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Pakistan tightens regulatory checks
on cargoes to curb GM rice trade
LAHORE: Pakistan has tightened
grip on international rice trade with a view to getting rid of any impression
of involving in the trade of tainted genetically modified (GM) rice, officials
said on Wednesday.
Federal government, early this
month, issued instructions to Department of Plant Protection, Ministry of Food
Security & Research (MFS&R) for strict regulation of inbound and exporting
rice consignments.
This move was initiated
following serious concerns raised by Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan
(REAP) about incidence of detecting GM rice from some shipments, resulting in
rejection of exporting consignments from European Union.
Echoing similar concerns,
Punjab government on April 10, 2018 wrote a letter to express strong
reservations about tainted trade of GM rice.
We do not produce GM rice
nor do we import it. Hence, there is no possibility of any involvement of local
companies in the processing of GM rice,” a government official said. “If at all it is detected
from some consignments, it could have sourced from outside country, which needs
to be checked thoroughly.”
As a result of the tight
regulation, Pakistan blocked entry of a Chinese rice seed shipment last week.
Chinese Embassy in Islamabad raised the issue with the Minister Food Security
& Research.
The Chinese diplomat wrote in
the letter dated April 19, 2018 that a shipment of more than 2,000 tons of
hybrid rice seed is being stuck in the Karachi port and prohibited from
entering into Pakistan due to the negative results of GMO testing.
It further stated that Chinese
government does not allow any Chinese company to produce or export GMO hybrid
rice seeds home and abroad as well. “The GMO testing conducted by Chinese
quarantine authorities shows these hybrid rice seeds are non-GMO.
The Chinese exporters of these
seeds are regular business partners of Pakistani importers and all of the
exporters pledged these seeds are non-GMO,” the letter said.
Considering the discrepancies
of the testing results from both sides, the Chinese diplomat said, it is
requested to perform again the testing procedure with the participation of
experts from both sides to ensure justice and transparency.
Syed Waseem-ul-Hassan, Director
General, Plant Protection Department confirmed that a consignment of about
1,800 tons of hybrid rice seed was stopped from entering into Pakistan due to
presence of GM rice.
Following tests conducted
recently, about 1,500 tons of hybrid rice is being released while 300 tons has
been held due to positive lab reports about presence of GM rice.
Shahzad Ali Malik, leading rice
exporter, welcomed steps being taken to check mixing of GM rice in domestic
value chain.
“We need to be vigilant on this
front in order to make our rice trade fair. I am always firm believer of
conducting regular lab tests of all importing and exporting shipments of rice,”
Malik said.
“Chinese government has also
taken strict measures in this regard and there should be zero tolerance on this
issue here in Pakistan also.”
The ban on GM rice trade was
strictly enforced further early this month following a letter written by
secretary agriculture Punjab to federal secretary MFS&R having subject of
“Ban on import of GMP rice and rice seed”.
It is stated in the letter that
‘strict quarantine measures be enforced to stop any import/export of GMO rice
and rice seed through regulatory arm of the MNFS&R, especially through
monitoring and scrutinizing the lots of imported rice seed.
It is noted in the letter that
‘rice is second most important food crop of Pakistan and is famous export
commodity in European countries.
These countries have some
serious human health concerns about genetically modified organism (GMO) rice
and have zero tolerance policy for GMO rice entry into EU countries.
Because of strategic importance
of this crop, provincial Secretary Agriculture stated, Pakistan too has zero
tolerance policy for R&D and import / export of GMO rice.
Despite that, some GMO rice
consignments are reported now and then. REAP has reported that a rice
consignment from Pakistan to Europe was detected in the past with GMO and was
rejected, which damaged the country's image as a major Basmati exporter, he
observed.
USDA: Malaysia 2018 rice imports forecast
to drop to 900,000 tonnes
25.04.2018
The US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Malaysia rice imports are forecasted to
drop 10% to 900,000 tonnes in 2018 from one million tonnes in 2017 as the
government reduces ending stocks to 400,000 tonnes in 2018 from 480,000 tonnes
in the previous year.
In its Grain and Feed Annual 2018 report, the USDA said Malaysia rice imports are seen improving to 950,000 tonnes in 2019 as the government needs to replenish ending stocks to 380,000 tonnes.
"There will be no increase in planted areas, and the increase in imports is in line with projected population growth of 3% annually from 2018 to 2020. Increasing urbanites that switch from traditional local rice breakfast (nasi lemak) to a healthier breakfast such as cereal and bread lead to less consumption of rice.
"Although western food such as tortillas, pizza, pasta and bread are gaining popularity, especially in urban areas, rice remains a staple food among Malaysian. Such western foods are consumed as snacks or as comfort foods and rarely make it as staple food for the dining table," the USDA said.
For 2017, the USDA said Thailand and Vietnam supplied more than 80% of rice imported into Malaysia with total volume of 630,000 tonnes. Other major exporters of rice to Malaysia were Cambodia, Pakistan and India.
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In its Grain and Feed Annual 2018 report, the USDA said Malaysia rice imports are seen improving to 950,000 tonnes in 2019 as the government needs to replenish ending stocks to 380,000 tonnes.
"There will be no increase in planted areas, and the increase in imports is in line with projected population growth of 3% annually from 2018 to 2020. Increasing urbanites that switch from traditional local rice breakfast (nasi lemak) to a healthier breakfast such as cereal and bread lead to less consumption of rice.
"Although western food such as tortillas, pizza, pasta and bread are gaining popularity, especially in urban areas, rice remains a staple food among Malaysian. Such western foods are consumed as snacks or as comfort foods and rarely make it as staple food for the dining table," the USDA said.
For 2017, the USDA said Thailand and Vietnam supplied more than 80% of rice imported into Malaysia with total volume of 630,000 tonnes. Other major exporters of rice to Malaysia were Cambodia, Pakistan and India.
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said. “If at all it is detected
from some consignments, it could have sourced from outside country, which needs
to be checked thoroughly.”
As a result of the tight
regulation, Pakistan blocked entry of a Chinese rice seed shipment last week.
Chinese Embassy in Islamabad raised the issue with the Minister Food Security
& Research.
The Chinese diplomat wrote in
the letter dated April 19, 2018 that a shipment of more than 2,000 tons of
hybrid rice seed is being stuck in the Karachi port and prohibited from
entering into Pakistan due to the negative results of GMO testing.
It further stated that Chinese
government does not allow any Chinese company to produce or export GMO hybrid
rice seeds home and abroad as well. “The GMO testing conducted by Chinese
quarantine authorities shows these hybrid rice seeds are non-GMO.
The Chinese exporters of these
seeds are regular business partners of Pakistani importers and all of the
exporters pledged these seeds are non-GMO,” the letter said.
Considering the discrepancies
of the testing results from both sides, the Chinese diplomat said, it is
requested to perform again the testing procedure with the participation of
experts from both sides to ensure justice and transparency.
Syed Waseem-ul-Hassan, Director
General, Plant Protection Department confirmed that a consignment of about
1,800 tons of hybrid rice seed was stopped from entering into Pakistan due to
presence of GM rice.
Following tests conducted
recently, about 1,500 tons of hybrid rice is being released while 300 tons has
been held due to positive lab reports about presence of GM rice.
Shahzad Ali Malik, leading rice
exporter, welcomed steps being taken to check mixing of GM rice in domestic
value chain.
“We need to be vigilant on this
front in order to make our rice trade fair. I am always firm believer of
conducting regular lab tests of all importing and exporting shipments of rice,”
Malik said.
“Chinese government has also
taken strict measures in this regard and there should be zero tolerance on this
issue here in Pakistan also.”
The ban on GM rice trade was
strictly enforced further early this month following a letter written by
secretary agriculture Punjab to federal secretary MFS&R having subject of
“Ban on import of GMP rice and rice seed”.
It is stated in the letter that
‘strict quarantine measures be enforced to stop any import/export of GMO rice
and rice seed through regulatory arm of the MNFS&R, especially through
monitoring and scrutinizing the lots of imported rice seed.
It is noted in the letter that
‘rice is second most important food crop of Pakistan and is famous export
commodity in European countries.
These countries have some
serious human health concerns about genetically modified organism (GMO) rice
and have zero tolerance policy for GMO rice entry into EU countries.
Because of strategic importance
of this crop, provincial Secretary Agriculture stated, Pakistan too has zero
tolerance policy for R&D and import / export of GMO rice.
Despite that, some GMO rice
consignments are reported now and then. REAP has reported that a rice
consignment from Pakistan to Europe was detected in the past with GMO and was
rejected, which damaged the country's image as a major Basmati exporter, he
observed.
USDA: Malaysia 2018 rice imports forecast
to drop to 900,000 tonnes
25.04.2018
The US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Malaysia rice imports are forecasted to
drop 10% to 900,000 tonnes in 2018 from one million tonnes in 2017 as the
government reduces ending stocks to 400,000 tonnes in 2018 from 480,000 tonnes
in the previous year.
In its Grain and Feed Annual 2018 report, the USDA said Malaysia rice imports are seen improving to 950,000 tonnes in 2019 as the government needs to replenish ending stocks to 380,000 tonnes.
"There will be no increase in planted areas, and the increase in imports is in line with projected population growth of 3% annually from 2018 to 2020. Increasing urbanites that switch from traditional local rice breakfast (nasi lemak) to a healthier breakfast such as cereal and bread lead to less consumption of rice.
"Although western food such as tortillas, pizza, pasta and bread are gaining popularity, especially in urban areas, rice remains a staple food among Malaysian. Such western foods are consumed as snacks or as comfort foods and rarely make it as staple food for the dining table," the USDA said.
For 2017, the USDA said Thailand and Vietnam supplied more than 80% of rice imported into Malaysia with total volume of 630,000 tonnes. Other major exporters of rice to Malaysia were Cambodia, Pakistan and India.
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Vietnam
rice exports notch volatile in Q1
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam’s rice exports faced an unpredictable first quarter this year, increasing in January, declining in February and recovering in March, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
An estimated 524,000 tonnes of rice were exported in January, with a total value of 249 million USD, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, representing a 49 percent rise in volume and 51.3 percent in value compared to December 2017. After declines in February, exports rose steeply in March, jumping 93.9 percent in volume and 100 percent in value to 338.44 million USD month-on-month. The rice export price also surged in March by 3.3 percent to 513.7 USD per tonne.
The country’s overall rice exports in the first quarter of this year increased by 15.5 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The average rice export price in the first quarter of the current year rose by 14.2 percent year-on-year to 501 USD per tonne, reported cafef.vn.
The rice export price was higher against most export markets during the same period last year, with the highest price reaching 834.5 USD per tonne for rice exported to Chile, a year-on-year increase of 114 percent. However, rice exports to this market fell sharply by 95 percent in volume and 90 percent in year-on-year value.
China has remained the largest export market for Vietnamese rice, accounting for 27.7 percent of total volume during the first quarter of the current year.
During the first quarter of 2018, 40 percent of Vietnam’s major rice export markets saw a surge in terms of both volume and value, while 60 percent saw a reduction in rice exports.
Vietnam’s rice exports to Bangladesh increased 89 times in volume and 59 times in value. A similar but smaller-scale trend occurred in rice exports to Turkey, Iraq, Malaysia and France.
