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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUN 20, 2018

Reuters Staff

6 MIN READ

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-June 20, 2018

Nagpur, June 20 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices firmed up in Nagpur Agriculture Produce

Marketing Committee (APMC) on increased demand from local millers amid weak supply from

producing regions. Reports about delay in monsoon, fresh rise in Madhya Pradesh pulses and

reported demand from South-based millers also jacked up prices.

About 1,600 bags of gram and 700 bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to

sources.

    FOODGRAINS & PULSES

    GRAM

    * Gram varieties reported higher in open market here on renewed seasonal demand from

      local traders.

    TUAR

    * Tuar varieties recovered strongly in open market on increased seasonal demand from

      local traders amid thin supply from producing regions.

    * Udid varieties firmed up in open market on good buying support from local traders.

   * In Akola, Tuar New – 4,000-4,050, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,000-6,300, Udid Mogar (clean)

    – 6,900-7,900, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,200-7,900, Gram – 3,300-3,400, Gram Super best

    – 4,600-4,800

   * Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in

     scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity.

 Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg

     FOODGRAINS                 Available prices     Previous close

     Gram Auction                  3,000-3,470         3,000-3,400

     Gram Pink Auction            n.a.           2,100-2,600

     Tuar Auction                3,100-3,800         3,000-3,800

     Moong Auction                n.a.                3,900-4,200

     Udid Auction                n.a.           4,300-4,500

     Masoor Auction                n.a.              2,600-2,800

     Wheat Mill quality Auction        1,700-1,780         1,700-1,790

     Gram Super Best Bold            5,500-6,000        5,200-5,700

     Gram Super Best            n.a.            n.a.

     Gram Medium Best            4,800-5,100        4,400-4,600

     Gram Dal Medium            n.a.            n.a

     Gram Mill Quality            3,650-3,700        3,425-3,475

     Desi gram Raw                3,550-3,650         3,450-3,550

     Gram Kabuli                8,000-10,000        8,000-10,000

     Tuar Fataka Best-New             6,200-6,400        5,800-6,000

     Tuar Fataka Medium-New        5,800-6,000        5,500-5,700

     Tuar Dal Best Phod-New        5,500-5,700        5,400-5,500

     Tuar Dal Medium phod-New        5,200-5,400        5,000-5,300

     Tuar Gavarani New             3,900-4,100        3,750-3,950

     Tuar Karnataka             4,300-4,500        4,200-4,400

     Masoor dal best            4,800-5,000        4,800-5,000

     Masoor dal medium            4,500-4,700        4,500-4,700

     Masoor                    n.a.            n.a.

     Moong Mogar bold (New)        7,500-8,000         7,500-8,000

     Moong Mogar Medium            6,500-7,200        6,500-7,200

     Moong dal Chilka New            6,100-7,000        6,100-7,000

     Moong Mill quality            n.a.            n.a.

     Moong Chamki best            7,500-8,500        7,500-8,500

     Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 7,300-8,300       7,000-8,000

     Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)    5,300-6,300        5,000-6,000

     Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)        5,500-5,900        5,200-5,600

     Batri dal (100 INR/KG)        5,250-5,550        5,250-5,550

     Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)          2,650-2,750         2,650-2,750

     Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)            3,850-4,000        3,800-4,000

     Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)    5,300-5,600        5,300-5,600

     Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)        2,000-2,100        2,000-2,100

     Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG)    2,000-2,075        2,000-2,075

     Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)         2,250-2,400           2,250-2,400

     Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG)    2,300-2,450        2,300-2,450

     Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG)   2,100-2,200        2,100-2,250

     Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG)    n.a.            n.a.

     MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG)    3,200-4,000        3,200-4,000

     MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)    2,400-2,800        2,400-2,800

     Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG)        2,100-2,200        2,100-2,200

     Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG)        3,200-3,800        3,200-3,800

     Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG)        2,700-2,900        2,700-2,900

     Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG)         2,800-3,000        2,800-3,000

     Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG)      2,700-2,800        2,700-2,800

     Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG)      2,500-2,600        2,500-2,600

     Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG)        4,000-4,500        4,000-4,500

     Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG)        3,600-4,000        3,600-4,000

     Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG)      5,200-5,600        5,200-5,600

     Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG)    4,500-4,900        4,500-4,900

     Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG)    9,500-14,000        9,500-14,000

     Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG)    5,000-7,500        5,000-7,500

     Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG)    6,500-6,900        6,500-6,900

     Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG)    6,000-6,200        6,000-6,200

     Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)        2,000-2,200        2,000-2,100

     Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)         1,800-2,000        1,700-2,000

WEATHER (NAGPUR)

Maximum temp. 37.0 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 26.2 degree Celsius

Rainfall : Nil

FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky with possibility of moderate rains or thunderstorm. Maximum and

minimum temperature would be around and 37 and 26 degree Celsius respectively.

Note: n.a.--not available

(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but

included in market prices).

http://www.abnewswire.com/pressreleases/gcc-basmati-rice-market-to-cross-us-5-billion-by-2023_230786.html

NFA Davao to receive 300,000 bags of rice

JENNIE P. ARADO

5 days ago

THE National Food Authority (NFA) Davao is expecting 300,000 bags of NFA rice from Vietnam and Thailand in the coming days.

NFA manager Leonila Selpa said there had been 250,000 metric tons (MT) of imported NFA rice expected to arrive in the country. Out of this number, 300,000 bags are allotted for Davao Region which will be distributed to the NFA warehouses in Mati City, Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte, Tagum, Digos City, and General Santos City.

The first 200,000 bags, which are from Vietnam, are expected to arrive on Saturday, June 23, while the remaining 100,000 bags are still being loaded awaiting documents to be finalized from Thailand. There is no final schedule yet for the arrival of the 100,000 NFA bags but Selpa assured it will follow shortly after the bags from Vietnam have arrived.

While these 300,000 bags are on their way, Selpa said around 100,000 bags of NFA rice from Vietnam also arrived in NFA General Santos City. She said NFA Davao City had been authorized to have 8,000 bags share out of this. The first truck containing 500 bags had already arrived in NFA Davao City last Monday, June 18, and the rest of the truckloads have continued to arrive. Since Monday, there had been six truckloads that have delivered NFA rice from General Santos City.

“As of now, we have not served yet the ones that came from Gensan because it just arrived but as soon as everything is issued, we will try our very best to serve the public immediately,” she said.

Selpa had earlier clarified that there is no rice shortage in Davao City as Davao Region itself is abundant of commercial rice although these are currently priced high.

Aside from their priority buffer stock in warehouses, NFA has also a priority mandate of providing the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the local government units, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, and the other government agencies with NFA rice supplies depending on their requirement.

In case of any emergency incident that may need NFA rice supply, Selpa assured that their buffer stock will be adequate.

“We have buffer stock here in our warehouse. And we are thankful for that. Even before distribution to our priority government agencies and even before providing NFA rice to the market, we really make sure we have buffer stock for emergency cases,” said Selpa.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1748808/Davao/Business/NFA-Davao-to-receive-300000-bags-of-rice

PHILIPPINES TO IMPORT RICE THROUGH 2020 DESPITE RISING OUTPUT - MINISTER

6/19/2018

MANILA, June 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines' paddy rice
output is expected to rise to meet 95-96 percent of the
country's annual requirement by 2020, from 93 percent last year,
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said on Tuesday.

The latest forecast misses Piñol's own target for the
Philippines to be self-suffient in rice production by 2020, but
is in line with comments last week by President Rodrigo Duterte.

Piñol said this year's paddy rice harvest is likely to
exceed the 2017 record-high level of 19.3 million tonnes, taking
into account the 4.6 percent improvement in first-quarter output
from a year ago.

The Southeast Asian nation is a frequent buyer of rice,
mainly from Vietnam and Thailand, usually importing more than a
million tonnes of the staple grain each year to meet domestic
demand and maintain stockpiles.

The region's second most heavily populated nation after
Indonesia with about 105 million people, the Philippines
consumes roughly 11.7 million tonnes of rice every year.

The country limits private rice imports to protect its
farmers, buying up to 805,200 tonnes of rice with a 35 percent
import tariff, under an annual quota scheme covered by a World
Trade Organisation deal.

The state grains stockpiling agency, the National Food
Authority, also buys rice free of tariffs.

Recent rice shortages have pushed up domestic prices and put
pressure on inflation.

Duterte's economic team has suggested restrictions on the
volume of imports should be scrapped in favour of a scheme where
all imports are subject to the tariff, which could push up
private imports during poor harvests.

