Rice prices go up after govt hikes import duty
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Correspondent | Published: 00:05, Jun 19,2018 | Updated: 23:40, Jun
18,2018
A file photo shows a man carrying a sack of rice at a wholesale
market in Dhaka. The prices of rice went up in the city’s wholesale markets
following the announcement of budget for the financial year of 2018-19 as the
government reinstated 28 per cent import duty on the staple in the budget. —
New Age photo
The
prices of rice went up in the city’s wholesale markets following the
announcement of budget for the financial year of 2018-19 as the government
reinstated 28 per cent import duty on the staple in the budget.
Following the announcement of the budget on June 7, importers and millers
increased the wholesale prices of rice by Tk 1-2 a kilogram and the
wholesale price increase started affecting the retail markets in the city,
traders said.
‘Rice importers and mill owners have already raised the wholesale prices of all
varieties of rice by Tk 1-2 a kg and they also squeezed the supply of the
staple as the government imposed import duty on the item,’ Syed Monirul Islam,
proprietor of Barishal Rice Agency at Mohammadpur Krishi Bazar, told New Age on
Monday.
He said the importers increased the prices of rice, which were imported under
duty facility before the announcement of the budget, in the name of import duty
re-imposition.
Monirul said that the wholesale prices of rice increased before Eid-ul-Fitr,
one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, which was celebrated in
the country on Saturday, and the price hike started affecting the retail
markets in the city.
Last year, the government reduced the import duty on rice to 2 per cent from 28
per cent to meet the shortfall of the crops as flash floods damaged production
of boro rice in the haor areas.
Considering the bumper rice production this year, finance minister AMA Muhith
on June 7 reimposed 25 per cent customs duty and 3 per cent regulatory duty on
rice import to protect the interest of the local farmers.
Following the re-imposition of duty, the prices of both the imported and
locally produced rice went up in the wholesale market and in some cases retail
prices also increased.
‘The government has imposed import duty aiming to increase the prices of rice
and the decision has already started increasing the prices of all varieties of
rice in the market,’ KM Layek Ali, general secretary of the Bangladesh Auto
Major and Husking Mill Owners Association, said.
He said that following the imposition of duty on rice import, the prices of
paddy started increasing in the market.
It is obvious that the prices of rice would increase as the prices of paddy
increased by Tk 70 a mound (40 kg) in last one week, Layek Ali said.
According to Layek Ali, the wholesale prices of coarse, medium and fine
varieties of rice increased by Tk 50-125 a bag (50 kg) in last one week.
A kilogram of coarse variety of rice was selling at Tk 42-45 a kg on
Monday. The fine variety of Najirshail rice was retailing at Tk 65-70 a kg
and its standard variety at Tk 60-64 a kg in the city markets.
BR-28 rice was retailing at Tk 50-52 a kg, while Miniket rice was selling
at Tk 62-68 a kg. The coarse variety of Miniket rice was retailing at
Tk 56-60 a kg.
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Reeling under rabi
blow, paddy ryots shying away from kharif
KAKINADA, JUNE 19, 2018 00:47 IST
Bleak
scenario: Left penniless and banks reluctant to issue crop loans, farmers are
not in a position to raise crop .
They
suffered losses due to rain damage, ‘irregularities in procurement’
The absence of the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy during
the last rabi season had its cascading effect on the transplantations during
the current kharif season in the rice-rich East Godavari and West Godavari
districts. Most of the farmers are looking for finances to meet the input
costs, as it proved to be difficult for them to meet both the ends from the
meagre sums they earned by selling their produce in the last crop season. As a
result, paddy transplantation is moving at a snail’s pace in both the
districts.
Paddy had been transplanted in about four lakh acres each in the
East and West Godavari districts and the yield had been about 12.5 lakh metric
tonnes and 12 lakh metric tonnes, respectively. The State government fixed the
MSP at ₹1,192.5 for a 75kg bag of A-grade variety and ₹1,162.5 for the ‘Common’
variety, besides setting up paddy procurement centres to ensure that the prices
were honoured.
“The untimely rain at the fag end of the rabi season had spoiled
the paddy market. Branding the grain as ‘discoloured’ and less or more moist,
millers and traders ruled the roost, whereas the officials remained mute
spectators,” says M. Rajasekhar, secretary of the A.P. Koulu Rythula Sangham’s
East Godavari district unit. “Till last year, paddy procurement centres used to
remit the amounts against purchase of the grain directly into the bank accounts
of farmers. Absence of the practice has paved the way for irregularities,
including custom milling of paddy from neighbouring districts and States,” he
alleges.
‘Official-miller nexus’
The same is the situation in West Godavari district, where the
official statistics indicate procurement of nine lakh metric tonnes of paddy
through procurement centres. “A thorough inquiry has to be ordered into the
reported irregularities in paddy procurement. The nexus between paddy
procurement centres and rice millers has resulted in a price drop. When it
comes to farmers, lowering of prices has been forced by citing either abnormal
moisture levels or colour of the grain,” points out K. Srinivas, secretary of
the A.P. Pradesh Rythu Sangham’s West Godavari district unit.
“Even as the water release into the irrigation canals has been
scheduled for June 1, it has taken about 10 days for the water to reach the
tail-end areas. In the absence of cash in hand and reluctance of banks to
release crop loans, small and marginal farmers are not in a position to go for
paddy transplantation,” says K. Trinadha Reddy, YSRCP farmers’ leader.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/reeling-under-rabi-blow-paddy-farmers-shying-away-from-kharif-crop/article24195890.ece
Nigeria to shut down border with
neighboring country to curb rice smuggling
June 19, 2018
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Trailer loads
of smuggled rice seized by Nigerian customs along Lagos-Badagry Expressway
recently
By Nita Karume :
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that it will shut
down its border with a neighboring country on account of rice smuggling. Audu
Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said as much earlier
on this week while speaking at a Guardians of the Nation International
(GOTNI)-sponsored forum.
Mr Ogbeh, however, failed to mention the particular country and
border. He further endorsed this move necessary in order to encourage local
production and sustain the economy of the country. Among the countries Nigeria
shares borders with are Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon.
The minister went on to explain the unprecedented risks that
come with the consumption of said rice. According to him, rice planted in
certain parts of the land could lead to poisoning of the same. Furthermore,
some of the countries around the Delta there have been reports of arsenic found
in the rice. This is in instances where rice is planted in the same place for
six years consecutively.
Mr. Ogbeh also said that the Federal Government had in two years
managed to reduce rice importation by 95%. This is while the number of rice
farmers increased from five to 30m.
In 2014, the smuggling had taken a turn for the worst with rice
traders and importers attributing the same of the tariff increase on imported
rice by the Federal Government. As a result, some marketers in Lagos as well as
the dealers resulted to smuggling of the product. Unfortunately, the high
tariff placed on rice at the Nigerian port to discourage smuggling of the
product has not been effective.
The President of Rice Millers and Importers Association noted
that smuggling, while destroying the Nigerian economy, is boosting the economy
of other developing countries. He is of the opinion that increased tariff will
help increase patronage for locally produced rice in Nigeria.
http://www.farmersreviewafrica.com/nigeria-shut-border-neighboring-country-curb-rice-smuggling/
Global rice shortage caused by El Nino threatens price crisis
Experts
say a bad monsoon season could see grain costs spiral by the end of the year
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The world is expected to suffer a
major rice shortage after global production was hit by extreme weather
patterns - potentially fuelling an international price crisis.
Hot weather and droughts brought
on by the El Nino system continue to affect production in India, Pakistan,
Thailand and Vietnam, where 60% of the world’s rice is grown.
Grain stocks in those countries
are forecast to plummet to 19 million tons by the end of the year, down from a
peak of 43 million tons in 2013.
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Dr Samarendu Mohanty from the International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) told The
Independent: “There is no doubt that the supply situation is very
tight, and this will inevitably cause a spiral in demand.
“The extent of this crisis all
depends on what happens during the upcoming monsoon season. If it goes badly in
India and Indonesia and the crops don’t get the rain, there could be real
trouble ahead.”
The monsoon season in India lasts
from July to September and supplies up to four-fifths of the country’s annual
rain.
Giant El Nino wave flips SUV
He continued: “At the moment it
looks like the situation won’t be as serious as in 2008 but the countries
affected must act more rationally this time rather than panicking, and they
must learn from the mistakes of the past.”
El Nino is a major fluctuation in
the Earth's climate system and see changes in the sea-surface temperature of
the tropical Pacific Ocean every few years.
During the 2008 crisis in Asia,
lower rice output caused by El Nino prompted India to impose a blanket ban on
exports and prices hit a record $1,000 per ton worldwide.
The benchmark price for a ton of
rice last month was $389.50, the strongest since July last year, and rates
continue to increase.
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Thailand’s last major crop haul
was around half the peak production from 2013 and output is expected to fall to
just 15.8 million tons this year.
Meanwhile, 593,000 acres of paddy
fields have been destroyed by recent drought and salination in Vietnam’s Mekong
Delta region.
The situation has not been helped
by the one million wells built in the country since the 1960s, which have
worsened the saline problem and contaminated the Vietnamese product.
The Phillippines is weighing up
whether to import an extra 500,000 tons of rice this year in an effort to boost
state reserve stocks in case of a future crisis.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/global-rice-crisis-el-nino-prices-increase-a7012526.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk
Millers worry mounts as
rice remains stocked
Slow
evacuation of custom milled rice from the mills in Rayagada district has
hampered the delivery process posing problems for the millers.
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RAYAGADA: Slow evacuation of custom milled rice from the mills in
Rayagada district has hampered the delivery process posing problems for the
millers.Nearly 2.7 lakh quintals of milled rice is now stocked at Odisha State
Warehousing Corporation godown in Rayagada town. Of this, 70,000 lakh quintals
wait to be lifted by the Gajapati district as per the direction of Civil
Supplies Minister Surya Narayan Patra.
The Minister, during his visit in March, had directed the
evacuation of rice to Gajapati district and accordingly, an official
instruction was issued by the department concerned. But, delay in
implementation of the order has left the millers of Rayagada at their wit’s
end.
With August 31 deadline set up by Odisha State Civil Supplies
Corporation Ltd for delivery of custom milled rice (CMR) for Kharif Marketing
Season (KMS) 2017-18 and with the date barely a month-and-a-half away, the
millers are worried that if the rice is not lifted, the quality would
deteriorate leading to losses.
During this KMS, the district has procured more paddy than the
requirement under PDS and other schemes. To streamline timely realisation of
custom milled rice from millers, the Government has been making plans from time
to time. As per such a plan, 70,000 quintals of CMR is to be moved from
Rayagada to Gajapati district to facilitate receipt of CMR within the deadline.
But, things have failed to fall in place for the millers who fear that with the
onset of monsoon, the rice in the godowns is likely to deteriorate and lead to
reduction in purchase cost.
Meanwhile, Civil Supplies Officer Purosottam Lenka said lifting
for Gajapati district started recently and all efforts are being made for
timely realisation of CMR as per Government schedule.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2018/jun/19/millers-worry-mounts-as-rice-remains-stocked-1830225.html
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U.S. Rice on China
Retaliation List ARLINGTON,
VA -- The Trump administration announced on Friday an additional 25 percent
import duty on $34 billion worth of high tech imports from China. China
immediately responded by announcing a similar duty hike on $34 billion worth
of U.S. imports, including U.S. rice. Both countries' actions are
effective July 6, 2018. The 25 percent duty on U.S. rice imports is
consistent with China's approach to retaliate against a wide variety of
agriculture imports including soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, beef,
cranberries, orange juice, tobacco, and whiskies. |
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Rice Millers' Convention
Focuses on Trade, Future of Retail, and Regulatory Impact WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV -- The USA Rice
Millers' Association (RMA) held its 119th Annual Convention at the historic
Greenbrier Resort here last week. Rice millers and allied industry
participants heard from a variety of speakers on a wide range of topics
including a workshop on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), methods to
minimize waste by converting rice hulls into higher value products, and a
fast-paced, eye-opening presentation on the future of retail by USA Rice
Domestic Promotion Committee Chairman Paul Galvani.
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Week-long activities lined-up for Dapitan City’s 55th Charter Day
June 18,
2018 Emmanuel D. Taghoy
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DAPITAN CITY, Zamboanga del Norte, June 18
(PIA) – The City of Dapitan is celebrating is 55th Charter Day which kicked-off
last week, June 15, with Senator Cynthia Villar as the guest of honor and
keynote speaker.
Villar joined local officials in the ribbon
cutting for the opening of the 2nd “Balanghoy” (Cassava) Festival held after
the conduct of foot parade which was attended by personnel of the City
Government, some representatives from national government agencies, members of
non-government organizations, academe and local media, among others.
In her message, the senator stressed that with
assistance to farmers in mechanization of farming, use of high yielding rice
variety, and right training on farm management, “we can be rice-sufficient in
three years.”
According to the Senator, the Philippine
Rice Research Institute (PRRI) has developed the high producing rice variety
and is now being introduced to farmers.
"If we use that variety of rice that can
produce six metric tons per hectare, then we can increase rice production by 50
percent. Or even with only 20 percent increase, we can be rice-sufficient,” she
said.
Simultaneously, the weeklong Agro-Industrial
Fair was also opened on the same date at the Dapitan City Aqua-Marine Park
(DAMPA).
City Agriculturist Cyril Patangan said the
activity showcases the different agricultural products of the city in the various
booths. There will also be nightly presentations.
The week-long event highlights sports
activities such as inter-agency basketball and volleyball tournament, fun run,
motor boat race, badminton tournament, invitational tennis, National OFF Road
Competition and marathon.
During the LGU-Night, the Most Outstanding
Dapitanon 2018 will be announced.
Moreover, loyalty awards will be given to
deserving employees of the local government unit, including service awards to
retiring Dapitan officials and personnel.
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SCIENTISTS CALL NECESSARY DIABETIKAM AND HIGH BLOOD
PRESSURE PRODUCT
Jan Hartman | June 17, 2018 | Health | No Comments
Scientists from the canadian University of Guelph have
conducted a study and found which foods can improve the endocrine and
cardiovascular systems of the body.
They claim that the dishes of green and red lentils
are extremely beneficial to people suffering from diabetes or hypertension.
As noted, the researchers conducted a study involving
24 adults.
They were offered two ways of eating is to eat just
rice and potatoes, and their mixtures in the ratio of 1:1 with green and red
lentils.
The participants of the experiment measured the levels
of blood sugar and pressure within two hours before meals and after. The
results showed that the use of rice and lentils sugar level in the blood was
20% lower in comparison with indicators when used only rice.
In the case of potatoes, this difference was 35%.
In addition, after eating dishes with lentils and
decreased the level of cholesterol in the blood, were observed normalization of
pressure.
Scientists have noted that this result is due to the
high content in lentils valuable vitamins and minerals, informs Health.
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President Mamnoon arrives in
Dushanbe
DUSHANBE: President Mamnoon
Hussain is visiting Tajikistan to participate in an international conference on
the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” 2018-28
being held in Tajik capital on June 20 and 21.
The conference being
hosted by Tajikistan in cooperation with the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and other partners, will focus on
sustainable development and integrated management of water resources for the
achievement of social, economic and environmental objectives; implementation
and promotion of related programmes and projects; and the furtherance of
cooperation and partnerships at all levels in order to help achieve
internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those
contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
It will also highlight the
importance of promoting the efficiency of water usage at all levels, taking
into account the water, food, energy, environment nexus, including the
implementation of national development programmes.
Besides attending the
conference the President during his four-day official visit to Tajikistan will
also hold bilateral talks with Tajik leadership to further strengthen
Pakistan’s relations with this brotherly Central Asian state in diverse areas.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to
Tajikistan Tariq Iqbal Soomro told APP that President Mamnoon Hussain and
President Emomali Rahmon during their talks will discuss the whole range of
bilateral ties to further strengthen and diversify these relations in different
fields for mutual benefit.
He said as the current volume
of annual bilateral trade between the two countries stood at around US $ 42
million (FY 2016-17) and did not commensurate with the strong political ties,
the two leaders will discuss ways and means to boost bilateral trade level upto
US $ 500. President Mamnoon Hussain during his first visit to Tajikistan will
also meet the prime minister of Tajikistan as well as the Speaker of Lower
House of Tajik parliament.
Pakistan’s major exports to
Tajikistan were sugar, dairy products, fruit, vegetables, rice, textile products,
and minerals, whereas Pakistan imported cotton fiber, fruit, vegetables and
unprocessed hides.
Ambassador Tariq Iqbal hoped
that the visit of President Mamnoon Hussain, on the invitation of Tajik
President, will further strengthen the already existing close and friendly
relations between the two brotherly nations.
To a question, he said, the
water conference was first of the series that Tajikistan planned to hold on a
bi-annual basis to facilitate implementation of the New Decade for Water for
Sustainable Development.
The ambassador said that the
official visit of President Mamnoon Hussain to Tajikistan as well as recent
visits of Pakistani prime minister were reflective of the country''s vision to
strengthen relations with neighbouring and regional countries and further
regional connectivity.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/330676-president-mamnoon-arrives-in-dushanbe
Bright prospect predicted for agricultural products’ export
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agricultural products, including rice, in the rest of the year as demand in
importing markets has shown optimistic signs, according to the Ministry of
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The ministry predicted that domestic rice prices will continue
to stay high until the end of June 2018, buoyed by hope for resuming exports
to the Philippines. According to a report by the General Department of Vietnam
Customs, in the first five months of 2018, rice shipments overseas rose 25.7%
in volume and 42.6% in value, with prices picking up 13.4% over the same
period last year. Statistics showed that 452,000 tonnes of rice were shipped
abroad in May for US$347 million, pushing the five-month rice export volume
to 2.66 million tonnes with value of US$1.45 billion. China was still the
biggest market of Vietnamese rice. Vietnamese rice quality has gradually approached international
standards, prompted by the shift in world demand for rice of higher quality.
According to the MARD, importing countries now prioritise the import of
fragrant and Japonica rice varieties. Currently, African countries are also
increasing rice imports, creating opportunities for Vietnamese firms in the
markets. Meanwhile, exports of aquatic products in May fetched US$700
million, raising total value in the first five months of 2018 to US$3.1
billion, up 11% over the same period last year. Particularly, export volume of tra fish in May was estimated
at 104,000 tonnes, a year on year rise of 11.6%, marking a record growth rate
in many years. The US, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea were the top
markets of Vietnamese aquatic products, which consumed over 50% of total
exported volume. High growth was seen in many markets, including the
Netherlands (60%), China (27%), the UK (27%), Germany (26%), and the Republic
of Korea (21%). At the same time, chicken meat is also among products with
high hope for growth in latter half of the year. Since the beginning of 2018,
export volume of the product expanded three times compared to that in 2017. |
http://en.nhandan.org.vn/business/item/6288802-bright-prospect-predicted-for-agricultural-products’-export.html
Eating Too Much Rice And Pasta Likely to Cause Early Menopause
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As per a new study in London, the excessive use of refined
carbohydrates—especially white pasta and rice, may lead to
an earlier menopause by a year and a half
earlier.
The findings were published in the Journal of Epidemiology and
Community Health, according to which high intake of healthy foods
like oily fish, green beans, fresh legumes and peas are the commodities
associated with a later onset of menopause.
The study lead author—Yashvee Dunneram—a
postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds—Britain said that there are
several factors that are taken into consideration for developing the
relationship between age and the start of menopause, including the generic
factors or behavioural and environmental exposure. However, a limited study has
been done that looks at the impact of diet on menopause.
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The study used the data gathered from
fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty women, residing in Britain. They were
asked to fill a detailed diet questionnaire along with an initial survey which
was done to collect information on the reproductive health and history.
Later after four years when a follow-up
survey and questionnaire was done, the researchers were able to analyse the
diets of the women who have experienced the onset of natural menopause in the
interim. The average age of the women of Britain for menopause is 51 years.
More than nine hundred women were found
to have experienced the natural start of their menopause at the time of the
follow up survey, their ages ranging in between 40 and 65, which means that
they must have menstruated for at least twelve months consecutively and
menopause had not been brought on by factors like surgery, or cancer or
pharmaceutical treatments.
Their diet analysis revealed high intake
of oily fish which are liked to a delayed start of menopause by almost three
years. A diet full of refined pasta and rice displayed that menopause was more
probably to occur one-and-a-half years before than the average age.
As per the BBC reports the new study is
observational and cannot prove any factor, the researchers, however, have some
possible explanations behind their findings.
For example, legumes contain antioxidants
which could preserve menstruation for a longer span of time. Similarly, omega-3
fatty acids which are found in the oily fish also leads to stimulating the capacity
of antioxidants in the body.
As per the report, the increased use of
refined carbs could also raise the risk of insulin resistance, which could
hinder with the sex hormone activity and increase the oestrogen levels which
might lead to an increase in the number of menstrual cycles causing the supply
of eggs to finish faster
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The project found that some strains of heirloom rice are no longer
being planted and others are nearly extinct.
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Gene banks to
ensure supply, survival of Cordillera's heirloom rice
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- June 17, 2018 - 11:24am
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Seeds of the highland region's famed
centuries-old heirloom rice are being kept in storage to ensure that they will
not be wiped out.
Through the Heirloom Rice Project, a collaboration among the
Department of Agriculture, International Rice Research Institute and Philippine
Rice Research Institute, the seeds will be stored in a black box to keep them
safe for between 25 to 40 years.
Currently, 69 heirloom rice landraces — particular strains that have evolved
and have been cultivated over time — from Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province
and Kalinga are kept in separate genebanks maintained by IRRI and PhilRice.
An additional 126 inherited races will be included this year
from the project's expansion barangays, bringing the number of samples to 195.
PhilRice said the threat of losing these valuable materials such
as the heirloom rice makes conservation efforts increasingly more urgent and
important.
The project also discovered through community consultations that
some landraces that are no longer being planted while others are on the verge
of extinction.
"The rice we ate, which was planted by our forefathers, are
long gone and have been replaced," Rosa Dungawan, 73, said. She said she
regrets that even though she had the opportunity to taste the heirloom rice,
her grandchildren did not.
Agriculturist May Ann Tuba-ang said that in case of unforeseen
events that endanger the current landraces, the community can retrieve the
seeds from IRRI and PhilRice for reproduction.
Aside from the conservation of heirloom rice, the project also
aims to preserve the rice through increased production to encourage farmers to
continue producing the rice passed down by their ancestors.
Read more at https://www.philstar.com/nation/2018/06/17/1825435/gene-banks-ensure-supply-survival-cordilleras-heirloom-rice#bK64ViDA7KluS32g.99
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Popular rice variety gets extra gene power to
fight bacterial attacks
Pyramiding of multiple
BB-resistant genes into rice varieties.
By
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June 16, 2018
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Rice is considered essential for millions of Asians because of
the immense influence on their culture, diets and economic condition and is the
most important and dominant staple food crop in Asia. Approximately 92% of
rice is grown and consumed in Asia, which encompasses 55% of the world
population.
Now, scientists at the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research have
developed a new variety of the popular Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) rice that
can resist bacterial blight (BB) disease. BB caused by Xanthomonas oryzae
PV. oryzae (Xoo) remains a primary production constraint in rice in India and
in most of the east and southeast Asian countries.
This disease primarily occurs in epidemic proportions in monsoon
(wet) season, particularly in irrigated and rain-fed lowland ecosystems. The
disease affects rice crop, is caused by bacteria, Xanthomonas oryzae, and
drastically reduces rice productivity.
Dr Gouri Sankar Laha, co-author of the study said, “Till now
about 41 resistant genes have been identified from diverse sources. These genes
differ from each other in their mode of action. While some are broad spectrum,
others are narrow in their resistance spectrum.”
Using Marker-assisted Backcross Breeding or MABB technique,
scientists succeeded in gene insertion in genetically modified crops
efficiently.
Xanthomonas is virulent, meaning its infection spreads fast and
wide. It also evolves very quickly. Thus plants that seem to be resistant now
might turn susceptible later as the pathogen evolves into different strains.
Dr Laha said, “The new breed has been field tested in farms
across several states and has been exposed to various strains of Xanthomonas.
We have done three backcrossing and six generations of improvement. It has
taken five years including a selection of parents and initial crossing.”
“The effort has resulted in several improved lines of ISM with a
novel, broad-spectrum blight-resistant gene Xa38 that show high levels of
blight resistance to different types of Xanthomonas. These plants are better
both in yield and in other traits than their ISM parent lines. After more field
tests in different parts of the country, it will be ready for commercial
release.”
Other co-authors include Arra Yugander, Raman M. Sundaram,
Kuldeep Singh, Duraisamy Ladhalakshmi, Lella V. Subba Rao, Maganti Sheshu
Madhav, Jyothi Badri and Madamsetty Srinivas Prasad. Their study is published
in the journal PLOS One.
https://www.techexplorist.com/popular-rice-variety-gene-power-fight-bacterial-attacks/14888/
Villar graces Dapitan’s festival, sees
rice sufficiency in 3 years
By Gualberto Laput June 16, 2018, 7:52
pm
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Zamboanga del Norte 1st
district Rep. Seth Frederick Jalosjos, Senator Cynthia Villar, Dapitan City
Mayor Rosalina Jalosjos, and Jose Rizal Memorial State University President Dr.
Daylinda Luz Reluya-Laput (right to left) lead the opening on Saturday of the
"Balanghoy (Cassava) Festival in Dapitan City. (Photo by:
Gualbert M. Laput),
DAPITAN CITY, Zamboanga del Norte--Senator Cynthia Villar on Saturday
said that the Philippines could be rice sufficient by 2020, but added that
"it all depends on us if we will solve our problems” within that
timetable.
