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THROUGHOUT THE MID-ATLANTIC - Year two of the Think Rice Road Trip is winding
down, and the team has seen dramatic success staying close to "home"
and integrating other components of USA Rice's Domestic Promotion programs as
they hand out thousands of Aroma rice cookers and tons of donated U.S.-grown
rice to consumers.
To date, the Rice Truck and her crew have
conducted 17 consumer events across Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the
District of Columbia, with three more events scheduled in Virginia and
Maryland. The team has also made charitable donations at Wilmington's
Ministry of Caring and the Cape Henlopen Food Pantry in Delaware, The Armed
Services Retirement Home in Washington, DC, and the Shepherdstown Lions Club
& Shepherd's Pantry in West Virginia, with one more donation scheduled in
Virginia next week with the Patriot Pantry, the official food bank of George
Mason University.
Cameron Jacobs, tour
coordinator, donates rice and cookers in Wilmington DE
Consumers trade
their email address and answers to survey questions for an Aroma rice cooker
and one or two pound bags of rice, recipes, information, and Think Rice
swag. But at its core, the program is about educating consumers, who are
becoming ever more interested in where their food comes from, that when it
comes to rice they can and should eat American!
"Of course we are armed with great
information about U.S.-grown rice for consumers, from sustainable growing
practices and food safety standards to nutrition facts and cooking qualities
and tips, but the one that seems to be resonating above all others this year is
simply that we grow rice in the U.S.," said Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice
director of domestic promotion who was responsible for plotting the truck's
route this year.
"People love hearing that we grow rice here
and they tell us that they desperately want to support our growers," said
Deborah Willenborg, USA Rice director of communications who wrote one of the
team's most effective messages. "We tell them it was America's rice
farmers and millers who bought this rice cooker for them and are giving them
some rice, and they can say thank you by only filling it with U.S rice in the
future."
Look for the U.S.-grown label
Willenborg says
they all promise to do just that and carefully study the Grown in the USA label
the team points out to them.
Jacobs adds that consumers are grateful for the
new knowledge and the valuable appliance, but that they also say they look
forward to hearing from USA Rice again with recipes, coupons, and farmer
profiles via the Think Rice Newsletter that they are promised.
While farmers markets, traditional markets,
restaurants, and breweries are popular spots for the team, two of the most
unique stops this year were at a food and music festival in Delaware that
merged with USA Rice's foodservice outreach, and when the team took over a
store in historic Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to create the first ever
"All Things U.S. Rice Pop-Up Shop."
Win this truck! Click photo to
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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- November 15, 2019
NOVEMBER
15, 2019 / 1:19 PM
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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices –
APMC/Open Market-November 15, 2019 Nagpur, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Gram prices
reported down in Nagpur Agriculture Producing and Marketing Company (APMC) here
on poor demand from local millers amid high moisture content arrival. Easy
condition in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and release of stock from stockists
also pushed down prices in limited deals. About 300 bags of gram reported for
auctions here, according to sources.
GRAM
* Gram varieties ruled steady in
open market here on subdued demand from local
traders.
TUAR * Tuar gavarani quoted weak
in open market here on increased demand from local
traders.
* Rice Shriram variety recovered
in open market here on increased buying support from
local traders amid tight supply
from producing belts.
* In Akola, Tuar New – 5,600-5,800,
Tuar dal (clean) – 8,500-8,700, Udid Mogar (clean)
– 9,000-10,000, Moong Mogar
(clean) 8,800-9,800, Gram – 4,350-4,550, Gram Super best
– 6,200-6,400 * Wheat, other
varieties of rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and settled at
last levels in weak trading activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC
auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices
Previous close
Gram Auction 3,900-4,605
3,900-4,680
Gram Pink Auction n.a.
2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction n.a. 5,000-5,380
Moong Auction n.a. 3,950-4,200
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,200-2,500
Wheat Lokwan Auction 2,000-2,110
2,000-2,085
Wheat Sharbati Auction n.a.
2,900-3,000
Gram Super Best Bold 6,200-6,500
6,200-6,500
Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best 5,800-6,000
5,800-6,000
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality 4,550-4,650
4,550-4,650
Desi gram Raw 4,550-4,700
4,550-4,700
Gram Kabuli 8,500-10,000
8,500-10,000
Tuar Fataka Best-New 8,700-9,000
8,700-9,000
Tuar Fataka Medium-New
8,200-8,500 8,200-8,500
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New
8,300-8,500 8,300-8,500
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New
7,500-8,000 7,500-8,000
Tuar Gavarani New 5,900-6,000
5,950-6,050
Tuar Karnataka 6,350-6,450
6,350-6,450
Masoor dal best 5,600-5,800 5,600-5,800
Masoor dal medium 5,300-5,400
5,300-5,400
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold (New)
9,000-10,000 9,000-10,000
Moong Mogar Medium 8,000-8,800
8,000-8,800
Moong dal Chilka New 7,500-8,500
7,500-8,500
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 9,000-11,000
9,000-11,000
Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG)
(New) 9,500-10,500 9,500-10,500
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)
8,500-9,200 8,200-8,900
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)
6,300-6,900 6,300-6,900
Mot (100 INR/KG) 6,200-7,000
6,000-7,000
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 5,000-5,200
5,000-5,200
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)
8,800-10,000 8,800-10,000
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
2,050-2,250 2,050-2,250 WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 30.1 degree Celsius,
minimum temp. 14.5 degree Celsius Rainfall : Nil FORECAST: Mainly clear sky.
