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NARC starts research on
developing aromatic rice
May 24, 2018 14:34 PM
LALITPUR, May 24: Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) has
started research on developing aromatic rice species after the demand
rise. The Agricultural Science Division under NARC has so far not
recommended any seed of aromatic paddy species for farmers in the hilly region.
Atit Parajuli, an agricultural scientist who works at the Rice Section under the Division, said that the demand for aromatic rice grains has grown in recent years for use in feasts on the occasion of wedding, bratabandha (the sacred thread ceremony), gatherings, meetings and get-together.
Atit Parajuli, an agricultural scientist who works at the Rice Section under the Division, said that the demand for aromatic rice grains has grown in recent years for use in feasts on the occasion of wedding, bratabandha (the sacred thread ceremony), gatherings, meetings and get-together.
"Aromatic rice has not been produced in the hilly areas so
far," he said. NARC has been till now recommending the seeds of coarse
grain and fine grain paddy.
He added that they were conducting research regarding how the
production of aromatic species of paddy would fare in the soil and climatic
condition of the hilly region.
The National Rice Research Programme at Hardinath of Janakpur
has already recommended the seeds of aromatic paddy species fit for growing in
the Tarai region.
At present aromatic rice is imported from India to meet the
market demand. RSS
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Talking rice
event May 24, 2018 16:00
By The Nation
Her Royal Highness Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Wednesday presided over the opening ceremony of ”the
5th National Rice Academic Conference 2018” at Wayupak Convention Centre.
The
conference “Thai Rice Researches Move Towards Thailand 4.0” presented the
research and innovations used in Thai rice development to improve productivity
and rice processing at all stages.
It was
organised by the Agricultural Research Development Agency in collaboration with
the Thai Rice Foundation under Royal Patronage, the National Science and
Technology Development Agency, the National Research Council of Thailand, the
Rice Department, Kasetsart University, the Thailand Research Fund, the Bank for
Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, and the Office of the Vocational
Education Commission.
Agriculture
Minister Krisada Boonraj thanked the agencies for their work in organising the
event, saying: “The aim is to present rice research and knowledge by government
and private agencies, as well as local communities from around the country,
while also help researchers network and research. The event includes many
activities including academic symposia on such topics as ‘The Future of Thai
Rice’, ‘Rice in Thailand 4.0’, ‘Direction of Thai Rice Research’ and ‘Rice
Market in the Future”, and a seminar on ‘Rice Innovation’.”
Rice
research agencies from around the Kingdom also gave presentations on five
topics: “Breeding development”, “Rice Production Technology”, “Post-harvest
Technology”, “Value-added Innovation and Processing”, and “Social Economy,
Marketing and Group Promotion, Production and Technology Transfer”.
Two
exhibitions were held in parallel with the conference to honour the Royal
Institute and commemorate His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, His
Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and HRH Princess Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn.
The
display, “Thai Rice Research Move Towards Thailand 4.0”, presented research and
innovation in growing and processing rice and showed how research outputs can
be used effectively.
Phanpimol
Chanyanuwat, director of the Agricultural Research Development Agency, said
that work was proceeding in line with the government and the Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives’ policies to improve the quality of life of Thai
rice farmers and ensure they earned a stable income. She added that the agency
was ready to work with researchers and other agencies involved in rice to
create knowledge, enhance Thai rice competitiveness through technology and
innovation, while also helping Thai farmers reduce production costs, and
produce quality crops. Thai farmers should not only be able to sell their paddy
rice or milled rice, but also process rice for other high value-added products.
Meanwhile,
it was important that farmers grow rice without destroying the environment so
that producers and consumers have high quality lives, while helping Thailand
maintain its position as the world’s major rice exporter.
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Talking rice
event May 24, 2018 16:00
By The Nation
Her Royal Highness Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Wednesday presided over the opening ceremony of ”the
5th National Rice Academic Conference 2018” at Wayupak Convention Centre.
The
conference “Thai Rice Researches Move Towards Thailand 4.0” presented the
research and innovations used in Thai rice development to improve productivity
and rice processing at all stages.
It was
organised by the Agricultural Research Development Agency in collaboration with
the Thai Rice Foundation under Royal Patronage, the National Science and
Technology Development Agency, the National Research Council of Thailand, the
Rice Department, Kasetsart University, the Thailand Research Fund, the Bank for
Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, and the Office of the Vocational
Education Commission.
Agriculture
Minister Krisada Boonraj thanked the agencies for their work in organising the
event, saying: “The aim is to present rice research and knowledge by government
and private agencies, as well as local communities from around the country,
while also help researchers network and research. The event includes many
activities including academic symposia on such topics as ‘The Future of Thai
Rice’, ‘Rice in Thailand 4.0’, ‘Direction of Thai Rice Research’ and ‘Rice
Market in the Future”, and a seminar on ‘Rice Innovation’.”
Rice
research agencies from around the Kingdom also gave presentations on five
topics: “Breeding development”, “Rice Production Technology”, “Post-harvest
Technology”, “Value-added Innovation and Processing”, and “Social Economy,
Marketing and Group Promotion, Production and Technology Transfer”.
Two
exhibitions were held in parallel with the conference to honour the Royal
Institute and commemorate His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, His
Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and HRH Princess Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn.
The
display, “Thai Rice Research Move Towards Thailand 4.0”, presented research and
innovation in growing and processing rice and showed how research outputs can
be used effectively.
Phanpimol
Chanyanuwat, director of the Agricultural Research Development Agency, said
that work was proceeding in line with the government and the Ministry of Agriculture
and Cooperatives’ policies to improve the quality of life of Thai rice farmers
and ensure they earned a stable income. She added that the agency was ready to
work with researchers and other agencies involved in rice to create knowledge,
enhance Thai rice competitiveness through technology and innovation, while also
helping Thai farmers reduce production costs, and produce quality crops. Thai
farmers should not only be able to sell their paddy rice or milled rice, but
also process rice for other high value-added products.
Meanwhile,
it was important that farmers grow rice without destroying the environment so
that producers and consumers have high quality lives, while helping Thailand
maintain its position as the world’s major rice exporter.
Labor tells
government to address unintended outcomes of CTRP
May 23, 2018
In
Photo: Workers at a construction site on Ayala Avenue, Makati City.
The country’s largest labor group
on Wednesday said the government should first address the so-called unintended
consequences of the implementation of Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP)
on inflation before pushing for its Package 2.
At a news conference, Trade Union
of Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Vice President Luis Manual Corral said
the economic managers were unprepared for the full impact of the TRAIN, which
has boosted inflation to 4.5 percent in April or higher than the 2-percent to
4-percent inflation target for 2018.
“The economic managers [of the
administration] should take a step back because we are telling them they
creating a social problem. They are adding to the economic hardship of our
people,” Corral said.
He said this could have been
prevented had authorities first implemented the so-called tarrification of
rice.
“The No. 1 increment for
inflation for families in the D and E segments of the population is rice. About
20 percent of their income goes to rice,” Corral said, citing figures from the
Philippines Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
Based on its market monitoring,
the TUCP said the different varieties of rice have already increased by 7
percent.
Under their proposed tariff
measure, importation would no longer be under a government-to-government
arrangement, but would instead be based on the initiative of the private
sector.
“Some may criticize us why we are
looking at market mechanisms. [That’s] simply because it is rational and will
bring down the cost of rice to allow the private sector to import rice,” Corral
said.
The TUCP said the decline in rice prices would “induce a
positive shock on the disposable income of the poor.”
Corral said the government could
generate P28 billion from rice tariffs.
He said the amount could be used
to establish a Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund and boost the
competitiveness of 1.3 million local farmers by providing technical support to
move to high-value crop or to provide them with mechanized implements.
“The key here is that the process
should be participatory because we believe that it is the farmer themselves who
can identify the best use of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund,” Corral
said.
To further arrest the rising
inflation, Corral said the government should reduce electricity charges and
provide subsidies to more workers affected by the CTRP.
“If they are able to address the
issues on rice and electricity in the coming weeks, they could see its impact
on the people by the next quarter,” Corral said.
Maintaining the status quo
THE TUCP made the statement amid
the ongoing deliberation in Congress for Package 2 of the CTRP, particularly on
lowering the corporate-income tax, from 30 percent to 25 percent, but removing
the various tax subsidies and incentives on selected industries.
Corral said they oppose the
measure because this might lead to a mass displacement of workers.
“We fear that radical change in
the tax regime at this time may also cause locators currently operating in
economic zones to look for better tax shelter arrangements in the Asean
[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]. If these locators move, there is this
real fear that jobs will be lost,” Corral said.
The TUCP said they expect the
removal of tax incentives would mostly affect companies in the export sector.
The National Economic Development
Authority (Neda), however, gave assurance on Tuesday the tax incentives should
lead to minimal displacement, since only 4,000 companies avail themselves of it
nationwide.
Pro-labor incentives
Instead of removing the tax
incentives, Corral said the government could recast the requirements to include
pro-labor policies like full employment and trade-union rights.
“The reality is, in these
ecozones there, is so much violation of trade-union rights. There have been so
many case of union busting, and if you are giving incentives to corporations,
they have to give full employment and trade-union rights as well,” Corral said.
He said the conditions should
include the number of their direct employees, contractual workers, presence of
a productivity-incentive scheme, or a stock-dispersal policy.
“We are pushing for labor
representation in the fiscal incentives review boards, which will be in charge
of the kind of incentives that will remain for these industries,” Corral said.
He said associating the tax incentives with labor-friendly companies is also in
compliance to conditions set in the existing free-trade agreements with
Europe and the United States.
“The continuation of our
exporting of our goods to the United States and Europe is precisely tied with
respect for these trade-union and labor rights,” Corral said.