However, rice exports to markets such as Argentina, Chile, Ukraine, Angola, Singapore, South Africa and the Netherlands plunged between 60 to 95 percent in both volume and turnover over the same period last year.
According to experts, Vietnam will have greater opportunities when the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) comes into effect, helping rice exporters increase exports to countries that joined the agreement and demand high quality and food safety standards, such as Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Vietnam’s structure for exporting rice products has shifted to reducing middle and lower quality rice products while increasing high quality rice products annually.
As a result, from the end of 2017 to the current period, Vietnam’s rice export prices have increased to 50 USD to 100 USD per tonne against its competitors, such as Thailand, Pakistan and India.-VNA
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crops are ideal substitutes for rice
In its Grain and Feed Annual 2018 report, the USDA said Malaysia rice imports are seen improving to 950,000 tonnes in 2019 as the government needs to replenish ending stocks to 380,000 tonnes.
"There will be no increase in planted areas, and the increase in imports is in line with projected population growth of 3% annually from 2018 to 2020. Increasing urbanites that switch from traditional local rice breakfast (nasi lemak) to a healthier breakfast such as cereal and bread lead to less consumption of rice.
"Although western food such as tortillas, pizza, pasta and bread are gaining popularity, especially in urban areas, rice remains a staple food among Malaysian. Such western foods are consumed as snacks or as comfort foods and rarely make it as staple food for the dining table," the USDA said.
For 2017, the USDA said Thailand and Vietnam supplied more than 80% of rice imported into Malaysia with total volume of 630,000 tonnes. Other major exporters of rice to Malaysia were Cambodia, Pakistan and India.
theedgemarkets
Vietnam
rice exports notch volatile in Q1
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam’s rice exports faced an unpredictable first quarter this year, increasing in January, declining in February and recovering in March, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
An estimated 524,000 tonnes of rice were exported in January, with a total value of 249 million USD, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, representing a 49 percent rise in volume and 51.3 percent in value compared to December 2017. After declines in February, exports rose steeply in March, jumping 93.9 percent in volume and 100 percent in value to 338.44 million USD month-on-month. The rice export price also surged in March by 3.3 percent to 513.7 USD per tonne.
The country’s overall rice exports in the first quarter of this year increased by 15.5 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The average rice export price in the first quarter of the current year rose by 14.2 percent year-on-year to 501 USD per tonne, reported cafef.vn.
The rice export price was higher against most export markets during the same period last year, with the highest price reaching 834.5 USD per tonne for rice exported to Chile, a year-on-year increase of 114 percent. However, rice exports to this market fell sharply by 95 percent in volume and 90 percent in year-on-year value.
China has remained the largest export market for Vietnamese rice, accounting for 27.7 percent of total volume during the first quarter of the current year.
During the first quarter of 2018, 40 percent of Vietnam’s major rice export markets saw a surge in terms of both volume and value, while 60 percent saw a reduction in rice exports.
Vietnam’s rice exports to Bangladesh increased 89 times in volume and 59 times in value. A similar but smaller-scale trend occurred in rice exports to Turkey, Iraq, Malaysia and France.
However, rice exports to markets such as Argentina, Chile, Ukraine, Angola, Singapore, South Africa and the Netherlands plunged between 60 to 95 percent in both volume and turnover over the same period last year.
According to experts, Vietnam will have greater opportunities when the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) comes into effect, helping rice exporters increase exports to countries that joined the agreement and demand high quality and food safety standards, such as Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Vietnam’s structure for exporting rice products has shifted to reducing middle and lower quality rice products while increasing high quality rice products annually.
As a result, from the end of 2017 to the current period, Vietnam’s rice export prices have increased to 50 USD to 100 USD per tonne against its competitors, such as Thailand, Pakistan and India.-VNA
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3 Global Basmati Rice
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4 Global Basmati Rice Supply (Production),
Consumption, Import, Export by Region (2013-2018)
5 Global Basmati Rice Production, Revenue
(Value), Price Trend by Type
6 Global Basmati Rice Market_Analysis by
Application
7 Global Basmati Rice Manufacturers/Companies
Profiles/Analysis
8 Basmati Rice Manufacturing Cost_Analysis
9 Downstream Buyers, Industrial Chain and
Sourcing Strategy
10 Distributors/Traders, Marketing Strategy
Analysis
11 Market Effect Factors Analysis
12 Global Basmati Rice Market-Forecast
(2018-2025)
13 Research Findings and Conclusion
14 Appendix
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Why root
crops are ideal substitutes for rice
By: Micky Fenix -Columnist
Philippine Daily Inquirer /
07:15 AM April 26, 2018
Cavite tamales and Puerto Rican ‘pasteles de yucca’
When a
friend suggests eating out, the place isn’t as important as the company. And
that’s how dinner was set at Gourmet Gypsy Café on Roces Avenue, Quezon City.
But it
turned out to be part of a class of Fernando Zialcita, Cultural Heritage
Studies Program professor at Ateneo de Manila University. And it reminded me of
Zialcita’s invitation more than a year ago at another restaurant, where the
subject was root crops.
Contrasting
dishes
The talk
at Gourmet Gypsy had the same focus—the menu was “Roots and Resilience: A
Dinner of Contrasting Dishes.” Chef Waya Araos Wijangco presented two dishes
for every course to show similarities and differences. Every course had
Filipino cooking and a foreign dish, but the root crop was always present in
both.
Before
dinner was served, Zialcita reminded his student diners that root crops are
easier to grow than rice, and that they require less water and labor—
but root crops are considered “inferior” by some quarters. What we ate that evening was meant to show that root crops might be good, even better, substitutes for rice.
but root crops are considered “inferior” by some quarters. What we ate that evening was meant to show that root crops might be good, even better, substitutes for rice.
I had
forgotten to tell Zialcita that the Philippine Root Crops Research and Training
Center is based at Visayas State University in Baybay, Leyte. Perhaps he and
his students could schedule a visit to know about the many varieties. The
province was chosen as a research center because it is home to many root crop
varieties.
As in our
previous dinner, the first course had kinilaw, paired this time with a Peruvian
ceviche.
Pork adobo with mashed “ube” and Szechuan chicken stew
with taro and mushrooms
Mildly
hot
Chef Waya
explained how the kinilaw is prepared: First, by washing the raw seafood in
vinegar, after which the vinegar is thrown out. Citrus like calamansi is added,
then the seafood is seasoned with salt, pepper, a bit of chili and chopped
ginger and maybe coconut milk, depending on the main ingredient.
But that
is only one way, because, like adobo, there are many versions of kinilaw.
Chef
Waya’s ceviche used the Peruvian aji amarillo, a mildly hot yellow-orange
chili. She gets her supply from a friend in the United States. Her ceviche also
had boiled sweet potato (camote) on the side.
In Leyte,
sometimes kinilaw is also eaten with root crops. But I do remember that lechon
is eaten with a big gray yam called palawan, or the giant swamp taro. I was
told the taro, which is bland, is meant to cut the richness of the lechon.
Native
cakes
The next
course had native cakes, one a Cavite tamales and the other a Puerto Rican
pasteles de yucca. Waya said she approximated the Cavite recipe because she
didn’t get her order of Robinsons, the most famous tamales in the province. The
dish was made with rice and camote with a topping of chicken, egg and chorizo.
Cassava was used for the pasteles, which looked like a yellow suman, while the
filling was picadillo with olives.
By this
time, most of us were getting full from the root crops.
Fish “kinilaw” and Peruvian ceviche
The main
course consisted of two braised dishes—pork adobo with mashed ube (purple yam)
and a Szechuan chicken with taro and mushrooms. The ube seemed a perfect match
with the adobo. We thought of replicating that at home.
The
dessert was guinataang halo-halo, again with assorted root crops cooked in
coconut milk. This was accompanied by the Thai ruam mit, which has sweet potato
chunks, corn, gelatin strips and sago in coconut milk.
While the
Thai ruam mit can be considered dessert, our guinataang halo-halo is too heavy
to serve as the ending to a meal. For me, any kakanin (rice cake) and even
guinataan should really be merienda food and not dessert.
Zialcita
also talked of dessert, but not about the ones we had. He asked the students
and guests whether sans rival really came from France. I volunteered the
information that Nora Daza had the original Le Cordon Bleu Gateau Sans Rival
recipe printed in her book, “A Culinary Life” (Anvil Publishing, 1992).
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3,000 Rice Genomes Project Sequences Reveal
Asian Rice History, Diversity
Apr 25, 2018
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) –
Collaborators from China, the US, the Philippines, and France are sharing
results from the 3,000 Rice Genomes (3K-RG) Project, an effort to characterize
the genetic and genomic variation across Asian cultivated rice accessions.
The team — led by
investigators at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, BGI-Shenzhen,
and the International Rice Research Institute — sequenced and analyzed 3,010
cultivated rice representatives, identifying millions of SNPs, small insertions
or deletions, and structural variants falling in and across the Asian rice
populations identified. The findings, appearing online today in Nature,
also highlighted genes that are shared between rice populations, along with
genes falling in the broader rice pan-genome.
"The next challenge
will be to examine associations of the 3K-RG genetic variation with
agriculturally relevant phenotypes measured under multiple field and laboratory
environmental conditions; this will guide and accelerate rice breeding by
identifying genetic variation that will be useful in breeding efforts and
future sustainable agriculture," the authors wrote.
The team embarked on the
3K-RG effort to spell out the diversity within and across Asian cultivated rice
accessions, which until now have been placed in two broad groups within
the Oryza sativa rice species. The
Xian/Indica (XI) accessions are typically grown in diverse but less challenging
environments, while rice accessions in the Geng/Japonica (GJ) group are more
often found in harsh, high-altitude, and/or high-latitude environments.
As they outlined in GigaScience in
2014, the researchers sent rice genomic DNA to BGI-Shenzhen for
Illumina sequencing. After sequencing 3,024 rice genomes and tossing out data
for 14 accessions that did not meet their quality control criteria, they
aligned reads for the other 3,010 accessions to a Nipponbare RefSeq rice
reference to track down informative variants.
The search led to more
than 29 million SNPs, the team reported. Nearly 8 percent of those SNPs
appeared to have moderate to high effects on other features in the genome,
while just over 5 percent were classified as low-effect SNPs. The genomes also
housed some 2.4 million small insertions and deletions.
Based on genome sequence
data for 453 rice accessions with particularly deep coverage, the researchers
narrowed in on 93,683 structural variants, or 12,178 structural variants per
rice genome, on average.
Along with five main rice
clusters reported in the past, the team was able to identify nine rice
sub-populations, coinciding with the geographic distributions of these plants,
while the structural variant profiles provided the basis for a phylogenetic
analysis on the most deeply sequenced accessions.
When they added insights
from the 268 million bases of rice sequences that were poorly represented in
the rice reference genome, the researchers narrowed in on 12,465 newly detected
protein-coding sequences and thousands of other partial gene sequences. Beyond
the 12,770 to 14,826 gene families that made up the core rice genome, the team
placed more than 9,000 "distributed" gene families in the broader
rice pan-genome — an analysis informed by new reference genome sequences
generated for two rice representatives using Illumina and PacBio sequences.
