NFA
to carry out aggressive palay procurement
June 23, 2015 Pilar mabaquiao
SAN JOSE, Antique (PIA) - -
While the the farmers are on
planting season, the National Food Authority
is readying its warehouses and
dryers for aggressive palay procurement come harvest time. Provincial Manager
Marianito Benjemino said NFA Antique will double its efforts in palay
procurement to ensure that the rice buffer stock of the province will remain
sufficient especially during lean months.He said NFA will establish palay
buying stations in rice producing municipalities and continue with mobile
procurement to reach out to more farmers aside from the regular procurement at
NFA warehouses in the towns of San Jose
and Culasi.
He also assured the farmers that
requirements to avail of the farmer’s passbook has been simplified and payment of their palay will be
on cash basis either during the mobile procurement or at designated buying
stations.Antique, Bejemino said has two big warehouses in San Jose and Culasi
that could accommodate 100,000 bags of rice once procurement will go on full
swing.“We are also ready to rent warehouse of any Irrigators / Farmers
Association or private individual once the supply exceeds the capacity of our
warehouse. We have done this is the previous years,” he said.
Bejemino also mentioned the mechanical dryers with bigger capacity
stationed at the warehouses to dry the palay during rainy months while drying
pavements are ready when sunlight is available.He encouraged farmers to sell
their palay to NFA because during the lean months farmers have the option to
buy back and mill for their consumption or sell to other markets for a much
higher price. This is contained in the NFA’s FOBB or Farmers Option to Buy Back
program.Meanwhile, Bejemino assured the Antiquenos that NFA rice is sufficient
and available in 56 accredited outlets provincewide. (JCM/PSM/PIA6 Antique)
http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/981435030858/nfa-to-carry-out-aggressive-palay-procurement#sthash.15VcfQ9M.dpuf
Raskin program needs
serious overhaul: Jokowi
Satria Sambijantoro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta |
Business | Tue, June 23 2015, 9:02 AM
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has instructed
his ministers to thoroughly evaluate the subsidized rice-for-the-poor (raskin)
program after he claimed to have found serious problems with it.Recounting
his experience during field visits, the President claimed to have found that
some of the rice was inedible. Some
of the rice is sold two or three years after its expiration date, with some of
it having turned murky and even containing fungus by the time it was received
by the poor, Jokowi noted.“The raskin is an integral part of our
people’s social protection program,” the President told his ministers as he
opened a limited Cabinet meeting on the issue on Monday. “I want the rice to be
distributed in really, really good quality.
” Raskin, formerly known as a special
market operation (OPK), is a cross-sector national program that has been
implemented every year since 1998.The program was introduced to improve
the poor’s access to rice, the main staple food of Indonesia’s 250 million
people, with its distribution involving the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) and
other ministries.From 2005 to 2009, the government distributed between
1.6 and 3.2 million tons of rice every year under the raskin program, with its
price set at Rp 1,000 (7 US cents) to Rp 1,600 per kilogram, according to Bulog
data.During the meeting at the State Palace, Jokowi also called for an
overhaul in the distribution of raskin, as some of the cheap rice apparently
failed to reach the targeted poor households.“Our findings show that the
raskin recipient list includes affluent households.
[The raskin recipient data] needs to be
verified and re-evaluated,” said the President.Commenting on the issue,
Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said Monday that her ministry
would reassess the quality of the raskin program, as well as the data on
recipients. Based on the
ministry’s findings, the poor quality raskin — expired rice that had turned
murky and contained fungus — was found in rice warehouses in Java, while that
distributed outside the island was usually of good quality, she said.“Java
is the hub of rice production, and so much of the rice there was stockpiled for
a very long time instead of being distributed in a timely manner. So we need to address this
issue in the warehouses in Java by ensuring that they comply to the
first-in-first out rice distribution policy,” Khofifah told reporters.
Another issue in the raskin program was the
fact that local regional leaders failed to distribute the rice on time to the
targeted households, said Coordinating Economic Minister Sofyan Djalil.The
government will coordinate with local leaders to resolve the issue and ease
distribution of rice for the poor as demanded by the President, Sofyan said. Jokowi has won local support
for his firm stance against imports of crucial food commodities, but his
anti-import policy has been blamed for the recent acceleration in inflation,
notably food inflation, with rice prices soaring by more than 30 percent
year-on-year only several months after he took office.