The Neda earlier said it is
already considering such reforms under the “rationalization” of the tax
incentives
Previously
Unknown Rice Blast Resistance Isolated
By Sharon Durham
May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018
Testing for rice blast resistance in genetically engineered rice plants
is done in various countries. ARS plant pathologist Yulin Jia samples a field
in Colombia for the disease. Photo by Fernando Correa. Click the image for
more information about it.
Rice
blast, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, results in
annual yield losses large enough to have fed 60 billion people each year,
according to the team’s paper just published in the journal Nature
Communications.
In the
United States’ mid-south rice-growing region, the cost of mitigating rice blast
infection with fungicide applications can reach almost $20 per acre; plus, the
fungus may still cause significant yield loss depending on the susceptibility
of each rice variety and the degree of infection at the time of fungicide
application, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)Economic Research Service.
Amazingly, Ptr,
the disease resistance gene Jia and his team found, has a structure that has
not been seen in plants before. It has been previously deployed unknowingly in
blast-resistant rice cultivars because it has been tightly linked to another
disease resistance gene, Pi-ta, which has a genetic
structure that is well-described in scientific literature.
Ptr has
essentially been living in the shadow of Pi-ta. “Our research was able to
separate the two genes and demonstrate that Ptr is independently
responsible for its own broad-spectrum blast resistance without Pi-ta,”
says Jia. “This will provide a new strategy for developing blast-resistant rice
cultivars.” The full genomic sequence of the Ptr gene was put into GenBank
for use by public researchers worldwide.
Jia,
along with his colleagues Haijun Zhao, Melissa H. Jia and Jeremy D. Edwards, is with the ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in
Stuttgart, Arkansas. Other contributors include Xueyan Wang and Yeshi Wamishe
at the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center
(Stuttgart, Arkansas); Bastian Minkenberg, Matthew Wheatly and Yinong Yang at
the Pennsylvania State
University (University Park, Pennsylvania); Jiangbo Fan and
Guo-Liang Wang at the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio); Adam
Famoso at Louisiana
State University (Rayne, Louisiana); and Barbara Valent at Kansas
State University (Manhattan, Kansas).
The Agricultural Research
Service is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific
in-house research agency. Daily, ARS focuses on solutions to agricultural
problems affecting America. Each dollar invested in agricultural research
results in $20 of economic impact.
How More Carbon Dioxide Can Make Food Less Nutritious
Carbon
dioxide helps plants grow. But a new study shows that rice grown in higher
levels of carbon dioxide has lower amounts of several important nutrients.
By Brad Plumer
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Rice farmers in southeastern China. More than 2 billion people
worldwide rely on rice as a primary food source.CreditBryan Denton for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — When scientists want to figure out how climate
change might disrupt the world’s food supplies, they often explore how rising
temperatures could shift growing seasons or
how more frequent droughts could damage harvests.
In recent years, though, researchers have begun to realize that
the extra carbon dioxide that humanity is pumping into the atmosphere isn’t
just warming the planet, it’s also making some of our most important crops less
nutritious by changing their chemical makeup and diluting vitamins and
minerals.
Now, a new study has found that rice exposed to elevated levels
of carbon dioxide contains lower amounts of several important nutrients.
The potential health consequences
are large, given that there are already billions of people around the world who
don’t get enough protein, vitamins or other nutrients in their daily
diet.
“When we study food security, we’ve often focused on how climate
change might affect the production of crops,” said Lewis H. Ziska, a plant
physiologist at the United States Department of Agriculture and a co-author of
the new study. “But the quality of those crops and their nutritional content
can be just as important, and that hasn’t always gotten the close scrutiny it
deserves.”
In the study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, Dr. Ziska and
his colleagues exposed experimental rice fields in China and Japan to the same
elevated levels of carbon dioxide that are expected to occur worldwide later
this century as a result of fossil-fuel burning and other human activities.
Most of the 18 varieties of rice that were grown and harvested
contained significantly less protein, iron and zinc than rice that is grown
today. All of the rice varieties saw dramatic declines in vitamins B1, B2,
B5 and B9, though they contained higher levels of vitamin E.
The researchers focused on rice because more than 2 billion
people worldwide rely on it as a primary food source.
For people in wealthy countries
who enjoy a diverse, healthy diet, it may not matter much if rice becomes less
nutritious in the years ahead. “But in a country like Bangladesh, rice provides
70 percent of the calories and there aren’t a lot of other opportunities to get
those nutrients,” said Kristie L. Ebi, a professor of public health at the
University of Washington and a co-author of the study.
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This newest paper builds on a major study published in Nature in 2014, finding
that elevated levels of carbon dioxide reduced the amount of zinc and iron
found in wheat, rice, field peas and soybeans. In both studies,
researchers installed pipes that emitted
carbon dioxide onto small open-air plots — rather than simply
testing crops in enclosed greenhouses — to simulate future real-world
conditions.
The finding that extra carbon dioxide can make crops less
nutritious may sound counterintuitive. Plants, after all, rely on carbon
dioxide as an ingredient for photosynthesis, so it seems like more CO2 should
be beneficial, helping them grow. But what scientists have also found is that
the chemical composition of a plant depends on the balance of the carbon
dioxide it takes in from the air and the nutrients it absorbs from the soil.
Upset this balance, and the plant can change in unexpected ways.
In plants like rice and wheat that undergo what is known
as C3 photosynthesis,
higher levels of carbon dioxide may spur plants to produce more carbohydrates,
which dilute some of the more nutritious components. But scientists are still
trying to understand exactly why some compounds, like vitamin B, get diluted
and others don’t, or why some varieties of rice see sharper declines in vitamin
B than others.
With further research, scientists might try to breed or
genetically engineer new crop varieties that preserve much of their nutritional
value in the face of rising carbon dioxide. But this could prove challenging,
Dr. Ziska said, given that all of the tested rice lines in their study showed significant
declines in vitamin B.
“We still don’t understand why
some plant genotypes show a bigger response to higher levels of carbon
dioxide,” said Andrew Leakey, a crop biologist at the University of Illinois
who was not involved in the latest study. “And that’s important if we want to
move from understanding the problem to solving it.”
Image
A member of Andrew Leakey’s team on a test farm near Champaign,
Ill. Dr. Leaky was one of the authors of the original 2014 study in
Nature. CreditBeth Rooney for The New York Times
If crop scientists can’t solve
the problem, larger changes may be needed to blunt the negative effect on
nutrition worldwide. “The bottom line is that people will need more diverse
diets with a range of quality food sources,” Dr. Ebi said. “That’s already a
major challenge.”
Another possible solution would be to reduce the amount of
carbon dioxide that humanity emits. Currently, levels of CO2 in the
atmosphere average around 410 parts per
million, up from 350 parts per million in the 1980s, largely from
the burning of fossil fuels. In the rice study, the researchers looked at how
crops responded to levels of around 580 parts per million, which could prove tough to avoid this
century without drastic changes.
Samuel S. Myers, a research scientist at the Harvard University
Center for the Environment who worked on the 2014 Nature study, said that this
latest paper underscored the need for more research on how our changing
atmosphere will affect the wide variety of plants we rely on to feed ourselves.
There has been no work done to date, for instance, on how crops
planted in impoverished soils in Africa might respond to rising CO2 levels. And
studies to date have focused on staple crops such as wheat and rice rather than
fruits or vegetables. And, while Dr. Ziska has published a paper on
how changes in plant protein content might affect bee colonies, little is known
about how other parts of the food chain might be affected.
“The idea that food might become
less nutritious was a surprise, it’s not intuitive,” said Dr. Myers. “But I
think we should continue to expect surprises. We are completely altering the
biophysical conditions that underpin our food system, and we still have very
little understanding of how those disruptions will ripple through ecosystems
and affect human health.”
Brad Plumer is a reporter
covering climate change, energy policy and other environmental issues for The
Times's climate team. @bradplumer
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Latest research aims to strengthen Thai
reputation as world rice leader
national May 24, 2018 15:55
By The Nation
Her Royal
Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Wednesday presided over the opening
ceremony of the Fifth National Rice Academic Conference 2018 which was held in
Bangkok under the banner of “Thai Rice Research Moves Towards Thailand 4.0”.
Nine agencies involved in studying rice collaborated on the
conference themes focused on strengthening the rice sector in Thailand, by
improving productivity and processing from upstream to downstream to add value
to the nation’s foremost crop and its position as the world’s foremost rice
trader.
Presenters from government and private agencies discussed their
research and shared new knowledge, joined by specialists in local communities
throughout the Kingdom, said Agriculture Minister Krisada Boonraj.
The Agricultural Research Development Agency (ARDA) was this
year’s major conference host, and its director, Phanpimol Chanyanuwat explained
the agricultural research funding agency’s role, in cooperation with the
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives – improving the quality of life of
farmers, especially Thai rice farmers, through earning a stable income.
The agency was ready to work with research agencies, and other
agencies, to create knowledge, enhance Thai rice competitiveness through
technology and innovation, while also helping Thai farmers reduce production
cost, and ensure quality production, she added.
Thai farmers should not only be able to sell their paddy rice or
milled rice, but also process rice into other high value-added products and
create more
effective distribution channels for farmers, Phanpimol
said.
Farmers should be able to grow rice without destroying the
environment, so that producers and consumers have high quality lives, while
also helping Thailand maintain its position as the world’s major exporter of
sustainably harvested rice, she added.
The May 23-24 conference also featured two major exhibitions at a
hotel in the government complex, in Chaengwattana, Bangkok. The first
exhibition honoured the Royal Institute to commemorate the resolutions of His
Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and Her
Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
The second exhibition featured the nine allied agencies under the
major theme of presenting research and innovation on rice. It highlighted
research that was consistent with goals of national development.
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As CO2 Levels Rise, Rice Becomes Less Nutritious
New findings raise public health
concerns in poorer nations where rice is a major dietary staple
By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News on May 24, 2018
One of the world’s most important food crops may be declining in
quality due to greenhouse gas emissions.