"Our analysis brings
more resolution to the within-species diversity of O. sativa,"
the authors wrote. For example, they noted that the GJ rice from more
challenging environments tended to have broader core genomes, while the
pan-genomes in the XI rice eclipsed that of the GJ accessions.
"A
closer look at patterns of haplotype sharing at domestication genes suggests
that not all 'domestication' alleles came to XI from GJ," they noted.
"Taken together, our results — combined with archeological evidence of XI
cultivation for [more than] 9,000 years in both India and China — support
multiple independent domestications of O. sativa."
https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/3000-rice-genomes-project-sequences-reveal-asian-rice-history-diversity#.WuHlDW6FPm4
Court of Appeal criticises
KRA in Sh355 million rice import duty matter By Joackim Bwana | Published Thu,
April 26th 2018 at 00:00, Updated April 25th 2018 at 23:39 GMT +3 SHARE THIS
ARTICLE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Kenya Revenue Authority has been
criticised for erroneous calculation of import tax. Appellate Judges Alnashir
Visram, W Karanja, and MK Koome said the authority makes mistakes in its
calculations on the duty, then shifts the burden and pressure to importers.
ALSO READ: Judge pulls out of Joho appeal case The judges said in Mombasa that
the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) should change the way it operates and demands
tax from importers. “Your story is that KRA is under pressure and you are
making deliberate mistakes and the importers pay for the mistakes. You are
intimidating and harassing the importers, yet you are a Government body. You
are behaving badly and you need to change,” said Justice Visram. The judges
were referring to a case where KRA is demanding over Sh355 million in duty from
Krish Commodities Limited, which imported 10 containers of Indian and Vietnam
rice in 2008. Justice Karanja said KRA was collecting money that was not even
due for collection. Avoid fake news! Subscribe to the Standard SMS service and
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22840 "Demanding Sh355 million within 14 days is enough to send someone to
the intensive care unit. This is not fair and you follow it up with threats,”
she said. “The wrong calculations are your mistake and KRA does this so that
the importers can come to your offices so that you can negotiate,” said Visram
KRA lawyer Pius Nyagah said KRA was working hard to eliminate such errors and
had summoned Krish to discuss the issue. The Krish lawyer, Sanjeev Kagram, told
the Court of appeal that KRA made a deliberate mistake on the tax his client
was supposed to pay to compel him to visit its offices. ALSO READ: Court of
Appeal dismisses petition to wind up aviation firm Mr Kagram said KRA
unlawfully detained 10 containers on account of the allegedly
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Philippines hopes to pass rice
tariffication law in 2018
25.04.2018
The
government expects the rice tariffication bill to be passed into law by the 2nd
half of the year, according to Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia.
Under the measure, the prescribed import volume would be removed and imports can eventually be opened to private traders.
"We expect the tariffication of rice to be in effect later this year – maybe 2nd half of this year, because it's an urgent legislative measure. That means President [Rodrigo Duterte] wants it passed soon," Pernia told reporters on the sidelines of a Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) briefing in Manila on Tuesday, April 24.
The proposed tariff system, filed as House Bill 4904, amends the Agricultural Tariffication Act of 1996. The existing law, which is more than two decades old, allows the National Food Authority (NFA) to monopolize rice importation.
Pernia reiterated that replacing the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice with tariffs will lower rice prices and increase revenues for agricultural programs like crop diversification.
"To the extent that rice importation will be liberalized, the private sector will start importing. The more private sector imports, the supply of rice enlarges and therefore the price of rice goes down," Pernia added.
Prices of rice in the Philippines rose by 3.6% in March, from 2.8% in February. (READ: Philippine inflation continues to rise at 4.3% in March)
Farm gate prices of palay have been on an upward trend since the 2nd week of January, contributing to higher wholesale and retail prices of rice.
Key to rice supply problem
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), which is headed by Pernia, had cited the urgency to fast-track amendments to the Agricultural Tariffication Act.
This would allow the NFA to focus on ensuring buffer stocks for rice, among other things.
"Meanwhile, the revenue from the tariff on rice will be used to help the farmers increase their productivity," Pernia told reporters.
The Philippines' total rice inventory, inclusive of stocks from households, commercial warehouses, and NFA depositories, registered a marked drop to 1,795.78 metric tons (MT) as of February 1 this year, said NEDA.
Even if 250,000 MT of imported rice is scheduled to arrive in May, NEDA said this will not be able to meet the country's rice demand in the succeeding months.
NEDA Undersecretary for Policy and Planning Rosemarie Edillon had said inflationary pressures from other agricultural food items must be managed as well, while at the same time anticipating developments in international oil markets.
"Given the risks, we really need to be anticipative and proactive in implementing measures to ensure price stability and cushion the impact of higher consumer prices on the poor," Edillon had said.
Under the measure, the prescribed import volume would be removed and imports can eventually be opened to private traders.
"We expect the tariffication of rice to be in effect later this year – maybe 2nd half of this year, because it's an urgent legislative measure. That means President [Rodrigo Duterte] wants it passed soon," Pernia told reporters on the sidelines of a Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) briefing in Manila on Tuesday, April 24.
The proposed tariff system, filed as House Bill 4904, amends the Agricultural Tariffication Act of 1996. The existing law, which is more than two decades old, allows the National Food Authority (NFA) to monopolize rice importation.
Pernia reiterated that replacing the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice with tariffs will lower rice prices and increase revenues for agricultural programs like crop diversification.
"To the extent that rice importation will be liberalized, the private sector will start importing. The more private sector imports, the supply of rice enlarges and therefore the price of rice goes down," Pernia added.
Prices of rice in the Philippines rose by 3.6% in March, from 2.8% in February. (READ: Philippine inflation continues to rise at 4.3% in March)
Farm gate prices of palay have been on an upward trend since the 2nd week of January, contributing to higher wholesale and retail prices of rice.
Key to rice supply problem
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), which is headed by Pernia, had cited the urgency to fast-track amendments to the Agricultural Tariffication Act.
This would allow the NFA to focus on ensuring buffer stocks for rice, among other things.
"Meanwhile, the revenue from the tariff on rice will be used to help the farmers increase their productivity," Pernia told reporters.
The Philippines' total rice inventory, inclusive of stocks from households, commercial warehouses, and NFA depositories, registered a marked drop to 1,795.78 metric tons (MT) as of February 1 this year, said NEDA.
Even if 250,000 MT of imported rice is scheduled to arrive in May, NEDA said this will not be able to meet the country's rice demand in the succeeding months.
NEDA Undersecretary for Policy and Planning Rosemarie Edillon had said inflationary pressures from other agricultural food items must be managed as well, while at the same time anticipating developments in international oil markets.
"Given the risks, we really need to be anticipative and proactive in implementing measures to ensure price stability and cushion the impact of higher consumer prices on the poor," Edillon had said.
http://www.blackseagrain.net/novosti/philippines-hopes-to-pass-rice-tariffication-law-in-2018
Moving chairs in Starbucks: Observational
studies find rice-wheat cultural differences in daily life in China
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Science Advances 25 Apr 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 4, eaap8469
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aap8469
Vol. 4, no. 4, eaap8469
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aap8469
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Abstract
Traditional paddy rice farmers had to share labor and coordinate
irrigation in a way that most wheat farmers did not. We observed people in
everyday life to test whether these agricultural legacies gave rice-farming
southern China a more interdependent culture and wheat-farming northern China a
more independent culture. In Study 1, we counted 8964 people sitting in cafes
in six cities and found that people in northern China were more likely to be
sitting alone. In Study 2, we moved chairs together in Starbucks across the
country so that they were partially blocking the aisle (n = 678). People in
northern China were more likely to move the chair out of the way, which is
consistent with findings that people in individualistic cultures are more
likely to try to control the environment. People in southern China were more
likely to adjust the self to the environment by squeezing through the chairs.
Even in China’s most modern cities, rice-wheat differences live on in everyday
life.
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INTRODUCTION
In
a laboratory study, we tested more than 1000 people from all over China on
several psychological measures of culture (1). People who had grown up in
southern China showed behaviors typical of interdependent cultures, such as
Japan—holistic thought, low importance of the self, and a strong distinction
between friends and strangers. People from northern China showed behaviors that
are more common in individualistic cultures, such as the UK—analytic thought,
strong importance of the self, and a smaller distinction between friends and
strangers.
Another
difference between northern and southern China is that, for thousands of years,
people in northern China grew wheat and millet, whereas people in southern
China farmed paddy rice (Guanzi,
seventh century BC). The idea that how cultures historically made a living
affects our behavior is called subsistence theory (2–4). For example, herding is a
relatively individual activity, where people move from place to place, and many
relationships are transitory. In contrast, many farming cultures are sedentary,
with more stable, enmeshed ties between people.
The
rice theory of culture breaks down farming further (1, 5). Compared to dryland crops, such as
wheat and millet, rice paddy farming often requires irrigation systems that
multiple families have to coordinate. Traditional paddy rice also required
about twice as many man hours as crops, such as wheat, which led many rice
cultures to form customs of exchanging labor (6–8). Over time, this tight coordination
may have pushed rice cultures to develop a more interdependent culture.
Study overview
Here,
we test for rice-wheat cultural differences in everyday life in China. In Study
1, we counted how many people were sitting alone versus with other people in
Starbucks and other cafes around China. In Study 2, we moved chairs to block
aisles in Starbucks and observed how many people moved the self to squeeze
through or moved the chairs. We designed this measure to test exerting control
over the environment, which is more common in individualistic cultures (9).
These
studies make several contributions to previous studies:
1)
These studies test the rice theory outside of the laboratory using a sample
that is not primarily students. In some ways, middle-class patrons of Starbucks
in major cities might be the last people among whom we should expect to find
subsistence style differences.
2)
These studies address the fundamental problem of self-report measures in
cultural psychology. Researchers have documented many problems with using
self-report scales to measure differences across cultures, from the
reference-group effect (10) to the stubbornly persistent
finding that the United States is just as collectivistic as China and Korea (11, 12), or that Japan is actually less
collectivistic than the United States [(13), p. 18]. There is also the
complete lack of correlation between nation-level self-reports of
conscientiousness with objective behaviors that tap into that same trait (14). However, observational studies of
cultural differences are oddly rare in psychology [except for a few strong
examples: (14, 15)]. Developing measures of concrete
behaviors addresses the problems of self-report and may provide future
researchers with documented non–self-report measures to use.
3)
Much of cross-cultural psychology has focused on East-West differences and
differences between nations. This study tests for differences within China.
4) This study extends the sample to include Hong Kong, which has
not been tested as a part of rice-wheat differences.
Strengths and weaknesses of observational studies
However,
observational studies have weaknesses too. Laboratory studies are strong
designs because they use a controlled environment and previously validated
measures. Observational studies are not so tightly controlled. We also cannot
be as sure we know what we are measuring—that the behavior we are measuring
represents individualism as we expect it does. For example, if a driver does
not stop completely at a stop sign, is that a sign of self-importance?
Impatience? Or disregard for law? The meaning of particular behaviors is more
open to debate than it is with laboratory measures.
To
combat these weaknesses, we use one behavior (sitting alone) that psychologists
have used before to document differences between groups of people. For the new
measure that we create (chair moving), we validate the measure by collecting
data in the United States, China, and Japan. We also validate the reliability
of the observations by having multiple observers rate the same behaviors. This
gives some evidence that these behaviors truly differ between individualistic
and interdependent cultures.
