S.Korea buys
15,000 T rice for Nov
Fri Jul 3, 2015 8:29am GMT
SEOUL, July 3 (Reuters) - South Korea's state-run
Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp bought 15,000 tonnes of brown
short rice to be sourced from China for Nov. 30 arrival via a
tender closed on Friday, according to the agency's website. (www.at.or.kr)
The agency bought the product from Daewoo International Corp
at $893 per tonne, it said.
The shipment will arrive at Masan.
(Reporting By Brian Kim; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL3N0ZJ2TW20150703
Comments on other issues: Rice output soars, policy
successful: BPS
| Readers Forum | Fri, July 03 2015, 6:12 AM
Harvest time: President Joko
“Jokowi” Widodo rides on harvest equipment in a rice field in Merauke, West
Papua, on May 10.(Rusman/Courtesy of the Presidential Office)
The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has said Indonesia will see a significant increase in rice production this year, giving a push to the “no imports” vision of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo as his ambition to secure food sovereignty might materialize sooner than expected.
Your comments:
The published figures are estimates only. If the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has the outright
confirmed statistics in a few months, please publish them ASAP. I will switch to eating local rice then.
Luwanto
With this increase in rice output, does it translate to higher incomes for paddy farmers? I do hope so?
Jon Terry
Good news, but not good enough considering the government’s overall performance this past year.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/07/03/comments-other-issues-rice-output-soars-policy-successful-bps.html#sthash.yhYkj2hy.dpuf
Heavy rain in south
China hurts rice and cotton crops
BEIJING
China's weather bureau said on Friday
that heavy rain last month caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon damaged
rice and cotton crops in major growing areas in the south and that conditions
would continue poor this month.Rain had been more than 50 percent heavier than
in normal years, flooding paddy fields and hurting early-season rice at a key
growing stage. It had damaged the crop in provinces including Hunan and
Jiangxi, the country's largest and second-largest rice area, the bureau said
"Some early-season rice was
flowering when hit by heavy rains and the damage was very serious," said
Zhang Zhuqiang, a director with the China Meteorological Administration, at a
news conference.The bureau had earlier expected El Nino conditions this year to
cause heavy rainfall in the south and create drought-like conditions in the
north, but said that unlike in 1997-98, the intensity of the phenomenon would
be moderate.
Rain would continue in most areas
south of the Yangtze River this month, while lower-than-normal temperatures
were forecast in northeastern corn and soy areas, which was not favourable for
the crops, bureau officials told the news conference.China's harvest of
early-season rice, which was 34 million tonnes in 2014, accounted for about 16
percent of the country's total rice output.China is the world's top rice
consumer and producer.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/03/uk-china-weather-idUKKCN0PD0SP20150703
PM upholds unchanged VAT for rice
HA
NOI (VNS) — The Prime Minister has approved the Ministry of Finance's decision
to not slash the value added tax (VAT) imposed on rice in the domestic
market.Accordingly, the tax rate will be retained at the current level of 5 per
cent.Previously, the Viet Nam Food Association had proposed that the VAT on
rice consumed in the domestic market be cut to 0.5 per cent to develop a rice
brand in the domestic market.However, in response to the proposal, the Ministry
of Finance said that the existing Law on VAT did not have a 0.5 per cent tax
rate. If this tax rate was added, it will not be in line with the VAT reform
strategy for the 2011-20 period, aimed at narrowing down the number of subjects
for VAT imposition.
The Finance Ministry
also said that the proposal was not in line with international practices, which
allow zero tax rate only on export products.Statistics from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development showed that domestic rice consumption, which
was imposed with a 5 per cent VAT, accounted for less than 15 per cent of the
country's total rice output.On average, during the 2010-15 period, Viet Nam
produced about 22 million tonnes of rice, of which 18.5 million tonnes were not
subjected to any tax as they were used for exports and self-consumption.
Meanwhile, some 3.5 million tonnes of rice was taxed each year.Regarding animal
feed and fertilisers, the Ministry of Finance has proposed to continue animal
feed in the list of goods receiving VAT exemption, while the impact of VAT
exemption on fertilisers should continue to be evaluated to raise proposals for
amendments to law. — VNS
Statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
showed that domestic rice consumption, which was imposed with a 5 per cent VAT,
accounted for less than 15 per cent of the country's total rice output. —
VNA/VNS Photo Trong Dat
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/272557/pm-upholds-unchanged-vat-for-rice.html
Cambodia's rice export up nearly 60 pct in
1st half of 2015
Friday, 03 July 2015; News by Xinhua
PHNOM PENH, July 3 (Xinhua) --
Cambodia exported 283,825 tons of milled rice in the first six months of 2015,
a 59.5 percent increase from the 177,928 tons over the same period last year,
according to an official report on Friday.Seventy-two companies have exported
Cambodian rice to 51 countries and regions, said the report compiled by the
Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export.
