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TCP issues fresh tender for supply of rice to Sri Lanka
RIZWAN BHATTI
KARACHI: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has issued fresh tender for procurement of 5,000 tons Long
Grain White Rice (IRRI-6) for export to Sri Lanka.
The procurement is being made on the directives of the federal
government, which has committed to donating some 10,000 tons of rice to Sri
Lanka as gift from the people of Pakistan.
The state-run grain trader has already procured 5,000 tons
through a rice tender, opened on Monday. The TCP had finalized a deal on
Tuesday with M/s Jhulay Lal Parboiled Rice Mills as the latter was the lowest
bidder in the Long Grain White Rice (IRRI-6) tender.
Some 5,000 tons of the commodity has been procured at two
different rates as the lowest bidder submitted two separate bids with two
rates. The TCP has procured some 2,500 tons at a price of Rs 39,494 per ton and
another quantity of 2,500 tons at Rs 40,307 per ton.
In order to complete the quantity for export to Sri Lanka, the
TCP has invited sealed bids (under clause-42(d) (iii) of the Public Procurement
Rules, 2004) on Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF) basis from
companies/partnership/sole proprietors dealing in export of rice, in the shape
of containerized bagged cargo packed in 50-kg polypropylene (PP) woven bags.
However, according to the tender document, the companies that
are blacklisted by any government department /agency including the TCP are not
eligible to participate in the tender.
The bids will be submitted by a bidder for a minimum quantity of
2,500 tons or multiples thereof with a maximum quantity of 5,000 tons for Long
Grain White Rice (IRRI-6).
According to tender document, interested parties can submit/drop
their bids, in sealed envelope up to March 10, 2017. The bids received will be
opened the same day in the TCP's Board Room in the presence of bidders or their
authorized representatives, who may wish to be present. As per the tender
requirement, each bag of 50-kg IRRI-6 rice will be printed with black ink
except Pakistani
flag.
http://www.brecorder.com/2017/03/09/338706/tcp-issues-fresh-tender-for-supply-of-rice-to-sri-lanka/
A circular tale of changing food preferences
West Africans are eating more like Asians. Asians are eating
more like Americans. And the richest Americans…
Mar 9th 2017| LOS ANGELES, SINGAPORE AND TIASSALÉ
IF YOU think of food simply as
sustenance, or as a source of pleasure, a trip to the farmer’s market in
Pacific Palisades will open your eyes. To the Lycra-clad shoppers in this
wealthy district of Los Angeles, eating is an intensely tricky activity. A
woman in a felt hat, Julie, says she tries to avoid white flour because it
makes her feel bloated—though she makes an exception for tortillas. A mother of
a four-year-old eats rice five times a week, but is “not proud of it”. Having
educated herself about food, a third woman, Suzanne Tatoy, favours brown rice,
quinoa, amaranth and millet.
Food fads are strange, powerful
things. Between the 1970s and the 1990s Americans ate more and more wheat,
partly because they were trying to avoid cholesterol. Then came a string of
popular low-carbohydrate diets, from Dr Atkins to paleo. A rise in coeliac
disease and selfdiagnosed gluten intolerance has made wheat seem decidedly
dangerous. Between 1997 and 2015 flour consumption in America fell from 67kg
per head to 60kg.
Yet the foodies of Pacific
Palisades are not just swayed by science—or even pseudoscience. They are also
driven by fashion, which has decreed that some grains are out and others are
in. In that sense they are part of a huge global trend. People in many
countries are dropping familiar grains for new ones, for reasons to do with
agricultural technology, work, health and social aspirations. This shift is
more-or-less circular. Everybody is trying to eat more of the grains that
better-off people are eating, except the very wealthy, who prize poor people’s
food. The story begins in the fields of west Africa.
Aboud Kobena has been growing
rice near Tiassalé, in Ivory Coast, since 1991. He has many complaints. The
pump that draws water from a nearby river to irrigate his 35-hectare farm is on
the blink again. The machines he has bought to speed up harvesting have proved
a poor advertisement for Chinese engineering. Labour is expensive, he says, and
“people have become lazy.” Worst of all, the price his crops fetch is far lower
than a decade ago. The problem, says Mr Kobena, is that now everybody is
growing rice.
Africa mostly missed out on the
green revolution that boosted agricultural production in Asia from the 1960s
onwards. That was partly because of war and lousy government. Another problem
is that growing conditions in Africa are both distinct from those in Asia and
highly varied across the continent. “We don’t have the same soils, we don’t
have the same diseases, we don’t have the same pests,” says Harold
Roy-Macauley, the head of Africa Rice, which co-ordinates research in Africa.
Yet the continent is beginning to catch up, with rice farmers in the vanguard.
