Rice worth $302M imported illegally to Iran
over 4 months
29 JULY 2015, 12:46 (GMT+05:00)
http://en.trend.az/iran/business/2420530.html
N30BN DUTY: CBN MOVES AGAINST DEFAULTING RICE IMPORTERS
Published on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 04:01
Written by Hamisu Muhammad
Bags of imported rice
off-loaded at the port
… Customs seals warehouses
I therefore use this
opportunity to appeal to these companies to please go and pay, because what
they have done they have created problem of rice that is produced
locally.. “Speaking at the meeting the Rice Millers, Importers and
Distributors’ Association of Nigeria (RMIDAN), led by their president Abubakar
Mohammed attributed the lack of patronage on the local rice to the subsidised
rice in the market by the importers.The association accused the importers of
crashing the price of the imported rice because they have not paid the duty on
it thereby making the local rice uncompetitive.The Association said at the moment
they cannot even pay the loans they received from banks because there is no
market for their rice.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Customs Service yesterday confirmed
to Daily Trust that they have commenced sealing of the warehouses of the
N30billion rice duty defaulters in the country.In a massage to Daily Trust, the
Customs spokesperson Mr Wale Adeniyi said they have sealed off one of the
sections. And promised to give more details later.Both the Senate and the House
of Representatives have indicted the rice imports duty defaulters and urged the
Central Bank and other agencies to recover the said amount as soon as possible
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/business/61079-n30bn-duty-cbn-moves-against-defaulting-rice-importers
Customs Seals Rice Importers'
Premises, Warehouses over N23bn Duty Evasion
29 Jul 2015
NCS Headquarters,
John IworiIn a bid to prove that its earlier ultimatum that defaulters of import duty should pay, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has sealed up the warehouses and premises of four major rice importers for their alleged refusal to pay outstanding duty totalling N23 billion.The affected defaulting importers are Stallion/Popular Foods/Masco Agro, the Olam Farms, the Ebony Agro and the Conti Agro (Milan).
The indictment of the four importers followed their alleged
refusal to pay outstanding duty liability based on the 2014 rice quota for
importers that exceeded the allocated quota as at June 23, 2015.Public
Relations Officer (PRO), NCS Headquarters, Alhaji Adewale Adeniyi disclosed
this yesterday at NCS, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, IKeja, Lagos
while giving a rundown of the inimical activities allegedly perpetrated by the
affected importers.Giving an insight into the activities of the affected
importers, Adeniyi, a Deputy Comptroller (DC) disclosed that Olam was in
default to the tune of N4, 998,125,665.86 as a result of having exceeded its
authorised allotted rice import quota by 149, 469.51 metric tonnes.
On the other hand, the Stallion group was owing N17, 187, 245,
022.96 for importing in excess 529, 517. 33 metric tons beyond allotted
quota; the Ebony Agro allegedly owed N328, 201,440 after exceeding allotted
quota by 10,070 metric tons while the Conti Agro Milan owed N1,089,907,273.62,
for exceeding import quota by 61,178.19 metric tons of rice.“Today, we are
commencing the sealing up of their warehouses and business premises to prevent
operation of those facilities”, he declared.
The PRO said in addition to other sealing of the warehouses and
premises of the affected importers to serve as a deterrence to others, he
revealed that NCS would no longer allow them discharge their imports in any of
the nation’s seaports.Meanwhile, the price of rice and other food items on the
list of items that have been barred by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from
accessing foreign exchange would likely face a high increase in prices in
the open market.The CBN in a recent policy had stopped the use of foreign
exchange for the importation of 41 goods.
Among the 41 goods are rice and other food items such as
margarine, palm kernel, palm oil products, vegetable oils, meat and processed
meat products, vegetables and processed vegetable products, poultry (chicken,
eggs and turkey), tomatoes/tomato paste.Stakeholders predicated the increase in
prices of the products on the huge gap between the local production and the
demand of the items, which had been regularly filled by imports.Observers noted
that since most of the items are staple consumables, Nigerians would always buy
them and the added cost of importing them would be transferred to the end
users.
A Lagos-based importer, Chief Nwachukwu Johnson said the high
rate of dollar in the parallel market would lead to high price for any item
barred from the interbank forex window.“Tin tomatoes, margarine and vegetable
oil are usually cheap consumables because of their original cost prices”, he
said.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/customs-seals-rice-importers-premises-warehouses-over-n23bn-duty-evasion/215920/
Chinese loan for rice sector on
hold
Wed, 29 July 2015
A project to build 10 warehouses to store rice paddy using
Chinese funding has hit a roadblock, as the Cambodian government has been
unable to meet criteria set by the Chinese for the project, according to an
official associated with the project.Project leader and senior adviser to the
Supreme National Economic Council (SNEC) Mey Kalyan told the Post yesterday
that while a draft memorandum of understanding had been submitted to the
Chinese government late last year, Cambodia has not responded to Chinese
requirements on the loan.“There are some technical problems from our Chinese
counterparts. Both parties are looking at their own benefit, and now we are
negotiating.”Kalyan, however, could not comment on whether it was likely that
Cambodia will secure the loan.Announced in November, the loan was meant to
support warehouses which are part of a government plan to store 1.2 million
tonnes of paddy, in a bid to ensure uninterrupted supply to millers and
exporters.
Hun Lak, vice president of Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said
that members lacked the capital to purchase rice for storage during the harvest
season, adding that the Cambodian government has said it will try to help the
CRF with this.“So far there is no help from the government, but they are
working on this issue,” he said.A lack of proper warehousing facilities has
been a major constraint and will continue to hurt the rice sector if left
unaddressed, said Srey Chanthy, an independent economic analyst.
He said, however, intervention in the form of capital injection
by the government could help rice millers and exporters, as has been done in
the past.“It [the government] has gotten the Rural Development Bank to give
loans to rice processors and exporters for this purpose and at good interest
rates,” he said.Rice exports totalled 283,825 tonnes for the first six months
in 2015, an increase of almost 60 per cent compared to the same period last
year, as reported by the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export
Formality.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-loan-rice-sector-hold
Lower
global rice output seen on PH production concerns
Philippine Daily Inquirer
06:20 AM July 28th, 2015
The expected
volume of globally harvested rice for the crop year 2015-2016 that started this
month was adjusted downwards due to production concerns in the
Philippines.According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), worldwide
production is now forecast at 499 million tons, down by 2 million tons from
last month’s figure.Still, the reduced forecast is 4 million tons or 0.8
percent higher than the estimated 495 million tons harvested in the previous 12
months.“Rice production [is] curbed, mainly on less positive prospects for
India and the Philippines, and despite much improved expectations for
Indonesia,” the latest monthly Market Monitor report of the Agricultural Market
Information System (Amis) stated.
