety of paddy against the
range bound 3.5-5.4% hike in the past, according to rating agency ICRA. This is
the most significant year-on-year increase in MSP since 2012-13, when it rose
by 15%. Also, the hike in import duty by Bangladesh, a major consumer of
non-basmati rice
from 2% to 28%, with effect from June 2018, may result in a decline in exports
in the overall non-basmati
rice segment, ICRA feels. According to an ICRA note, the ability of the Indian rice millers to pass on the increase in the MSP would be constrained by the propensity of the importing countries to switch to cheaper substitutes. Besides, Thailand is expected to increase its market share by increasing its supplies in the global market. These factors can further impact the operating margins of non-Basmati players, which are already thin because of the limited value-additive nature of the business.
Mr. Manish Ballabh, Vice President, ICRA Ratings said,“The recent developments in the non-Basmati rice segment in the domestic as well as the international markets are not encouraging for the Indian rice millers, since the MSP hike has been significant this year, as against a range bound hike in the past. The increase in the MSP could result in an increase in the acreage for sowing, thus ensuring higher availability of rice for exports, on the other hand the sharp increase would increase the prices, thereby making Indian rice costlier in the global markets, which could impact non-Basmati rice exports. Moreover, with the imposition of the higher import duty of 28%, exports to Bangladesh are likely to decline. Given that the country was the key market for India’s non-Basmati rice and accounted for 21% of the total non-Basmati rice exports in value terms in 2017-18, this move will further affect the credit profile of the Indian non-Basmati rice millers.”
India is one of the largest exporters of non-Basmati rice. In 2017-18, it exported 8.63 million metric tonne (MMT) of non-Basmati rice, which was more than double the quantity of Basmati rice exports of 4.05 MMT.
On the positive side, the MSP price hike and the import duty imposed by Bangladesh may be somewhat offset by China’s interest in India’s non-Basmati rice, which has registered a few Indian Rice milling units, following the inclusion of non-Basmati rice in the 2006 Protocol on export of rice from India. Compliance with phytosanitary norms can make China a major export destination for Indian non-Basmati rice millers.
“An improvement in the situation is expected only if there is a substantial demand from China or reduction of import duty by Bangladesh. Moreover, Thailand being a key competitor, the rupee- baht movement would be a determinant of the export competitiveness of the Indian players,” Mr. Ballabh added.
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Snapshot of rice-consumption data remains
grainy as Pinoys grapple with supply, prices
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August 30, 2018
In Photo: This April 12,
2017, file photo shows different varieties of rice being sold at a local market
in Manila.
AS Filipinos’ appetite for rice becomes as big as its
political-economic implication, a snapshot of data on its consumption remains
grainy.
This is so because the government uses two data sets to estimate
the amount of rice consumed by every Filipino. Having two data sets to compute
for a single amount can result in data discrepancies that make rice demand and
supply difficult to evaluate.
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) releases the Supply
Utilization Accounts (SUA) of selected agricultural commodities and the results
of the Food Consumption Survey (FCS).
According to PSA Assistant National Statistician Vivian R.
Ilarina, the SUA is based on production while the FCS is based on a survey that
doesn’t separate the consumption of rice from other “cereals.”
The SUA treats rice consumption as merely residual after
computing rice stocks and removing exports and waste, among others.
“You estimate first the stocks plus the stocks available at the
beginning of the year plus the local production plus imports—some of that—less
use and disposition like exports, waste, processing, feeds,
seeds—everything—then you have the closing stock, which [also comes] from the
survey of the PSA,” Ilarina said.
“When you compare the left side equation to the right side,
there is a residual. And this represents now the total consumption, which is
available for food. This is not yet considered actual food consumption. In the
survey of food demand, that is actual consumption,” she added.
Evaluating actual consumption is important as some sectors are
pushing for unbridled entry of rice into the system while its price is being
marked by runaway increases and a possible phantom shortage.
Ingrained
RICH and poor households always have rice included in their
budgets. It is the cheapest source of carbohydrates and is most compatible with
Filipino dishes.