Despite the difficulties of observational studies, they are a
good antidote for the fact that many laboratory tests are not very helpful for
describing what rice and wheat cultures are like in everyday life. In a thought
style task, if people in northern China are more likely to pair “train” with
“bus” rather than “train” with “tracks,” what does that mean for everyday life?
These observational studies give a more concrete picture of how rice and wheat
cultures differ in everyday life.
Testing sites
We
tested in six cities: Beijing (wheat), Shenyang (wheat), Shanghai (rice),
Nanjing (rice), Guangzhou (rice), and Hong Kong (rice). All the cities are in
solidly rice areas (>70% farmland devoted to rice) or wheat areas [<20%
farmland devoted to rice (16)]. We chose major cities because
(i) it would be easier to obtain large samples in each site and (ii) they have
chain store locations that we could use as semiuniform testing environments.
Figure 1 shows how the six cities
compare on demographic variables. All are major metropolises, with gross
domestic product (GDP) per capita much higher than the national average, which
may actually make these places harder places to test the rice theory (if modernization
strongly influences culture and pushes cultures further away from their
agrarian roots). The fact that most people in major cities do not farm for a
living means that we are testing for the legacy of a history of farming, rather
than the effect of having farmed land oneself.
Fig. 1About 90% of the people in
Starbucks were from the local rice or wheat cultural region.
The Human Development Index is a United Nations index of health,
education, and wealth for 2015. GDP per capita data are from 2013, converted to
U.S. dollars. The population density is as of 2013.
Why Hong Kong is an interesting test case
We
included Hong Kong for two reasons: (i) Hong Kong is a much wealthier, more
modernized city than the other cities. Hong Kong has a GDP per capita about
three times those of Beijing and Shanghai (Fig. 1), as well as a longer history of
market capitalism and globalization. (ii) Hong Kong is a former British colony,
which has given it direct influence from a Western culture.
Using Hong Kong as a test case sets up a strong contrast between
two competing theories: modernization and the rice theory. If Hong Kong shows
more individualism, it would suggest that modernization (or British influence)
has made the culture more individualistic. If Hong Kong shows more
interdependence, it would suggest that rice differences can persist in the face
of modernization.
Are people in Beijing cafes actually from Beijing?
One
weakness of sampling large cities in China is that large cities have attracted
newcomers from rural areas. So how do we know that people in Beijing cafes are
actually from Beijing?
The
answer is that people in Beijing cafes do not actually need to be from Beijing.
Instead, this sample can adequately test the rice theory as long as most people
in Beijing Starbucks are from the north—other wheat-growing provinces. Second,
even among southerners who have moved to Beijing, there should be at least some
cultural assimilation because most have lived in the north for years. Thus, the
real threat to validity would be if more than 50% of people in Beijing cafes
are recent arrivals from the south, which is unlikely.
But to be conservative, we surveyed 105 people in Starbucks in
Beijing and Shanghai. We asked patrons which province they grew up in and how
long they had lived in Beijing or Shanghai. In Shanghai Starbucks, 61% grew up
in Shanghai, 89% were from rice provinces, and 93% were from rice provinces or
had lived in Shanghai for at least 2 years (Fig. 1). In Beijing, 60% grew up in
Beijing, 92% were from wheat provinces, and 98% were from wheat provinces or
had lived in Beijing for at least 2 years. Thus, people in Starbucks
overwhelmingly represent the rice and wheat regions.
Are cafes too far removed from farming?
Cafes
are expensive. In Beijing, the full-time minimum wage is US$434 a month (17). At that rate, 10 Starbucks lattes
a month would cost about 10% of someone’s income. Starbucks customers are
probably wealthier than average.
However, that should make it harder to find evidence for the
rice theory. If modernization erases differences based on historical rice
farming, then it should be harder to find those differences among middle-class
consumers in modern cafes. However, cultures have inertia, and differences
rooted in subsistence styles can persist hundreds of years after people put
down their plows (18). This study tests whether China’s
rice-wheat differences persist among its urban middle class.
Natural laboratories
Cafes do have one strong
advantage as a testing site. Cafes provide a naturally uniform environment
across different cities. One benefit of global capitalism is that it produces
stores with more or less the same environment—the same colors, the same chairs,
and the same smells—across China. This means that environmental cues should be
roughly similar across cities.
STUDY 1
Sitting alone
In Study 1, we observed the
number of people sitting with other people or alone in cafes. Why measure
sitting alone? On the face of it, sitting alone seems consistent with the
independent culture of wheat areas. There is also evidence that doing things
alone is more common in individualistic cultures. For example, researchers
created an index of individualistic markers across the United States, such as
divorce rates and Libertarian voting rates (19). This index was positively
correlated with the percentage of people driving to work alone versus
carpooling, and the percentage of people living alone [(19), p. 284], which suggests that
spending time alone is more common in individualistic cultures.
Observation rules
Three
researchers observed 8964 people in 256 stores across six cities (Beijing,
Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong). Observers coded the
number of people sitting alone, the number of groups, the number of people in
groups, and the gender of the people sitting alone. To test whether the
observations were reliable, observers coded samples in Beijing (n = 447) and Shanghai (n = 251). Codings were
nearly identical (r’s
> 0.99).
We hypothesized that day of the week and time of day might
affect the percentage of people sitting alone, so we noted these variables and
made an effort to sample evenly by time and day of the week across cities. The
observers avoided tourist areas, such as the Forbidden City and the Bund, as
well as areas with lots of travelers, such as train stations and airports. To
avoid seasonal variation, all coding took place in the summer between June and
August. Observers did not sample during national holidays or exceptional events
(such as a typhoon that hit Guangzhou).
Control variables
As a predictor variable, we
used the percentage of farmland devoted to rice paddies in the province,
although results were similar using a binary rice-versus-wheat variable. We
used the earliest rice data that we could find from the 1996 Statistical
Yearbook. In addition to time of day and day of the week, we tested for city-
and district-level GDP per capita, population density, and age of the
population from 2013.
RESULTS
People
in rice regions were less likely to be alone (γ = −0.42, P = 0.010, rcity-level = 0.79; γ represents
group-level regression coefficients). On weekdays, roughly 10% more people were
alone in the wheat region than the rice region. On weekends, the wheat region
had about 5% more people sitting alone (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2Percentage of people sitting
alone in cafes.
People in the wheat area were more likely to be sitting alone on
weekdays (left) and weekends (right). Bars represent 1 SEM.
Day of the week. People were most likely to
be alone on Mondays (32% on Mondays versus 22% on weekends). The percentage
alone went down each day of the week through Sunday (B = −0.08, P < 0.001, rind-level = 0.10; table S12) (a
linear day-of-the-week variable explained slightly more variance than a
weekday-versus-weekend variable).
Morning versus afternoon. People were most likely to
be alone early in the day and less likely to be alone in the afternoon and into
evening (B =
−0.07, P<
0.001, rind-level = 0.10; time of day
rounded to the nearest hour). However, rice-wheat differences persisted
throughout the day (Fig. 3). Around noon, 33% of people were
alone. By 5:00 p.m., 22% of people were alone. Controlling for time of day and
day of the week, people in the rice areas were less likely to be alone (γ =
−0.43, P =
0.003, rcity-level = 0.85; Table 1). We controlled for time of day
and day of the week in all the following analyses.
Fig. 3People were more likely to
be alone earlier in the day, although rice-wheat differences persisted across
the day.
Yellow represents wheat region; green represents rice region.
Bars represent 1 SEM.
Table 1 Rice-wheat differences in sitting alone.
Note that day of the week is coded numerically: Monday, 1 to
Sunday, 7. Time of day is rounded to the nearest hour. Model is a hierarchical
linear model (HLM) using the binomial GLMER function. Data are grouped at the
city level in each model except the model with district GDP per capita. Table
S10 presents models with districts nested within cities.
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Starbucks versus other
cafes. People
were more likely to be alone in Starbucks than other cafes (γ = 0.17, P = 0.053, rstore-level = 0.05; table S1).
Results were similar when we grouped together Starbucks and Costa Coffee to
represent large international chains (γ = 0.21, P = 0.028, rstore-level = 0.08). Rice-wheat
differences remained after controlling for international chains (γ =
−0.45, P =
0.007, rcity-level = 0.80; Table 1).
Modernization. If modernization makes
cultures more individualistic and more Western, then we would expect more
people in modernized districts to be sitting alone. However, people in
wealthier cities were not more likely to be alone (GDP per capita; γ =
0.006, P =
0.672, rcity-level = 0.15; table S3).
This could be because the rice areas are also wealthier. After controlling for
rice, people in wealthier cities were more likely to be alone (γ = 0.018, P < 0.001, rcity-level = 0.47) (rice remained
significant; γ = −0.56, P <
0.001; Table 1).
Results were similar using wealth at the district level.
Wealthier districts were not more likely to have people sitting alone (γ =
.002, P =
0.824, rdistrict-level = 0.08; table S4). But
controlling for rice, people were marginally more likely to be alone in
wealthier districts (γ = 0.010, P =
0.082, rdistrict-level = 0.56; Table 1). In sum, the basic rice-wheat
differences were stronger than modernization differences. Modernization
differences were apparent only after taking rice-wheat differences into
account.
Self-employed people. Some people are alone in
cafes because they are working, which may be particularly common for people who
are self-employed and have no office space. We tested whether cities with a
higher percentage of self-employed workers had more people sitting alone.
Controlling for rice, areas with more self-employed people did not have more
people sitting alone (γ = 1.75, P =
0.629, rcity-level = 0.27; table S8).
Population density. Researchers have argued two
opposite ideas for how population density might affect culture. On the one
hand, some researchers have argued that population density should make cultures
more collectivistic [for example, (20, 21), pp. 58–59]. On the other hand,
cities are more densely populated than rural areas, and some researchers think
that cities are more individualistic (22). In terms of the practicalities of
sitting alone, people in dense cities may have smaller homes and more need to
use a cafe as a place to work or read.
Results supported the idea that dense cities are more
collectivistic. People were less likely to be alone in districts with a higher
population density (γ = −0.03, P =
0.177, rdistrict-level = −0.22). However,
population density is highly correlated with rice; after controlling for rice,
population density was not significant (γ = 0.02, P = 0.559, rdistrict-level = 0.31). In sum,
population density was not a strong predictor.
Age and gender. If China’s younger
generation is more individualistic than the older generation, then districts
with younger populations might have more people sitting alone. However, the
finding was that those younger districts were no more likely to have people
sitting alone (table S4). Men made up 50.6% of the people sitting alone in the
wheat region and 52.4% in the rice region. Thus, gender did not seem able to
explain differences between regions.
Alternative
predictors. In the Supplementary Materials, we present analyses of other
variables that researchers have used to explain cultural differences: climate
(temperature), pathogen prevalence, percentage of nonlocal residents, and
alternative measures of modernization (service-sector employment, employment in
private industry, and Internet penetration). Although the sample is small to
test many different theories, rice consistently predicted differences more
strongly than these alternatives (table S8).
