KYZYLORDA
SCIENTISTS INVENTED A KNOW-HOW THAT TURNS THE PLANT WASTE INTO
A USEFUL RAW MATERIAL 28.12.2017 11:29 153
Kyzylorda scientists invented a know-how that turns the plant waste into a
useful raw material. The researchers suggest making activated carbon from rice
husks. The innovative project will help to prevent environmental pollution.
Nearly 500,000 tonnes of rice have been harvested in the Aral region this
season. One fifth of this volume is the rice processing waste.
RAKHMETULLA ZHAPPARBERGENOV, LABORATORY
ENGINEER: - Alloys of expensive metals are used as catalysts in many
industries nowadays. They are expensive even in small quantities. The
technology developed by us reduces expenditures by thousand times. It is based
on activated carbon. We place nanoparticles of catalyst on it, and obtain
activated carbon from rice waste. Activated carbon is widely used not only in
medicine, chemistry, but also in industry. It is used in special masks and
respirators.
At
present, Kyzylorda scholars are waiting for approval and funding for their
innovative development from the Science Committee. NURBOL APPAZOV, HEAD OF
LABORATORY: - Coal coke is used to extract metals from ore. It is
obtained from coal and oil waste. We want to find application for rice waste in
this area. We are planning to achieve good results. The development of
Kyzylorda scientists is very cost-effective. If activated carbon has been
obtained from wood, then the know-how allows the use of cheap raw materials,
moreover, there are more than enough reserves of it in the region.
Pakistan Fruit Cargo Arrives in
Kazakhstan via Iran
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Iran has handled a consignment of tangerines from Pakistan to
Kazakhstan in an initiative that could open a new corridor for shipment of food
from Southeast Asia to markets as far as Russia.
The consignment of 350 tons of tangerines arrived in Iran’s
southeastern city of Zahedan by train from Pakistan’s Quetta region and was
moved to the port city of Octave in Kazakhstan. It was then loaded on ships
going to Russia, Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.
In April, the first transit consignment from Quetta was sent to
Octave through the same route. It comprised of potatoes, mango, tangerine
and rice.
Majid Arjoni, director general of Iran’s Southeast Railway
Department says Iran expects to improve its transit trade to one million tons
through Zahedan-Quetta railway every year. The railroad is 650km long and it
takes about 33 hours for trains to travel between the two cities.
The railroads between Iran and Pakistan are different in terms
of track width and infrastructure and transit cargo should move through a
trans-ship operation when it reaches the border point between the two
neighboring countries.
Pakistan uses
Iran corridor to transit fruits to Central Asia
TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) —
Recently major consignment of fruits from Pakistan to Kazakhstan has been
transited through Iran which could open a new corridor for shipment of food
items from Southeast Asia to markets as far as Russia, IRAN Daily reported on
Tuesday.
The consignment that comprised
350 tons of tangerines was railed to Iran’s southeastern city of Zahedan from
Pakistan’s Quetta and is on its way to the port city of Octave in Kazakhstan.
It would be then loaded on ships to be transited to Russia, the report said.
In April, the first transit
consignment from Quetta was sent to Octave through the same route. It comprised
potatoes, mango, tangerine and rice, Press TV wrote.
Pakistan is expected to transit
as much as one million tons of goods through Zahedan-Quetta railway every year,
Majid Arjoni, the director general for Iran’s Southeast Railway Department,
said. The railway is 650 kilometers long and it takes almost 33 hours for
trains to travel between the two cities.
Iran hopes to use rail track for
the transit of goods from its southeastern port of Chabahar to Central Asia and
Europe in what would eventually become a major East-West corridor.
The project to develop Shahid
Beheshti Port in Chabahar started in 2007 through investment of one billion
U.S. dollars and President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the port project early
this month.
According to the report, the
annual cargo tonnage of the port is currently almost as high as 8.5 million
tons.It can also accommodate 100,000-tonne ships, what officials say can help
promote the country’s international trade activities.