(Reporting by Enrico dela Cruz; editing by Richard Pullin)

https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/philippines-to-import-rice-through-2020-despite-rising-output-minister Duterte: ‘I don’t believe we can be rice self-sufficient’

Panay News

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte said the country may not achieve its rice self-sufficiency target before his term ends in 2020.

“I do not believe that we can be rice [self-]sufficient,” Duterte said in a speech in Malacañang during the signing of the deal for the implementation of the free college tuition law.

Earlier Agriculture secretary Manny Piñol projected that the Philippines will achieve rice self-sufficiency in 2020.

“That was only a story,” Duterte said in jest. “If you’d ask me, in the next how many years, we will just have to import rice.”

Mindanao used to be the country’s “breadbasket” but the advent of cash crop reduced farmlands and affected food crop production, he said. “In Mindanao, the choice lands there were eaten up by the cash crop guys.”

Moreover the decades-long conflict in Mindanao has been affecting food production, said the President.

“Mindanao could really (be) properly cultivated” without war, he claimed. “Mindanao could supply the food that we are going to eat. If we cannot solve the problem in time, we will have [a] problem.”

Duterte hopes Congress approves the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law to “open the door for lasting peace” in Mindanao.

“I hope the BBL, however fractured it may be to others, will see the light of day,” he said, adding that the contending provisions may be reserved for discussion during the constitutional convention.” (PNA)

https://www.panaynews.net/du30-i-dont-believe-we-can-be-rice-self-sufficient/

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THAI GOVT, PRIVATE SECTOR TO BUY MORE RICE FROM FARMERS

PUBLISHED ON TUE, JUN 19, 2018 6:50 AM

Govt, private sector to buy more rice from farmers

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BANGKOK, 19th June 2018 (NNT) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Tesco Lotus have continued their cooperation in buying 9,000 tons of rice from agricultural cooperatives in four northeastern provinces. The rice deal is expected to boost incomes for more than 140,000 farmers.

The minister on Monday presided over the opening ceremony of a project to directly buy fragrant jasmine rice from agricultural cooperatives in Ubon Ratchathani, Surin, Roi Et and Si Sa Ket. The rice will be packaged and sold under the Tesco Lotus brand.

More than 5,700 tons of fragrant jasmine rice were previously bought by the ministry.

The ministry plans to form 6,000 groups of large agricultural land plots this year to reduce the costs of production. Produce from them will be sold to the business sector directly.

More than 1,600 companies are expected to participate in the project this year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and the Ministry of Commerce will work together to form committees responsible for each type of agricultural product to learn about the real needs of farmers and plan production based on the market.

-- nnt 2018-06-19

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https://news.thaivisa.com/article/22074/thai-govt-private-sector-to-buy-more-rice-from-farmers Myanmar exports over one million ton of rice from Yangon ports

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Asia World port terminal (Photo-Kyi Naing)

Myanmar exported more than one million ton of rice from Yangon ports between 2014-15 FY and 2017-18 FY, according to Myanma Port Authority (MPA).

“Myanmar exported one million ton of rice from Yangon ports within four fiscal years and most of them are exported from Sule port terminal,” said Managing Director Ni Aung from the MPA.

It exported over 160,000 tons of rice in 2014-15 FY, about 41,000 tons of rice in 2015-16 FY, over 195,000 tons of rice in 2016-17 FY and over 630,000 tons of rice in 2017-18 FY respectively.

There are seven jetties in Sule port terminal and four of them are handled between the MPA and a joint venture company. The rest are operated by the MPA alone. The MPA is upgrading the terminal to dock bulk carriers of 300,000 tons deadweight.

Myanmar exported about 1.7 million tons of rice in last fiscal year and about 700,000 of them are sent through Sule terminal.

Myanmar is expecting to export over four million tons of rice from Yangon ports and the MPA is carrying out dredging work to facilitate transportation of cargoes and installed nautical devices in the ports.

Bulk carriers of 300,000 tons deadweight can dock at Yangon port currently.

The Asia World port terminal, Myanma Industrial Port, Ahlone International port terminal, Bo Aung Kyaw wharf and Myanmar International Thilawa Terminal are handling cargo ships docked in Yangon harbour area.

http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/local/14164

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Gov’t not responsible for farmers being owed by millers for rice shipped to Panama

Jun 18, 2018 Government, Ministry of Agriculture, News, Press Releases

· “Millers should not use farmers as a bank”, Holder

In light of recent reports circulating in the media as it relates to some millers being owed for rice supplied to Panama, Guyana Rice Development Board’s (GRDB) General Manager, Nizam Hassan has indicated that the Board is not in possession of the funds and is currently working with officials in Panama to ensure that the outstanding balance will be made available for payment at the earliest possible time.

The GM further stated that millers are aware that when they supply the Panamanian market, they will receive payments from GRDB when same is received from Panama.

“The Panamanian market is a government market that pays a higher price than other markets. However, payments are sometimes delayed due to government processes. Millers are owed for the two contracted supply – the last contract for 2017 and the first contract for 2018 and not for contracts for any previous years.” Hassan said.

Many small millers, who supplied rice under the past two contracts, were recently paid by the rice board to the tune of US$1,270,901 from its own resources. Additionally, GRDB recently received US$550,000 from Panama, which is currently being paid to millers.

Agriculture Minister Noel Holder indicated that the rice industry is doing well but said that the millers should desist from using the farmers as a bank.

Generally, transactions are done through an established letter of credit. The Panamanian market offers a 30% increase in price for rice but given the existing arrangement and the fact that it is not an irrevocable letter of the credit agreement, the millers evidently want to enjoy both sides of the coin.

They want both the increased prices as well as the terms outlined in the line of credit agreement.

Millers have the option of paying farmers from funds they have or arrange payments through established banking agreements and are urged to do so since the law stipulates that farmers are to be paid two weeks after paddy is supplied to the millers.

The General Manager further pointed out that reports of millers securing private deals through the Mexican market has nothing to do with the Board.

“Shipments to the Mexican market are done in a private capacity, henceforth, the Board is not handling any monies for rice supplied to that market.” Hassan said.

Guyana exported some 540,000 tonnes of rice for 2017, which saw its highest numbers since 2015 when a total of 535,000 tonnes were recorded.

http://dpi.gov.gy/govt-not-responsible-for-farmers-being-owed-by-millers-for-rice-shipped-to-panama/

Diseases, insects, weeds are concerns as Louisiana rice season progresses

Weed control in rice should remain a priority for growers and rice diseases ramp up in this year's crop.

Bruce Schultz 1 | Jun 18, 2018

As the 2018 rice crop progresses into the heading stage, farmers should be looking out for diseases and insects, but weed control should also remain a concern, LSU AgCenter scientists advised at the Acadia rice field day June 12.

AgCenter plant pathologist Don Groth has received a few reports of blast and sheath blight, although the diseases are usually more prevalent earlier in the growing season. “With moisture from rainfall, sheath blight will move very quickly once the rice gets into the reproductive stage,” said Groth. “The new Provisia variety is more susceptible to blast.” A new fungicide, Amistar Top, has activity against blast as well as sheath blight, and is labeled for second-crop applications.

AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson warns growers that rice will be more susceptible to stink bugs in the first two weeks of heading. Pyrethroids are still effective against stink bugs in Louisiana, but farmers in Texas have reported reduced control, probably because the insecticide also is widely used on grain sorghum there . “A new product, Tenchu, has good stink bug control,” says Wilson.

AgCenter rice Extension specialist Dustin Harrell advises farmers growing a second crop should consider tank mixing the plant hormone gibberellic acid with a stink bug insecticide to boost the second-crop yield. “Nighttime temperatures will be critical in the next few weeks,” adds Harrell. “Higher-than-usual night temperatures will interfere with flowering and pollination, but the long-range forecast does not project above-average night temperatures.”

Loyant

Sam Rustom, a weed science graduate student, says the rice herbicide, Loyant, is providing good results on cattails and other aquatic weeds. “Flooding rice on time is essential for good weed control. The longer you wait to establish the flood, the more you’re going to lose with grass and sedge control,” says Rustom.

AgCenter weed scientist Eric Webster is testing Loyant to see what varieties show injury from the herbicide. Early testing appears to show that hybrids are affected more than conventional varieties.

Ben McKnight, a post-doctoral weed scientist says benzobicyclon is proving to be a good aquatic weed herbicide, and it should be considered by rice farmers who also produce crawfish on fields that are flooded for most of the year. “The herbicide is good on pickerelweed and burrhead,” says McKnight. “It’s probably one of the best materials on duck salad I’ve ever seen.”

Matt Osterholt, a graduate student in weed science is testing RiceOne herbicide, and graduate student Conner Webster is testing different crop oils to evaluate antagonism of the Provisia herbicide when mixed with other herbicides.