Faster, cheaper, better
Between 2000 and 2014 rice
production in west Africa jumped from 7.1m tonnes to 16.8m tonnes (see chart).
In Ivory Coast, which is mostly known as a cocoa producer, the rice harvest
tripled over that time. New hybrid seed lines developed specifically for
Africa, such as NERICA and WITA, have boosted yields and enabled farmers to
grow rice in dry areas where sorghum was once the dominant crop.
Rice has long been popular in
some west African countries, such as Senegal. It is becoming a staple in much
of the region. Thomas Reardon, who studies food at Michigan State University,
says that urbanisation is driving demand. Urban workers developed a taste for
rice in cafés and now cook it at home. Besides, rice is less fiddly to cook
than millet or sorghum, adds Mr Roy-Macauley—a convenience food for Africa’s
tired city workers.
The Food and Agriculture
Organisation, a branch of the UN, estimates that rice consumption per head is
growing faster in sub-Saharan Africa than in any other region. That is likely
to persist, because Africa’s cities are adding inhabitants so fast—by 3% a
year, on average. So there is plenty of opportunity for African farmers. And
African demand is also a boon to the rice-producing countries of Asia. They
could do with some new customers, because demand at home is not what it was.
So central is rice to life in
Asia that in many countries, rather than asking “how are you?” people ask,
“have you eaten rice yet?” Around 90% of the world’s rice is consumed in
Asia—60% of it in China, India and Indonesia alone. In every large country
except Pakistan, Asians eat more rice than the global average.
Between the early 1960s and the
early 1990s, rice consumption per head rose steadily, from an average of 85
kilograms per year to 103. As Asia scraped its way out of poverty people began
to consume more food, and rice was available and affordable. In the poorest
Asian countries, such as Bangladesh and Cambodia, a full rice bowl remains a
sign of plenty (70% of calories come from rice in Bangladesh) and people
continue to eat more of it.
But rice consumption is now
more-or-less flat in Asia as a whole. In better-off countries rice is going out
of fashion. Figures from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
suggest that rice consumption per head has fallen since 2000 in China,
Indonesia and South Korea, and has crashed in Singapore. Obeying a rule known
as Bennett’s law, wealthier Asians are getting more of their calories from
vegetables, fruit, meat, fish and dairy products. And, as in Africa, many
people are switching to another grain.
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Whereas roadside stalls in
South-East Asia still dish up rice to the masses, fancy shopping malls are
increasingly dominated by wheat. A proliferation of bakeries offer traditional
European pastries and breads as well as peculiar Asian inventions. BreadTalk, a
fast-growing chain based in Singapore, does a roaring business in “floss
buns”—sweet white buns larded with butter, coated with egg and rolled in dried
shredded pork.
Joseph Lee, the owner of The
BreadTable, another Singapore bakery, puts the growth in demand down to tourism
and migration. “The more people started to travel, the more they wanted to find
European bread when they came home,” he says. “Now we have people asking for
sourdough.” He opened in 2013, the first of a rush of European-style bakeries.
Wheat consumption is rising
quickly in countries like Thailand and Vietnam (see map). South-East Asian
countries will consume 23.4m tonnes of wheat in 2016-17, estimates the USDA—up
from 16.5m tonnes in 2012-13. Almost all of it will be imported. In South Asia
consumption is expected to grow from 121m to 139m tonnes in the same period.
India, which was recently a large net exporter of wheat, has become a net
importer. Some of the wheat is for animal feed, but most is simply for eating.
This trend has a long way to run,
thinks Rabobank, a bank. South-East Asians still eat only 26kg of wheat a year,
much less than the world average of 78kg. They seem unperturbed by price rises:
wheat-eating kept growing even as the grain became more expensive between 2009
and 2013, although its use as an animal feed declined. Still, rice will remain
central to many Asian cultures. People are unlikely to start greeting each
other by asking if they have eaten bagels yet.
Newfangled ancient grains
As west Africans fill their
plates with rice, and South-East Asians munch ciabatta, Americans are moving
away from both. “You can only eat so many cakes,” suggests Graydon Chong, an
analyst at Rabobank. And wheat has new competitors, especially in America’s
richest quarters. Or, to be precise, new ancient competitors.
Café Gratitude is a gourmet
vegetarian restaurant in Venice Beach, a district of Los Angeles that is health-conscious
even by the standards of that metropolis. Each item on the menu is an
affirmation, so you are supposed to order a dish called Glorious by announcing,
“I am glorious.” Pizza is available (“I am giving”), but it is made from
einkorn and Kamut. Side dishes include brown rice and quinoa.
