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Millers ready to supply quality rice
TNN | May 21, 2016, 03.24 AM IST
Hyderabad: Rice millers on Friday informed the civil supplies
minister P Sunita that they are ready to supply good quality rice at a rate of
Rs 35 per kg.
The association met the minister in view of high value added service on rice supply. Minister assured them that she will take up the price issues with chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
They informed that minister if the state government can curb the export of rice to other states, the prices can come down further. Red gram millers told the ministers that they are supplying the pulses at a rate of Rs 120 per kg. If needed, they can increase their supply as well.
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State exempts market fee on rice
Government
on Friday issued orders exempting market fee on rice being sold by rice millers
to dealers with the State and also on cotton seed.However, it has increased the
market fee on paddy and cotton from the existing 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent to
compensate the loss to marketing department, at least to some extent.
The
decisions were taken based on the report submitted by a committee appointed by
the Agricultural Marketing Department to examine the issue of exempting market
fee on rice. The report stated that market fee estimated on rice during
2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 was Rs.37.43 crore, Rs.56.4 crore and Rs.37.57
crore based on production and the collection was around 25 per cent to 30 per
cent of the target.
Scientists from
IIRR-ICAR & CSIR-CCMB wins prestigious award in product development in
bio-technology
Hyderabad | Friday, May 20 2016 IST
Biotech Product
and Process Development and Commercialisation Award for 2016 has been awarded
to a joint team from ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (ICAR-IIRR) and
CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) for the development
and commercialisation of Improved Samba Masuri, a bacterial blight resistant
rice variety.
The award has been instituted by the Union
Department of Biotechnology to recognise outstanding contributions of
scientists and innovators in the field of product development in biotechnology.
Samba Masuri (also called BPT5204) is a popular
rice variety that was originally developed by Hyderbad-based the Acharya NG
Ranga Agricultural University (in erstwhile undivided Andhra Pradesh) and is
cultivated in several million hectares of farmers' fields in India.
However, Samba Masuri is susceptible to the
serious Bacterial Blight disease which can cause yield losses ranging from
10-50 per cent.
Effective bactericides are not available for
controlling bacterial blight.
The joint team of scientists from
CSIR-city-based CCMB and ICAR-IIRR addressed this problem using a tool of
biotechnology called marker assisted selection.
The newly developed variety, called Improved
Samba Mahuri is resistant to bacterial blight and retains the fine quality and
yield characteristics of Samba Masuri.
Since its release, Improved Samba Masuri has
been cultivated in 90,000 hectares of farmers' fields in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil
Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka.
Improved Samba Masuri is becoming increasingly
popular with farmers in bacterial blight affected areas of India in which Samba
Masuri is cultivated. Improved Samba Masuri is not a transgenic plant.The award
was conferred to the team by the President Pranab Mukherjee at New Delhi on the
occasion of National Technology Day recently, said Indian Institute of Rice
Research ) IIRR said in a release here today UNI KNR CNR ADB1348
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USA Rice Team
Receives Innovation Award for Online Member Service
By Linda Sieh
WASHINGTON, DC -- A USA Rice staff team that recently completed
improvements to usarice.com has received the "Fast Track Excellence WOW!
Award" from Protech Associates, one of the first and largest providers of
association management software. The
award recognizes customers who achieve significant results within the first
year of a Protech Business Solutions implementation. USA Rice recently launched Protech's MX
Online, named for its purpose of enhancing Member eXperiences on an
association's website.
USA Rice members are now able to log in to usarice.com to see and
update their individual contact information, view their assignments to USA Rice
boards, committees, and task forces, and see who else serves with them. They can upload photos for use in member
directories and register for meetings using the new online system. Primary contacts for member companies can
also update their company's profile, including information about people
associated with their company, and products the company offers.
The WOW! Award was announced during Protech's annual FUSION
conference here last week, during which USA Rice's new searchable online
Supplier Directory was featured at a session highlighting innovative uses of
MX. The new directory contains
information on member rice types, rice co-products, and associated
services. Website visitors can enter
search criteria and then contact USA Rice member companies for more
information.
"The supplier directory is actually one of the most accessed
pieces of information on our website, and is a key member benefit," said
Katie Maher, USA Rice director of domestic promotion. "This upgrade greatly enhances this
valuable member benefit and in the end will make it easier for customers
searching for suppliers of U.S.-grown rice and rice products."