AgCenter rice breeder Adam Famoso urged farmers to be patient with Provisia as the new variety will be followed with superior versions that have higher yield potential and better disease resistance. “The gene for Cercospora resistance has been identified, and that will help in the development of all rice varieties,” says Famoso.

AgCenter soybean specialist Todd Spivey says cold weather appears to have suppressed red-banded stink bugs. “Intensive scouting for diseases should be started for late-planted soybeans,” adds Spivey.

Louisiana Master Farmer Program representative Ron Levy, reports that Phase 1 training will be held at the LSU AgCenter’s H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station on June 26. Attendance at the Rice Research Station field event the following day will satisfy the Phase 2 requirement.

Two Other Rice Field Days

On July 16, the St. Landry Parish rice field day will be held at the Charlie Fontenot Farm near Palmetto, and the northeast Louisiana rice field day will be held at the Colvin Farm near Rayville on July 18.

http://www.deltafarmpress.com/rice/diseases-insects-weeds-are-concerns-louisiana-rice-season-progresses

JUNE 18, 2018 / 2:20 PM / 7 DAYS AGO

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUN 18, 2018

Reuters Staff

6 MIN READ

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-June 18, 2018

Nagpur, June 18 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices firmed up again in Nagpur Agriculture Produce

Marketing Committee (APMC) on increased buying support from local millers amid weak supply from

producing regions. Reports about delay in monsoon arrival in all over the State, fresh rise in

gram on NCDEX, good recovery in Madhya Pradesh pulses and reported demand from South-based

millers also boosted prices.

About 1,800 bags of gram and 700 bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to

sources.

    FOODGRAINS & PULSES

    GRAM

    * Desi gram raw reported higher in open market on renewed demand from local traders.

    TUAR

    * Tuar tuar Karnataka reported strong here on renewed demand from local traders amid

      tight supply from producing regions.

    * Batri dal recovered in open market on increased demand from local traders amid weak

      supply from producing belts.

   * In Akola, Tuar New – 4,000-4,050, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,000-6,300, Udid Mogar (clean)

    – 6,800-7,800, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,200-7,900, Gram – 3,300-3,400, Gram Super best

    – 4,600-4,800

   * Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in

     scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity.

 Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg

     FOODGRAINS                 Available prices     Previous close

     Gram Auction                  3,000-3,400         2,900-3,250

     Gram Pink Auction            n.a.           2,100-2,600

     Tuar Auction                3,300-3,900         3,300-3,750

     Moong Auction                n.a.                3,900-4,200

     Udid Auction                n.a.           4,300-4,500

     Masoor Auction                n.a.              2,600-2,800

     Wheat Mill quality Auction        1,700-1,790         1,600-1,780

     Gram Super Best Bold            4,800-5,000        4,800-5,000

     Gram Super Best            n.a.            n.a.

     Gram Medium Best            4,400-4,600        4,400-4,600

     Gram Dal Medium            n.a.            n.a

     Gram Mill Quality            3,425-3,475        3,425-3,475

     Desi gram Raw                3,400-3,500         3,350-3,450

     Gram Kabuli                8,000-10,000        8,000-10,000

     Tuar Fataka Best-New             5,800-6,000        5,800-6,000

     Tuar Fataka Medium-New        5,500-5,700        5,500-5,700

     Tuar Dal Best Phod-New        5,400-5,500        5,400-5,500

     Tuar Dal Medium phod-New        5,000-5,300        5,000-5,300

     Tuar Gavarani New             3,750-3,900        3,750-3,900

     Tuar Karnataka             4,200-4,400        4,100-4,300

     Masoor dal best            4,800-5,000        4,800-5,000

     Masoor dal medium            4,500-4,700        4,500-4,700

     Masoor                    n.a.            n.a.

     Moong Mogar bold (New)        7,500-8,000         7,500-8,000

     Moong Mogar Medium            6,500-7,200        6,500-7,200

     Moong dal Chilka New            6,100-7,000        6,100-7,000

     Moong Mill quality            n.a.            n.a.

     Moong Chamki best            7,500-8,500        7,500-8,500

     Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 7,000-8,000       7,000-8,000

     Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)    5,000-6,000        5,000-6,000

     Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)        5,200-5,600        5,200-5,600

     Batri dal (100 INR/KG)        5,250-5,550        5,200-5,500

     Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)          2,650-2,750         2,650-2,750

     Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)            3,800-4,000        3,800-4,000

     Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)    5,300-5,600        5,300-5,600

     Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)        2,000-2,100        2,000-2,100

     Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG)    2,000-2,075        2,000-2,075

     Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)         2,250-2,400           2,250-2,400

     Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG)    2,300-2,450        2,300-2,450

     Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG)   2,100-2,200        2,100-2,250

     Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG)    n.a.            n.a.

     MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG)    3,200-4,000        3,200-4,000

     MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)    2,400-2,800        2,400-2,800

     Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG)        2,100-2,200        2,100-2,200

     Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG)        3,200-3,800        3,200-3,800

     Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG)        2,700-2,900        2,700-2,900

     Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG)         2,800-3,000        2,800-3,000

     Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG)      2,700-2,800        2,700-2,800

     Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG)      2,500-2,600        2,500-2,600

     Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG)        4,000-4,500        4,000-4,500

     Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG)        3,600-4,000        3,600-4,000

     Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG)      5,200-5,600        5,200-5,600

     Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG)    4,500-4,900        4,500-4,900

     Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG)    9,500-14,000        9,500-14,000

     Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG)    5,000-7,500        5,000-7,500

     Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG)    6,500-6,900        6,500-6,900

     Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG)    6,000-6,200        6,000-6,200

     Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)        2,000-2,200        2,000-2,100

     Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)         1,800-2,000        1,700-2,000

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Rice prices go up after govt hikes import duty

Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:05, Jun 19,2018 | Updated: 23:40, Jun 18,2018

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A file photo shows a man carrying a sack of rice at a wholesale market in Dhaka. The prices of rice went up in the city’s wholesale markets following the announcement of budget for the financial year of 2018-19 as the government reinstated 28 per cent import duty on the staple in the budget. — New Age photo

The prices of rice went up in the city’s wholesale markets following the announcement of budget for the financial year of 2018-19 as the government reinstated 28 per cent import duty on the staple in the budget.
Following the announcement of the budget on June 7, importers and millers increased the wholesale prices of rice by Tk 1-2 a kilogram and the wholesale price increase started affecting the retail markets in the city, traders said.
‘Rice importers and mill owners have already raised the wholesale prices of all varieties of rice by Tk 1-2 a kg and they also squeezed the supply of the staple as the government imposed import duty on the item,’ Syed Monirul Islam, proprietor of Barishal Rice Agency at Mohammadpur Krishi Bazar, told New Age on Monday.
He said the importers increased the prices of rice, which were imported under duty facility before the announcement of the budget, in the name of import duty re-imposition.
Monirul said that the wholesale prices of rice increased before Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, which was celebrated in the country on Saturday, and the price hike started affecting the retail markets in the city.
Last year, the government reduced the import duty on rice to 2 per cent from 28 per cent to meet the shortfall of the crops as flash floods damaged production of boro rice in the haor areas.
Considering the bumper rice production this year, finance minister AMA Muhith on June 7 reimposed 25 per cent customs duty and 3 per cent regulatory duty on rice import to protect the interest of the local farmers.
Following the re-imposition of duty, the prices of both the imported and locally produced rice went up in the wholesale market and in some cases retail prices also increased.
‘The government has imposed import duty aiming to increase the prices of rice and the decision has already started increasing the prices of all varieties of rice in the market,’ KM Layek Ali, general secretary of the Bangladesh Auto Major and Husking Mill Owners Association, said.
He said that following the imposition of duty on rice import, the prices of paddy started increasing in the market.
It is obvious that the prices of rice would increase as the prices of paddy increased by Tk 70 a mound (40 kg) in last one week, Layek Ali said.
According to Layek Ali, the wholesale prices of coarse, medium and fine varieties of rice increased by Tk 50-125 a bag (50 kg) in last one week.
A kilogram of coarse variety of rice was selling at Tk 42-45 a kg on Monday. The fine variety of Najirshail rice was retailing at Tk 65-70 a kg and its standard variety at Tk 60-64 a kg in the city markets.
BR-28 rice was retailing at Tk 50-52 a kg, while Miniket rice was selling at Tk 62-68 a kg. The coarse variety of Miniket rice was retailing at Tk 56-60 a kg.

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Vietnam Rice Exports Growing in 2018

Description: http://www.plenglish.com/images/2018/junio/18/arroz-vietnam.jpg Hanoi, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam aims to strengthen as the world''s third largest rice exporter thanks to its growing production, greater global demand, behavior of its traditional markets and auspicious international prices.