The results of a major study, published yesterday in Science Advances, suggest that rice—a crucial
food source for billions of people—is less nutritious when grown under higher
carbon dioxide concentrations. Its stores of protein, iron, zinc and some
important B vitamins all decline.
That’s a potential concern for
public health, the authors say, particularly in poorer nations where rice makes
up a large proportion of people’s diet.
“These results indicate that the role of rising CO2 on reducing
rice quality may represent a fundamental, but underappreciated, human health
effect associated with anthropogenic climate change,” the authors, led by
Chunwu Zhu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote in the paper.
The findings challenge a common
argument floated among doubters of accepted climate science—that rising CO2
concentrations are a net positive for global vegetation, including crops.
Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who leads the House
Science, Space and Technology Committee, is one outspoken proponent of the
idea. In an essay published
last summer in The Daily Signal, he argued that more carbon dioxide will lead to increased
plant growth, spurring “a greater volume of food production and better quality
food.”
But the new research—and other
studies published before it—discredit those claims.
“We have some rice varieties that
show a stronger response to CO2 and they are able to convert more of that CO2
into seed, which can be good,” said senior study author Lewis Ziska, a
scientist with the Department of Agriculture. “On the other side of that coin
is the quality of that seed also being diminished in response to CO2.”
The new study evaluated 18 types of commonly grown rice to see
how they would respond to elevated levels of carbon dioxide. In the
experiments, the researchers increased ambient carbon dioxide levels to
concentrations between 568 and 590 parts per million. Currently, atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentrations hover around 410 ppm—but at the rate they’re
currently rising, they could reach the high levels used in the study by the end
of the century, if action isn’t taken to curb them.
Compared with current
concentrations, the rice crops’ nutrient contents all suffered under higher
carbon dioxide levels. On average, protein levels declined by about 10 percent,
iron by 8 percent and zinc by 5 percent. The researchers also found that
certain B vitamins declined significantly, some by up to 30 percent. Vitamin E
was the only nutrient found to increase under higher CO2.
The research “corroborates
previous work that we’ve done, showing that elevated CO2 alters the protein,
iron and zinc content of rice—and, in the case of our work, in other staple
food crops, as well,” said Samuel Myers, a Harvard University expert on climate
change and human health.
Myers, who was not involved in
yesterday’s research, has co-authored previous studies that came to similar
conclusions—elevated carbon dioxide concentrations cause nutrients to decline
in globally important crops, including rice, wheat, barley and soy. While his
work has mainly focused on protein, zinc and iron, the new study is among the
first of its kind to evaluate the impact of carbon dioxide on vitamins—and it
seems that for some of them, the outcomes may be similar.
Altogether, the growing body of
research on crops and carbon dioxide levels indicates the future isn’t nearly
as rosy as Smith and others might suggest. While more carbon dioxide can
increase growth and production in some plants—all other conditions held
equal—it seems that there are trade-offs after all. Bigger crops aren’t
necessarily useful to human societies if they’re less nutritious.
Additionally, some recent research suggests that the growth
spurred by higher carbon dioxide levels could plateau after a certain point,
Myers noted. And there are myriad other climate-related factors, such as rising
temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns—all spurred by greenhouse
gas emissions—that may harm agriculture, as well.
The idea that rising carbon
dioxide levels are nothing but a positive for global crops is “pure nonsense,”
Myers said.
The declines in nutrition raise
an obvious concern for public health, especially when observed in global staple
crops like rice. Scientists are still evaluating exactly how much of a problem
these nutrient declines might turn out to be.
In previous studies, Myers and his colleagues have used models
to simulate the diets of people around the world, the nutrients they receive
from those foods and the declines in nutritiousness if CO2 levels rise. Some
populations could experience nutrient deficiencies in the future, some studies
found. One high-profile 2015 study in The Lancet suggested that 140 million
more people worldwide may suffer from zinc deficiency by 2050.
The new study took a more
economic approach. Focusing on the top 10 highest rice-consuming nations in the
world, it compared rice consumption—and the nutrient losses under higher
CO2—with each country’s gross domestic product per capita. They found that
people in countries with lower GDP per capita, where rice may make up a greater
proportion of their daily diet, are likely to be hit hardest.
Still, “what the nature of that impact is in terms of
nutritional effects and health effects” remains to be seen, Ziska noted.
Myers cautioned that a more
detailed modeling study—which examines exactly how much of each nutrient a
person derives from rice, as opposed to other food sources—would be needed to
fully evaluate the public health concerns raised by the new research.
In the meantime, Ziska hopes to
investigate how crop nutrient contents may have already changed in previous
decades, in response to historical greenhouse gases emissions. He says it may
yield further insights into how crops react to future carbon emissions.
“Trying to understand those
complexities and trying to understand those interactions is one of the things
we think is very important,” he said.
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News.
E&E provides daily coverage of essential energy and environmental news
at www.eenews.net.
The carbon
dioxide we pump into the atmosphere is making our food less nutritious
A less nutritious rice. (Reuters/Kham)
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The carbon dioxide humans pump
into Earth’s atmosphere is doing more damage to the global food system than
once thought. Beyond physically changing weather conditions and the land on
which farmers grow crops, new evidence shows excess carbon dioxide is
deteriorating the nutritional quality of some food plants.
A study published this week in the journal Science
Advances specifically focuses on rice, which under higher carbon dioxide
concentrations experiences a reduction in iron, zinc, protein, and vitamins B1,
B2, B5, and B9.
There isn’t
a deep body of evidence yet on the topic of how carbon dioxide changes
nutritional profiles, even though the effects of such a phenomenon could
dramatically impact the lives of hundreds of millions—particularly those in
less developed countries that rely on grains as a major source for calories. As
part of their research, the scientists specifically focused on countries where
more than half of the average person’s calories come from rice. The rate of
impact is still unclear.
“It’s something that we need to
be aware of and it’s something that we need to evaluate,” says Lewis Ziska, a
US Department of Agriculture plant physiologist who is on the research team.
“The risk is going to be especially egregious for the poorest people in the
world.”
In wealthier societies with
access to more diverse diets, people are less likely to feel the impact as
acutely. Still, Ziska cautions that every living thing has the potential of
being affected. More research needs to take place, but Ziska wonders how the
plant-nutrition effects of rising carbon dioxide levels might impact bees, or
species that already have a limited number of food sources. Pandas, for
instance, eat only bamboo, and koala bears munch mostly on eucalyptus tree
leaves.
As part of their research, the
scientists grew 18 varieties of rice at sites in China and Japan. At each site
the
y also built a 17-meter-wide (56
feet) plastic piping system placed about 30 centimeters (1 foot) above the tops
of the plants. The pipes would release carbon dioxide into the environment,
which was measured by a network of sensors and monitors.
“This technique allows us to test
the effects of higher carbon dioxide concentrations on plants growing in the
same conditions that farmers really will grow them some decades later in this
century,” says Kazuhiko Kobayashi, a co-author of the study from the University
of Tokyo, in a press release.
The study made a point to
specifically mention the more than 600 million people living in Bangladesh,
Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Vietnam,
and Madagascar as being particularly at the greatest risk if the quality of
their primary food plummets.
Previously unknown rice blast resistance isolated
May 24, 2018 by
Sharon Durham, Agricultural Research Service
Testing for rice blast resistance in genetically
engineered rice plants is done in various countries. ARS plant pathologist
Yulin Jia samples a field in Colombia for the disease. Credit: Fernando Correa
A never-before-described gene that
gives rice resistance to a disease that has been costing about $66 billion a
year in global damage has been isolated by a team of scientists led by
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist Yulin Jia.
Rice blast, caused by
the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, results in annual yield losses large enough to
have fed 60 billion people each year, according to the team's paper just published
in the journal Nature Communications.
In the United States'
mid-south rice-growing
region, the cost of mitigating rice blast infection with fungicide applications
can reach almost $20 per acre; plus, the fungus may still cause significant
yield loss depending on the susceptibility of each rice variety and the degree
of infection at the time of fungicide application, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Economic Research Service.
Amazingly, Ptr, the disease resistance gene
Jia and his team found, has a structure that has not been seen in plants
before. It has been previously deployed unknowingly in blast-resistant rice
cultivars because it has been tightly linked to another disease resistance
gene, Pi-ta, which has a genetic structure that is well-described in scientific
literature.
Ptr has essentially been living in
the shadow of Pi-ta. "Our research was able to separate the two genes and
demonstrate that Ptr is independently responsible for its own broad-spectrum
blast resistance without Pi-ta," says Jia. "This will provide a new
strategy for developing blast-resistant rice cultivars." The full genomic
sequence of the Ptr gene was put into GenBank for use by public researchers
worldwide.
Higher CO2 levels may lead to decreased nutrients in rice
According to new research from an international team of
scientists, the increasing levels of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere may cause a decrease in the
nutritional value of rice. Published in the journal Science Advances, the study concludes that rice
contains lower levels of four essential B vitamins when grown under atmospheric
conditions similar to those expected by the end of the 21st century. This
aligns with similar studies that found that higher levels of carbon dioxide can
result in reduced amounts of protein, iron and zinc in rice.
·
The scientists conducted the
study using 18 common strains of rice grown in fields in Chinaand
Japan. For the first time, research reveals that vitamins B1, B2, B5 and B9,
all of which are important to the body’s ability to turn food into energy,
decrease in rice as carbon dioxide levels increased. “This is an
underappreciated risk of burning of fossil fuels and deforestation,” study
co-author and director of the University of Washington Center for Health and
the Global Environment Kristie Ebi said in a statement.