Based on interviews conducted by the BusinessMirror, a
low-income family consumes three to four kilos of rice per week—around 12 kilos
to 16 kilos per month—relative to the number of members and their appetite.
Due to the recent increase in rice prices, households shell out
more pesos to pay for goods. This is especially true for lower-income
households, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid.
University of the Philippines School of Statistics Dean Dennis
S. Mapa said food items, including rice, account for 70 percent of the
household budget of Filipinos earning less than average. About 39 percent of an
average Filipino household’s budget is for food items.
This makes the poor even more sensitive to increases in food
prices, including rice, Mapa explained.
Of course, we are affected by high rice prices, Reynaldo Teñuso,
a resident of Malolos, Bulacan, told the BusinessMirror. Teñuso added this
becomes even more felt when the price of a kilo of rice increases P1 or
P2 more.
To save on costs associated with cooking at home, some
households resort to buying cooked rice, usually at P10 per cup, from a store.
For three meals a day, this means P30 ($0.56) per day and about
P210 or nearly $4 per week.
A more affluent household with five members can buy 25 kilos to
100 kilos a month. An affluent family of eight could buy 50 kilos of rice a
month.
This, even if richer families have more financial means to buy
other sources of carbohydrates.
Dagupan City resident Almira Chu, whose family owns a local
hotel, said rice remains as their best daily source of carbohydrates.
Apart from rice, the meals in more affluent households include
vegetables and meat. This could be one key difference between rich and poor
households—the ability to buy other commodities to accompany their meals.
Unlike poor Filipinos who adjust their consumption just to make
ends meet, rich families will continue to buy their set monthly consumption—no
matter the price.
“Even if the price of rice is increased, our consumption remains
the same since rice is the most important for a Filipino family,” Josefina V.
Castañeda, municipal mayor of Lingayen, Pangasinan, said.
All rice
RICE consumption levels also differ according to age and
occupation.
While older Filipinos would be content with half a cup or just a
cup of rice per meal, students or those in their teens and 20s would consume
more than double this amount.
Some young Filipinos would consume two cups to as much as four
to five cups of rice every meal. This has made many of them regular patrons of
restaurants that offer unlimited rice. They also rely on the seemingly
“unlimited” nature of rice supply at home.
Jade, 19, said she usually consumes two cups per meal or six
cups a day to as many as nine cups a day, thanks to “unlimited rice” offers by
restaurants. Carlos, 21, said he consumes four cups of rice per meal or seven
cups per day and would usually eat at home.
“Nakasanayan
din. Sa bahay ako madami kumain ng kanin [I’m used to it. I
eat a lot of rice at home],” he said.
Blue-collar workers such as delivery men, security guards and
drivers are also patrons of restaurants that offer unlimited rice.
Manuel, a 31-year-old delivery man, still consumes three cups of
rice per meal or as much as eight cups of rice per day. Alvin, a 30-year old
security guard, eats as much as four cups per meal or eight cups of rice per
day.
Drop by those small, makeshift carinderias that usually sprout on the
edges of major construction projects around the country. On any given
day, one invariably sees construction workers buying two to three plastic packs
of rice and just one tiny plastic bag of viand. Understandable because the rice
can go from just P5 to P8 a pack in such sites, while one order of viand
averages between P25 and P40.
Guesstimates
THE exact rice consumption of Filipinos is difficult to predict
and depends on demographics as well as other socioeconomic factors.
Nonetheless, it is still important for the government to be able to provide an
estimate.
These estimates are crucial given the fact that the country is a
net food importer.
In previous years, the Philippines was even considered the
world’s largest rice consumer. This puts a spotlight on the accuracy of
rice estimates.
National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Assistant
Secretary Mercedita A. Sombilla admitted to the BusinessMirror there are
discrepancies when it comes to the use of the SUA and the FCS. Sombilla said
policymakers have known such discrepancies for years.
She added that harmonizing the data is close to, if not totally,
impossible. She said that for one, it is only during the lean months when the
SUA and FCS data actually match.
Despite these concerns, Sombilla said that as policymakers, the
government needs to recommend imports given that the country does not really
produce enough rice for Filipinos’ consumption.