Einkorn and Kamut are both types
of wheat. Their promoters say they have long pedigrees and have escaped
meddling by modern plant-breeders. Quinoa is something else: the seed of a
plant that grows mostly in Central and South America. Such grains, and various
others besides, tend to be marketed as “ancient grains”. Supposedly they are
healthier and more authentic than plain old rice and wheat. Most assuredly,
they are more expensive. A few miles north of Venice Beach, in the Santa Monica
farmers’ market, Larry Kandarian sells organic black barley for $9 a pound and
Ethiopian blue tinge farro (another kind of wheat) for $7.
The fad for “virtuous” grains is
spreading beyond Californian foodies. In 2015 General Mills, a large American
food company, introduced a breakfast cereal called “Cheerios + ancient grains”
containing Kamut, oats, quinoa and spelt. Ronzoni has created a pasta with
amaranth, millet, quinoa, sorghum and teff. Datassential, a market-research
firm that tracks restaurant menus, reports that 9% of casual restaurants and
16% of “fine dining” ones offered quinoa in 2016. Sorghum, which Americans have
long fed to livestock, is also creeping onto menus for people. So is millet,
which is normally treated as birdseed.
It is too early to tell whether
ancient grains are more than a fad. Although global quinoa production rose from
58,000 tonnes in 2008 to 193,000 tonnes in 2014, it is still a trivial crop
compared with rice, wheat or maize. The most important cereals benefit from
dense networks of agricultural research institutes that work to raise yields
and suppress pests and diseases. They are often subsidised.
Yet it is consumers, not
governments, who ultimately drive changes in diets. And consumers almost
everywhere seem to have acquired a taste for novelty. Packaged foods are
becoming more popular even in poor African and Asian countries, says Mr
Reardon. He is especially struck by the rise of wheat noodles in Africa.
Indomie, an Indonesian firm, started making noodles in Nigeria in the
mid-1990s. It now has several rivals in that country, and demand is rising
elsewhere in west Africa. The reign of rice might prove brief
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21718508-west-africans-are-eating-more-asians-asians-are-eating-more-americans-and
Clean rice processing cuts costs,
emissions
Update: March, 10/2017 - 09:00
Rice grown using organic fertiliser in the southern province of Hậu
Giang yields an average of 8.5 tonnes per hectare, 1.5 tonne per hectare
higher than when traditional fertilisers are used. The environment benefits
and farmers earn more profit. — VNA/VNS Photo Duy Khương
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HCM CITY — The Sông Hậu Food Company, a rice exporter, has reduced its energy
consumption by 983,764 kWh in the past four years, saving US$62,615.
An official of its parent company, Vinafood 2,
said reduced energy costs helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enables
cleaner rice production.
The result was achieved under a project
applying efficient, cleaner production methods, said Phạm Văn Tỏ, deputy manager of Vinafood 2’s Technical and
Construction Department.
He said that in rice
processing, electricity costs usually account for 20 to 35 per cent of total
production costs.
Energy is usually one of the highest costs a
company faces. If it can reduce energy consumption by just a few per cent, it
can make a significant savings along with contributing to greenhouse gas
reduction, he said.
In 2013, the corporation had approached the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Programme (RECP), a
UNIDO-UNEP joint programme financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for
Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented by Sofies (a consultancy in
Switzerland) and the Việt Nam Cleaner Production Centre Co Ltd (VNCPC).
A pilot project
was implemented in two member enterprises, Sông Hậu Food Company and An Giang
Food and Foodstuff Company in 2013, and expanded to six other member companies
in March last year.
Trần Văn Nhân,
director of VNCPC, said the rice industry’s export achievements of the past
years came at the cost of adverse impacts on the environment during production
and processing.
From the entire
rice value chain, the project chose to pilot the processing phase, since this
has the largest impact on the environment, he said.
“We realise that
there is a great potential to turn waste resulting from rice milling into
biomass energy, which significantly contributes to reducing climate change.”
In addition, with
energy costs accounting for 35-40 per cent of rice production costs, “if we can
save a part of the largest expenditure, it will significantly help businesses
reduce production costs and increase profits and competitiveness,” he said.
Through many activities - including
cleaner production audits at participating companies, supporting companies in
identifying cleaner production technologies and application strategies and
training - the project has helped firms improve their energy efficiency.
It has also suggested measures to
turn waste into biomass energy.
Dr. Martin Fritsch
of Sofies said Việt Nam was a leading rice exporter, focusing on large volumes.
It was facing quality challenges that weakened its competitiveness.
The sector needs
to effect changes to meet an increase in demand for higher quality rice by
creating incentives for rice farmers and millers to adopt sustainable
production practices, he said.
This would also help to avoid
continuous degradation of natural resources, such as soil and water, he said.