DISCUSSION
People in the wheat areas
were more likely to be alone than people in the rice areas. This was also true
in Hong Kong, a wealthier, more modernized city in the rice region. These
results suggest that rice-wheat cultural differences within China extend into
everyday life—not just in the careful, controlled laboratory measurements.
STUDY 2
Chair moving
Some
cultural psychologists have argued that, when people run into a problem,
individualists are more likely to try to change the situation, and collectivists
are more likely to change the self to fit the situation [(21, 23), p. 67]. Similarly, in their
classic paper on self-concept, Markus and Kitayama (24) theorized that individualistic
Americans value “gaining control over surroundings” (p. 241), whereas Japanese
people tend to see maturity as the ability to gain control over the inner world
of the self (p. 227).
Findings
have supported these theories. For example, researchers have found that
Americans emphasize control and influence, whereas people in Japan emphasize
adjustment and fitting in (9, 25–27). In addition, research on “primary
control” (active control) versus “secondary control” (adjusting to the
situation) has found that Americans are more likely to try primary control (28).
To
test this theory in everyday life, we pushed chairs together in Starbucks and
observed how many people moved the chairs out of their way and how many moved
their body to squeeze through the chairs (Fig. 4). If people in rice areas are more
collectivistic, with less importance placed on the self, they should be less
likely to move the chairs.
Fig. 4Demonstrations of the
chair-moving test.
A research assistant demonstrating how difficult it is to walk
through the chair trap (left). To standardize chair width, researchers set the
chairs to the width of their hips. Researchers only used light wooden chairs
like these (right) to set the chair traps, never large stools or large plush
chairs like those in the background of the picture.
To
the best of our knowledge, no studies have used this method before. Thus, we
cannot be certain what moving the chair represents. Thus, we tested the
validity of this method by running samples in two countries shown to have
differences in importance of the self—Japan and the United States. We also
tested a subsample of participants in China who did and did not move the chair
on psychological constructs previously shown to differ between individualistic
and collectivistic cultures: cultural thought style, internal versus external
locus of control, and self-efficacy (see the Supplementary Materials for more
details).
Finally, moving the chair is similar to a study that put
participants in front of a fan that was set to an uncomfortably high setting (29). Participants who were primed to
feel powerful (and perhaps place more importance on the self) were more likely
to turn the fan off or move it out of the way. Thus, there is some evidence
that actively removing an obstacle is more common among people who place a
higher importance on the self.
Observation rules
A total of 678 people in
five cities walked through the chair trap (wheat: Beijing and Shenyang; rice:
Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong). All observations were made in the summer
(11 July to 2 September). We ran the study in Starbucks only to keep the
testing environment similar across cities.
Control variables
Observers coded for several
variables that we thought might affect how likely people are to move chairs:
gender, time of day, day of the week, employee versus customer, walking alone
versus in a group, and under/over 40 years old. Observers estimated whether
people were under or over 40 years old on the basis of their appearance. In addition
to rice, we ran models with GDP per capita and population density at the city
and district level.
RESULTS
People
in the rice region were less likely to move the chair (γ = −1.86, P < 0.001, rcity-level = −0.99, rind-level = −0.24; Table 2). In the rice region, about 6% of
people moved the chair, whereas in the wheat region, 16% of people moved the
chair (Fig. 5).
Table 2 Rice, GDP, and demographic predictors of chair moving.
Note that models are HLMs using the binomial GLMER function. Data
are grouped at the city level, except for the bottom two models, which are
grouped at the district level. See table S11 for models with districts nested
in cities.
View this table:
Fig. 5People in wheat areas were
about three times more likely to move the chair than people in rice areas.
Bars represent 1 SEM.
Employees. Employees were much more
likely to move the chair (B =
1.93, P <
0.001, rind-level = 0.10; Fig. 6). Among employees, 24% moved the
chair compared to 4% of customers. However, rice-wheat differences were
apparent among employees (γ = −2.55, P <
0.001, rcity-level = −0.86, rind-level = −0.39) and civilians
(γ = −1.67, P =
0.009, rcity-level = −0.97, rind-level = −0.19).
Fig. 6
Employees were about five times more likely than customers to
move the chair (left). Among customers, men were more likely than women to move
the chair (center). Comparing China, Japan, and the United States, Americans
were about twice as likely to move the chair (right). Bars represent 1 SEM.
Gender. Among customers, women were
less likely to move the chair (B =
−1.06, P =
0.016, rind-level = −0.19; Fig. 6). Among employees, men and women
did not differ (B =
0.03, P =
0.936, rind-level < 0.01). In a model
controlling for gender and employee effects, the rice-wheat differences
remained (γ = −2.02, P <
0.001, rcity-level = 0.97, rind-level = −0.24; Table 2).
Age and time of day. Many people have argued that
the younger generation in China is more individualistic than the older
generation (30). If so, older people might be less
likely to move the chairs. On the other hand, older people may feel more
respected in society or able to assert control. There were no significant
differences in chair moving for people below 40 years old (B = 0.03, P = 0.928, rind-level < 0.01).
At the district level, districts with older populations were
less likely to move the chair (γ = −0.18, P = 0.041, rdist-level = −0.49) (among
nonemployees; table S6). However, this relationship became nonsignificant after
adding rice (γ = −0.05, P =
0.667, rdist-level = −0.19). Time of day
was not related to chair moving (P =
0.851).
Alone versus groups. People in groups were
marginally less likely to move the chair (B =
−0.66, P =
0.069, rind-level = 0.11). However, this
might be because (i) employees never walked in groups and (ii) people in rice
areas were more likely to be walking in groups. In a model including rice,
employee, and gender, the effect of walking in a group was not significant (P = 0.565).
Modernization. We tested whether people in
more developed (and presumably more modernized) cities were more likely to move
the chair. Wealth of the city was not related to chair moving (γ = −0.35, P = 0.467, rcity-level = −0.44) (GDP per
capita; table S6). This was also true after controlling for rice (P = 0.936; Table 2).
Next,
we zoomed into the district level. People in wealthier districts were not more
likely to move the chairs (GDP per capita; γ = −0.02, P = 0.517, rcity-level = 0.23; table S6). The
slight negative relationship could be because the rice areas of China are
wealthier than the wheat areas. Controlling for rice, people in wealthier
districts were marginally more likely to move the chairs (γ = 0.03, P = 0.199, rcity-level = 0.67).
People in more densely populated districts were less likely to
move the chairs (γ = −0.19, P =
0.052, rdist-level = −0.61; table S6).
But again, rice areas tend to be more densely populated than wheat areas;
controlling for rice, population density was not significant (γ = 0.01, P = 0.937, rdist-level < 0.01). In sum,
wealth and urbanization were not strong predictors of moving the chair.
Alternative
predictors. The Supplementary Materials present tests of temperature,
pathogen prevalence, percentage of nonlocal residents, and alternative measures
of modernization. These alternative variables were not strong predictors of
chair moving, particularly after taking rice farming into account (table S9).
Validity checks. Because previous studies
have not used chair moving as a psychological variable, we tested validity in
several ways. We approached a subsample (n =
42) of cafe goers who did or did not move the chair and asked them to complete
several psychological measures. Chair movers thought more analytically (more
common in individualistic cultures) than people who did not move the chair (B = 0.61, P = 0.024, r = 0.35). Chair movers
also scored marginally higher on internal locus of control (B = 0.60, P= 0.088, r = 0.27). There were no
differences on self-efficacy (B =
0.05, P =
0.845, r =
0.03).
Next,
we tested validity by testing in cultures known from previous research to
differ in individualism: the United States and Japan. If moving the chairs
actually taps into feelings of control over the environment that are more
common in individualistic cultures, Americans should be more likely than people
in China and Japan to move the chair. To test this, we observed 93 people walk
through the chair trap in Washington, DC and New York City. Americans were more
than twice as likely to move the chair (8.0% in China versus 20.4% in the
United States; Fig. 6) (B = 1.70, P < 0.001, r = 0.22; table S9).
We
also ran a small sample in Japan (Kyoto and Nagoya, 45 observations). As a rice
culture and a collectivistic culture, Japan should have a low rate of moving
the chair. Japan’s rate of chair moving (8.5%) was similar to China’s (8.0%) (γ
= −0.15, P =
0.788, r =
0.02). The results from the United States and Japan suggest that chair moving
maps onto differences between individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
We
also analyzed whether chair moving was more likely among particular demographic
groups. Previous studies have found that men score higher on power [(31, 32); p. 953]. There is also some
evidence that men score higher on individualism [(33), in China, (1), the Supplementary Materials; but
see the study of Kitayama et
al. (12), p. 243]. The fact that men were
more likely to move the chair is consistent with the idea that this measure is
tapping into a similar underlying concept.
Perhaps
the most obvious validity check is to compare employees and civilians.
Employees are in charge of the store and should feel like they have the
authority to move the chairs. The finding that employees were five times more
likely to move the chair supports the notion that chair moving taps into
control over the environment.
Finally, we compared rates of chair moving to a measure of the
importance of the self from a previous study of regional differences in China (1). That study used the sociogram
task, in which participants draw circles to represent the self and friends.
Researchers then measured the size of the circles to see whether people draw
the self bigger than they draw friends. Participants from areas that scored
higher on self-inflation were more likely to move the chair (γ = 2.21, P < 0.001, rcity-level = 0.99, rind-level = 0.23). This suggests
that chair moving has convergent validity with other measures used to measure
cultural differences.
DISCUSSION
Two
studies found evidence that historical subsistence styles can explain
meaningful regional differences in people’s everyday behavior in China. Modernization
differences did not account for the differences—if anything, the wealthier
cities (the rice areas) were less individualistic. The fact that these
differences appeared among mostly middle-class city people suggests that
rice-wheat differences are still alive and well in modern China.
Replication and limitations. This study also serves as a
conceptual replication of the laboratory study using entirely different outcome
measures (34). Observational studies have
inherent limitations. We cannot always know whether sitting alone or moving a
chair taps into individualism, and we cannot guarantee that minor differences
in the environment across cities affected the results.
However, when viewed with the previous laboratory study as a
whole, the results here suggest that the rice and wheat regions of China are
different and that these differences are not artifacts of particular laboratory
tests. Measuring concrete behaviors is important because cultural psychologists
have found that nations’ self-reports on questionnaires do not always match
their behavior (14). Concrete behavioral measures such
as these provide an alternative to using self-report questionnaires to measure
cultural differences—a method that researchers have frequently criticized (10–12).
Rice farming and
modernization. This study extended the rice theory by including Hong Kong. Hong
Kong is particularly interesting because it has a history of British influence
and it is far wealthier than the Mainland cities. However, few people in Hong
Kong moved the chair or sat alone. These data suggest that modernization does
not inevitably cause people to behave like Westerners—much as modern, wealthy
nations, such as Singapore and Japan, still score much lower on individualism
than Western countries (35). The results here suggest that
these differences extend from self-report surveys into whether people are
sitting alone in Starbucks.
METHODS
Sitting alone
In
an effort to standardize the observations, observers followed several rules.
Only seated patrons counted; people standing in line did not count unless they
later joined someone sitting. Foreigners were not counted. Although this is not
always easy to determine, the observers used appearance and the language that
people were using (if they were talking). Each location could only be observed
once per day to avoid counting the same people twice. People sitting outside
were only counted if they had purchased something; this excludes people who
were using outdoor chairs as a place to sit without buying anything.