The adverse effects of elevated
atmospheric carbon dioxide reflect the unanticipated consequences of climate
change. “People say more CO2 is plant food, and it is. But how plants respond
to that sudden increase in food will impact human health as well, from
nutritional deficits, to ethno-pharmacology, to seasonal pollen allergies —
in ways that we don’t yet understand,” study co-author Lewis Ziska said.
The conclusion that rice will
become less nutritional as climate
change continues carries significant consequences for more
than two billion people who depend on the grain as their primary food source.
“Rice has been a dietary staple for thousands of years for many populations
in Asia and
is the fastest growing food staple in Africa,” Ebi said. “Reductions in
the nutritional quality of rice could affect maternal and child health for
millions of people.”
Images via University of Washington
School of Public Health and Depositphotos
41 Nutrient-packed Superfoods
Ranked in New Study
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by Colin Payne
Who’d have thought it? An
unassuming leafy green often used as decorative garnish might just be the
healthiest food you can eat. Researchers at William Paterson University put watercress at
the top of a list of 41 “powerhouse fruits and vegetables” that contain 17
nutrients critical for human health. The study, recently published in the CDC
journal Preventing Chronic Disease, gives
watercress a score of 100 out of 100 for nutrient contents because it contains
large amounts of fiber, potassium, protein, calcium, folate, vitamin B12,
vitamin A, vitamin d, and other important building blocks for the human body.
According to the study, watercress’ closest competitor for nutrient
content is Chinese cabbage, which got a score of 91.99 in the study; followed
by chard (89.27), beet greens (87.08), spinach (86.43), and chicory
(73.36). Leafy greens won the day, as colored fruits
and vegetables came in significantly lower on the score sheet. Red pepper
scored the highest amongst them, at 41.26; followed by pumpkin (32.23), tomato
(20.37) and lemon (18.72). And believe it or not, raspberries, cranberries and
blueberries scored so poorly they didn’t even make the list.
Lead researcher, Jennifer Di Noia
told the Washington Post that though they contain
plenty of phytochemicals that help prevent disease,
little data actually exists on the nutrient content of these berries. “(T)there
are no uniform data on food phytochemicals and . . . recommended intake amounts
for these compounds are lacking,” she explained. “So the scores are based on
nutrients only.”
Before you head out to the market
and start cramming your cart full of watercress, keep in mind that no single
food can you everything you need. Di Noia notes: “Consistent with a whole-diet approach . . . [Consumption of] all
the items should be encouraged. The rankings may help consumers make
nutrient-dense selections within the powerhouse group.”
Via Washington Post
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Pakistan, Russia keen on enhancing banking channels
Published: May 24, 2018
KARACHI: The national chambers of Pakistan and Russia
have emphasised the need to enhance banking channels between both countries to
increase existing trade volumes as well as explore untapped avenues and
potential.
Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce
and Industry (FPCCI) Senior Vice President Syed Mazhar Ali Nasir and his
counterpart Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vice President
Sergey N Katyrin recently met in Moscow to discuss bilateral trade.
“It
was also agreed in the meeting that the existing trade relations are not up to
the desired level mainly due to lack of interaction of the business communities
of both countries,” Nasir said.
Russia has a rich experience in the field of
industrial infrastructure, said the FPCCI official, adding that it can provide
its expertise to Pakistan for improvement of various sectors.
“Russia
can also supply heavy electrical equipment and assembly of sub power stations
to Pakistan,” he remarked. The official was of the view that Pakistan can meet
consumer demand by providing products like fabrics, rice, garments,
pharmaceuticals, leather and leather goods which are in high demand.
“Russia has already contributed a lot for
the establishment of Pakistan Steel Mills and can again help the country in its
revival,” he added. Nasir also stressed that frequent flights are needed to
facilitate the traders and their cargoes.
During the meeting, various issues that are
impeding bilateral trade relations of Pakistan and Russia were also discussed.
Both sides agreed to resolve customs issues to facilitate traders of both
countries. They further agreed to implement the MoU signed a few years ago and
formation of joint business council between the two counterparts. Discussions
were also held on ways to enhance cooperation in the field of information
sharing, exchange of trade delegations and visa issues.
Published in The Express
Tribune, May 24th, 2018.
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A Tennessee native, Josie is a current student at Mississippi State University (MSU) working towards a B.S. in Ag Business Policy and Law, and also serves as president of the MSU Agricultural Economics Club. While in Washington this summer, Josie is participating in the William A. Demmer Scholars Program where students have the opportunity to earn credit hours while interning, taking classes, and attending weekly Saturday field trips around the city. Through this program and her USA Rice internship, Josie hopes to learn her way around the D.C. Metro system, gain more knowledge about the ag policy sector, and hopefully see a Farm Bill get passed! |
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ARLINGTON, VA -- Josie McLaurin joined USA Rice this week as an
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Arlington office through August 10.
A Tennessee native, Josie is a current student at Mississippi State
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serves as president of the MSU Agricultural Economics Club.
While in Washington this summer, Josie is participating in the
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credit hours while interning, taking classes, and attending weekly Saturday
field trips around the city. Through
this program and her USA Rice internship, Josie hopes to learn her way around the
D.C. Metro system, gain more knowledge about the ag policy sector, and
hopefully see a Farm Bill get passed!
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ARLINGTON, VA -- Josie McLaurin joined USA Rice this
week as an intern with the Government Affairs team and will be working out of
the Arlington office through August 10.
A Tennessee native, Josie is a current student at Mississippi State University (MSU) working towards a B.S. in Ag Business Policy and Law, and also serves as president of the MSU Agricultural Economics Club. While in Washington this summer, Josie is participating in the William A. Demmer Scholars Program where students have the opportunity to earn credit hours while interning, taking classes, and attending weekly Saturday field trips around the city. Through this program and her USA Rice internship, Josie hopes to learn her way around the D.C. Metro system, gain more knowledge about the ag policy sector, and hopefully see a Farm Bill get passed! |
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Rice Welcomes Summer Intern
By Deborah Willenborg
ARLINGTON, VA -- Josie McLaurin joined USA Rice this week as an
intern with the Government Affairs team and will be working out of the
Arlington office through August 10.
A Tennessee native, Josie is a current student at Mississippi State
University (MSU) working towards a B.S. in Ag Business Policy and Law, and also
serves as president of the MSU Agricultural Economics Club.
While in Washington this summer, Josie is participating in the
William A. Demmer Scholars Program where students have the opportunity to earn
credit hours while interning, taking classes, and attending weekly Saturday
field trips around the city. Through
this program and her USA Rice internship, Josie hopes to learn her way around the
D.C. Metro system, gain more knowledge about the ag policy sector, and
hopefully see a Farm Bill get passed!
Inside the Sun Valley Rice Mill
USA Rice Farm & Mill Tour Receives Professional Accreditation
By Deborah Willenborg
ARLINGTON, VA -- This month USA Rice's Foodservice Farm & Mill
Tour program received official accreditation by the Commission on Dietetic
Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics. With this accreditation, the
annual tour is recognized as a continuing professional education program where
registered dietitians can earn up to 10 credits.
"This accreditation is a significant mark of achievement for
the Farm & Mill Tour program," said Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice manager
of domestic promotion. "The goal of
these tours has always been to educate influencers in the foodservice
marketplace about the farm to table story of U.S.-grown rice and by targeting
dietitians through their required continuing learning credits, we will gain
another champion in the kitchen to encourage operators to start innovating with
U.S grown rice."
The accreditation comes at an opportune time for USA Rice. With new menu labeling laws going into effect
this month, many national chains and contract management companies are
depending on dietitians to help them meet these regulations as well as address
the changing consumer demand for better-for-you offerings.
"Accreditation gives our already outstanding Farm & Mill
Tour a significant advantage when recruiting high profile decision-making
attendees," said USA Rice Vice President of Domestic Promotion Michael
Klein. "We will be covering food
trends and nutrition and consumer data in much greater detail now, in addition
to showing attendees how rice is grown and milled, and if the weather
cooperates, they will get to see firsthand the 2018 U.S. jasmine crop that we
believe will be a game changer for the foodservice industry."
The 2018 Foodservice Farm & Mill tour will take place in
Crowley, Louisiana during the second week of August.
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Latest research aims to strengthen Thai reputation as world rice leader
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Wednesday
presided over the opening ceremony of the Fifth National Rice Academic
Conference 2018 which was held in Bangkok under the banner of “Thai Rice
Research Moves Towards Thailand 4.0”.
Nine agencies involved in studying rice collaborated on the
conference themes focused on strengthening the rice sector in Thailand, by
improving productivity and processing from upstream to downstream to add value
to the nation’s foremost crop and its position as the world’s foremost rice
trader.Presenters from government and private agencies discussed their research
and shared new knowledge, joined by specialists in local communities throughout
the Kingdom, said Agriculture Minister Krisada Boonraj.
The Agricultural Research Development Agency (ARDA) was this
year’s major conference host, and its director, Phanpimol Chanyanuwat explained
the agricultural research funding agency’s role, in cooperation with the
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives – improving the quality of life of
farmers, especially Thai rice farmers, through earning a stable income.
The agency was ready to work with research agencies, and other
agencies, to create knowledge, enhance Thai rice competitiveness through
technology and innovation, while also helping Thai farmers reduce production
cost, and ensure quality production, she added. Thai farmers should not
only be able to sell their paddy rice or milled rice, but also process rice
into other high value-added products and create more effective distribution
channels for farmers, Phanpimol said.
Farmers should be able to grow rice without destroying the environment,
so that producers and consumers have high quality lives, while also helping
Thailand maintain its position as the world’s major exporter of sustainably
harvested rice, she added. The May 23-24 conference also featured two major
exhibitions at a hotel in the government complex, in Chaengwattana, Bangkok.