Sources from the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development stated today that the Philippines and African countries are encouraging buying and selling operations, with consequent opportunities for local distributors.

On the other hand,it is considered that China, the largest Vietnamese rice market, will maintain its demand.

Vietnam exported about 452,000 tons of rice in May, increasing 2,660,000 tons the annual average, while the income for that concept in the month amounted to $347 million USD to total $1.4 billion USD until then.

During the first five months of 2018, rice sales abroad grew 25.7 percent in quantity and 42.6 percent in value, compared to the same period of 2017.

According to the referred ministry, importers prioritize the purchase of high quality rice such as the Japonica variety, of which this nation is an important producer.

The ministry also predicted that international prices will continue high in the immediate future.

Vietnamese rice reached $460 per ton in the global market in mid-May, the highest level in the last four years, a rise attributed to the large volumes of high quality rice.

According to estimates, Vietnam expects to sell around 6,500,000 tons of rice this year.

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Rains delay release of rice imported from Vietnam, Thailand

By Azer Parrocha June 18, 2018, 5:07 pm

MANILA -- Malacañang on Monday said that cheaper imported rice distributed by the National Food Authority (NFA) has arrived at the Subic Port but has yet to be released due to the incessant rains brought about by typhoon “Domeng” last week.

In a Palace briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the Department of Agriculture (DA) has confirmed that 250,000 metric tons of rice from Vietnam and Thailand has arrived and will soon be available for purchase in the market.

The new rice stocks aimed to boost the NFA's depleted rice stocks were imported through the government to government (G2G) mode, which the agency deems faster than the government to private (G2P) mode.

Roque said that the imported staple will be priced at PHP36 to PHP38.

“Commercial rice is now at PHP36 to PHP38 as a result of the arrival of the 250,000 metric tons of NFA rice from Subic,” Roque said in a statement.

Roque clarified that the imported rice has yet to be unloaded and delivered but once it does, it will be priced even lower.

“However, the rice in Subic has yet to be unloaded because of last week's incessant rains. Once unloaded, it will be sold at NFA price of PHP 27 to PHP 32,” he added.

Roque, meanwhile, expressed optimism that the prices of rice will soon drop since the imported rice can now be used to boost the NFA’s nearly depleted stock.

He echoed the remark of Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Benjamin Diokno, who earlier said that the higher prices of rice are due to the NFA’s “incompetence” in declaring a rice shortage.

“Secretary Diokno has been firm that it was gross incompetence for NFA not to have purchased rice during harvest time to ensure na meron silang (that they have) stock,” Roque said in a Palace briefing.

Diokno earlier said that the NFA did not heed the advice of economic managers to let private companies import rice, which would have cut down prices.

Roque clarified that he was not “justifying” the policy of importing rice but noted that the NFA should have purchased enough rice for its stockpile.

He said that the government’s overall strategy to push for rice tariffication to solve the country’s rice problems by removing unnecessary government intervention in the rice market.

“Ang overall strategy ng gobyero is to resort to tariffication. Hayaan nang pumasok yang mga bigas na ‘yan, i-subject na lang to tariff para makita natin ang law of supply and demand pagdating sa determinasyon ng presyo(The overall strategy of the government is to resort to tariffication. Allow rice to enter the country and subject them to tariff so we can see the law of supply and demand in terms of determining the prices of rice),” Roque said. (PNA)

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DA changes tune on rice self-sufficiency; goal is competitiveness

June 18, 2018 | 10:25 pm

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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said its goal is to improve the competitiveness of rice farmers and now views self-sufficiency as impossible because the government counts any imports, no matter how large, against the 100% goal.

Director for field operations Christopher V. Morales told reporters on Monday that President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s statement that the Philippines cannot achieve rice self-sufficiency in a speech last week was due to the outdated methods of computing for self-sufficiency.

“Whenever there’s an importation, no matter how many kilos that is, we will never reach 100% because there are imports in the computation,” he said.

“Definitely, we’ll never reach 100%. But if you ask us, the DA and the program, if we are targeting rice self-sufficiency, we’re not [focusing] on that. We’re more focused on the competitiveness of the farmers in terms of yield and cost.”

In a meeting last week, private sector group SRI Pilipinas told the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that it should also consider other factors such as seed types and related technology in its reports to aid the DA in applying the appropriate interventions.

The DA, for its part, also said that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) should be omitted from the computation as OFWs are not part of the population consuming rice domestically.

Last week, Mr. Duterte said that the country cannot achieve rice self-sufficiency because farmers are planting cash crops and farmland is shrinking. This is in conflict with Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol’s earlier statements claiming that the Philippines can reach 100% self-sufficiency as early as 2019.

The goal suggests output of 21.67 million metric tons (MT) of palay, or unmilled rice, to entirely meet domestic demand. At present, the Philippines is at around 95.01% rice self-sufficiency, PSA reported.

Mr. Morales said that the DA through its rice road map has set a target national yield of six metric tons per hectare by 2022.

“The main target of the DA is to improve productivity because if you improve productivity and you lower the costs, definitely you can increase the income of the farmers,” he added.

In the meantime, Mr. Morales said that importation remains unavoidable. A rice tariffication law is expected to be passed this year.

The law seeks to end the National Food Authority’s monopoly on rice importation by allowing private traders into the trade. It will also remove prescribed volumes for imported rice. Duties imposed on imported rice will help finance a proposed Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund.

Philippine Institute for Development Studies senior research fellow Roehlano M. Briones in a meeting on National Rice Security on Monday said that based on study, a maximum of 4 million MT of imported rice will enter the Philippines if “simulated under [a] completely free trade” scenario.

“All these procedures [for importation]… will take time,” he added.

“Let’s just see if domestic production will be enough to supply the domestic demand. If not, then there’s a need to import,” he added. — Anna Gabriela A. Mogato

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25,000 metric tons of rice from Vietnam arrives in Subic

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By Jonas Reyes

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – The National Food Authority (NFA) has unloaded 25,000 metric tons of imported rice Wednesday at the Naval Supply Depot (NSD), 13 days after its arrival.

The imported rice shipment from Vietnam arrived on June 2, the same time another shipment arrived in Surigao, but the shipment in Subic had to wait for thirteen days due to inclement weather.

Description: Around 25,000MT of imported rice from Vietnam are being unloaded to trucks at the Naval Supply Depot (NSD) in Subic Bay Freeport Zone Wednesday. (Jonas Reyes / MANILA BULLETIN)

Around 25,000MT of imported rice from Vietnam are being unloaded to trucks at the Naval Supply Depot (NSD) in Subic Bay Freeport Zone Wednesday.
(Jonas Reyes / MANILA BULLETIN)

The shipment of imported rice is part of the NFA’s thrust to provide affordable rice to Filipino consumers.

The ports of Surigao and Subic are two of the 14 designated discharge ports for the rice importation across the country as consumers from the Caraga region in Mindanao have benefited from these imported rice since it was made available on June 8.

In Agusan Del Norte, the agency has already distributed 655 bags to accredited retailers in the area.

The agency has already set up a mobile store in Alegria, Surigao Del Norte that sells rice at P27 per kilo.

Currently, a total of 107,600MT of imported rice from Thailand and Vietnam have already arrived in various ports all over the country.

97,040MT of rice are still in the ports waiting to be unloaded.

According to NFA officials, these shipments are still waiting for proper documentation to be unloaded while the 10,560MT were already delivered in their designated warehouses.
Four vessels are in transit carrying 33,100MT while 60,700MT are still being loaded in Vietnam and Thailand.

Both Vietnam and Thailand were awarded the contract to supply 250,000MT of rice to the NFA.

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15 June 2018

· A tribute to our founder, Dr. John Evans

A tribute to our founder, Dr. John Evans

John Evans was one of the most remarkable Canadians of his generation, a man who made pioneering contributions to medical and post-secondary education, to research and innovation, global health, philanthropy, public policy, biotech entrepreneurship, business, and to public and non-profit sector governance.

He was also a truly remarkable human being—humble, funny and kind. His generosity of spirit was simply astonishing. That is why he was loved by so many people from all walks of life.

Dr. Evans was a graduate of UTS, and came to the University of Toronto where he graduated with an MD in 1952, winning the silver medal. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed a DPhil on vitamin B12 metabolism. Following Oxford, Dr. Evans trained in internal medicine and cardiology in Toronto, London and Boston, returning to Toronto in 1960.