“If we help our farmers in mechanization of farming; if we have them use high
yielding rice variety; if we teach them how to manage their farms; yes, I
believe we can be rice sufficient in three years,” Villar said at a press
conference here.
Villar, chairperson of the Senate’s Committee on Agriculture, was guest of
honor on Saturday in the opening of Dapitan's second “Balanghoy (Cassava)
Festival” that will culminate with this city's 55th Charter Day celebration on
June 22.
Villar explained that the country remains short of rice supply, but only by
about seven percent.
"If we use that variety of rice that can produce six metric tons per
hectare, then we can increase rice production by 50 percent. Or even with only
20 percent increase, we can be rice sufficient,” she said.
The senator said that the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PRRI) has
developed the high producing rice variety and is now being introduced to
farmers.
“We have traditionally been using the variety of rice that produces only four
metric tons per hectare,” Villar said.
She also lamented that agriculture contributes only about 10 percent of our
gross domestic product as of now.
“And there's a prediction by the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization that there will be food shortage in the world by 2050, or 32 years
from now. That is because the world population will be nine billion by that
time from the present seven billion,” Villar said.
She added that the world has to increase food production by 70 percent, “that
is why we have to take care of our agriculture. You Dapitanons and the rest of
the people in the province should not forget it.”
As the average age of farmers has gone down to 57, Villar asked the academe to
attract the young back to agriculture.
Praising Dapitanons for giving emphasis to cassava, this city's most popular produce,
Villar asked the farmer and Zamboanga del Norte residents to give importance to
agriculture because two thirds of Filipinos depend on it.
She said a third of our population are farmers while the other third are in
agriculture-related businesses.
“You know, agriculture is also business. We should not think of agriculture as
planting alone, our schools should also teach farm management. Our farmers
should learn to borrow from banks, not from 5-6 (or loan sharks),” she said. (PNA)
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1038454
How much
longer do we have to wait?
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16, 2018, 10:00 PM
By Dr. Emil Q. Javier
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) continues to be a major public health
concern worldwide. It is estimated that 250,000–300,000 vitamin A-deficient
children become blind every year, with half of them dying within a year after
getting blind.
Here at home, not only are we not making progress, the problem
is getting worse. VAD incidence among children increased from 15.2% in 2008 to
20.4% in 2013. According to the UNICEF study on the Economic Burden of
Malnutrition in the Philippines (2016), there are 1,840 childhood deaths per
year due to VAD.
Clearly our current programs to eliminate VAD by promoting
production and consumption of vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables,
distribution of vitamin A capsule supplements and mandatory vitamin A
fortification of vegetable cooking oil are not enough.
Another complementary way to increase vitamin A intake is by
biofortification of foods vulnerable populations regularly consume. This is
accomplished by enriching the beta carotene (pro-vitamin A) content of foods by
conventional plant breeding and/or by use of modern transgenic methods (GMOs).
We eat a lot of rice but the rice endosperm is devoid of beta
carotene. Unfortunately, there are no landraces nor related rice species which
carry the genes for beta carotene in the grains. The recourse is to transfer
the beta carotene genes from other species which do not normally interbreed
with rice. After years of effort, scientists have succeeded in transferring
such genes, first from the golden daffodil, and then later, from yellow corn.
Scientists at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and
the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have incorporated these beta
carotene genes from yellow corn into our popular varieties (baptized as Golden
Rice). And now Golden Rice is ready for formal assessment for food and feed
safety, for bio-efficacy, and finally for field testing in farmers’ fields.
Applications are now pending since last year with the Bureau of Plant Industry
(BPI) of the Department of Agriculture (DA).
In the meantime, Golden Rice has passed the assessments of three
other national regulatory agencies for food and feed safety, namely by the Food
Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), Health Canada, and the US Food and
Drug Administration (US-FDA).
Following are the exact quotes from the assessments of Golden
Rice by these national regulatory bodies:
FSANZ:… “No potential public health and safety concerns have
been identified in the assessment of GR2E (technical code for Golden Rice). On
the basis of the data provided in the present Application, and other available
information, food derived for GR2E is considered to be safe for human
consumption as food derived from conventional rice varieties.”
Health Canada: “Changes made in this rice variety did not pose a
greater risk to human health than rice varieties currently available in the
Canadian market,… Further, GR2E would have no impact on allergies, and that
there were no differences in the nutritional value of GR2E compared to other
traditional rice varieties available for consumption except for increased
levels of provitamin A.”
US-FDA: Concurred with the assessment of IRRI and declared that:
“Based on the safety and nutritional assessment IRRI has conducted, it is our
understanding that IRRI concludes that human and animal food from GR2E rice is
not materially different in composition, safety, or other relevant parameters
from rice-derived food currently on the market except for the intended beta
carotene change in GR2E rice… We have no further questions concerning human or
animal food derived from GR2E rice at this time.”
Needless to say, these competent national regulatory agencies of
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, are as concerned with
the safety of their citizens as all other national bodies. They conduct their
assessments based on concepts and principles developed over more than two
decades by international organizations such as the World Health Organization
(WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) of the United Nations, the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Codex
Alimentarius Commission (CAC). What further assurances do we need!
We raised a furor over the alleged wrongful deaths from the
mis-application of the Sanofi Dengvaxia vaccine against dengue (in the order of
perhaps, less than a hundred). Should not we be even more concerned with the
1,840 needless deaths every year of poor Filipino children from vitamin A
deficiency? How much longer do we have to wait until Golden Rice is made
available as an economic, sustainable option to eliminate vitamin A deficiency?
UP
singing ambassadors
—
proudly filipino
Last Wednesday, I had the fortune of attending one of the four
farewell concerts “The Reason We Sing” of the UP Singing Ambassadors (UPSA) at
the Ayala Museum together with former UP Regent Nelia Teodoro Gonzalez.
I was so moved by their musicality, harmony, choreography, and
over-all stage presence so much so that when I was singled out in the crowd and
asked to extemporaneously say a few words, all I could say was “You make us
proud.”
Indeed as a collection of music-minded students from different
colleges in UP Diliman, first organized by conductor Ed Lumbera Manguiat as a
freshman choir at the Kalayaan Residence Hall, UPSA has gone a long way and
conquered the world, figuratively.
Since then, UPSA has toured Europe and parts of the world many
times; competed in 21 international choral competitions, and in the process
garnered five grand prizes and 23 first prizes, bringing honor and fame to the
country and to the University of the Philippines.
Among their Grand prizes were 1) 4th International Choir
Festival. Sopot, Poland (May 2008); 2) Festival Choral International de
Neuchatel. Neuchatel, Switzerland (August 2008); 3) 3rd International Choir
Competition of Sacred Musi., Prague, Czech Republic (July 2005), and 4) 4th
Concorso Polifonico “Guido d’Arezzo.” Arezzo, Italy (2001).
Locally, UPSA has excelled well. UPSA received the “Ani ng
Dangal” award by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) “for
achieving the highest levels of artistic excellence and bringing honor to the
country,” in 2009 and 2012. UPSA was also adjudged Best Chorale Group at the
annual ALIW AWARDS in 2002, 2010 and 2011, and had been elevated to the Aliw
Hall of Fame.
UPSA’s amiable conductor, Dr. Ed Lumbera Manguiat, honoris
causa, has the distinction of being the first Asian conductor to win the Grand
Prize of the prestigious Concorso Polifonico choral competition in Arezzo,
Italy, in 2001. He likewise was awarded the Conductor’s Award (Dirigentenpreis)
at the second JOHANNES BRAHMS International Choir Competition in Germany in
2001. And the Special Prize for Excellent Conducting Performance at the BELA
BARTOK International Choral Competition in Debrecen, Hungary in 2012.
You have to hear and see them to believe, and be proud of them
as Filipinos. UPSA has two remaining concerts before they leave for their
coming European tour to Berlin, Germany; Torrevieja, Spain; Florence, Italy and
Arezzo, Italy. You can watch them at the UP Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman
campus this Sunday, June 17 at 5 p.m. And on June 18 at the UP Film center at
6:30 p.m. Ticket prices range from P300 to P1,000. Students get 50% discount;
seniors, the usual 20%.
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Villar thinks
Duterte is wrong on rice sufficiency: We can do it in 3 years
Last updated Jun 17, 2018
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DAPITAN CITY, Zamboanga del Norte–Senator Cynthia Villar on
Saturday said that the Philippines could be rice sufficient by 2020, but added
that “it all depends on us if we will solve our problems” within that
timetable.
“If we help our farmers in mechanization of farming; if we have
them use high yielding rice variety; if we teach them how to manage their
farms; yes, I believe we can be rice sufficient in three years,” Villar said at
a press conference here.
President Rodrigo Duterte had peviously declared that
Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol’s goal of making the Philippines self
sufficient in rice was just a “story” that was unlikely to be fulfilled.
Villar, chairperson of the Senate’s Committee on Agriculture,
was guest of honor on Saturday in the opening of Dapitan’s second “Balanghoy
(Cassava) Festival” that will culminate with this city’s 55th Charter Day
celebration on June 22.
Villar explained that the country remains short of rice supply,
but only by about seven percent.
“If we use that variety of rice that can produce six metric tons
per hectare, then we can increase rice production by 50 percent. Or even with
only 20 percent increase, we can be rice sufficient,” she said.
The senator said that the Philippine Rice Research Institute
(PRRI) has developed the high producing rice variety and is now being
introduced to farmers.
“We have traditionally been using the variety of rice that
produces only four metric tons per hectare,” Villar said.
She also lamented that agriculture contributes only about 10
percent of our gross domestic product as of now.
“And there’s a prediction by the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization that there will be food shortage in the world by 2050,
or 32 years from now. That is because the world population will be nine billion
by that time from the present seven billion,” Villar said.
She added that the world has to increase food production by 70
percent, “that is why we have to take care of our agriculture. You Dapitanons
and the rest of the people in the province should not forget it.”
As the average age of farmers has gone down to 57, Villar asked
the academe to attract the young back to agriculture.
Praising Dapitanons for giving emphasis to cassava, this city’s
most popular produce, Villar asked the farmer and Zamboanga del Norte residents
to give importance to agriculture because two thirds of Filipinos depend on it.
She said a third of our population are farmers while the other
third are in agriculture-related businesses.
“You know,
agriculture is also business. We should not think of agriculture as planting
alone, our schools should also teach farm management. Our farmers should learn
to borrow from banks, not from 5-6 (or loan sharks),” she said. (PNA)
http://politics.com.ph/trillanes-dares-duterte-to-resign-immediately-kung-pagod-na-tama-na/
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Global
Protein Supplement Market by Applications, Classifications, Analysis, Consumption,
Performance Report 2017-2025
Global Protein Supplement Market: Global
Market Synopsis, Growth Factors, Industry Segmentation, Regional Analysis And
Competitive Analysis 2017 - 2025
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global market over the previous years. Besides, the key factors of growth such
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Key Players at Protein
Supplement Market are Follows : Abbott, ABH Pharma Inc., Amway,
Glanbia plc, General Nutrition Centers, Inc., Makers Nutrition, LLC, Herbalife
International of America, Inc., Vitaco, and Shaklee Corporation.
Market
Synopsis:
Protein supplements are bodybuilding supplements that are used
by individuals, who are involved in bodybuilding, weightlifting, mixed martial
arts, and other athletics to gain muscles, body weight, improve athletic
performance with respect to reduce excess body fat. These supplements are
necessary to consume with a proper diet to increase dietary protein intake. The
major reason for more intakes of protein supplements by most of the body
builders is convenient to use, easy preparation, and to lower the consumption
of fats and carbohydrates. However, there is no scientific harmony regarding
performance benefits associated with protein supplementation.
Protein supplements are available in ready-to-drink shakes,
bars, meal replacement products, bites, oats, gels, and powders. From which
protein powders is considerably used before or after exercise and blend with
water, milk or fruit juice. Further, protein powders are the source of protein
from animals or plants such as dairy, eggs, peas or rice. These powders are
available in three major forms such as protein concentrates, protein isolates,
and protein hydrolysates. Protein concentrates are created by extracting proteins
from daily diet food using enzymes. Additional fats and carbohydrates get
removed in protein isolation process. Further, the main benefit of protein
hydrolysates powder is that it allows the body to absorb protein more quickly
as it is produced by the additional heating process.
Factors
Influencing Market Scenario:
There is no scientific consensus regarding performance benefits
associated with protein supplementation. Increasing number of health and
fitness centers across the developing countries and growing health awareness
among the wealthy population are the major driving factors for protein
supplement market across the globe. Further, increase in obesity issues due to
unhealthy and junk food consumption and spreading fitness related disorders
risking youth population and compelling towards fitness clubs, and gym
facilities for staying fit that is expected to drive the protein supplement
market.The Global Protein Supplement Market is highly segmented and is based on
new product launches and proven results of products. Hence, the leading
industry pioneers have made use of different approaches, such as new clinical
trials, product launches, high investments on R&D, market initiatives,
agreements, joint ventures, partnerships, collaborations, mergers, acquisitions,
and others to increase their footholds in this market.
The Global Protein Supplement Market business intelligence
report will characterize the analysis of all the segments with the market data
during the forecast period, the data on historical, present market size, CAGR
for all segments, market share and market forecast by all the segments and by
region, and as well as the SWOT analysis for the market, competitive analysis,
industry trends, and several qualitative and as well as quantitative data with
regards to the market.
The report covers comprehensive competitive outlook containing
the market share and company profiles of the key players functioning in the
global market. Key players profiled in the report include XXXX.
Some
of the key geographies covered in the Protein Supplement market:
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North America
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Europe
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Asia-Pacific
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Latin America
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Middle East and
Africa
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2) Evaluations of global industry trends, historical data from
2013, estimations for the coming years, and projections of compound annual
growth rates (CAGRs) by the end of the forecast period.
3) Discoveries of new market prospects and targeted marketing
methodologies for Global Protein Supplement Market.
4) Discussion of R&D, and the demand for new products
launches and applications.
5) Wide-ranging company profiles of leading participants in the
industry.
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year 2018-2025.
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What are the different upcoming opportunities in the Protein
Supplement market?
What are the different sales, revenue and price analysis in the
market?
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scenario and presents an overall comprehensive analysis of the profit,
capacity, the supply and demand and the market rate growth and forecast.
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Economy
Sunday, June
17, 2018
Rise in Rice Imports
Close to 178,000 tons of rice worth more than $183.5 million
were imported into Iran during the first two months of the current Iranian year
(March 21-May 21), registering a 22.1% and 9.1% decline in weight and value
respectively compared with the similar period of last year.
Figures released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs
Administration also showed that this amount of rice purchases accounted for
3.4% and 2.7% of the volume and value of Iran’s total imports over the period respectively,
Mehr News Agency reported.
Iranians consume 3.2 million tons of the grain every year while
domestic production stands at 2.2 million tons.
https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-domestic-economy/88087/rise-in-rice-imports
DA wants to overhaul rice packaging
217
SHARES
Published June
16, 2018, 10:00 PM
By Madelaine B. Miraflor
A policy that will completely change the way rice is being sold
in the Philippines is now in the offing. This means that soon rice can no
longer be bought in sacks but in specific per kilo packages.
For the sake of food safety and traceability, Agriculture
Emmanuel Piñol said he is now pushing for an overhaul in rice packaging system
in the Philippines — which will do away with the traditional way of selling
different variety of rice by having them exposed in open containers with their
price tags on it. This has always been the practice in every wet market in the
country.
This move will be formalized by a policy that the Department of
Agriculture (DA) is going to draft.
“This will not be implemented right away. But we will go towards
this direction in the context of food safety and traceability,” Piñol said.
In ensuring food safety, Piñol said the current system now,
which allows everyone to easily touch the rice, is not hygienic, while his per
kilo packaging proposal will help consumers identify where their rice was
produced, who produced it, and when it was milled.
As for the additional cost this will entail consumers, Piñol
shrugged this off, saying it will only add about R1 in the overall retail cost
of rice.
If ever, this proposal by Piñol will complement the move of
Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and
Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCAARRD) to
develop green packaging technology using eco-friendly materials for rice and
other commodities.
The project is intended to design an environment-friendly
process protocol in developing packaging materials for specialty rice and other
food commodities.
On Wednesday, Piñol said the government is already at the
tailend of its computations on how much Suggested Retail Price (SRP) to impose
on basic food commodities like rice, fish, and vegetables.
It forms part of the government’s effort to address the rising
prices of basic crops, which is being blamed to the Tax Reform Acceleration and
Inclusion (TRAIN) law — the first tax reform to be implemented in the
Philippines in many years.
https://business.mb.com.ph/2018/06/16/da-wants-to-overhaul-rice-packaging/
Popular rice variety gets extra gene power to
fight bacterial attacks
Pyramiding of multiple
BB-resistant genes into rice varieties.
By
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June 16, 2018
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Pixabay
Rice is considered essential for millions of Asians because of
the immense influence on their culture, diets and economic condition and is the
most important and dominant staple food crop in Asia. Approximately 92% of
rice is grown and consumed in Asia, which encompasses 55% of the world
population.
Now, scientists at the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research have
developed a new variety of the popular Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) rice that
can resist bacterial blight (BB) disease. BB caused by Xanthomonas oryzae
PV. oryzae (Xoo) remains a primary production constraint in rice in India and
in most of the east and southeast Asian countries.
This disease primarily occurs in epidemic proportions in monsoon
(wet) season, particularly in irrigated and rain-fed lowland ecosystems. The
disease affects rice crop, is caused by bacteria, Xanthomonas oryzae, and
drastically reduces rice productivity.
Dr Gouri Sankar Laha, co-author of the study said, “Till now
about 41 resistant genes have been identified from diverse sources. These genes
differ from each other in their mode of action. While some are broad spectrum,
others are narrow in their resistance spectrum.”
Using Marker-assisted Backcross Breeding or MABB technique,
scientists succeeded in gene insertion in genetically modified crops
efficiently.
Xanthomonas is virulent, meaning its infection spreads fast and
wide. It also evolves very quickly. Thus plants that seem to be resistant now
might turn susceptible later as the pathogen evolves into different strains.
Dr Laha said, “The new breed has been field tested in farms
across several states and has been exposed to various strains of Xanthomonas.
We have done three backcrossing and six generations of improvement. It has
taken five years including a selection of parents and initial crossing.”
“The effort has resulted in several improved lines of ISM with a
novel, broad-spectrum blight-resistant gene Xa38 that show high levels of
blight resistance to different types of Xanthomonas. These plants are better
both in yield and in other traits than their ISM parent lines. After more field
tests in different parts of the country, it will be ready for commercial
release.”
Other co-authors include Arra Yugander, Raman M. Sundaram,
Kuldeep Singh, Duraisamy Ladhalakshmi, Lella V. Subba Rao, Maganti Sheshu
Madhav, Jyothi Badri and Madamsetty Srinivas Prasad. Their study is published
in the journal PLOS One.
https://www.techexplorist.com/popular-rice-variety-gene-power-fight-bacterial-attacks/14888/
Eat this common food to lower type 2
diabetes risk, study says
By
·
Najja Parker, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Looking for a way to lower your blood glucose
levels? One plant may be able to help, according to a new report.
» RELATED: This common legume can help
lower your blood pressure, study says
Researchers from the University of Guelph in
Canada recently conducted a small study, published in the Journal
of Nutrition, to determine the association between lentils, a type
of pulse, and reduced blood glucose levels. High blood glucose levels can lead
to Type 2 diabetes.
To do so, they examined 24 healthy adults,
who were fed four dishes: white rice only, half white rice and half large
green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white
rice and half split red lentils.
The analysts measured the subjects’ blood
glucose levels before they ate and two hours afterward. They then repeated the
same experiment this time using white potatoes alone and the same combination
of potatoes and lentils.
“We mixed the lentils in with the potatoes
and rice because people don’t typically eat pulses on their own, but rather
consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we
wanted the results to reflect that,” coauthor Alison Duncan said in a statement.
» RELATED: at this meat twice a week to avoid heart attacks
and strokes
After analyzing the results, they found that
replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by
up to 20 percent. Replacing potatoes with lentils resulted in a 35 percent
decrease.
They explained that pulses, such as lentils,
can encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids and slow digestion and
the release of sugars into the bloodstream, which can lower blood glucose
levels.
“This slower absorption means you don’t
experience a spike in glucose,” Duncan said. “Having high levels over a period
of time can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of
Type 2 diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk.”
The scientists now plan to further their
investigations and collaborate with more health experts to explore the benefits
of lentils.
“We are hoping,” Duncan said, “that building
evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will further encourage
people to add pulses to their side dishes.”
» RELATED: You can avoid strokes and heart attacks with these
two household fruits, study says
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Eat this common food to lower type 2
diabetes risk, study says
By
·
Najja Parker, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Looking for a way to lower your blood glucose
levels? One plant may be able to help, according to a new report.
» RELATED: This common legume can help
lower your blood pressure, study says
Researchers from the University of Guelph in
Canada recently conducted a small study, published in the Journal
of Nutrition, to determine the association between lentils, a type of
pulse, and reduced blood glucose levels. High blood glucose levels can lead to
Type 2 diabetes.
To do so, they examined 24 healthy adults,
who were fed four dishes: white rice only, half white rice and half large
green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white
rice and half split red lentils.
The analysts measured the subjects’ blood
glucose levels before they ate and two hours afterward. They then repeated the
same experiment this time using white potatoes alone and the same combination
of potatoes and lentils.
“We mixed the lentils in with the potatoes
and rice because people don’t typically eat pulses on their own, but rather
consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we
wanted the results to reflect that,” coauthor Alison Duncan said in a statement.
» RELATED: at this meat twice a week to avoid heart attacks
and strokes
After analyzing the results, they found that
replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by
up to 20 percent. Replacing potatoes with lentils resulted in a 35 percent
decrease.
They explained that pulses, such as lentils,
can encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids and slow digestion and
the release of sugars into the bloodstream, which can lower blood glucose
levels.
“This slower absorption means you don’t
experience a spike in glucose,” Duncan said. “Having high levels over a period
of time can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of
Type 2 diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk.”
The scientists now plan to further their
investigations and collaborate with more health experts to explore the benefits
of lentils.
“We are hoping,” Duncan said, “that building
evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will further encourage
people to add pulses to their side dishes.”
» RELATED: You can avoid strokes and heart attacks with these
two household fruits, study says
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to lower your blood glucose levels? One plant may be able to help, according to
a new report.» RELATED: This common legume can help lower your blood pressure,
study saysResearchers from the University of Guelph in Canada recently
conducted a small study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, to determine
the association between lentils, a type of pulse, and reduced blood glucose
levels. High blood glucose levels can lead to Type 2 diabetes.To do so, they
examined 24 healthy adults, who were fed four dishes: white rice only, half
white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half small green
lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils.The analysts measured
the subjects’ blood glucose levels before they ate and two hours afterward.
They then repeated the same experiment this time using white potatoes alone and
the same combination of potatoes and lentils.“We mixed the lentils in with the
potatoes and rice because people don’t typically eat pulses on their own, but
rather consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger
meal, so we wanted the results to reflect that,” coauthor Alison Duncan said in
a statement.» RELATED: at this meat twice a week to avoid heart attacks and
strokesAfter analyzing the results, they found that replacing half a serving of
rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20 percent. Replacing
potatoes with lentils resulted in a 35 percent decrease.They explained that
pulses, such as lentils, can encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids
and slow digestion and the release of sugars into the bloodstream, which can
lower blood glucose levels.“This slower absorption means you don’t experience a
spike in glucose,” Duncan said. “Having high levels over a period of time can
lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2
diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk.”The scientists now
plan to further their investigations and collaborate with more health experts
to explore the benefits of lentils.“We are hoping,” Duncan said, “that building
evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will further encourage
people to add pulses to their side dishes.”» RELATED: You can avoid strokes and
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Pakistan. Rice exports up by 30pc to
$1.58b in 10 months
15.06.2018
Pakistan
has come out of the crisis of low exports, which was observed during the last
three years, as the rice exports have increased by around 30 percent to $1.58
billion during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18) as
exporters pushed fresh cargoes to Indonesia, Kenya and other markets. 
Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan chairman Samee Ullah Ch said that value
of rice export trade has been showing improvement due to the coordination of
REAP members with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and customs. “Our
members are putting in untiring efforts, and aggressive marketing to increase
rice exports and to earn valuable foreign exchange,” he added. He said rice
exporters are making investments to install modern rice processing machinery
and using value-addition technology.
He said the association is sending trade delegations to various countries for
rice marketing. “Last month our delegation came back after a successful visit
to Iran, which is very lucrative and a potential market for basmati rice.
Around 100,000 tons of rice has so far been exported to Iran during the current
season.” He hoped that a handsome amount of foreign exchange would be fetched
by Pakistani rice exporters. He said that rice exports amounted to $1.23
billion during the corresponding period last year.
Samee Ullah Ch said exports increased 15 percent to 3.23 million tons during
the 10 months of the current fiscal year of 2017/18. He said exports of
non-basmati rice to Indonesia increased during the period.
New paddy variety
bursts onto East Godavari Agency scene
V.R. PURAM (EAST GODAVARI) , JUNE 16, 2018 00:38 IST
DRR
Dhan 44, developed by Indian Institute of Rice Research, has come out with
flying colours in field trials
A new paddy variety introduced on a trial basis in eight Agency
villages of Vara Ramachandrapuram mandal in East Godavari district holds
promise for farmers of the region.