The first exhibition honoured the Royal Institute to commemorate the
resolutions of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, His Majesty King Maha
Vajiralongkorn, and Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
The second exhibition featured the nine allied agencies under
the major theme of presenting research and innovation on rice. It highlighted
research that was consistent with goals of national development.
Date: 24-May-2018
Indian rice prices ease to lowest in a year as rupee slides
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Rice prices in India fell for the third
straight week to their lowest level in a year as the rupee slipped to a
16-month low, while markets in other top exporters remained relatively muted.
Rates for India’s 5 percent broken parboiled variety dropped by
$10 to $394-$398 per tonne.
“Indian rice is very competitive compared to supplies from
Thailand and Vietnam. Export orders have improved as in dollar terms Indian
prices have been falling,” said an exporter based at Pune in the western state
of Maharashtra.
The rupee has fallen nearly 7 percent so far in 2018, increasing
exporters’ margins from overseas sales.
Meanwhile, summer rice output in neighbouring Bangladesh is
likely to hit 19.7 million tonnes, exceeding the target of 19 million tonnes,
as farmers raised acreage to cash in on higher prices, a government official
said on Thursday.
Rice prices in the country, which emerged as a major importer in
2017 after floods damaged its crops, jumped around 40 percent last year due to
depleting stocks, forcing the government to seek supplies from Asian countries
like India, Thailand and Vietnam.
Thailand’s benchmark 5 percent broken rice narrowed slightly
this week to $435-$438 per tonnes, free on board (FOB) Bangkok, as against
$435-$440 last week.
The country has sold rice to the Philippines in an international
tender this week, a Bangkok-based rice trader said.
“The market has been relatively quiet apart from the deal with
the Philippines in which we managed to sell about 200,000 tonnes of rice,” he
said.
A weaker baht has also kept prices largely unchanged from last
week, according to another Thai rice trader.
“The rice price should be slightly higher but the baht has
weakened against the dollar,” he said, adding that low prices have attracted
enquiries from some potential buyers.
“There have been some interest from markets such as Iraq and
Malaysia... But, so far there’s no fresh deal on the horizon.”
In Vietnam, prices of 5 percent broken rice were unchanged from
last week’s $460-$465 a tonne range, the strongest levels since August 2014.
The country is seeking to increase its rice shipments to new
markets, especially to countries with which it has signed free trade
agreements, such as South Korea and Australia, the General Department of
Customs said, citing the Vietnam Food Association on Thursday.
The department said prices of Vietnamese rice have risen
significantly of late, thanks to the country’s efforts to switch to higher
quality rice varieties.
In addition, Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development said this week the country has been expanding its farming area of
fragrant rice and sticky rice strains, which are of better quality and sold at
higher prices.
Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um in
Bangkok, Khanh Vu in Hanoi, Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai and Ruma Paul in Dhaka;
Editing by Elaine Hardcastle
Farmers
advised to sow certified varieties of paddy
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ISLAMABAD - Punjab agriculture department has
advised the farmers to sow certified varieties of paddy for getting maximum
yield.
The spokesman of the department Najaf Abbas
said that the certified varieties of paddy include KS-282, ARI 9, ARI 6, and
Nayyab 2013 while Basmati varieties include Super basmati, Basmati 515, Chenab
basmati, Nayyab basmati 2016 and Noor basmati. He said that hybrid varieties
include Y-26, Pride-1, Shehan Shah-2 and PHB-71, Radio Pakistan reported.
The spokesman said that unsuitable varieties
include Super fine, Kashmira, Malta and Hero. The farmers should not sow
unsuitable varieties at all because rice produced through these varieties is
not of good quality, he added.
UPDATE 1-Bangladesh says summer rice crop may hit 19.7 mln T, above
target
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* Farmers boost acreage to chase rising prices
* Bangladesh was aiming for summer crop of 19 mln T
* Crop accounts for more than half of annual output (Adds quotes,
background)
By Ruma Paul
DHAKA, May 24 (Reuters) - Bangladesh’s rice output from the summer
crop is likely to hit 19.7 million tonnes, exceeding the target of 19 million
tonnes, as farmers raised acreage to cash in on higher prices, a government
official said on Thursday.
The South Asian country emerged as a major rice importer in 2017
after floods damaged its crops, sending domestic prices to record highs.
Despite some losses due to heavy pre-monsoon rains, the summer crop
will surpass the target, based on information from the fields, Mohammad Mohsin,
director general of Department of Agriculture Extension, told Reuters.
The summer-sown crop, also known as ‘Boro’, usually contributes
more than half of Bangladesh’s typical annual rice production of around 35
million tonnes.
Rice prices in Bangladesh jumped around 40 percent last year due to
depleting inventory, forcing the government to seek supplies from Asian
countries like India, Thailand and Vietnam.
The price increase prompted farmers to expand areas under Boro to
more than 4.9 million hectares, exceeding the target of 4.7 million hectares,
Mohsin said.
“Farmers didn’t leave any land unplanted this season due to higher
prices,” he added.
Last year, the country’s Boro rice crop fell about 5 percent from a
year earlier to 18 million tonnes, the lowest in seven years.
Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh’s 160 million people and high
prices pose a problem for the government which faces a national election this
year.
In April, industry officials said Bangladesh’s rice imports could
plunge 66 percent from a year ago to 1.2 million tonnes in 2018/19 on
expectations of a bigger summer crop.
In August, the government cut an import duty on rice for the second
time in two months. The lower duty has prompted purchases by private dealers,
with most of the deals struck with neighbouring India.
Bangladesh imported a record of more than 3.7 million tonnes of
rice in the July-April period, data from the country’s food ministry showed.
(Reporting by Ruma Paul Editing by Manolo Serapio Jr.)
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Data for Govt`s Decree on Rice Import Not Accurate, says CIPS
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The government’s plan to import 500,000 tons of rice sparked debates among the public. Agriculture Ministry said the
import was not necessary considering the rice stock was at 1.2 million tons and
sufficient until Eid al-Fitr (Lebaran).
In fact, the rice price increased in the market from Rp9,450 to
Rp11,700 per kilogram. Head of Research Center of Indonesia Policy Studies
(CIPS) Hizkia Respatiadi argued the import restriction on rice is not followed
by the management of distribution chain and the synchronization of food data.
"The distribution chain greatly affects the price of medium
rice," said Hizki in a written statement on Wednesday, May 22. He
considered the long-way distribution likely boost the rice prices and
detrimental for several parties including farmers and retailers.
Hizki explained the rice must go through four to six
distribution points before reaching the distribution hand. "In every
point, the middlemen, rice millers, or wholesalers got the biggest profit
margin," he added.
Thus, CIPS considered the policy on the Highest Retail Price
(HET) is not effective as it forced the retailers reducing the selling price.
He further suggested that the food data should be collected from
one reliable source and updated regularly. Hizki asserted the food data is very
important to be used by the government in determining the policy. The food data
also aimed at measuring food productivity and identifying regions as the
commodity producers and knowing the condition of farmers.
"If the government only rely on data to issue an import
decree on rice, thus logically it has failed because the data is not
accurate," Hizki noted.
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The Philippines' state grains agency needs to import rice again
this year to continue rebuilding its depleted buffer stock, a spokesman said on
Tuesday (22/05), as it sought offers in an open tender for an additional
250,000 tons. (Reuters Photo/Janis Alano)
Manila. The Philippines' state grains agency needs to import rice
again this year to continue rebuilding its depleted buffer stock, a spokesman
said on Tuesday (22/05), as it sought offers in an open tender for an
additional 250,000 tons.
There is no final volume and
timing yet for additional rice purchases by the National Food Authority (NFA),
which need approval by its council, said the spokesman, Rex Estoperez.
"We need to import more this
year for the lean months," he told reporters, referring to the July to
September period when the domestic harvest is very low or almost none. "It
needs planning and the budget."
The NFA this month accepted supply offers from Vietnam and
Thailand for a total volume of 250,000 tons in government-to-government deals,
before Tuesday's second tender.
The Philippines, a frequent rice
buyer, may import as much as 1.4 million tons of the staple this year, among
the largest rice purchases expected, based on a projection by the United States
Department of Agriculture.
President Rodrigo Duterte wants
the NFA to build up its rice buffer stock to the equivalent of 60 days of
national consumption, or as much as 1.92 million tons, from less than 2 days of
consumption in March.
The NFA sought supply of 25
percent broken rice variety at the open tender, with 13 suppliers and traders,
mostly from Thailand and Vietnam, making valid offers, the NFA said.
Bids ranged from $461.75 to
$465.04 per ton, below the agency's budget of $498.25 per ton.
Delivery of the additional
250,000 tons should be completed before September, while shipments of the first
250,000 tons are expected to arrive from next week and should help ease upward
pressure on domestic prices, Estoperez said.
The dwindling supply of cheap NFA
rice, partly caused by delays in import approvals, spurred spikes in domestic
prices. That fed into inflation, which accelerated at its fastest pace in at
least five years in April.
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Thailand to supply
bulk of next rice imports
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Star) - May 24, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Thailand will likely supply the bulk of
the 250,000 metric tons (MT) of rice as part of the open tender importation
scheme to boost the country’s depleted buffer stock, with government saving
about P500 million in the process.
During the bidding Tuesday, state-run National Food Authority
(NFA) announced that four companies from Thailand and one from Singapore had
the lowest bids for the procurement of the 250,000 MT out of the 13 companies
that passed the eligibility to bid.
There were 21 companies that actually bought bid documents, but
only 17 submitted their offers during the bidding process while four failed due
to lack of specific documents.
The rice imports at 25 percent brokens, well-milled long grains
white rice were divided into seven lots where a bidder can bid the maximum
volume per lot.
Reference price for the importation was set at $498.25 per MT
based on the foreign exchange rate of P52.2 per dollar.