Even very early in his career, Dr. Evans sought ways to bring innovation to the medical profession. He brainstormed with other opinion leaders about a new approach to educate medical doctors. His proposal to mount a new program at Sunnybrook Hospital was rejected, but his bold idea was embraced by
McMaster University where President Harry Thode was looking for a Dean for the new Medical School.
In 1965, at the age of 35, he was appointed as Dean, despite the fact he had not yet risen in the professorial ranks. The McMaster program pioneered problem-based learning and self-directed objective-based learning methods—going against tradition and admitting candidates from many walks of life, setting aside the usual prerequisites. It was decades ahead of its time, but has since been emulated in many places around the world.
In 1972, Dr. Evans returned to Toronto as President of the University of Toronto. By 1978, he was recruited by Pierre Elliott Trudeau to run for office. Although his political aspirations were dashed, he was quickly recruited to the World Bank in Washington—again as a pioneer—starting the Division of Population Health and Nutrition, which he led from 1979 to 1983.

This work had a huge impact in reshaping population health as a field—and laid the foundation for how we now think about factors affecting health status that sit outside the formal healthcare system.
During the 1980s, Dr. Evans held a succession of major roles in a dazzling array of organizations, again often charting new terrain. He was the CEO and Executive Chair of Allelix—one of Canada’s first biotechnology companies. In fact, his search for downtown research space for NPS was catalytic in the creation of MaRS.

If there is no place on earth like MaRS, it is because there was no one on earth quite like John Evans.

Dr. Evans was the first Canadian to be chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1987 to 1995, and he was the founding chair of the Canada Foundation for Innovation from 1997 to 2007. He was also the chair of Torstar Corporation, chair of Alcan Aluminum, and served on the boards of several other corporations including the Royal Bank of Canada.

Dr. Evans’ love of medicine remained a prominent thread throughout his career in business—he may well be the only Canadian to be inducted into both the Canadian Business Hall of Fame and the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
He was the founding chair of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) from 1992 to 1998 and founding chair of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
Dr. Evans was also the founder of MaRS, a place where the many facets of his life and career merged, oddly, back to the old wing of the Toronto General Hospital where he slept and studied as a young medical student in the 1950s.

MaRS brought together all the threads of his life—physician, academician and university administrator, biotech entrepreneur, business leader, global health pioneer and master of governance in the non-profit and for-profit sectors.
The launch of MaRS—this big idea—called on all of his creative genius, multidimensional expertise, and the broad networks built over his unprecedented career.
He brought his unique ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty to MaRS—with its diverse stakeholders, large personalities and its palpable risk due to the scale, the visibility, the funding uncertainty and the totally new model as an innovation hub that this project represented. He did this navigation with grace, with generosity—and often, with totally off-the-wall humour!
Dr. Evans also brought to MaRS—and this is perhaps our greatest debt to him—his aspirations for the innovation community, and his ambitions for Canada. He viscerally believed in this country—the potential of its talented people and their ideas, its excellence, its values and its role in the world.
MaRS was Dr. Evans’ last great project, and the one he believed in most fiercely. He devoted every ounce of energy to its creation, until the ravages of Parkinson’s disease took its toll. Right until the end, he wanted to know what was happening here more than anything else.
If there is no place on earth like MaRS, it is because there was no one on earth quite like John Evans.

— Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District

Read Dr. Ilse Treurnicht’s eulogy delivered at Dr. John Evans’ funeral.

Dr. John Evans in his own words

On Building Great Teams

“I’m the luckiest in being able to mobilize people who could share a vision of going forward, who accept it as their own vision, and attack it with the energy that is necessary and (have) the staying power that’s necessary to get these new and innovative programs off the ground.”

“Not consciously, but I think unconsciously I look for the collection of people – the kinds of individuals who bring their own networks to be part of programs going forward.”

On Innovation

“I’m very anxious not to reinvent something, I don’t think that’s innovation.”

On Founding MaRS

“One of my interests was to address the discrepancy between the amount of investment in research and the relatively small portion of that investment that was related to research output that would lead to commercialization.”

“Toronto was not doing well in getting money for its science, and if you could look at increased commercial activity it was striking how poor the performance in Southern Ontario in relation to other parts of Canada and the United States. So I thought it was important to have a more concerted approach to submissions to the federal government…and that was not just more money, but for a vision for research in the areas that made better use of the research being carried out.”

Remembering Dr. John Evans

“It was my very good fortune to get to know John and work with him. In truth, while it was my job as Premier to lead, I was happy to be led by John and inspired by his vision to build a stronger, more innovative Ontario. John was an extraordinary human being. He was as kind and understanding as he was brilliant, accomplished and wise. He truly was a man for all seasons.”

— Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario 2003-2013

“I had the privilege of working with John when he was a director of RBC, we co-chaired a committee on commercialization and I had the honour, but impossible task of succeeding him as Chairman of MaRS. There are no Canadians that have had such a profound impact on so many different areas of importance including medicine, education, business, social services and philanthropy and of course innovation which culminated with his founding of MaRS. He was a trailblazer with boundless energy but more importantly was a gentleman who was always compassionate and kind. He touched so many people and while I think of John as a mentor he was even more so an inspiration. Simply he was one of the best men that I have ever known.”

— Gordon M. Nixon, Chair, Board of Directors, MaRS Discovery District

“Dr. Evans’ legacy extends well beyond the University of Toronto, and will endure for generations. He made a profound impact on the advancement of Canadian medical education and higher education, on Canada’s capacity for world-leading research and innovation, and on public policy and philanthropy in Canada and abroad. John Evans will be remembered not only as a champion of excellence and innovation, but also as a delightful man who combined extraordinary brilliance with great personal warmth and irrepressible sense of humour.”

— Meric S. Gertler, President, University of Toronto

“I would have difficulty thinking of another Canadian who has left such a legacy of achievement, contribution to his city and his country, and affection from all who encountered him.
His diminutive frame and gentle manner belied a giant of a man who left an impact everywhere he ventured…he will be greatly missed by all who knew him, and to know him was to love him.”

— Hon. John P. Manley, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, MaRS Discovery District; President and CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Ottawa

“I can’t think of any other Canadian who accomplished so much, and in such varied fields, both in Canada and internationally.”

— Tim Brodhead, Former CEO, JW McConnell Family Foundation

“John Evans was my Nelson Mandela. He had the vision, tenacity and dignity of a Mandela, with a lovely sense of humour and a rare humility. Knowing him and working with him was an inspiration. A highlight of my life.”

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Philippines unlikely to be rice sufficient

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Typhoons could force Philippines to import 2 million tonnes of rice next year. Reuters

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is unlikely to become self-sufficient in rice production, President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday, appearing to contradict his agriculture minister who had set a 2020 target to produce enough rice to meet the country’s needs.

The Southeast Asian country is a frequent buyer of rice mainly from Vietnam and Thailand, usually importing more than one million tonnes of the staple grain every year to meet domestic demand and maintain stockpiles.

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said last year the country could produce enough rice for its own needs by 2020 with the help of free irrigation and other state measures to boost output.

Shrinking farmland

“I do not believe we can be rice sufficient,” Duterte said in a speech to officials of state universities at the presidential palace.

“If you’d ask me, in the next how many years, we will just have to import rice,” Duterte said.

He said shrinking farmland and a growing population made it difficult to produce enough rice to meet domestic needs.

In April, Duterte ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) to build up its depleted rice stockpiles to the equivalent of 60 days of national consumption, or about 1.92 million tonnes.

The NFA has so far bought 500,000 tonnes mostly from Vietnam andThailand and is set to import an additional volume of up to 805,200 tonnes.

Lower prices

Duterte said on Wednesday he wants NFA warehouses to be filled “up to the ceiling” with rice.

“I do not care if we have to sell it at a lower price someday if there’s a glut in the market,” he said.

Retail rice prices in the Philippines have risen steadily since the start of the year due to the absence of government-subsidized supply in the market. This has fed inflation which hit its highest level in at least five years in May.

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501449/philippines-unlikely-to-be-rice-sufficient/

Vietnam prices ease from multi-year highs, India rice rates nudge up

By Reuters June 15, 2018 | 03:23 pm GMT+7

Indian farmers working on rice field. Photo by Reuters

Vietnamese rice fell this week after climbing to the highest since January 2012 the week before.

Rates for India’s 5 percent broken parboiled variety rose by $5 to $398-$402 per tonne this week, after hitting the lowest level for the year last week due to sluggish demand from neighbouring Bangladesh.

India was the biggest supplier of rice to Bangladesh in 2017. Imports by Bangladesh will likely slow as the government imposed a 28 percent tax on rice imports to support its farmers after local production revived.

