New rice cultivation tech discovered
MULTAN: A newly discovered rice
cultivation technology that doesn’t require standing water will become a
general practice among farmers within next five years, an agronomist said on
Thursday.
“The new technology comparatively
needs less labour but promises more profit,” said Dr Abid Mahmood, director
general agriculture (research) in a statement issued by provinvial agriculture
department.
“It will enable farmers to cover
maximum area in shortest possible time and without that long backbreaking
labour.” Dr Abid said Pakistani rice was known for its quality, taste, and
aroma all over the world. “The government is vigorously involved in
raising awareness among farmers to adopt modern farming technologies for boost
country’s agriculture exports,” he said.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/229935-New-rice-cultivation-tech-discovered
LCCI: Review rice tariff to curb smuggling
The Federal Government should
consider a downward review of the tariff on rice to curb its smuggling, the
Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has said.
Its Director-General, Mr. Muda Yusuf, said rice smuggling has
continued to thrive, in spite of the ban on the commodity, due to high import
tariff.
“Rice is not contraband, you can import rice. What has created
the smuggling problem with rice is the tariff and that is what is driving the
smuggling. If you take it through the port irrespective of where you source
your forex from, you have to pay 70 per cent levy.
“If you have a product coming through the official channel at 70
per cent, there cannot be better incentive to smuggling than that. So, that is
why rice is coming from all over the place,” Yusuf said, in Lagos, during the
week. He dismissed the claim by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, that the country would be self sufficient in
rice production and would no longer import rice by 2018 as mere academic and
not in tune with reality.
His words: “The Minister said we
will be self sufficient in rice production in 2018, but that is just academic.
There is nothing on ground empirically. It is desirable, but in terms of
empirical evidence, I don’t think it is something achievable.
“If you do a proper and empirical
assessment of the rice market today, the market share of smuggled rice is
bigger than the share of rice that is produced locally. So, this is part of the
trade policy challenges that we have.
“It is a popular thing to say
that we have to grow rice; the import duty should be high so that we can grow
local rice. It is a very patriotic statement to make, but the reality is
completely different and policy should align with reality so that we don’t just
make policies in vain.”
The LCCI boss said it was
important that the government policy makers got their facts right. “I have
heard some government officials say the bulk of the rice in the country is Nigerian
rice but that is not correct. The moment we start thinking that way, then we
will not do what we need to do,” he said.
According to him, what is
required is to deploy policies to improve productivity in rice production
http://thenationonlineng.net/lcci-review-rice-tariff-curb-smuggling/
PARC starts campaign to promote hybrid rice
cultivation
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) in collaboration with Chinese
hybrid rice seeds research organization has initiated a campaign to promote
hybrid seed cultivation across the crop growing areas of the country. The main aim of this joint initiative was to
enhance per acre crop productivity, increase profitability and produce surplus
commodity for exports enhancement.
In this regard, an official of the council
told APP here Friday that both the countries have decided to work together for
conducting joint awareness programmes to adopt hybrid rice seeds. The Chinese scientists are scheduled to train
30 Pakistani agriculture scientists, selected from all the four provinces. Besides, he said that they will also impart
training to the members of the provincial field extension departments on hybrid
rice cultivation. They would also
organize road-shows and field visits across the rice-growing areas to address
the issues and challenges in promotion of hybrid rice seed, he added.
He further informed
that the a revolutionary hybrid rice seed was recently developed by the Chinese
researchers, which would help Pakistani farmers to enhance significantly their
per acre yield. The new developed rice
seed variety would help to produce extra surplus, hence the country would be
able to export more rice for exporting it to other countries, he added. He said a travelling seminar has also been
designed by PARC and Chinese Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Company to
travel in all the four ecological zones of the country in Khyber Pukhtunkhawa,
Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.
The main
objective of the seminar was to estimate the local hybrid seed requirements for
different regions and showcase the hybrid rice varieties, he remarked. In addition, he said that the other aim if
the activity was the capacity building of the local experts from all over the
country in order to promote the hybrid rice techniques. High level Chinese team comprising on 12 top
hybrid rice experts will be the part of this travelling rice seminar, he added.
LCCI, Philippines embassy
to establish hotline-like contact
September 15, 2017
The understanding was reached at a meeting
between Pakistan Ambassador to the Philippines Dr Aman Rashid, LCCI President
Abdul Basit, Senior Vice President Amjad Ali Jawa and Vice President Muhammad Nasir
Hameed Khan at the LCCI office.
Rashid said the Philippines – a Southeast
Asian country – was a dynamic consumer market and had a vast scope for
Pakistani pharmaceutical, rice, textile, yarn, leather and fresh fruit,
particularly oranges, businesses.
He assured businessmen that the embassy in
the Philippines would extend maximum cooperation to Pakistan’s business
community.
Basit said the LCCI would make efforts
focused on specific sectors for ramping up the volume of two-way trade. He saw
a lot of potential in both the countries to expand bilateral trade.
Pakistan’s major exports to the Philippines
were cotton, cereals and pharmaceutical products, but Basit pointed out that
these constituted a very small segment of Manila’s total imports of these
commodities from the rest of the world.
Pakistan is one of the largest producers of
cotton and rice in the world. The aroma and quality of the rice is superb.
Pakistan also has a highly developed pharmaceutical industry.
“Businessmen of the Philippines may consider
the quality and price of these Pakistani products to economise on their
procurement cost,” Basit suggested.
Pakistan could also increase its import of
vehicles, machinery, electrical and electronic equipment and mineral fuels from
the Philippines.
He emphasised that frequent exchange of
business delegations and holding of single-country exhibitions would yield desired
results as exchange of business-related information helped respective societies
to familiarise with each other.
Being an agrarian economy, the LCCI chief
said, ample opportunities were available in the food processing sector.
“Pakistan is deficient in post-harvest technology and will welcome transfer of
technology from the Philippines through joint ventures,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 15th,
2017
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1506661/lcci-philippines-embassy-establish-hotline-like-contact/
Pakistan
participates in “World Food Fair” at Istanbul
Observer Report
Ankara
Leading Pakistani companies
participated in the 25th “World Food Fair, held at Tyap Fair Convention &
Congress Center Istanbul from 7-10 September 2017, Pakistan Embassy Ankara said
here Thursday.The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) and the Consulate General
of Pakistan Istanbul, facilitated the Pakistani companies during the fair as
well as endeavored to inform the Turkish businessmen about the tremendous
potential that exists between Pakistan and Turkey in the areas of bilateral trade and
investment.