She explained this is the reason for the quarterly inventory to
go askew.
“We can’t harmonize data,” Sombilla said. “We never did
quarterly estimates of supply and demand during those times because they were
not accurate.”
Roehlano M. Briones, senior research fellow at the Philippine
Institute for Development Studies, shared the same concern with the
BusinessMirror about erratic rice inventory data.
“[The] common complaint by industry stakeholders is smuggling.
That is actually a reality that we do not deny. So that means there [is] more
volume coming into your stocks than recorded,” Briones told the BusinessMirror.
“I really cannot say if the rice inventory data [of the PSA] is
that reliable. The National Food Authority (NFA) is probably accurate but for
commercial stocks and household stocks, it is [difficult] for me to comment
because the frameworks for those two surveys are based on an old survey way,
way back during the National Statistics Office [the PSA predecessor] days,” he
added.
Consumption
THROUGH the survey-based FCS, the government can estimate the
country’s per capita rice consumption, while the SUA can estimate the country’s
per capita net food disposable (NFD).
According to the PSA, the NFD refers to the amount of food
commodity available in its original or unprocessed form for human consumption.
“This is usually equated or made equivalent to the quantity.”
The government uses both per capita rice consumption and per
capita NFD to decide on the volume of rice needed to be imported in order to
augment the shortfall in local supply, the Philippine Rice Research Institute
(PhilRice) explained in its 2012 policy report.
According to PhilRice, the FCS and the SUA framework are both
used by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) to estimate per capita rice
consumption.
“FCS measures the amount of food actually consumed by sample
households. Survey data are more accurate but availability is for selected
years only because data gathering is expensive,” PhilRice added.
PhilRice explained that the SUA provides the government with
annual estimates of per capita rice consumption, thus, becoming a more
convenient input in agricultural policy planning.
Based on the FCS of the PSA, the country’s per capita rice
consumption in 2015 to 2016 declined to 109.875 kg from 114.265 kg in 2012.
Prior to those years, the country’s per capita rice consumption
grew to an all-time high of 119.08 per kg in 2008 to 2009 from 105.768 kg in
1999 to 2000. This was at 104.273 kg in 1995.
However, during the same reference years, SUA estimates showed
otherwise.
In 1995 per capita NFD was pegged at 92.55 kg, while in 1999 it
was at 99.68, subsequently breaching the 100-kg level in 2000 as it rose to
103.16 kg.
The SUA estimates showed that per capita NFD in 2012 was at
118.87 kg, 4.605 kg more than its counterpart from the FCS.
For the years 2015 and 2016, the country’s per capita NFD
reached 111.62 kg and 107.84 kg respectively, according to PSA’s SUA estimates.
Vital statistics
HOWEVER, in 2012, PhilRice issued a policy report indicating
that parameters under the SUA framework are already outdated, if not obsolete.
“The SUA framework was developed by the FAO [Food and
Agriculture Organization] and the estimates for SUA parameters were tailored
based on the country’s utilization pattern,” it said in March 2012. “For the
Philippines, these estimates were determined by an interagency committee in the
1980s and are still being used up to this date.”
Rolando T. Dy, University of Asia and the Pacific Center for
Food and Agri Business executive director, pointed out that having an updated
and validated data on the country’s rice supply and demand would help
government policy-makers come up with prudent decisions.
“For example, if situations are normal—just like in the past two
years—the increase in the prices [of rice] will reflect the gap in the supply
and demand,” Dy said.
“And that means we lacked importation to augment our supply
because the prices went up. That’s under normal circumstances,” he added.
And one of the most valuable data or measurement needed by the
government in monitoring the country’s rice supply and demand is the per capita
rice consumption.
The PhilRice explains the importance of per capita rice
consumption simply as a critical variable used in estimating the rice
requirement of the country.
“Therefore, this has an impact on setting the import requirement
of the country,” PhilRice said in a 2012 policy note aimed to improve the
government’s decision-making on rice production.
“Increased per capita rice consumption means more imported
rice,” PhilRice added.