The Amis, an
interagency body administered by the FAO, said rice-planting conditions remain
mixed across the globe.For example, conditions are generally favorable in India
and China while there is some concern in Vietnam due to dry weather.Similarly,
“in the Philippines, planting of the wet season crop continues and there is
some concern over dry conditions,” the Amis reported.The Amis observed that
conditions in Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines are drier than average,
consistent with expectations for the El Niño years.
http://business.inquirer.net/196048/lower-global-rice-output-seen-on-ph-production-concerns#ixzz3hHQo1Z00
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SCIENTISTS CREATE GENETICALLY MODIFIED
RICE THAT’S ECO-FRIENDLIER THAN REGULAR RICE
Genetically modified rice
A team of scientists has managed to create a new type of genetically modified rice in order to help the environment. The researchers collected a specific gene from barley and transferred it into rice.More than half of the world’s population relies on rice as their major food, but to grow rice also means to release up to 100 million tons of methane into the atmosphere annually, which affect our planet due to the green-house gas emissions that are created.Due to the fact that the human population is always increasing, the need for more producing more food can have damaging effects on our planet, increasing the methane emissions. Scientists wanted to see if they can figure out a solution for this issue so they tried to see what it would happen if they added a barley gene to the rice plant.
According to them, they managed to create a
new type genetically modified rice that is very starchy and productive but
emits less methane gas.Chuanxin Sun, biologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences and one of the lead researchers who conducted the study, explained
that traditional methods of cultivating rice accelerates the methane gas
emissions which leads to increasing temperatures. Sun said that this
genetically modified rice can slow down the warming temperatures because there
are less methane emissions when growing it.The researchers explained that the
bacteria that produce methane thrive on the sugars that the rice roots secrete
in the soil that has no oxygen when the rice fields are flooded. The rice plant
then passes on the methane gas from the soil it grows is into the atmosphere.
The methane gas then traps the heat which
contributes to the global greenhouse emissions, which are more than 80 times
more powerful than carbon dioxide, as per the researchers working at the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The scientists detailed their study’s
findings in the journal Nature. The team of scientists managed to extract a gene from barley and
transfer it into the rice plant. They hoped that this would produce rice crops
with a bigger grain and a thinner root. The researchers compared the
genetically modified rice and traditional Nipponbar rice by growing them in two
laboratory fields. They observed how much methane gas both crops emitted and
found that the genetically modified rice produced far less than regular one.
http://www.capitalwired.com/scientists-create-genetically-modified-rice-thats-eco-friendlier-than-regular-rice/29632/
Easiest way to reduce arsenic from your rice
Millions of people (including infants) of our country may be
affected by arsenic from rice and they do not know much about the sources. Rice
tends to uptake arsenic more readily than many other plants from soil and
water. Prolong exposure to arsenic in food and water can cause cancer in the
skin, lungs, bladder and kidney.Removing arsenic from rice is hard and
therefore scientists are trying to develop methods solve the problem. A recent
article published in a well-recognised journal (PLOS ONE) demonstrated that we
can remove a significant amount of arsenic by modifying our rice cooking
procedure.Boil your rice with water (water to rice ratio: 12:1) and discard the
water after cooking. Significant amount of arsenic will be released from rice
to water (depends on type of rice, with average removal of 57±5 percent of
arsenic). Use of more water is better.
Many year ago, we wrote a letter (Arsenic contamination, The Daily
Star, December 14, 2002) with a different type of solution. People may use that
procedure as well (copied here for quick review): “Water that is not absorbed
during rice cooking is discarded by inverting the cooking pan. Thus the actual
amount of arsenic in cooked rice could not be either used, by chelating the
arsenic in water by binding on rice grains, or decreased if water-soluble
arsenic is released from rice into the water to be discarded. Since an adult
Bangladeshi man consume an average 1500 gram of cooked rice per day, which
contain at least one litre of drinking water, water intake through cooked rice
would add substantially to the amount of arsenic ingested. (. . . )
Recently, a research group reported that the amount of arsenic in
cooked rice was 10 to 35 percent higher than predicted, suggesting either that
arsenic in the water is chelated by rice grains, or that the arsenic becomes
concentrated during the cooking process because of evaporation. Furthermore, it
would be raise concerns about the amount of arsenic retained in curry, which is
cooked with a large amount of water and simmered for a long time.
It may be better to use less water
for cooking food. Also, people must use surface water (pond, lake, river water)
for cooking and drinking purposes, as heating kills all dangerous germs. Rain
water is a very good source of safe water. Surface water is comparatively free
from arsenic contamination. Related NGOs and teachers should teach general
people to overcome the severe arsenic problem in Bangladesh”
http://www.thedailystar.net/op-ed/easiest-way-reduce-arsenic-your-rice-118573
City Scientist Meera Bags Prestigious Award
Dr. Meera is presently working at Indian Institute of Rice
Research, Hyderabad. The award is given every year in order to recognize the
talented young scientists who have shown extraordinary originality and
dedication in their research programmes. With this award he gets an award
amount of Rs. 1.00 lakh in cash and a citation and a challenge project for
three years with budgetary provision of Rs. 30.00 lakh and Rs 5.00lakh for foreign
training.Dr. Meera has made outstanding contributions in Indian rice sector
with innovative extension methods and practical ICT approaches benefiting rice
farmers and extension agencies. The Rice Knowledge Management Portal developed
by him is acclaimed as one of the finest ICT applications in agriculture by
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Rice Portal has made
significant impacts across the country by improving the farmers’ access to rice
knowledge. He has contributed to the introduction of several new rice
varieties/ hybrids/ technologies by coordinating more than 7000 Frontline
Demonstrations in last 6 years, benefiting 18318 rice farmers directly. He
introduced impact acceleration concepts such as ‘India Rice Check’,
‘Sustainable Livelihoods’, ‘e-learning’ for extension systems’.