“Last year, Bangladesh was buying a lot of Indian rice. With new duty, imports would fall,” said M. Adishankar, executive director at Sri Lalitha, a leading rice exporter located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

“Chinese imports will boost demand but we don’t know when it will happen.”

China last week agreed to amend a protocol on phytosanitary requirements, which will allow Indian exporters to ship non-basmati rice to Beijing.

The monsoon has not been progressing well and could delay planting of summer-sown rice, said another exporter based at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.

In Vietnam, the world’s third-largest exporter of the grain, prices of 5 percent broken rice fell to $450-$455 a ton this week after climbing to the highest since January 2012 at $465-$475 the week before.

“Prices are expected to ease further in the coming weeks on rising domestic supplies, as the spring-summer harvest will peak late this month,” a Ho Chi Minh City-based trader said.

Vietnam exported 763,707 tons of rice in May, up 5.9 percent from April, according to the government’s official customs data.

Meanwhile, Thailand’s benchmark 5 percent broken rice was little changed between $430 and 435 per ton this week, free on board (FOB) Bangkok, from $430-$432 last week.

Traders in Bangkok said demand from abroad was still flat this week following sales to the Philippines earlier this month and last month.

Slow logistics due to rain also meant slow trade, traders said. Thailand’s rainy season starts in late May and lasts until mid-October.

“It’s been raining, so ships can’t sail here to pick up orders. Now the warehouses are full, with trucks lining up outside waiting to offload more rice. It’s all stuck, so the market is still,” a trader said.

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Philippines unlikely to be rice sufficient

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Typhoons could force Philippines to import 2 million tonnes of rice next year. Reuters

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said last year the country could produce enough rice for its own needs by 2020 with the help of free irrigation and other state measures to boost output.

Shrinking farmland

“I do not believe we can be rice sufficient,” Duterte said in a speech to officials of state universities at the presidential palace.

“If you’d ask me, in the next how many years, we will just have to import rice,” Duterte said.

He said shrinking farmland and a growing population made it difficult to produce enough rice to meet domestic needs.

In April, Duterte ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) to build up its depleted rice stockpiles to the equivalent of 60 days of national consumption, or about 1.92 million tonnes.

The NFA has so far bought 500,000 tonnes mostly from Vietnam andThailand and is set to import an additional volume of up to 805,200 tonnes.

Lower prices

Duterte said on Wednesday he wants NFA warehouses to be filled “up to the ceiling” with rice.

“I do not care if we have to sell it at a lower price someday if there’s a glut in the market,” he said.

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501449/philippines-unlikely-to-be-rice-sufficient/

Rice exports to decline by 10% on restrictions from importing countries

Bangladesh imposes 18% import duty, EU introduces stringent quality norms; a part of decline to compensate through export to China

Dilip Kumar Jha | Mumbai Last Updated at June 15, 2018 23:21 IST

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Amid weak prices of agri commodities, robust rice demand bucks the trend

After a bumpy ride last year, India's rice exports are likely to decline this year by up to 10 per cent this year due to restrictions imposed by importing countries.

While Bangladesh has imposed 28 per cent import duty on rice to restrict its exports largely from India, the European Union also made its quality norms stringent with introduction of new pesticides limit. With this, non-basmati rice export to Bangladesh and basmati rice shipment to the European Union is set to decline.

The restrictions from importing countries assume significance as Bangladesh contributes over 18 per cent India's 8.5 million tonnes of non-basmati rice exports, the European Union shares nearly 10 per cent of India's basmati rice exports annually. A part of this decline, however, is likely to offset with the beginning of direct import from China, possibly in the second half of the current financial year.

"Overall rice exports from India are set to decline this year due to stringent quality norms introduced by the European Union. For immediate future, therefore, India may lose its entire 400,000 tonnes of European Union markets in the immediate term. The scenario, however, would improve with growers to reduce pesticides use in basmati rice in the long term. Also, Indian exporters would lose the entire Bangladesh market in the immediate term,” said Gurnam Arora, Joint Managing Director, Kohinoor Foods, one of India’s largest basmati rice exporters which sells its aromatic rice under Kohinoor brand.

Data compiled by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) showed a bumpy ride of both basmati and non-basmati rice exports during the last financial year. India emerged as a large supplier of rice to the South East Asian (SEA) countries due to a devastating flood in this region last year.

Consequently, India's both non-basmati rice exports jumped by a staggering 28 per cent to 8.65 million tonnes for the financial year 2017-18 compared to 6.77 million tonnes in the previous financial year. India’s basmati rice exports, however, stagnated at around 4 million tonnes in three years.

In value terms, however, non-basmati rice exports from India jumped by a staggering 41 per cent to $3564.39 million for FY17-18 versus $2531.47 million in the previous financial year.

“A part of the decline in non-basmati rice export would get compensated through shipment to China for which Apeda has started registering exporters,” said a senior official with a large rice exporting company.

A study from India Rating (Ind-Ra) believes India’s export price is likely to remain competitive in the international market and the recent decline in India’s rice export prices could attract buying from African countries, as Indian rice has become more competitive while a decline in rupee is cushioning exporters’ margins.

Indian rice prices softened as rice exports from India declined in April 2018, due to a decline in the exports of basmati rice to Saudi Arabia and non-basmati rice to Bangladesh along with a subdued demand from African countries. Ind-Ra believes imports by Bangladesh are likely to reduce in 2018-2019, as its domestic output rebounds due to a crop recovery and expansion in area sown because of high prices in 2017. As a result, India’s exports could reduce by 0.5 million tonnes to 1 million tonnes.

In May 2017, Chinese authority had identified 14 rice exporters from India to be considered for its shipment to China. But registration of interested exporters started recently.

Meanwhile, according to the third advance estimate for 2017 - 2018, India is set to achieve a record rice production of 111.5 million tonnes against the target of 108.5 million tonnes this year breaching its previous record of 109.7 million tonnes for 2016-2017.

Rice exports to decline by 10% on restrictions from importing countries

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After a bumpy ride last year, India's rice exports are likely to decline this year by up to 10 per cent this year due to restrictions imposed by importing countries.

In value terms, however, non-basmati rice exports from India jumped by a staggering 41 per cent to $3564.39 million for FY17-18 versus $2531.47 million in the previous financial year.

In May 2017, Chinese authority had identified 14 rice exporters from India to be considered for its shipment to China. But registration of interested exporters started recently.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/rice-exports-to-decline-by-10-on-restrictions-from-importing-countries-118061500820_1.html

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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUN 15, 2018

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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-June 15, 2018

Nagpur, June 15 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices reported strong in Nagpur Agriculture Produce

Marketing Committee (APMC) on good demand from local millers amid thin supply from producing

regions. Fresh hike in gram on NCDEX, upward trend in Madhya Pradesh pulses and reported demand

from South-based millers also jacked up prices.

About 2,000 bags of gram and 900 bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to

sources.

FOODGRAINS & PULSES

GRAM

* Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here but demand was poor.

TUAR

* Tuar gavarani and tuar Karnataka firmed up here on good buying support from local

traders.

* Lakhodi dal recovered in open market on increased demand

from local traders amid weak supply from producing belts.

* In Akola, Tuar New – 4,000-4,050, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,000-6,300, Udid Mogar (clean)

– 6,800-7,800, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,200-7,900, Gram – 3,300-3,400, Gram Super best

– 4,600-4,800

* Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in

scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity.

Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg

FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close

Gram Auction 2,950-3,230 2,900-3,180

Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600

Tuar Auction 3,300-3,740 3,100-3,600

Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200

Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500

Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800

Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,700-1,790 1,600-1,780

Gram Super Best Bold 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000

Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.

Gram Medium Best 4,400-4,600 4,400-4,600

Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a

Gram Mill Quality 3,425-3,475 3,425-3,475

Desi gram Raw 3,350-3,450 3,350-3,450

Gram Kabuli 8,000-10,000 8,000-10,000

Tuar Fataka Best-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000

Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,500-5,700 5,500-5,700

Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,400-5,500 5,400-5,500

Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,000-5,300 5,000-5,300

Tuar Gavarani New 3,750-3,900 3,700-3,850

Tuar Karnataka 4,150-4,350 4,100-4,300

Masoor dal best 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000

Masoor dal medium 4,500-4,700 4,500-4,700

Masoor n.a. n.a.

Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,500-8,000 7,500-8,000

Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-7,200 6,500-7,200

Moong dal Chilka New 6,100-7,000 6,100-7,000

Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.

Moong Chamki best 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,500

Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 7,000-8,000 7,000-8,000

Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-6,000 5,000-6,000

Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600

Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500

Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,650-2,750 2,600-2,700

Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,000 3,800-4,000

Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600

Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100

Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,075 2,000-2,075

Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,250-2,400 2,250-2,400

Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,450 2,300-2,450

Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,250

Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.

MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-4,000 3,200-4,000

MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,800 2,400-2,800

Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,200

Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,800 3,200-3,800

Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,900 2,700-2,900

Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000

Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,800 2,700-2,800

Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600

Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,500 4,000-4,500

Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000

Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600

Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,900 4,500-4,900

Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 9,500-14,000 9,500-14,000

Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500

Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 6,500-6,900 6,500-6,900

Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 6,000-6,200 6,000-6,200

Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,200 2,000-2,100

Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,700-2,000

WEATHER (NAGPUR)

Maximum temp. 39.1 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 26.0 degree Celsius

Rainfall : Nil

FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rains or thunder-showers. Maximum and

minimum temperature would be around and 39 and 26 degree Celsius respectively.

Note: n.a.--not available

(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but

included in market prices)

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Monsoon takes a break, but basic features intact

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Heavy rains to continue in Kerala

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 14

Kerala, and to an extent the North-East, has been receiving very heavy rainfall despite the monsoon going into a weak phase over the rest of the country.

The fundamentals continue to be just fine with the monsoon system as a whole, with strong cross-equatorial flows turning smartly off the Horn of Africa and further ahead across the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

No sign of low

These flows are also reaching India’s West Coast, more so across Kerala and coastal Karnataka, leading to a sustained precipitation as they blast into the orographic features,the Western Ghats.

The flows are being generated mostly due to storm activity in the North-West Pacific; they precipitate as they encounter land features over Maldives, Lakshadweep, India’s West Coast, the Bay of Bengal and South-East Asia.

There are currently two storms in the North-West Pacific, and both are travelling in a north-easterly direction, which doesn’t help the Indian monsoon.

Ideally, a low-pressure area in the Bay would have tapped into these flows midway and redirected some of it back towards the hinterland and brought in rain. But there is no sign of a ‘low’ forming just yet.

Activity next week

The best bet for it continues to be the June 25 to 29 window suggested by the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction when it sees some activity getting initiated in the North Bay.

The Thiruvananthapuram Met Office said heavy rainfall (7-11cm in 24 hours) and very heavy rainfall (12-20cm in 24 hours) will continue for another three to four days.

Strong winds mainly from a westerly direction with speeds reaching 35- to 45 km/hr gusting to 55 km/hr are lilely along Karnataka, Kerala coasts and over Lakshadweep area.

Rough seas and high waves are predicted along Karnataka (11- 12 ft); Kerala (11 ft) and Lakshadweep (11-12 ft). Fishermen are advised not to venture into sea along these coasts.

Rains likely

Strong winds and high waves have been forecast also along the Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat coasts. The 24 hours ending on Thursday morning saw active monsoon conditions over Kerala with Manjeri and Nilambur (in Malappuram district) reporting extremely heavy rainfall of 23 cm and 21 cm respectively. Extended forecast until Thursday (June 21) said widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls is likely along the West coast.

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Rice exports up by 30pc to $1.58b in 10 months

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June 15, 2018

LAHORE - Pakistan has come out of the crisis of low exports, which was observed during the last three years, as the rice exports have increased by around 30 percent to $1.58 billion during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18) as exporters pushed fresh cargoes to Indonesia, Kenya and other markets.

Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan chairman Samee Ullah Ch said that value of rice export trade has been showing improvement due to the coordination of REAP members with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and customs. “Our members are putting in untiring efforts, and aggressive marketing to increase rice exports and to earn valuable foreign exchange,” he added. He said rice exporters are making investments to install modern rice processing machinery and using value-addition technology.

He said the association is sending trade delegations to various countries for rice marketing. “Last month our delegation came back after a successful visit to Iran, which is very lucrative and a potential market for basmati rice. Around 100,000 tons of rice has so far been exported to Iran during the current season.” He hoped that a handsome amount of foreign exchange would be fetched by Pakistani rice exporters. He said that rice exports amounted to $1.23 billion during the corresponding period last year.

Samee Ullah Ch said exports increased 15 percent to 3.23 million tons during the 10 months of the current fiscal year of 2017/18. He said exports of non-basmati rice to Indonesia increased during the period.

“We exported 50,000 tons of non-basmati rice to Indonesia during the July-April period. Kenya remained the largest buyer of Pakistani non-basmati rice, buying 323,000 tons of rice amounting to $118 million. China is also one of the largest importers of Pakistani non-basmati rice.” He said demand for rice in the international markets is increasing. The crop was good in terms of both quality and quantity this year, he added.

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Nigeria Rice Imports Seen Rising 12% on Demand, Lower Output

Ruth Olurounbi

June 15, 2018, 4:01 AM GMT+5 Updated on June 15, 2018, 12:10 PM GMT+5

Cultivated areas expected to decline as farmers give up rice

Imports likely to reach 2.9 million tons in 2018-19 season

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Nigeria, the world’s third-biggest rice importer, will likely receive 12 percent more of the grain from foreign sources in the 2018-19 season as demand spikes at a time of declining output due to higher costs and insecurity, an industry body said.

“We foresee a significant drop in rice production this year,” Mohammed Sahabi, chairman of the rice farmers’ association in Kebbi, a state that’s one of the country’s top three producers of the grain, said by phone from the local capital, Birnin Kebbi.

The amount of land allocated to rice in the Kebbi area has likely fallen by half this year from the 200,000 hectares (494,200 acres) cultivated in 2017, he said. Other major producing states such as Kogi and Ebonyi are dealing with an increasing number of clashes between nomadic herders and farmers, which keep planters from tilling their land.

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Nigeria’s rice imports are set to increase to 2.9 million metric tons in the 2018-19 season from 2.6 million tons in 2017-18, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Reasons cited included conflict, population growth and more people giving up traditional coarse grains in their meals in favor of rice. Nigeria is Africa’s most-populous nation with almost 200 million inhabitants.

The forecast output-drop is a setback for government plans to stop rice imports by the end of this year to save foreign currency. Production had increased more than 50 percent over the past five years to 3.7 million tons last year. Domestic demand rose 4 percent to 6.7 million tons in the 2017-18 year that ended in May.

President Muhammadu Buhari, 75, is seeking to diversify Nigeria’s oil-dependent economy by boosting agriculture, especially rice production. Elected in 2015, he has overseen investments of almost $1 billion in rice farming and milling, virtually banned importers of the grain from buying foreign exchange, raised tariffs and pushed the central bank to lend to farmers. At the same time, rice smuggling through neighboring Benin and Niger has soared over the past years.

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ASIA RICE-INDIA RATES NUDGE UP, VIETNAM PRICES EASE FROM MULTI-YEAR HIGHS

6/14/2018

* Vietnam rates pull back from 6-1/2 year high

* Rains dampen trade in Thailand- traders

By Apeksha Nair

BENGALURU, June 14 (Reuters) - Rice export prices rose this
week in India on hopes for increased buying from China, while
rates in Vietnam eased from a multi-year peak with the outlook
for higher domestic supply.

Rates for India's 5 percent broken parboiled variety
<RI-INBKN5-P1> rose by $5 to $398-$402 per tonne this week,
after hitting the lowest level for the year last week due to
sluggish demand from neighbouring Bangladesh.

India was the biggest supplier of rice to Bangladesh in
2017. Imports by Bangladesh will likely slow as the government
imposed a 28 percent tax on rice imports to support its farmers
after local production revived.

"Last year, Bangladesh was buying a lot of Indian rice. With
new duty, imports would fall," said M. Adishankar, executive
director at Sri Lalitha, a leading rice exporter located in the
southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

"Chinese imports will boost demand but we don't know when it
will happen."

China last week agreed to amend a protocol on phytosanitary
requirements, which will allow Indian exporters to ship
non-basmati rice to Beijing.

The monsoon has not been progressing well and could delay
planting of summer-sown rice, said another exporter based at
Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.

In Vietnam, the world's third-largest exporter of the grain,
prices of 5 percent broken rice fell to $450-$455 a tonne this
week after climbing to the highest since January 2012 at
$465-$475 the week before.

"Prices are expected to ease further in the coming weeks on
rising domestic supplies, as the spring-summer harvest will peak
late this month," a Ho Chi Minh City-based trader said.

Vietnam exported 763,707 tonnes of rice in May, up 5.9
percent from April, according to the government's official
customs data.

Meanwhile, Thailand's benchmark 5 percent broken
rice <RI-THBKN5-P1> was little changed between $430 and 435
per tonne this week, free on board (FOB) Bangkok, from $430-$432
last week.

Traders in Bangkok said demand from abroad was still flat
this week following sales to the Philippines earlier this month
and last month.