The
observers plotted routes based on the locations of Starbucks and visited any
nearby cafes. We defined cafes as places that serve coffee or tea and where
most patrons are drinking beverages and eating light snacks. If many patrons
were drinking alcohol or eating meals, the store was not counted.
In
most cases, it was easy to determine who was alone and who was together with
other people. However, particularly in cafes that were crowded or had shared
tables, people sat near each other, and it was not always clear whether they
were together. In these cases, the observers lingered to look for signs that
people were together, such as talking to each other.
Statistical power. According to Cohen’s effect
for small effect size (Cohen’s d=
0.2), the sitting alone sample had more than 99% statistical power. Thus,
instead of aiming for a specific sample size, we sampled to try to ensure that
time of day and day of the week were similar across sites.
Reliability. To test how reliable the
observations were, three observers independently coded 447 people in 12 cafes
in Beijing at the same time. Across coders, the percentage of people alone per
cafe correlated almost identically (rs ≥ 0.99). Two coders
also tested for reliability in the rice region by independently coding 251
people in 10 stores in Shanghai. The percentage of sitting alone per cafe was
nearly identical (r >
0.99). These results suggest that coders agree on who is alone and who is with
other people in the vast majority of cases.
Chair moving
Checking sample
comparability. Rice and wheat sites did not differ in the age, gender, or
employee status of participants (P’s
> 0.73). Controlling for time of day and day of the week, people in the rice
areas were more likely to be walking in groups (14% versus 30%, P < 0.001). This data
point supports the finding from Study 1 that people in the wheat area are more
likely to be alone.
Observation rules. Two observers followed several
rules to standardize the observations. In setting up the chair trap, the
observers tried to be stealthy so that the other patrons would not know that we
were testing their behavior. The observers used only lightweight wooden chairs,
never heavy plush chairs or high metal stools. These heavier chairs would be
much harder for people to move. In each case, the observer moved the chairs to
the width of his hips to ensure that the chairs were always the same distance
apart. In case body size differences between the observers might affect the
results, we ran analyses controlling for the observer.
If
a person moved the chairs, the observers repositioned the chairs to the
standard distance and did not count anyone who walked through the moved chairs
while they were farther apart than the standard distance. Sometimes, other
patrons would sit down in one of the empty chairs. When this happened, the
observers stopped coding until they could find alternate chairs or until the
person left.
If someone walked through the chair trap more than once, the
observers only coded the first time. The observers only set traps in places
that did not require the chairs to be moved too far from their original
position. All traps were set indoors.
Statistical power. According to Cohen’s
convention for small effect size (Cohen’s d = 0.2), the chair moving sample had 96%
statistical power. We sampled to ensure that both coders visited rice and wheat
cities and sampled for at least 2 days in each city.
Reliability. Two observers first trained
together in two Starbucks to make sure that their procedures were the same.
Next, the two observers independently coded the same people at two Starbucks to
test whether their observations were reliable. The two coders agreed on all
cases of whether the chairs were moved or not. All control variables were
identical except for one observation, where one observer recorded two people
and the other coder thought the second observation was the same person who had
crossed previously. The Supplementary Materials include analyses with the
observer as a predictor variable and find that it is not related to chair
moving (P =
0.854). Thus, the results suggest that the codings were reliable across
observers.
Validity checks: Psychological measures. As a validity check, we ran
the chair trap in Beijing and approached 42 cafe goers who did or did not move
the chair. They then completed paper-and-pencil tasks measuring cultural
thought style, internal versus external locus of control, self-efficacy, and
demographics.
To
measure cultural thought style, the triad categorization task had participants
categorize objects that can be paired on the basis of abstract category (for
example, train and bus) or relation/use (train and tracks). Previous research
found that people in East Asia and the rice areas of China choose more
relational pairings than people from the West and wheat areas of China (1, 36).
Participants also completed a five-item version of the locus of
control scale (37). Participants chose from competing
statements that endorse the idea that outcomes in their life are determined by
their own control or by external forces. Researchers had found that people in
the United States and Western Europe score higher on internal locus of control
than people in China and Hong Kong (38). Participants also completed a
five-item scale measuring self-efficacy (39), which prior research found was
higher in the United States than in Japan and Hong Kong (40).
Statistical analysis
We used binomial (alone or
not/moved chair or not) HLMs using the GLMER function in the program R. We
present results for models nesting people in cities, districts, or stores
depending on the predictor variable. Fully nested models with stores nested in
districts nested in cities are in tables S10 and S11.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
Supplementary
material for this article is available at http://advances.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/4/4/eaap8469/DC1
fig.
S1. Sample chair trap in a Starbucks in Shanghai.
table
S1. Are people in international chains more likely to be sitting alone?
table
S2. Rice-wheat differences controlling for international chain.
table
S3. Sitting alone and GDP.
table
S4. Sitting alone and district-level data.
table
S5. Basic predictors of chair moving.
table
S6. City and district census predictors of chair moving.
table
S7. International comparison of chair moving.
table
S8. How well do other major theories of culture predict sitting alone?
table
S9. How well do other major theories of culture predict chair moving?
table
S10. Sitting alone models with stores nested in districts nested in cities.
table
S11. Chair moving models with stores nested in districts nested in cities.
table
S12. Chair moving models with stores nested in districts nested in cities.
section
S1. Rice statistics
section
S2. Chair moving
section
S3. Controlling for observer
section
S4. Hong Kong GDP per capita
section
S5. Age in districts
section
S6. Calculating effect sizes in GLMER
section
S7. Graphing mean percent sitting alone
section
S8. GDP per capita
section
S9. Alternative predictors
section
S10. Chair moving validity checks
section
S11. Ethics statement
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Acknowledgments: We thank L. Hu for help in collecting data
around China and L. Wei and X. Dong for collecting the area-level data. We also
thank T. Wilson, G. Clore, N. Epley, and J. Kluver for helpful feedback on
earlier versions of this work. These studies were carried out in accordance
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Fulbright Scholarship and a William Ladany Award (to T.T.). Author contributions: T.T. conceived the
project and analyzed the data. All authors contributed to designing the data
collection process and writing the paper. Competing
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Global Ready to Eat Rice Market 2018 Mars, Inc, Gu
Long Foods, Shanghai Meilin
In China, coffee shop habits show cultural
differences tied to farming
Even among
longtime city folk, legacy of rice versus wheat agriculture affects behavior
How close people sit and whether they dodge or move chairs blocking aisles reveals whether their cultural roots go back to rice farming in southern China or wheat farming in northern China, researchers report April 25 in Science Advances.
As many as 9,000 years of neighboring families working together to cultivate rice paddies in southern China has encouraged a lasting focus on others over self, even among that region’s city folk today, say psychologist Thomas Talhelm and colleagues. Social interdependence remains a cultural value of the region, the investigators note.
That dynamic plays out in coffee shops. Middle-class city dwellers in southern China who have never farmed rice often sit with others and show deference by walking around chairs blocking aisles, Talhelm’s group says. In northern cities, people more often sit alone and move offending chairs out of the way. A long history of more individualistic wheat and millet farming in the north has promoted a focus on self over others, the scientists propose.
“Different agricultural legacies have given northern and southern China distinctive cultures of social behavior, even among people who have left farming behind,” says Talhelm, of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
A lingering sense of interdependence among residents of southern Chinese cities, including Hong Kong, challenges the idea that urban expansion inevitably results in an individualistic, Westernized outlook, he adds.
The new findings make a good case that “vestiges of agricultural practices can persist for some time,” says psychologist Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who did not participate in the experiments.
Talhelm’s group previously observed similar ways in which thinking styles differ between southern and northern Chinese in lab experiments (SN: 6/14/14, p. 11).
Other factors, including outside temperatures, kind of café (a large chain versus a smaller local one), gender and age did not explain regional disparities in sitting alone, the team says.
In a second real-world experiment, members of Talhelm’s team stealthily pushed chairs together to block aisles in a total of 29 Starbucks in both regions. The team then observed 678 people navigating these “chair traps.”
People in a self-oriented culture often try to change a situation to their advantage, whereas people in an others-oriented culture typically change themselves to fit the situation, other research suggests. Consistent with that pattern, only about 6 percent of Chinese people in southern rice regions moved Starbucks chairs out of the way rather than squeezing through them, versus about 16 percent of the caffeine crowd in northern wheat regions. Chair moving reached a low of about 2 percent in the southern city of Shanghai.
A majority of people throughout China avoided moving chairs blocking their way, Talhelm acknowledges. But cultural differences in this behavior emerged in a setting where it wouldn’t be expected to show up — an international coffee chain located in large cities where few customers have any farming experience.
Further research needs to examine whether the extent of one’s commitment to, say, a self-orientation observed more frequently in China’s wheat regions, largely explains preferences for sitting alone or moving an inconvenient chair, Talhelm says.
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Shift to coarse grains from rice for healthy,
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Cereals
and Millet at a market in Nizampet, Hyderabad. Photo by
Adityamadhav83/Wikimedia Commons
Women
working hard to plant the spring harvest of rice paddy in Kancheepuram
district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by McKay Savage/Wikimedia Commons
2018 is National Year of Millets in India
Proso
millet. Photo by Srujan Punna, ICRISAT
Land use change and diets
Coarse
cereals and preparations such as sorghum salad are now considered trendy. Photo
by ICRISAT
Climate-resilient and forgotten crops
Pearl
millet is a best bet to fight climate change. A hardy warm-season cereal crop,
which grows in even during harsh climates. Indian women farmer with a bountiful
of pearl millet panicles. Photo by ICRISAT
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survey aims to quantify Hurricane Harvey's physical, mental toll
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Hurricane Harvey's environmental impact on Greater Houston was sweeping: The area’s many industrial facilities emitted millions of pounds of excess air pollution, and floodwater swamped highly contaminated Superfund sites, carried bacteria into schools, homes and businesses and left behind prolific mold.
The historic storm, which forced tens of thousands of Houstonians to flee their homes, also clearly inflicted a heavy emotional toll. But the precise impact on the population's physical and mental health so far has been largely anecdotal.
An information-gathering initiative unveiled Wednesday by Rice University, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Houston Health Department seeks to better quantify it. The Hurricane Harvey Registry will collect responses to an online survey that asks Houston-area residents about where they rode out the storm and their health condition — physical and mental — before and after.
"This will help researchers predict continuing ailments from the Harvey floods — and health problems from future storms," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a news conference Wednesday. "Pollutants released by the floods — mostly at chemical plants and other facilities outside city limits — may cause long-term health issues."
Rice University Provost Marie Lynn Miranda, the project's lead investigator, said in an interview that researchers are hearing anecdotal reports of increased respiratory problems and "the toll of stress among people who were displaced."
But, she said, "We don’t want to make decisions by anecdote — we want to do evidence-based decision-making."
Rice researchers and city officials say they will use the information to target lingering health concerns, pinpoint vulnerable communities — cross-referencing known pollution releases with reported health problems — and better prepare for the next storm.
"Without the data, we’re really not going to be as effective at mitigating health effects," said Rice professor Loren Raun, who also serves as Houston's chief environmental science officer.
Registry officials are encouraging even Houstonians whose homes didn't flood during Harvey to respond to the survey.