The Fair was attended by business community from Turkey and other countries and provided an opportunity for establishing business-to-business contacts.
Prominent companies in the business of food and herbal products including Hamdard Laboratories, S. Amden and Company, Bhandhari Rice Mills, and Food Links International established stalls at the event.
World Food Fair, Istanbul is the largest food related exhibition in Turkey.
The event annually attracts over 360 domestic and international food producers, who converge in Istanbul to network, negotiate and conclude business contracts with Turkey’s food industry buyers
The Fair was attended by business community from Turkey and other countries and provided an opportunity for establishing business-to-business contacts.
Prominent companies in the business of food and herbal products including Hamdard Laboratories, S. Amden and Company, Bhandhari Rice Mills, and Food Links International established stalls at the event.
World Food Fair, Istanbul is the largest food related exhibition in Turkey.
The event annually attracts over 360 domestic and international food producers, who converge in Istanbul to network, negotiate and conclude business contracts with Turkey’s food industry buyers
Two Weeks to Go for Sustainability Award Nominations
ARLINGTON, VA -- Only two weeks remain to nominate yourself or
someone you know for the first ever USA Rice Sustainability Award.
The award is open to individuals or entities with significant
involvement in the U.S. rice industry and with a history of promoting and
advancing sustainability through innovative practices and demonstrated
leadership in the sustainability community.
"Putting sustainable practices into your operation is
important, but just as important is telling people you are doing it," said
Jennifer James, an Arkansas rice farmer and chair of the USA Rice
Sustainability Committee that created the new award. "This is about
communicating to the public and our customers that we are being responsible and
we are doing right by the environment. If we don't show them that we are
the good guys, how will they know? What if they start to deselect U.S.
rice because they don't realize how environmentally beneficial we really are?
That would be a disaster for us, but also for the environment and the wildlife
habitats we're creating."
The award committee is accepting nominations through September 29, 2017 and the award
will be presented at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in San Antonio, Texas on December 10, 2017.
The simple application form can be found here and
should be emailed to awards@usarice.com.
Apply Now for Rice Leadership Program
By Chuck Wilson
STUTTGART, AR -- Rice producers and other industry-related
professionals who are interested and meet the eligibility requirements are
encouraged to complete the application process for the 2018 Rice Leadership
Development program by October 7.
The next class will be announced in December at the USA Rice Outlook Conference
in San Antonio, Texas.
The Rice Leadership Development Program gives young men and
women a comprehensive understanding of the U.S. rice industry, with an emphasis
on personal development and communication skills training. During a
two-year period, class members attend four one-week sessions that are designed
to strengthen their leadership skills.
Board rooms across the country, as well as leadership
positions all around the rice industry are populated with alumni of the
program. Every graduate agrees, time spent in this program is well worth
it, resulting in a better, more complete understanding of the industry, and it
opens participants' eyes to practices and customs going on beyond their farm
gate or company, but that are supremely relevant to their development as an
industry leader.
The class is comprised of five rice producers and two
industry-related professionals chosen by a committee of agribusiness leaders
evaluating their applications, reviewing letters of recommendation, and
conducting personal interviews with the finalists. Candidates must be
25-45 at the time of application and derive their primary livelihood from some
aspect of the rice industry.
The program is sponsored by John Deere Company, RiceTec,
Inc., and American Commodity Company through The Rice Foundation and managed by
the USA Rice Federation.
For more information on the program and an application form, click here.
2 ministers blame traders, journos for rice price hike
| Update: 14:29,
Sep 15, 2017
Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed
and food minister Quamrul Islam blamed dishonest businessmen for the unbridled
price hike of rice in the country.The two ministers also questioned the
responsibility of the journalists who are disseminating information of the rice
price hike. They were talking to reporters at their respective secretariat
offices on Thursday.
Oluseyi Taiwo-Oguntuase
September 15, 2017
Maize produce
Lagos– Despite the acclaimed
diversification into agriculture by this present administration, investigations
revealed that some products like rice, maize are still being imported by big
companies into the country.
Stakeholders in the sector
have kicked against the trend, saying that unchecked importation of crops where
the country has advantage might jeopardise the labour of local farmers in the
drive for self sufficiency in food production.
With about 82 million
hectares of arable land suitable for maize, stakeholders have raised questions
on the rationale for continued importation of these products by some
organisations rather than partnership with local farmers to boost the present
production capacity in the country.
States like: Jigawa, Kano,
Bauchi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Borno, Niger, Kebbi, Kaduna, Adamawa, Yobe,
Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, and Gombe States are the major producers of the
commodity.
Adeola Elliott, former
Chairman Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Agric and Agro Allied
Group, attributed the rising trend and preference to lack of synergy among
MDAs, saying that they are all working at cross purposes.
He said the refusal by the
government to embrace the subsidy regimes for agro-produce is inimical to
global price competition and that some companies import some produce as
intermediate raw materials and not really as edibles.
Elliott, however, urged the
government to address agriculture holistically through intelligent, fiscal and
monetary policies to create global market evenness, saying that anything
contrary to this will sustain the domination of the agric-business by
multinational organisations operating in Nigeria.
“The reasons for persistent
importation can be attributed to lack of synergy among MDAs. They are all
working at cross purposes. The government refusal to operate subsidy regimes
for agro-produce is inimical to global price competition.
Dr. Victor Iyama, National
President, Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN)
said it is very sad that this is one areas that calls for concern.
According to him as far as
the association is concerned, the country and its citizens have no reason
importing maize because it is one product where the Nigeria experiences glut in
yields.
“It is very sad, that is one
area that calls for concern, as far as we are concerned we don’t see any reason
why we should be importing maize because we grow maize here in Nigeria. It is
very ridiculous as far as we are concerned; that is one area that we experience
glut and I don’t see any reason why they should be importing maize,”
Iyama said if the country
continues to encourage its own the nation will surely get there someday.Observing
that though a number of farmers were affected by army worm infestation, Iyama
stated as part of the challenges farmer encounter it was not enough reason to
embrace importation of maize into the country with reckless abandonment.
Emmanuel Ijewere,
Coordinator Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) who promised to verify newspaper
reports indicting Olam of importation of rice and maize, saying that such moves
must be in connivance with the law enforcement agencies.