The project aims to promote
efficient use of natural resources, including materials, water and energy and
minimise waste and emissions, including those discharged into the water, air
and land.
Delegates at a recent conference titled
“Towards a Sustainable Agro-Industrial Ecosystem in the Mekong Delta in Việt
Nam-Focus on the Rice Value Chain,” said the project will enter its
"mainstreaming phase" this year.
A broader collaboration between all
stakeholders was necessary to align interests along the value chain and to
achieve a “sustainable mainstreaming effect for the Vietnamese rice sector,”
they added. — VNS
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/372273/clean-rice-processing-cuts-costs-emissions.html#MDJjzqUjDOHOgbXL.99
Farmers object to NFA extension of deadline
for rice imports
Inquirer Northern Luzon / 06:35 PM March 10, 2017
The
Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) on Friday urged the National Food Authority
(NFA) Council to reconsider its decision of extending the arrival of
private-sector rice imports to March 31, considering that local farmers had
already started harvesting their produce.
Just
two-thirds of 600,000 metric tons – or 400,000 metric tons – of imports through
the minimum access volume mechanism of the World Trade Organization arrived
before the original deadlilne of Feb. 28, according to FFF President Leonardo
Q. Montemayor, a former agriculture secretary.
In a
statement, Montemayor said quota holders had been lobbying the NFA Council to
extend the deadline so that they could bring in the balance of 200,000 metric
tons.
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But he said:
“Extending the deadline will benefit only a few moneyed importers at the
expense of millions of rice farmers who have started harvesting their dry
season crop.”
Montemayor
added that palay (unhusked rice) traders, who buy up to 95 percent of farmers’
produce, will lower their buying prices if they know that cheaper imports of
rice will enter the country and compete with their locally purchased grains.
“Every one
peso decline in palay prices takes away up to P6 billion from small farmers,”
he said. “This is equivalent to a reduction of 20 percent of the net income of
farmers from their summer crop.”
Ruben D.
Presilda, FFF vice president for Luzon, said rice farmers were still recovering
from the effects of the long dry season caused by the El Niño in 2015-2016 as
well as the series of typhoons that hit the country in 2016.
“Now, they
are in danger of facing another calamity, this time man-made, if the NFA
Council gives in to the demand of rice importers,” Presilda said. “This
directly contradicts the instructions of President Duterte for government
agencies to prioritize their support for the poor, including the rice farmers.” /atm
http://business.inquirer.net/225901/farmers-object-nfa-extension-deadline-rice-imports#ixzz4b0c8qRsn
Nigeria: Sultan Urges Govt to
Relax Ban On Rice, Vehicle Imports
By Rakiya A. Muhammad
Sokoto — Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Saad Abubakar has appealed
to the Federal Government to relax its ban on importation of rice and vehicles
through land borders.The royal father stated this when he received Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo at his palace in Sokoto yesterday.
"These are hard times therefore policies should not be put
in place to further tighten the noose on the neck of the people. There are
certain polices being brought up by certain agencies and I believe government
should look at such policies so as not to bring disharmony between the
government and the governed," he said.
He said such policies to include ban on importation vehicles and
rice through land borders.
"The government need to look at these and ensure such
policies do not bring further hardship and clash with security agencies and
with other people," he added.
The Sultan assured the acting president of sustained support,
loyalty and commitment.
Prof Osinbajo, who was accompanied to the palace by Governor
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, described Sokoto State as one of the states regarded as
being in the forefront of agricultural revolution.
"I believe very strongly that the way to go is the
development of agriculture and all of the agro allied value chain," he
said
U.S.
Medium Grain Rice Featured at FOODEX in Japan
By Deborah Willenborg
TOKYO, JAPAN -- USA Rice hit the ground
running on Tuesday, the first day of FOODEX 2017, the largest annual food and
beverage tradeshow in Asia, with a taste-testing activity featuring U.S. medium
grain rice. The cold menu dish,
"U.S. Medium Grain Rice Salad Sushi Style," was well received by the
more than 500 trade visitors who stopped by the U. S. Embassy Agriculture Trade
Office (ATO) booth for a sampling, and will be one of the recipes included in a
promotion highlighting new usages of U.S. medium grain rice for this market.
"A positive take-away from the
sampling activity was more visitors were aware of U.S. medium grain than in the
past," said Jim Guinn, director of USA Rice Asia Promotion Programs. "There were also more foodservice
operators in attendance who are already using U.S. medium grain
rice."
USA Rice also conducted a survey of
more than 40 traders about how they use U.S. medium grain rice in their menus,
introduced the new U.S. medium grain deli menu book, and reminded everyone of
the annual menu contest targeting chefs and deli operators tentatively
scheduled for August 2017.