From extension research
to extension service, he struck an effective balance to blend Information and
Communication Technologies with traditional extension methods that resulted in
improving the livelihoods of thousands of Indian rice farmers. Dr. Meera is
currently working on Mobile applications for Indian Rice farmers in several
local languages. If this project is successful, Indian farmers can get reliable
and time critical information directly from the research stations that may
revolutionise rice farming in the country. (NSS)
http://www.siasat.com/news/city-scientist-meera-bags-prestigious-award-802422/
Controversy
Shrouds Customs Action on Rice Investors
By Editor on July 29, 2015
The circular on rice import quotas
were intended to encourage existing operations and drive new investments by
bonafide rice millers, but has now seems to have taken a adverse turn for these
large multinationals.While Olam has invested N 177 billion in the Nigeria’s
agriculture sector, while Stallion runs the country’s largest capacity in rice
production of 430,000 MTPA, with commitments to increase to 1.50 million MTPA
together acting as catalysts for the huge increase in the country’s local
agricultural operations.
Ebony Agro operates rice mills
where the Ebony Gold and Ebony Super brands of parboiled rice are milled and
packaged from locally sourced paddy.Media stories revolving around the rice
policy announcements and its implementation have dominated headlines in the
country over the past few months. For instance, the quotas for the year 2014
were issued only in December 2014 by the Ministry of Agriculture, deemed very
late as well as grossly inadequate to meet the country’s requirements for the
year. While the importers were appealing for a fair allocation based on
investments as originally intended, they were surprised to receive
retrospective demands for duties by the NCS.Furthermore, quotas for 2015 were
issued, canceled and later on reissued again. However it is not clear if these
quotas are being implemented in the scenario of Central restrictions on
availability of foreign exchange for rice.
The implementation of the policy
received a lot of criticism predominantly around the fact that the process
followed was not in accordance with the Presidential directives, for example on
the failure to establish a inter Ministerial Committee for computation of the
national demand gap, as well as the timely allocation of import quotas to
deserving investors.Major investors in the country’s rice value chain with
large established production capacities had represented in all forums that the
quotas issued to them were insignificant compared to their financial
investments. It was also alleged that several companies with no operating
capacities were given import quotas, based only on future commitments. These
companies thereafter allegedly sold their quotas in the open market.In 2014,
the Ministry of Agriculture had announced that the country’s local production
capabilities have expanded considerably aided by investments by Multinational
corporations like Olam and Stallion. Investments by these firms and the
corresponding high output have made the product more readily available.
“Nigerians eat our high quality
local rice but do not know. We have totally changed the quality,” Akinwunmi
Adesina, the ex Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said during his
visit to Kwara State. He said “You may wish to know that Stallion ‘Shinkafa
rice’ and ‘Stallion super’ are all locally-milled rice from Nigeria, not
imported.The USDA has estimated that the supply gap in Nigeria would be 2.5
million tonnes in 2015. In the absence of adequate quotas, this demand would
regrettably be met through smuggling across the borders. The current action by
the NCS with retrospective demands would hopefully be resolved in a fair manner
so that the momentum on investments into the country’s rice value chain is
sustained, thereby making Nigeria fully self sufficient.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/07/controversy-shrouds-customs-action-on-rice-investors/
Exports come under priority sector now’
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
In the wake of Make in India
programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, exports are now categorised
under priority sector as per the RBI guidelines and the export business is not
as complicated as was thought of, said Y.K. Rai, Senior Executive Director,
Central Bank of India (International Division).Addressing a joint meeting
organised by the Nizamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the bank, Mr.
Rai listed various products available with the bank for promoting exports. He
said his bank has over 4,700 branches across the globe and one of the oldest
nationalised banks. “Nizamabad is the place where there is more rice
cultivation, our major finance would be to food and agro-based industries,
particularly to rice millers. Some rice millers are exporting rice to the Gulf
countries. This forex meet is organised with the objective of making them aware
of various issues related to foreign exchange transactions, procedures involved
in exports and the role of banks in this,” he added.Bank’s Senior Regional
Manager, Hyderabad region, E. Ratan Kumar also spoke
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/exports-come-under-priority-sector-now/article7480110.ece
Nigeria spends $2.41bn on rice importation in three years – CBN
… announces planned funding
support for rice production
Nigeria spent $2.41 billion on
rice importation between January 2012 and May 2015, according to Godwin
Emefiele, governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday.Emefiele said the
country was spending so much on imports, and that this informed the apex bank’s
recent decision to ban forex access for importation of 41 items, as he
signalled no plan to reverse the policy that had received criticisms.Emefiele
spoke in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with officials of Paddy Rice
Producing states and Rice Value chain investors.“The reason the inclusion of
rice in the exclusion list is not far-fetched.
Figures available with the CBN
show that from the period January 2012 to May 2015, the country had spent over
$2.41 billion on importation of this commodity.“Unfortunately, this trend has
resulted in huge unsold stock of paddy rice cultivated by our farmers and low
operating capacities of many integrated rice mills in Nigeria,” he said.The CBN
is now to support the local production of rice, and would in collaboration with
the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Businesses groan as Calabar Port
remains shallow amid N20bn dredging project Importers, investors and others
whose businesses are situated in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, are
counting their losses over low ebb of business activities, owing to the failure
of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to deepen the depth of the Calabar Port
channel to enable bigger vessels sail in.
According to them, the low draft
of the port channel is taking its toll on not only private businesses but also
on state government projects like Tinapa designed to create wealth and
employment for youths.The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), they say, has also not
been able to collect reasonable revenue from imports as the port is not
receiving enough containers.BusinessDay finding reveals that the Calabar Port,
which lies about 55 nautical miles from the fairway buoy up to Calabar River
and occupies close to 38 hectares of land, was built to enable international
trade from the Eastern and Northern states of Nigeria.Currently, the port
depth, which NPA supposed to dredge to 9.8 meters as con- tained in the
concession agreement signed by NPA, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and
concessionaires, presently stands at 5.4 meters on low water and 6.4 meters on
high water.
And this makes it extremely
difficult for large vessels to call at the port, such that container vessels
call the port once in three months while other independent operators use smaller
vessels to carry bulk cargo into the port.The crippling effects of this on the
economy of Cross River State are enormous such that cargoes meant for Calabar
port are routed from Lagos ports to their various destinations in the Eastern
states, which is not good for the economy of the region, said Mike Ogodo,
chairman, Shipping Association of Nigeria, Cross River State branch.Ogodo, who
doubled as a cocoa exporter, further said the low draft of the port was also
having a devastating effect on the Calabar Export Processing Zone, which has
been overtaken by several tank farms that are not supposed to operate in the
zone.“Calabar Port is closer to the big commercial cities of the South-East
states (towns) of Aba, Onitsha, Nnewi, the South-South states, but has not been
able to serve their maritime and logistic needs. If the port is dredged, it
will naturally be transformed into a hub of the West and Central African oil
and gas logistics because of its nearness to Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon,”
the seasoned shipper explained.