DRR Dhan 44, developed by the Indian Institute of Rice Research
(IIRR), has fared better than MTU 1001, a common variety in this area. In
addition to yielding four bags more than other varieties, Dhan 44 has withstood
well the long dry spells. ICRISAT is giving 50 % input subsidy to identified
farmers.
Consortium approach
The consortium approach has evoked a good response with tribal
farmers coming forward to cultivate new varieties of paddy, pulses and other
crops.
This project has been taken up under Rythu Kosam in Andhra
Pradesh (AP Primary Sector Mission) and trials were conducted by ICRISAT under
the guidance of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) located on its
campus in Hyderabad with the help of the Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Department,
the IIRR, and ASDS, an NGO.
Cooking quality of this variety has also been found good like
basmati. This variety yields more under minimal fertilizer application making
it most suitable for the Agency area where farmers don’t buy much fertilizer.
This year, more farmers have came forward to take part in participatory
demonstrations. IRRI senior scientist A. Narayana Rao said with the confidence
gained from the VR Puram demonstrations, the approach will be tried out in
Gangavaram and Y Ramavaram mandals in the East Godavari Agency area.
Spreading the word
Interacting with the farmers of Gangavaram and Yarlagadda
villages, he highlighted the success stories of DRR Dhan 44 and other varieties
in VR Puram mandal. About 20 farmers, four groups, five members in each group
came forward to participate in the demonstration during kharif 2018 with DRR
Dhan 44, KNM 118, RNR 15048 and DRR Dhan 46 along with other crops such as
sorghum, ragi, and groundnut which are being upscaled in these mandals for the
last two years. Rajesh Nune, visiting scientist, ICRISAT, said there was a
possibility of growing green manure and chickpea during the rabi season if
cattle were constrained to non-crop areas for grazing. He suggested setting up
of ‘community groups’ to prevent cattle from entering fields
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/new-paddy-variety-bursts-onto-east-godavari-agency-scene/article24176221.ece
Protein-packed
and rich in fibre, researchers have found another reason to eat lentils
Substituting
rice and potatoes with lentils can significantly lower blood sugar levels,
University of Guelph study shows
LAURA BREHAUT
Updated:
June 14, 2018
Researchers found that swapping starchy sides with lentils can
have positive effects on blood sugar levels.
They’re high in fibre, full of complex
carbohydrates and 25 per cent protein. As a pantry staple, they’re inexpensive
and versatile. And new research out of the University of Guelph has found yet another compelling reason to eat
lentils: they can significantly lower blood sugar levels.
In a study published in the Journal of Nutrition, researchers discovered that
making a simple swap in familiar starchy side dishes could have profound
effects. Substituting half a serving of rice with lentils resulted in a 20 per
cent drop in blood glucose, while the same substitution with potatoes showed a
35 per cent decrease.
“Pulses are extremely
nutrient-dense food that have the potential to reduce chronic diseases
associated with mismanaged glucose levels,” said Prof. Alison Duncan of the
Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, explaining that they can
decelerate digestion and help stabilize sugars in the bloodstream.
“This slower absorption means you
don’t experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time
can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2
diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk.”
The study looked at the blood
glucose readings of 24 healthy adults after eating four dishes: “white rice
only, half white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half
small green lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils.”
Researchers took blood glucose
readings before the participants ate, and then again two hours afterwards. They
then repeated the process with white potatoes, using the same combination of
lentils as with the rice.
The legumes were mixed in with
the starches to better reflect how people tend to eat them, the researchers
said, and the results were similar for each of the three types of lentils.
“Canada has a huge production of
lentils, but we export most of it and only 13 per cent of Canadians eat them on
any given day,” Duncan said. “We are hoping this research will make people more
aware of the health benefits of eating pulses.”
Lentils,
pulses provide significant health benefits: U of G research
Lentils are shown in a 2010 file photo.
(Larry Crowe / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A study
by University of Guelph researchers is pointing to the health benefits of
eating lentils and other pulses.
Professor
Alison Duncan of the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences says
Canada has a huge production of lentils, but most are exported and only about
13 per cent of Canadians eat them.
Duncan
says pulses are extremely nutrient-dense foods that have the potential to
reduce chronic diseases associated with mismanaged glucose levels.
The
study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, shows that replacing potatoes or
rice with pulses can lower blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent.
The study
involved 24 healthy adults fed four dishes, including white rice only and
combinations of rice and various lentils.
DA mulls
over rice packaging system
By: Karl
R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer /
05:35 AM June 16, 2018
The
country’s agriculture chief is looking at the possibility of requiring standard
rice packaging in markets as the agency reviews food safety practices in the
rice retail industry.
If
implemented, rice will no longer be sold in open stalls, a practice that
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol described as “unhygienic.”
“We’re
looking at marketing rice in packages of one, two, and five kilos. This is also
to ensure that there would be traceability for the protection of consumers,”
said Piñol in an interview.
“If you go
to public markets anybody can touch the rice … And wouldn’t it be nice when you
go to the market and you don’t have to worry if you’re being cheated with the
scale since everything is already packaged?” he added.
The
secretary said the planned policy would be implemented in phases, and may start
after the imposition next week of suggested retail prices of various basic
commodities.
While the
new policy may entail additional costs to retailers, Piñol said it was a small
price to pay in the name of food safety.
Piñol said
the policy could be crafted under the Food Safety Law.
The new
policy will complement plans to “properly classify” rice varieties.
The
thorough review of the rice retail industry comes at a time when the country is
set to transition to a “rice tariff regime,” under which the government will
remove its import quota on rice and instead slap an additional tariff.
This will
open the country to more rice imports and is seen to benefit consumers as
retail prices of rice are expected to fall by P4 to P7 a kilo, according to the
government’s economic managers.
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State
to provide training to farmers in Malda for aromatic rice cultivation
Pradip Chatterjee | 15 Jun 2018 10:53 PM Kolkata: State
agriculture department has decided to impart training to the farmers of Malda
district, where the department is planning to produce Tulaipanji and other
aromatic rice in large scale. A team of research wing at Uttar Banga Krishi
Vishwavidyalaya will soon visit Malda district not only to carry out a detailed
survey but also to encourage the farmers to cultivate Tulaipanji and other
scented rice. The step is a part of the overall initiative of the state
Agriculture department to increase the production of aromatic rice. The
research wing of Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya will identify the places
where these rice could be grown on a large scale. They will encourage the
farmers into new ventures and training would be given to them. The department
will provide seeds to the farmers in the district at a cheaper rate so that
more number of farmers show their interest. The state government will extend
all possible benefits to the farmers to make the attempt a success, sources in
the department said. Agriculture department will carry out a detailed study,
examine the nature of the land where Tulaipamji and other aromatic rice could
be grown in North Bengal. State agriculture minister recently held a high-level
meeting with the researchers of Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya and other
senior officials of the department, chalking out an elaborate plan on how to
increase the production of aromatic rice. It may be mentioned here that Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee during her recent visit to the North Bengal, asked the
senior government officials to take necessary steps so that Tulaipanji,
Gobindobhog and other aromatic rice can be produced on a large scale. The main
purpose of the move is to ensure that the people get these rice at a lesser
price. Proded by the Chief Minister, the agriculture department is also leaving
no stone unturned to make it possible. It may be mentioned here that state
Agriculture department has already been taking help from the research fellows
of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
who will provide assistance to the department in this regard. The main purpose
is to increase the production of fragrant rice in the state. Asish Banerjee,
state Agriculture minister said his department has set a target to increase the
production of various aromatic rice including Tulaipanji and Gobindabhog in
various districts. A research wing of Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya has
chosen Malda district where Tulaipanji could be grown on a large scale. A team
will soon visit the district to identify the areas.
http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/state-to-provide-training-to-farmers-in-malda-for-aromatic-rice-cultivation-304697
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Four Important Properties of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and
Africa) Rice Market
Here is a list of all the top four important properties of the
market that you should consider before entering the market.
- Market Players – If you want to lead in the
market, then you have to eliminate your competitors and our research
report has advanced analytics to help you get rid of them.
- Asia
Golden Rice
- Capital
Rice Group
- Thanasan
Group
- Ake Rice
Mill Co., Ltd
- Alobha
- Kohinoor
- Lal Qilla
- Daawat
- ADM Rice
- American
Rice
- Gulf Rice
Milling, Inc
- REI Agro
Ltd
- KRBL Ltd
- Kohinoor
Foods Ltd
- Lakshmi
Group
- Categories – In this research report,
we have included all the details related to market products in a category.
- Household
- Food
Services
- Food
Industry
- Application
Usage –
To save your time and help improve your product we have already added the
application usage statistics according to the end-user experience.
- Basmati
Rice
- Jasmine
Rice
- Long Grain
Rice
- Others
- Geographical
Division –
We have also included all the best and top performing regions including
the countries, states, cities, etc.
Major Highlights of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market
Here is a list of all the major highlights which are covered in
our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market Research Report.
- Overall
size and growth rate factors of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market
- Market
share, revenue, and sales data
- Leading
manufacturers of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market
2018-2025
- Dynamics
of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market 2018-2025
- Development
trends in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market
- Scope of
the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market 2018-2025
- Application
usage according to the geographical region
- Emerging
Market Players of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market
Answered Questions for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Rice Market
Here is a list of all the expected questions which are answered
in our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market Research Report.
- Which are
the best performing regions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market 2018-2025?
- What will
the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market size 2018-2025?
- What are
the factors impacting the growth rate of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and
Africa) Rice Market?
- Who are
leading manufacturers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market?
- What are
the problematic challenges faced in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Rice Market?
- What are
competitor’s market share, growth, sales, revenue, etc.?
- What is
the growth rate of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice market in
2018-2025?
- What are
the key outcomes of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice market
report?
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EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice market. The main intent of providing
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Questale is now serving Fortune 500 clients helping them to improve
profitability and accelerate growth. Questale blends about using the best
science, innovative technology, and the best business expertise.
Four Important Properties of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Rice Market
Here is a list of all the top four important properties of the market that
you should consider before entering the market.
- Market Players – If you want to lead in
the market, then you have to eliminate your competitors and our research
report has advanced analytics to help you get rid of them.
- Asia
Golden Rice
- Capital
Rice Group
- Thanasan
Group
- Ake
Rice Mill Co., Ltd
- Alobha
- Kohinoor
- Lal
Qilla
- Daawat
- ADM
Rice
- American
Rice
- Gulf
Rice Milling, Inc
- REI
Agro Ltd
- KRBL
Ltd
- Kohinoor
Foods Ltd
- Lakshmi
Group
- Categories – In this research report, we
have included all the details related to market products in a category.
- Household
- Food
Services
- Food
Industry
- Application Usage – To save your time and
help improve your product we have already added the application usage
statistics according to the end-user experience.
- Basmati
Rice
- Jasmine
Rice
- Long
Grain Rice
- Others
- Geographical Division – We have also
included all the best and top performing regions including the countries,
states, cities, etc.
Major Highlights of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market
Here is a list of all the major highlights which are covered in our EMEA
(Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market Research Report.
- Overall
size and growth rate factors of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market
- Market
share, revenue, and sales data
- Leading
manufacturers of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market
2018-2025
- Dynamics
of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market 2018-2025
- Development
trends in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market
- Scope
of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market 2018-2025
- Application
usage according to the geographical region
- Emerging
Market Players of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market
Answered Questions for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market
Here is a list of all the expected questions which are answered in our EMEA
(Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market Research Report.
- Which
are the best performing regions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Rice Market 2018-2025?
- What
will the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice Market size 2018-2025?
- What
are the factors impacting the growth rate of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and
Africa) Rice Market?
- Who are
leading manufacturers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
Market?
- What
are the problematic challenges faced in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and
Africa) Rice Market?
- What
are competitor’s market share, growth, sales, revenue, etc.?
- What is
the growth rate of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice market in
2018-2025?
- What
are the key outcomes of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Rice
market report?
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Scientists have discovered some surprisingly awesome
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When you think of the word 'superfood,' I bet lentils are one
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In the study, which is the first of its kind, 24 adult
participants were given four dishes to eat -- one with plain rice, half white
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Study author Allison Duncan, professor at the Department of
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"We mixed the lentils in with the potatoes and rice because
people don't typically eat pulses on their own, but rather consume them in
combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we wanted the
results to reflect that."
The rice-and-lentil combinations saw in a 20 percent drop in
blood glucose levels, while replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35 percent
decrease. This is a valuable discovery because it could help many people who
struggle with chronic diseases that are associated with mismanaged glucose
levels, not to mention improving the overall health of the general population.
"Pulses, such as lentils, can slow digestion and the
release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing
blood glucose levels, said Duncan. "This slower absorption means you don't
experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time can
lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2
diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk."
The University of Guelph is located in Canada, which grows 65
percent of the world's lentils, the vast majority of which come from the
province of Saskatchewan. Despite this, only 13 percent of Canadians eat
lentils on any given day; unfortunately they are far from being the dietary
staple here that they are in India and the Middle East.
The researchers hope that this study will boost culinary
interest in lentils, and that Health Canada will pay attention: "We are
hoping that building evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will
further encourage people to add pulses to their side dishes."
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Nigeria Rice
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(Bloomberg) -- Nigeria, the world’s
third-biggest rice importer, will likely receive 12 percent more of the grain
from foreign sources in the 2018-19 season as demand spikes at a time of
declining output due to higher costs and insecurity, an industry body said.
“We foresee a significant drop in rice
production this year,” Mohammed Sahabi, chairman of the rice farmers’
association in Kebbi, a state that’s one of the country’s top three producers
of the grain, said by phone from the local capital, Birnin Kebbi.
The amount of land allocated to rice in
the Kebbi area has likely fallen by half this year from the 200,000 hectares
(494,200 acres) cultivated in 2017, he said. Other major producing states such
as Kogi and Ebonyi are dealing with an increasing number of clashes between
nomadic herders and farmers, which keep planters from tilling their land.
Internally Displaced
Nigeria’s rice imports are set to
increase to 2.9 million metric tons in the 2018-19 season from 2.6 million tons
in 2017-18, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Reasons cited
included conflict, population growth and more people giving up traditional
coarse grains in their meals in favor of rice. Nigeria is Africa’s
most-populous nation with almost 200 million inhabitants.
The forecast output-drop is a setback
for government plans to stop rice imports by the end of this year to save
foreign currency. Production had increased more than 50 percent over the past
five years to 3.7 million tons last year. Domestic demand rose 4 percent to 6.7
million tons in the 2017-18 year that ended in May.
President Muhammadu Buhari, 75, is
seeking to diversify Nigeria’s oil-dependent economy by boosting agriculture,
especially rice production. Elected in 2015, he has overseen investments of
almost $1 billion in rice farming and milling, virtually banned importers of
the grain from buying foreign exchange, raised tariffs and pushed the central
bank to lend to farmers. At the same time, rice smuggling through neighboring Benin and
Niger has soared over the past years.
China
suspends rice imports from Myanmar after bank freezes
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mile trade zone in Myanmar-China border.
Chinese merchants have suspended its
rice imports from China-Myanmar border after a freeze on bank accounts of merchants,
said Than Oo, secretary of Bayintnaung Rice Brokerage Center.
“Rice prices remain unchanged as China
has suspended rice imports from Myanmar. Rice prices will go up when there are
high demands from China. Rice trading is not working well as China makes a
crackdown on contrabands,” he added.
China has frozen bank accounts of
traders in China-Myanmar border very often. Remittance services have suspended
since June 12 as there are some problems with money transfer, according to
merchants in Muse border.
Khin Maung Lwin, assistant permanent
secretary of Commerce Ministry said: “Commerce Ministry will sign a MoU with
Yunnan province government to officially export rice, sugar, maize and other
agro products to China in June.
Under the MoU, Myanmar will import farm
equipment, electronics, steel and steel products which are equivalent to export
volumes, from China.
Myanmar’s rice exports via border area
declined in April and May as China reduced its Minimum Support Rice (MSP),
according to Lu Maw Myint Maung, joint general-secretary of Myanmar Rice
Federation.
Myanmar exported more than 70 per cent
of rice via border trade and the rest via marine trade.
http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/business/14144
NFA rice may
end up with rice traders again’
BY JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA, TMT ON JUNE 15, 2018NATION
OPPOSITION
Sen. Paolo Benigno Aquino 4th on Friday expressed concern about the possibility
of the imported rice procured by the National Food Authority (NFA) ending up in
the hands of rice traders again, leaving the buffer stock of the grains agency
depleted.
Aquino
raised such possibility since the corruption allegation surrounding NFA
Administrator Jason Aquino has not been acted upon by Malacañang.
“The
government should look into allegations against Aquino rather than entrust him
with the task of importing thousands of metric tons of rice,” the opposition
senator said.
The NFA
administrator was blamed for the depletion of NFA buffer stock early this year,
which led to the sudden spike on the prices of commercial rice in the market.
“It was
his blunder that caused the rice price increase and added to the burden of
Filipino families,” Sen. Aqiuno pointed out.
The
initial shipments of the 250,000 metric tons of imported rice approved by the
NFA council last February arrived in the country early this month in Subic and
Surigao.
The
16,000 tons of rice were distributed in provinces surrounding Subic and Surigao
to stabilize rice prices in the area. The supply for Metro Manila and other
regions in the country are expected to arrive in succeeding trenches.
“What
happened to the allegations against the NFA leadership? Now the imported rice
has started to arrive, we should make sure that things would not happen again
wherein the NFA rice and its buffer stock would just end up in hands of rice
traders,” Aquino added.
During a
Senate hearing on the rice issue, the NFA admitted it failed to comply with the
required 15-day buffer stock since last year because of natural and man-made
calamities experienced by the country in 2017, including the five-month Marawi
siege.
The NFA
head claimed that the agency anticipated the rice shortage and submitted a
request for rice importation as early as October 2017 to the NFA Council, but
its request to import 250,000 metric tons (MT) of rice in January was denied
due to the stable price in commercial rice and the good local rice production
forecast.
But some
resource persons who attended the hearing alleged that while the NFA is only
allowed to sell rice to retailers, the agency allowed its stocks to be sold to
favored rice traders through dummy rice retailers.
Allegations
were also made that the NFA rice was illegally sold to traders who then
re-bagged and sold it as commercial rice at P42 to P45, or about 55 to 66
percent higher than the NFA selling price of P27 to P32.
Mayor
Teresa Alegado of Cebu during the hearing noted that the practice was so
blatant that traders were selling the NFA rice without even bothering to re-bag
this.
Rice
watchdog Bantay Bigas also pointed out that smugglers are taking advantage of
the entry of the rice imported by the NFA fromVietnam and Thailand as it
coincides with the scheduled arrival of the rice imports.
“Rice
importation only breeds rice smuggling,” Bantay Bigas spokesperson Cathy
Estavillo said in reaction to the interception Thursday of shipment of 100,000
sacks of Thailand rice worth P187 million by the Bureau of Customs (BoC) at the
Manila International Container Port (MICP).
Based on
BoC’s assessment, the shipments came from Vietnam and consigned to Sta. Rosa
Farm Products Corporation.
The
current rice importation policy is causing the increasing number of smuggling
cases in the country as it only gives opportunity for illegal rice imports from
private traders to enter the Philippines, Bantay Bigas said.
Experience
tells us that rice importation permits sold to private traders were used to
create an opportunity for illegally imported rice to enter the country,”
Estavillo said.
According
to her, the proposed rice tariffication would even worsen rice smuggling as the
government welcomes any private trader who can afford to import rice.
Despite
the NFA controversies President Rodrigo Duterte has retained Aquino as NFA head
but returned the agency under the control of the Department of Agriculture.
The
president also ordered the removal of the powers of NFA Council chairman and
Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr., a move which Sen. Aquino said was
unnecessary and leaves the NFA even more prone to corruption and impunity.
Evasco
was pushing for a government-to-private mode of procurement to make the process
more transparent while Aquino wanted a government-to-government mode, which is
prone to corruption.
http://www.manilatimes.net/nfa-rice-may-end-up-with-rice-traders-again/408549/#
Anheuser-Busch
Joins Forces with USA Rice to Strengthen American Rice Industry
By Josh Hankins
JONESBORO, AR -- Anheuser-Busch and USA Rice are proud to
announce a major new investment in water efficiency, rice-land preservation,
and wildlife protection through the Rice Stewardship Partnership.
Rice is one of the four natural ingredients in
many Anheuser-Busch great-tasting beers ever since Adolphus Busch first added
it to Budweiser to set the brew apart from other lagers.
An investment in the Rice Stewardship
Partnership will bring the nation's leading brewer - and largest end user of
American rice - together with growers, environmental groups, and government
agencies to strengthen the U.S. rice-growing industry through innovation,
knowledge-sharing, and supporting sustainable and efficient practices.
Anheuser-Busch's investment will help fund
strategies to protect working ricelands, including conservation planning,
irrigation efficiencies, nutrient management, and education of decision-makers
on water, agriculture, and wildlife habitats. The Partnership will also
help improve air quality, conserve energy, and support rice growers' bottom
line by testing new irrigation strategies.
These efforts will help advance Anheuser-Busch's
2025 Sustainability Goals announced earlier this year, which include connecting
100 percent of their direct farmers to new technology and empowering them to
try new agricultural practices, as well as engaging 100 percent of their
facilities in water efficiency efforts.
"From seed to sip, every step of our
brewing process is focused on responsible and sustainable water stewardship and
smart agricultural practices," said Jess Newman, Anheuser-Busch's director
of U.S. agronomy. "The last ten years have seen us reduce water
usage in our facilities by 38 percent and we are excited to keep moving in this
positive direction."
"USA Rice's partnership with Ducks
Unlimited and with great members like Anheuser-Busch has enabled us to provide
much-needed financial and technical support to conservation minded rice farmers
who are working to continuously improve their operations and hopefully see a
positive return on their investments in both future profits and achieving their
sustainability goals," said USA Rice President & CEO Betsy Ward.
Anheuser-Busch's 15 agricultural facilities
across the country include a rice facility in Jonesboro, Arkansas - a proud
part of the $4 billion Arkansas rice industry. Most of the rice milled at
the Jonesboro facility is sourced within a 30-minute drive from local farming
families, and by-products are used as inputs in the feed industry, providing a
key element for cattle feed.
To celebrate and thank the Arkansas rice-growing
community, Anheuser-Busch hosted a Grower Appreciation Dinner for their local
growers last night. The event included presentations from senior
leadership and local industry members.
"We're thrilled that this new Rice
Stewardship Partnership will enable us to play an even stronger role supporting
the Arkansas rice industry," said Bill Jones, rice agronomy manager at the
Arkansas rice mill. "At Anheuser-Busch, we're constantly looking for
ways to build a more sustainable industry and even stronger local growing
communities."
Rice exports to decline by 10% on
restrictions from importing countries
Bangladesh imposes 18% import duty, EU
introduces stringent quality norms; a part of decline to compensate through
export to China
Dilip Kumar Jha
| Mumbai Last Updated at June 15, 2018 23:21 IST
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protocol
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GI tag
Amid weak prices of agri commodities, robust rice demand bucks the
trend
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After a bumpy ride last year,
India's rice exports are likely to decline this year by up to 10 per cent this
year due to restrictions imposed by importing countries.
While Bangladesh has imposed 28
per cent import duty on rice to restrict its exports largely from India, the
European Union also made its quality norms stringent with introduction of new
pesticides limit. With this, non-basmati rice export to Bangladesh and basmati
rice shipment to the European Union is set to decline.
The restrictions from importing
countries assume significance as Bangladesh contributes over 18 per cent
India's 8.5 million tonnes of non-basmati rice exports, the European Union
shares nearly 10 per cent of India's basmati rice exports annually. A part of
this decline, however, is likely to offset with the beginning of direct import
from China, possibly in the second half of the current financial year.
"Overall rice exports from
India are set to decline this year due to stringent quality norms introduced by
the European Union. For immediate future, therefore, India may lose its entire
400,000 tonnes of European Union markets in the immediate term. The scenario,
however, would improve with growers to reduce pesticides use in basmati rice in
the long term. Also, Indian exporters would lose the entire Bangladesh market in
the immediate term,” said Gurnam Arora, Joint Managing Director, Kohinoor
Foods, one of India’s largest basmati rice exporters which sells its aromatic
rice under Kohinoor brand.
Data compiled by the Agricultural
and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) showed a bumpy
ride of both basmati and non-basmati rice exports during the last financial
year. India emerged as a large supplier of rice to the South East Asian (SEA)
countries due to a devastating flood in this region last year.
Consequently, India's both
non-basmati rice exports jumped by a staggering 28 per cent to 8.65 million
tonnes for the financial year 2017-18 compared to 6.77 million tonnes in the
previous financial year. India’s basmati rice exports, however, stagnated at around
4 million tonnes in three years.
In value terms, however,
non-basmati rice exports from India jumped by a staggering 41 per cent to
$3564.39 million for FY17-18 versus $2531.47 million in the previous financial
year.
“A part of the decline in non-basmati
rice export would get compensated through shipment to China for which Apeda has
started registering exporters,” said a senior official with a large rice
exporting company.
A study from India Rating
(Ind-Ra) believes India’s export price is likely to remain competitive in the
international market and the recent decline in India’s rice export prices could
attract buying from African countries, as Indian rice has become more
competitive while a decline in rupee is cushioning exporters’ margins.
Indian rice prices softened as
rice exports from India declined in April 2018, due to a decline in the exports
of basmati rice to Saudi Arabia and non-basmati rice to Bangladesh along with a
subdued demand from African countries. Ind-Ra believes imports by Bangladesh
are likely to reduce in 2018-2019, as its domestic output rebounds due to a
crop recovery and expansion in area sown because of high prices in 2017. As a
result, India’s exports could reduce by 0.5 million tonnes to 1 million tonnes.