"U.S. medium grain rice has
made great strides in the last year with two new wholesalers who target small
foodservice operations now carrying Calrose and two new retail chains also
carrying the product," said USA Rice Vice President International Hugh
Maginnis "Japan was our third
largest export market in 2016, importing 346,800 MT of U.S. rice."
Rice growers awash in import problems
Charley
Mathews Jr. says rice farmers try to do everything they can to improve
efficiencies, lower costs and increase production without sacrificing quality.
By JULIA HOLLISTER
For the Capital Press
Published on March 9, 2017 10:14AM
COURTESY OF BRIAN BAER
Charley Mathews Jr. grew up working in his family’s rice fields.“Like
many farm kids, I started to drive a tractor when I was 12, irrigated rice in
the summertime, and always participated when I could for planting and harvest,”
he said.
He grew up near Marysville, Calif., where he still farms.
Mathews grows medium, premium medium and sweet rice. The medium
and short grain varieties grown in California have all the characteristics of
Japanese rice — soft and sticky — which is prefect for sushi. California is the
world’s low-cost producer of sushi rice, and it is marketed around the world.
Like most crops, rice faces insect and weed pests, he said.
“Since rice is grown in an aquatic environment under a continuous
flood, many aquatic weeds thrive and compete with rice for sunlight and
nutrients,” he said. “The rest of the weeds are drowned by deep water.”
Insects are a minor challenge but require constant monitoring, he
said.
Rice, Mathews said, has historically been viewed as a
water-intensive crop. It actually uses about as much water as any other row
crop.
Rice is grown in heavy clay and hardpan soils that have an
impermeable layer below the root zone that does not allow water to percolate
downward.
This soil type would drown trees and other row crops, but is
perfect for rice. It does not suffer from salt buildup or any other
long-lasting issues.
“I have a rice field that has been in continuous production for
almost 80 years,” he said. “The yields seem to go up every year.”
Rice is not as labor-intensive as many other crops and growing it
is highly mechanized. With expensive machinery to operate, it is important that
growers find talented labor who can get the most out of the equipment.
“Rice growers have several challenges,” he said. “The ones we face
locally have to do with air and water quality, and that fact that we are
competing with an encroaching urban population that does not like noise or
dust.”
Through the efforts of the California Rice Commission, he said,
new urban neighbors are beginning to understand the environmental and social
value of a rice field.
“Outside California we are challenged with a strong dollar that
makes us less competitive,” he said. “Other rice-growing countries are
illegally subsidizing their rice production to keep world prices low and
unprofitable for us.”In addition, World Trade Organization trading partners are
not allowing California rice on store shelves in their countries as a way to
protect their own rice growers, he said.
Imported rice has been competitive with California rice. It is
mostly Jasmine from Thailand and Basmati from India. They are very different
varieties but are taking normal customers away, he said.
“No one in the rice industry takes what we have for granted,”
Mathews said. “We have watched other California crops like sugar beets simply
disappear due to poor economics and world competition.”
He said rice farmers try to do everything they can to improve
efficiencies, lower costs and increase production without sacrificing quality.“But
at the end of the day, we can only do so much and greatly depend on customers
that understand the real value of our product and not just a simple commodity,”
he said.
http://www.capitalpress.com/SpecialSections/Seed/20170309/rice-growers-awash-in-import-problems
Farmers object to NFA extension of deadline for rice
imports
March
10, 2017
The Federation of Free Farmers
(FFF) on Friday urged the National Food Authority (NFA) Council to rethink its
choice of extending the arrival of private-sector rice imports to March 31,
contemplating that native farmers had already began harvesting their produce.
Just two-thirds of 600,000 metric
tons – or 400,000 metric tons – of imports by the minimal entry quantity
mechanism of the World Trade Organization arrived earlier than the unique
deadlilne of Feb. 28, in accordance to FFF President Leonardo Q. Montemayor, a
former agriculture secretary.
In a press release, Montemayor
stated quota holders had been lobbying the NFA Council to lengthen the deadline
in order that they may deliver within the stability of 200,000 metric tons.
But he stated: “Extending the
deadline will benefit only a few moneyed importers at the expense of millions
of rice farmers who have started harvesting their dry season crop.”
Montemayor added that palay
(unhusked rice) merchants, who purchase up to 95 p.c of farmers’ produce, will
decrease their shopping for costs in the event that they know that cheaper
imports of rice will enter the nation and compete with their domestically
bought grains.
“Every one peso decline in palay
prices takes away up to P6 billion from small farmers,” he stated. “This is
equivalent to a reduction of 20 percent of the net income of farmers from their
summer crop.”