“Olam is a company that is
actually investing a lot into Nigerian villages and I see them to be proactive
in Nigeria so I find it difficult to believe that Olam will be doing something
to impact negatively on the Nigerian farmers,” he said.
However, responding to this
issue, Audu Ogbeh Minister of Agriculture assured that government was already
looking into the issue and that it will be appropriately dealt with.
“Rice farmers are selling a
ton of paddy two years ago at N65,000 they moved to N150, 000. We gave them a
lot of support and we told them that the N150,000 is very expensive that they
can do well with N120,000 and still make profit because if your output is too
expensive for the millers to buy your products. In the end, you will get stock
with your rice and they will not be able to feel the gap.
He accused maize farmers of
prolonged storage till a period prices will rise to N140,000 per ton in
defiance of government’s directive to sell, saying that such was responsible
for the gradual loss in the poultry industry.
Ogbeh said; “we know what is
fair for the farmers to make profit, we have reduced interest rate to nine per
cent; we are supplying them fertilisers
and chemicals as we can, so if government is giving them that level of support
they should not be too expensive because if they do the poultry farmers can’t
afford the maize at that price.
“Maize is not yet banned,
but as we are trying to discourage importation we must also not upset the World
Trade Organisation because they will sue us, they will make us pay fines.
“The answer is for farmers
and buyers to be reasonable so that we can arrive at a certain price which will
make everybody happy, so we avoid importation, we don’t like importation
especially when local farmers can produce but we are holding meetings with them
shortly both the rice and the maize farmers,” he said.
Meanwhile, commercial
farmers under the aegis of the Nigerian Farmers Group and Cooperative Society
(NFGCS) has called on the Federal Government to probe Nigeria Customs Service
and other agencies at the seaport over allegation of the importation of seven
ship-loads of maize from India by Olam Group.
The farmers group while
speaking through its National Coordinator, Redson Tedheke, called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to investigate how such huge amount of imported grain would be
allowed into the country when such can be produced in the country.
According to him, “The
current price of maize in Nigeria is between N130,000 and N250,000 per ton for
local production. We gathered that the current landing cost of the maize
imported by Olam is N40,000/ton. But our fear is that the action will spell
doom for farmers who are constrained by funding, lack of capacity of government agencies and
the continuing war against army worms in the current farming season,” he added.
NBMA Raises Alarm On
Imported GM Maize
Meanwhile, the National
Bio-safety Management Agency (NBMA), has alerted Nigerians on tons of
genetically modified (GM) Maize imported into the country without necessary
approvals.
Dr. Rufus Ebegba, the NBMA
Director General/CEO, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja on
Wednesday said Agency got notice of the importation through an intelligence
report and has set in motion necessary machineries to track the importers and
bring them to book.
“The NBMA got an
intelligence report on the importation of GM Maize into the country. We have no
application from anyone on this and we are not aware of any move to bring in
this maize. The NBMA Act 2015 has stipulated steps and procedures for the
importation, production and processing of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
in the country and we will ensure that the act is strictly followed,” Dr.
Ebegba said
He urged the general public
not to panic as the Agency would never compromise on its mandate of ensuring
that the safety of Nigerians and the environment was topmost in its dealings.
Emphasising that with an already existing Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between the NBMA and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS),
the products would not be allowed into the country without adherence to due
diligence.He said that the Agency was empowered by law to carry out a risk
assessment of the imported product before it will be allowed into the country
to ensure that it is safe.
http://independent.ng/stakeholders-lament-continued-importation-maize-rice/
Trickery and politics responsible
for higher rice prices, says food minister
2017-09-14 15:37:44.0 BdST Updated: 2017-09-14 15:37:44.0 BdST
Food Minister Qamrul Islam says trickery and politics are
to blame for the recent increase in rice prices.Bangladesh has produced 19.2
million tonnes of rice paddies despite flood damage and pests, he said at a
press conference at the secretariat on Thursday.
“They are playing politics with rice, trying to engineer
shortages throughout the country. They are purposefully tricking people, trying
to create anxiety and fear by controlling the rice.”The minister blamed it on a
section of traders and mill owners.
“We are experiencing deceit and conspiracy. There are over 10
million tonnes of rice in Bangladesh, so how can this situation be?”
“I call upon merchants and mill owners to fix this. There is
still time for you to act morally. We will in no way tolerate your cartel, your
racket, your attempts to play politics, your creation of a shortage to inflate
the prices of rice. This is your final chance.”Two rounds of floods have
damaged crops across the country since the haor floods. The rice price, which
rose a few months ago, has risen even higher in the past few days.
The decision to reduce the tariff on rice imports by 26 percent
has failed to calm the rice market. The government has made agreements with
Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar to import rice.
Though two rounds of rice imports have arrived from Thailand,
rice prices have yet to fall. Officials at the food ministry have blamed a lack
of oversight by the commerce ministry.The commerce ministry has not taken any
visible measure to manage the rice market, they said.
http://bdnews24.com/business/2017/09/14/trickery-and-politics-responsible-for-higher-rice-prices-says-food-minister
Expanding agricultural trade
between the US and Cuba would benefit both countries
BY REP. RICK CRAWFORD (R-ARK.),
OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 09/15/17 08:00 AM EDT
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE
THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
© Hill Photo Illustration/Garrett Evans
President Trump’s June 16 Cuba
policy announcement pledges a “much better deal for the Cuban people and the
USA.” Two premises of that new policy –promoting Cuba’s private business
class and trading humanitarian agriculture goods – are as complementary as they
are compelling. With a new generation of Cuban leaders poised to assume control
in less than five months, there is no better way for the Trump administration
to start guiding Cuba towards a mutually advantageous relationship than by
expanding two-way agricultural trade.
America’s distressed rural
economy and Cuba’s growing number of entrepreneurs have much to gain from
increased trade opportunities. At the heart of this potential lies the reality
that Cuba must import 80 percent of its food needs to feed its 11 million people,
a problem that has only been exacerbated by the damage done to crops by
Hurricane Irma. The U.S. can already sell agriculture goods to the island, but
a cash requirement restriction prevents trade on a meaningful scale. With the
advantage of geographical proximity, American farmers should already be
supplying $1.4 billion of Cuba’s $2 billion agricultural import needs, and the
only thing stopping them is a US law preventing Americans from selling on
private credit what they can already sell in cash.