The overall development of the
project will bring the port’s total annual cargo capacity to 82 million tonnes.
It’s a flavor
Fort Mill lacked. How two “foodies” teamed to bring a taste of India.
DECEMBER
28, 2017 12:47 PM
UPDATED
DECEMBER 28, 2017 02:03 PM
Customers
gathered at the doors of Persis Indian Grill, Fort Mill’s newest restaurant,
before they even opened on the first day of business — Christmas Day.The
franchise’s owners, childhood friends Kumar Patel and Nirav Patel, say reaction
on the first day was good.“People were saying ‘five stars’ about the food and
the service,” Kumar said. “They were posting pictures and reviews on Google.”
Business
was steady on Christmas, and on the following day, Kumar and Nirav rushed from
the kitchen to tables in the dining room, taking customers’ orders and running
food out from the kitchen as the dinner crowd picked up.
While
many Indian restaurants specialize in the cuisine of just one region of India,
Persis offers a little bit of everything from north to south, east to west.
“This
restaurant has all the flavors,” Kumar said.
On the
menu are a variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian appetizers and entrees
(including fish and goat), chaat (Indian street food), curries and biryani —
rice dishes made with different meats or vegetables with a blend of spices
Kumar calls “mouth-watering.”
The
restaurant’s chefs all have their specialties. One chef makes the tandoor
offerings, which are typically marinated in yogurt and spices, then cooked in a
clay oven over charcoal.
Choices
include paneer tikka, fish tikka and several different kinds of kebabs. The
chicken tikka is tender and flavorful. A side of aromatic green basmati rice
blended with spinach and cilantro and finished with edible flowers and strands
of saffron compliments the dish.
The
tandoor lamb chops are equally tender, delicately spiced and served atop a bed
of mashed potatoes, and garnished with microgreens.
Another
Persis chef specializes in the restaurant’s spicy curry dishes, while a third
makes the appetizers.
Kumar
and Nirav obtained their MBAs together, and Kumar worked as a business analyst
and Nirav as a database analyst in San Francisco.
Nirav
later moved to New Jersey and then to Charlotte three years ago, where he
worked for Bank of America.
The men
had talked about opening a business together in the booming Fort Mill area, and
first considered a liquor store, hotel or gas station as possibilities.
“But,
we’re foodies,” Nirav said.
After
visiting area Hindu temples, the businessmen learned of the need to open a
restaurant in Fort Mill. Charlotte has a number of Indian restaurants and there
are also Persis locations in Charlotte, Ballantyne, Columbia and Greenville, but
Kumar and Nirav said residents in the Rock Hill, Fort Mill and Tega Cay areas
were looking for a convenient Indian restaurant closer to home.
Kumar
moved from San Francisco a year ago, specifically to open the business. The
friends scouted several locations, including Baxter Village and the newer
Kingsley complex, but they couldn’t find the perfect location that offered the
space and parking they wanted.
“We
wanted something spacious, with a good atmosphere,” Kumar said.
They
settled on a location near Baxter and Kingsley in the former Baxter’s Bunch
Playhouse building, at 1504 Carolina Place Drive. They began renting the
roughly 4,000-square-foot space in May and renovations started in September.
The
restaurant has a full bar and there will be nightly drink specials. In
mid-January, Persis will begin offering daily lunch combinations, with
appetizer, entree and dessert.
“Thirty
days, 30 different combos,” Kumar said.
Persis
is open every day from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and 5:30-9:30 p.m. for
dinner.
And
although the restaurant is a franchise, Persis Indian Grill in Fort Mill is
still a family and friends affair. Nirav’s wife, Disha, is the manager, and
Kumar’s wife, Pooja, who works in information technology by day, will lend a
hand at Persis in the evenings. Kumar’s father, Bhavin, and Nirav’s father,
Dipak, are also helping supervise the restaurant.
Kumar is
excited about offering Fort Mill its first taste of Indian food.