Three top buyers are China, France and Poland. During the January-June period this year, Cambodia exported 72,086 tons of rice to China, up 9 times from only 7,731 tons over the same period last year, as the country sold 36,233 tons to France, up 8 percent and 32,268 tons to Poland, down 4 percent.The Southeast Asian country produced over 9 million tons of paddy rice a year. With this amount, it has more than 3 million tons of milled rice left over for annual exports.
In 2010, the country launched a rice promotion strategy, setting a goal of exporting one million tons of milled rice by the end of 2015; however, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said early this year that it was unlikely to achieve the self-imposed target due to a lack of milling capacity and funding
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12861/cambodia-s-rice-export-up-nearly-60-pct-in-1st-half-of-2015/
More groundwater being supplied to rice
fields
More groundwater being supplied
to rice fields
BANGKOK, 3 July 2015 (NNT) –
The Department of Groundwater Resources has revealed that over 50,000 cubic
meters of groundwater is being pumped up each day and supplied to rice farmers
for use on their plantations.
According to Director-General of the Department of Groundwater
Resources Praneet Roibang, the department is constantly in search of additional
groundwater sources for the country. Out of 500 artesian wells planned to be
dug, 141 are now underway, accounting for about 28 percent. So far, the
department has been able to pump up 57,156 cubic meters of water each day.At
present, the acquired water is mainly distributed to drought-stricken areas
along the Chao Phraya River in the Central Plains and the lower northern
region. The assistance has so far reached 15 provinces, including Uttaradit,
Sukhothai, Suphan Buri, Nakhon Sawan, Ratchaburi, Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has
set up a working committee responsible for following up the development of groundwater sources for agricultural use and overseeing
the assistance of drought-affected farmers.
http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/more-groundwater-being-supplied-to-rice-fields/104833/
TDAP
URGED TO CLOSE QRC TO SOAR RICE EXPORT
Friday, July 03, 2015 - Karachi—The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has invited the attention
of the ministry of commerce to the difficulties being faced by the SME rice exporters due to the lingering in the implementation of already decided closure of the Quality Review Committee
(QRC). President Unisame Zulfikar Thaver said it was finally decided by the
Ministry to close the QRC as it was unanimously agreed that QRC has become
futile and the committee as pointed out by all stakeholders is not serving any
purpose. The buyers prefer to import rice in their own or selected brands of
blended rice.He urged the federal commerce minister engineer Khurram Dastagir
to direct the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to disband the
futile committee and to close it immediately as every single day matters for closure of this
troublesome body.
Many buyers demand blended rice of different
varieties with basmati rice as basmati rice has aroma and when mixed with 1121
and 386 makes it aromatic.It is pertinent to note that 1121 is the most expensive rice. It is in great
demand all over the Gulf and Middle East countries but is not classified as
basmati rice. The demand for basmati rice is very little as compared to 1121
and 386. QRC is not required anymore and its presence as an inspection cell is more a hurdle than a monitor
because it is issuing certificates for non-basmati rice as basmati rice under
pressure to keep business going. The big rice exporters are obliged but the SMEs are facing
difficulties.—Agencies
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=267513
Rice mills directed to submit details of available stock
July 03, 2015
RECORDER REPORT
The Punjab government has directed all the rice mills in the
province to submit details of their available stocks in next five days to the
government enabling it for chalking out a strategy to resolve the problems
being faced by the growers at present or with regard to the coming crop. The millers will submit stock reports
in next five days in the office of the Director General Agriculture
(Extension). A form has been despatched through rice growers', traders and
millers and market committees across the province. Millers can obtain their
form from any of these bodies and then submit stock reports directly or through
these bodies, sources in the provincial agriculture department said here on
Thursday.
The sources said that an important meeting to discuss the problems
of the rice growers was held here the other day with Parliamentary Secretary Ch
Asad Ullah Arain in the chair. The
meeting was attended by the stakeholders of rice business including exporters,
millers and growers' representatives. The
meeting decided that correct information of rice stocks available from crop
2013-14 and 2014-15 should be collected to get a clear picture and then talk to
departments concerned for solution of the problems faced by the rice growers
and businessmen.
http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183/1203176/
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Heavy rain in south China hurts rice and
cotton crops
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's weather bureau said on Friday that heavy rain last month caused
by the El Nino weather phenomenon damaged rice and cotton crops in major
growing areas in the south and that conditions would continue poor this
month.Rain had been more than 50 percent heavier than in normal years, flooding
paddy fields and hurting early-season rice at a key growing stage. It had
damaged the crop in provinces including Hunan and Jiangxi, the country's
largest and second-largest rice area, the bureau said"Some early-season
rice was flowering when hit by heavy rains and the damage was very
serious," said Zhang Zhuqiang, a director with the China Meteorological
Administration, at a news conference.