In February, Jokowi directly spearheaded the
market operation to stabilize rice prices at Bulog rice warehouses in Jakarta,
where the government began distributing raskin at Rp 1,600 per kilogram to
stabilize rice prices, which at that time rose to as high as Rp 12,000 per
kilogram. At that time,
some of the supposedly high-quality rice sold in the market was found to have
been mixed with low-quality raskin. Earlier
this month, Jokowi fired then Bulog chairwoman Lenny Sugihat as the agency was
deemed unsuccessful in the absorption of rice stocks and the distribution of
raskin.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/23/raskin-program-needs-serious-overhaul-jokowi.html#sthash.BKMwx5DX.dpuf
No cash compensation
for Thai farmers in delaying rice cultivation
BANGKOK: — Farmers who were
asked to put off their rice cultivation this year will not get cash
compensation but will be assisted by the government in the form of farming cost
and promotion to cultivate other low water use plants.
Deputy prime minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula said he would
propose the cabinet tomorrow to assist farmers in farming cost instead of the
1,000 baht per rai as cash compensation, as well as in promoting them to grow
low water use plants.This would not cost the government much in term of budgets
as the government still have budget inn the emergency fund to support this
scheme, he said.Meanwhile Agriculture Minister Pitipong Phuengboon na Ayudhaya
said latest aerial survey by the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology
Development Agency showed rice cultivation areas rise to 4 million rai from 3.4
million rai after the government issued announcement urging farmers to delay
rice cultivation.
He said the increase in cultivation areas by 600,000 rai carries
high risk of total damage due to water shortage from drought.He warned farmers
not to cultivate the remaining over two million rai otherwise they will face
total damage from drought.He also said he would propose the cabinet to promote
farmers to cultivate other crops that use low water, and also to suspend interest collection temporarily until new crops
produces yields and generate revenues for farmers.
Full story:
http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/no-cash-compensation-for-farmers-in-delaying-rice-cultivat
Ministry of Commerce
denies rumors of bad rice to be sold in markets
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
BANGKOK, 22 June 2015 - The Ministry
of Commerce has denied rumors that it will sell low quality rice for domestic
consumption.Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP) Director General
Duangporn Rodphaya responded to rumors that the government was considering
supplying low quality grains to the animal feed industry and ethanol
manufacturers. She said the government will only release good quality rice for
human and animal consumption.The DITP Director General added that only low
quality grains will be sold to industries that do not produce human or animal
food.The amount of rice released will also be determined by the rice supply
expected to be produced during the rainy season. The Ministry of Commerce has
assured rice farmers that the release of government stock will not affect the
market price.
http://www.pattayamail.com/business/ministry-of-commerce-denies-rumors-of-bad-rice-to-be-sold-in-markets-48276#sthash.Iub8LdTA.dpuf
Europe rice standards still a
challenge for millers
By Ko Ko Aung,Htin Linn Aung
| Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Myanmar has duty-free access to the European Union for nearly all its exports.
This has been a particular boon to garments, but has also opened the door to
the rice trade.
Only Cambodia and Myanmar enjoy this duty free access among
regional rice exporters. Although this market access gives local production a
leg up, it is still tough to gain European buyers, as the domestic industry has
trouble meeting its high standards.“For the time being, Myanmar has been
exporting broken rice to the European Union,” said Damien Plan, an official
with the European Commission’s Agriculture and Rural Development
directorate-general. Europe is assisting Myanmar develop its rice sector. In the
future, ideally it will be exporting more fragrant rice, such as jasmine rice,
to Europe.“We want quality rice from Myanmar,” said Mr Plan.Rice exports have
been growing significantly in recent years, and along with beans and pulses are
a major national export.
About 70 percent of rice exports go to China, with most of the
rest going to African markets and the Middle East.In May, the EU’s committee
for the common organisation of agricultural markets said 144,552 tonnes of rice
were shipped from Myanmar to the EU in September to April period in 2014-15,
compared 79,942 tonnes a year earlier.More exports to Europe will require
improvements to domestic infrastructure. A World Bank report last year
highlighted the need for Myanmar to improve the quality of its rice production
by expanding and upgrading domestic mills.Exports have been rising rapidly
since 2011, particularly due to a rapid increase in Chinese demand. Europe
Union also extended its everything-but-arms duty-free access to Myanmar in
2013, backdating it to 2012.