Recall that NPA in October 2014,
flagged off the capital and maintenance dredging of Calabar water channel in a
contract worth over N20 billion, with the establishment of Calabar Channel
Management (CCM) as joint venture company between the authority and Messrs
Niger Global Engineering and Technical Company Limited.Subsequently, in
November 2014, NPA issued a marine notice to affirm that CCM had deployed
dredgers, survey vessels, buoyage tender, wreck removal crane and other ancillary
marine crafts to the water channel for the commencement of the project, which
industry close watchers said had not realised its aim.Tony Anakebe, a maritime
analyst, said the Federal Government through NPA needed to develop the sector
by investing in other port outside Lagos.This, he said, will help in reducing
the cost of doing business in the port by not only decongesting the ports in
Lagos but also removing the pains and cost of taking delivery of cargo from
Lagos and transporting it to the Eastern and Northern states.
“It is expected that the dredging
of the water channel will increase the volume of vessel traffic as well as
cargo throughout in the port, it will decongest Lagos ports and reduce cost of
doing business for Calabar-based businessmen, who spend ad- ditional transport
cost to take delivery of their consignment from Lagos,” he said.Rural
Development come up with a comprehensive financing model to support rice
millers and other investors in the sector.The CBN would make funds more accessible
to the farmers through some of its funding programme such as the Commercial
Agriculture Credit Scheme and the N220 billion Micro Small and Medium
Enterprises Development fund, Emefiele said.
The funds would be
made available to the rice farmers through the microfinance banks at 9
percent interest rate, Emefiele said, warning banks ahead against contravening
the rules.He appealed to state governments to provide lands for the farmers on
a large scale, as we will work with them to clear some of these impediments,
saying “we are at a stage where we must feed our selves and all hands are on
deck to ensure this works.”The governor also said the CBN, as the bank to
federal government would go after rice importers who defaulted in the payment
of customs duty after bringing in excess quotas of the product into the country
at concessionary rates.By exceeding their import quota, these rice importers
have flooded the local market with rice that are sold below what is produced
locally thus making consumers to ignore the locally produced ones.“We are going
to enforce it and we will go to the highest level to enforce this to ensure
that they pay
http://businessdayonline.com/2015/07/nigeria-spends-2-41bn-on-rice-importation-in-three-years-cbn/#.Vbn4BvlVikp
New GMO Rice Can Lower Greenhouse Gas
Emission For Food Production
Researchers from China, Sweden and the United States have
discovered a new way to produce high-starch rice with virtually no methane
emissions by introducing a single gene of barley to a common strain of rice.
(Photo : Jason Paris | Flickr)
By Ted Ranosa, Tech Times | July 29, 6:34 AMThe
production of rice on a grand scale has helped provide food for half of the
world's human population, but the process has also led to increased levels of
the greenhouse gas, methane, in the air.This is what inspired scientists from
three different countries to develop a method that could lessen the methane
emission of rice paddies yet still retain its nourishing properties for food
production.In a study featured in the journal Nature, researchers from China's Hunan
Agricultural University (HUNAU) and the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
(FAAS), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the
Department of Energy (DOE) spent over a decade researching how to cultivate
rice without emitting methane.
Studies have found that the warm, waterlogged soil needed for rice
paddies produces as much as 17 percent of the total emission of methane in the
world, which is equivalent to about 100 million tons every year.While this
figure may represent a smaller percentage to the overall greenhouse gases in
the air compared to carbon dioxide, experts believe methane is 20 times more
potent at trapping heat than other gases.
The researchers discovered that by
adding another gene to that of rice, they can produce grains without emitting
methane. The resulting new strain of rice, called SUSIBA2, is the first
low-methane but high-starch rice that could provide a sustainable solution to
lessening greenhouse gas emissions.The SUSIBA2 rice strain is produced by
adding a single gene extracted from barley to common rice. This results in a
type of plant that can nourish its leaves, stems and grains better while
preventing microbes that produce methane from feeding off of it.Plant sciences
director Christer Jansson of the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
explained that while the is a widely-recognized need to produce starch-rich
rice content with low methane emissions, the key to the process has long eluded
scientists.
Jansson said that as the population of the world continues to
grow, the demand for more rice will continue to rise as well. The continued
warming of the Earth will also lead to the warming of rice paddies, which will
subsequently produce more emissions of methane. He pointed out that this is a
concern that must be addressed.To test the new rice strain, the researchers
introduced the SUSIBA2 rice into a regular rice variety to find out how it will
perform compared to a non-modified version of the rice strain.Throughout the
course of three years, field studies conducted by the researchers in China have
shown that the SUSIBA2 rice was able to consistently produce more crops with
virtually no emission of methane.Jansson and his fellow researchers will now
continue their study regarding the SUSIBA2 rice strain, particularly the
mechanisms needed for the allocation of carbon in plant cultivation.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/72670/20150729/new-gmo-rice-can-lower-greenhouse-gas-emission-for-food-production.htm
Global rice prices to rise by year-end as El
Nino hits Asian supply
By Reuters | 29 Jul, 2015, 04.56PM IST
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Below-average rainfall linked to El Nino has
already disrupted rice transplantation in India, led to a drought in seven out
of 67 Thai provinces during what should be the wet season and cut Vietnam's
output expectations. Exports from the three countries, which account for 68 per
cent of the world rice trade, are seen at 27.2 million tonnes this year, down
6.2 per cent from a year ago, according to the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO).
"The market has not yet factored in
prospects of lower production in key producing countries," B.V. Krishna
Rao, managing director of leading Indian rice shipper Pattabhi Agro Foods
Pvt Ltd, told Reuters. "Prices could jump 10 per cent by the year
end," Rao said, reversing similar losses seen in the past five months. In
fact prices could rise even more, given that weather bureaus from across the
world are predicting a strong El Nino, which typically leads to crop-damaging
scorching weather across Asia and east Africa but heavy rains and floods in
South America. "If August rains remain patchy, like July, then rice prices
could rise up to 20 per cent in a few months," said a New Delhi-based dealer with a
global grains trading company. Lower overall inventories at key exporters after
stellar exports in 2014 will further fuel the price gain, traders said.