“We are satisfied because there are a lot who participated and
we had different prices. We believe that this bidding is successful,” Committee
on Government-to-Private Procurement chairperson and NFA deputy administrator
Judy Carol Dansal said.
Current global market trend showed that prices in Thailand have
decreased, while those in Vietnam are on an upward trend, which explained the
lower bid offers from Thailand.
For the first lot of 37,500 MT in La Union and Batangas ports,
Singaporean company Olam International Ltd. had the lowest offer of $463.10 per
MT for a total of $17.36 million.
Thai company Asia Golden Rice Co. Ltd. bid and had the lowest
offer for lots 2 and 3 at $461.75 per MT and $465.04 per MT, respectively.
Lot 2 is in Subic with 25,000 MT, while lot 3 is in Tabaco,
Iloilo and Bacolod for a total of 33,500 MT.
Another Thai company, Ponglarp Co. Ltd., submitted the lowest
bid for 36,000 MT lot 4 in Cebu and Tacloban at a price of $463.50 per MT.
For lots 5 and 6, Thailand-based Capital Cereals Co. Ltd.
offered the lowest price at $464.50 per MT and $463.45 per MT, respectively.
Lot 5 has a volume of 18,000 MT to be discharged in Zamboanga
City, Cagayan de Oro, and Surigao, while lot 6 is in Gen. Santos and Davao for
25,000 MT.
Thai Hua Co. Ltd., meanwhile, submitted the lowest for lot 7 in
Manila at $463.10 per MT for a total of 75,000 MT.
The total amount of all bidders reached P$115.85 million or
P6.04 billion, saving the government around P500 million.
The NFA has allotted a total of P6.5 billion for the
procurement.
“The savings will go back to the funds of the NFA to be used for
our local palay procurement,” Dansal said.
With regards to the failed bidding of Meskay & Femtee
Trading Co. Ltd., Orion Pinkl Pte. Ltd. and ADM Asia Pacific Trading Pte. Ltd.,
Dansal said the companies would be given three days to submit their
justification but it would not affect the calendar of activities.
NFA said winning bidders shall still be subjected to
post-qualification evaluation in the next few days, while of notice of award
and notice to proceed shall be issued until next week.
The imported volume is expected to arrive not later than July 31
for the first 200,000 MT and not later than Aug. 31 for the remaining 50,000
MT.
The 250,000 MT can cover seven days of buffer stock.
NFA said the rice must be shipped in break bulk where packing
shall be in 50 kilograms net each in woven polypropylene bags suitable for rice
export with NFA markings, designs, and specifications.
Winning bidders shall deliver the goods free of obligations and
expenses of NFA up to NFA’s designated warehouses, which are within the
30-kilometer radius from the intended port of discharge.
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NFA says rice
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PRICES of commercial rice may eventually drop once the
government-procured imported rice will arrive next month, an official of the
National Food Authority (NFA)-Northern Mindanao said Thursday, May 24.
NFA-Northern Mindanao assistant regional chief Gil Tabor said they will then resume supplying government-subsidized rice once the 250,000 metric tons of imported rice will arrive in the second week of June.
The NFA rice reserve was depleted and the supply to its retailers ran out for the last two months.
Only government agencies like the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and some local government units were able to receive the supply as part of the NFA's mandate.
"Naa nay moabot karong mga 2nd week sa June nga 250,000 metric tons gikan sa (250,000 metric tons of rice will arrive in the second week of June from) Vietnam and Thailand. Ang Cagayan de Oro is one of the load port," Tabor said.
He said the allocation for Northern Mindanao is about 300,000 bags including the allocation for the war-stricken Marawi City.
The allocation will be divided among the five provinces in the region. Cagayan de Oro will receive a share of some 100,000 bags which will also be distributed to their accredited retailers especially in remote communities.
Tabor said once the new NFA rice stocks arrive, prices of commercial rice will eventually go down.
This after the NFA-Northern Mindanao confirms that traders imposed an increase of about P3 to P4 in commercial rice.
"For the last 2 months nga nag-declare ang NFA nga depleted na gyud didto nagsugod og taas. Ang increase is naa sa P2 to P3 the most is P4 depende sa variety (since NFA declared the depletion of NFA rice, that’s when the price increase started. It increased for about P2 to P3, the most is P4, it depends on the variety)," Tabor said.
Tabor said while the incoming NFA rice reserves are sufficient to serve the public, he also assured that they are of the best quality.
The NFA-Northern Mindanao official reiterated that only government-subsidized rice had gotten scarce but the rice supply as a whole remains stable.
"There was no rice crisis, the only crisis and problem was the price not the supply. Kay kung walay NFA rice merkado motaas ang presyo sa commercial rice (If there are no NFA rice in the market, the price of the commercial rice will increase)," Tabor said.
NFA-Northern Mindanao assistant regional chief Gil Tabor said they will then resume supplying government-subsidized rice once the 250,000 metric tons of imported rice will arrive in the second week of June.
The NFA rice reserve was depleted and the supply to its retailers ran out for the last two months.
Only government agencies like the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and some local government units were able to receive the supply as part of the NFA's mandate.
"Naa nay moabot karong mga 2nd week sa June nga 250,000 metric tons gikan sa (250,000 metric tons of rice will arrive in the second week of June from) Vietnam and Thailand. Ang Cagayan de Oro is one of the load port," Tabor said.
He said the allocation for Northern Mindanao is about 300,000 bags including the allocation for the war-stricken Marawi City.
The allocation will be divided among the five provinces in the region. Cagayan de Oro will receive a share of some 100,000 bags which will also be distributed to their accredited retailers especially in remote communities.
Tabor said once the new NFA rice stocks arrive, prices of commercial rice will eventually go down.
This after the NFA-Northern Mindanao confirms that traders imposed an increase of about P3 to P4 in commercial rice.
"For the last 2 months nga nag-declare ang NFA nga depleted na gyud didto nagsugod og taas. Ang increase is naa sa P2 to P3 the most is P4 depende sa variety (since NFA declared the depletion of NFA rice, that’s when the price increase started. It increased for about P2 to P3, the most is P4, it depends on the variety)," Tabor said.
Tabor said while the incoming NFA rice reserves are sufficient to serve the public, he also assured that they are of the best quality.
The NFA-Northern Mindanao official reiterated that only government-subsidized rice had gotten scarce but the rice supply as a whole remains stable.
"There was no rice crisis, the only crisis and problem was the price not the supply. Kay kung walay NFA rice merkado motaas ang presyo sa commercial rice (If there are no NFA rice in the market, the price of the commercial rice will increase)," Tabor said.
Bangladesh’s summer rice output may hit 19.7mt
| Update: 12:29,
May 25, 2018
Imports stand
at $43bn
Ariful Islam
The country’s imports stood at $42.91 billion in first ten
months of 2017-18 fiscal.
The amount is more than 16 percent higher over the same period of the previous fiscal year.
This is because of higher imports of accessories for readymade garments and petroleum products.
According to Bangladesh Bank latest data, the figure was $36.97 billion in first ten months in fiscal year 2016-2017.
On the other hand, the overall imports went up by 42.35 percent to $5.05 billion in April in current year from $3.55 billion in the same period of the previous year.
The actual import was $4.19 billion in March, $4.02 in February and $4.0 billion in January 2018.
A central bank senior official said spending on imports has also sharply risen in recent months because of payment related to ongoing development work.
On the other hand, higher import of accessories for readymade garments ahead of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr pushed the import payment up, he added.
He hopes the higher trend of import to come down after Eid al-Fitr.
However, the rice imports fell by almost 15.51 percent in April 2018 over the previous month.
The figures were $120.61 million in April and 136.12 million in March 2018.
However, import of ready-made garment (RMG) accessories went up to $639.16 million in April 2018, a 5.07 percent higher over $608.29 million in the previous month.
Meanwhile, wheat import declined by 5.70 percent to $96.07 in April 2018 from $101.88 million in March 2018.
Besides, import of capital machinery decreased by 12.41 percent to $310.30 million in April, 2018 as against $354.25 million in March 2018.
On the other hand, the spending on import of petroleum products went up by almost $68.63 million in April 2018 over that in the previous months.
The figures were $317.12 million in April 2018 and $248.49 million in March 2018.
Md. Adel Haque, former joint director of central bank, told Bangladesh Post, “The overall import payment increased in recent months due mainly to higher import of RMG accessories side by side higher import of Petroleum products.
He said the imports usually rise ahead of Ramadan and Eid festival to meet higher customers demand, especially for readymade garments.
The amount is more than 16 percent higher over the same period of the previous fiscal year.
This is because of higher imports of accessories for readymade garments and petroleum products.
According to Bangladesh Bank latest data, the figure was $36.97 billion in first ten months in fiscal year 2016-2017.
On the other hand, the overall imports went up by 42.35 percent to $5.05 billion in April in current year from $3.55 billion in the same period of the previous year.
The actual import was $4.19 billion in March, $4.02 in February and $4.0 billion in January 2018.
A central bank senior official said spending on imports has also sharply risen in recent months because of payment related to ongoing development work.
On the other hand, higher import of accessories for readymade garments ahead of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr pushed the import payment up, he added.
He hopes the higher trend of import to come down after Eid al-Fitr.
However, the rice imports fell by almost 15.51 percent in April 2018 over the previous month.
The figures were $120.61 million in April and 136.12 million in March 2018.
However, import of ready-made garment (RMG) accessories went up to $639.16 million in April 2018, a 5.07 percent higher over $608.29 million in the previous month.
Meanwhile, wheat import declined by 5.70 percent to $96.07 in April 2018 from $101.88 million in March 2018.
Besides, import of capital machinery decreased by 12.41 percent to $310.30 million in April, 2018 as against $354.25 million in March 2018.
On the other hand, the spending on import of petroleum products went up by almost $68.63 million in April 2018 over that in the previous months.