In May 2017, Chinese authority
had identified 14 rice exporters from India to be considered for its shipment
to China. But registration of interested exporters started recently.
Meanwhile, according to the third
advance estimate for 2017 - 2018, India is set to achieve a record rice
production of 111.5 million tonnes against the target of 108.5 million tonnes
this year breaching its previous record of 109.7 million tonnes for 2016-2017.
New rice
research center coming to Poinsett Co.
Thursday, June
14th 2018, 8:20 pm PKTFriday, June 15th 2018, 2:55 am PKT
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POINSETT
COUNTY, AR (KAIT) -
The University of Arkansas System
Division of Agriculture has announced plans to build a rice research facility
in Poinsett County.
A news release Tuesday from the
university states the facility will be built on 614 acres.
A $4 million gift from the
Arkansas Rice Promotion Board helped purchase the land. The division is
working to get more funding for facility construction, equipment, and
other expenses.
The purpose of the rice research
center is to "enhance production techniques best management practices
for the grain in areas north of I-40 and west of Crowley’s Ridge."
According to Talk Business & Politics, a timetable for
construction on the project was not released. However, officials hope the
facility will be operational by 2021.
The university also conducts
research on rice production in Stuttgart and Keiser.
Copyright 2018 KAIT. All rights reserved.
http://www.kait8.com/story/38424873/new-rice-research-center-coming-to-poinsett-co
PRRI trains Pangasinan farm techs on
crop management
By
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June 14, 2018
Pangasinan-based local farmer technicians (LFTs) were trained by
the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) on proper crop management to
help their province sustain and even improve its rice production.
PhilRice said some 30 LFTs participated in a weeklong
specialized course on “pest identification, disease diagnosis and damage
assessment.”
Ev P. Angeles, training coordinator of PhilRice’s technology
management and services division, said LFTs are trained to help their fellow
farmers in identifying, assessing and managing major pests and diseases in
rice.
Angeles added it is vital to enhance the skills and capabilities
of local LFTs as they are being tapped by the Department of Agriculture “to
complement local agricultural extension workers in providing technical
assistance to farmers.” LFTs are model farmers in farming communities, according
to Angeles.
“We chose participants from major rice-producing areas of the
province who need to strengthen their pest and disease diagnostic skills or
those who have not undergone other intensive field diagnostic and pest
management skills training,” she was quoted as saying in a statement.
“Through practical, hands-on exercises, we hoped to enhance
their competence in this critical aspect of rice crop management,” she added.
From June 4 to 8, the LFTs learned principles on the following
topics: integrated pest management, agroecosystems analysis and the PalayCheck
system.
These topics would help the LFTs in “making more informed
decisions in pest and disease management,” according to PhilRice.
Carolina Badaguas, 54, from Sual, Pangasinan, said the training
taught her how to do proper weed management.
“Weeds are rampant in our area and my fellow farmers often
resort to spraying generous amount of herbicide,” Badaguas was quoted in the
same statement as saying. “We learned that practicing thorough land preparation
is important in managing weeds, as it helps facilitate good management of
water, nutrients and pests.”
Another participant, Solomon C. Ibay of Asingan, Pangasinan,
said he learned the importance of getting accurate diagnosis of rice diseases.
“When we know how to identify the kind of disease that infects
our field, it is easier for us to make the right decisions in implementing the
needed management practices,” the 56-year-old Ibay was quoted saying. “We also
learned about harmful and friendly organisms.”
Pangasinan is the country’s third top rice-producing province in
2017, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. The province produced
1.125 million metric tons of palay last year, which was 1.35 percent higher
than the 1.11 MMT recorded output in 2016, PSA data showed.
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Popular
rice variety gets extra gene power to fight bacterial attacks
KOLLEGALA SHARMAT+ T-
MYSURU, JUNE 14
Researchers at
the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research have developed a new
variety of the popular Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) rice that can resist
bacterial blight disease.
Bacterial
blight disease, which affects rice crop, is caused by bacteria, Xanthomonas
oryzae, and drastically reduces rice productivity.
The high
yielding ISM variety is already protected against bacterial blight by three
genes, but the new variety has been developed by adding another gene, Xa38,
that increases the resistance. “Till now about 41 resistant genes have been
identified from diverse sources.
These genes
differ from each other in their mode of action. While some are broad spectrum,
others are narrow in their resistance spectrum,” explained Dr Gouri Sankar
Laha, who led the study, while speaking to India Science Wire.
The
researchers used Marker assisted Backcross Breeding or MABB technique to
accomplish the gene insertion. Unlike transgenic techniques used in genetically
modified crops, MABB is less laborious but more efficient than traditional
methods of ‘gene’ transfer. Besides it does not require regulatory clearances
necessary for transgenic crops.
ISM is popular
and has been grown in over 80,000 hectares in south and east India since its
release in 2008. However, of late it was observed in experiments that when
deliberately infected, ISM plants had longer lesions – infected spot - than the
earlier ones, indicating emergence of a new strain of Xanthomonas.
Xanthomonas is
virulent, meaning its infection spreads fast and wide. It also evolves very
quickly. Thus plants that seem to be resistant now might turn susceptible later
as the pathogen evolves into different strains.
“It is,
therefore, necessary that we keep developing new resistant varieties. Also rice
plant resistant to Xanthomonas in a particular area may not be resistant to the
bacteria in another place,” explained Dr C A Deepak, a rice breeder at the
University of Agricultural Sciences, Karnataka, who is not associated with the
work. The breed improvement for bacterial blight disease is a continuous
process.
The new breed
has been field tested in farms across several states and has been exposed to
various strains of Xanthomonas. “We have done three backcrossing and six generations
of improvement. It has taken five years including selection of parents and
initial crossing,” said Dr Laha.
The effort has
resulted in several improved lines of ISM with novel, broad-spectrum
blight-resistant gene Xa38 that show high levels of blight resistance to
different types of Xanthomonas. These plants are better both in yield and in
other traits than their ISM parent lines. After more field tests in different
parts of the country, it will be ready for commercial release, Dr. Laha added.
The research
team included Arra Yugander, Raman M. Sundaram, Kuldeep Singh, Duraisamy
Ladhalakshmi, Lella V. Subba Rao, Maganti Sheshu Madhav, Jyothi Badri and
Madamsetty Srinivas Prasad. The research results have been published in the
journal PLOS One.
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What
makes some varieties of rice resistant to drought?
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In thirty years, the global population of 7
billion will increase by 30% to a staggering 9.1 billion people. Feeding everyone with
the same amount of land that is available today will undoubtedly be a
challenge. Along with expanding cities gobbling up agricultural and forest
land, changing climatic conditions with frequent spells of droughts also spell doom
for food production. Hence, researchers around the world are developing
drought-resistant varieties of food grains. In one such attempt, researchers at
the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, offer critical insights into the
intrinsic nature of certain types of rice that can resist drought.
Rice, a water-intensive crop grown by humans for thousands of
years, is a staple in many countries and the Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is the most
widely cultivated rice of the genus Oryza.
The crop fails during a drought, and water scarcity affects more than 23 million hectares of rainfed
rice production areas in South and Southeast Asia. While some varieties have
the potential for drought adaptations, the researchers of the study are
exploring the mechanism behind this through phenomics—the study of interactions
of genes with changes in the environment.
“India has 34.5% of total
irrigated area, which indicates that the rest of the farming area depends
mostly on rain. Even after constructing 91 major reservoirs, only 162 billion
cubic meters of water can be stored. Recently in India, eleven states out of
twenty-nine were affected by drought, resulting in a 40% yield loss, amounting
to $800 million. Therefore, our work aims at exploring the traits that can be
used in selecting drought-resistant crop”, says Prof. Archana Chugh, from IIT
Delhi and an author of the study published in the journal Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.
The study was supported by the National Agricultural Science Fund (NASF) under
the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
The researchers of the study investigated three
varieties of rice; Sahabhagidhan—a
local drought-tolerant variety, and two drought-sensitive varieties: IR64 and
MTU-1010. The researchers simulated the drought condition by cutting off water
supply to these plants for five consecutive days. They then explored the
genetic factors that help these varieties tolerate drought and correlated them
with the plant’s response to the applied stress with the aim of developing a
reliable 'marker' for drought resistance, which indicates the plant's ability
to survive periods of extreme water scarcity.
“A successful marker can be helpful in selection of
drought-tolerant varieties at different levels like morphological, anatomical,
biochemical, physiological and molecular. They should be easily detectable and
stable. Secondary traits such as root attributes, xylem diameter, stomatal
aperture, proline, and malondialdehyde can be used as selection criteria
by plant breeders for high yield production and drought tolerance in rice”,
explains Prof. Chugh in an interview with Research Matters.
But, what exactly happens to a plant during a drought? Lack of
adequate water limits its growth and affects its morphology, physiology, and
biochemistry. Leaves reduce in size, the stem and roots elongate, there is a
reduction in photosynthesis, transpiration and biomass, and an imbalance in
nutrients. The roots are the first to experience stress due to drought as they
grow beneath the soil. Hence, to survive, they either become more dense,
holding the soil together and maintaining the water potential or grow deeper to
access more water.
The authors found that Sahabhagidhan,
the drought-tolerant variety, continued to grow its roots during the stress,
while the drought sensitive varieties showed a reduction in the rate of growth.
Also, they observed that in Sahabhagidhan,
the xylem vessel, which carries water in plants, had reduced its area and its
numbers to survive the stress. This modification maintains water supply by
avoiding the formation of air bubbles, known as cavitation.
The study also found a significant correlation between the
morphological traits in these roots and the expression of aquaporin genes.
Aquaporins are proteins that form pores in cell membranes. They regulate water
uptake along with other small molecules. The researchers investigated two
aquaporins, OsPIP2;5 and OsNIP2;1, and found that the
drought tolerant variety showed an increase in OsPIP2;5, which may be useful to increase the
intake of water and thus supply to aerial organs. A decrease of OsNIP2;1 in the same
plant indicates another method of drought avoidance—decreasing the membrane
permeability to avoid excess water loss.
Correspondingly, the drought sensitive variety showed a
significantly lower content of proline—an amino acid used to synthesise
proteins, than the drought-resistant variety. The researchers believe this is
because the proline proteins assist in maintaining the stiffness of cell
membrane during water deficient periods, enabling the cell to carry on
functioning. As a result of drought, plants produce malondialdehyde (MDA), a
known marker of oxidative damage, a condition wherein due to chemical
imbalances, the plant is unable to detoxify itself of damaging elements.
Oxidative damage can eventually lead to cell death. A 1.5 fold reduction in MDA
content in Sahabhagidhan,
as compared to the drought sensitive variety, implies the former’s superior
resistance to drought.
“Improvement of drought tolerance
in rice is a challenging task due to the high complexity of the traits and poor
understanding of plant response against drought. Wide knowledge of various
attributes can achieve yield stability under most devastating drought stress.
Our study contributes more towards selectively breeding from the thousands of
cultivars available,” says Dr. Chugh when probed about the potential for
findings of the study. Marker-assisted selection (MAS), discussed in this
research, can help feed the millions by intelligently selecting plants with
desired traits.
https://researchmatters.in/news/what-makes-some-varieties-rice-resistant-drought
Alibaba
backs saline rice
Source:Agencies
Published: 2018/6/14 21:13:40
Alibaba has
pledged to cooperate with a saline soil rice research and development (R&D)
team to increase production and farmers' incomes, according to Thursday's
edition of the Beijing Youth Daily.
The saline soil rice R&D team of Yuan Longping, China's "father of
hybrid rice," will be supported by Alibaba in retail and big data.
The rice will be cultivated on a large scale with the cooperation of Yuan's
team and Alibaba, vice president of the e-commerce giant Wang Jianxun told the
newspaper. Alibaba will help explore the sale of saline soil rice.
There are more than 99 million hectares of alkaline land in China, which is 10
percent of the world's total.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1107056.shtml
Congress demands patents for rice varieties developed by Vidarbha
farmer Dadaji Khobragade
Maharashtra
Congress chief Ashok Chavan says the central and state governments should
address the demands made by the Khobragade family to honour the innovative
farmer who died in utter penury
Last
Published: Thu, Jun 14 2018. 09 22 PM IST
Congress president Rahul Gandhi
paying tribute to rice innovator Dadaji Khobragade in Nanded village in
Chandrapur district of Maharashtra on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Mumbai: The Congress in Maharashtra has demanded that the varieties
of rice that Vidarbha farmer Dadaji Khobragade developed be patented in his
name to consecrate his contribution and also prevent theft of intellectual
property rights.
Khobragade died on 3 June and on 13 June Congress president Rahul
Gandhi visited his native place Nanded in Chandrapur district of Vidarbha to
console the family. The Congress president’s visit to the Khobragade family was
a significant part of his farm and Dalit outreach in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Congress president Ashok Chavan, who had accompanied
Gandhi, said at a press conference here on Thursday that the central and state
governments should address the demands made by the Khobragade family to honour
the innovative farmer who died in utter penury.
The Dalit farmer had developed as many as 8 varieties of rice, the
most famous among them being the HMT rice variety. He developed most of these
varieties in the 1980s in his marginal 1.5 acre farm.
Since Khobragade did not patent his varieties, the Nagpur-based
Punjabrao Deshmukh Krushi Vidyapeeth (PKV Agriculture University) had released
the HMT variety as PNB HMT following which Khobragade fought a long but
unsuccessful legal battle to claim ownership of the HMT rice. His struggle and
claim got somewhat acknowledged in 2005 and 2006 when he won the National
Innovation Foundation’s award for original innovation and Maharashtra
government’s Krushi Bhushan Puraskar, respectively.
Chavan said since Khobragade died as a poor farmer despite such a
voluminous contribution that had changed the lives of millions of rice farmers,
the Centre and Maharashtra government should now patent those varieties to
commemorate Khobragade’s work. Chavan said the family made this and some other
demands during their meeting with Rahul Gandhi.
The Maharashtra Congress president also demanded that rice
research centre be set up over 100 acres at Khobragade’s native village and a
Dadasaheb Khobragade Krushi Bhushan Puraskar be instituted to encourage
innovation in agriculture.
First Published:
Why lentils
may be the next big superfood
Katherine Martinko feistyredhair
June 15, 2018
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Scientists have discovered some surprisingly awesome
side-effects to eating lentils.
When you think of the word 'superfood,' I bet lentils are one
thing that do not come to mind right away. Some interesting new science from the
University of Guelph, however, could skyrocket this humble little legume to the
status of dietary darling. Lentils are astoundingly effective at lowering blood
glucose levels, researchers have discovered. When carbohydrates such as rice
and potatoes are swapped out for lentils, it can lower blood glucose by up to
35 percent.
In the study, which is the first of its kind, 24 adult
participants were given four dishes to eat -- one with plain rice, half white
rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and small green lentils, and
half white rice with small red lentils. Researchers measured blood glucose
levels prior to eating and two hours after. The process was repeated with two
more dishes -- white potatoes alone and half white potatoes with lentils.
Study author Allison Duncan, professor at the Department of
Human Health and Nutrition, said,
"We mixed the lentils in with the potatoes and rice because
people don't typically eat pulses on their own, but rather consume them in
combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we wanted the
results to reflect that."
The rice-and-lentil combinations saw in a 20 percent drop in
blood glucose levels, while replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35 percent
decrease. This is a valuable discovery because it could help many people who
struggle with chronic diseases that are associated with mismanaged glucose
levels, not to mention improving the overall health of the general population.
"Pulses, such as lentils, can slow digestion and the
release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing
blood glucose levels, said Duncan. "This slower absorption means you don't
experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time can
lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2
diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk."
The University of Guelph is located in Canada, which grows 65
percent of the world's lentils, the vast majority of which come from the
province of Saskatchewan. Despite this, only 13 percent of Canadians eat
lentils on any given day; unfortunately they are far from being the dietary
staple here that they are in India and the Middle East.
The researchers hope that this study will boost culinary
interest in lentils, and that Health Canada will pay attention: "We are
hoping that building evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will
further encourage people to add pulses to their side dishes."
We at TreeHugger don't need any further encouragement! We love
lentils. If you're new to them, check out some recipes from our archives:
38 recipes for beans
and lentils for superfood meals
Weekday Vegetarian:
Lentil Soup
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roasted vegetables and lemon-rosemary vinaigrette (vegan)
Curried wild rice,
lentil, and orzo salad
Weekday Vegetarian:
Healthy and Delicious Lentil Patties
https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/why-you-should-eat-more-lentils.html
http://www.kuenselonline.com/bhutan-joins-seeds-without-borders/
Congress demands patents for rice varieties developed by Vidarbha
farmer Dadaji Khobragade
Maharashtra
Congress chief Ashok Chavan says the central and state governments should
address the demands made by the Khobragade family to honour the innovative
farmer who died in utter penury
Last
Published: Thu, Jun 14 2018. 09 22 PM IST
Congress president Rahul Gandhi
paying tribute to rice innovator Dadaji Khobragade in Nanded village in
Chandrapur district of Maharashtra on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Mumbai: The Congress in Maharashtra has demanded that the varieties
of rice that Vidarbha farmer Dadaji Khobragade developed be patented in his
name to consecrate his contribution and also prevent theft of intellectual
property rights.
Khobragade died on 3 June and on 13 June Congress president Rahul
Gandhi visited his native place Nanded in Chandrapur district of Vidarbha to
console the family. The Congress president’s visit to the Khobragade family was
a significant part of his farm and Dalit outreach in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Congress president Ashok Chavan, who had accompanied
Gandhi, said at a press conference here on Thursday that the central and state
governments should address the demands made by the Khobragade family to honour
the innovative farmer who died in utter penury.
The Dalit farmer had developed as many as 8 varieties of rice, the
most famous among them being the HMT rice variety. He developed most of these
varieties in the 1980s in his marginal 1.5 acre farm.
Since Khobragade did not patent his varieties, the Nagpur-based
Punjabrao Deshmukh Krushi Vidyapeeth (PKV Agriculture University) had released
the HMT variety as PNB HMT following which Khobragade fought a long but
unsuccessful legal battle to claim ownership of the HMT rice. His struggle and
claim got somewhat acknowledged in 2005 and 2006 when he won the National Innovation
Foundation’s award for original innovation and Maharashtra government’s Krushi
Bhushan Puraskar, respectively.
Chavan said since Khobragade died as a poor farmer despite such a
voluminous contribution that had changed the lives of millions of rice farmers,
the Centre and Maharashtra government should now patent those varieties to
commemorate Khobragade’s work. Chavan said the family made this and some other
demands during their meeting with Rahul Gandhi.
The Maharashtra Congress president also demanded that rice
research centre be set up over 100 acres at Khobragade’s native village and a
Dadasaheb Khobragade Krushi Bhushan Puraskar be instituted to encourage
innovation in agriculture.
Bhutan joins Seeds Without
Borders
Bhutan
can now import improved variety seeds without much hassle from six countries in
the region.
The
country joined the Seeds Without Borders protocol with the agriculture
secretary Rinzin Dorji formally signing the agreement on June 13 in Thimphu.
Bangladesh,
Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are the other members of the
network agreement.
The
agreement initiated by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was first
signed between Bangladesh, and India in 2013. The agreement started with rice
seeds. The seed agreement covers a number of rice-based crops such as maize,
wheat, vegetables, pulses and other crops with the possibility to include many
more in future.
Agriculture
director Kinlay Tshering said that the seed sharing agreement offers a unique
opportunity to exchange high yielding varieties.
“Countries
with limited resources and technical capacity to develop varieties, like
Bhutan, will benefit the most by accessing seeds from similar agro-ecological
conditions from partner countries,” Kinlay Tshering said.
Agriculture
officials said breeding and development takes time and it’s a continuous
process to keep pace with the breeding techniques in the situation of evolving
biotic and abiotic stresses as well as emerging needs of various stakeholders.
“The
agreement includes both inbreed and hybrid varieties,” she said.
She
said that in an increasingly restrictive regime of accessing crop germplasm due
to intellectual property rights related concerns, the agreement is a rare
opportunity for like-minded countries to share commercial crop varieties to
enhance crop production and food and nutrition security.
The
vision is to ultimately have countries freely share their improved crop
varieties of seeds with each other for the benefit of farmers, producers and
consumers, especially the disadvantaged population.
“We’ll
take advantage of the agreement for the advancement of the agriculture sector,
and food and nutrition security,” director Kinlay Tshering said.
The
representative from IRRI country office in Bangladesh, Humnath Bhandari signed
the agreement as a witness.
The
Bhutan-IRRI relationship began in early 1980s with the project on rice farming
system.
The
IRRI shuttle-breeding programme helped to bring different rice germplasms from
IRRI Philippines and tested, developed and released some varieties of seed in
Bhutan.
“Bhutan
can bring suitable seeds from other countries, test and release them here which
will save time, and energy resources,” he said.
Rice
specialist with agriculture research centre in Bajo, Mahesh Ghimerey said that
this agreement does not mean that other countries would take endemic Bhutanese
varieties and commercialise.
“Within
this agreement, there are protocols on how the seeds can be shared and what
member countries cannot do,” he said.
The
agreement will not cover movement of seeds of genetically modified varieties.
Any
pertaining Intellectual Property Rights issues will be discussed through
consultations and mutual agreements.
The
member country, in case of unforeseen circumstances, reserves that right to
withdraw with mutual consent.
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Data Driven Documentation Of EMEA (Europe,
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Asia Golden Rice
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Capital Rice Group
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Thanasan Group
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Ake Rice Mill Co., Ltd
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Alobha
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Kohinoor
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Lal Qilla
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Daawat
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ADM Rice
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American Rice
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Gulf Rice Milling, Inc
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REI Agro Ltd
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KRBL Ltd
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Kohinoor Foods Ltd
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Lakshmi Group
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DA mulls
over rice packaging system
By: Karl
R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer /
05:35 AM June 16, 2018
The
country’s agriculture chief is looking at the possibility of requiring standard
rice packaging in markets as the agency reviews food safety practices in the
rice retail industry.
If
implemented, rice will no longer be sold in open stalls, a practice that
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol described as “unhygienic.”
“We’re
looking at marketing rice in packages of one, two, and five kilos. This is also
to ensure that there would be traceability for the protection of consumers,”
said Piñol in an interview.
“If you go
to public markets anybody can touch the rice … And wouldn’t it be nice when you
go to the market and you don’t have to worry if you’re being cheated with the
scale since everything is already packaged?” he added.
The
secretary said the planned policy would be implemented in phases, and may start
after the imposition next week of suggested retail prices of various basic
commodities.
While the
new policy may entail additional costs to retailers, Piñol said it was a small
price to pay in the name of food safety.
Piñol said
the policy could be crafted under the Food Safety Law.
The new
policy will complement plans to “properly classify” rice varieties.
The
thorough review of the rice retail industry comes at a time when the country is
set to transition to a “rice tariff regime,” under which the government will
remove its import quota on rice and instead slap an additional tariff.
This will
open the country to more rice imports and is seen to benefit consumers as
retail prices of rice are expected to fall by P4 to P7 a kilo, according to the
government’s economic managers.
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Rice exports up by 30pc to $1.58b in 10
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LAHORE
- Pakistan has come out of the crisis of low exports, which was observed during
the last three years, as the rice exports have increased by around 30 percent
to $1.58 billion during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year
(2017-18) as exporters pushed fresh cargoes to Indonesia, Kenya and other
markets.
Rice
Exporters Association of Pakistan chairman Samee Ullah Ch said that value of
rice export trade has been showing improvement due to the coordination of REAP
members with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and customs. “Our
members are putting in untiring efforts, and aggressive marketing to increase
rice exports and to earn valuable foreign exchange,” he added. He said rice
exporters are making investments to install modern rice processing machinery
and using value-addition technology.
He
said the association is sending trade delegations to various countries for rice
marketing. “Last month our delegation came back after a successful visit to
Iran, which is very lucrative and a potential market for basmati rice. Around
100,000 tons of rice has so far been exported to Iran during the current
season.” He hoped that a handsome amount of foreign exchange would be fetched
by Pakistani rice exporters. He said that rice exports amounted to $1.23
billion during the corresponding period last year.
Samee
Ullah Ch said exports increased 15 percent to 3.23 million tons during the 10
months of the current fiscal year of 2017/18. He said exports of non-basmati
rice to Indonesia increased during the period.
“We
exported 50,000 tons of non-basmati rice to Indonesia during the July-April
period. Kenya remained the largest buyer of Pakistani non-basmati rice, buying
323,000 tons of rice amounting to $118 million. China is also one of the
largest importers of Pakistani non-basmati rice.” He said demand for rice in
the international markets is increasing. The crop was good in terms of both
quality and quantity this year, he added.
https://nation.com.pk/15-Jun-2018/rice-exports-up-by-30pc-to-1-58b-in-10-months
ice exports observes
31pc increase in 11 months of FY2017-18
Last Updated On 14
June,2018 09:58 pm
Rafique has shown serious concerns on
the recent news about shortage of water
(Dunya
News) – Rice exports from Pakistan have seen a sizeable growth of overall
31percent in the 11 months of current fiscal year 2017-2018, Rice Exporters
Association of Pakistan (REAP) Senior Vice Chairman Rafique Suleman said.
Talking
to media, he shared the figures of rice exports during the period of July to
May 2018. He said that at the end of May 2018, rice exports for fiscal year
2017-18 (July to May 2018) a significant growth of 31% has been observed as
compared to Last fiscal year 2016-17 (July to May 2017).