The bureau had earlier expected El
Nino conditions this year to cause heavy rainfall in the south and create
drought-like conditions in the north, but said that unlike in 1997-98, the
intensity of the phenomenon would be moderate.Rain would continue in most areas
south of the Yangtze River this month, while lower-than-normal temperatures
were forecast in northeastern corn and soy areas, which was not favourable for
the crops, bureau officials told the news conference.China's harvest of
early-season rice, which was 34 million tonnes in 2014, accounted for about 16
percent of the country's total rice output.China is the world's top rice
consumer and producer.
(Reporting by Niu Shuping; Editing by Alan Raybould)
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/heavy-rain-south-china-hurts-rice-cotton-crops-085723958.html#nkVyonU
Improving rice value chain will benefit Malawi
smallholder farmers
Prof Kamchacha
July 3, 2015 Emmanuel Muwamba Business, Featured 2 comments
Rice is considered as one of the key strategic crops to be promoted
in Malawi not only because it has the potential to be promoted primarily as an
import substitute, but also secondarily as an export crop.
Principal Secretary Chiunda
appreciates rice packaging
Principal Secretary Chiunda
visits displays at the fair
As an export crop, rice has the potential to generate the much
needed revenue in the country, explained Professor David Kamchacha, chairperson
of the National Rice Development Platform(NRDP) at the National Rice Marketing
Conference and Fair on Wednesday.
t if rice is to be exported, he added, it is imperative that the
marketing systems in the rice value chain be improved and strengthened so as to
benefit all the value chain players from the smallholder farmer to
exporter.Kamchacha noted that marketing of rice in Malawi continues to be
hampered by a number of factors chief of which is lack of a structured market
system.He cited one common issue of minimal interface between the large scale
buyers and the farmers.
“Majority of rice farmers do not have potential viable markets for
their rice and rely on common seasonal vendors and traders. 95% of the
smallholder rice producers sell their rice to local traders. As such, the
farmers are limited in terms of the price gains due to their inability to
benefit from higher prices offered by the large scale millers.He also disclosed
that 74% of rice producers sell un-milled rice (paddy) while the remainder is
milled by smallholder farmers themselves who sell it with a degree of value
addition. In some cases, farmers sell rice to their association or cooperative
which markets the rice for them. This helps farmers attain better prices.
Another issue facing rice marketing is the minimal storage capacity
among the smallholders, hampering farmers from taking advantage of seasonal
price hikes, said Kamchacha.“As a result, the rice farmers end up being the
price-takers as they enter the market at the lowest point in the seasonal
price. This situation of immediate post-harvest crop sales is also unhelpful
for the processors as they have to find capital to purchase in bulk, within a
short period of the season rather than make purchases at intervals throughout
the season,” lamented Kamchacha.“There is also a challenge of limited
information sharing between rice producers and traders as well as processors.
Rice farmers at times produce without knowing the varieties and quantities
demanded by traders and processors.
“The traders and processors are not forthcoming with the volumes
and quantities demanded by the market. Hence, rice trading tends to be ad hoc
and mainly on individual basis which compromises quality of rice as well as the
bargaining power of rice producers for a better price,” he said.He however
stated that the National Rice Marketing Conference and Fairorganised towards the
goal of developing strong rice market through strengthened market linkages
provided a platform for dialogue among the stakeholders on marketing issues and
an opportunity for business to business meeting; and also provides a platform
for introduction of warehouse receipt system in the rice value chain.Principal
Secretary for Ministry of Industry and Trade, Cliff Chiunda applauded NRDP for
organising the National Rice Marketing Conference and Fairobserving that the
initiative complements government’s efforts in improving farmer’s access to
markets and promoting investment in agricultural sector for increased
agricultural exports. Chiunda implored sector players to join hands to implement
strategic actions outlined in the rice development strategy for farmer to
realise increased income and export earnings through sustainable rice
production, marketing and utilization.The National Rice Marketing Conference
and Fairwas organised by NRDP which is facilitated by AICC, CISANET and ICCO.
Membership of the NRDP is open to the players in the Malawi’s rice value chain.
AgricultureCisanetCliff Chiunda
http://www.nyasatimes.com/2015/07/03/improving-rice-value-chain-will-benefit-malawi-smallholder-farmers-prof-kamchacha/
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