Briones said the FCS is more reliable than the SUA estimates
when it comes to the country’s per capita rice consumption.
Briones said there are a lot of “flaws” in the SUA parameters of
the government as well as other statistical frameworks used by the PSA in
coming up with data on rice supply and demand.
Missing
FIRST, there is the case of the missing supply.
The government must take into consideration the volume of
smuggled rice into the country as part of its total staple supply, Dy said. Industry
estimates that there is about 1 million metric tons of rice smuggled to the
Philippines annually, he added.
Briones said the framework of the PSA’s production estimates is
already outdated as it was last updated in 1990.
“So much over time the sample for the survey becomes
irrelevant,” he said. “The farther the current period from the original frame
period, the more errors would be computed.”
Citing anecdotes from local government units, Briones said the
PSA usually understates its palay production estimates.
“I have not seen a single LGU that said that the estimates of
PSA are good,” he added. “The LGUs seem to imply that production [estimates of
PSA] are understated. Real production tends to be higher than those reported by
PSA, which are based on quarterly palay production surveys.”
Outdated
THE PSA employs various “outdated” parameters with its SUA that
could lead to a huge difference in total rice supply and demand of the country,
according to Briones.
For one, the SUA sticks with its average milling recovery rate
(MRR) of about 65.4 percent, which, Briones said, is crying to be reviewed.
“The milling recovery rate is problematic,” he said. “It has
been used for decades now and has not been reviewed. A one percentage point
[difference in milling recovery rate] could mean a hundred thousand metric
tons.”
Citing the survey conducted by the then Bureau of Agricultural
Statistics (BAS), the PhilRice said the country’s average MRR stood at 62.85
percent in 2008, which is 2.55 percentage points lower than the MRR used in the
SUA.
PhilRice also noted that the average seeding rate and
postharvest losses used in the current SUA are outdated.
Based on the Palay Production Survey conducted by the BAS, the
average seeding rate in 2009 is 76.55 kg/hectare, higher than SUA’s 75 kg/ha,
it said.
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and
Mechanization (PhilMech) reports that the current estimate of postharvest
losses (drying to storage) for rice is 7.55 percent higher than SUA’s 6.5
percent, the PhilRice added.
Factor out babies, OFWs
THE government should thoroughly consider the estimated
population in dividing the total rice demand, according to economists at the
University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P).
For one, babies should not be counted in the country’s estimated
population when getting the per capita consumption as they only consume the
staple after about two years, Dy explained.
For another, overseas Filipino workers are not in the
Philippines and thus, they must not be included in computing per capita rice
consumption, according to Senen U. Reyes, UA&P senior management
specialist.
The risk of underestimation or overestimation in the parameters
of SUA could translate to higher or lower NFD, according to Briones.
“If there are errors, the residual would just absorb them. If
the errors of overstated and understated would cancel each other, that is hard
to say,” he said. “That is why I have little confidence in SUA-based estimates.
I am more partial to sample surveys.”
The PhilRice said an error on the MRR is a crucial part in
estimating the country’s per capita NFD.
“An overestimated [or underestimated] MRR can result in
overestimated [or underestimated] rice supply, hence, higher [or lower] per
capita NFD,” it said.
PhilRice added in its report the overestimated MRR translated
into an additional 4 kg in per capita NFD, while the underestimated wastage
equated to about 1.11 kilograms. Furthermore, the underestimated seeding rate
meant a reduction of 0.04 kg.
“If the substitution effect, overestimated MRR and
underestimated allotments for seeds and rice wastage were adjusted, the NFD
would have been 114.42 kg/year in 2009, which is 4.6 percent or 5.5 kg lower
than the reported amount of 119.92 kg/year,” it said.
Partnership
DY is urging the government to involve the private sector,
particularly those in the rice trade business, in coming up with sound data on
the country’s staple requirement.
“Involve people from the private sector such as the grain
millers and retailers. Because they are on the ground and they know the trends
in buying and consumption of rice,” he said.
“The government could discuss with the private sector at least
twice a year to determine what is really the trend of the country’s rice
consumption.”