Unfortunately, Cuba now imports much of its rice, corn, poultry, soy and other
agribusiness needs from our competitors in distant parts of the globe. The
island meets its annual rice needs, for example, by importing rice from
Vietnam, which takes 36 days to arrive in Cuban ports, when it could be
importing rice in
36 hours from Arkansas, Texas, or Louisiana. By taking steps, even
incremental ones, to improve U.S. access to Cuba’s agricultural market, the
administration could help boost sagging U.S. farm prices, grow export revenue,
and create desperately needed jobs in rural America.
Beyond American farmers selling
to Cuba, expanded two-way agricultural trade would also advance the interests
of the Cuban people and private businesses. Cuba’s private farmers, over half a
million in number, form the backbone of its growing entrepreneurial class. When
I traveled to Cuba last year, I visited an agricultural market and saw for
myself a group of sellers beginning to learn the dynamics of a market
place.
A third of Cuban farmland is now
worked by private farmers, who represent the largest group of private
landowners on the island, holding title to over 6.5 million acres of high
quality land. Most of these farmers produce products that don’t compete with
American farmers – products like bananas, coffee, tobacco and others. In
the case of tobacco, the country’s most important agricultural product, private
farmers are responsible for nearly all of that production.
Yet Cuban farmers are still
impoverished by U.S. standards, earning on average less than $100 per month and
unable to afford modern farm equipment. If Cuban agricultural products could be
exported freely to the United States in a two-way agricultural trade
relationship, private Cuban farmers could earn the income needed to buy modern
U.S. farm equipment and other agribusiness needs, improve productivity and lift
their overall standard of living.
With Cuban President Raul Castro
set to retire in February 2018, the time is right for Congress and the
administration to make small changes to our current trade relationship by
encouraging bilateral agribusiness trade. The Cuba Agricultural Exports
Act, which eliminates the ban on American agricultural export financing,
already enjoys strong bipartisan support in Congress and should be passed. But
legislation and regulatory changes promoting limited bilateral trade could also
effect the change President Trump wants to see in Cuba. In fact, he already has
authority under existing regulations to permit U.S. imports of Cuban goods
produced by Cuban entrepreneurs.
Whatever the avenues, we can’t
miss this opportunity to create jobs in rural America while at the same time
encouraging private land ownership and free markets on the island nation.
Measures taken now to build a stable, mutually beneficial US-Cuba trading
relationship in agriculture will go a long way towards increasing American
influence with Cuba’s new generation of leaders, restoring prosperity for
American farmers, and helping ordinary Cubans shape their country’s future.
Crawford represents Arkansas's 1st District. He is a member
of the Agriculture Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on General Farm
Commodities and Risk Management
Bangladesh
demand pushes up rice prices in India
BENGALURU: Steady demand from Bangladesh raised rice prices in
India this week but the flood-ravaged country is unlikely to go beyond its
initial export targets for the year to shore up depleted stocks.
Bangladesh will stick to its earlier plans to import up to 1.5
million tonnes of rice in the year to June 2018, a food ministry official said
on Thursday.
The world’s fourth-biggest rice producer stepped its rice up
purchases this year to boost stocks in a bid to combat high domestic rates. In
August, it cut a duty on imports of the grain for the second time in two
months.
However, the measure was not being viewed as a long-term policy by
Bangladesh. Commerce Minister Tofael Ahmed told parliament on Tuesday that
the import duty cut and bulk rice imports were temporary. “The government will
protect farmers’ interests,” the minister said.
The lower import duty has, however, prompted purchases by private
dealers, with most of the deals being struck with neighbouring India.
Demand from Bangladesh and limited local supplies pushed up
India’s 5 per cent broken parboiled rice prices by $3 to $413-$416 a tonne.“Limited
supplies are available for exports at higher price. Until new season crop
starts, prices will remain firm,” said an exporter based in Kakinada in the
southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Indian farmers had planted 37.15 million hectares of paddy rice
as of Sept 8, slightly lower than 37.69m hectares a year ago. India’s
non-basmati rice exports are likely to slow over the next few months.
Thai benchmark 5pc broken rice was quoted at $380-$390 a tonne,
free-on-board (FOB) Bangkok, up from $380-$385 last week amid a stronger baht.“It
looks like there’s going to be a rising trend and the price might increase
again next week because we’re approaching the end of the harvest season,” said
a rice trader in Bangkok.
A trading house based in Thailand struck a deal with Bangladesh’s
state grains buyer to export 50,000 tonnes of rice.
“Apart from this, there are no other deals with other countries in
the making,” said another trader.
In Vietnam, the benchmark 5 percent broken rice fell to $378-$385
a tonne this week from $385-$390 last week, FOB Saigon. Trade was slow due to
low demand from major importers, traders said, adding that output was likely to
be lower from the minor autumn-winter crops.“Crop yields could decrease due to
late planting and effects of August flooding in Mekong Delta,” a trader in Ho
Chi Minh city said.
Published in Dawn, September 15th,
2017
Harvey-related rains hit Arkansas soybeans
hard, rice less so
By Ryan McGeeney, U of A System Division of
Agriculture
Sep 14, 2017
While Arkansans were spared the worst of the destruction wrought
by Hurricane Harvey, many growers in the eastern portion of the state are
nevertheless dealing with the storm’s impacts.
Bands of stormy weather spanning
out from Hurricane Harvey in late August and early September dumped upwards of
10 inches of rainfall in some eastern Arkansas counties, impacting tens of
thousands of acres of both rice and soybeans in the state.
Arkansas rice growers, already
besieged by flooding in the spring, pushed to speed their harvest operations
through the weekend of Aug. 25 through 27, said Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice
agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
Growers remained behind the five-year average for harvest progress, however,
according to a Sept. 5 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
National Agricultural Statistics Service (as of Sept. 3, Arkansas growers had
harvested about 18 percent of total rice acreage, compared to the five-year
average of 23 percent).
Hardke said initial concerns of
rice lodging—in which the plant leans and then falls to the ground, saturated
with water or beaten by wind—proved to be overstated.
“While the event was happening, a
lot of that rice didn’t end up laying down as it looked like it was going to,”
Hardke said. “It hasn’t triggered the drastic lodging we were concerned was
going to happen.
“It’s a double-edged sword,
though,” he said. “A lot of growers look at fields that don’t have much of any
lodging, and that can be a bad sign to them in certain ways—if rice is holding
a lot of grain, it should go down. If it’s not going down, there may not be as
much actual rice on the plant.”