USA Rice Daily
Combating
Unfair Trade Practices: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Petitions
WASHINGTON, DC -- California rice farmer and chairman
of USA Rice's Asian Trade Policy subcommittee Michael Rue once famously told
regulators he feels like he's not just competing with rice farmers in other
countries, but rather with rice farmers and their entire governments.
Unfair trade practices litter the global trade landscape. So what is a
U.S. rice farmer to do?
One option available to the U.S. rice industry is to
file a petition for an antidumping (AD) and/or countervailing duty (CVD)
investigation conducted by the Department of Commerce and the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC) in an effort to ameliorate unfair trade
practices by foreign countries.
Dumping occurs when a foreign producer or exporter
sells a product in the United States at a price that is less than "normal
value," which is the price it is sold for in its own domestic market, or
the cost of production. A countervailable subsidy involves government
assistance to an industry to benefit the production or exportation of goods.
During this week's World Market Price meeting,
representatives from the Department of Commerce presented a procedural overview
on how to initiate antidumping and counterveiling duty investigations if the
industry decides to pursue this course of action. An industry can choose
to file joint AD and CVD petitions, or can file one or the other based on the
circumstances affecting the industry.
There are a few crucial elements that comprise AD and
CVD petitions: a detailed definition of the foreign product in question, a
definition of the product manufactured in the U.S. that is most similar to the
foreign product, a dumping and/or subsidy allegation, and proof of material
injury.
After examining the evidence presented in the petition,
ITC and Commerce independently determine the degree to which an industry has
suffered injury in the form of declining domestic prices, declining net sales
and market share, declining profitability, etc. and will then issue an order
based on their findings.
If injury is found, an additional U.S. import duty is
applied to the product which represents the value of the foreign subsidy or dumping
level.
"We've been saying for a long time that we don't
believe all of our trading partners are living up to their WTO commitments, so
as we look at possible remedies, it was good to hear about these options
available to our industry," said Keith Glover, CEO of Producers Rice Mill
and chairman of the World Market Price Subcommittee. "It's worth
noting, however, that AD/CVD cases are not a sure thing, they are costly, and
they could force a retaliation from a government that you name. It's a
lot to think about."
As evidenced by last year's ITC study, "Rice:
Global Competitiveness of the U.S. Industry," foreign government
intervention in rice imports and exports has significantly impacted trade and
price trends in the world rice market. With a larger than normal
projected crop harvest for 2016, it is imperative that the global playing field
is leveled and all trading partners are playing by the same set of rules to
ensure U.S. rice farmers are allowed fair market access.
THE REAL CO HONORS CELIAC AWARENESS MONTH
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As Zuma, VIPs sing struggle songs, Fort Hare students swipe their food
Thanduxolo Jika | 20 May, 2016 16:31
President Jacob Zuma. File photo.
Image by: KEVIN SUTHERLAND / SUNDAY TIMES
Image by: KEVIN SUTHERLAND / SUNDAY TIMES
As President Jacob Zuma and other dignitaries were singing struggle songs inside in celebration of Fort Hare University's 100th anniversary‚ students stole their food and vandalised the marquees outside.
On the menu was grilled kingklip‚ lamb curry served with
sambals‚ roast chicken‚ samp‚ beans‚ basmati rice‚ bean curry and other
delicious treats.
• Fort Hare
students thwarted from storming celebration venue
“I am stressed‚” said a Fort Hare staff member who didn’t
want to be named. “I don't know what these people are going to eat.
• Police
seal off Fort Hare campus ahead of centenary celebrations
“The students looted the food and took all the pots. So it
wasn't just the marquees that were being vandalised. The police came too late.”
The students also destroyed a services provider's property
worth R6-million. “I have lost so much money on this thing‚” the person said.
Public order police had to stop angry students from entering
the university’s main hall.
But a police spokesperson said they had not been informed of
any. He did not disclose how many public order police officers had been
dispatched to the university.
– TMG Digital/The Sunday Times
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Third round rice auction successful
Third round rice auction
successful
BANGKOK: — The Commerce
Ministry’s 1.1 million tons rice auction ended with success as were bought up
by private buyers, generating almost 10 billion baht into national coffers.