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The FAO estimates the stock-to-use ratio, the level of inventories relative to domestic consumption and exports, at the world's top five rice exporting countries will drop to 19 per cent in 2015/16, the lowest since 2007/08. Rice stocks in the five - India, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan and the United States - were drawn down in 2014 when world trade in rice rose to a record 42.8 million tonnes. Industry sources say the impact of Thailand's inventory, built up under the previous government's rice-buying programme, is also waning as only 60 per cent of it, or about 9 million tonnes, is fit for human consumption after prolonged storage.
Demand, however, is expected to pick up as
buyers rush in to stock up on the grain on fears El Nino will eat into supply. The
Philippines, one of the world's biggest rice importers, indicated last week
that it could ship in more rice to boost buffer stocks and keep local prices
stable. Traders are expecting top importer China, as well as Nigeria, to react
similarly in the coming months. China's 2014/15 imports could rise 8 per cent
to 4 million tonnes, while overseas purchases by Nigeria could jump to 3.7
million tonnes, up 9 per cent from last year, according to International Grains
Council estimates. "Importers haven't built inventory since prices
were continuously falling. Once prices start rising, they will increase
purchases" to avoid having to buy at even higher rates later, said a
Bangkok-based rice exporter.
Nigeria
Closes Rice Importer Warehouses Over Unpaid Custom Fees
July 29, 2015 — 4:45 AM PDT
Nigeria’s customs office is shutting down the
warehouses and offices of four rice importers, including Singapore-based Olam
International Ltd., over unpaid fees.Customs are demanding 23.6 billion naira
($119 million) in fees owed for more than 750,000 metric tons of rice imported
in excess of an allocated quota, Nigerian customs spokesman Wale Adeniyi said by
phone on Wednesday from Lagos, the commercial capital. Olam owes 5 billion
naira in duties and levies, while Dubai-based Stallion Group owes 17 billion
naira, Adeniyi said.“We have sealed off a total of 21 warehouses and business
premises in Lagos,” Adeniyi said. Further closures will probably happen outside
of the southwestern state, he said.
“Olam can confirm that we have initiated legal
recourse,” the company said in an e-mailed statement, declining to comment
further. Stallion didn’t immediately respond to an e-mailed request for
comment.Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation is dependent on
imports to satisfy staple rice demand. Nigeria produces less than half of the 6
million tons a year it consumes, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.That
gap has meant the government grants a concession rate of 30 percent of customs
fees for rice brought into the country within a set quota and 70 percent for
imports outside of the limit, Adeniyi said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-29/nigeria-closes-rice-importer-warehouses-over-unpaid-custom-fees-icophspl
USA Rice Daily
Inching Toward Trade with Cuba
Everyone's waiting
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, Representative Tom
Emmer (R-MN) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to end the
embargo on Cuba. Called the "Cuba
Trade Act of 2015," the bill mirrors a Senate bill introduced in June by
Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS). Emmer and
Moran's bills completely lift the restrictions to trade and travel with Cuba
and have bipartisan support, including legislators from key rice-producing
states.
Last week, Moran's bill was introduced as an
amendment to the Senate's Financial Services Appropriations Bill, along with
two other amendments that would ease banking restrictions with Cuba and
eliminate an obstacle to shipping goods to the Island. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved
the Financial Services Appropriations Bill along with all three pro-Cuba
amendments.
Emmer's bill will face opposition from House
Speaker John Boehner, who has said he will not encourage the House to address
the embargo due to government and human rights issues in Cuba.
The new House bill comes after last week's
historic opening of a Cuban embassy in Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to
raise the American flag at the new U.S. Embassy in Havana next month.
The U.S. Agriculture for Cuba Coalition
(USACC), of which USA Rice is a founding member, has come out in support of the
three amendments to the Senate Financial Services Appropriations bills, as well
as Emmer's Cuba Trade Act of 2015.
"USA Rice has been at the forefront of the
push to open up trade with Cuba, and we're encouraged by this flurry of
legislative activity," said USA Rice President & CEO Betsy Ward. "Cuba was our number one export market
before the embargo, and I believe with our superior product and clear
logistical advantages, it will be again one day."
Contact:
Kristen Dayton (703) 236-1464
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of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporationtoday announced the following prevailing world market prices of milled
and rough rice, adjusted for U.S. milling yields and location, and the
resulting marketing loan gain (MLG) and loan deficiency payment (LDP) rates
applicable to the 2014 crop, which will become effective today at 7:00 a.m.,
Eastern Time (ET). Prices are unchanged from the previous announcement.
This week's prevailing world market prices and MLG/LDP rates are based on the following U.S. milling yields and the corresponding loan rates:
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Old and
tired, some Japan farmers see trade pact jolt as only answer
July 29, 2015
TSURUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Far from dreading the prospect of a
Pacific trade deal that would open up Japanese markets to higher grain and meat
imports, rice and pig farmer Kazushi Saito embraces it.The 58-year-old, whose
lush paddy fields in the Shonai plain overlook the Sea of Japan, is in the
minority among farmers generally opposed to a pact being negotiated in Hawaii
this week that could make selling their products harder.
But faced with a declining population in Yamagata prefecture
where he lives, falling per capita rice consumption and the fact that the
average age of Japanese farmers is 67 and rising, Saito believes something has
to give to rescue the struggling sector."I support the TPP (Trans-Pacific
Partnership) because the government will probably change its policies in order
to prevent agriculture from being destroyed," he said, referring to a
12-nation pact that would cover 40 percent of the world's economy.
Japan's reluctance to open up to more imports, including of
rice, has been a major stumbling block to the TPP, and Tokyo held bilateral
talks with Washington to resolve that and other obstacles, including access to
the U.S. auto parts market.Saito believes Japan's farming sector, dominated by
smallholders and unable to attract a new generation to take over, needs a wake
up call after decades of excessive protection."Unless Japan's government
pushes deregulation more and more, farmers will vanish fast."Shigeyoshi
Ota, who works on a farm nearby, takes a different view."I'm really
worried about what will happen when the TPP deal is done," he told
Reuters."The importance of agriculture to Japan's overall economy is
small, as is the farming population. It will be difficult to sway public
opinion, so I kind of feel like giving up."Agriculture accounted for just
1.2 percent of Japanese GDP in 2013, government data showed, while the number
of farmers was 1.7 million in 2014 down from 2.2 million ten years earlier.