Suleman
said that this year we exported total 3.51million metric tons of rice amounting
to US$1.74 billion, whereas last fiscal year in the same period we had exported
2.97million metric tons of rice amounting to US$1.32 billion, which shows over
all a significant growth of 31% in terms values and 18% in terms of quantity.
The
REAP senior vice chairman was pleased to inform that by the grace of Almighty
Allah, we have come out of the crisis which we have been observing since few
years. Further due to the coordination of REAP Office Bearers with Trade
Development Authority of Pakistan and Customs, value of rice export trade is
showing improvement which is a good sign for our country. Only Basmati rice
exports showing 35% increase in value for the said term. Further, this growth
was also become possible due to the recent two tenders of Indonesian authority
BULOG for total 200,000 metric tons of Pakistani rice, which fetched a
remarkable foreign exchange for our country.
Rafique
has shown serious concerns on the recent news about shortage of water. He said
that other countries like Thailand, Vietnam, China etc avail 2-3 rice crops in
a year and their annual production of rice is approx. 100 million tons, whereas
our annual rice production is hardly 7 million tons, that is why our rice
export is stagnant to approx. 4 million tons since last many years. As per our
information during this year, hybrid rice is being frown in maximum areas,
whose yield is far better than conventional rice seeds.
He said
that we get waters from Mountains and rivers but approx. 20% share of water has
been wasted in sea every year and we have to take preventive measures on war
footing basis to save this water. Many countries constructs dams every year to
save the water but in our country construction of very important Kala Bagh Dam
has been delayed since many decades. This Dam is very instrumental for the
growth of our country’s economy.
“We can
preserve the water and like other countries, we can also get more than One Crop
of rice per years which will make revolution in our agricultural industry. We
may generate huge quantity of very low cost electricity which will be useful to
cover the shortfall of energy crisis of our country. Every province of the
country will be able to get additional millions of acre feet water after the
construction of Kala Bagh dam.”
He
added that as per the international experts next war will be spread over water,
rice and other food items. Therefore, it is the need of hour that government of
Pakistan should allow rice sowing in more lands, so that we can get more rice
and we will be able to export more rice to get more foreign exchange.
He
added that Pakistani rice exporters are putting their extra ordinary efforts
for fetching valueable foreign exchange for the growth of economy of our
beloved country and making huge investment for installing world’s latest rice
machinery and most modern technology for value addition in rice. REAP has
already requested State Bank of Pakistan for allowing Islamic Financing
facility for storage of Agricultural produce, so that maximum Rice Exporters
may get benefit of this facility.
He
informed that REAP is continuously sending trade delegation to various
countries for the forceful marketing of Pakistani rice. In this regard, a
delegation is planned to visit Brazil, Argentine and Chili under the leadership
of Ch. Sami, Chairman. Whereas another delegation is planned to visit West
African countries led by Rafique Suleman, Senior Vice Chairman REAP.
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Cong seeks govt help for patent to
Khobragade's rice varieties
Press Trust of India | Mumbai Last Updated at June 14,
2018 19:55 IST
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Rahul 'sorry' for nation's apathy to
Dalit farmer-scientist
Rahul meets rice innovator's kin,
apologises for nation's 'apathy' to his achievements
Maha govt app data being transferred to
private trust: Chavan
Data collected by Maha govt app
transferred to pvt trust, says Chavan
Khadse welcome to join Congress: Ashok
Chavan
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Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan today urged the state government to help the family of late rice innovator Dadaji Khobragade to get the nine varietes of paddy developed by him patented.
Addressing
a press conference here, Chavan saidCongress President Rahul Gandhi had met Khobragade's family at his native village in Chandrapur district yesterday.
"The
family discussed with Gandhi a few of their demands. We will follow them up. We
will write to the government soon. We urge the state govt to consider the
family's demands," Chavan said.
"Their
prominent demands include patent to the family for the nine varieties of rice,
including HMT and DRK; helping them set up paddy research centre in Chandrapur;
financial help for godown facilities; government jobs to two of the family
members and an agriculture award in Khobragade's name," Chavan said.
Gandhi
met the family of Khobragade, the rural inventor who revolutionised rice
farming, and apologised for the nation's "apathy" towards his
achievements.
Khobragade had invented the revolutionary HMT variety of paddy, but
died "largely forgotten and in penury", Gandhi noted.
The
78-year-old rice innovator died earlier this month after a prolonged illness.
"Dadaji
Khobragade, a Dalit farmer-scientist, invented the revolutionary HMT variety of
paddy. But, he died largely forgotten and in penury. I visited his home in
Nanded, Maharashtra, to condole with his family and to apologise for our apathy
as a nation, to his achievements," Gandhi had said on Twitter.
Chavan
also lashed out at Shiv Sena for its "double speak" on the proposed oil refinery project at Nanar in Ratnagiri district.
"On
April 24, in the presence of (Sena chief) Uddhav Thackeray at Nanar, Industries Minister Subhash Desai had announced that the notification of land acquisition (for
the project) will be withdrawn.
"But
Desai recently said in Pune that the withdrawal of notification is in the last
stage. Sena is fooling the people," he charged.
(This
story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from
a syndicated feed.)
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DA eyes label and package rules for rice
after farm produce SRP
By
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June 14, 2018
JUST as the Department of Agriculture (DA) is moving to
implement a suggested retail price (SRP) system on farm products, it is now
mulling over, as well, imposing labelling and packaging requirements on rice
products in the market to ensure food safety.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said the DA is now
scrutinizing some of the current practices in rice trade, including the way the
staple is packaged and labelled by retailers and millers.
The imposition of a labelling requirement on rice products would
aid the DA’s monitoring in its implementation of SRP on the staple, which is
slated to start next week, Piñol said.
“We are now reviewing from the policy side of DA the practice of
rice retailers in the industry wherein they will just put-up all sorts of tags
to their rice like blue diamond, long grain. We’re doing to it to justify
pricing,” Piñol told reporters in a recent interview.
“It should be properly labelled [based on its variety] like, is
it well-milled, regular-milled or fancy rice? So we can regulate the
price,” Piñol added.
The agriculture chief is cognizant that the rice market enjoys a
free trade environment, but argued that players “cannot just allow anybody to
claim whatever” brand they want on their products.
“This is what the President is saying during our last Cabinet
meeting about truth in advertising,” Piñol said. “For example, if this is
denorado variety, then it should be true to its price.”
Furthermore, Piñol said they are also considering requiring rice
millers and retailers to package their products with proper labelling and
weight indication. This measure ensures the food safety of rice, as the staple
is merely sold in open boxes in the market, according to Piñol.
“In the context of ensuring food safety, we are even looking at
implementing in the future a system where rice should not be sold in open boxes
in stalls. It is not hygienic,” he said.
“What if a buyer coughs, then the virus gets into the
rice. What if a leper touches the rice?” he added.
One of the measures that the DA is looking into is requiring
rice retailers and millers to package their products in 1-kilogram, 2-kilogram,
5-kilogram weight variations, according to Piñol.
Having such a requirement, he added, “will allow us to have a
traceability [system]. We would know from what specific rice mill this product
came from.”
Food Safety Act
Piñol said the measure will not be implemented right away but it
will be a key policy direction in terms of food safety. Piñol said they will
leverage the Food Safety Act of 2013 as basis for this packaging and labelling
requirement.
The Food Safety Act of 2013 makes it the DA’s
responsibility to ensure food safety in the “primary production and
post-harvest stages of the food-supply chain and locally produced or imported”
products.
“The DA shall be responsible for the development and enforcement
of food safety standards and regulations for food in the primary production and
postharvest stages of the food supply chain,” Section 16 of the law states.
“It shall monitor and ensure that the relevant requirements of
the law are complied with by farmers, fisherfolk and food-business operators,”
it added.
The Food Safety Act also cites the need for a traceability
system in the country’s food chain.
“Traceability shall be established for foods at relevant stages
of production, post harvest handling, processing or distribution, when needed
to ensure compliance with food-safety requirements,” it read.
“The rule on traceability shall also cover production inputs
such as feeds, food additives, ingredients, packaging materials and other
substances expected to be incorporated into a food or food product,” it added.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/da-eyes-label-and-package-rules-for-rice-after-farm-produce-srp/
Consumers
shun Nigerian rice on high cost, taste preference
by JOSEPHINE OKOJIE
June 15, 2018 | 2:30 am
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Not only do Nigerians prefer imported rice
varieties to local rice, they balk at the price of the grain in domestic
markets, BusinessDay investigations found.
Consumers who spoke with BusinessDay attributed the low patronage of Nigeria’s
rice to individuals’ unwillingness to change taste preference, high cost of the
local varieties and the inability to easily find them in nearby markets.
“I am a caterer and I buy only imported rice varieties because the local rice
is more expensive and have shorter grains. The imported rice varieties are less
starchy with longer grains and appeals more to my customers,” Comfort Ezeonwu,
a rice buyer at Mile 12 market told BusinessDay.
“Apart from Lake Rice that is subsidised by the Lagos state government, a 50 kg
of other local varieties is sold between N15,000 and N16,000, while the
imported varieties sells between N13,000 and N14,000. For this reason, I buy
only the imported brands,” Ezeonwu said.
Nigeria is a major market for white rice with long grains, but most of the
locally grown rice have shorter grains.
Another buyer at Daleko market Aderemi Odetola , told BusinessDay that she has
never patronised the local rice before, saying that the imported rice is still
better milled and more convenient to prepare.
“You cannot use the local rice to prepare fried rice and that is my favourite
meal. I still do not believe that our local rice is properly milled so I do not
buy them,” Odetola said.
Apart from consumers’ preference, pricing is another major issue responsible
for low patronage. In spite of farmers getting subsidised inputs from the
Federal Government through the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), an average
price of a bag of rice paddy still sells for N11,250, a price that is too high
for rice millers to compete relative to imported varieties.
As a result, Nigeria has continued to see high rate of smuggling of cheaper
imported rice through the country’s porous borders, to meet up with the ever
increasing demand mostly driven by large population growth and increasing
urbanisation.
According to the USDA 2018 Grain Report on Nigeria, the country’s 2018 rice imports
entering through informal cross-border channels are expected to increase by
about 12 percent to 2.9 million tons, from 2.6 million tons reported in 2017
season.
“The integrated rice milling operations are unable to purchase paddy from local
farmers as paddy prices are too high for products of the formal and integrated
mills to be competitive relative to the imported rice smuggled through numerous
informal border routes,” the USDA 2018 Grain Report for Nigeria states.
“This has continued to limit the potential for increased domestic rice
production,” the report added.
BusinessDay survey at Daleko and Mile 12 domestic markets, found that only two
local brands; Mama Pride and Lake Rice were available in very few stores, with
imported brands flooding the entire markets.
A bag of Lake Rice sells for N13,000 while Mama Pride goes between N15,000 and
N16,000 in Lagos depending on the customers bargaining ability.
“Our local rice is not competitive because of the cost of paddy which
constitutes 70 percent of the total price of rice processing. Millers need to
be competitive to remain in business and pricing is very vital for this to
happen.
A metric ton of paddy rice now cost about N234,000 and the ABP subsidising
inputs for farmers is not sustainable,” AfricanFarmer Mogaji, chief executive
officer, X-Ray Farms Consulting Limited said in a response to questions.
“We need to drive down farmers production cost and we cannot do this without
tractors. A lot of farmers still do not have access to tractors to clear and
till their lands, resulting to manual labour that has continued to drive up
their production cost,” Mogaji said.
He also added that substandard inputs had also prevented farmers from
increasing their yields per hectare, saying that most input suppliers under
government interventions are always providing farmers with low quality inputs.
Nigeria’s major rice cultivation states are
Kebbi, Sokoto, Ogun, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, Niger and Kogi. Planting is done
in May and June, while the peak of harvest is November and December.
The current rice production is put at 5.7 million
metric tons, according to a report by the UK Department for International
Development (DFID), inching the country closer to the projected demand of 7
million by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.
To address the issues, stakeholders have called
for sensitisation of consumers on the high nutritional value in local rice
while driving down farmer’s production costs to make millers competitive.
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Climate Change to Affect
Poor By Making Rice Less Nutritious
KRISTIE EBI, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON14.06.18
ENVIRONMENT6 min read
Rice is the primary food source for
more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford a
diverse and nutritious diet that includes complete protein, grains, fruits and
vegetables. They rely heavily on more affordable cereal crops, including rice,
for most of their calories.
My research focuses on health risks
associated with climate variability and change. In a recently published study,
I worked with scientists from China, Japan, Australia and the United States to
assess how the rising carbon dioxide concentrations that are fuelling climate
change could alter the nutritional value of rice.
We conducted field studies in Asia for multiple genetically
diverse rice lines, analysing how rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere altered levels of protein, micronutrients and B vitamins.
Also Read: Climate Change Linked to 59,300 Farmer Suicides in India: Study
Our data showed for the first time that rice grown at the
concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide scientists expect the world to
reach by 2100 has lower levels of four key B vitamins.
These findings also support research
from other field studies showing rice grown under such conditions contains less
protein, iron and zinc, which are important in foetal and early child
development.
·
·
These changes could have a disproportionate impact on maternal
and child health in the poorest rice-dependent countries, including Bangladesh
and Cambodia.
Many of poorest regions in Asia rely on rice as a staple
food.(Photo Courtesy: IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA)
Carbon Dioxide Needed for Plant
Growth
Plants obtain the carbon they need to grow primarily from carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere, and draw other required nutrients from the soil.
Human activities, mainly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation raised
atmospheric CO2 concentrations from about 280 parts per million during
pre-industrial times to 410 parts per million today.
If global emission rates continue on
their current path, atmospheric CO2 concentrations could reach over 1,200 parts
per million by 2100 (including methane and other greenhouse gas emissions).
·
·
Higher concentrations of CO2 are generally acknowledged to
stimulate plant photosynthesis and growth. This effect could make the cereal
crops that remain the world’s most important sources of food, such as rice,
wheat and corn, more productive, although recent research suggests that predicting
impacts on plant growth is complex.
Concentrations of minerals critical for human health,
particularly iron and zinc, do not change in unison with CO2 concentrations.
Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops –
particularly rice and wheat – respond to higher CO2 concentrations by
synthesizing more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by
reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains.
After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears
to be on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the global population.(Photo
Courtesy: FAO, CC BY-ND)
Also Read: Fighting climate change: How a 'crazy' engineer solved Ladakh's
water crisis
Lack of Micronutrients
Worldwide, approximately 815 million people worldwide are
food-insecure, meaning that they do not have reliable access to sufficient
quantities of safe, nutritious and affordable food.
Even more people – approximately 2
billion – have deficiencies of important micronutrients such as iron, iodine
and zinc.
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·
Insufficient dietary iron can lead to
iron deficiency anemia, a condition in which there are too few red blood cells
in the body to carry oxygen. This is the most common type of anemia. It can
cause fatigue, shortness of breath or chest pain, and can lead to serious
complications, such as heart failure and developmental delays in children.
Zinc deficiencies are characterized by loss of appetite and
diminished sense of smell, impaired wound healing, and weakened immune
function. Zinc also supports growth and development, so sufficient dietary
intake is important for pregnant women and growing children.
Higher carbon concentrations in plants reduce nitrogen amounts
in plant tissue, which is critical for the formation of B vitamins. Different B
vitamins are required for key functions in the body, such as regulating the
nervous system, turning food into energy and fighting infections. Folate, a B
vitamin, reduces the risk of birth defects when consumed by pregnant women.
Anemia affects one-third of women of reproductive age globally –
or about 613 million women.(Photo Courtesy: FAO, CC BY-ND)
Loss of Significant Nutrients
We carried out our field studies in China and Japan, where we
grew different strains of rice outdoors.
To simulate higher atmospheric CO2
concentrations, we used Free-Air CO2 Enrichment, which blows CO2 over fields to
maintain concentrations that are expected later in the century. Control fields
experience similar conditions except for the higher CO2 concentrations.
·
·
On average, the rice that we grew in
air with elevated CO2 concentrations contained 17 percent less vitamin B1
(thiamine) than rice grown under current CO2 concentrations; 17 percent less
vitamin B2 (riboflavin); 13 percent less vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid); and 30
percent less vitamin B9 (folate). Our study is the first to identify that
concentrations of B vitamins in rice are reduced with higher CO2.
We also found average reductions of 10 percent in protein, 8
percent in iron and 5 percent in zinc. We found no change in levels of vitamin
B6 or calcium. The only increase we found was in vitamin E levels for most
strains.
Rice within the octagon in this field is part of an experiment
designed to grow rice under different atmospheric conditions. Rice grown under
carbon dioxide concentrations of 568 to 590 parts per million is less
nutritious, with lower amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals.Dr. Toshihiro
HASEGAWA, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization of Japan, CC
BY-ND
Consequences for Countries Struggling
With Undernutrition
At present, about 600 million people, mostly in Southeast Asia
get more than half of their daily calories and protein directly from rice.
If nothing is done, the declines we
found would likely worsen the overall burden of undernutrition.
·
·
They also could affect early
childhood development through impacts that include worsened effects from
diarrheal disease and malaria.
The potential health risks associated
with CO2-induced nutritional deficits are directly correlated to the lowest
overall gross domestic product per capita. This suggests that such changes
would have serious potential consequences for countries already struggling with
poverty and undernutrition.
Few people would associate fossil fuel combustion and
deforestation with the nutritional content of rice, but our research clearly
shows one way in which emitting fossil fuels could worsen world hunger challenges.
Climate Change to Affect Other Key
Plants?
Unfortunately, today there is no
entity at the federal, state or business level that provides long-term funding
to evaluate how rising CO2 levels could affect plant chemistry and nutritional
quality.
But CO2-induced changes have significant implications, ranging
from medicinal plants to nutrition, food safety and food allergies. Given the
potential impacts, which may already be occurring, there is a clear and urgent
need to invest in this research.
It is also critical to identify options for avoiding or
lessening these risks, from traditional plant breeding to genetic modification
to supplements. Rising CO2 concentrations are driving climate change. What role
these emissions will play in altering all aspects of plant biology, including
the nutritional quality of the crops that we use for food, feed, fiber and
fuel, remains to be determined.
Also Read: Climate Change: A Possible Cause Behind the Nipah Outbreak
(This was first published on The Conversation and has been republished with permission.)
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Climate Change to Affect
Poor By Making Rice Less Nutritious
KRISTIE EBI, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON14.06.18
ENVIRONMENT6 min read
Rice is the primary food source for
more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford a
diverse and nutritious diet that includes complete protein, grains, fruits and
vegetables. They rely heavily on more affordable cereal crops, including rice,
for most of their calories.
My research focuses on health risks
associated with climate variability and change. In a recently published study,
I worked with scientists from China, Japan, Australia and the United States to
assess how the rising carbon dioxide concentrations that are fuelling climate
change could alter the nutritional value of rice.
We conducted field studies in Asia for multiple genetically
diverse rice lines, analysing how rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere altered levels of protein, micronutrients and B vitamins.
Also Read: Climate Change Linked to 59,300 Farmer Suicides in India: Study
Our data showed for the first time that rice grown at the
concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide scientists expect the world to
reach by 2100 has lower levels of four key B vitamins.
These findings also support research
from other field studies showing rice grown under such conditions contains less
protein, iron and zinc, which are important in foetal and early child
development.
·
·
These changes could have a disproportionate impact on maternal
and child health in the poorest rice-dependent countries, including Bangladesh
and Cambodia.
Many of poorest regions in Asia rely on rice as a staple
food.(Photo Courtesy: IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA)
Carbon Dioxide Needed for Plant
Growth
Plants obtain the carbon they need to grow primarily from carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere, and draw other required nutrients from the soil.
Human activities, mainly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation raised
atmospheric CO2 concentrations from about 280 parts per million during
pre-industrial times to 410 parts per million today.
If global emission rates continue on
their current path, atmospheric CO2 concentrations could reach over 1,200 parts
per million by 2100 (including methane and other greenhouse gas emissions).
·
·
Higher concentrations of CO2 are generally acknowledged to
stimulate plant photosynthesis and growth. This effect could make the cereal
crops that remain the world’s most important sources of food, such as rice,
wheat and corn, more productive, although recent research suggests that
predicting impacts on plant growth is complex.
Concentrations of minerals critical for human health,
particularly iron and zinc, do not change in unison with CO2 concentrations.
Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops –
particularly rice and wheat – respond to higher CO2 concentrations by
synthesizing more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by
reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains.
After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears
to be on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the global population.(Photo
Courtesy: FAO, CC BY-ND)
Also Read: Fighting climate change: How a 'crazy' engineer solved Ladakh's
water crisis
Lack of Micronutrients
Worldwide, approximately 815 million people worldwide are
food-insecure, meaning that they do not have reliable access to sufficient
quantities of safe, nutritious and affordable food.
Even more people – approximately 2
billion – have deficiencies of important micronutrients such as iron, iodine
and zinc.
·
·
Insufficient dietary iron can lead to
iron deficiency anemia, a condition in which there are too few red blood cells
in the body to carry oxygen. This is the most common type of anemia. It can
cause fatigue, shortness of breath or chest pain, and can lead to serious
complications, such as heart failure and developmental delays in children.
Zinc deficiencies are characterized by loss of appetite and
diminished sense of smell, impaired wound healing, and weakened immune
function. Zinc also supports growth and development, so sufficient dietary
intake is important for pregnant women and growing children.
Higher carbon concentrations in plants reduce nitrogen amounts
in plant tissue, which is critical for the formation of B vitamins. Different B
vitamins are required for key functions in the body, such as regulating the
nervous system, turning food into energy and fighting infections. Folate, a B
vitamin, reduces the risk of birth defects when consumed by pregnant women.
Anemia affects one-third of women of reproductive age globally –
or about 613 million women.(Photo Courtesy: FAO, CC BY-ND)
Loss of Significant Nutrients
We carried out our field studies in China and Japan, where we
grew different strains of rice outdoors.
To simulate higher atmospheric CO2
concentrations, we used Free-Air CO2 Enrichment, which blows CO2 over fields to
maintain concentrations that are expected later in the century. Control fields
experience similar conditions except for the higher CO2 concentrations.
·
·
On average, the rice that we grew in
air with elevated CO2 concentrations contained 17 percent less vitamin B1
(thiamine) than rice grown under current CO2 concentrations; 17 percent less
vitamin B2 (riboflavin); 13 percent less vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid); and 30
percent less vitamin B9 (folate). Our study is the first to identify that
concentrations of B vitamins in rice are reduced with higher CO2.
We also found average reductions of 10 percent in protein, 8
percent in iron and 5 percent in zinc. We found no change in levels of vitamin
B6 or calcium. The only increase we found was in vitamin E levels for most
strains.
Rice within the octagon in this field is part of an experiment
designed to grow rice under different atmospheric conditions. Rice grown under
carbon dioxide concentrations of 568 to 590 parts per million is less
nutritious, with lower amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals.Dr. Toshihiro
HASEGAWA, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization of Japan, CC
BY-ND
Consequences for Countries Struggling
With Undernutrition
At present, about 600 million people, mostly in Southeast Asia
get more than half of their daily calories and protein directly from rice.
If nothing is done, the declines we
found would likely worsen the overall burden of undernutrition.
·
·
They also could affect early
childhood development through impacts that include worsened effects from
diarrheal disease and malaria.
The potential health risks associated
with CO2-induced nutritional deficits are directly correlated to the lowest
overall gross domestic product per capita. This suggests that such changes
would have serious potential consequences for countries already struggling with
poverty and undernutrition.
Few people would associate fossil fuel combustion and
deforestation with the nutritional content of rice, but our research clearly shows
one way in which emitting fossil fuels could worsen world hunger challenges.
Climate Change to Affect Other Key
Plants?
Unfortunately, today there is no
entity at the federal, state or business level that provides long-term funding
to evaluate how rising CO2 levels could affect plant chemistry and nutritional
quality.
But CO2-induced changes have significant implications, ranging
from medicinal plants to nutrition, food safety and food allergies. Given the
potential impacts, which may already be occurring, there is a clear and urgent
need to invest in this research.
It is also critical to identify options for avoiding or
lessening these risks, from traditional plant breeding to genetic modification
to supplements. Rising CO2 concentrations are driving climate change. What role
these emissions will play in altering all aspects of plant biology, including
the nutritional quality of the crops that we use for food, feed, fiber and
fuel, remains to be determined.
Also Read: Climate Change: A Possible Cause Behind the Nipah Outbreak
(This was first published on The Conversation and has been republished with permission.)
(The Quint is now on WhatsApp. To receive handpicked stories on
topics you care about, subscribe to our WhatsApp services. Just go to TheQuint.com/WhatsApp and hit the Subscribe button.)
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pulses reduces blood glucose levels by up to 35% and lowers the risk of type 2
diabetes, study reveals
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diabetes, a study has found.
The
vegetarian staple can reduce blood glucose levels by slowing down digestion and
the release of sugars into the bloodstream.
Scientists at the University of Guelph
in Canada discovered
replacing half a serving of rice or potatoes with lentils caused blood sugar to
fall by up to 35 per cent.
This
could lead to dietary advice for people with type 2 diabetes or those at risk
of the condition, in which high glucose levels are a key factor.
The
food could be preventative too; consistently high blood sugar in healthy people
can contribute to the insulin resistance which causes diabetes.
The
researchers say lentils – which have in the past been found to lower blood
pressure and reduce cholesterol – are nutrient rich and hope their findings
will encourage more people to eat them.
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Lentils could help prevent type 2 diabetes by slowing
down digestion and lowering blood sugar levels
The
Canadian scientists carried out a study on 24 healthy adults in which they were
fed either white rice, white potatoes, or either of those mixed with red or
green lentils.