Different statistics exist for rice exports. Myanmar’s statistics
show exports will reach 2 million tonnes this fiscal year, though other
assessments are about half as high. Still, the trend toward increase exports is
evident.Myanmar Rice Federation secretary general U Ye Min Aung said rice still
lacks quality compared with some neighbouring countries.“We need to think about
quantity and quality to promote exports. But quantity is tough to increase, so
we should look at improving quality and exporting Europe to receive a good
price,” he said.
Experts say that while the aspirations exist to improve the
quality of exports, there are serious practical challenges. Rice mills urgently
need upgrades, quality checks must be improved and greater understanding of
what constitutes international-quality rice is essential.“If there is market
interest, we will grow fragrant rice and export it to Europe,” said U Myo Aung
Kyaw, vice chair of the Myanmar Rice Federation.Figures from the Ministry of Commerce
put rice exports at more than 1.7 million tonnes for the 2014-15 fiscal year,
worth a total of $645 million.
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/15176-europe-rice-standards-still-a-challenge-for-millers.html
FPCCI for
forming rice board
June
23, 2015
LAHORE - Federation of Pakistan Chambers of
Commerce & Industry (FPCCI), in a letter to Federal Commerce Minister Engr.
Khurram Dastgir Khan and Federal Minister for Food Security & Research
Sikander Hayat Khan Bosan, has urged them to constitute a Rice Development
Board (RDB) for providing a single platform to effectively and forcefully deal
with the issues - related to development and promotion of all varieties of rice
grown in the country, especially the unique Basmati rice as well as regular paddy-of
all the stakeholders on Board. Vice President/Regional Chairman FPCCI Kh Zarar Kaleem argued that rice exports on an average was stuck-up at around $ 2 billion per annum mainly due to the lack of knowledge about latest research & development in the field of new rice varieties that yield more at lower cost and are acceptable to the global market.
He
disclosed, “Our competitors have come up with such products due to market
oriented or demand driven research in consultation with all the stakeholders (rice
growers, millers, exporters, traders etc.) on one platform, whereas, on the
contrary, our research has been exclusive and in isolation, either in public or
private sectors”
http://nation.com.pk/business/23-Jun-2015/fpcci-for-forming-rice-board
Nagpur Foodgrain
Prices Open- Jun 23
Nagpur, June 23 Gram and tuar prices showed weak tendency in Nagpur Agriculture
Produce and Marketing Committee (APMC) here on lack of demand from local millers amid highmoisture content arrival. Fresh fall on NCDEX in gram, easy condition in Madhya Pradesh pulsesand release of stock from stockists also pulled down prices, according to sources.
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FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Major gram varieties reported higher in open market on increased seasonal demand
from local traders amid tight supply from millers because of rains.
TUAR
* Tuar varieties ruled steady here on subdued demand from local traders amid good
supply from millers.
* Moong varieties suffered heavily in open market here on poor demand from local
traders amid profit-taking selling by stockists at higher level.
* In Akola, Tuar - 7,300-7,700, Tuar dal - 10,100-10,500, Udid at 9,500-9,900,
Udid Mogar (clean) - 11,000-11,400, Moong - 7,000-8,000, Moong Mogar
(clean) 9,800-10,100, Gram - 3,900-4,100, Gram Super best bold - 5,900-6,000
for 100 kg.
* Wheat, rice and other commodities remained steady in open market
in poor trading activity, according to sources.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 3,500-4,340 3,500-4,400
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 6,500-7,150 6,500-7,190
Moong Auction n.a. 6,000-6,300
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold 6,000-6,100 5,800-6,000
Gram Super Best n.a.
Gram Medium Best 5,600-5,700 5,500-5,600
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a.