“It’s
something new in my life,” he said.
Although
he may eventually return to work in the IT field, right now, it’s all about the
food he loves.
“I love
the tandoori items,” he says, when asked to pick a favorite dish. “I love
everything.”
For
more, call 803-396-0444 or view the menu at persisfortmill.com.
http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/community/fort-mill-times/article191955624.html
Thailand Rice
Exports to Cross a Record 11 Mln T in 2017
By admin
December 29,
2017
Thailand expects to export more
than 11 million tons of rice in 2017, the country’s rice export association
said on Wednesday (27/12), a record high for the world’s second-biggest
exporter of the grain.
Thai rice prices were also in
line with that of competitors, he said, which helped exports in 2017.
“This year will be a record high.
We have never reached 11 million tons,” he said. “But still, we exported less
than India.”
Thailand also sold “old rice”
from government warehouses at competitive prices this year, Chookiat said.
The military government has
managed to sell most of the about 18 million tons of rice accumulated during a
rice scheme introduced by the previous, civilian government that it ousted in a
2014 coup.
The scheme, which was introduced
in 2011, bought rice at above-market prices from farmers and was popular in the
rural northeast.
But the scheme’s public losses
fueled street protests in 2013/14 against then-Prime Minister Yingluck
Shinawatra who was eventually removed from power weeks before the 2014 coup.
The scheme also saw Thailand lose
its crown as the world’s top rice exporter to other countries, notably Vietnam
and India.
http://riceoutlook.com/thailand-rice-exports-to-cross-a-record-11-mln-t-in-2017/
Asia rice-markets slow into
year-end; Bangladesh awaits India shipments
THU, DEC 28, 2017 - 9:52 PM
[BENGALURU] Rice markets in major
Asian centres remained muted this week, with trades few and far between due to
the holiday season and the approaching year-end, while Bangladesh awaited
shipments from India as part of a previously announced deal.Bangladesh, which
has emerged as a major importer this year after floods damaged its crops, has
signed a deal, announced earlier this month, to import 150,000 tonnes of rice
from India at US$440 a tonne, Badrul Hasan, head of Dhaka's state grains buyer,
told Reuters on Thursday.
Another deal with Thailand to
import 150,000 tonnes of parboiled rice at US$465 a tonne could be signed next
week, he added.
"We have already purchased
or finalised deals to fulfil our target," said Hasan, adding that the
state grains buyer aims to import 1.5 million tonnes in the year to June
2018.The cost of rice imports has increased in recent weeks due to weakening of
the local currency against the dollar, amid an appreciation in the Indian
rupee, a Dhaka-based trader said.
In August, Bangladesh cut a duty
on imports of the grain for the second time in two months to boost stocks and
combat high domestic rates, prompting purchases by private dealers, with most
of the deals being struck with neighbouring India.In top exporter India, the 5
per cent broken parboiled rice prices were unchanged from last week's
US$418-US$421 per tonne level.
"Due to Christmas and New
Year holidays, trading volume is down significantly. Traders are in vacation
mood," said an exporter based in Kakinada in the southern state of Andhra
Pradesh.The Indian rupee was trading near its highest level in three months,
slashing exporters' returns from overseas sales.
"The appreciating rupee is
keeping prices firm for overseas buyers. In the last few days, demand from
Bangladesh has been weak," said another exporter in Kakinada.In Thailand,
the benchmark 5 percent broken rice ticked up to US$398-US$400, free-on-board (FOB)
Bangkok, from US$390-US$398 last week, even as the market remained subdued,
traders said.
Trade was quiet as the end of the
year approaches and foreign buyers are not placing orders, a Bangkok-based
trader.Meanwhile, the Thai Rice Exporters Association forecast rice exports to
exceed 11 million tonnes in 2017, a record high."Some of that is old rice
in state warehouses, as announced by the commerce ministry," the trader
said.