PLOWING NEW FURROWS?
With domestic demand stagnant and imports set to rise under the
TPP, one potential area for growth is exports, though Saito conceded that saturated
Asian markets and Japan's relatively high production costs for rice meant the
going would be tough."We have no choice but to export," said the
farmer.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to boost farm product exports to 1
trillion yen ($8.1 billion) by 2020 as part of his growth strategy, compared
with 612 billion last year.Several former farm ministry officials, some of them
involved in earlier trade talks that allowed limited rice imports into Japan,
are now calling for more radical change.
"Protection alone won't work," said Jiro Shiwaku,
former vice-minister for international affairs at the agriculture ministry who
was involved in rice negotiations at the Uruguay Round of talks in the late
1980s and early 1990s.He and others argue that Japanese farmers have been slow
to adapt to market forces and must prepare for the day when tariffs are
eliminated altogether."Japan has poured in money, but agriculture did not
become strong," said Yuki Takagi, a former vice-minister at the
agriculture ministry."Management means taking risks," he added.
"Japan's agriculture, especially rice farmers, have not built their
careers in that way, which is fatal. Farming villages are dying out. That is
clear.
"Under the Uruguay Round, the government spent around 6
trillion yen between 1995 and 2002 to cushion farmers from the impact of the
trade deal on their livelihoods.Even that brought negligible benefits to some."Was
there any help to support our income?" asked Ota. "I can't recall. I
don't have that sense."Nevertheless, lawmakers from Japan's ruling Liberal
Democratic Party, backed by farm groups, are demanding the government
introduces measures to ease the burden on agriculture should the TPP be agreed,
according to local media.With Japan's debt already mountainous, consumption
dampened by an increase in the sales tax and spending under pressure, measures
to support farmers could prove a hard sell."It will be difficult to gain
public support unless the government is selective about its spending,"
Shiwaku said. "Everyone is having a hard time after the sales tax hikes.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/latestnews/2015/07/29/Old-and-tired-some-Japan-farmers-see-trade-pact-jolt-only-answer?utm_source=USA+Rice+Daily%2C+July+29%2C+2015&utm_campaign=Friday%2C+December+13%2C+2013&utm_medium=email
TPP ministerial talks under way in Hawaii /
Japan, U.S. still working on rice, cars
The Yomiuri Shimbun
TPP minister Akira Amari, right, and U.S. Trade Representative
Michael Froman shake hands in Maui, Hawaii, on Tuesday.
8:40 pm, July 29, 2015
The Yomiuri ShimbunMAUI, Hawaii — The ministerial
meeting of the 12 nations participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free
trade negotiations started Tuesday evening (Wednesday afternoon, JST) on the
island of Maui in Hawaii.The negotiations have reached the final phase and a
broad agreement is said to be near. During the four-day conference,
participants will focus on the making of common rules and finalizing the
round-robin bilateral talks to abolish tariffs on a broad basis.Prior to
Tuesday’s ministerial talks, Japanese TPP minister Akira Amari met one-on-one
with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman. Amari, speaking to reporters
just before the bilateral meeting, said: “Negotiations are going into detail at
the working level. We’d like to proceed with a firm stance to achieve what’s
best for the interests of Japan.”
The issues pending between the two countries involve increasing
the volume of rice imported from the United States and the timing to end the
tariffs imposed on Japanese automobiles and auto parts.With regard to the
import volume of tariff-free rice as staple food, Japan is proposing that for
the U.S. market, it would be augmented by roughly 70,000 to 80,000 tons. The
United States is requesting that the Japanese government guarantee the import
volume to secure the augmentation. To this, Japan has not complied.
As for the duty levied on Japanese automobiles, currently at 2.5
percent, the two countries have reached a prior agreement to set the longest
possible moratorium allowed under the TPP framework before abolition. The
duration is likely to be settled at around 20 years.Furthermore, Japan is
demanding that the United States further widen the range of auto parts to which
the immediate elimination of tariffs could be applied. In this respect, the two
sides have not been able to reach a compromise on whether high-priced major
parts, such as engines and gearboxes, should be included.Amari had said that it
was difficult to settle all the issues at once, indicating that reaching an
agreement would be possible only in the final phase of the bilateral talks.
Drugs and investmentsIn plenary negotiations, the 12
participants are close to striking a deal on the length of data protection
granted to pharmaceutical companies that hold patents on biologic drugs. The
issue had been a stumbling block until recently in the free trade deal talks.During
talks, the United States, which is home to a number of major pharmaceutical
companies, had requested 12 years, while Japan and several other countries
appealed for eight years. Emerging economies, such as Malaysia and New Zealand,
which have an interest in exploiting generic drugs, pushed for 5 years or less.However,
in recent talks, the United States acceded to the idea of “less than 10 years,”
while Malaysia and New Zealand agreed in general to set the length to “seven to
eight years,” under the condition that a moratorium be set before
implementation.New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, making a conciliatory
gesture, said in an interview with local radio on Tuesday that the length of
data protection was most likely to be extended from the number of years they
have been contesting for.
The negotiators are currently in talks in an attempt to reach a
settlement at “seven to eight years.”On another front, plenary talks on the
comprehensive rules for trade and investment have been making considerable
progress. In a meeting of chief negotiators that lasted until Monday, sources
said that agreements are coming closer for government procurement and
environmental protection, among others.Sources also said a certain degree of
progress was made in four fields including those of intellectual property and
investments, which the ministers aim to settle during their talks.With regard
to investments, another area that has been a stumbling block, a new system will
likely be introduced under which companies can demand compensation from the
governments of countries in which they have invested if they were to suffer
from irrational regulation revisions or other actions. Speech
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002320263
NFA allows farmers to sell 100,000 MT of
imported rice
BusinessAgri-Commoditiesby Mary Grace Padin -
July 29, 2015 0 110
The National Food Authority (NFA) said on
Wednesday it is allowing farmers to distribute as much as 2 million 50-kilogram
bags, or 100,000 metric tons (MT), of imported rice for 2015.