Gram Mill Quality 5,200-5,400 5,100-5,300
Desi gram Raw 4,300-4,400 4,300-4,400
Gram Filter new 5,700-5,900 5,600-5,800
Gram Kabuli 5,500-7,000 5,500-5,700
Gram Pink 6,400-6,600 6,400-6,600
Tuar Fataka Best 10,500-10,800 10,500-10,800
Tuar Fataka Medium 9,900-10,300 9,900-10,300
Tuar Dal Best Phod 9,500-9,700 9,500-9,700
Tuar Dal Medium phod 8,800-9,300 8,800-9,300
Tuar Gavarani New 7,300-7,400 7,300-7,400
Tuar Karnataka 7,900-8,000 7,900-8,000
Tuar Black 11,000-11,300 11,000-11,300
Masoor dal best 8,000-8,200 8,000-8,200
Masoor dal medium 7,500-7,900 7,500-7,900
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold 10,000-10,300 10,200-10,500
Moong Mogar Medium best 9,500-9,800 9,700-9,900
Moong dal Chilka 8,600-9,200 8,900-9,400
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 9,600-9,900 9,600-9,900
Udid Mogar Super best (100 INR/KG) 11,500-11,750 11,500-11,750
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 10,600-10,800 10,600-10,800
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 8,900-9,200 8,900-9,200
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 4,100-4,300 4,100-4,300
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 3,200-3,350 3,200-3,350
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,300-3,400 3,300-3,400
Watana White (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,100 3,000-3,100
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,500 3,600-4,500
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 1,400-1,600 1,400-1,600
Wheat Mill quality(100 INR/KG) 1,500-1,650 1,500-1,650
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 1,400-1,600 1,400-1,600
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,400 2,200-2,400
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,100 1,900-2,100
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,100-3,650 3,100-3,650
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,850 2,500-2,850
Wheat 147 (100 INR/KG) 1,400-1,500 1,400-1,500
Wheat Best (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,100 1,900-2,100
Rice BPT New(100 INR/KG) 2,600-3,000 2,600-3,000
Rice BPT (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,400 3,200-3,400
Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 1,500-1,750 1,500-1,750
Rice Swarna new (100 INR/KG) 2,150-2,450 2,150-2,450
Rice Swarna old (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,800 2,600-2,800
Rice HMT new(100 INR/KG) 3,100-3,600 3,100-3,600
Rice HMT (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-3,900
Rice HMT Shriram New(100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,500 4,000-4,500
Rice HMT Shriram old (100 INR/KG) 4,500-5,200 4,500-5,200
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 8,200-10,200 8,200-10,200
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 6,000-7,200 6,000-7,200
Rice Chinnor new (100 INR/KG) 4,700-4,900 4,700-4,900
Rice Chinnor (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,450 2,200-2,450
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 26.0 degree Celsius (78.8 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp.
23.7 degree Celsius (74.7 degree Fahrenheit)
Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest - n.a.
Rainfall : 54.1 mm
FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky. Rains or thunder-showers likely towards evening or night.
Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 32 and 24 degree Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices.)
Sowing gathers pace as
monsoon delivers ample rainfall
By Reuters | 22 Jun,
2015, 05.57PM IST
Better-than-expected
monsoon rains in the past two weeks have helped farmers in several parts of
India sow cotton, pulses and oilseeds on time.ET SPECIAL:Love visual aspect of
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HIVRA:
Better-than-expected monsoon rains in the past two weeks have helped farmers in
several parts of India sow cotton, pulses and oilseeds on time, but the
country's weather office is still sticking to its forecast of a likely drought.
Although a delayed arrival of the monsoon had worried farmers, more than
two-thirds of the country has now received normal or above-normal levels of
rainfall so far this monsoon season, which starts on June 1. Overall, rainfall
was 16 per cent above normal as of Monday, helping fill up some reservoirs in a
country where over half the farmland lacks irrigation systems.
"We were worried since everyone was talking about a
drought," said Shivaji Pophale, busy planting cotton in his three-acre
plot in the village of Hivra. "Fortunately we have got enough rains to
start sowing." But Pophale is not celebrating yet, as the June-September
rainy season has only started and things could change quickly. Agriculture
accounts for just about 15 per cent of India's $2 trillion economy, but
three-fifths of its 1.25 billion people depend on it for their livelihood. Officials
at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) say the northern states will
receive heavier monsoon rains this week but that current weather patterns still
point to total rains of just 88 per cent of the long-term average, as predicted
in early June, due to an El Nino weather pattern. India received a similar
level of rains last year but the government did not declare a drought as the
monsoon picked up in the latter part of the season, underscoring its highly
unpredictable nature, which keeps farmers on edge.