Participants'
blood sugar levels were measured before they ate and then for two hours
afterwards.
Those
who ate half rice and half lentils had up to 20 per cent lower blood glucose
than when they ate just rice.
Replacing
half the potatoes with lentils led to a 35 per cent lower level than eating
just potatoes.
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Iraq stops rice farming because of water shortage
Rice and yellow corn are out of the summer
agriculture plan due to lack of water, spokesman says.
Reuters 14 Jun 2018,
03:38 PM Iraq
- About
70 percent of Iraq's water resources flow from neighbouring countries,
with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers -- which run through Turkey --
particularly important sources. (Image Credit: Twitter)
Iraq has banned farmers from
planting rice and other water-intensive crops in the face of increasing
shortages because of drought and shrinking river flows, an agriculture ministry
official said on Thursday.
A letter from the Minister of
Water Resources Hassan al-Janabi to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office
seen by Reuters showed the ministry had decided to exclude rice and corn from
the government's summer agriculture plan to prioritise drinking water, industry
and vegetables.
The agriculture ministry was not
happy about the decision but could do nothing to stop it, its spokesman said.
"Rice and yellow corn are
out of the summer agriculture plan due to lack of water. As a ministry, we are
embarrassed, especially as the crops are strategic and farmers had already
prepared their land to plant them," spokesman Hameed al-Nayef said.
"The Ministry of Agriculture
cannot plant a single donhum without the approval of the Ministry of Water
Resources."
Iraq planted 100,000 donhums of
rice last season, he said. One Iraqi donhum is equal to 2,500 square metres.
Problems with drought and
shrinking water levels are further complicated by Turkey's plan to fill a huge
dam on the Tigris, which had already started but was paused after complaints
from Iraq.
About 70 percent of Iraq's water
resources flow from neighbouring countries, with the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers -- which run through Turkey -- particularly important sources.
Prime Minister Abadi has said the
government plans to provide water to farmers, especially for Iraq's strategic
wheat crop, but that it would reduce plots of land reserved for planting other
crops that consume a lot of water.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/Article/23902-iraq-bans-rice-planting-because-of-water-shortages
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2018 / 5:47 PM / A MONTH AGO
India
rice rates nudge up, Vietnam prices ease from multi-year highs
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Rice export prices rose this week in India
on hopes for increased buying from China, while rates in Vietnam eased from a multi-year
peak with the outlook for higher domestic supply.
Labourers remove dried grass from a rice field
on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, August 30, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave/Files
Rates for India’s 5 percent broken parboiled variety rose
by $5 to $398-$402 per tonne this week, after hitting the lowest level for
the year last week due to sluggish demand from neighbouring Bangladesh.
India was the biggest supplier of rice to Bangladesh in 2017.
Imports by Bangladesh will likely slow as the government imposed a 28 percent
tax on rice imports to support its farmers after local production revived.
“Last year, Bangladesh was buying a lot of Indian rice. With new
duty, imports would fall,” said M. Adishankar, executive director at Sri
Lalitha, a leading rice exporter located in the southern Indian state of Andhra
Pradesh.
“Chinese imports will boost demand but we don’t know when it
will happen.”
China last week agreed to amend a protocol on phytosanitary
requirements, which will allow Indian exporters to ship non-basmati rice to
Beijing.
The monsoon has not been progressing well and could delay
planting of summer-sown rice, said another exporter based at Kakinada in Andhra
Pradesh.
In Vietnam, the world’s third-largest exporter of the grain,
prices of 5 percent broken rice fell to $450-$455 a tonne this week after
climbing to the highest since January 2012 at $465-$475 the week before.
“Prices are expected to ease further in the coming weeks on
rising domestic supplies, as the spring-summer harvest will peak late this
month,” a Ho Chi Minh City-based trader said.
Vietnam exported 763,707 tonnes of rice in May, up 5.9 percent
from April, according to the government’s official customs data.
Meanwhile, Thailand’s benchmark 5 percent broken rice was little
changed between $430 and 435 per tonne this week, free on board (FOB)
Bangkok, from $430-$432 last week.
Traders in Bangkok said demand from abroad was still flat this
week following sales to the Philippines earlier this month and last month.
Slow logistics due to rain also meant slow trade, traders said.
Thailand’s rainy season starts in late May and lasts until mid-October.
“It’s been raining, so ships can’t sail here to pick up orders.
Now the warehouses are full, with trucks lining up outside waiting to offload
more rice. It’s all stuck, so the market is still,” a trader said.
Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat in Bangkok, Khanh Vu in
Hanoi, Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai and Ruma Paul in Dhaka; Editing by Edmund
Blair
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Duterte
says truth on rice – Roque
By: Christine
O. Avendaño, Tina
G. Santos - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer /
04:06 AM June 15, 2018
Malacañang
doubled down on President Duterte’s statement that the Philippines would never
be self-sufficient in rice but the President’s spokesperson admitted he did not
know what basis the President had in saying it.
Harry
Roque, presidential spokesperson, said President Duterte was just speaking the
truth when he said the country was not self-sufficient in rice and will never
be.
Roque said
he guessed the President’s basis for saying so was “the historical fact that
all administrations have attempted to be self-sufficient in rice” but failed.
Told that
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol had projected the country to be
self-sufficient in rice this year, Roque said “obviously it’s not happening
this year.”
Imported
rice seized
Roque made
the statements as the Bureau of Customs (BOC) continued its antismuggling
campaign, seizing 100,000 sacks of Thai white rice among other contraband.
The
National Food Authority (NFA) had been allowed to import up to 200,000 metric
tons of rice to restore the supply of NFA rice in the market that would
stabilize prices.
The
government was set to import rice this month from Vietnam.
The Thai
rice seized by the BOC on Thursday was illegally shipped.
Biggest
haul
The cargo,
kept in 200 shipping containers, was the biggest haul of smuggled rice since
Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña assumed his post as BOC chief.
The
shipment, said Lapeña, was not authorized by the NFA.
The
importer of the shipment, Sta. Rosa Farm Products Corp., would be charged with agricultural
smuggling among others.
Hurting
producers
Presenting
the contraband to reporters, Lapeña said agricultural smuggling “does not only
put local producers at a disadvantage but also puts at risk the health of
Filipino consumers.”
He said
the seized rice could be disposed of either by auction, destruction or
donation.
The
bureau, he said, could consider requests to keep the rice as “buffer stock.”
The BOC,
he said, also destroyed P22 million worth of other smuggled goods that included
fake cigarettes, motorcycle parts and accessories, office supplies and clothes,
and shoes consigned to Zafari Trading.
The fake
cigarettes bore the brands Mighty and Philip Morris. Other goods consigned to
Trikris Enterprises had been seized.
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rice variety gets extra gene power to fight bacterial attacks
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MYSURU, JUNE 14
Researchers at
the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research have developed a new
variety of the popular Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) rice that can resist bacterial
blight disease.
Bacterial
blight disease, which affects rice crop, is caused by bacteria, Xanthomonas
oryzae, and drastically reduces rice productivity.
The high
yielding ISM variety is already protected against bacterial blight by three
genes, but the new variety has been developed by adding another gene, Xa38,
that increases the resistance. “Till now about 41 resistant genes have been
identified from diverse sources.
These genes
differ from each other in their mode of action. While some are broad spectrum,
others are narrow in their resistance spectrum,” explained Dr Gouri Sankar
Laha, who led the study, while speaking to India Science Wire.
The
researchers used Marker assisted Backcross Breeding or MABB technique to
accomplish the gene insertion. Unlike transgenic techniques used in genetically
modified crops, MABB is less laborious but more efficient than traditional
methods of ‘gene’ transfer. Besides it does not require regulatory clearances
necessary for transgenic crops.
ISM is popular
and has been grown in over 80,000 hectares in south and east India since its
release in 2008. However, of late it was observed in experiments that when
deliberately infected, ISM plants had longer lesions – infected spot - than the
earlier ones, indicating emergence of a new strain of Xanthomonas.
Xanthomonas is
virulent, meaning its infection spreads fast and wide. It also evolves very
quickly. Thus plants that seem to be resistant now might turn susceptible later
as the pathogen evolves into different strains.
“It is,
therefore, necessary that we keep developing new resistant varieties. Also rice
plant resistant to Xanthomonas in a particular area may not be resistant to the
bacteria in another place,” explained Dr C A Deepak, a rice breeder at the
University of Agricultural Sciences, Karnataka, who is not associated with the
work. The breed improvement for bacterial blight disease is a continuous
process.
The new breed
has been field tested in farms across several states and has been exposed to
various strains of Xanthomonas. “We have done three backcrossing and six
generations of improvement. It has taken five years including selection of
parents and initial crossing,” said Dr Laha.
The effort has
resulted in several improved lines of ISM with novel, broad-spectrum
blight-resistant gene Xa38 that show high levels of blight resistance to
different types of Xanthomonas. These plants are better both in yield and in
other traits than their ISM parent lines. After more field tests in different
parts of the country, it will be ready for commercial release, Dr. Laha added.
The research
team included Arra Yugander, Raman M. Sundaram, Kuldeep Singh, Duraisamy
Ladhalakshmi, Lella V. Subba Rao, Maganti Sheshu Madhav, Jyothi Badri and
Madamsetty Srinivas Prasad. The research results have been published in the
journal PLOS One.
(India Science
Wire)
What
makes some varieties of rice resistant to drought?
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In thirty years, the global population of 7 billion
will increase by 30% to a staggering 9.1 billion people. Feeding everyone with
the same amount of land that is available today will undoubtedly be a
challenge. Along with expanding cities gobbling up agricultural and forest
land, changing climatic conditions with frequent spells of droughts also spell
doom for food production. Hence, researchers around the world are developing
drought-resistant varieties of food grains. In one such attempt, researchers at
the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, offer critical insights into the
intrinsic nature of certain types of rice that can resist drought.
Rice, a water-intensive crop grown by humans for thousands of
years, is a staple in many countries and the Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is the most
widely cultivated rice of the genus Oryza.
The crop fails during a drought, and water scarcity affects more than 23 million hectares of rainfed
rice production areas in South and Southeast Asia. While some varieties have
the potential for drought adaptations, the researchers of the study are
exploring the mechanism behind this through phenomics—the study of interactions
of genes with changes in the environment.
“India has 34.5% of total
irrigated area, which indicates that the rest of the farming area depends
mostly on rain. Even after constructing 91 major reservoirs, only 162 billion
cubic meters of water can be stored. Recently in India, eleven states out of
twenty-nine were affected by drought, resulting in a 40% yield loss, amounting
to $800 million. Therefore, our work aims at exploring the traits that can be
used in selecting drought-resistant crop”, says Prof. Archana Chugh, from IIT
Delhi and an author of the study published in the journal Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.
The study was supported by the National Agricultural Science Fund (NASF) under
the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
The researchers of the study investigated three
varieties of rice; Sahabhagidhan—a
local drought-tolerant variety, and two drought-sensitive varieties: IR64 and
MTU-1010. The researchers simulated the drought condition by cutting off water
supply to these plants for five consecutive days. They then explored the
genetic factors that help these varieties tolerate drought and correlated them
with the plant’s response to the applied stress with the aim of developing a
reliable 'marker' for drought resistance, which indicates the plant's ability
to survive periods of extreme water scarcity.
“A successful marker can be helpful in selection of
drought-tolerant varieties at different levels like morphological, anatomical,
biochemical, physiological and molecular. They should be easily detectable and
stable. Secondary traits such as root attributes, xylem diameter, stomatal
aperture, proline, and malondialdehyde can be used as selection criteria
by plant breeders for high yield production and drought tolerance in rice”,
explains Prof. Chugh in an interview with Research Matters.
But, what exactly happens to a plant during a drought? Lack of
adequate water limits its growth and affects its morphology, physiology, and
biochemistry. Leaves reduce in size, the stem and roots elongate, there is a
reduction in photosynthesis, transpiration and biomass, and an imbalance in
nutrients. The roots are the first to experience stress due to drought as they
grow beneath the soil. Hence, to survive, they either become more dense,
holding the soil together and maintaining the water potential or grow deeper to
access more water.
The authors found that Sahabhagidhan,
the drought-tolerant variety, continued to grow its roots during the stress,
while the drought sensitive varieties showed a reduction in the rate of growth.
Also, they observed that in Sahabhagidhan,
the xylem vessel, which carries water in plants, had reduced its area and its
numbers to survive the stress. This modification maintains water supply by
avoiding the formation of air bubbles, known as cavitation.
The study also found a significant correlation between the
morphological traits in these roots and the expression of aquaporin genes.
Aquaporins are proteins that form pores in cell membranes. They regulate water
uptake along with other small molecules. The researchers investigated two
aquaporins, OsPIP2;5 and OsNIP2;1, and found that the
drought tolerant variety showed an increase in OsPIP2;5, which may be useful to increase the
intake of water and thus supply to aerial organs. A decrease of OsNIP2;1 in the same
plant indicates another method of drought avoidance—decreasing the membrane
permeability to avoid excess water loss.
Correspondingly, the drought sensitive variety showed a
significantly lower content of proline—an amino acid used to synthesise
proteins, than the drought-resistant variety. The researchers believe this is
because the proline proteins assist in maintaining the stiffness of cell
membrane during water deficient periods, enabling the cell to carry on
functioning. As a result of drought, plants produce malondialdehyde (MDA), a
known marker of oxidative damage, a condition wherein due to chemical
imbalances, the plant is unable to detoxify itself of damaging elements.
Oxidative damage can eventually lead to cell death. A 1.5 fold reduction in MDA
content in Sahabhagidhan,
as compared to the drought sensitive variety, implies the former’s superior
resistance to drought.
“Improvement of drought tolerance
in rice is a challenging task due to the high complexity of the traits and poor
understanding of plant response against drought. Wide knowledge of various
attributes can achieve yield stability under most devastating drought stress.
Our study contributes more towards selectively breeding from the thousands of
cultivars available,” says Dr. Chugh when probed about the potential for
findings of the study. Marker-assisted selection (MAS), discussed in this
research, can help feed the millions by intelligently selecting plants with desired
traits.
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LAHORE - Pakistan has
come out of the crisis of low exports, which was observed during the last three
years, as the rice exports have increased by around 30 percent to $1.58 billion
during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18) as exporters
pushed fresh cargoes to Indonesia, Kenya and other markets.
Rice Exporters
Association of Pakistan chairman Samee Ullah Ch said that value of rice export
trade has been showing improvement due to the coordination of REAP members with
the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and customs. “Our members are
putting in untiring efforts, and aggressive marketing to increase rice exports
and to earn valuable foreign exchange,” he added. He said rice exporters are
making investments to install modern rice processing machinery and using
value-addition technology.
He said the association
is sending trade delegations to various countries for rice marketing. “Last
month our delegation came back after a successful visit to Iran, which is very
lucrative and a potential market for basmati rice. Around 100,000 tons of rice
has so far been exported to Iran during the current season.” He hoped that a
handsome amount of foreign exchange would be fetched by Pakistani rice
exporters. He said that rice exports amounted to $1.23 billion during the
corresponding period last year.
Samee Ullah Ch said
exports increased 15 percent to 3.23 million tons during the 10 months of the
current fiscal year of 2017/18. He said exports of non-basmati rice to Indonesia
increased during the period.
“We exported 50,000 tons
of non-basmati rice to Indonesia during the July-April period. Kenya remained
the largest buyer of Pakistani non-basmati rice, buying 323,000 tons of rice
amounting to $118 million. China is also one of the largest importers of
Pakistani non-basmati rice.” He said demand for rice in the international
markets is increasing. The crop was good in terms of both quality and quantity
this year, he added.
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LAHORE - Pakistan has
come out of the crisis of low exports, which was observed during the last three
years, as the rice exports have increased by around 30 percent to $1.58 billion
during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18) as exporters
pushed fresh cargoes to Indonesia, Kenya and other markets.
Rice Exporters
Association of Pakistan chairman Samee Ullah Ch said that value of rice export
trade has been showing improvement due to the coordination of REAP members with
the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and customs. “Our members are
putting in untiring efforts, and aggressive marketing to increase rice exports
and to earn valuable foreign exchange,” he added. He said rice exporters are
making investments to install modern rice processing machinery and using
value-addition technology.
He said the association
is sending trade delegations to various countries for rice marketing. “Last
month our delegation came back after a successful visit to Iran, which is very
lucrative and a potential market for basmati rice. Around 100,000 tons of rice
has so far been exported to Iran during the current season.” He hoped that a
handsome amount of foreign exchange would be fetched by Pakistani rice
exporters. He said that rice exports amounted to $1.23 billion during the
corresponding period last year.
Samee Ullah Ch said
exports increased 15 percent to 3.23 million tons during the 10 months of the
current fiscal year of 2017/18. He said exports of non-basmati rice to
Indonesia increased during the period.
“We exported 50,000 tons
of non-basmati rice to Indonesia during the July-April period. Kenya remained
the largest buyer of Pakistani non-basmati rice, buying 323,000 tons of rice
amounting to $118 million. China is also one of the largest importers of
Pakistani non-basmati rice.” He said demand for rice in the international
markets is increasing. The crop was good in terms of both quality and quantity
this year, he added.
Rice exports observes
31pc increase in 11 months of FY2017-18
Last Updated On 14
June,2018 09:58 pm
Rafique has shown serious concerns on
the recent news about shortage of water
(Dunya
News) – Rice exports from Pakistan have seen a sizeable growth of overall
31percent in the 11 months of current fiscal year 2017-2018, Rice Exporters
Association of Pakistan (REAP) Senior Vice Chairman Rafique Suleman said.
Talking
to media, he shared the figures of rice exports during the period of July to
May 2018. He said that at the end of May 2018, rice exports for fiscal year
2017-18 (July to May 2018) a significant growth of 31% has been observed as
compared to Last fiscal year 2016-17 (July to May 2017).
Suleman
said that this year we exported total 3.51million metric tons of rice amounting
to US$1.74 billion, whereas last fiscal year in the same period we had exported
2.97million metric tons of rice amounting to US$1.32 billion, which shows over
all a significant growth of 31% in terms values and 18% in terms of quantity.
The
REAP senior vice chairman was pleased to inform that by the grace of Almighty
Allah, we have come out of the crisis which we have been observing since few
years. Further due to the coordination of REAP Office Bearers with Trade
Development Authority of Pakistan and Customs, value of rice export trade is
showing improvement which is a good sign for our country. Only Basmati rice
exports showing 35% increase in value for the said term. Further, this growth
was also become possible due to the recent two tenders of Indonesian authority
BULOG for total 200,000 metric tons of Pakistani rice, which fetched a
remarkable foreign exchange for our country.
Rafique
has shown serious concerns on the recent news about shortage of water. He said
that other countries like Thailand, Vietnam, China etc avail 2-3 rice crops in
a year and their annual production of rice is approx. 100 million tons, whereas
our annual rice production is hardly 7 million tons, that is why our rice
export is stagnant to approx. 4 million tons since last many years. As per our
information during this year, hybrid rice is being frown in maximum areas,
whose yield is far better than conventional rice seeds.
He said
that we get waters from Mountains and rivers but approx. 20% share of water has
been wasted in sea every year and we have to take preventive measures on war
footing basis to save this water. Many countries constructs dams every year to
save the water but in our country construction of very important Kala Bagh Dam
has been delayed since many decades. This Dam is very instrumental for the
growth of our country’s economy.
“We can
preserve the water and like other countries, we can also get more than One Crop
of rice per years which will make revolution in our agricultural industry. We
may generate huge quantity of very low cost electricity which will be useful to
cover the shortfall of energy crisis of our country. Every province of the
country will be able to get additional millions of acre feet water after the
construction of Kala Bagh dam.”
He
added that as per the international experts next war will be spread over water,
rice and other food items. Therefore, it is the need of hour that government of
Pakistan should allow rice sowing in more lands, so that we can get more rice
and we will be able to export more rice to get more foreign exchange.
He
added that Pakistani rice exporters are putting their extra ordinary efforts
for fetching valueable foreign exchange for the growth of economy of our
beloved country and making huge investment for installing world’s latest rice
machinery and most modern technology for value addition in rice. REAP has
already requested State Bank of Pakistan for allowing Islamic Financing
facility for storage of Agricultural produce, so that maximum Rice Exporters
may get benefit of this facility.
He
informed that REAP is continuously sending trade delegation to various
countries for the forceful marketing of Pakistani rice. In this regard, a
delegation is planned to visit Brazil, Argentine and Chili under the leadership
of Ch. Sami, Chairman. Whereas another delegation is planned to visit West
African countries led by Rafique Suleman, Senior Vice Chairman REAP.
ASIA RICE-INDIA RATES NUDGE UP, VIETNAM
PRICES EASE FROM MULTI-YEAR HIGHS
6/14/2018
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Vietnam rates pull back from 6-1/2 year high
*
Rains dampen trade in Thailand- traders
By
Apeksha Nair
BENGALURU,
June 14 (Reuters) - Rice export prices rose this
week in India on hopes for increased buying from China, while
rates in Vietnam eased from a multi-year peak with the outlook
for higher domestic supply.
Rates
for India's 5 percent broken parboiled variety
<RI-INBKN5-P1> rose by $5 to $398-$402 per tonne this week,
after hitting the lowest level for the year last week due to
sluggish demand from neighbouring Bangladesh.
India
was the biggest supplier of rice to Bangladesh in
2017. Imports by Bangladesh will likely slow as the government
imposed a 28 percent tax on rice imports to support its farmers
after local production revived.
"Last
year, Bangladesh was buying a lot of Indian rice. With
new duty, imports would fall," said M. Adishankar, executive
director at Sri Lalitha, a leading rice exporter located in the
southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
"Chinese
imports will boost demand but we don't know when it
will happen."
China
last week agreed to amend a protocol on phytosanitary
requirements, which will allow Indian exporters to ship
non-basmati rice to Beijing.
The
monsoon has not been progressing well and could delay
planting of summer-sown rice, said another exporter based at
Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
In
Vietnam, the world's third-largest exporter of the grain,
prices of 5 percent broken rice fell to $450-$455 a tonne this
week after climbing to the highest since January 2012 at
$465-$475 the week before.
"Prices
are expected to ease further in the coming weeks on
rising domestic supplies, as the spring-summer harvest will peak
late this month," a Ho Chi Minh City-based trader said.
Vietnam
exported 763,707 tonnes of rice in May, up 5.9
percent from April, according to the government's official
customs data.
Meanwhile,
Thailand's benchmark 5 percent broken
rice <RI-THBKN5-P1> was little changed between $430 and 435
per tonne this week, free on board (FOB) Bangkok, from $430-$432
last week.
Traders
in Bangkok said demand from abroad was still flat
this week following sales to the Philippines earlier this month
and last month.
Slow
logistics due to rain also meant slow trade, traders
said. Thailand's rainy season starts in late May and lasts until
mid-October.
"It's
been raining, so ships can't sail here to pick up
orders. Now the warehouses are full, with trucks lining up
outside waiting to offload more rice. It's all stuck, so the
market is still," a trader said.
(Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat in Bangkok, Khanh Vu in
Hanoi, Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai and Ruma Paul in Dhaka
Editing by Edmund Blair)
JUNE 14,
2018 / 5:47 PM / A MONTH AGO
India
rice rates nudge up, Vietnam prices ease from multi-year highs
3 MIN READ
·
·
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Rice export prices rose this week in India
on hopes for increased buying from China, while rates in Vietnam eased from a
multi-year peak with the outlook for higher domestic supply.
Labourers remove dried grass from a rice field
on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, August 30, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave/Files
Rates for India’s 5 percent broken parboiled variety rose
by $5 to $398-$402 per tonne this week, after hitting the lowest level for
the year last week due to sluggish demand from neighbouring Bangladesh.
India was the biggest supplier of rice to Bangladesh in 2017.
Imports by Bangladesh will likely slow as the government imposed a 28 percent
tax on rice imports to support its farmers after local production revived.
“Last year, Bangladesh was buying a lot of Indian rice. With new
duty, imports would fall,” said M. Adishankar, executive director at Sri
Lalitha, a leading rice exporter located in the southern Indian state of Andhra
Pradesh.
“Chinese imports will boost demand but we don’t know when it
will happen.”
China last week agreed to amend a protocol on phytosanitary
requirements, which will allow Indian exporters to ship non-basmati rice to
Beijing.
The monsoon has not been progressing well and could delay
planting of summer-sown rice, said another exporter based at Kakinada in Andhra
Pradesh.
In Vietnam, the world’s third-largest exporter of the grain,
prices of 5 percent broken rice fell to $450-$455 a tonne this week after
climbing to the highest since January 2012 at $465-$475 the week before.
“Prices are expected to ease further in the coming weeks on
rising domestic supplies, as the spring-summer harvest will peak late this month,”
a Ho Chi Minh City-based trader said.
Vietnam exported 763,707 tonnes of rice in May, up 5.9 percent
from April, according to the government’s official customs data.
Meanwhile, Thailand’s benchmark 5 percent broken rice was little
changed between $430 and 435 per tonne this week, free on board (FOB)
Bangkok, from $430-$432 last week.
Traders in Bangkok said demand from abroad was still flat this
week following sales to the Philippines earlier this month and last month.
Slow logistics due to rain also meant slow trade, traders said.
Thailand’s rainy season starts in late May and lasts until mid-October.
“It’s been raining, so ships can’t sail here to pick up orders.
Now the warehouses are full, with trucks lining up outside waiting to offload
more rice. It’s all stuck, so the market is still,” a trader said.
Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat in Bangkok, Khanh Vu in
Hanoi, Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai and Ruma Paul in Dhaka; Editing by Edmund
Blair
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Stuttgart resident among
Arkansas Rice interns
Cade
Bethea
Cade Bethea from Stuttgart is among two public relations interns
for the summer at the Arkansas Rice Federation.
Bethea is the son of James and Kim Bethea of Stuttgart and the
grandson of Carl and Janis Brothers of Stuttgart.
Bethea graduated from Texas Christian University in May with a
degree in strategic communications and minors in communication studies and
film, TV and digital media.
“Cade has developed his passion for writing, design, and
interest for public relations through serving in multiple leadership roles
while at TCU and building his own lifestyle brand, Southern and Thankful,”
according to the news release.
“I so look forward to my time at Arkansas Rice learning the in’s
and out’s of public relations in the political and agriculture fields.
Attending college in a different state gave me a new appreciation for Arkansas,
my home state, and I’m excited to be back,” he said.
Bethea said he knows with this opportunity, he will grow and
learn as a young professional.
Alyssa Johnson, the other intern, is the daughter of John and
Ledna Johnson of Greenbrier. Johnson is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in public
relations and minors in agriculture and political science at Arkansas Tech
University.
The interns are in Arkansas Rice’s Little Rock office for 10
weeks, where they working with developing communications strategies, member
engagement, and also attending industry events on behalf of Arkansas Rice. They
are also working with social media and creative content cultivation and
implementation, according to the release.
The Arkansas Rice Federation is
the umbrella organization representing the state’s rice industry. It is
comprised of the Arkansas Rice Farmers, Arkansas Rice Council, Arkansas Rice
Millers and Arkansas Rice Merchants. Details: http://arkansasrice.org/about-us/
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UCHealth to work with digital health companies to put
tech into practice
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create an innovation center and work with medical technology start-up companies
on artificial intelligence, big data, decision support, virtual health and
wearables, among other technologies.
The nine-hospital
Colorado delivery system, led by University of Colorado Hospital in Denver,
seeks to build off its past experiences in working with innovative companies to
improve the efficiency of operating rooms and the accuracy of medication
prescribing. New efforts will include injecting new research and protocols into
the electronic health records systems and using wearable devices to
continuously monitor patient vital signs, executives say.
“We’re looking to work
in digital health on remote monitoring of patients, prescriptive intelligence,
how analytics are delivered and diagnostic prescriptive analytics that show the
chances of a patient getting cancer and the recommended treatment course,” says
Richard Zane, MD, chief innovation officer and an emergency specialist at
UCHealth.
The project will use
wearable medical-grade monitoring devices such as Fitbits and the Apple Watch
to establish an accurate physiology of a patient, Zane explains. “The goal is
to have the ability to build data science to improve decision making at the
point of care.”
Richard Zane, MD
This fall, UCHealth
expects to bring a team of 70 employees to the University of Colorado
Innovations Office, an incubator commonly called CU-Innovation.
“This is where their
jobs will be based,” Zane says. “Artificial intelligence, big data, decision
support, virtual health and wearables are rapidly disrupting healthcare as we
know it. We are committed to being at the forefront of this change and
partnering with other innovators to improve the quality, experience and safety
of healthcare while helping control costs.”
Zane’s personal wish
list of what he wants to work on in Colorado includes leukemia, glucose
management and behavioral health.
Also See: Rice researchers seek to develop
wearable imaging device
A major project in
Colorado will be designing the hospital room of the future with the ability to
deliver centralized patient monitoring and clinical intelligence. A bedroom or
nursing home could be turned into a mini hospital with high-fidelity wireless
service and Generation 5 wireless communication.
By experimenting with
virtual health options, wearable monitors and the electronic health record,
healthcare organizations might be able to transform a patient’s bedroom into a
space where medicine is delivered in a novel way that is both convenient and
comforting, says Steve Hess, CIO at UCHealth.
“We are now in the dawn
of a new era of medicine, one in which the electronic health record and
artificial intelligence work hand in hand with medical providers to support and
inform clinical decisions,” Hess contends. “By working together with some of
the brightest minds, we will accelerate innovation and develop novel ways of
healing patients and keeping the public healthy.”
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Lentils
Significantly Reduce Blood Glucose Levels
Thu, 06/14/2018 -
3:23pm
by University
of Guelph
Dan Ramdath, Dita Moravek and Alison
Duncan. Photo: University of Guelph
Replacing potatoes or rice with
pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 percent, according
to a first-ever University of Guelph study.
Alison Duncan, professor in the
Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and Dan Ramdath of
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, found that swapping out half of a portion of
these starchy side dishes for lentils can significantly improve your body’s
response to the carbohydrates.
Replacing half a serving of rice with
lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20 percent. Replacing potatoes
with lentils led to a 35 percent drop.
“Pulses are extremely nutrient-dense
food that have the potential to reduce chronic diseases associated with
mismanaged glucose levels,” Duncan said.
Yet very few Canadians eat lentils,
she added.
“Canada has a huge production of
lentils, but we export most of it and only 13 percent of Canadians eat them on
any given day,” Duncan said. “We are hoping this research will make people more
aware of the health benefits of eating pulses.”
Published and featured in the Journal
of Nutrition, the study involved 24 healthy adults fed four
dishes, white rice only, half white rice and half large green lentils,
half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white rice and half
split red lentils.
Researchers measured glucose levels
in the participants’ blood before they ate and during two hours afterward. They
repeated the process for white potatoes alone and the same combinations of
potatoes and lentils.
“We mixed the lentils in with the
potatoes and rice because people don’t typically eat pulses on their own, but
rather consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger
meal, so we wanted the results to reflect that," the researchers said.
Blood glucose fell by similar amounts
when half of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils.
Blood glucose comprises sugar found
in the blood during digestion in the upper digestive tract and depends on the
starch content of foods consumed.
Pulses, such as lentils, can slow
digestion and the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream,
ultimately reducing blood glucose levels, Duncan said.
“This slower absorption means you
don’t experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time
can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2
diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk," the
researchers said.
Pulses contain components that
inhibit enzymes involved in absorption of glucose, and fibre contained in these
foods can encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids, which can also
help to reduce blood glucose levels, Duncan said. Health Canada requires a 20
percent reduction in blood glucose levels before a health claim about blood
glucose lowering can be approved.
“We
are hoping that building evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will
further encourage people to add pulses to their side dishes," the
researchers said.
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'Sustainable
pioneers' Lotus Foods innovates with heirloom coloured rice
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Using
heirloom coloured rice, Lotus Foods' premium products pack a nutritional punch
and are grown in a sustainable way that yields 'more crop per drop'. "I
don’t know of any other farming system that does both environmental and social
achievements in this way,” says its co-founder.
Providing
half of the world’s population – over 3.5 billion people – with 60 to 70% of
their daily calories and over two billion people with their main source of
livelihood, rice is of massive importance.
Its
cultivation, however, can also have a massively negative impact on both the
environment and those who grow it.
“Rice-based
systems are nexus of all complex food problems,”
the co-founder and joint CEO of US company Lotus Foods, Caryl Levine, told
delegates at the Sustainable Food Summit in Amsterdam last week. “Conventional
rice production is just not sustainable. It uses between one quarter
and one third of the world’s fresh water and there is a huge cost of input,
which means many farmers are burdened with debt.
“There is an
especially high impact on women. They do most of the physical activity in the
paddy fields where they are exposed to leeches, parasites and
water-borne diseases. After years of harvesting rice, many are unable to
walk upright and so are continually bent over. This is not acceptable.”
Thriving, not
surviving
Lotus Foods
therefore works with farmers to find heirloom rice varieties that are
cultivated according to its trademarked ‘More Crop per Drop’ technique, an
organic version of a sustainable growing process called System of Rice
Intensification (SRI).
Founded in
1995 when Caryl Levine and Ken Lee began importing black rice to the US after
trying it during their travels around China, its range includes Mekong Flower
rice, so-called because of its floral aroma; Madagascan pink rice with a
cinnamon and clove aroma; black ‘Forbidden’ rice grown in Sechuan, China with a
roasted nutty flavour; and red and brown volcanic rice from Java in Indonesia.
The company,
which scooped up second place in Ecovia Intelligence's Sustainable Food Awards
last week for being a ‘sustainable pioneer’, sells its products
© Lotus Foods
online and
has retail listings throughout the US.
According to
the SRI method, farmers plant smaller, younger seedlings that reduces
transplant shock and plant them at wider spacing in rows – rather than randomly
in clumps – which minimises competition and facilitates weeding.
Farmers also
keep the soil moist but not flooded, which saves water and keeps the soil
healthier. “Rice is not an aquatic plant. It can survive in water but it doesn’t
thrive in water,” Levine explained.
Supported by
the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture (FAO) and NGOs such as Oxfam and WWF
for its positive impact, SRI allows rice to be harvested upright in fields,
meaning safer working conditions for the farmers.
Lotus Foods
claims the some 5000 households in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia,
Madagascar and Thailand that supply it rice have seen a three-fold increase in
yields since adopting More Crop per Drop practices, and higher income through
the organic and fair trade Fair For Life premiums. Farmers also require 90%
fewer seeds than conventional rice varieties, meaning savings on inputs.
“The impact
of SRI is even more exciting when seen in context of global warming,” Levine added. “We are going
beyond organic to promote a system that saves water, reduces methane emissions,
preserves biodiversity and empowers women. I don’t know of any other farming
system that does both environmental and social achievements in this way.”
The SRI
techniques save Lotus Foods’ farmers around 500 million gallons of water
annually and cut methane gas emissions by around 40%.
© Lotus Foods
‘Doing the rice
thing’
Despite the
some 130,000 varieties of rice that exist in the international gene bank,
recent years have seen a dramatic loss in biodiversity as countries switch to
modern agricultural techniques.
According to
Levine, getting Westerners “who don’t have a culture of eating rice and no
awareness of coloured rice” to embrace new varieties has been a
challenge. This means that new product development is an important part of
Lotus Foods’ strategy to increase uptake.
In addition
to selling the whole, unprocessed rice, the company manufactures flavoured rice
crackers, ramen and instant noodle soups and ‘heat-and-eat’ microwaveable rice
bowls.
The coloured
varieties also have healthier profiles than the typical white Basmati or Thai
rice.
A single 60 g
serving of black Forbidden rice provides 120% of the recommended daily
allowance of manganese, 35% molybdenum; 20% magnesium and 20% phosphorous,
while the Jade Green rice is ‘infused’ with bamboo extract, giving a green
colour and a nutrition boost.
“We want to
give consumers healthier alternatives with value-added innovations – products
that are not just premium but have a high nutritional value.”
Protecting
biodiversity
Levine
gave the example of Thailand to illustrate just how quickly crop
biodiversity – essential in making farmers more adaptable to climate change –
can disappear. In the 1960’s, the Thai government launched a so-called
‘green revolution’, encouraging farmers to switch to new strains of seeds that
were optimised for agro-chemicals.
© Lotus Foods
“Before the
green revolution, Thai farmers grew around 16,000 varieties of rice. Today,
they grow fewer than 37,” Levine said.
“There is
good news, however,” she added. “There are still thousands of
varieties and in India, there is a renewed interest in ancient varieties.
Pigmented and heirloom varieties are growing in popularity.”
This interest
is also growing in the Western world. In Italy, the Principato di Lucedio used
non-GMO techniques to cross a Chinese black rice with a local Italian variety,
producing the Venere black rice while earlier this year, researchers from
Cornell University and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed a whole-grain red
rice, called Scarlett.
“Yesterday I
was in a Coop shop and saw black and red rice. You wouldn’t have seen that 20
years ago,” Levine said.
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Defaulter rice mill owners in Haryana to face action
PTI | Jun 19, 2018, 22:32 IST
Chandigarh, Jun 19 () Criminal case will be initiated against those mill
owners who fail to deposit hundred per cent payments for the custom milled rice
(CMR) by June 30, Haryana's Minister of State for Food and Supplies Karan Dev
Kamboj said here today.
The concerned district food and supplies officer will also be proceeded
against, Kamboj said in an official release.
Kamboj said this decision had been taken after assessing the recovery of CMR
from the rice millers. The defaulter firms would be blacklisted and would not
be allowed to buy paddy in future, he said in the release.
The state has so far recovered payment for 99 per cent of CMR, which is
required to be increased to hundred per cent.
During 2017-18, out of the total CMR was 18,53,083 metric tonne (MT) and
payment for 18,28,291 metric tonne has been deposited by the rice mill owners
with the state government, the minister said.
The pending payment for CMR yet to be recovered includes 11,376 MT from
Karnal, 6,190 MT from Kurukshetra, 3,696 MT from Kaithal, 2,105 MT from Yamuna
Nagar, and 1,426 MT from Ambala.
Thus
district food and supplies officers and the millers are expected to deposit the
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Popular rice variety gets extra
gene power to fight bacterial attacks
New Delhi, June 15
(UNI) Researchers at the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research have
developed a new variety of the popular Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) rice that
can resist bacterial blight disease, says the India Science Wire.
The research results have been published in the
journal PLOS One.
The bacterial blight disease, which affects rice
crop, is caused by bacteria, Xanthomonas oryzae, and drastically reduces rice
productivity.
The high yielding ISM variety is already protected
against bacterial blight by three genes, but the new variety has been developed
by adding another gene, Xa38, that increases the resistance. “Till now about 41
resistant genes have been identified from diverse sources. These genes differ
from each other in their mode of action. While some are broad spectrum, others
are narrow in their resistance spectrum,” explained Dr Gouri Sankar Laha, who
led the study, while speaking to India Science Wire.
The researchers used Marker assisted Backcross
Breeding or MABB technique to accomplish the gene insertion. Unlike transgenic
techniques used in genetically modified crops, MABB is less laborious but more
efficient than traditional methods of ‘gene’ transfer. Besides it does not
require regulatory clearances necessary for transgenic crops.
"Till now about 41 resistant genes have been
identified from diverse sources. These genes differ from each other in their
mode of action. While some are broad spectrum, others are narrow in their
resistance spectrum" explained Dr Gouri Sankar Laha.
ISM is popular and has been grown in over 80,000
hectares in south and east India since its release in 2008. However, of late it
was observed in experiments that when deliberately infected, ISM plants had
longer lesions – infected spot - than the earlier ones, indicating emergence of
a new strain of Xanthomonas.
Xanthomonas is virulent, meaning its infection
spreads fast and wide. It also evolves very quickly. Thus plants that seem to
be resistant now might turn susceptible later as the pathogen evolves into
different strains.
“It is, therefore, necessary that we keep developing
new resistant varieties. Also rice plant resistant to Xanthomonas in a
particular area may not be resistant to the bacteria in another place,”
explained Dr CA Deepak, a rice breeder at the University of Agricultural
Sciences, Karnataka, who is not associated with the work. The breed improvement
for bacterial blight disease is a continuous process.
The new breed has been field tested in farms across
several states and has been exposed to various strains of Xanthomonas. “We have
done three backcrossing and six generations of improvement. It has taken five
years including selection of parents and initial crossing,” said Dr Laha.
The effort has resulted in several improved lines of
ISM with novel, broad-spectrum blight-resistant gene Xa38 that show high levels
of blight resistance to different types of Xanthomonas. These plants are better
both in yield and in other traits than their ISM parent lines. After more field
tests in different parts of the country, it will be ready for commercial
release, Dr Laha added.
The research team included Arra Yugander, Raman M
Sundaram, Kuldeep Singh, Duraisamy Ladhalakshmi, Lella V Subba Rao, Maganti
Sheshu Madhav, Jyothi Badri and Madamsetty Srinivas Prasad.
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anonymous persons for rice miller’s murder
TNN | Updated: Jul 8, 2018, 09:25 IST
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PILIBHIT:
An FIR was lodged against four anonymous persons on Saturday after the son of rice miler, Ghanshyam Dixit, who
had died mysteriously on June 30, filed a written complaint with Puranpur Kotwali police. This was the same rice
miller against whom 11 wheat farmers had levelled charges of embezzling an
amount of Rs 34 Lakh and had filed a written complaint to the district magistrate, Akhilesh Kumar
Mishra, on Friday. They had allegedly not been paid for their produce at an FCI
purchase center.
The deceased’s son, Adarsh Dixit, insisted that he had been poisoned. Dixit, a
resident of village Sabalpur Khas under Puranpur Kotwali police station, said
his father, who was a partner in Satsai rice industries in Puranpur, had gone to
Ikottar Nath temple, which is around 4 kilometers from his home village, near
Mandanpur forest in the early morning on June 30.
It was there that he was given poison by four anonymous persons, who had an
enmity with him and who had followed the deceased’s car on bikes, Dixit
claimed. The SHO of Puranpur Kotwali police station, Keshav Tiwari, said that
an FIR was lodged against four anonymous persons under section 302 (murder) of
the IPC.
State to provide
training to farmers in Malda for aromatic rice cultivation
Pradip Chatterjee | 15
Jun 2018 10:53 PM
Kolkata: State
agriculture department has decided to impart training to the farmers of Malda
district, where the department is planning to produce Tulaipanji and other
aromatic rice in large scale.
A team of research wing
at Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya will soon visit Malda district not only
to carry out a detailed survey but also to encourage the farmers to cultivate
Tulaipanji and other scented rice.
The step is a part of
the overall initiative of the state Agriculture department to increase the
production of aromatic rice.
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The research wing of
Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya will identify the places where these rice
could be grown on a large scale. They will encourage the farmers into new
ventures and training would be given to them.
The department will
provide seeds to the farmers in the district at a cheaper rate so that more
number of farmers show their interest.
The state government
will extend all possible benefits to the farmers to make the attempt a success,
sources in the department said.
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Agriculture department
will carry out a detailed study, examine the nature of the land where
Tulaipamji and other aromatic rice could be grown in North Bengal.
State agriculture
minister recently held a high-level meeting with the researchers of Uttar Banga
Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
and other senior officials of the department, chalking out an elaborate plan on
how to increase the production of aromatic rice.
It may be mentioned here
that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her recent visit to the North
Bengal, asked the senior government officials to take necessary steps so that
Tulaipanji, Gobindobhog and other aromatic rice can be produced on a large
scale.
The main purpose of the
move is to ensure that the people get these rice at a lesser price.
Proded by the Chief
Minister, the agriculture department is also leaving no stone unturned to make
it possible. It may be mentioned here that state Agriculture department has
already been taking help from the research fellows of Bidhan Chandra Krishi
Viswavidyalaya and Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya who will provide
assistance to the department in this regard. The main purpose is to increase
the production of fragrant rice in the state.
Asish Banerjee, state
Agriculture minister said his department has set a target to increase the
production of various aromatic rice including Tulaipanji and Gobindabhog in
various districts.
A research wing of Uttar
Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya has chosen Malda district where Tulaipanji could
be grown on a large scale. A team will soon visit the district to identify the
areas.
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ICAR scientists give important suggestions
for major crops and animal resource in Tripura
Udaipur, Jun 15 (UNI) The scientists of ICAR
Tripura have given suggestion to farmers of Tripura in case of major crops in
order to minimize the losses of agricultural productions and they suggested to
obey the suggestions that will help to farmers for reducing their loss in the
nick of flood situation.
The scientists group said,'Weather may generally be cloudy and light to medium
rain may occur in one or two places till June 17. Heavy rain is expected at
isolated place on 13 June. Day and night temp may vary from 28 to 32 and 25 to
26 degrees respectively. Wind may high and mostly south easterly with average
speed of 12 km per hour. Humidity may vary from 72 to 96 per cent.'
The scientists have suggested for major crops in Tripura and the major crops of
this state are Aus Rice, Cowpea, Maize, Groundnut, Jhum Rice and Mango.
The important animal resources are Cattle and Pig, the scientists of ICAR have
suggested following the respective animal husbandry resources.According to
scientists' suggestion, Aus Rice in trans planting stage and need to use most
common variety is NDR 97 which is short duration crop.
Sowing is mostly over. Maintain 2-3 cm of water in the field. Field to field
irrigation should be avoided.
After 30 days of transplanting, maintain 2 to 5 cm of water. Cowpea are in pod
formation not to allow the water to stand in the field.
For Maize need field preparation and it is needed to complete the sowing of
Maize in upland and medium upland. Collect certified seed from authentic
sources. Treat the seed with systematic fungicide like Bavistin. Recommended
varieties are DMH- 849, 117, HQPM 1, BQPM 9 etc. It is the time for showing
Groundnut and need to collect certified seed from authentic sources.
Grade the seed and remove all infected/ toxic seed. Treat the seed with
systematic fungicide like Bavistin. Recommended varieties are TAG 24, TG 37A,
ICGS 76 etc. Seed rate: 100 to 120 kg for bunch type and 80 to 100 kg for
spreading type. Spacing: for bunch type 30X10 cm and spreading type 40X10 cm.
In case shoot borer attack on Mango, find the hole and put kerosene into the
hole and plug the hole with mud.
Occasional high wind may break the branches of tree; provide support to the branch
to prevent breakage and wastage of fruit. It is suggested by scientists of ICAR
that De-worming is very important for Cattle, during heavy rain or squally
wind, animal are advised to keep under shade.
Vaccination is mandatory for the cattle to protect from disease like Anthrax,
Black Quarter, Foot Mouth Disease, Duck Plague. Pig affect due to Piglet
Diarrhoea, causes by bacteria and sudden change in feed and temperature,
managed by Furazolidone, streptomycin.
ICAR scientists give important
suggestions for major crops and animal resource in Tripura
Udaipur, Jun 15 (UNI) The scientists of ICAR Tripura have given
suggestion to farmers of Tripura in case of major crops in order to minimize
the losses of agricultural productions and they suggested to obey the
suggestions that will help to farmers for reducing their loss in the nick of
flood situation.
The scientists group said,'Weather may generally be cloudy and light to medium
rain may occur in one or two places till June 17. Heavy rain is expected at
isolated place on 13 June. Day and night temp may vary from 28 to 32 and 25 to
26 degrees respectively. Wind may high and mostly south easterly with average
speed of 12 km per hour. Humidity may vary from 72 to 96 per cent.'
The scientists have suggested for major crops in Tripura and the major crops of
this state are Aus Rice, Cowpea, Maize, Groundnut, Jhum Rice and Mango.
The important animal resources are Cattle and Pig, the scientists of ICAR have
suggested following the respective animal husbandry resources.According to
scientists' suggestion, Aus Rice in trans planting stage and need to use most
common variety is NDR 97 which is short duration crop.
Sowing is mostly over. Maintain 2-3 cm of water in the field. Field to field
irrigation should be avoided.
After 30 days of transplanting, maintain 2 to 5 cm of water. Cowpea are in pod
formation not to allow the water to stand in the field.
For Maize need field preparation and it is needed to complete the sowing of
Maize in upland and medium upland. Collect certified seed from authentic
sources. Treat the seed with systematic fungicide like Bavistin. Recommended
varieties are DMH- 849, 117, HQPM 1, BQPM 9 etc. It is the time for showing
Groundnut and need to collect certified seed from authentic sources.
Grade the seed and remove all infected/ toxic seed. Treat the seed with
systematic fungicide like Bavistin. Recommended varieties are TAG 24, TG 37A,
ICGS 76 etc. Seed rate: 100 to 120 kg for bunch type and 80 to 100 kg for
spreading type. Spacing: for bunch type 30X10 cm and spreading type 40X10 cm.
In case shoot borer attack on Mango, find the hole and put kerosene into the
hole and plug the hole with mud.
Occasional high wind may break the branches of tree; provide support to the
branch to prevent breakage and wastage of fruit. It is suggested by scientists
of ICAR that De-worming is very important for Cattle, during heavy rain or
squally wind, animal are advised to keep under shade.
Vaccination is mandatory for the cattle to protect from disease like Anthrax,
Black Quarter, Foot Mouth Disease, Duck Plague. Pig affect due to Piglet
Diarrhoea, causes by bacteria and sudden change in feed and temperature,
managed by Furazolidone, streptomycin.
Lentils lower blood glucose levels by 20 pc
Ontario, June 15 (UNI) Adding
healthy options like pulses in place of starchy foods like potatoes and rice
can reduce blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, a first-ever study
has found.
According to a study conducted by the
researchers of University of Guelph and published in the Journal of Nutrition,
replacing half a serving of rice with lentils dropped blood glucose by up to 20
per cent, while substituting potatoes with lentils led to a 35 per cent drop in
24 adults.
According to Prof Alison Duncan, Department of
Human Health and Nutritional Sciences and Dan Ramdath of Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada, who conducted the study, "Pulses are extremely
nutrient-dense food that have the potential to reduce chronic diseases
associated with mismanaged glucose levels."
The study involved feeding 24 healthy adults
being fed with four dishes - white rice only, half white rice and half large
green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white
rice and half split red lentils.
Researchers measured glucose levels in the
participants' blood before they ate and during two hours afterward. They
repeated the process for white potatoes alone and the same combinations of
potatoes and lentils.
"We mixed the lentils with the potatoes
and rice because people don't typically eat pulses on their own, but rather
consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we
wanted the results to reflect that."
Blood glucose fell by similar amounts when half
of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils. Blood
glucose comprises sugar found in the blood during digestion in the upper
digestive tract and depends on the starch content of foods consumed.
Pulses, such as lentils, can slow digestion and
the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing
blood glucose levels, said Duncan.
"This slower absorption means you don't
experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time can
lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2
diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk," Dr Duncan told
Science Daily.
Pulses contain components that inhibit enzymes
involved in absorption of glucose, and fibre contained in these foods can
encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids, which can also help to
reduce blood glucose levels, he added.