The market for the staple grain
remained quiet in Vietnam as well, with traders quoting the benchmark 5 per
cent broken rice at US$390-395 a tonne, free-on-board (FOB) Saigon, the same as
last week.Rice exports from Vietnam in December were forecast higher than last
month at 400,000 tonnes, a government report said, with traders attributing the
increase to shipment of previously signed deals.
West Africa
Regional Supply and Market Outlook, December 28, 2017
REPORT
KEY MESSAGES
• For the fourth consecutive year, aggregate regional cereal
production (milled rice, maize, and millet/sorghum) is projected to increase
during the 2017/18 marketing year (MY). This trend is supported by favorable
agro-climatic conditions, increased area planted, improved seeds, and
agricultural programs and policies. Above average regional production will
contribute to filling local deficits. Rice and maize production have expanded,
while millet and sorghum production have stagnated.
• Pastoral conditions are characterized by below average forage
and water availability in the major livestock producing countries (Senegal,
Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad). The pastoral lean season is
expected to begin early. High projected cereal prices will contribute to
relatively low livestock to cereal terms of trade (ToT).
• Cereal harvests in the Greater Lake Chad basin are expected to
be below average, with major deficits anticipated in the typically surplus-producing
Far North Region of Cameroon. Several markets remain closed or function at
reduced levels across the basin. Prices are expected to be elevated. Many
households will remain in need of humanitarian assistance through the 2017/18
lean season.
• Regional institutional procurement is expected to take place
at normal levels across the region, except in Niger where the planned
institutional purchase quantities will be above average. Local and regional
procurement may be feasible, primarily in the Central Basin, but could drive
projected prices higher.
https://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/west-africa-regional-supply-and-market-outlook-december-28-2017
Boroh: Rice
Project, Best Initiative of Amnesty Programme
December 29, 2017
4
The production of the
Presidential Amnesty Rice is perhaps the best initiative undertaken so far by
the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), the Special Adviser to the President
on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme,
Brig-General Paul Boroh (rtd), has said.
Boroh, who spoke when he received
the first 500 bags of the Amnesty Rice in Abuja, said the Presidential Amnesty
rice is coming handy this yuletide season and that the target was to commence
full production in 2018, which would provide jobs for thousands of people,
contribute to food self-sufficiency and security in the country, and grow the
economy, as well as save some foreign exchange for the country.
In a statement issued by the
Head, Media, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Owei Lakemfa, he stated that
before the agriculture revolution of the Buhari administration, the country
expended $2.41 billion on the importation of rice alone between January 2012
and May 2015.
Boroh noted that the Presidential
Amnesty Rice, cultivated in Ogoja, Cross River State is the beginning of
similar initiatives by the Amnesty Office to mass-produce rice in the Niger
Delta, adding that some beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme are now
cultivating rice in Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers States.
According to him,
locally-produced rice is tastier and more nutritious than the imported rice
which is over polished.
“The Amnesty rice is also healthier for consumption as most of the imported rice are stored in warehouses for long periods before being freighted for months across oceans to our country,” he argued.
“The Amnesty rice is also healthier for consumption as most of the imported rice are stored in warehouses for long periods before being freighted for months across oceans to our country,” he argued.
Boroh urged more people to go
into rice cultivation and production, adding that “with over 180 million mouths
to feed and the growing preference for rice, the country is a huge market and
can accommodate many more producers.
“We can actually move from being a net importer of rice to a net exporter of rice. Weaning many Nigerians from their preference for imported rice, and the sustained promotion and consumption of local rice is a winner any day,” the presidential aide said.
“We can actually move from being a net importer of rice to a net exporter of rice. Weaning many Nigerians from their preference for imported rice, and the sustained promotion and consumption of local rice is a winner any day,” the presidential aide said.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/12/29/boroh-rice-project-best-initiative-of-amnesty-programme/
Amnesty
Programme: Agric Revolution Produces 500 Bags Of Rice Bags of rice
The Presidential Amnesty
Programme (PAP) says its agriculture revolution initiative has so far produced
500 bags of rice.
