Friday, November 15, 2019

15th November,2019 Daily Global Regional Local Rice E-Newsletter

Rice Road Warriors Part One: Winning Hearts and Minds

POINTS THROUGHOUT THE MID-ATLANTIC - Year two of the Think Rice Road Trip is winding down, and the team has seen dramatic success staying close to "home" and integrating other components of USA Rice's Domestic Promotion programs as they hand out thousands of Aroma rice cookers and tons of donated U.S.-grown rice to consumers.

To date, the Rice Truck and her crew have conducted 17 consumer events across Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, with three more events scheduled in Virginia and Maryland. The team has also made charitable donations at Wilmington's Ministry of Caring and the Cape Henlopen Food Pantry in Delaware, The Armed Services Retirement Home in Washington, DC, and the Shepherdstown Lions Club & Shepherd's Pantry in West Virginia, with one more donation scheduled in Virginia next week with the Patriot Pantry, the official food bank of George Mason University.


*Cameron Jacobs, tour coordinator, donates rice and cookers in Wilmington DE*

Consumers trade their email address and answers to survey questions for an Aroma rice cooker and one or two pound bags of rice, recipes, information, and Think Rice swag. But at its core, the program is about educating consumers, who are becoming ever more interested in where their food comes from, that when it comes to rice they can and should eat American!

"Of course we are armed with great information about U.S.-grown rice for consumers, from sustainable growing practices and food safety standards to nutrition facts and cooking qualities and tips, but the one that seems to be resonating above all others this year is simply that we grow rice in the U.S.," said Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice director of domestic promotion who was responsible for plotting the truck's route this year.

"People love hearing that we grow rice here and they tell us that they desperately want to support our growers," said Deborah Willenborg, USA Rice director of communications who wrote one of the team's most effective messages. "We tell them it was America's rice farmers and millers who bought this rice cooker for them and are giving them some rice, and they can say thank you by only filling it with U.S rice in the future."


	*Look for the U.S.-grown label*

Willenborg says they all promise to do just that and carefully study the Grown in the USA label the team points out to them.

Jacobs adds that consumers are grateful for the new knowledge and the valuable appliance, but that they also say they look forward to hearing from USA Rice again with recipes, coupons, and farmer profiles via the Think Rice Newsletter that they are promised.

While farmers markets, traditional markets, restaurants, and breweries are popular spots for the team, two of the most unique stops this year were at a food and music festival in Delaware that merged with USA Rice's foodservice outreach, and when the team took over a store in historic Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to create the first ever "All Things U.S. Rice Pop-Up Shop."

You can read about those and the annual Think Rice Truck raffle in Part Two tomorrow.

Win this truck! Click photo to purchase raffle tickets

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- November 15, 2019

NOVEMBER 15, 2019 / 1:19 PM

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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-November 15, 2019 Nagpur, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Gram prices reported down in Nagpur Agriculture Producing and Marketing Company (APMC) here on poor demand from local millers amid high moisture content arrival. Easy condition in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and release of stock from stockists also pushed down prices in limited deals. About 300 bags of gram reported for auctions here, according to sources.

GRAM

* Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here on subdued demand from local

traders.

TUAR * Tuar gavarani quoted weak in open market here on increased demand from local

traders.

* Rice Shriram variety recovered in open market here on increased buying support from

local traders amid tight supply from producing belts.

* In Akola, Tuar New – 5,600-5,800, Tuar dal (clean) – 8,500-8,700, Udid Mogar (clean)

– 9,000-10,000, Moong Mogar (clean) 8,800-9,800, Gram – 4,350-4,550, Gram Super best

– 6,200-6,400 * Wheat, other varieties of rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in

scattered deals and settled at last levels in weak trading activity.

Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg

FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close

Gram Auction 3,900-4,605 3,900-4,680

Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600

Tuar Auction n.a. 5,000-5,380

Moong Auction n.a. 3,950-4,200

Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500

Masoor Auction n.a. 2,200-2,500

Wheat Lokwan Auction 2,000-2,110 2,000-2,085

Wheat Sharbati Auction n.a. 2,900-3,000

Gram Super Best Bold 6,200-6,500 6,200-6,500

Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.

Gram Medium Best 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000

Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a

Gram Mill Quality 4,550-4,650 4,550-4,650

Desi gram Raw 4,550-4,700 4,550-4,700

Gram Kabuli 8,500-10,000 8,500-10,000

Tuar Fataka Best-New 8,700-9,000 8,700-9,000

Tuar Fataka Medium-New 8,200-8,500 8,200-8,500

Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 8,300-8,500 8,300-8,500

Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 7,500-8,000 7,500-8,000

Tuar Gavarani New 5,900-6,000 5,950-6,050

Tuar Karnataka 6,350-6,450 6,350-6,450

Masoor dal best 5,600-5,800 5,600-5,800

Masoor dal medium 5,300-5,400 5,300-5,400

Masoor n.a. n.a.

Moong Mogar bold (New) 9,000-10,000 9,000-10,000

Moong Mogar Medium 8,000-8,800 8,000-8,800

Moong dal Chilka New 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,500

Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.

Moong Chamki best 9,000-11,000 9,000-11,000

Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 9,500-10,500 9,500-10,500

Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 8,500-9,200 8,200-8,900

Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 6,300-6,900 6,300-6,900

Mot (100 INR/KG) 6,200-7,000 6,000-7,000

Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 5,000-5,200 5,000-5,200

Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000

Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 8,800-10,000 8,800-10,000

Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,450 2,350-2,450

Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,300 2,200-2,300

Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,800 2,700-2,800

Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,850 2,700-2,850

Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,600 2,400-2,600

Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.

MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,400-4,200 3,400-4,200

MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,200 2,800-3,200

Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,500 2,400-2,500

Rice BPT best new (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,600 3,000-3,600

Rice BPT medium new(100 INR/KG) 2,700-3,000 2,700-3,000

Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,100 3,000-3,100

Rice Swarna best new (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,800 2,600-2,800

Rice Swarna medium new (100 INR/KG)2,400-2,500 2,400-2,500

Rice HMT best new (100 INR/KG) 3,900-4,000 3,900-4,000

Rice HMT medium new (100 INR/KG) 3,600-3,800 3,600-3,800

Rice Shriram best new(100 INR/KG) 4,600-5,000 4,500-4,800

Rice Shriram med new (100 INR/KG) 4,100-4,400 4,000-4,300

Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 8,500-13,500 8,500-13,500

Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,200 5,000-7,200

Rice Chinnor best new 100 INR/KG) 5,400-5,500 5,400-5,500

Rice Chinnor medium new(100 INR/KG)5,000-5,200 5,000-5,200

Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,550 2,350-2,550

Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 2,050-2,250 2,050-2,250 WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 30.1 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 14.5 degree Celsius Rainfall : Nil FORECAST: Mainly clear sky. Maximum and minimum temperature likely to be around 30 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.—not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices)

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Indonesians quitting 'rice addiction' over diabetes fears

14 Nov 2019 03:39PM (Updated: 14 Nov 2019 03:42PM)

JAKARTA: Indonesian Mirnawati once ate rice with every meal, but its link to diabetes convinced her to join a growing movement to quit a staple food in the third biggest rice-consuming nation on Earth.

As World Diabetes Day is held Thursday (Nov 14), the Southeast Asian nation is struggling to tackle a disease that affects as many as 20 million of its 260 million people, and has emerged as one of its deadliest killers behind stroke and heart disease.

But kicking the rice habit isn't easy, with one of Indonesia's favourite dishes nasi goreng (mixed fried rice) sold everywhere, and the grain woven into the culinary fabric of a nation whose late dictator transformed it into a must-have meal.

"In my first week without rice I felt like I was being possessed by ghosts," said Mirnawati, a 34-year-old former construction company employee who goes by one name.

"But now I'll never go back to it," she added, about four months into her new diet.

Complications from diabetes, which affects some 425 million globally, can lead to heart attacks, stroke, blindness and even limb amputation.

Most of the world's sufferers live in low and middle-income countries like Indonesia.

Rice is packed with fibre and key vitamins. But an unbalanced diet that relies too heavily on refined white rice has been linked to an increasing global prevalence of diabetes and insulin resistance as it raises blood sugar levels, according to experts.

That is what led Mirnawati - along with her mother and cousin - to drop rice in favour of more vegetables, meat and nuts.

It is a step that an increasing number of Indonesians are taking in an informal 'no rice' movement, although there are no official numbers.

The push, partly driven by social media, has been backed by local governments including cultural capital Yogyakarta which last year rolled out a campaign to convince residents to go without rice at least one day a week.

RICE POLITICS

Indonesia's legacy of rice politics makes the task tougher.

Rice - and rice production - was the cornerstone of dictator Suharto's ambitious bid for food self-sufficiency.

The programme began in the 70s and in a couple of decades had weaned much of the population off corn, sweet potatoes and other staples in favour of rice.

Before he was toppled in 1998, the iron-fisted leader spent years telling citizens not only what they could say, but also what they could eat.

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Rice is packed with fibre and key vitamins. But an unbalanced diet that relies too heavily on refined white rice has been linked to an increasing global prevalence of diabetes. (Photo: AFP/Adek Berry)

With local governments pushing the message, Suharto's administration even sold rice consumption as a ticket to higher social status.

"People were given this illusion that rice was healthier, gave you a higher social status and tasted better than other staple foods," said Anhar Gonggong, a historian at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

"There was an authoritarian aspect to this rice myth. Not in the sense that guns were pointed at people to force them to eat rice, but it implanted the myth deeply in the minds of many Indonesians.

"Now we know the impact that rice has had on our society."

The policy turned rice from a food that many in the sprawling archipelago rarely consumed into a staple that Indonesians now gobble down at a rate almost three times the global average of 53kg annually.

But the strategy launched by Suharto - who died in 2008 - ended up working too well, with demand outstripping supply. Indonesia now relies on rice imports to fill the gap.

"The struggle isn't only in our stomachs, but also in our minds because we have been living this myth that you won't be full without rice," said Ilhamsyah, a 47-year-old Jakarta resident.

"My family has a history of diabetes so I stopped eating rice and anything with carbohydrates," he added.

"TOO INDONESIAN"

Now, Indonesia is now trying to reverse its decades-old policy by convincing citizens to reduce their consumption of rice, but officials acknowledged bringing it down to average global levels could take decades.

"We're encouraging people to change the mindset that rice is the only source of carbohydrates because we have many staple foods available," said Agung Hendriadi, head of the agriculture ministry's Food Resilience Agency.

Selling millions of Indonesians on a low- or no-rice diet will be a Herculean task, despite the possible health benefits.

"I tried the no-rice lifestyle several times, but I failed," said Bali resident Mentari Rahman.

"My tongue is too Indonesian - I just couldn't stay away from it."

Source: AFP/zl