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When Almas Akhtar moved with her husband from Pakistan to
Michigan, the biggest adjustment was accepting the bitter cold winters.
But communicating with her new neighbors wasn’t a problem. As a
girl, Akhtar loved reading Archie comics and watching American TV shows such as
“Full House,” “Growing Pains,” and “Perfect Strangers.” So she could read and
write English when she came to the United States at 20. She made friends easily
and cooked meals for them, such as chicken tikka with basmati rice.
Akhtar enjoyed being a mother of three children and living in
West Bloomfield Township. Life was good — until the fateful day of Sept. 11.
A week after the horrific terrorist attacks, her oldest child
came home from her first-grade class in tears.
“My daughter told us the little girl who sat next to her said
she is scared sitting with my daughter because she is bad and we are bad
people,” Akhtar says.
The next day Akhtar and her husband, Sterling Heights oncologist
Adil Akhtar, who is affiliated with Beaumont Hospital-Troy, went to their
daughter’s school to talk to the class. He told the students that he helps all
sorts of patients at the hospital each day. Almas Akhtar told the children that
she volunteers at the school, helping plan class parties and field trips. They
said they are not bad people.
“The class clapped and hugged us. That little girl, too!” Akhtar
says.
Akhtar, who now lives in Bloomfield Hills and considers herself
a born storyteller, decided it was important to use her voice to tell the world
her point of view — and that of the children of immigrants.
Although her children are a full-time job and her priority,
after she gets them off to school, Akhtar likes to sit in a quiet place where
she can capture her thoughts. She blogs at “Tuesday Talk” on Facebook, where
she and members of her group discuss immigrant perspectives and celebrate the
American Dream.
Akhtar also writes short stories about everyday people and their
struggles and successes.
“I want people to know we love America,” she says. “Like anyone
else, we are huge fans of Hollywood movies and Disney World. We enjoy fireworks
on the Fourth of July.
“There are good and bad people everywhere, but please don’t
label everyone bad on the basis of just a handful.”
Akhtar further wanted to convey her message of acceptance when
she sat down to write her first novel, “The Fearful Lion.” The book follows a
young man named Osama Ali Khan, who was abandoned by his parents as a baby, and
subjected to wrong assumptions and ethnic stereotypes as an adult.
As he works through his insecurities, his life changes when he
meets Sarah on the campus of the University of Michigan. Khan thinks his life
is perfect, until Sept. 11, 2001. But the book has a positive message.
“America is a beautiful country where people from different
backgrounds become your friends and mentors and stand by you in tough
situations,” the author says.
“The Fearful Lion” can be purchased online at the thefearfullion.com,
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Indian lamb mince with yellow rice and
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INDIAN
LAMB MINCE WITH YELLOW RICE AND TOMATO SALSA
Prep: 15
min
Cook: 25
min
Serves:
4-5
Yellow
Rice
1½ cups
basmati rice
2¼ cups water
½ teaspoon ground turmeric
½ teaspoon salt
½ bag baby spinach
Indian
Lamb
½ brown
onion
1 carrot
450g lamb mince
1 clove minced garlic
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1-2 tablespoons Indian spice mix (see recipe below)
1 tablespoon flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon tomato sauce
1 cup chicken or beef stock
125g frozen peas
Indian
spice mix
1
tablespoon mild curry powder
1 teaspoon garam masala
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
Tomato
salsa
1 tomato
2 tablespoons chopped mint leaves
Combine rice, water, turmeric and salt in a
medium pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, cover with a tight-fitting
lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 12 minutes. Turn off heat and leave
to steam, still covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid at any time
during cooking.
While the rice is cooking; finely chop
spinach and set aside; finely dice onion; peel and grate carrot and set aside
together.
For the tomato salsa, dice tomatoes ½cm and
place in a small bowl. Chop mint and add to tomato with a drizzle of olive oil
and season to taste. Set aside.
Heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on
high heat. Cook onion, carrot and lamb mince for 5-6 minutes until starting to
brown. Add garlic, ginger, Indian spice mix, flour and salt and cook for 1-2
minutes, stirring often, until fragrant.
Reduce heat to medium and slowly stir
through stock and tomato sauce. Add peas and cook for a further 5-6 minutes
till thicken.
Fluff up cooked rice with a fork and stir
through spinach.
To serve, divide rice onto each plate top
with Indian lamb and sprinkle over tomato salsa.
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Sodha’s recipe for wild rice, chickpea and aubergine salad with tamarind and
‘yoghurt’ dressing. Photograph: Louise Hagger for the Guardian
My family
has been picnicking in England since 1972, when they arrived here after being
expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin. They bought a campervan, a job lot of flares
and enough Tupperware to last a lifetime. Mostly we’d eat spiced vegetables in
some form, herbed rice and salad, with chutneys to accompany. Here, 46 years
later, I’ve combined all of those elements for, in my eyes, the perfect picnic
meal.
Wild rice,
chickpea and aubergine salad with a tamarind and ‘yoghurt’ dressing
Prep 20 min
Cook 50 min
Rest 10 min
Serves 4
For
the rice
1 red onion,
peeled
½ large cauliflower (about
600g)
350g baby aubergines (ie,
about 4 slim ones)
300g vine tomatoes,
halved
Rapeseed oil
1 tsp salt
3 garlic cloves,
unpeeled
250g basmati and wild
rice (I like Tilda)
400g tin chickpeas
15g fresh coriander leaves,
finely chopped
For
the tamarind dressing
1 tbsp tamarind paste
1 ½ tbsp date syrup
1 tbsp rapeseed oil
¼ tsp ground red
chilli
½ tsp ground cumin
Salt
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For
the ‘yoghurt’ dressing
100ml non-dairy yoghurt
Salt
Heat
the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4 and line two large oven trays with foil. Chop the
onion from above into wedges, separate into “petals”, then arrange on one half
of one tray. Break down the cauliflower into bite-sized pieces and put these on
the other half of the tray.
Cut
the aubergines lengthways into quarters, and put them on one half of the second
tray; lay the tomatoes on the other half.
Whisk
four tablespoons of oil with a teaspoon of salt, pour this over all the
vegetables, then toss with your hands to coat all the surfaces and get into the
nooks and crannies. Bash the garlic cloves with the back of a knife and put on
the aubergine tray, then roast the onion and cauliflower for 20-25 minutes and
the aubergine, tomatoes and garlic for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile,
wash the rice in a sieve under the cold tap until the water runs clear, then
tip into a large saucepan. Drain the chickpeas, add to the rice, then cover
with plenty of cold water and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and leave to
simmer for 18 minutes, or until tender. Drain into a sieve, then cover with a
clean tea towel and leave for 10 minutes.
Now
make the dressings. In a small bowl, mix the tamarind paste, date syrup and oil
with a tablespoon of water. Add the chilli, cumin and a quarter-teaspoon of
salt, and mix again.
Put
the yoghurt in a second small bowl. Squeeze the flesh from the roast garlic on
to a board and finely chop, then stir into the yoghurt with a quarter-teaspoon
of salt.
To
bring the salad together, in a bowl mix the rice and chickpeas with the baked
vegetables, toss with the tamarind dressing and transfer to a portable
container. Serve drizzled with the yoghurt dressing and scattered with
coriander.
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New Times' annual Best of Miami issue is live. For hundreds of our staff's picks
on the finest places to eat and drink and the most notable people and
personalities who defined South Florida over the past year, check out the full issue.
Miami is teeming with restaurants serving global cuisine. From
Italian to Cuban, here are some of this year's winners.
Best Argentine Restaurant: Fiorito. More than 30 years have passed
since Diego Maradona's infamous "Hand of God" goal, which gave
Argentina a 2-1 lead over the English in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals. To
this day, soccer fans remain incensed by the fact that the brash Argentine used
his hand to drive a ball into the back of the net. And while the five-foot,
five-inch footballer's mug graces the walls of this Little Haiti hideaway, the
dishes brothers Maximiliano and Cristian Alvarez put out could make you forgive
even the greatest sins. For their choripán, creamy roasted sweetbreads are
veneered with a gorgeous smoky crust highlighted by a fragrant leek chimichurri
($9). The way they make a steak Milanesa ($11) so tender and juicy inside with
such a shatteringly crisp crust defies all logic. It's akin to the referee's
refusal to blow a whistle when Maradona hand-balled that goal home.
Amazing. 5555 NE Second Ave., Miami; 305-754-2899;fioritomiami.com.
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Best Brazilian Restaurant: Ofa Restaurant
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Best Brazilian Restaurant: Ofa Restaurant. You should definitely start your
meal at Ofa Restaurant with the pão de queijo ($7). A handful of these hot,
doughy cheese balls arrives on a wooden board in a small brown bag beside a jar
of requeijão, a creamy dairy spread that's sweet like cream cheese yet far more
spreadable. It's a satisfyingly simple start to any traditional Brazilian meal,
but even if tradition isn't your thing, you'll be happy here. The best part
about Ofa is the ambiance. This isn't the been-there-done-that Brazilian steakhouse
touting massive skewers of meat that bop from table to table. And it's not a
nostalgic mom-and-pop that focuses on hearty, homestyle dishes served
family-style. Instead, Ofa specializes in contemporary takes on South American
dishes via progressive menu items, many of which are gluten-free and vegan. Try
the farofa, a nutty-flavored, toasted, buttered cassava-flour dish. It's often
served with meats, beans, and stews, but here it's a shareable bowl in a
rainbow of flavors, from garlic to bacon to lemon-ginger to banana ($5). Or try
bobo de vegetais, a dish that often contains shrimp in a purée of cassava meal
with coconut milk but here is made vegetarian with peppers, mushrooms,
tomatoes, onions, and plantains ($22). Brazilian sweets include brigadeiros —
traditional chocolate truffles made with dark or milk chocolate and condensed
milk. The drink menu, created by Brazilian bartender Jean Ponce, lists the
usual caipirinhas, but try his riffs on South American classics such as the
Abacaxi, a tropical libation that fuses fresh pineapple purée with artisanal
white cachaça ($12).1929 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach;
305-763-8766; ofarestaurant.com.
Best Chinese Restaurant: CY Chinese Restaurant
Best Chinese Restaurant: CY Chinese
Restaurant. The
moment you step into this North Miami Beach hideaway, your senses are overcome
by the overwhelming perfume of rendered beef fat and chili oil. Though
Sichuan-style restaurants are popping up across Miami, none holds truer to the
fiery cuisine of the Chinese province than this first U.S. project by Chongqing
native and chef Yang Xian Guang. That beef fat is the central ingredient of
Yang's hot pot. That rich, savory aroma is the yardstick by which most Chinese
folks judge hot pot, he explains. The recipes include three or more kinds of
chilies, a mountain of Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon sticks, garlic, ginger,
star anise, fermented black beans, and a litany of secrets he refuses to share.
A simple chicken broth, made by simmering carcasses with ginger and garlic for
three hours, is poured on top just before the dish is sent out to the dining
room. So whether you opt for the Chinese yam, the fatty beef, the pork blood,
or just a tousle of vegetables, you're guaranteed an experience like no
other. 1242 NE 163rd St., North Miami Beach; 305-947-3838; cychinesefl.com.
Best Cuban Restaurant: Puerto Sagua. It's hard for a Cuban restaurant
to stand out in a town with more Cuban restaurants than any city off the
island. This cuisine should be simple, unpretentious, and delicious. You should
be able to taste the garlic before your meal even hits the table, and nothing
should be served without a slice of lime on the plate. Puerto Sagua checks
those boxes, but that's not what makes it stand out. It's the kind of place
you'd expect to find in Little Havana or Hialeah, but this no-frills joint is
on the corner of Seventh Street and Collins Avenue in South Beach, where glitz
and glamour reign supreme — and most of the old school has been bought up and
buried under the new. From 7 a.m. till 2 p.m. seven days a week, Puerto Sagua
serves Cuban standards such as masitas de puerco con arroz moros y yuca
($15.25) and ropa vieja con maduros ($11.95) that are as good as you'll find
anywhere — including your abuela's dinner
table. 700 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-1115.
Best French Restaurant: Otentic Fresh Food. Escargots
can go two ways. When dining out, you'll either get pitifully small mollusks
smothered in so much butter it just might instantly clog your arteries. Or, if
you're lucky, you'll get the real thing: giant burgundy snails sautéed with a
hint of butter, minced shallots, and garlic. That's exactly how you'll find
this dish at Otentic Fresh Food Restaurant in South Beach. A dozen escargots
are seasoned to taste, finished with fresh-chopped parsley, and arrive plump
and tender for $13. It's just one of the well-executed French specialities
you'll find at this 40-seat bistro offering an intimate, unpretentious setting
for traditional French fare. That includes the country's quintessential dishes,
served from 11 a.m. to late into the night. Try it all, from those colossal
escargots to custardy quiche Lorraine to Nutella-stuffed crêpes. Prices
encourage sampling too: Appetizers start at $7, crêpes run $12 to $14, and
entrées cost $15 to $31. 538 Washington Ave.,
Miami Beach; 305-531-1464; otenticrestaurant.com.
Best Greek Restaurant: Kiki on the River
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Best Greek Restaurant: Kiki on the River. A former fish market, the
glamorous Greek restaurant Kiki on the River transports diners to the
Mediterranean. The food, executed by veteran chef Steve Rhee, includes tender
seasoned octopus ($18), lightly fried saganaki cheese ($16), grilled then baked
sea bass (MP), and fried potatoes with lemon and oregano ($9). Find a table
around sunset on the restaurant's charming patio overlooking the Miami River.
The view, along with the rustic furnishings, whitewashed walls, and lush
greenery, is enchanting. You might even forget you're in Miami. Hours are 5 to
11 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, noon to 11 p.m. Thursday, noon to midnight
Friday and Saturday, and 1 p.m. to midnight Sunday. 450 NW North River Dr., Miami; 786-502-3243;kikiontheriver.com.
Best Indian Restaurant: Kebab Indian
Restaurant. Why
try Kebab Indian Restaurant? How about warm naan baked in a tandoor and
seasoned with garlic butter ($3.95); crisp vegetable samosas stuffed with
potatoes, peas, and Indian spices ($4); and a plate of chicken biryani, in
which tender pieces of poultry are cooked and simmered with rice, nuts, and
korma sauce ($13.95). Those are just three of the more than 150 items served at
this traditional Indian restaurant tucked away on NE 167th Street in North Miami
Beach. The unassuming space allows Kebab's blend of aromatic spices, basmati
rice, vegetables, and meat to shine. And if you visit during lunch, take
advantage of the all-you-can-eat buffet for less than $10. Hours are 11:30 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 9:30 p.m.
Sunday. 514 NE 167th St., North Miami Beach; 305-940-6309; kebabindianmiami.com.
Best Italian Restaurant: Fratelli La Bufala
Courtesy of Fratelli La Bufala
Best Italian Restaurant: Fratelli La
Bufala. When it
comes to Neapolitan pizzerias in Miami, there is only one that can claim to be
the first and best: Fratelli La Bufala. But this hidden gem isn't just known
for phenomenal pizzas; it's the pastas, salads, and fresh bufala mozzarella
that's made this Italian restaurant a staple in South Beach for more than ten
years. Buffalo mozzarella is much sweeter than the cow's-milk version; it's
also juicier and creamier. If you haven't tried fresh bufala mozzarella, do it
ASAP. Fratelli La Bufala (FLB) is one of the few establishments in Miami to
have fresh bufala mozzarella delivered almost daily. Whether placed on the
restaurant's wood-oven pizzas or the fresh house-made pastas, this rare and
exotic cheese is a game changer. FLB's signature appetizer, La Bufalata ($23),
is a beautiful platter of bufala mozzarella served with cured Italian meats and
fresh vegetables. The way the fresh mozzarella oozes over the meats and
vegetables is out of this world. Another highlight is the cost. This underrated
spot is not only extremely authentic but also reasonably priced, making it a
favorite for Italians visiting Miami. If you're looking for some of the most
delicious pizza and pasta in Miami, run, don't walk, to Fratelli La Bufala.
Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 11:30 a.m. to 1
a.m. Friday through Sunday. 437 Washington Ave., Miami
Beach; 305-532-0700;flbmiami.com.
Best Spanish Restaurant: Xixón Spanish Restaurant. Xixón
Spanish Restaurant opened in 2001 as a market and today has grown to include a
fine-dining restaurant. Consider the Asturian fabada, a rich bean stew that's
the signature dish of Spain's Asturian region. The traditional version served
here is so labor-intensive it's offered only Saturday ($16). It's rife with
white fava beans, blood sausage, chorizo, and a salty Jabugo ham, all simmered
for four hours in a hearty saffron-flavored broth. The steak tartare ($18) uses
ingredients so fresh the dish is available only Wednesday. Of course, you might
want to visit just for the rice dishes. The menu touts four kinds of paella,
such as con bogavante, which includes shrimp, clams, mussels, squid, and Maine
lobster. If you still have room for postre, a serious dessert menu lists more
than a dozen delectables you won't find anywhere else, including a carpaccio de
piña, which includes a house-made mint ice cream ($7). 2101 Coral Way, Miami; 305-854-9350;xixonspanishrestaurant.com.
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Thai. It's bold to
name a dish "the perfect bite," but Atchana Capellini has done just
that. The miang kham ($15) is a delight handed down through the generations. A
plate holds wrinkly pale-pink dried shrimp, toasted coconut flakes, and tiny
slices of ginger. Even the leaves look different. Rather than the ruffled
bright-green fronds of butter lettuce, these betel leaves are deep green and
spade-shaped, with an almost unnoticeable flavor. Combine all of this with a
few bits of crushed peanuts, a squeeze of lime, and a dash of spicy-sweet
tamarind sauce, and you'll soon be reaching for a napkin to dab the tears of
joy cascading down your cheeks. See, Atchana's family has been cooking these
dishes at home for years while also dishing out coconut curries in some of the
city's best-known Thai spots. Only recently has she had the confidence to give
Miami all of this, and we can only be grateful it happened. 3194 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove; 305-774-0404;atchanas.com.
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bites from more than a dozen of the area's best restaurants while sipping
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advance, or pay $60 at the door. A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit
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at X Miami, 230 NE Fourth St., Miami. Tickets cost $50 via 305-571-7579
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Miami Spice returns
this August with prix fixe menus for some of the area's best restaurants at the
reduced price of $23 for lunch and brunch, and $39 for dinner.
Running from August 1 through September 30, the program was
started 17 years ago by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
as a way to promote Miami's restaurants to visitors and locals. Since its
inception, the program has grown to include hundreds of participating
restaurants.
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So far, 206 restaurants will feature Miami Spice menus in 2018,
including two dozen new eateries like Planta, Chotto Matte, Habitat Miami
Beach, Palat, and Azabu. Returning favorites include Scarpetta, Edge Steak
& Bar, Red the Steakhouse, and Palme d'Or.
This year, Miami Spice will partner with Slow Food Miami, the
local nonprofit that recognizes restaurants and businesses that practice
sustainability and authenticity in their food and beverage programs. The Spice
website will note the restaurants that have earned Slow Food's Snail of
Approval.
Starting today, the official 2018 Miami
Spice website, ilovemiamispice.com, will release sample menus from
participating restaurants. Of course, these menus are always subject to change
based on the availability of ingredients. Some restaurants choose to have a
rotating menu of dishes, while others will change the Miami Spice menu halfway
through the promotion period.
Here are menu highlights from some Miami Spice participants:
Stiltsville Fish Bar (Miami Spice offered daily for
lunch, brunch, and dinner). Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth offer a host of
seafood-centric items on their restaurant's Miami Spice menus. Dinner starters
include roasted oysters, smoked fish dip, cobia tiradito, sweet corn spoon
bread, or a hammock salad. There are several entrees including fried chicken,
fish wings, and pan seared fish and grits, or you can opt for the local catch
of the day, offered grilled or steamed. Finish with a warm gooey chocolate
cobbler. Eating healthy is easy at Stiltsville — just look for the "skinny
mermaid" items. 1787 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach;
786-353-0477;stiltsvillefishbar.com.
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Bazaar Mar (Miami Spice offered for dinner Tuesday through Saturday). Chef
José Andrés' colorful seafood restaurant serves whimsical creations. For
starters, try the hamachi cone or the bagel and lox featuring Russ &
Daughters' smoked salmon on air bread with cream cheese and pickled onions.
Entrees include a fried whole snapper or the Po Boy, Jose, filled with fried
baby squid and palayoon a steamed brioche bun. The master chef, himself,
chooses your dessert. 1300 S. Miami Ave., Miami;
305-615-5859;sbe.com/restaurants/locations/bazaar-mar.
Pubbelly Sushi (Miami Spice offered for lunch and
dinner Monday through Friday). If you'd rather skip dessert and have another
savory dish instead, Pubbelly Sushi has a menu for you. For your first course,
choose between Japanese bravas, salmon tartare taquitos, or the screaming
orgasm (seared tuna, spicy ponzu, daikon, and masago roe).
Second-course options include a butter "krab" roll, hamachi
ceviche arrozpegao, and truffle corn robata. Finally, decide between pork
belly yakisoba, wagyu beef slider, or PB Steak anticucho robata. Various locations;foodcommahospitality.com.
Byblos (Miami Spice offered for dinner nightly). If you like
extras, Byblos is a good choice. Start by choosing two items from the mezze
section. Choices include toasted red beets, lamb ribs, duck kibbeh, shakshouka,
snapper crudo, creamed spinach pide, and more. Entrées include Middle
Eastern fried chicken, local snapper, yogurt-baked Atlantic cod, short-rib
kebab, tah-dig, and a Byblos burger. You also get to choose a side from
sweet jeweled couscous, blistered beans, Persian kale rice, and rock shrimp rice.
Finish the evening with pizelle with pistachio ice cream,
loukoumades, or sorbet. 1545 Collins Ave., Miami
Beach; 305-508-5041;byblosmiami.com.
Miami Spice. August 1 through September 30
at over 200 Miami-area restaurants. ilovemiamispice.com.
Laine Doss is the food and
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been featured on Cooking Channel's Eat Street and
Food Network's Great Food Truck Race. She won an
Alternative Weekly award for her feature about what it's like to wait tables.
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Rice exports to decline by 10% on restrictions from importing countries
Bangladesh imposes 18% import duty, EU introduces stringent quality norms;
a part of decline to compensate through export to China
Dilip Kumar Jha | Mumbai Last Updated at
June 15, 2018 23:21 IST
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Amid
weak prices of agri commodities, robust rice demand bucks the trend
After a bumpy ride last year, India's rice exports
are likely to decline this year by up to 10 per cent this year due to
restrictions imposed by importing countries.
While Bangladesh has imposed 28 per cent import duty
on rice to restrict its exports largely from India, the European Union also made
its quality norms stringent with introduction of new pesticides limit. With
this, non-basmati rice export to Bangladesh and basmati rice shipment to the
European Union is set to decline.
The restrictions from importing countries assume
significance as Bangladesh contributes over 18 per cent India's 8.5 million
tonnes of non-basmati rice exports, the European Union shares nearly 10 per
cent of India's basmati rice exports annually. A part of this decline, however,
is likely to offset with the beginning of direct import from China, possibly in
the second half of the current financial year.
"Overall rice exports from India are set to
decline this year due to stringent quality norms introduced by the European
Union. For immediate future, therefore, India may lose its entire 400,000
tonnes of European Union markets in the immediate term. The scenario, however,
would improve with growers to reduce pesticides use in basmati rice in the long
term. Also, Indian exporters would lose the entire Bangladesh market in the
immediate term,” said Gurnam Arora, Joint Managing Director, Kohinoor Foods,
one of India’s largest basmati rice exporters which sells its aromatic rice
under Kohinoor brand.
Data compiled by the Agricultural and Processed Food
Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) showed a bumpy ride of both
basmati and non-basmati rice exports during the last financial year. India
emerged as a large supplier of rice to the South East Asian (SEA) countries due
to a devastating flood in this region last year.
Consequently, India's both non-basmati rice exports
jumped by a staggering 28 per cent to 8.65 million tonnes for the financial
year 2017-18 compared to 6.77 million tonnes in the previous financial year.
India’s basmati rice exports, however, stagnated at around 4 million tonnes in
three years.
In value terms, however, non-basmati rice exports
from India jumped by a staggering 41 per cent to $3564.39 million for FY17-18
versus $2531.47 million in the previous financial year.
“A part of the decline in non-basmati rice export
would get compensated through shipment to China for which Apeda has started
registering exporters,” said a senior official with a large rice exporting
company.
A study from India Rating (Ind-Ra) believes India’s
export price is likely to remain competitive in the international market and
the recent decline in India’s rice export prices could attract buying from
African countries, as Indian rice has become more competitive while a decline
in rupee is cushioning exporters’ margins.
Indian rice prices softened as rice exports from
India declined in April 2018, due to a decline in the exports of basmati rice
to Saudi Arabia and non-basmati rice to Bangladesh along with a subdued demand
from African countries. Ind-Ra believes imports by Bangladesh are likely to
reduce in 2018-2019, as its domestic output rebounds due to a crop recovery and
expansion in area sown because of high prices in 2017. As a result, India’s
exports could reduce by 0.5 million tonnes to 1 million tonnes.
In May 2017, Chinese authority had identified 14
rice exporters from India to be considered for its shipment to China. But
registration of interested exporters started recently.
Meanwhile, according to the third advance estimate
for 2017 - 2018, India is set to achieve a record rice production of 111.5
million tonnes against the target of 108.5 million tonnes this year breaching
its previous record of 109.7 million tonnes for 2016-2017.
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