The figures were $317.12 million in April 2018 and $248.49 million in March 2018.
Md. Adel Haque, former joint director of central bank, told Bangladesh Post, “The overall import payment increased in recent months due mainly to higher import of RMG accessories side by side higher import of Petroleum products.
He said the imports usually rise ahead of Ramadan and Eid festival to meet higher customers demand, especially for readymade garments.
The weird power of rising carbon
dioxide to make rice less nutritious
Higher levels
of CO2 are lowering amounts of protein, iron, zinc, and B vitamins in rice.
By
The carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere at a
rate of 2.4 million pounds per
second is sapping the nutrients in a major food source for
2 billion people, a big study published Wednesday found. It’s the latest sign
that we’re not just changing the climate by
burning fossil fuels; we’re also changing the food we eat.
Essential nutrients found in rice, including protein, iron,
zinc,
and B vitamins, are all
poised to drop, according to the study in Science Advances. And that could be
dangerous for people who count on the grain as their main source of
nourishment.
Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere keep climbing — the monthly
average for global CO2 concentration topped
410 parts per million in April, a new record high. And scientists are finding
that while CO2, a greenhouse gas, helps plants grow, it can also radically
alter the nutrient content in food crops.
Earlier studies have found that staples like barley and potatoes
have seen their carbohydrate levels go up and protein content go down as CO2
levels have ticked upward. And experiments show that as CO2 emissions continue
to rise, critical nutrients will
decline further, even as we harvest more beans, grains, and
seeds.
In the new study, researchers showed how rising CO2 levels would
impact nutrition in the 10 countries that eat the most rice as a proportion of
their daily diets, suggesting that a dire future may be in store. Let’s walk
through the details.
Rice is
delicious but becoming less nutritious
From the stubby round grains of Japonica to the long fluffy
grains of Indica, rice is the culinary bedrock for much of the world, providing
25 percent of the total calories consumed globally. But it’s especially
critical in developing countries like Myanmar, Madagascar, and Cambodia, where
more than 600 million people rely on rice for more than half of their daily
energy and protein.
“It is the primary food available for the poorest people in the
world, particularly for those in Asia,” said Lewis Ziska,
a research plant physiologist at the US Department of Agriculture and a
co-author of the new study.
Consequently, the people who eat the most rice stand to suffer
the worst health problems as the crop becomes less nutritious.
Ziska and his colleagues studied 18 rice strains grown around
the world using a technique called free-air CO2 enrichment at sites in Japan
and China. This involved building an octagon of tubing around a section of a
rice paddy and injecting CO2 while still using the standard commercial
applications of fertilizer and pesticides to simulate real-world growth.
After harvesting the rice, researchers found an average of 10.3
percent reduction in protein across all the tested varieties, with one tested
cultivar showing a 20 percent drop in protein. Iron content fell by an average
of 8 percent and dropped by as much as 20 percent, while the average decline in
zinc was 5.1 percent, though some strains experienced an almost 15 percent
fall.
B vitamin concentrations also fell as CO2 levels rose. B5 levels
dipped by 12.7 percent on average while B9 plummeted 30 percent on average.
This is a worrying development because rice is going to remain a
staple crop for the foreseeable future, and countries like Guinea and Senegal
are becoming increasingly reliant on it. Declining nutrition from rice is
likely to increase the burden of disease, hitting the poorest the hardest.
Scientists
don’t know why CO2 reduces plant nutrients, but they have some theories
Despite the scale of the threat, it’s been hard for scientists
to figure out exactly why CO2 hurts crop nutrients.
“We have a firm possibility of a definite maybe of several
things,” Ziska said. “It’s not a one-size-fits-all explanation.”
It could be that if plants can draw on more carbon dioxide, they
need less of other nutrients. It could also be that as crops produce more
grains, the nutrients are diluted. Carbon dioxide also causes stomates,
pores in plant leaves, to close. This in turn changes the flow of water through
the plant, which may affect how water-soluble nutrients accumulate.
Though the mechanism remains a mystery, there are some potential
solutions, ranging from varying diets to engineering crops to soil enrichment.
But picking a different dinner staple won’t be easy for the
world’s poorest; countries that have shifted away from rice, like Japan, did so
because they became wealthier. In 1959, Japan received 62 percent of its
calories from rice. It fell to 40 percent in 1976, and now rice provides less
than 20 percent of calories to Japan.
“As you increase your overall GDP, you also tend to increase
your diversity of diet, and that in turn is going to affect whether you’re
impacted by these changes in rice,” Ziska said.
Countries may also have to breed or genetically engineer
varieties of rice that remain nutritious at higher carbon dioxide levels. The
most famous example is golden rice,
which was genetically modified to produce more vitamin A. This a tremendously
time-consuming and expensive option, and right now we don’t have a rice cultivar
that compensates for all the nutrients lost due to increasing CO2.
Another approach may be to fortify soils with the requisite
nutrients, but that also adds to costs and demands energy, forcing farmers over
time to invest more to get the same or less from their food.
And more CO2 may not always benefit crops. For plants cultivated
in poor soils or in water-stressed regions, extra CO2 won’t do much to help
them grow.
All the while, the other major consequence of rising carbon
dioxide levels — climate change — remains a threat to crops. Increased global
temperatures could cut rice yields by 20 to 40 percent by 2100, and higher
temperatures alone can reduce protein content in crops. That’s before factoring
in crop failures from more severe storms and droughts.
The global population is still growing too, so more people are
going to have fewer crops to eat, and the food itself will provide less
nourishment. So while some climate change skeptics argue CO2 is plant food and
that more of it means a greener earth, the science points to a scenario where
food insecurity and malnutrition increase in the coming decades even as crop
yields go up, and the world’s poorest will once again face the harshest
repercussions.
Sukushima Radioactive Particle Release Was Significant Says New
Research
Thu, 05/24/2018 - 2:28pm1 Comment
by University of Manchester
This is research
student Mr. Ryohei Ikehara conducting environmental monitoring in the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear exclusion zone
Scientists say there was a significant release of radioactive
particles during the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident.
The researchers identified the contamination using a new method
and say if the particles are inhaled they could pose long-term health risks to
humans.
The new method allows scientists to quickly count the number of
caesium-rich micro-particles in Fukushima soils and quantify the amount of
radioactivity associated with these particles.
The research, which was carried out by scientists from Kyushu
University, Japan, and The University of Manchester, UK, was published in Environmental
Science and Technology.
In the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
accident, it was thought that only volatile, gaseous radionuclides, such as
caesium and iodine, were released from the damaged reactors. However, in recent
years it has become apparent that small radioactive particles, termed
caesium-rich micro-particles, were also released.
Scientists have shown that these particl
es are mainly made of glass, and
that they contain significant amounts of radioactive caesium, as well as
smaller amounts of other radioisotopes, such as uranium and technetium.
The abundance of these micro-particles in Japanese soils and
sediments, and their environmental impact is poorly understood. But the
particles are very small and do not dissolve easily, meaning they could pose
long-term health risks to humans if inhaled.
Therefore, scientists need to understand how many of the
micro-particles are present in Fukushima soils and how much of the soil
radioactivity can be attributed to the particles. Until recently, these
measurements have proven challenging.
The new method makes use of a technique that is readily
available in most Radiochemistry Laboratories called Autoradiography. In the
method, an imaging plate is placed over contaminated soil samples covered with
a plastic wrap, and the radioactive decay from the soil is recorded as an image
on the plate. The image from plate is then read onto a computer.
The scientists say radioactive decay from the caesium-rich micro
particles can be differentiated from other forms of caesium contamination in
the soil.
The scientists tested the new method on rice paddy soil samples
retrieved from different locations within the Fukushima prefecture. The samples
were taken close to (4 km) and far away (40 km) from the damaged nuclear
reactors. The new method found caesium-rich micro-particles in all of the
samples and showed that the amount of caesium associated with the
micro-particles in the soil was much larger than expected.
Dr Satoshi Utsunomiya, Associate Professor at Kyushu University,
Japan, and the lead author of the study says "when we first started to
find caesium-rich micro-particles in Fukushima soil samples, we thought they
would turn out to be relatively rare. Now, using this method, we find there are
lots of caesium-rich microparticles in exclusion zone soils and also in the
soils collected from outside of the exclusion zone".
Dr Gareth Law, Senior Lecturer in Analytical Radiochemistry at
the University of Manchester and an author on the paper, adds: "Our
research indicates that significant amounts of caesium were released from the
Fukushima Daiichi reactors in particle form.
"This particle form of caesium behaves differently to the
other, more soluble forms of caesium in the environment. We now need to push
forward and better understand if caesium micro-particles are abundant
throughout not only the exclusion zone, but also elsewhere in the Fukushima
prefecture; then we can start to gauge their impact".
The new method can be easily used by other research teams
investigating the environmental impact of the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
Dr Utsunomiya adds: "we hope that our method will allow
scientists to quickly measure the abundance of caesium-rich micro-particles at
other locations and estimate the amount of caesium radioactivity associated
with the particles. This information can then inform cost effective, safe
management and clean-up of soils contaminated by the nuclear accident".
Researchers Find the Solution to Fighting Pre-harvest Sprouting
in Rice
A new partnership between the International Financial
Corporation, London-based Mars Food and local company Battambang Rice
Investment Co., Ltd, seeks to boost sustainable farming practices in the
Kingdom.
Under the agreement, Battambang Rice Investment will supply
milled rice to Mars Food, while the three entities will work together to aid
farmers in the adoption of sustainable agricultural standards and practices, as
well as advanced agricultural technology.
The project further seeks to improve farmers’ adoption of
climate smart agriculture including planting seeds, technologies, and services.
It will build a sustainable rice supply chain, adopt better pesticide and
fertilizer practices, and employ better post-harvest methods.