The food agency said it has started implementing
the Institutionalized Farmers as Distributors (Ifad) Program, which enables
farmers organizations (FOs) and farmers associations (FAs) to participate in
the distribution of NFA rice stocks. The program kicked off on July 16 and will
run until October 31.NFA Deputy Administrator Vic J. Jarina told the
BusinessMirror that the Ifad program aims to “empower farmers” by directly
involving FOs and FAs in the distribution of NFA rice. The program aims to
augment their income.
According to the implementing guidelines on the
2015 Ifad program released by the agency, the NFA, upon the approval of the NFA
Council, will allocate 100,000 MT of rice for the program. The volume will come
from the 2014 imported rice stocks.
The NFA is inviting interested and qualified
FOs and FAs to submit a letter of intent (LOI) to signify their intention to
participate in the Ifad Program. The LOI should be submitted to the NFA
provincial manager in their respective areas.Under the guidelines, 30 percent
of the total rice volume allocation will be distributed equally to all
qualified FOs and FAs nationwide with and without palay deliveries, the NFA
said.
The majority, or 60 percent, of the total
volume will be allocated only to FOs and FAs with palay deliveries nationwide.“The
volume of allocation shall be pro-rated based on their palay deliveries and
total nationwide volume of deliveries of all availing FOs or FAs for years 2013
and 2014, including January to June 2015,” the NFA guidelines read.The
remaining 10 percent will be allocated to all officers of the Philippine
Farmers Advisory Board and Provincial Farmers Action Council.
Each FO and FA will be given denominated Ifad
certificates, which indicate the volume allocated for them and the province
where they can withdraw rice.The NFA priced the 25-percent brokens at P25 per
kilogram, or P1,250 per bag, while the price for the 15-percent brokens is
pegged at P30 per kg or P1,500 per bag.NFA Spokesman Angel G. Imperial Jr. said
in a telephone interview that the allocation for this year’s Ifad Program came
from the buffer stock of the NFA, which is good for 25 days.
Imperial said rice stocks will remain
sufficient, as the volume the government earlier imported from Vietnam and
Thailand have already started arriving in the country’s ports.The Ifad started
as a regular program in 2002 and was implemented until 2010.The NFA said it was
“revitalized” in 2013 upon the request of FOs and FAs all over the country.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/nfa-allows-farmers-to-sell-100000-mt-of-imported-rice/
Vietnam's Rice exports may fall
6.5% this year: VFA
Jul 29, 2015 06:28 PM
Rice exports from Vietnam is
expected to reach 5.91 million tons this year, down 6.5% from 2014, with
loading volumes expected to fall towards the year-end, the Vietnam Food
Association (VFA) said, Reuters reported.The association's full-year forecast
is below a government projection of 7 million tons and below the revised
shipment forecast of 6.3 million tons released early this month by the UN Food
and Agriculture Organization.The country’s rice exports were stood at 6.32
million tons in 2014.
http://www.commodityonline.com/fundamentals/vietnams-rice-exports-may-fall-65-this-year-vfa/3991/
Thailand to sell 760,000 tonnes rice to Africa from stockpiles
-exporters
Wed Jul 29, 2015 10:13am GMT
BANGKOK, July 29 (Reuters) - Thailand's government has struck preliminary deals to
export a total of 760,000 tonnes from its huge stockpiles to several countries
in Africa, the Thai Rice Exporters Association said on Wednesday.Rice will be
supplied to Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa, Chukiat Opaswong, honorary
president of the association, told Reuters by phone from Johannesburg.Thailand,
the world's second-largest rice exporter, has about 14.5 million tonnes of rice
in stockpiles built up under a generous rice subsidy scheme run by a government
that was overthrown by the military in May 2014.
The current military government aims to sell off the rice over two
years, although industry observers say selling so much in such a short period
will be difficult.Most of the rice going to Africa is parboiled and shipments
will start in September, Chukiat said.The rice would be sold at around $430 a
tonne, he said, netting the government more than $325 million.($1 = 34.9300
baht) (Reporting by Pairat Temphairojana; Editing by Simon Webb and Alan
Raybould)
http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFL3N1093PB20150729
Rain deficit narrows to 4% as monsoon peaks over West, East
VINSON KURIAN
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY
28:
The rain-deficit for the country
as a whole as on date has narrowed down to four per cent with the monsoon
suddenly peaking both to the west and east of the country.The low-pressure area
over south-west Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat has beat forecasts to intensify
three rounds to become a deep depression in the area.
Rare spectacle
There is also a counterpart depression in the making to the east of the country as well, making a rare spectacle of more than one strong monsoon system based over land dictating weather.India Met Department has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall and squally weather along coast over Gujarat, Rajasthan, Konkan, and Goa for the next few days.Similar conditions will be replicated in the eastern parts especially over Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha where the other depression is expected to intensify as a deep depression.The sudden spurt in monsoon in the north Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal is being attributed to the return of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) wave high in the atmosphere back over the Indian Ocean.
MJO wave returns
The wave travels periodically from Africa into the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, before getting activated for the next cyclical journey over Africa.It is fresh from setting up the busiest typhoon season since 1981 in the Pacific. Forecast models could not agree on whether it would carry some punch on return.They have now been provided with an answer, an update from the Australian Met Bureau on Tuesday said. It went on however to add that the MJO signal has started weakening from Tuesday.Meanwhile, a Central Water Commission update said that live storage in the country’s reservoirs is 115 per cent of the last year’s storage and 108 per cent of the normal.
(This article was published on July 28, 2015)
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/rain-deficit-narrows-to-4-as-monsoon-peaks-over-west-east/article7474371.ece
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open-July 29
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open-July 29Nagpur, July 29 (Reuters) - Gram prices reported strong in
Nagpur Agriculture Produce and Marketing Committee (APMC) here on good buying
support from local millers amid weak supply from producing belts. Fresh rise in
Madhya Pradesh pulses and enquiries from South-based millers also boosted
prices, according to sources.
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*
*
*
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here but demand was
poor.
TUAR
* Tuar gavarani recovered in open market on good demand from
local traders amid tight
supply from producing regions.
* Watana green zoomed up in open market here on increased
seasonal demand from local
traders amid thin supply from producing belts.
* In Akola, Tuar - 7,100-7,200, Tuar dal - 10,100-10,300, Udid
at 9,500-9,900,
Udid Mogar (clean) - 11,000-11,400, Moong - 7,000-8,000, Moong
Mogar
(clean) 9,700-10,000, Gram - 4,100-4,200, Gram Super best bold -
5,700-5,900
for 100 kg.