Throughout August, much of
Arkansas experienced high humidity and atypically low temperatures, and the
state’s rice crop was slow to dry out as a result. Ironically, water retention
in rice often lends it rigidity, which may have helped much of the crop survive
the battering stemming from Harvey, Hardke said. While initial estimates put
the impact of lodging at 80,000 acres of rice throughout the state, Hardke said
he now estimates the number is probably closer to 40,000 acres.
Soybean losses are expected to be
considerably higher in several counties, however. Rick Wimberly, Cross County
Cooperative Extension Service agricultural agent, said that while growers in
his county suffered relatively little damage in rice, despite flooding, about
25,000 acres of soybeans have been submerged for more than a week.
“We had the potential for 60
bushels per acre or more on those acres, and for the most part, those are
ruined,” Wimberly said. “At the most, they might make 30 bushles per acre. But
I’m not going to bank on it.
“We’ll probably see a 75 percent
loss in a lot of these fields—some of them worse,” he said.
“It’s too late for those
soybeans. They’ve stood there for eight days with floodwaters in them. Any pods
in that water are ruined or rotten.”
Richard Klerk, Woodruff County Cooperative Extension Service agricultural
agent, said late-planted soybeans in low-lying areas have been hit hardest in
his county.
“We can’t get the water off the
fields fast enough to give the plants a chance to recover,” Klerk said. “Where
there was good drainage, or the rain wasn’t too heavy, the soybeans look pretty
good. But those low areas have taken it on the chin, with all the rainfall.
“It’s just a slow process, trying
to move all the water off a concentrated area after 10 inches of rain, to move
it into ditches,” he said. “There are farmers pumping water over levees, to get
it off the fields and into whatever kind of drainage they can.”
Jeremy Ross, Extension soybean
agronomist for the Division of Agriculture, said the rain and humid conditions
have resulted in quality issues with many of the state’s April-planted
soybeans, including shriveled and discolored beans. There are also considerable
disease issues, including pod and stem blight.
“The fungicide application
probably went out a little too early to really give us good control on some of
these late-season diseases,” Ross said. “The yields are still pretty good, but
the quality of some of these fields just isn’t where we thought it should be.
“The forecast for the next couple
of weeks looks pretty favorable, thought, so we’re hoping to get out of these
early-planted fields,” he said. “We think the quality will get a little better
with May-planted beans.”
To learn about Arkansas row
crops, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.edu.
RICE PRICE SOARS
Rice stocks
buzzing on Thursday
India Infoline News Service |
Mumbai |
September 14, 2017 15:19 IST
The share of rice stocks were buzzing after the lunch
hour during Thursday’s trading session amid almost flat markets.
The share of the KRBL was trading up by 2.34% at Rs 497 per share on BSE at 1453 hours. The stock witnessed a spurt in volume by more than 1.92 times on Thursday. The stock also hit new 52-week high at Rs 499.80 per share.
The stock of LT Foods was trading up by 5.03% at Rs 69.90 per share on BSE at 1503 hours. The stock has witnessed a spurt in volume by more than 4.75 times. The stock has attracted a total traded volume of 24,70,358 shares and traded value of Rs 1,716 lakh on NSE.
The share of Chaman Lal Setia Exports was trading up by 3.41% at Rs 94 per share on BSE at 1500 hours. The stock touched its intraday high and low at Rs 94.85 per share and Rs 90.10 per share, respectively.
Meanwhile, the major benchmark indices Sensex was trading up by 0.22% at 32,256 level and Nifty was trading up by 18 points at 10,093 level.
The
rice grown at Wales was intended for aquaculture purposes
By Staff Writer Comments
Dear Editor,
I am in New York on business and so what I write here is from
memory and not from my notes which are on my desktop computer in Guyana.
I refer to a letter from Ganga Persaud which was published in
the Stabroek News of the 14th September 2017 and captioned ‘Give the sugar
workers land at Wales, and Burma an infusion of cash and more attention for
proper paddy seedling production.’
In this letter Mr Persaud says, “The curtain has been drawn and
the stage is boldly set to go into full-time paddy production at the now
abandoned Wales Sugar Plantation. The lands that have been converted by the
Ministry of Agriculture for the sole purpose of propagating new strains of seed
paddy through state agency GRDB and state institution, the Burma Rice Research
Station, is another government ploy to go into paddy production in order to
fully occupy the vast unutilised cane lands at Wales Estate. The whole concept
is for the state to go into competition with the country’s peasant rice
farmers.”
All of this is total nonsense! And since this rice project was conceived by me,
I have to explain my thinking about it, since I would not want anyone to get
away with the idea that I would conceive such a hare-brained scheme as Mr
Persaud describes as legitimate diversification. At all times I felt that
aquaculture was the answer to Guyana’s total problem in agriculture, and the
reason was that all of the liabilities we currently see in growing sugar cane
today, become assets for us in aquaculture.
1. Poorly tidal drained, low-lying land
below sea level, becomes a major asset for aquaculture since we will be using
flooded fields to grow fish.
2. The heavy, swelling clay soils which
exist on the Guyana coast become assets, since they hold water for ponds
extremely well.
3. The layout of the cambered beds which
are so problematical for the mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting and make us
completely uncompetitive in sugar cane production, become less of a problem,
since as the bottom of ponds, they mean nothing whether they are cambered or flat.
But we should flatten them as a matter of policy.
4. The heavy rainfall of Guyana will be an
asset rather than such a massive liability.
Editor, there is more but I will stop
there.
In May 2016 at my instigation, the board
of GuySuCo invited a US company Aquasol to come to Guyana and tell us if my
vison which I presented to the board successfully, and which was adopted,
whether Guyana had the ability to become a world class aquaculture producer,
both of shrimp and tilapa. The Aquasol team which included Dr Claude Boyd, a
world class expert on aquaculture, sat in the GuySuCo boardroom in May 2016 and
told the board that indeed we appear to have ideal conditions for aquaculture,
with two exceptions: 1. The water and land was a little acid and 2. the cost of
electricity was a bit expensive, but that a yield of 10,000 pounds of tilapia
per acre per year was possible. The first problem of the acidity could have
been easily and not expensively corrected with limestone applications after
every crop, but the cost of electricity we will have to live with until we
became an oil producing nation in a few years.