PAP’s Coordinator, retired
Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh said this in a statement signed by PAP’s Head of Media, Mr
Owei Lakemfa, on Thursday in Abuja.Boroh, who is also Special Adviser to the
President on the Niger Delta, described the initiative as one of the best
programmes of the Buhari-led administration, saying the ex-agitators produced
the rice.
The presidential aide noted that
the Presidential Amnesty Rice was handy during the yuletide season, assuring
that full scale production of the crop would begin in 2018.
According to him, the initiative
will provide jobs for thousands of people and contribute toward nation’s food
self-sufficiency and security to grow the economy as well as save some foreign
exchange to be used for importation.The Special Adviser recalled that before
the agriculture revolution of the Buhari administration, the country from
January, 2012 to May, 2015 expended 2.41 billion dollars on the importation of
rice alone.
He said that Presidential Amnesty
Rice cultivated in Ogoja, Cross Rivers State was the beginning of similar
initiatives by the Amnesty Office to mass produce rice in the Niger Delta.He
added that some beneficiaries of the PAP had started cultivating rice in Delta,
Bayelsa andRivers States.
The Coordinator noted that rice
produced locally was more nutritious than the foreign rice which, according to
him, “is over polished’’.“The Amnesty rice is also healthier for consumption as
most of the imported rice are stored in warehouses for long periods before
being freighted for months across oceans to our country,” he said.
He advised Nigerian youths to
venture into rice farming, saying, “with more than 180 million mouths to feed
and the growing preference for rice, the country is a huge market.’’
“We can actually move from being
a net importer of rice to a net exporter of rice. Weaning many Nigerians from
their preference for imported rice, and the sustained promotion and consumption
of local rice is a winner any day,’’ Boroh explained
He commended President Muhammadu
Buhari for the initiative, and the CBN for its Anchor Borrowers Programme
targeted at farmers and massive agriculture production in the country.
Boroh also praised state
governments for investing in massive agriculture, especially rice production.He
described as “seamless collaboration” between the Kebbi and Lagos State
Governments on the production and marketing of Lake Rice, as a worthy model.
He specifically commended
President Muhammadu Buhari for providing the initiative, environment and
leadership that had brought about the agricultural revolution in the country.
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/12/28/amnesty-programme-agric-revolution-produces-500-bags-rice/
GMO Opponents Are Immoral, Argues Purdue University President Mitch
Daniels
It's past time to tell your
anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to kill poor people.Ronald Bailey|Dec. 28, 2017 1:35 pm
International Rice Research
InstituteMitch Daniels is right: It's past
time to tell your anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to
kill poor people.
Today in a Washington Post op-ed, the
former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University cogently
argues, "Avoiding GMOs isn't just anti-science. It's immoral."
Daniels observes:
Of the several claims of "anti-science" that clutter our
national debates these days, none can be more flagrantly clear than the
campaign against modern agricultural technology, most specifically the use of
molecular techniques to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Here,
there are no credibly conflicting studies, no arguments about the validity of
computer models, no disruption of an ecosystem nor any adverse human health or
even digestive problems, after 5 billion acres have been cultivated cumulatively
and trillions of meals consumed.
And yet a concerted, deep-pockets campaign, as relentless as it is
baseless, has persuaded a high percentage of Americans and Europeans to
avoid GMO products, and to pay premium prices for "non-GMO" or
"organic" foods that may in some cases be less safe and less
nutritious.
Daniels properly excoriates
academic scientists, regulators, along with food and agricultural companies for
their cowardly reticence in challenging "an aggressive, often
self-interested anti-GMO lobby that is indifferent to the facts and quick with
ad hominem attacks."
So what should be done? Daniels
asserts:
It's time to move the argument to a new plane. For the rich and
well-fed to deny Africans, Asians or South Americans the benefits of modern
technology is not merely anti-scientific. It's cruel, it's heartless, it's
inhumane — and it ought to be confronted on moral grounds that ordinary
citizens, including those who have been conned into preferring non-GMO Cheerios, can understand.