The National Institutes of Health, the Cullen Trust for Health Care and the Environmental Defense Fund funded the creation of the database.
It is modeled after the World Trade Center Health Registry, which sought to track the health effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, but is also “the first of its kind to collect information about environmental exposures after a major flooding event,” according to a news release.
The survey, designed to take no more than 15 minutes to complete, asks respondents for some sensitive personal information, but registry officials say that information will be stored on secure servers accessible only to researchers for Rice's Children's Environmental Health Initiative and released publicly only in aggregate form.
Respondents can also choose to skip certain questions.
Houstonians without internet access will have a hard time completing the survey — it's online only — but Environmental Defense Fund spokesman Matthew Tresaugue said the project team plans to send representatives to public events to enroll potential respondents and distribute bookmarks with bar codes and the web address to guide people to the site.
The registry will accept responses on an ongoing basis, with no cutoff date. But Tresaugue said entities involved in the registry may share general insights from the survey later this year.
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In China, coffee shop habits show cultural
differences tied to farming
Even among
longtime city folk, legacy of rice versus wheat agriculture affects behavior
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2:22PM, APRIL 25, 2018
GROWING
CULTURES China’s southern rice farmers (left) and northern wheat
farmers (right) have cultivated different cultural approaches to social
behavior over thousands of years. These approaches manifest today among
southern and northern Chinese city folk patronizing Starbucks, scientists say.
T. TALHELM (L), RICHARD AMMERMAN (R)
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Deeply ingrained
cultural differences in everyday behavior between natives of northern and
southern China bubble up while sipping coffee in Starbucks and other cafés.How close people sit and whether they dodge or move chairs blocking aisles reveals whether their cultural roots go back to rice farming in southern China or wheat farming in northern China, researchers report April 25 in Science Advances.
As many as 9,000 years of neighboring families working together to cultivate rice paddies in southern China has encouraged a lasting focus on others over self, even among that region’s city folk today, say psychologist Thomas Talhelm and colleagues. Social interdependence remains a cultural value of the region, the investigators note.
That dynamic plays out in coffee shops. Middle-class city dwellers in southern China who have never farmed rice often sit with others and show deference by walking around chairs blocking aisles, Talhelm’s group says. In northern cities, people more often sit alone and move offending chairs out of the way. A long history of more individualistic wheat and millet farming in the north has promoted a focus on self over others, the scientists propose.
“Different agricultural legacies have given northern and southern China distinctive cultures of social behavior, even among people who have left farming behind,” says Talhelm, of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
A lingering sense of interdependence among residents of southern Chinese cities, including Hong Kong, challenges the idea that urban expansion inevitably results in an individualistic, Westernized outlook, he adds.
The new findings make a good case that “vestiges of agricultural practices can persist for some time,” says psychologist Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who did not participate in the experiments.
Talhelm’s group previously observed similar ways in which thinking styles differ between southern and northern Chinese in lab experiments (SN: 6/14/14, p. 11).
TIGHT SQUEEZE Chinese Starbucks customers were more likely to
navigate through aisle-blocking chairs (demonstrated here) in southern cities,
whereas people in northern cities more often moved chairs out of the way. These
results point to farming-based cultural differences between the regions,
researchers say.
T. TALHELM
This time around, the researchers observed nearly 9,000 people in
256 Starbucks and other cafés in six Chinese cities — Beijing and Shenyang in
the north and Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hong Kong in the south.
On weekdays, about 30
to 35 percent of people in northern wheat regions sat alone, versus around
roughly 25 percent of people in southern rice regions. On weekends, percentages
of people sitting alone dipped slightly in each region.Other factors, including outside temperatures, kind of café (a large chain versus a smaller local one), gender and age did not explain regional disparities in sitting alone, the team says.
In a second real-world experiment, members of Talhelm’s team stealthily pushed chairs together to block aisles in a total of 29 Starbucks in both regions. The team then observed 678 people navigating these “chair traps.”
People in a self-oriented culture often try to change a situation to their advantage, whereas people in an others-oriented culture typically change themselves to fit the situation, other research suggests. Consistent with that pattern, only about 6 percent of Chinese people in southern rice regions moved Starbucks chairs out of the way rather than squeezing through them, versus about 16 percent of the caffeine crowd in northern wheat regions. Chair moving reached a low of about 2 percent in the southern city of Shanghai.
A majority of people throughout China avoided moving chairs blocking their way, Talhelm acknowledges. But cultural differences in this behavior emerged in a setting where it wouldn’t be expected to show up — an international coffee chain located in large cities where few customers have any farming experience.
Further research needs to examine whether the extent of one’s commitment to, say, a self-orientation observed more frequently in China’s wheat regions, largely explains preferences for sitting alone or moving an inconvenient chair, Talhelm says.
Sustainable
Concrete from Coconut, Rice or Cassava
25
April 2018
14:20
BAM scientists are investigating to what extent
vegetable substances could be used instead of chemical or mineral additives in
concrete – creating a solution that is strong and sustainable at the same time.
BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung) will
presents its solutions developed in cooperation with African colleagues at the
Hannover Messe. In fact, many ideas for basic research on sustainable concrete
come from German-African cooperations.
Concrete production requires a lot of energy and produces large
amounts of climate-damaging carbon dioxide because cement clinker must be
burned at very high temperatures and the chemical reaction is accompanied by
high carbon emissions.
Cement clinker used as a binder in concrete is an essential
component of cement. Therefore, the reduction of cement clinker is a starting
point in the search for sustainable concrete: Which organic substances could
replace clinker or use it more effectively and in such a way that important
concrete properties e.g. flow behaviour, strength or durability remain
unaffected?
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Coconut fibres, acacia juice or cassava peel
"We are experimenting with coconut fibres, acacia juice and
cassava peel, among other things, and check the resilience of organic concrete
compared to conventional mixtures," explained Dr. Wolfram Schmidt from
BAM’s Technology of Construction Materials division. Suggestions about which
vegetable substances are worth experimenting with often result from
cooperations with African colleagues. One tip that came from Nigeria is
cassava.
Cassava, also called manioc, is a staple food in the West
African country, which is the largest producer of this plant worldwide. Its
starchy tuber is edible, but the residual peel occurs in large amounts.
Concrete is a building material that is in high demand in Nigeria, and readily
available raw materials are sought for its production.
Cassava peel is a suitable raw material for concrete in two
respects: The residual starch adhering to the peel can be extracted and used as
an additive to improve processing properties of concrete so that cement can be
used more effectively.
When the peel is subsequently burned, the high reactive silica
content enables the ash to be used as a sustainable cement substitute and
improve the eco-balance compared to conventional concrete.
Thus, chemical additives and mineral cement substitutes can be
obtained simultaneously.
The use of cassava peel has yet another advantage: Combustion
energy released in ash production can be used to manufacture bricks for
example.
Learning from Africa
Though no cassava grows in Germany, the construction industry is
also looking for possible new, sustainable raw materials for concrete production
here and in other Western countries as well. "We will be able to transfer
a lot to highly technical countries from our basic research and experience
gained by working with our African partners," said Wolfram Schmidt.
Vegetable components may even replace chemical additives in high-performance
concrete in the future. Sustainable use of agricultural residues in the
construction industry would not only be a contribution to environmental
protection but also a potential additional source of income for farmers.
BAM at the Hannover Messe 2018
At the BAM stand C
51 in Hall 2 Research & Technology visitors can receive additional
information about this topic.
For more information
about what BAM is presenting at the Hannover Messe, please visit www.bam.de/hannovermesse_en
Shift to coarse grains from rice for healthy,
environment-friendly diet: Study
by Sahana Ghosh on 25 April 2018
- Eating wheat and coarse cereals (such as
millets) instead of rice, pulses instead of meat, and dark leafy
vegetables and coconut could alleviate micronutrient deficiencies cost
effectively.
- With the Green Revolution, the government
focused on high-yield varieties of wheat and rice, leading to a reduction
in the area on which (the more nutritious) coarse cereals were grown
- The Indian government is actively
promoting millets. It has declared 2018 as ‘National Year of Millets’ and
is working to bring in millets into the public distribution system (PDS).
It has also notified some of the coarse cereals as ‘nutri-cereals’.
A diet that moves away from
white, polished rice to include coarse grains and wheat could help Indians
tackle micronutrient deficiencies affordably and cut down greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions associated with agriculture by up to 25 percent, says a new study.
Researchers led by Narasimha D.
Rao, scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis examined
the National Sample Survey (2011–12) for consumption expenditure. They found
that more than two-thirds of the Indian population (around 500 million people)
are affected by deficiencies in protein, micronutrients such as iron and zinc,
and vitamin A.
Data presented in the study
shows that nearly 90 percent of the diets are iron deficient, nearly 85 percent
are Vitamin A deficient and more than 50 percent are protein-deficient.
Micronutrient deficiencies in India are more prevalent than calorie and protein
deficiencies.
In regional trends, the analysis
revealed that India’s south and east (where rice is the staple food) eat less
nutritious food than the wheat-eating north and western part of the country.
Micronutrient deficiencies are
worse in urban than in rural areas, and more so, in lower-income households.
Rural counterparts fared better due to greater diversity in their cereal
consumption.
The study determined that
“overall, eating wheat and coarse cereals instead of rice, pulses instead of
meat, and dark leafy vegetables and coconut would alleviate deficiencies cost
effectively.”
The authors recommend a
selection of wheat, maize, and millet products instead of rice; and chicken and
legumes over beef and eggs to boost protein intake.
“These diet changes would also
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly due to rice production’s high
methane emissions. We are not telling people what they should eat or should not
eat. We are highlighting the creation of incentives for them. Moderation is the
key,” Rao told Mongabay-India.
In general, most emissions-intensive foods are those that
produce methane, which are from ruminant animals (beef and lamb) and rice
production. Methane is roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas than
carbon dioxide.
Emissions from beef production in India are over a factor of
three of that in Western Europe and over double that of in the United States,
because of low feed digestibility, poorer animal husbandry and lower carcass
weights, among other factors. Arecent study had shown that Indian livestock
emitted 15.3 million tonnes of methane in 2012.
Methane emissions from rice
production in India, on the other hand, vary
widely due to different cropping patterns and flooding periods,
but on average tend to be on the lower side compared with those of other
rice-growing regions in the world.
2018 is National Year of Millets in India
The study comes at a time when
the Indian government is actively promoting millets. It has declared 2018
as ‘National Year of Millets’ and is working to
bring in millets in the targeted public distribution system (PDS). Further, the
Indian government has also notified millets as ‘nutri-cereals’ for
production, consumption and trade.
The National
Food Security Act, 2013, relies on the PDS to enable two-thirds of
India’s population to access five kg of grains at subsidised prices.
India’s millet basket includes
sorghum, finger millet, pearl millet as well as ‘minor millets’ such as little
millet, kodo millet, barnyard millet, foxtail millet and proso millet. These
grains are cultivated in resource poor agro-climatic regions such as rain-fed
and less-fertile lands, and mountainous tracts. Many of these areas also have
strong tribal population.
These areas include states of Andhra
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
“The fact that the government is
working on the inclusion of millets in the PDS validates what we are trying to
say in the study,” Rao said.