Reyes recommended the government create an interagency committee
that would harmonize available datasets.
Through the interagency committee and the private sector, the
government could now come up with reliable and updated baselines on the
country’s rice consumption, according to Dy.
“That will remove inconsistencies in data and would save the
government money [from conducting various surveys],” Reyes told the
BusinessMirror.
PhilRice recommended that the Department of Agriculture’s (DA)
interagency Committee on Cereals “could set new estimates of SUA parameters,
i.e., MRR, seeds, processing, and feeds and waste, to derive a more realistic
per capita NFD figure.”
“The new estimates should then be endorsed to the National
Statistics Coordination Board [NSCB] for approval and adoption,” it said in 2012.
Briones said in an ideal situation where there is no budgetary
restriction, the government should conduct annual FCS. However, if financial
resources are limited, a biennial survey would suffice, he added.
“Survey-based estimates are better as they allow people to
respond to relative price changes—instead of estimates based on certain figures
not driven by economic forces and dictated by political logic rather than
economic logic,” Briones explained.
Representations
GRAINS Retailers Confederation of the Philippines (Grecon)
President Jaime O. Magbanua said they have been lobbying the government to
allow private representation in the National Food Authority Council (NFAC) for
so long now.
The NFAC, the highest policy-making body of the NFA, also
decides whether or not the government should import rice.
“The representation of the rice industry at the NFAC is only up
to the farmers’ level and there is no stakeholder from the traders, millers and
retailers,” Magbanua said. “We are arguing that we should be represented at the
NFAC as we are the ones who know the actual situation in the field.”
Magbanua believes involving the private sector in the
government’s policy-making process would result in more impartial and sound
decisions.
“The government should be really able to determine how much
volume of rice goes into our trade. We should determine how much imports are
coming and needed,” he said. “And that is possible if we have a strong private
sector involved in the process because we will be the one giving our inputs so
that there is balanced information for the government.”
Futures
AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol is cognizant of the
importance of a sound database on the country’s food consumption.
In fact, one of the 10 basic foundations of a sound agriculture
and fisheries program under the Duterte administration is having a national
food consumption quantification study (FCQS), according to documents from the
Department of Agriculture (DA).
“A nationwide survey will be conducted to determine the most consumed
and in-demand foodstuff and agricultural commodities for all Filipinos,” the DA
said.
“This initiative will also establish the food consumption rate
in relation to population growth of the country, allowing the government to
think ahead and pursue programs and projects that address food concerns
proactively,” it added.
Thus, the DA partnered with the FAO last year to conduct the
FCQS.
The FCQS, a $300,000-funded FAO study, would determine the
current trends in food consumption by Filipinos.
“We want to get the data accurate,” Piñol told the
BusinessMirror. “For example, this is a question for the longest time, what is
the total consumption of rice per year by Filipinos? Is it 114 kg per capita or
109 kg? That 5-kg difference is a big difference.”
The agriculture chief said government targets to complete the
FCQS before the year ends.
Once completed, Piñol said the FCQS would be presented before an
interagency coordinating committee comprising of pertinent government agencies
on the country’s food trade.
The FAO failed to reply to BusinessMirror’s request for comments
before this story ran.
Confusion
ACCORDING to Piñol, having confusing data sets “affects our
strategic planning.”
He explained that having a solid data set on the country’s food
consumption would be more critical in a post-QR rice regime as the President
would need all pertinent and updated information to exercise his powers under
the law.
“Under the [tariffication] law, the President has a huge elbow
room when it comes to tariffs. If he thinks the imported volume is already
detrimental to the local rice industry then he could increase the tariffs,” he
said. “That adjustment would still assure us of sufficient supply but ensure
farmers are not hurt.”
In order to address the issues with the SUA and the FCS, Ilarina
said the PSA is now in the process of adopting the Food Balance Sheet (FBS)
recommended by the FAO by December this year.
According to the FAO, the FBS offers a comprehensive picture of
the pattern of a country’s food supply in a particular period. An FBS is
created per commodity or food item and details the number of processed
commodities that are potentially available for human consumption.