So we decided to go ahead with the 300
acre trial which I had designed for GuySuCo. I chose this specific acreage for
a reason; it established that our production would be spread over a 300 day
period per year. This meant that firstly our field and later processing plant
employees would be working 300 days a year, and not be seasonal workers as they
are in sugar and rice. Secondly, that we will be supplying product to a
processor in Guyana and later our own processing plant at Wales, every day all
year except Sundays. Clearly if you are going to be producing such a perishable
product which must be sent to the US unfrozen but fresh packed in ice less than
36 hours after harvesting, you have to reap consistently and not all in a few
months, and consequently not supply to your buyers. You do not want to have
millions of pounds in a few months, and then nothing for the rest of the year,
because you would not be a serious supplier. Thirdly, in this plan we can
in fact have our hatching and stocking programme for the 300 acre trial at
around an acre a day, or 7 acres a week, which is very doable and requires a
much smaller workforce doing less strenuous work with more continuous earning
power all year.
Very soon after establishing the fact
that that Guyana had great potential as a grower of aquaculture on the basis of
what was said by Dr Claude Boyd of Auburn University in the US, I decided that
I must learn everything I could about growing tilapia. I even designed and set
up a small aquaponics operation in my yard to see first hand what the problems
could be in time. And I have to give due recognition to my friend Mr Tejnarine
Geer, formally Chief Fisheries Officer at Guyana’s Ministry of Agriculture who
is now an aquaculture consultant in Guyana serving both Guyana and Suriname at
this time. We decided that my concept which was presented to the board and had
their blessing, was that since 70% of the expense of growing tilapia is the
feed cost, we must explore possibilities of making our own feed, which was the
key to success. An acute case of amnesia prevented the executives of GuySuCo
from remembering all of this.
And clearly to manufacture our own feed
we would need raw materials, and it turns out that broken rice, rice bran and
fish and shrimp protein which are available in Guyana in abundance and at an
excellent price were the key to profitability. Once we decided to make our own
feed using these ingredients, I spoke to Mr Pritipaul Singh and had a written
MOU from him to sell us their fish waste at an excellent price; we also spoke
to some rice mill people and secured excellent prices and a promise to supply
both broken rice and rice bran.
The Wales rice project was an integral part of the aquaculture project, but was
a forward looking plan at least 2-3 years in the future since there was no way
that we can have a rice mill producing our own rice and by products in the near
future with just a such a small acreage under rice. Therefore I asked the
GuySuCo board to give permission to plant 485 acres of rice at Wales for this
purpose. The 485 acres identified was not an accident, since it was land which
had been converted by the field equipment department of GuySuCo many decades
ago, and was therefore level land, under a light ridge and furrow layout and
not cambered beds so appropriate for rice cultivation.
To do it on more land than 485 acres
would not be easy, and maybe not even advisable, since converting cambered beds
to flat land is very expensive, but if we got good yields from the laser
levelling and the fact that we control our water completely at Wales, unlike
most small farmers, we could possibly achieve a better yield. If that was so
perhaps we can extend the cultivation of rice to around 1600 acres in time with
our own rice mill.
So in the long run I saw the planting of
rice at Wales as offering to ourselves two of the main ingredients of our fish
feed at our own rice mill installation from perhaps 1600 acres. But there was
another reason why we should grow our own rice and mill it ourselves at Wales
in conjunction with aquaculture. Editor, we would be growing fish at Wales,
perhaps as much as 3000 acres in time, producing 30 million pounds of fish a
year at a selling price of US 80 cents a pound, which would be a gross income
to GuySuCo of US$24 million per year, and approximately US$8000 per acre per
year, when sugar at current yields was only giving us a gross income of less
than US$1000 per acre per year. But the fish create metabolic waste in the
water and since they are growing on the same location in adjoining fields, it
was possible in time to put the fish waste water into the rice fields and
fertilize them that way, at no fertilizer cost, rather than flushing it into
the Demerara river. This new branch of agriculture called aquaponics, ie using
fish waste to fertilize plants is gaining momentum globally, and quite a bit of
grant aid money is available for such green projects. Mr Geer and I have
discussed this, and it was always a possibility in time. And my backyard
operation is in fact aquaponics.
To see where we can go with this new
King which is fish and not sugar, those with a computer must enter Tropical
Tilapia on youTube and see what is happening in the world today, especially our
part of the world.
Finally Editor, since we were going to
have our pilot programme to produce rice paddy at Wales for feed manufacture in
the future, one must realise, as I did, that in doing so we were in fact
growing this rice on land which is for rice, virgin land. We would be rather
stupid to try to sell the Wales paddy, which was not contaminated by red rice
or bastard drop varieties over time for $1000 more per bag than paddy to
manufacture rice, and the Ministry of Agriculture liked the concept so much,
that they asked GRDB to finance the project for us. There is nothing sinister
about any of this. But I did not see how we can sustain this growing of paddy
for seed for more than, say, 3 crops.
These are the facts: since I left
GuySuCo there is no one there with this complete vision and they are clearly
lost, which is why I keep saying that GuySuCo cannot diversify itself.
At no time did we attempt to destroy the
livelihood of the rice farmers; that is patent nonsense, and will mislead rice
farmers into believing that the current government has an obscene agenda in the
rice industry, to the detriment of rice farmers.
Yours
faithfully,
Tony
Vieira
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Woman
Farmer Heads-Up Conservation Agriculture Techniques in Malawi
REPORT
Published on 14 Sep 2017 —
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
·
Malawi, Mozambique, and
Zambia are collaborating to improve the productivity of staple food crops, such
as maize, rice, and legumes.
·
Local farmers are testing
new conservation farming technologies, with information on them is shared
across the three countries.
·
Patricia Dzimbiri is a
farmer in Malawi who has successfully piloted the sustainable farming methods
and shared what she has learned with more than 80 other farmers.
LILONGWE, September 14, 2017 –
Across three countries in southern Africa where maize (also known as “corn” in
the Americas) is a staple food, a farmer-centric approach to adopting
conservation techniques in agriculture is resulting in better food crop
yields---a blessing for the region’s small-scale farmers.
Many
small-scale farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, where the techniques are
being tested, have long had to deal with poor soil, little rain, and low
yields. Conservation Agriculture improves the long-term environmental and
financial sustainability of farming by adopting soil management practices that
minimize disruption to the soil's structure, composition, and natural
biodiversity.