Study co-author Ruth DeFries,
professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in
New York, feels the inclusion of millets in the public distribution system
could incentivise farmers to increase production of coarse cereals and could
increase consumption by those who depend on the PDS.
DeFries believes both would be
positive steps. “Research and extension is needed to increase yields of
coarse cereals since they did not receive the same attention as rice and wheat
during the Green Revolution,” DeFries told Mongabay India.
Land use change and diets
India relies primarily on
domestic production for cereals that people consume in the country, so the link
between land use changes have a major influence on diets, said DeFries.
In the mid-1960s before the
Green Revolution, millets were cultivated in 36.90 million hectares. With the Green Revolution,
the government focused on high-yield varieties of wheat and rice, leading to a
reduction of 40 percent in the land area on which coarse cereals
were grown.
In 2016-17, the area under
millet cultivation shrank to 14.72 million hectares, according to India’s
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh.
“With decline in the consumption
of nutrient-rich coarse cereals, the availability of nutrients declined in
people’s diets. Moreover, coarse cereals are relatively drought tolerant and
can grow on poor soils,” said DeFries. Thus, coarse cereals are more nutritious
and have higher resilience to climate change.
In other policy lessons
suggested by the study, the authors highlight that food policy through the PDS
“appears to exacerbate nutrient deficiencies” in two ways: by encouraging rice
and wheat consumption over coarse cereals, and by enabling only a portion of
households’ rice and wheat consumption to be covered by the PDS.
“This gives poorer households
less flexibility to diversify their diets. Extending the reach and scope of the
PDS to increase the affordability and availability of coarse cereals and dark
green vegetables, among other foods, would be important shifts,” the study
stressed.
Rao considers diet change as a
better option than bio-fortification of rice. “Just imagine if you were to have
iron-fortified rice, you would essentially continue to increase white rice
consumption which would continue the same environmental impacts. So if you want
to address both problems together, diet is the solution,” Rao said.
One major challenge, authors
reckon, in implementing these shifts, could be getting consumers to accept a
diversified diet.
DeFries pointed out the quinoa story that shows that people can and do
change habits. And in India coarse cereals are now trendy for the urban upper
class and are good substitutes for white rice for diabetics, she said.
Climate-resilient and forgotten crops
According to plant breeding
expert S. K. Gupta, principal scientist at the International Crops
Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), who was
not associated with the study, millets have “an edge” over rice and wheat in
terms of climate resilience. The coarse cereals also have less of
cultivation-related problems when compared with rice. They only need
appropriate levels of rainfall that is well distributed over time.
“Millets have four to five times
more micronutrients than rice and wheat. They are also more drought-, salinity-
and heat-tolerant. Rice and wheat are grown in irrigated ecology whereas
millets are grown in marginal ecologies. Millets can be grown in ecologies that
have annual rainfall of 200 to 600 mm,” Gupta explained.
M. Sheikh, a scientist at the
Srinagar Regional Research Station of the National Bureau of Plant
Genetic Resources, believes that providing greater policy
attention on coarse grains can enhance crop diversity and this “increases
options for quick and agile adaptation under future uncertain conditions.”
Many of these coarse grain crops
also have reduced needs for pesticides and fertilisers and protect against soil
erosion.
“Our studies show that
cultivation of foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
and common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Jammu and Kashmir were abandoned about five to
six decades ago due to various factors including preference for high yielding
wheat varieties and untimely rains. Revival of these forgotten crops would
benefit both health and climate,” Sheikh told Mongabay India.
Citation: Rao, N. D., Min, J.,
DeFries, R., Ghosh-Jerath, S., Valin, H., & Fanzo, J. (2018). Healthy,
affordable and climate-friendly diets in India. Global Environmental
Change, 49, 154-165.
New health
survey aims to quantify Hurricane Harvey's physical, mental toll
Rice University, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Houston
Health Department announced an information-gathering initiative on Wednesday
that seeks to better understand the impact of the historic storm on
Houston-area residents, including by linking health problems to environmental
exposures.
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Hurricane Harvey's environmental impact on Greater Houston was sweeping: The area’s many industrial facilities emitted millions of pounds of excess air pollution, and floodwater swamped highly contaminated Superfund sites, carried bacteria into schools, homes and businesses and left behind prolific mold.
The historic storm, which forced tens of thousands of Houstonians to flee their homes, also clearly inflicted a heavy emotional toll. But the precise impact on the population's physical and mental health so far has been largely anecdotal.
An information-gathering initiative unveiled Wednesday by Rice University, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Houston Health Department seeks to better quantify it. The Hurricane Harvey Registry will collect responses to an online survey that asks Houston-area residents about where they rode out the storm and their health condition — physical and mental — before and after.
"This will help researchers predict continuing ailments from the Harvey floods — and health problems from future storms," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a news conference Wednesday. "Pollutants released by the floods — mostly at chemical plants and other facilities outside city limits — may cause long-term health issues."
Rice University Provost Marie Lynn Miranda, the project's lead investigator, said in an interview that researchers are hearing anecdotal reports of increased respiratory problems and "the toll of stress among people who were displaced."
But, she said, "We don’t want to make decisions by anecdote — we want to do evidence-based decision-making."
Rice researchers and city officials say they will use the information to target lingering health concerns, pinpoint vulnerable communities — cross-referencing known pollution releases with reported health problems — and better prepare for the next storm.
"Without the data, we’re really not going to be as effective at mitigating health effects," said Rice professor Loren Raun, who also serves as Houston's chief environmental science officer.
Registry officials are encouraging even Houstonians whose homes didn't flood during Harvey to respond to the survey.
The National Institutes of Health, the Cullen Trust for Health Care and the Environmental Defense Fund funded the creation of the database.
It is modeled after the World Trade Center Health Registry, which sought to track the health effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, but is also “the first of its kind to collect information about environmental exposures after a major flooding event,” according to a news release.
The survey, designed to take no more than 15 minutes to complete, asks respondents for some sensitive personal information, but registry officials say that information will be stored on secure servers accessible only to researchers for Rice's Children's Environmental Health Initiative and released publicly only in aggregate form.
Respondents can also choose to skip certain questions.
Houstonians without internet access will have a hard time completing the survey — it's online only — but Environmental Defense Fund spokesman Matthew Tresaugue said the project team plans to send representatives to public events to enroll potential respondents and distribute bookmarks with bar codes and the web address to guide people to the site.
The registry will accept responses on an ongoing basis, with no cutoff date. But Tresaugue said entities involved in the registry may share general insights from the survey later this year.
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By Ismaila Chafe
The Federal Executive Council
(FEC) on Wednesday approved N10.7billion for the establishment of new 10 rice
mills and N68.6 billion for road projects across the country.
This was disclosed by the
Ministers of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri and that of Power, Works
and Housing, Babatunde Fashola after the Council’s meeting chaired by President
Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Lokpobiri said that the Council
approved the 10 rice mills with the capacity to produce 100 tonnes per day, and
the mills would be managed by private rice millers.
“”Today the Federal Executive
Council approved the establishment of 10 very large rice mills to enhance the
milling capacity of rice value chain in the country.
“”Few years ago it was reported
that this country needs a minimum of 100 large rice mills. As of today we have
about 21 but Federal Government in its wisdom decided that today we
should approve the establishment of 10 at the total cost of N10.7billion.
“”These would be given to the
sector to manage which they will be pay back within a given timeframe as it
would be agreed between the Bank of Agriculture and the Rice Millers,’’ he
said.
According to the minister, the
mills will be located in Kebbi, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Bayelsa, Anambra, Kaduna,
Ogun, Niger and Bauchi states.
Fashola disclosed that N64.108
billion was approved for additional work on 43 kilometres part of the Section
one of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
According to him, the new
approval is to accommodate the changing factors occurring on the project and
also to modify the bitumen for the road in order to withstand the heavy
vehicles passing through the road.
“”This covers Glover leaves,
pedestrian bridges, toll plazas for that section so as to accommodate changing
nature of that road since conception.
“”So, many new structures,
religious institutions, factories, universities and increased human activities
that have come up along that road.
“”The inherited design didn’t
provide for all these at all. The second section under RCC about 80 kilometres
will come to Council to incorporate similar works including drainage works
e.t.c when we finish procurement,’’ he said.
The Minister also disclosed
that N4.57 billion was approved for Sumaila-Falala-Birnin Bako-Bauchi road,
linking Bauchi and Kano States.
The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, who also addressed the
correspondents on the outcome of the meeting, disclosed that N10 billion was
approved to fight erosion in the country.
“This is the fourth quarter
soil erosion, flood and pollution accelerated intervention projects worth about
N10 billion. These are projects that cover the length and breadth of the
country.” he said
He also disclosed that $460
million was approved to facilitate usage of new buildings located at main
airports in the country, which could not be put to use at the beginning of this
administration.
“”The previous administration
awarded contracts for the construction of new buildings in our major airports
in Lagos and Abuja and nobody can use them.
“”So, government today awarded
a new contract for variation and additional contracts for new passenger and
cargo terminals and a lot of other works to facilitate their usage including in
the case of Lagos and Abuja improvement to enable jumbo aircraft and airbus 380
to be able to land in both cities (Abuja and Lagos).
”The rail terminal will be
accessible from arrival hall in Abuja at the cost 460million dollars,’’ he
said.
The Minister of Water
Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, revealed that the council approved N93million
for erosion control in Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
He said the council also
approved N1.57 billion as payment for all the outstanding liabilities to the
contractor that executed the Azare-Jere water project which he said was a spill
off from the Gurara Dam pipeline water transfer project.
Paddy,
rice fall on arrivals
CHENNAI, APRIL 25
Heavy arrivals of paddy and rice have dampened prices across
Tamil Nadu and the major urban consumption centres including Chennai market,
say leading traders.
Tamil Nadu is a major market for produce from Odisha, West
Bengal and Gujarat apart from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. But
arrivals in recent weeks have dropped because transactions are down, say trade
sources.
Till a few weeks back, rice prices of new stocks were ruling
steady in wholesale at about ₹38 a kg. But now some of
the fine varieties are down to ₹34-35, while boiled rice
variant fetches about ₹35-36.
Bulk
buying absent
Sales are also down due to holiday season as hostels and other
institutional buyers will not be in the market, according to Amara
Visweswararao, President, Tamil Nadu Food Grain Merchants Association.
Normally, the wholesale market in Chennai which sells about 600 bags (of 25 kg
each) daily around this period sells just about 100-200 bags. Also, traders are
waiting for further drop in prices and rice millers are flush with paddy
stocks.
Price
outlook
Over the last 20 days about 3,400 tonnes of paddy has come in at
Ammoor. This is about 30 per cent more than that in 2016. At Vridhachalam,
during the peak arrival season between January and March about 25,000 bags (of
75 kg) arrived on a daily basis comparable with last year. Fine varieties
fetched up to ₹2,200 a quintal, down about Rs 300 over last year, against an
MSP of ₹1,660.
According to AC Mohan, Secretary, Federation of Tamil Nadu Rice
Millers and Paddy, Rice Dealers Association, open market sale of rice in the
State is estimated at about 91 lakh tonnes (lt) annually. Local production will
account for about 76 lt and the balance comes from other States. For now, the
trade estimates there is a 5-lt surplus in the market with the trade.
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