Skymet has rejected the
IMD's prediction for 2015 and has forecast bountiful rains. The recent downpour
has helped rice farmers accelerate preparations for planting, which will lead
to a greater area of rice cultivation this year, said B V Krishna Rao, managing
director at Pattabhi Agro Foods, India's top non-basmati rice exporter. Soybean
cultivation has also been proceeding at full speed in key producing states
Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, which could drive up national output by 10
percent to over 10 million tonnes this year, said Pravin Lunkad, president of
industry body the Solvent Extractors' Association of India. Reflecting the
sowing progress, soybean, cotton and chickpea futures inched down on Monday. Higher
output of soybean and pulses is good news for India, which spends billions of
dollars importing the pulses and edible oil widely used in the country's
cooking
New USA Rice
Research Shows Rice Messages Will Resonate with Consumers
"Yes sir, of course the rice is U.S.-grown!"
ARLINGTON, VA
-- New USA Rice consumer research into attitudes towards rice, sustainability,
and eating local indicate that rice's ability to address all of these growing
trends position the grain well.When asked how important it is that the food
they eat in restaurants be prepared with ingredients grown in the United
States, 81 percent say "somewhat" or "very." But ask them if they'd be willing to pay more
for it and only 54 percent say they probably or definitely would, and 12
percent say they definitely would not."We also asked respondents which
they would choose as a side dish between rice, pasta, and potatoes," said
Michael Klein, USA Rice's vice president of communications. "It was no surprise that potatoes won
with 50 percent, but then we asked if they knew the rice was grown in the
United States, would that make a difference?"
Klein thinks the 32 percent who said they would
change their minds as a result is encouraging. "We won't dethrone potatoes
as the king of the side with that, but we make good inroads - and it shows our
good story is worth telling. Consumers
care about these things."The research also showed strong support for
groceries that are grown sustainably (78 percent), although consumers reacted
even more strongly when the word "sustainable" was replaced with
"environmentally responsible" (84 percent).Klein said more details of
the study will be shared in the upcoming issue of the Whole Grain, due out in
July, and that USA Rice would continue to track these attitudes now that they
had established a benchmark.
Contact: Deborah Willenborg
(703) 236-1444
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Delegation from the Philippines visits Stuttgart research centers
Monday
The Dale Bumpers National Rice
Research Center and the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension
Center were visited Monday by a delegation of rice program managers from the
Philippines.
Dawn Teer/Stuttgart Daily LeaderLucrecio Alviar Jr., Edilberto Deluna, Dr.
David Gealy and Cipriano Santiago listen as Dr. Yulin Jia speaks during a visit
to the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center.
By Dawn Teer
dteer@stuttgartdailyleader.com
dteer@stuttgartdailyleader.com
Posted Jun. 23, 2015 at 12:17 PM ,STUTTGART
The Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center and
the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center were visited
Monday by a delegation of rice program managers from the Philippines.Lucrecio
Alviar Jr., regional executive director, and wife, Noemi; Lorenzo Caranguian,
regional technical director, and wife, Leona; Cipriano Santiago, regional
executive director; and Edilberto Deluna, assistant secretary for operations and
national rice and corn program coordinator are in the United States on an
educational trip. The group toured the DBNRRC to learn if they can utilize what
the center has learned regarding diseases and weed resistance in rice. Members
of the group work with the International Rice Research Institute, and are
counterparts to the Extension Service in the U.S.Dr. David Gealy and Dr. Yulin
Jia discussed the latest in their research on finding genetic markers in rice
varieties that make it disease and weed resistant.
Dr. Melissa
Jia talked with them regarding the use of robotics in their research. Dr. Lori
Berhardt discussed the GOSR facility here and in Idaho and answered questions
regarding seed varieties that are available to the public. Chuck Wilson of USA
Rice Federation and RREC worked with USDA to bring the delegation to the DBNRRC
and Extension facilities.The delegation first visited Louisiana State
University prior to coming to the DBNRRC. They plan to visit Mississippi before
returning to the Philippines to utilize the information they have gained on
this trip.
http://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/article/20150623/NEWS/150629926/-1/Sports?utm_source=USA+Rice+Daily%2C+June+23%2C+2015&utm_campaign=Friday%2C+December+13%2C+2013&utm_medium=email
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