“The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to
the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have
occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available
during that period,” FAO said.
Nutrients
THE FBS, Ilarina said, offers a lot more indicators when it
comes to food consumption, such as nutrient content and energy content, which
are not available in the SUA and the FCS. The FBS will also help make sense of
the data on food sourced from the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI).
Ilarina said the FNRI data is very detailed but only takes into
consideration the nutrient content of the commodity consumed in the household.
The methodology for obtaining this data is very tedious and invasive.
In order to obtain the information, the FNRI visits specific
households and measures the weight and nutrient content of all food consumed at
home. Therein lies one of its limitations—it only accounts for food that is
consumed at home.
These limitations make the FBS a more attractive option for the
PSA. Ilarina said the PSA already has an interagency committee (IAC) for the
Task Force on Food Balance Sheet. When the IAC has approved the indicators for
the FBS, this will be presented to the PSA board for approval and then adoption
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This Report provides a detailed study of given products. The report also provides comprehensive analysis of Key Trends & advance technologies. The Global Parboiled Rice (Thousands Units) and Revenue (Million USD) Market Split by Product Type such as by Type, White, Brown, by Length Form, Long Grain, Medium Grain & Short Grain
Application Analysis:
This report provides an advance approach to the market growth with a detailed analysis of the overall competitive scenario of the Global Parboiled Rice market. The market is segmented by Application such as Frozen Food, Instant Dry Mixes of Soup & Others with historical and projected market share and compounded annual growth rate.
This report provides an advance approach to the market growth with a detailed analysis of the overall competitive scenario of the Global Parboiled Rice market. The market is segmented by Application such as Frozen Food, Instant Dry Mixes of Soup & Others with historical and projected market share and compounded annual growth rate.
Industry Growth:
An in-depth study about key trends and emerging drivers with market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional breakdowns, competitive landscape, shares, trend and strategies for Parboiled Rice market. The market is expected to estimate at XX million by 2023 growing at a CAGR of XX%.
An in-depth study about key trends and emerging drivers with market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional breakdowns, competitive landscape, shares, trend and strategies for Parboiled Rice market. The market is expected to estimate at XX million by 2023 growing at a CAGR of XX%.
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Key Highlights of the Global Parboiled Rice Market :
• Market Share of players that includes Buhler, Induss, Parboiled Rice, National Rice, Udon Rice, American Rice, RISERIA PASINI & Sandstone to better understand how deeply they have penetrated the market.
• Conceptual analysis of the Parboiled Rice Market products, application wise segmented study.
• Clear study and pin-point analysis for changing competitive dynamics
• Analysis of major regional segmentation on the basis of how the market is predicted to grow
• Market Share of players that includes Buhler, Induss, Parboiled Rice, National Rice, Udon Rice, American Rice, RISERIA PASINI & Sandstone to better understand how deeply they have penetrated the market.
• Conceptual analysis of the Parboiled Rice Market products, application wise segmented study.
• Clear study and pin-point analysis for changing competitive dynamics
• Analysis of major regional segmentation on the basis of how the market is predicted to grow
Key questions answered in this comprehensive study – Global
Parboiled Rice Market Insights, Forecast to 2025
What will the market size be in 2023 and what will the growth rate be?
What are the key market trends?
What is driving Global Parboiled Rice Market?
What are the challenges to market growth?
Who are the key vendors in Global Parboiled Rice Market space?
What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Global Parboiled Rice Market?
What are the key outcomes of the five forces analysis of the Global Parboiled Rice Market?
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the Global Parboiled Rice market? Get in-depth details about factors influencing the market shares of the North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Central & South America, Brazil, Rest of Central & South America, Middle East & Africa, GCC Countries, Turkey, Egypt & South Africa?
What will the market size be in 2023 and what will the growth rate be?
What are the key market trends?
What is driving Global Parboiled Rice Market?
What are the challenges to market growth?
Who are the key vendors in Global Parboiled Rice Market space?
What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Global Parboiled Rice Market?
What are the key outcomes of the five forces analysis of the Global Parboiled Rice Market?