According to the official press release, the project is expected
to result in a 20 percent increase in yield and a 25 percent increase in income
by 2025. Over the next three years, about 9,000 smallholder farmers will
benefit from exposure to sustainable farming practices, climate smart
agriculture technologies and financial literacy training disseminated by the
project.
Luc Beerens, global sustainable sourcing director at Mars Food,
said initiatives like this that seek to advance sustainability in Cambodia’s
rice sector, particularly among smallholder farmers, will help make the
country’s rice more attractive to international rice buyers like his company.
“This partnership with IFC, and Mars’ commitment to sustainable
sourcing, is a key part of Mars’ ‘Sustainable in a Generation Plan.’ We strive
for all of our high-quality rice to be sourced from farmers working toward the
Sustainable Rice Platform standard. IFC’s global supply chain expertise make
them a natural partner for us,” said Mr Beerens.
Kyle Kelhofer, IFC’s country manager for Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos, said the aim of the agreement is to integrate small farmers and SMEs into
a more effective rice value chain by providing them with better access to improved
inputs, technology, knowledge and markets, better firm linkages and training.
“Building on our earlier support to Cambodia’s rice sector, this
project will further help the industry achieve its full potential by boosting
its export of traceable, sustainable, and high-quality rice products,” said Mr
Kelhofer.
Battambang Rice Investment is one of the biggest rice millers in
the country, while Mars Food owns one of the world’s largest rice brands, Uncle
Ben’s.
AMRU RICE: BE
SUSTAINABLE & RESPONSIBLE AND LEAD THE CHANGE
Khmer
Times Share:
AMRU Rice Co., Ltd. continues to grow continuously and
exponentially. The company doubles the amount of organic rice it produces
yearly and sustained until 2020. AMRU remains Cambodia’s top rice exporter and
maintained #2 of accumulated export volume of 232,244 metric tons milled rice
from 2013 to 2017 which is equivalent to 9.3% of total accumulated- export
figure. For the first 4 months of 2018, AMRU has exported more than 14,000
metric tons and still sitting on the top spot; and we are expecting to export
at least 65,000 metric tons for 2018. More importantly, AMRU is the largest
organic and SRP rice producer, millers and exporter and continue to strengthen
our position by working with farmers, agricultural cooperative, NGOs,
development partners, relevant government authorities and ministries as well as
importer, buyer and end consumer.
AMRU’s partnership for certified organic rice works with 27
agricultural cooperatives in Preah Vihear to benefit 5,000 farmers through
assisted quality production up to EcoCert organic standards through farming
contracts that assure them of sure market and a premium price 30 percent or
more higher than prevalent commercial paddy prices.
AMRU partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
in the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) that promotes sustainable, traceable and
climate-smart food production. This innovative practice helps increase farmers’
incomes, reduce harmful environmental impacts from through less chemical
fertilizers and pesticides reduce seed and water needs and reducing greenhouse
gas emissions. Four Agricultural Cooperatives with 2,500 of farmers are engaged
to produce around 30,000 tons of rice that are compliant to SRP rice standards.
For traceability of products across the value chain, from producer
to end-market, AmruRice is currently partnering to the BlocRice project along
with SanoRice and Oxfam-Cambodia to move organic food and agriculture to the
forefront of transparency and integrity. It has also engaged farmers who were
beneficiaries of the Social Land Concession as suppliers of organic products,
in partnership with GIZ (Germany).
To ramp up efficiency of its processes and to meet consumer
demand, AmruRice is investing $8 million until 2019 to improve mass storage for
agricultural products as well as drying, milling and processing facilities near
the farms funded by Rural Development Bank and responsAbility. In partnering
with SNV, AmruRice won the Initiative Against Poverty (IAP) to set up the first
community drying and warehousing system under framework of the Public Private
Producers Partnership invested around USD 600,000 by AmruRice and 27
Agriculture Cooperatives. The company is also entering in the baby-food
products market in Europe, USA, and the Asia, besides its current certification
for BCSI, ISO22000:2005, GMP/HACCP, and ESR/IMO, issued by Intertek, SGS, TUV,
and Fair Trade and its organic rice certification by EcoCert SA, France. The
company is working tirelessly toward higher food safety certification such as
BRC, FSSC 22,000 and others.
AMRU’s chief executive, Song Saran, says “I am really proud of
how we put small farmers and our consumers at the center of everything we do.
Our ambitious strategy is focused on driving transparency, efficient management
and innovation across every product we sell. Our farmer suppliers and consumer
trust us to help them discover better food choices for them and their
families”.
Boro rice
procurement continues in Rangpur
Rangpur Correspondent
The Boro rice procurement has begun in Rangpur with a fixed
target of purchasing 18,912 tonnes of boiled rice and 53 tonnes of ‘Atap’ rice
from 874 millers during the current season. The procurement drive would
continue till August 31 in the district as elsewhere in the country. Deputy
Commissioner of Rangpur Enamul Habib formally inaugurated the procurement drive
at a function on Wednesday. Department of Food organized the function on Sadar
Upazila Food Godown premises in the city.
District Food Controller Md Shajahan Bhuiyan chaired the function, president of city Awami League Shafiar Rahman Shafi, Sadar Upazila Controller of Food Roich Uddin and officer-in-charge of Local Supply Depot Abdullah Arefin attended it, among others.
DC Enamul Habib in his speech called upon the officials and authorities concerned to maintain a complete transparency in the Boro rice procurement process.
In his welcome speech, Shajahan Bhuiyan said that the government is purchasing boiled Boro rice at Tk 38 per kg and ‘Atap’ rice at Tk 37 per kg. The government has fixed a target of procuring 18,912 tonnes of Boro rice and 53 tonnes of ‘Atap’ rice from all eight upazilas in the district this season, he added.
Of them, 4,350 tonnes of boiled Boro rice and five tonnes of ‘Atap’ rice will be procured from Rangpur Sadar upazila, while 1,649 tonnes of boiled Boro rice and 8.5 tonnes of 'Atap' rice from Badarganj upazila, 2,451 tonnes of boiled Boro rice from Mithapukur upazila and 4,369 tonnes of boiled Boro rice and 39.50 tonnes of 'Atap' rice from Pirganj upazila.
Besides, 2,496 tonnes of boiled rice will be procured from Taraganj upazila, 525 tones of boiled Boro rice from Gangachara upazila, 1,346 tonnes of boiled Boro rice from Kawnia upazila and 1,726 tonnes of boiled Boro rice from Pirgachha upazila.
District Food Controller Md Shajahan Bhuiyan chaired the function, president of city Awami League Shafiar Rahman Shafi, Sadar Upazila Controller of Food Roich Uddin and officer-in-charge of Local Supply Depot Abdullah Arefin attended it, among others.
DC Enamul Habib in his speech called upon the officials and authorities concerned to maintain a complete transparency in the Boro rice procurement process.
In his welcome speech, Shajahan Bhuiyan said that the government is purchasing boiled Boro rice at Tk 38 per kg and ‘Atap’ rice at Tk 37 per kg. The government has fixed a target of procuring 18,912 tonnes of Boro rice and 53 tonnes of ‘Atap’ rice from all eight upazilas in the district this season, he added.
Of them, 4,350 tonnes of boiled Boro rice and five tonnes of ‘Atap’ rice will be procured from Rangpur Sadar upazila, while 1,649 tonnes of boiled Boro rice and 8.5 tonnes of 'Atap' rice from Badarganj upazila, 2,451 tonnes of boiled Boro rice from Mithapukur upazila and 4,369 tonnes of boiled Boro rice and 39.50 tonnes of 'Atap' rice from Pirganj upazila.
Besides, 2,496 tonnes of boiled rice will be procured from Taraganj upazila, 525 tones of boiled Boro rice from Gangachara upazila, 1,346 tonnes of boiled Boro rice from Kawnia upazila and 1,726 tonnes of boiled Boro rice from Pirgachha upazila.
Bangladesh says summer rice crop
may hit 19.7 million tonnes, above target
2018-05-24 21:58:56.0 BdST Updated: 2018-05-24 21:58:56.0 BdST
Bangladesh’s
rice output from the summer crop is likely to hit 19.7 million tonnes,
exceeding the target of 19 million tonnes, as farmers raised acreage to cash in
on higher prices, a government official said on Thursday.
The South Asian country emerged as a major rice importer in 2017
after floods damaged its crops, sending domestic prices to record highs.
Despite some losses due to heavy pre-monsoon rains, the summer
crop will surpass the target, based on information from the fields, Mohammad
Mohsin, director general of Department of Agriculture Extension, told Reuters.
The summer-sown crop, also known as ‘Boro’, usually contributes
more than half of Bangladesh’s typical annual rice production of around 35
million tonnes.
Rice prices in Bangladesh jumped around 40 percent last year due
to depleting inventory, forcing the government to seek supplies from Asian
countries like India, Thailand and Vietnam.
The price increase prompted farmers to expand areas under Boro
to more than 4.9 million hectares, exceeding the target of 4.7 million
hectares, Mohsin said.
“Farmers didn’t leave any land unplanted this season due to
higher prices,” he added.
Last year, the country’s Boro rice crop fell about 5 percent
from a year earlier to 18 million tonnes, the lowest in seven years.
Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh’s 160 million people and
high prices pose a problem for the government which faces a national election
this year.
In April, industry officials said Bangladesh’s rice imports
could plunge 66 percent from a year ago to 1.2 million tonnes in 2018/19 on
expectations of a bigger summer crop.
In August, the government cut an import duty on rice for the
second time in two months. The lower duty has prompted purchases by private
dealers, with most of the deals struck with neighbouring India.
Bangladesh imported a record of more than 3.7 million tonnes of
rice in the July-April period, data from the country’s food ministry showed.
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