Maximum and minimum temperature likely to be around 30 degree Celsius and 15
degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.—not available (For oils, transport
costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices)
Indonesians quitting 'rice addiction' over diabetes fears
Indonesians eat rice at a rate
almost three times the global average. (Photo: AFP/Adek Berry)
(Updated: )
JAKARTA: Indonesian Mirnawati once ate rice
with every meal, but its link to diabetes convinced her to join a growing
movement to quit a staple food in the third biggest rice-consuming nation on
Earth.
As World Diabetes Day is held Thursday (Nov
14), the Southeast Asian nation is struggling to tackle a disease that affects
as many as 20 million of its 260 million people, and has emerged as one of its
deadliest killers behind stroke and heart disease.
But kicking the rice habit isn't easy, with
one of Indonesia's favourite dishes nasi goreng (mixed fried rice) sold
everywhere, and the grain woven into the culinary fabric of a nation whose late
dictator transformed it into a must-have meal.
"In my first week without rice I felt
like I was being possessed by ghosts," said Mirnawati, a 34-year-old
former construction company employee who goes by one name.
"But now I'll never go back to
it," she added, about four months into her new diet.
Rice is woven into Indonesia's culinary fabric.
(Photo: AFP/Adek Berry)
Complications from diabetes, which affects
some 425 million globally, can lead to heart attacks, stroke, blindness and
even limb amputation.
Most of the world's sufferers live in low
and middle-income countries like Indonesia.
Rice is packed with fibre and key vitamins.
But an unbalanced diet that relies too heavily on refined white rice has been
linked to an increasing global prevalence of diabetes and insulin resistance as
it raises blood sugar levels, according to experts.
That is what led Mirnawati - along with
her mother and cousin - to drop rice in favour of more vegetables, meat and
nuts.
It is a step that an increasing number of
Indonesians are taking in an informal 'no rice' movement, although there are no
official numbers.
The push, partly driven by social media, has
been backed by local governments including cultural capital Yogyakarta which
last year rolled out a campaign to convince residents to go without rice at
least one day a week.
RICE POLITICS
Indonesia's legacy of rice politics makes
the task tougher.
Rice - and rice production - was the
cornerstone of dictator Suharto's ambitious bid for food self-sufficiency.
The programme began in the 70s and in a
couple of decades had weaned much of the population off corn, sweet potatoes
and other staples in favour of rice.
Before he was toppled in 1998, the
iron-fisted leader spent years telling citizens not only what they could say,
but also what they could eat.
Rice
is packed with fibre and key vitamins. But an unbalanced diet that relies too
heavily on refined white rice has been linked to an increasing global
prevalence of diabetes. (Photo: AFP/Adek Berry)
With local governments pushing the message,
Suharto's administration even sold rice consumption as a ticket to higher
social status.
"People were given this illusion that
rice was healthier, gave you a higher social status and tasted better than
other staple foods," said Anhar Gonggong, a historian at the Indonesian
Institute of Sciences.
"There was an authoritarian aspect to
this rice myth. Not in the sense that guns were pointed at people to force them
to eat rice, but it implanted the myth deeply in the minds of many Indonesians.
"Now we know the impact that rice has
had on our society."
The policy turned rice from a food that many
in the sprawling archipelago rarely consumed into a staple that Indonesians now
gobble down at a rate almost three times the global average of 53kg annually.
But the strategy launched by Suharto - who died
in 2008 - ended up working too well, with demand outstripping supply. Indonesia
now relies on rice imports to fill the gap.
Complications from diabetes, which
affect millions globally, can lead to heart attacks, stroke,
blindness and even limb amputation. (Photo: AFP/Adek Berry)
"The struggle isn't only in our
stomachs, but also in our minds because we have been living this myth that you
won't be full without rice," said Ilhamsyah, a 47-year-old Jakarta
resident.
"My family has a history of diabetes so
I stopped eating rice and anything with carbohydrates," he added.
"TOO INDONESIAN"
Now, Indonesia is now trying to reverse its
decades-old policy by convincing citizens to reduce their consumption of rice,
but officials acknowledged bringing it down to average global levels could take
decades.
"We're encouraging people to change the
mindset that rice is the only source of carbohydrates because we have many
staple foods available," said Agung Hendriadi, head of the agriculture
ministry's Food Resilience Agency.
Selling millions of Indonesians on a low- or
no-rice diet will be a Herculean task, despite the possible health benefits.
"I tried the no-rice lifestyle several
times, but I failed," said Bali resident Mentari Rahman.
"My tongue is too Indonesian - I just
couldn't stay away from it."