Ruben D. Presilda, FFF vp for
Luzon, stated rice farmers have been nonetheless recovering from the
consequences of the lengthy dry season attributable to the El Niño in 2015-2016
in addition to the sequence of typhoons that hit the nation in 2016.
“Now, they are in danger of
facing another calamity, this time man-made, if the NFA Council gives in to the
demand of rice importers,” Presilda stated. “This directly contradicts the
instructions of President Duterte for government agencies to prioritize their
support for the poor, including the rice farmers.” /atm
Source: inquirer
https://www.ofwnewsfeed.com/farmers-object-to-nfa-extension-of-deadline-for-rice-imports/
Bulog targets cultivating paddy on one million hectares of land
Photo document of farmers take care of paddy rice
crops Samata in Gowa, South Sulawesi, on Tuesday (7/2/2017). (ANTARA/Yusran
Uccang)
Palu (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian National
Logistics Agency (Bulog) has set a target to implement its on farm program for
cultivating paddy on one million hectares of land this year."We are
optimistic that our target to plant paddy on one million hectares of rice
fields through the on farm program would be materialized," Imam Subowo,
director of business and industry development of Bulog, stated here, Friday.
Subowo was in Central Sulawesi for the first harvest of paddy for the 2017 harvest season conducted under the on farm program in Sidondo Village, Sigi District, 40 kilometers from Palu.
The on farm program comprises the farmers self-reliance on farm program wherein the cost is entirely borne by the farmers, and the paddy produced under the program will be bought by Bulog at a standard price set by the government and Bulogs on farm program whose cost is funded fully by the logistics agency.
Bulog has also implemented the working partners on farm program, with financing from banks, and the farmers working partners and synergy on farm programs involving the participation of state-owned and private companies.
Of the target of one million hectares across the country, some 300 hectares have been materialized so far.
For South Sulawesi alone, this years target is 12 thousand hectares, and only 300 hectares have been materialized so far, Suprianto, head of the Bulog chapter in Central Sulawesi, remarked.
Paddy producing regions in Central Sulawesi include Donggala, Parigi Moutong, Poso, Sigi, Banggai, and Tolitoli
Subowo was in Central Sulawesi for the first harvest of paddy for the 2017 harvest season conducted under the on farm program in Sidondo Village, Sigi District, 40 kilometers from Palu.
The on farm program comprises the farmers self-reliance on farm program wherein the cost is entirely borne by the farmers, and the paddy produced under the program will be bought by Bulog at a standard price set by the government and Bulogs on farm program whose cost is funded fully by the logistics agency.
Bulog has also implemented the working partners on farm program, with financing from banks, and the farmers working partners and synergy on farm programs involving the participation of state-owned and private companies.
Of the target of one million hectares across the country, some 300 hectares have been materialized so far.
For South Sulawesi alone, this years target is 12 thousand hectares, and only 300 hectares have been materialized so far, Suprianto, head of the Bulog chapter in Central Sulawesi, remarked.
Paddy producing regions in Central Sulawesi include Donggala, Parigi Moutong, Poso, Sigi, Banggai, and Tolitoli
http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/109869/bulog-targets-cultivating-paddy-on-one-million-hectares-of-land
Chatchai bans third
round of rice growing to avoid water shortage
March 10, 2017 15:27
By The Nation
By The Nation
Agriculture
and Cooperatives Minister General Chatchai Sarikalya has banned the third round
of rice growing. "It must be banned even in
irrigation zones,” Chatchai said during his visit to Chainat province on Friday. Each
round of rice growing takes
about 100 days to yield crops. Authorities have been trying to encourage
farmers to grow rice only during the rainy season to avoid the risk of water shortage.
According to Chatchai, farmers in the Chao Phraya River Basin
have already engaged in the second round of rice growing and
they will be able to harvest soon. “But we have no plan to irrigate water
for them for the third round of rice growing. So, do not grow rice after the end of the
second round,” he said.
As of March 9, 34 major dams in Thailand had more than 19.98
billion cubic metres of disposable water. Although the volume is much larger
than the same period last year, there is sill a risk that many areas beyond irrigation
zones may face a water shortage.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30308553
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices
Open-March 10,2017
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-March 10
Nagpur, Mar 10 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices moved down in Nagpur Agriculture Producing and
Marketing Committee (APMC) on poor demand from local traders amid increased overseas arrival.
Easy condition in Madhya Pradesh gram and tuar prices and poor quality arrival also pulled down
prices in restricted trading activity, according to sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Desi gram reported higher in open market on good Holi festival season demand from
local traders.
TUAR
* Tuar gavarani moved down in open market on lack of demand from local traders amid
high moisture content arrival.