Under the auspices of the World Bank-financed Agricultural
Productivity Program for Southern Africa (APPSA), women farmers
in Malawi are among those taking part in the research. Conservation farming is
one of the low-cost technologies being championed under APPSA. In practice, it
includes covering the soil with mulch, using only a minimal amount of digging
to till the soil, and planting maize and legumes together.
Regional
Centers of Leadership for staple foods like maize, rice, and legumes such as
cowpeas, are being established as part of the project, and building research
capacity. Malawi is the leadership center for maize-based farming systems,
Mozambique is the center for rice research, and Zambia for legumes.
At least
30 per cent of the farmers targeted by the project are women.
Planting crops together
Patricia
Dzimbiri is one of them. Aged 37, she comes from Chinguluwe Area in Malawi’s
Salima District and has been participating in farmers’ field trials for
conservation agriculture and the intercropping of maize and legumes for three consecutive
years.
In the
2016/2017 cropping season, Dzimbiri set an acre of land aside for two field
demonstrations.
In the
first, she compared maize grown using conservation agriculture techniques, with
maize grown using more conventional farming practices. She was thrilled with
the results. “The maize grew faster and bigger in the conservation plot, and
needed only hand weeding, as there were far fewer weeds,” Dzimbiri said. Where
the maize covered the ground in shade it also suppressed the growth of weeds.
Moisture
and nutrient retention were much higher in this plot than in the one farmed
using conventional methods. And so were yields: Dzimbiri harvested 225 kg of
maize on the trial plot, compared to 150 kg from a conventional plot of the
same size.
In the
second demonstration, she compared growing maize intercropped with cowpeas, to
maize grown alone, and grew both using conservation agriculture methods. She
noticed that the maize grown with cowpeas looked much greener on top. “Cowpeas,
being a legume, fix the nutrients that are used by maize [in the soil]. The
canopy formed by the cowpeas retained extra moisture for the crops,” she said.
She
harvested 200 kg of maize on the intercropped plot compared to 125 kg on the
non-intercropped.
Higher yields mean more cash
Better
harvests have improved her cash flow. As a member of Tiyesere Village Savings
and Loans Group, Dzimbiri can save money to buy inputs in time for the next
cropping season. She has also bought livestock for breeding.
In her
lead role, she is passing on her knowledge to fellow farmers. Dzimbiri has
personally mentored seven farmers from nearby villages, and shared her know-how
with 70 others on field days and in other forums.
A lead
farmer is a successful, innovative farmer committed to training others, who
works directly with research and extension agents to champion a technology in
their community. Dzimbiri plans to expand her intercropping of maize and
legumes to 2 acres of land.
Agricultural
extension or technical support services by Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture,
Irrigation and Water Development work in close collaboration with the Chitala
Agricultural Research Station to support the project, which is scheduled to
close in 2018.
The
project obtained a US$87 million credit from the International Development
Association for the three countries involved, with the Centre for Coordination
of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa facilitating the
program on a regional level
The ‘golden’ GMO dilemma
By
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LAWMAKERS should be open-minded about the
biotechnological developments being conducted in the country so as not to
impede progress of projects, such as Golden Rice, that seek to curb poverty and
improve the lives of Filipinos.
Diocesan priest Fr. Emmanuel
Alparce, a member of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) Biotechnology
Information, Education and Communication Committee, made the remark after
legislators belonging to the Makabayan bloc filed a resolution seeking to conduct
an inquiry on the development of Golden Rice in the country.
“They should study things about
biotechnology and also learn from the long history and success of Bt Maize, not
only in terms of it being safe for food, feeds and environment, but also the
change it caused in the lives of farmers who have planted this,” Alparce told
the BusinessMirror.
He added: “Bt Maize has caused
economic benefits in the lives of Filipino corn farmers, which is an
incontrovertible evidence of the benefits of biotechnology.”
Alparce noted that if the inquiry
in the House of Representatives on Golden Rice pushes through, then lawmakers
should listen to the statements and opinions of scientists and experts on
biotechnology rather than just from propagandists.
“There’s no academy of science
anywhere in the world that [states biotechnology] is harmful. Where do we go
when we have problems with our car? We do not run to a scientist or a doctor,
but we look for a mechanic,” he said. “So if we have a problem with our health,
we do not run to a mechanic. We look for a doctor and trust what the doctor
says.”
House inquiry
On September 7 the Makabayan bloc
in the House filed House Resolution 1294 that seeks an inquiry into the
development of Golden Rice in the country.
In the resolution, Reps. Arile
Casilao of Anakpawis, Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna, Emmi de Jesus and Arlene
Brosas of Gabriela, Antonio Tinio and France Castro of Act Teachers and Sarah
Jane Elago of Kabataan have directed the Committee on Agriculture and Food to
conduct an inquiry to determine Golden Rice’s impact on health, environment and
farmers’ rights.
The lawmakers said agricultural
research must be based on the farmers’ capacity and needs, saying it should
take into consideration the diversity and complexity of the environment, while
rich natural resources, such as traditional rice varieties, must also be
maximized.
“Local rice varieties are more
suitable to the country’s environment and climate, and the same assures the
farmers of better yield, and should be conserved and protected from
contamination from GMOs,” the resolution said.
“Genetically modified crops are
not sustainable means to provide food for the people, as they greatly
compromise the environment, livelihood of the farmers and health of the
consumers,” it added.
The lawmakers argued that Golden
Rice is “merely” a promotional product of agro-chemical corporations using
public institutions “to make possible the social acceptance of genetic
engineering in food and agriculture.”
The Makabayan bloc said the
technology, methodology, seeds and variety to advance the Golden Rice are being
owned by Syngenta, an agro-chemical transnational corporation that profits by
investing in the global seed industry.
‘Humanitarian’
However, Alparce disputed this
claim, saying the Golden Rice being bred by PhilRice was donated by Syngenta
for humanitarian reasons.
“So, it is currently owned by the
Philippine government. No multinational, especially Syngenta, will have any
patent or control with the Golden Rice to be sold in the Philippines,” he said.
Alparce added that he would be
willing to attend the inquiries and hearings to be conducted by the House of
Representatives on Golden Rice. “Even if I’m not invited, I will attend. So, I
would know what are the questions that will be raised regarding the project.”
Alparce also expressed
apprehension that the negative campaign being made by those against Golden Rice
and biotechnology would impede the scientific developments undertaken by local
scientists in food technology.
“The campaign might push back the
development of science, in particular of Golden Rice. And this would push back
the help that it might give to the poor,” he said.