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the Global Parboiled Rice market? Get in-depth details about factors influencing the market shares of the North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Central & South America, Brazil, Rest of Central & South America, Middle East & Africa, GCC Countries, Turkey, Egypt & South Africa?
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There
are 15 Chapters to display the Global Parboiled Rice market.
Chapter 1, to describe Definition, Specifications and Classification of Global Parboiled Rice, Applications of , Market Segment by Regions;
Chapter 2, to analyze the Manufacturing Cost Structure, Raw Material and Suppliers, Manufacturing Process, Industry Chain Structure;
Chapter 3, to display the Technical Data and Manufacturing Plants Analysis of , Capacity and Commercial Production Date, Manufacturing Plants Distribution, Export & Import, R&D Status and Technology Source, Raw Materials Sources Analysis;
Chapter 4, to show the Overall Market Analysis, Capacity Analysis (Company Segment), Sales Analysis (Company Segment), Sales Price Analysis (Company Segment);
Chapter 5 and 6, to show the Regional Market Analysis that includes North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Central & South America, Brazil, Rest of Central & South America, Middle East & Africa, GCC Countries, Turkey, Egypt & South Africa, Segment Market Analysis (by Type) [by Type, White, Brown, by Length Form, Long Grain, Medium Grain & Short Grain];
Chapter 7 and 8, to analyze the Change Management Software Segment Market Analysis (by Application [Frozen Food, Instant Dry Mixes of Soup & Others]) Major Manufacturers Analysis;
Chapter 9, Market Trend Analysis, Regional Market Trend, Market Trend by Product Type [by Type, White, Brown, by Length Form, Long Grain, Medium Grain & Short Grain], Market Trend by Application [Frozen Food, Instant Dry Mixes of Soup & Others];
Chapter 10, Regional Marketing Type Analysis, International Trade Type Analysis, Supply Chain Analysis;
Chapter 11, to analyze the Consumers Analysis of Global Parboiled Rice by region, type and application;
Chapter 12, to describe Parboiled Rice Research Findings and Conclusion, Appendix, methodology and data source;
Chapter 13, 14 and 15, to describe Parboiled Rice sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, Research Findings and Conclusion, appendix and data source.
Chapter 1, to describe Definition, Specifications and Classification of Global Parboiled Rice, Applications of , Market Segment by Regions;
Chapter 2, to analyze the Manufacturing Cost Structure, Raw Material and Suppliers, Manufacturing Process, Industry Chain Structure;
Chapter 3, to display the Technical Data and Manufacturing Plants Analysis of , Capacity and Commercial Production Date, Manufacturing Plants Distribution, Export & Import, R&D Status and Technology Source, Raw Materials Sources Analysis;
Chapter 4, to show the Overall Market Analysis, Capacity Analysis (Company Segment), Sales Analysis (Company Segment), Sales Price Analysis (Company Segment);
Chapter 5 and 6, to show the Regional Market Analysis that includes North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Central & South America, Brazil, Rest of Central & South America, Middle East & Africa, GCC Countries, Turkey, Egypt & South Africa, Segment Market Analysis (by Type) [by Type, White, Brown, by Length Form, Long Grain, Medium Grain & Short Grain];
Chapter 7 and 8, to analyze the Change Management Software Segment Market Analysis (by Application [Frozen Food, Instant Dry Mixes of Soup & Others]) Major Manufacturers Analysis;
Chapter 9, Market Trend Analysis, Regional Market Trend, Market Trend by Product Type [by Type, White, Brown, by Length Form, Long Grain, Medium Grain & Short Grain], Market Trend by Application [Frozen Food, Instant Dry Mixes of Soup & Others];
Chapter 10, Regional Marketing Type Analysis, International Trade Type Analysis, Supply Chain Analysis;
Chapter 11, to analyze the Consumers Analysis of Global Parboiled Rice by region, type and application;
Chapter 12, to describe Parboiled Rice Research Findings and Conclusion, Appendix, methodology and data source;
Chapter 13, 14 and 15, to describe Parboiled Rice sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, Research Findings and Conclusion, appendix and data source.
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