* In Akola, Tuar New – 4,400-4,500, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,700-6,900, Udid Mogar (clean)
– 8,500-9,000, Moong Mogar (clean) 6,600-6,900, Gram – 5,000-5,100, Gram Super best
bold – 7,500-7,700 for 100 kg.
* Wheat, rice and other commodities moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and settled at last levels.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 4,400-4,880 4,500-5,100
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 4,000-4,050 4,000-5,200
Moong Auction n.a. 6,400-6,600
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold 7,500-8,000 7,500-8,000
Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best 6,600-7,000 6,600-7,000
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality 4,700-4,800 4,700-4,800
Desi gram Raw 5,000-5,300 4,950-5,250
Gram Yellow 7,700-8,200 7,700-8,200
Gram Kabuli 11,800-13,000 11,800-13,000
Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,800-7,000 6,800-7,000
Tuar Fataka Medium-New 6,400-6,600 6,400-6,600
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 6,000-6,200 6,000-6,200
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,500-5,800 5,500-5,800
Tuar Gavarani New 4,550-4,750 4,600-4,800
Tuar Karnataka 4,550-4,750 4,550-4,750
Masoor dal best 5,600-5,800 5,600-5,800
Masoor dal medium 5,300-5,500 5,300-5,500
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold (New) 6,900-7,200 6,900-7,200
Moong Mogar Medium 6,200-6,600 6,200-6,600
Moong dal Chilka 5,500-6,100 5,500-6,100
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 6,100-6,900 6,000-6,700
Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 8,500-9,500 8,500-9,500
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 7,600-8,000 7,500-8,000
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 3,600-3,800 3,600-3,800
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,100 3,000-3,100
Watana White (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,400 3,200-3,400
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,300 3,800-4,300
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100
Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300
Wheat Lokwan new (100 INR/KG) 1,950-2,400 2,000-2,350
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,550 2,350-2,550
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,050-2,350 2,050-2,350
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,200 3,600-4,200
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,700-3,200 2,700-3,200
Rice BPT new (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,200 2,800-3,200
Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,600 3,200-3,600
Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,700-3,000 2,700-3,000
Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,500 2,200-2,500
Rice Swarna new (100 INR/KG) 2,250-2,450 2,250-2,450
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,600 2,400-2,600
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,400 2,300-2,400
Rice HMT New (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,600 3,200-3,600
Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,200 3,800-4,200
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,500 3,200-3,500
Rice Shriram New(100 INR/KG) 4,200-4,600 4,200-4,600
Rice Shriram best 100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500
Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,700-5,000 4,700-5,000
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 9,300-13,400 9,200-13,300
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,100-6,300 5,000-6,200
Rice Chinnor New(100 INR/KG) 4,600-4,800 4,600-4,800
Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 5,600-6,200 5,600-6,200
Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 5,100-5,500 5,100-5,500
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,300 2,000-2,300
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 35.9 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 20.8 degree Celsius
Rainfall : Nil
FORECAST: Mainly clear sky. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 35 and 20 degree
Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, butincluded in market prices)
http://in.reuters.com/article/nagpur-foodgrain-idINL3N1GN301
VN
amends legal documents to remove barrier to rice exports
VietNamNet
Bridge - Decree 109 dated in 2010, described as a significant barrier to rice
exports, will be amended by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT).
Under the decree, exporters must have storehouses with the capacity of 5,000 tons and a husking workshop with the capacity of 10 tons per hour at minimum.
The rigid regulation does not encourage enterprises to focus on developing low-yield high-quality rice.
The Vien Phu Trade & Production JSC was the first Vietnamese company which obtained the USDA and the EU certificate on organic rice. It has 250 hectares of organic rice growing area with the expected output of 1,000 tons. If it has to spend money to build a storehouse and husking workshop as required, it won’t be able to save on production costs, which will weaken the competitiveness of its products.
Also under the regulation, exporters must have the minimum reserves to ensure sufficient goods for fulfilling export contracts equal to 10 percent of the export volume of the last six months.
Rice exporters have
called to remove the requirement, saying that it is unreasonable to force
export companies to reserve rice in the context of unstable consumption.
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Rice
exporters have called to remove the requirement, saying that it is unreasonable
to force export companies to reserve rice in the context of unstable
consumption.Regarding the regulations on material growing area, the Decision
606 released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) in 2015 said the
businessmen who export less than 50,000 tons a year must have the growing area
of 500 hectares in the first year and have 300 more hectares each year from the
second year.
In theory, the requirement places big difficulties for enterprises, because they have to expand the material growing areas while they are not sure about consumption which depends on supply & demand in the world market. Meanwhile, it is not easy to expand the area because the land fund is limited.