“Filipino scientists with
impeccable reputations have been working on this project for so long. And maybe
due to ideologies and lack of information on the part of some sectors, it might
just become a wasted project,” he added.
Compliance
The Philippine Rice Research
Institute (PhilRice), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture,
filed on February 28 its applications for the conduct of field trial
for Golden Rice and biosafety permit to allow its direct use for food, feed or
for processing.
PhilRice Golden Rice Project
Leader Roel Suralta said they are currently complying with all the requirements
to secure a permit for field trial from the BPI.
“Perhaps, there is no reason for
us not to secure the permit if we comply with all the requirements for field
trial, as well as for biosafety permit to allow direct use of Golden Rice for
food, feed or for processing,” Suralta told the BusinessMirror.
Suralta said he does not see the
change in the BPI leadership affecting the evaluation of their application for
field trial and biosafety permit.
Suralta added that he expects the
decision of the BPI’s biosafety committee on their applications to remain
impartial despite the fact that development of Golden Rice is a
government-funded project.
“It is an equal playing field
whether the applicant is from the private sector or from the government. The
approval is based on the complied requirements and the evaluation of the
biosafety committee, after all,” he said.
“So, everything would really
depend on their evaluation. As far as we are concerned, we are complying with
all the requirements they are requesting,” he added.
Vitamin enriched
Golden Rice is being developed as
a potential complementary solution to address vitamin A deficiency (VAD). This
new type of rice contains beta carotene in its grains, which is safely
converted to vitamin A as needed by the human body.
“It is developed through genetic-engineering
technique as it is impossible to employ conventional breeding methods due to
the unavailability of any rice variety containing such trait,” Suralta said.
Suralta pointed out that safety
and efficacy remain the primary considerations of the government in its
development of Golden Rice.
“Our research so far indicates
that Golden Rice is as safe and nutritious as ordinary rice. Analysis of its
nutritional composition reveals that Golden Rice contains similar nutrients to
that of ordinary rice, except for its beta carotene content as intended. Golden
Rice is also free from any toxic or allergenic properties and is therefore
safe,” Suralta said. “The beta carotene in Golden Rice is also safe as it is
similar to what is found in orange-colored fruits and vegetables.”
The World Health Organization
(WHO) indicates that 190 million preschool children and 19 million pregnant
women are still vitamin A deficient globally. In the Philippines, VAD among
preschool children has increased from 15.2 percent (1.7 million) in 2008 to
20.4 percent (2.1 million) in 2013, based on the latest survey by the Food and
Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI). A number of pregnant (9 percent) and
lactating mothers (5 percent) are also vitamin A deficient.
VAD weakens the immune system and
increases one’s risk to diseases, blindness, and even death from severe
infections. WHO estimates that 250,000 to 500,000 vitamin A-deficient children
become blind every year, and half of them die within 12 months of
losing their sight. The United Nations Children’s Fund also projected that
annual VAD-attributed death (all-cause) among children increased to 1,840 in
the Philippines.
VAD also causes night blindness
and increases maternal mortality among pregnant women, according to the WHO.
“We look forward to the day that
Golden Rice will become available and could help alleviate the problem of
vitamin A deficiency,” Suralta said.
Nagpur
Foodgrain Prices Open- Septmember 15, 2017
SEPTEMBER
15, 2017 / 12:52 PM
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices –
APMC/Open Market-September 15
Nagpur, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Gram
and tuar prices reported strong in Nagpur Agriculture Produce
and Marketing Committee (APMC)
here on increased festival season demand from local millers amid
thin supply from producing belts.
Healthy rise in Madhya Pradesh pulses reported demand from
South-based plants also boosted
prices.
About 550 of gram and 250 bags of
tuar were available for auctions, according to sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here on subdued demand from
local traders.
TUAR
* Tuar gavarani and tuar Karnataka showed upward tendency in open market
on good
seasonal demand from local traders.
* Moong Chamki recovered in open market on good demand from local
traders
amid weak supply from producing belts.
* In Akola, Tuar New – 4,100-4,300, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,100-6,300, Udid
Mogar (clean)
– 8,300-9,000, Moong Mogar (clean)
6,800-7,100, Gram – 5,700-5,900, Gram Super best
– 8,300-8,700
* Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and
settled at last levels in thin trading
activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market
prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 5,600-7,700 5,400-7,400
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 3,900-4,030 3,700-4,000
Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800
Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,600-1,682 1,572-1,614
Gram Super Best Bold 8,500-9,000 8,500-9,000
Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best 7,600-8,000 7,600-8,000
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality 5,900-6,000 5,900-6,000
Desi gram Raw 6,050-6,200 6,050-6,200
Gram Kabuli 12,000-13,000 12,000-13,000
Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,500-6,800 6,500-6,800
Tuar Fataka Medium-New 6,100-6,400 6,100-6,400
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,400-5,700 5,400-5,700
Tuar Gavarani New 4,350-4,450 4,400-4,500
Tuar Karnataka 4,750-4,950 4,700-4,900
Masoor dal best 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500
Masoor dal medium 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,000-7,500 7,000-7,500
Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-6,800 6,500-6,800
Moong dal Chilka 5,500-6,200 5,500-6,200
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 7,100-8,000 7,000-8,000
Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New)
8,500-9,500 8,500-9,500
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 6,500-7,500 6,500-7,500
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 6,000-7,000 6,000-7,000
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,000-5,500 5,000-5,500
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 3,000-3,200 3,000-3,200
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 2,900-3,100 2,900-3,100
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,400 3,800-4,400
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000
Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 1,750-1,850 1,750-1,850
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300
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) 3,300-3,800 3,300-3,800
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,800 2,200-2,800
Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,300-3,400 3,300-3,400
Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,200 2,800-3,200
Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,600 2,400-2,600
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,400 2,300-2,400
Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,000 3,800-4,000
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,500-3,800 3,500-3,800
Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 4,800-5,200 4,800-5,200
Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,700 4,500-4,700
Rice
Basmati best (100 INR/KG)
9,500-13,500
9,500-13,500
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500
Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000
Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 4,300-4,500 4,300-4,500
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,700-2,000 1,700-2,000
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 31.0 degree
Celsius, minimum temp. 23.2 degree Celsius
Rainfall : Nil
FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky
with one or two spells of rains or thunder-showers. Maximum and
minimum temperature would be
around and 31 and 23 degree Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are
excluded from plant delivery prices, butincluded in market prices)
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