Travel to Africa with any of Purdue University's three recent World Food Prize winners, and you won't
find the conversation dominated by anti-GMO protesters. There, where more than
half of the coming population increase will occur, consumers and farmers alike
are eager to share in the life-saving and life-enhancing advances that modern
science alone can bring. Efforts to persuade them otherwise, or simply block
their access to the next round of breakthroughs, are worse than
anti-scientific. They're immoral.
The Journal of Markets and Morality asked
me two years ago to debate statistician Nassim Taleb on the question "Do
GMOs [genetically modified organisms] present cause for moral concern?"
The editor of the journal explained, "The goal of this controversy is to
assist our readership (economists, political scientists, theologians, moral
philosophers, ethicists) in developing a more informed understanding of the
issues at stake in the current state of the GMO debate, addressing concerns of
fact, morality, and policy."
In my initial essay, I detailed the strong scientific consensus is that current
versions of genetically enhanced crops are safe for people and the natural
environment. In addition, I pointed out that modern biotech crops could play a
big role in helping to increase the availability of healthful food to the poor
around the world. I concluded, "Fallacious arguments against developing
and growing modern biotech crops is cause for great moral concern."
Taleb was invited to participate because he and some colleagues
had put together a mish-mash of a paper filled with statistical
mystifications and handwaving to argue the modern crop biotechnology could lead
to the extinction of the human race.
After reading my essay Taleb withdrew from the debate and, for
good measure, called me an "idiot."
I am not alone in arguing that opposition to modern biotech crops
is immoral. Last year, 100 Nobel Laureates signed an open letter demanding that Greenpeace and other activists groups stop killing and blinding
poor children in developing countries. Specifically, the
laureates urged, "Greenpeace to cease and desist in its campaign against
Golden Rice specifically, and crops and foods improved through biotechnology in
general."
Golden
rice is genetically enhanced to produce beta-carotene, a
precursor to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency in poor countries results in hundreds of thousands of deaths and cases of
blindness annually. It was created by a non-profit consortium of researchers
and is being developed by the International Rice Research Institute in the
Philippines. Thugs associated with Greenpeace attacked and
destroyed golden rice research plots at IRRI back in 2013.
In their letter, the Nobel
laureates pointed out that "scientific and regulatory agencies around the
world have repeatedly and consistently found crops and foods improved through
biotechnology to be as safe as, if not safer than those derived from any other
method of production.
"There has never been a single
confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their
consumption. Their environmental impacts have been shown repeatedly to be less
damaging to the environment, and a boon to global biodiversity."
CBN, RIFAN Set To
Crash Rice Prices
Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, the National President, Rice Farmers
Association, has assured Nigerians that the market prices of locally produced
rice will soon crash.Goronyo told News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday
that the price a 50kg bag of locally produced rice would plummet from N18,000
to between N6,500 and N7000 by April 2018.He said the price-reduction plans
would be achieved under a joint programme of RIFAN and the Anchor Borrowers
Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which would be launched in Abuja on
January 13, 2018.
Goronyo said 12 million rice farmers in the country would
benefit from the one-year partnership, adding, however, that 300,000 rice
farmers from 20 states would be supported at the beginning of the programme in
January.
He said under the new initiative, the CBN had modified the
programme to facilitate its direct relations with RIFAN so as to ensure timely
disbursement and full repayment of loans, unlike what obtained in the past.
He said in 2015, Nigerians spent not less than N1 billion daily
on rice consumption, adding that while the spending had reduced drastically,
rice consumption had increased significantly because of the increase in local
production of rice.
Goronyo said the available statistics indicated that the rice
consumption rate in the country now had increased from 7.9 million tonnes to
over 8 million tonnes, while the volume of rice production had increased from
5.8 million tonnes to 6.9 million tonnes per annum.