Ngo Van Nam, general director of ADC, said that developing material growing areas is a must for export companies. However, expanding the areas should be an ‘encouragement’ rather than ‘obligation’.
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has the right to set the floor export prices after considering global market demand & supply and domestic rice production.
However, the floor price mechanism is not liked by rice exporters, who say it is unreasonable to fix the floor export price as prices in the world market always fluctuate.
This explained why in 2011, VFA had to adjust the floor prices eight times, including seven times adjusted within the first quarter of the year.
The regular adjustments of floor prices make it difficult for rice exporters to take the initiative in exporting products
In theory, the requirement places big difficulties for enterprises, because they have to expand the material growing areas while they are not sure about consumption which depends on supply & demand in the world market. Meanwhile, it is not easy to expand the area because the land fund is limited.
Ngo Van Nam, general director of ADC, said that developing material growing areas is a must for export companies. However, expanding the areas should be an ‘encouragement’ rather than ‘obligation’.
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has the right to set the floor export prices after considering global market demand & supply and domestic rice production.
However, the floor price mechanism is not liked by rice exporters, who say it is unreasonable to fix the floor export price as prices in the world market always fluctuate.
This explained why in 2011, VFA had to adjust the floor prices eight times, including seven times adjusted within the first quarter of the year.
The regular adjustments of floor prices make it difficult for rice exporters to take the initiative in exporting products
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/174155/vn-amends-legal-documents-to-remove-barrier-to-rice-exports.html
Iraq has not yet made
purchase in 30,000 T rice tender -traders
10 March, 2017
A man sorts out newly harvested rice stalks and grains in a
village in Najaf November 13, 2007. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish
Reuters/Ali Abu Shish
HAMBURG, March 10 (Reuters) - Iraq's state grains buyer has
not yet made a purchase in an international tender seeking least 30,000 tonnes
of rice which closed this week, traders told
Reuters on Friday.
"I think there is general belief the tender has been cancelled but there has been no official confirmation of a cancellation," one European trader said. "Nothing has been bought yet, but you cannot rule out a purchase in later talks despite offers passing their validity date."
The tender closed on March 5 with offers having to remain valid up to Thursday, March 9, they said.
"I think there is general belief the tender has been cancelled but there has been no official confirmation of a cancellation," one European trader said. "Nothing has been bought yet, but you cannot rule out a purchase in later talks despite offers passing their validity date."
The tender closed on March 5 with offers having to remain valid up to Thursday, March 9, they said.
The lowest price
offered was $404.50 a tonne c&f free out made for 40,000 tonnes of rice
from Thailand.
Iraq's last reported rice purchase was 30,000 tonnes from Argentina on Feb. 6. But this purchase was made several days after offers had expired on Jan. 29 in its previous international tender.
Iraq's last reported rice purchase was 30,000 tonnes from Argentina on Feb. 6. But this purchase was made several days after offers had expired on Jan. 29 in its previous international tender.
(Reporting by Michael
Hogan; Editing by Alexander Smith)
https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/Iraq_has_not_yet_made_purchase_in_30000_T_rice_tender_traders-TR20170310nL5N1GN17FX2/
Sultan to FG:
Review ban on importation of rice, cars
ON
MARCH 10, 20175:43 AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS
By Abdallah
el-Kurebe The Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar III, has called on the Federal
Government to reverse the ban on importation of rice and vehicles through the
land borders. Speaking at his palace, when Acting President, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo, paid a courtesy call yesterday, the Sultan emphasised the need for
government to have a rethink on some policies that were not people-friendly.
The
Sultan of Sokoto The royal father said: “We will continue to serve as the
voices of the voiceless and in this direction; we are calling on the Federal
Government to look into some recent policies that will further tighten the
noose on the necks of Nigerians. “Nigerians are already going through difficult
times and policies should not be taken to further aggravate the suffering of
Nigerians. This will also create disharmony between the government and the
governed.” While giving examples of the ban on the importation of rice and
vehicles through land borders, the Sultan noted that the policies had
heightened the suffering of Nigerians, adding “even though the two policies are
meant to stop smuggling and boost revenue, they are ill-timed.
” He
said that the traditional institution would continue to support and advise
governments at all levels. According to him, “we will always work for the
peace, unity, stability and socio-economic development of the country. We also
assure government of our total support, loyalty and commitment to the Federal
Government.” Earlier, the Acting President maintained that agriculture and solid
minerals were key in economic diversification. Professor Osinbajo said: “The
development of agriculture and agro-allied value chains are key in this
direction. Sokoto State is in the forefront of agricultural revolution to bring
back the country to the path of sustainable development. “Agencies of the
Federal Government would continue to facilitate trade and commerce in the
nation.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/sultan-fg-review-ban-importation-rice-cars/
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