Duangporn Rodphayathi, the
director-general of the ministry’s Department of Foreign Trade said the rice
auction, the third round for this year, saw 48 bidders forwarding bids for the
entire quota of 1,190,000 tons of rice estimated to be almost 10 billion baht
in value. She stated that following this, the
Rice Policy and Management Committee will handle the actual processing and
approvals to distribute the rice stocks.
With regards to the signing of
sales agreements for rice stocks under the G-2-G agreements with the Chinese
government, the contract will be divided into two parts.The first agreed amount
of 1 million ton is at present in the process of being delivered while the
remaining 1 million tons, it is expected that negotiations will be concluded
and the contract will be signed by June of this year when a delegation of
Chinese officials arrives in Thailand, she said.
Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/164051
Drought continues to batter many Thai provinces
BANGKOK, 20 May 2016 (NNT) – The drought situation still seriously affects many provinces. An academic institution in Nakhon Si Thammarat has announced a temporary closure due to a lack of water.
Bueng Boraphet, a 130,000-Rai pond, in Nakhon Sawan has been severely damaged by drought. Less than 3,000 Rai of the pond have water left and the deepest part of the pond has less than 10 million cubic meters of water. The water level of the pond will likely decrease continuously.
Nakhon Sawan has estimated that If there is no more water in June, the pond’s ecological system will be damaged. In Angthong, farmers in Pho Thong district is preparing to cultivate rice since the rain fell over the past two days. Chief of the provincial irrigation department Preecha Panwa said water in the province could be used for consumption and environmental preservation only during this period. The department’s chief therefore urged farmers to postpone their rice cultivation.In Surin, drought-affected 136 villagers in Chom Phra district are in dire need of help.In Nakhon Si Thammarat, water trucks from many organizations have transported water from the province’s regional waterworks department for the local people. The Nakhon Si Thammarat Vocational College announced that it will be closed from 23-27 May 2016
http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/drought-continues-to-batter-many-thai-provinces/142595/
2016 rice planting surges in May
“Last year, we were really struggling,” said Ginn, Lawrence County staff chair. The northeastern Arkansas county is one of the top three rice-producing counties in the state. Halfway through May, growers in his county — and throughout much of Arkansas — were waiting out one rain spell after another, hoping for enough dry weather in between to get rice in the ground.
By
Ryan McGeeney
UofA Division of Ag
UofA Division of Ag
Posted May. 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM
ARKANSAS —
Along with most of the state’s Cooperative Extension Service
agricultural agents working in the rice-heavy counties of Arkansas, Herb Ginn
won’t forget the 2015 planting season any time soon.
“Last year, we were really
struggling,” said Ginn, Lawrence County staff chair. The northeastern Arkansas
county is one of the top three rice-producing counties in the state. Halfway
through May, growers in his county — and throughout much of Arkansas — were
waiting out one rain spell after another, hoping for enough dry weather in
between to get rice in the ground.
But in 2016, the weather has been
so favorable for so many rice growers that planting progress has leapt ahead of
the five-year average established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for
mid-May, and several counties are now expecting more acreage to be dedicated to
rice than growers originally declared in the early spring.
“Last year, we had around 89,000
acres of rice, and I think this year we’ll be over 100,000,” Ginn said. “We’ll
be up more than 10 percent is my guesstimate. I am seeing a lot of rice.”
Jarrod Hardke, extension rice
agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said
that in years when rice planting is significantly delayed, many rice growers
begin turning planned rice acreage over to soybeans as May gives way to June.
But because so much of the state’s planned rice acreage was planted so early
(the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated 96 percent
complete as of May 15), some growers have actually purchased more rice and
planted additional acres, he said.
Hardke said that based on
activity he had witnessed throughout the state over the past four weeks, he was
recalculating the state’s rice acreage from about 1.6 million acres to as many
as 1.7 million acres.
“If we hit 1.7 million acres, it
would be the second-largest highest rice acreage we’ve ever had in the state,
the first being in 2010 with 1.785 million,” Hardke said. “The mid-season
weather has to cooperate of course, but in the grand scheme of things, the
majority of acreage being planted this early would suggest that the table is
set for a very positive yield year. Our production could be very high this
year.”
The planting season has been
favorable for other Arkansas commodity staples as well, including corn, cotton
and soybeans, the progress of which are all far ahead of the USDA-recorded
five-year averages.To learn more about Arkansas commodities, contact your local
Cooperative Extension Agent or visit www.uaex.edu.