He, however, noted that several efforts had been put in place to
cut down the price of rice, adding that some of the efforts included
collaborations with Competitive African Rice Initiative and other African
countries to boost rice production and exports in Africa.
Goronyo stressed that rice prices would further drop, as there
were currently bumper harvests in rice farms across the country, while RIFAN
was collaborating with rice millers on the pricing of the commodity.
Besides, the RIFAN president said RIFAN had signed a Memorandum
of Understanding with the Nigeria Customs Service on how to contain rice
smuggling into the country through the land borders.
Goronyo said the efforts being put in place and the current
economic situation in the country had made it somewhat difficult for people to
import rice into the country and make profit.
He said: “The landing cost of a 50kg bag of imported rice is now
N19,500.
“Then, how much should the 50kg bag of rice be sold?
“The smuggled rice that comes into Nigeria is just five per cent
of what we consume and the rice comes in through the informal sector.”
The ABP, which was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on
November 17, 2015, is aimed at creating linkages between companies involved in
rice processing
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/cbn-rifan-set-to-crash-rice-prices/
Buchireddypalem Palem Circle
Inspector suspended
THE HANS INDIA | Dec 29,2017 , 01:25 AM IST
Buchireddypalem Palem Circle Inspector suspended
Based on probe report, he recommended to the DIG for CI’s
suspension. Subba Rao used to ask bribes from the traders, rice millers,
complainants and has been harassing them that he would book cases against them
if they fail to pay bribes to him.
He was accepting bribes and was diluting the cases. The enquiry
officials found that he was tarnishing image of the department with his
behaviour and was suspended from the duties on Wednesday.
Odisha farmers
resent delay in paddy procurement
By Express News
Service | Published: 29th December 2017 03:44
AM |
Last Updated: 29th December 2017 12:51
PM
Image used for representational purpose only
BHUBANESWAR:
With farmers facing problems to sell their paddy to agencies appointed by the
State Government due to non-cooperation of officials, the Krushak Morcha of
State BJP has decided to gherao offices of civil supplies officers (CSOs) in
districts where farmers have to wait for long.
State unit
president of Krushak Morcha Sivaji Mohanty said delay in procurement of paddy
by Government agencies has been reported from several districts including
Kalahandi, Bargarh, Keonjhar and Balasore. Farmers have to sleep in the open in
the cold climate as officials of procurement agencies failed to turn up.
Alleging nexus
between Supplies Department officials and rice millers, Mohanty said some
farmers are complaining that they are asked by mandi officials to sell their
stock to millers if they want to get back home early. The millers will keep
their cut of about 15 kg per quintal of paddy and pay less than the minimum
support price announced by the Government.
“In the first
phase, we are planning to gherao some mandis in Dharamgarh block of Kalahandi
district where such discrepancies have been reported. We will organise such
protests in other areas where farmers are facing similar problems. If their
problems are not sorted out, our target will be the offices of civil supplies
officers of district concerned,” Mohanty said.
Mandis have
not been opened by several Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACSs)
as they do not have requisite infrastructure for grading, weighing machine and
people to help loading and unloading.
Delay in paddy procurement in some parts of Balasore and Keonjhar districts have been resented by the farmers, he added
Delay in paddy procurement in some parts of Balasore and Keonjhar districts have been resented by the farmers, he added
Civil Supplies
Teams Raid Rice Mills Over Irregularities In Paddy Procurement
Malkangiri: Cracking a whip on
rice mills after allegations of illegal paddy procurement, officials of the
Civil Supplies department today raided as many as 21 mills in Malkangiri.
The raids come after alleged
embezzlement of nearly 5 to 7 kg of paddy per quintal at rice mills was
reported.
As per the instruction of the
Collector, 21 teams led by the Sub-Collector raided the rice mills. Assistant
Civil Supply Officer (ACSO) Manoj Kumar Pradhan said presently raid is underway
and the final reports will be submitted to the Collector by today evening.
Thereafter the Collector will take the necessary action, he said.
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