* Wheat, rice and other commodities remained steady in open
market
in thin trading activity, according to sources.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for
100 kg
FOODGRAINS
Available prices
Previous close
Gram Auction
3,850-4,650
3,780-4,590
Gram Pink Auction
n.a.
2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction
n.a.
6,700-7,400
Moong Auction
n.a.
6,000-6,400
Udid Auction
n.a.
4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction
n.a.
2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold
5,900-6,100
5,900-6,100
Gram Super Best
n.a.
Gram Medium Best
5,600-5,800
5,600-5,800
Gram Dal Medium
n.a.
n.a.
Gram Mill Quality
5,350-5,550
5,350-5,550
Desi gram Raw
4,450-4,550
4,450-4,550
Gram Filter new
5,900-6,100
5,900-6,100
Gram Kabuli
5,600-7,100
5,600-7,100
Gram Pink
6,500-6,700
6,500-6,700
Tuar Fataka Best
10,600-10,800
10,600-10,800
Tuar Fataka Medium
10,200-10,500
10,200-10,500
Tuar Dal Best Phod
9,800-9,950
9,700-9,900
Tuar Dal Medium phod
9,200-9,500
9,200-9,400
Tuar Gavarani New
7,750-7,850
7,700-7,800
Tuar Karnataka
8,100-8,300
8,100-8,300
Tuar Black
10,900-11,200
10,900-11,200
Masoor dal best
7,800-8,300
7,800-8,300
Masoor dal medium
7,500-7,900
7,500-7,900
Masoor
n.a.
n.a.
Moong Mogar bold
9,600-10,400
9,600-10,400
Moong Mogar Medium best
8,500-9,000
8,500-9,000
Moong dal Chilka
8,600-9,000
8,600-9,000
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)
11,200-11,800
11,200-11,800
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)
10,600-11,000
10,600-11,000
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)
9,200-9,600
9,200-9,600
Batri dal (100 INR/KG)
4,500-5,000
4,500-5,000
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)
3,250-3,400
3,250-3,400
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
3,100-3,350
3,100-3,350
Watana White (100 INR/KG)
3,100-3,200
3,100-3,200
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)
3,300-3,900
3,200-3,800
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)
1,400-1,500
1,400-1,500
Wheat Mill quality(100 INR/KG)
1,500-1,650
1,500-1,650
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)
1,300-1,500
1,300-1,500
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)
3,200-3,700
3,200-3,700
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)
2,550-2,850
2,550-2,850
Rice BPT New(100 INR/KG)
2,750-2,950
2,750-2,950
Rice BPT (100 INR/KG)
3,050-3,300
3,050-3,300
Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG)
1,600-1,750
1,600-1,750
Rice Swarna new (100 INR/KG)
2,200-2,450
2,200-2,450
Rice Swarna old (100 INR/KG)
2,500-2,700
2,500-2,700
Rice HMT new(100 INR/KG)
3,100-3,600
3,100-3,600
Rice HMT (100 INR/KG)
3,800-4,200
3,800-4,200
Rice HMT Shriram New(100 INR/KG)
4,200-4,600
4,200-4,600
Rice HMT Shriram old (100 INR/KG)
4,700-5,100
4,700-5,100
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG)
8,000-10,000
8,000-10,000
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG)
7,000-7,500
7,000-7,500
Rice Chinnor new (100 INR/KG)
4,500-4,800
4,500-4,800
Rice Chinnor (100 INR/KG)
5,100-5,500
5,100-5,500
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)
2,100-2,350
2,100-2,350
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
2,400-2,500
2,400-2,500 WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 31.6 degree Celsius
(88.9 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp. 22.3 degree Celsius (71.1 degree
Fahrenheit) Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest - n.a. Rainfall : 1.2 mm FORECAST:
Generally cloudy sky. Rains or thunder-showers likely. Maximum and minimum
temperature would be around and 33 and 23 degree Celsius respectively. Note:
n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery
prices, but included in market prices.)
http://in.investing.com/news/commodities-news/nagpur-foodgrain-prices-open-july-29-25363
ICAR ‘Young Scientist’ award
HYDERABAD,
JULY 29:
Shaik N Meera, a senior scientist with Indian Institute of Rice
Research, has bagged the Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award
2014 instituted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He received ₹one lakh in cash and a citation
and “a challenge project for three years with a budgetary provision of ₹30 lakh and ₹5 lakh for training abroad,” a
press release said.He led a team in developing the Rice Knowledge Management
Portal.
(This article was published on July 29, 2015)
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/icar-young-scientist-award/article7478114.ece
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/shaik-n-meera-gets-icar-young-scientist-award/article7477797.ece
Buriram encourages farmers to
adopt one stop industrial farming to lower production costs
Date : 29 กรกฎาคม 2558
BURIRAM, 29 July (NNT) - Buriram province is
encouraging farmers to adopt a one stop industrial farming method to lower
production costs. The method is also known as the 'Major Agricultural Field
Project'. The Governor of Buriram Seri Srihatrai, chaired the opening of a
technology broadcasting day intended to demonstrate the benefits of farming on
an industrial scale, on a vast area of land. This style of agriculture lowers
production costs, increases the amount of produce and boosts rice quality. It
can further develop the area into a teaching and learning center through the
use of proven local practice, with the addition of academic knowledge relevant
to the farmers' respective areas of agriculture.
The event included input from the provincial
agricultural and cooperatives units, the Nakhon Ratchasima and Surin Rice
Research Centers, previous members of the program and a younger generation of
farmers who also took part in the day of learning. Activities included methods
of producing organic fertilizers, Trichoderma fungi biological products to
protect from or get rid of pests, household expense management and educating
the younger generation of farmers to pass on farming techniques for the
farmer's sustainable future. Nowadays, more farmers are interested in rice
seeding, currently amounting to 294 farmers, and 3,103 rai of land using
approximately 8-10 kilograms of rice per rai.
However there are atill 156 farmers who are
sowing rice on an area of 1,897 rai using an average 15 kilograms of rice per
rai. This means the rice seeders are using 65,515 kilograms less rice than
otherwise, amounting to a saving of 1.4 million baht. The province aims to
reach a target of 5,000 rai dedicated to rice seeding by 400 farmers. Meanwhile
some farmers are hesitant and prefer to wait and see harvest results of the
farmers nearby, before deciding whether to join the next year's rice seeding
efforts.
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