Slow logistics due to rain also meant slow trade, traders
said. Thailand's rainy season starts in late May and lasts until
mid-October.

"It's been raining, so ships can't sail here to pick up
orders. Now the warehouses are full, with trucks lining up
outside waiting to offload more rice. It's all stuck, so the
market is still," a trader said.
(Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat in Bangkok, Khanh Vu in
Hanoi, Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai and Ruma Paul in Dhaka
Editing by Edmund Blair)

Popular rice variety gets extra gene power to fight bacterial attacks

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Researchers at the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research have developed a new variety of the popular Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) rice that can resist bacterial blight disease.

Bacterial blight disease, which affects rice crop, is caused by bacteria, Xanthomonas oryzae, and drastically reduces rice productivity.

The high yielding ISM variety is already protected against bacterial blight by three genes, but the new variety has been developed by adding another gene, Xa38, that increases the resistance. “Till now about 41 resistant genes have been identified from diverse sources.

These genes differ from each other in their mode of action. While some are broad spectrum, others are narrow in their resistance spectrum,” explained Dr Gouri Sankar Laha, who led the study, while speaking to India Science Wire.

The researchers used Marker assisted Backcross Breeding or MABB technique to accomplish the gene insertion. Unlike transgenic techniques used in genetically modified crops, MABB is less laborious but more efficient than traditional methods of ‘gene’ transfer. Besides it does not require regulatory clearances necessary for transgenic crops.

ISM is popular and has been grown in over 80,000 hectares in south and east India since its release in 2008. However, of late it was observed in experiments that when deliberately infected, ISM plants had longer lesions – infected spot - than the earlier ones, indicating emergence of a new strain of Xanthomonas.

Xanthomonas is virulent, meaning its infection spreads fast and wide. It also evolves very quickly. Thus plants that seem to be resistant now might turn susceptible later as the pathogen evolves into different strains.

“It is, therefore, necessary that we keep developing new resistant varieties. Also rice plant resistant to Xanthomonas in a particular area may not be resistant to the bacteria in another place,” explained Dr C A Deepak, a rice breeder at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Karnataka, who is not associated with the work. The breed improvement for bacterial blight disease is a continuous process.

The new breed has been field tested in farms across several states and has been exposed to various strains of Xanthomonas. “We have done three backcrossing and six generations of improvement. It has taken five years including selection of parents and initial crossing,” said Dr Laha.

The effort has resulted in several improved lines of ISM with novel, broad-spectrum blight-resistant gene Xa38 that show high levels of blight resistance to different types of Xanthomonas. These plants are better both in yield and in other traits than their ISM parent lines. After more field tests in different parts of the country, it will be ready for commercial release, Dr. Laha added.

The research team included Arra Yugander, Raman M. Sundaram, Kuldeep Singh, Duraisamy Ladhalakshmi, Lella V. Subba Rao, Maganti Sheshu Madhav, Jyothi Badri and Madamsetty Srinivas Prasad. The research results have been published in the journal PLOS One.

(India Science Wire)

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IRAQ BANS RICE PLANTING BECAUSE OF WATER SHORTAGES

6/14/2018

By Moayed Kenany

BAGHDAD, June 14 (Reuters) - Iraq has banned farmers from
planting rice and other water-intensive crops in the face of
increasing shortages because of drought and shrinking river
flows, an agriculture ministry official said on Thursday.

A letter from the Minister of Water Resources Hassan
al-Janabi to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office seen by
Reuters showed the ministry had decided to exclude rice and corn
from the government's summer agriculture plan to prioritise
drinking water, industry and vegetables.

The agriculture ministry was not happy about the decision
but could do nothing to stop it, its spokesman said.

"Rice and yellow corn are out of the summer agriculture plan
due to lack of water. As a ministry we are embarrassed,
especially as the crops are strategic and farmers had already
prepared their land to plant them," spokesman Hameed al-Nayef
said.

"The Ministry of Agriculture cannot plant a single donhum
without the approval of the Ministry of Water Resources."

Iraq planted 100,000 donhums of rice last season, he said.
One Iraqi donhum is equal to 2,500 square metres.

Problems with drought and shrinking water levels are further
complicated by Turkey's plan to fill a huge dam on the Tigris,
which had already started but was paused after complaints from
Iraq.

About 70 percent of Iraq's water resources flow from
neighbouring countries, with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers --
which run through Turkey -- particularly important sources.

Prime Minister Abadi has said the government plans to
provide water to farmers, especially for Iraq's strategic wheat
crop, but that it would reduce plots of land reserved for
planting other crops that consume a lot of water.
(Reporting by Moayed Kenany
Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein
Editing by David Goodman)

https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/iraq-bans-rice-planting-because-of-water-shortages

Sugat hikes rice prices by up to 30%

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The commodities company says that the hike follows a crisis on the rice markets in Thailand and India.

Kimberly Clark, Sano raise prices of toiletries

Israeli food manufacturer Sugat is putting up rice prices by between 16% and 30%, sources inform "Globes," due to price rises on the Asian rice market. The products going up in price are Basmati rice, Persian rice and Jasmine rice. Sugat is currently informing the retail chains about the new price rises, which will presumably be passed onto consumers.

Sugat had a controlling 63% stake in the Israeli rice market in 2017 and it is likely that other Israeli rice producers will follow suit and raise prices and pass on at least part of increased costs to consumers.

Sources in the market told "Globes" that there are two factors pushing up rice prices. The first is that Thailand's currency has strengthened against the dollar - most of the Persian and Jasmine rice consumed in Israel is imported from Thailand. The second is that recent Thai rice yields have been diminished and of poorer quality. There is also a crisis in India's rice market, pushing up prices there. The crisis in the Asian rice market is likely to continue for at least the next 12 months.

Sugat, owned by British commodities merchants ED&F Man controls a 1% of Israel's food market. In addition to rice it has 95% of Israel's white sugar market and 75% of the brown sugar market and 54% of the pulses and legumes market.

The rise price rises are part of a wave of price rises over the past few weeks, which includes the toiletries products of Sano and Kimberly Clark, as well as imported frozen meat and tuna.

Sugat said, "The rise in the prices of different rice categories stems from a deep crisis in the quality rice markets of Thailand and India. It is important to clarify that the vrise in prices on the Israeli market does not reflect the full strength of the crisis and the rise is lower than the rise in prices in India and Thailand. We are making maximum effort to provide consumers with Sugat rice of excellence quality and the required availability. The price to the consumer is set by the retailer."

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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUN 14, 2018

Reuters Staff

6 MIN READ

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-June 14, 2018

Nagpur, June 14 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices firmed up again in Nagpur Agriculture Produce

Marketing Committee (APMC) on increased demand from local millers amid weak supply from

producing regions. Good recovery in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and reported demand from

South-based millers also helped to push up prices here.

About 1,500 bags of gram and 400 bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to

sources.

FOODGRAINS & PULSES

GRAM

* Desi gram prices reported higher in open market on renewed seasonal buying support

from local traders.

TUAR

* Tuar varieties ruled steady in open market here on subdued demand from local

traders amid ample stock in ready position.

* Moong dal Chilka recovered in open market on increased demand

from local traders amid weak supply from producing belts.

* In Akola, Tuar New – 4,000-4,050, Tuar dal (clean) – 6,000-6,300, Udid Mogar (clean)

– 6,800-7,800, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,200-7,900, Gram – 3,300-3,400, Gram Super best

– 4,600-4,800

* Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in

scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity.

Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg

FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close

Gram Auction 2,975-3,190 2,900-3,310

Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600

Tuar Auction 3,100-3,670 3,000-3,520

Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200

Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500

Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800

Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,600-1,780 1,600-1,780

Gram Super Best Bold 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000

Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.

Gram Medium Best 4,400-4,600 4,400-4,600

Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a

Gram Mill Quality 3,425-3,475 3,425-3,475

Desi gram Raw 3,350-3,450 3,300-3,400

Gram Kabuli 8,000-10,000 8,000-10,000

Tuar Fataka Best-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000

Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,500-5,700 5,500-5,700

Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,400-5,500 5,400-5,500

Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,000-5,300 5,000-5,300

Tuar Gavarani New 3,700-3,850 3,700-3,850

Tuar Karnataka 4,100-4,300 4,100-4,300

Masoor dal best 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000

Masoor dal medium 4,500-4,700 4,500-4,700

Masoor n.a. n.a.

Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,500-8,000 7,500-8,000

Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-7,200 6,500-7,200

Moong dal Chilka New 6,100-7,000 6,000-7,000

Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.

Moong Chamki best 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,500

Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 7,000-8,000 7,000-8,000

Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-6,000 5,000-6,000

Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600

Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500

Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,600-2,700 2,600-2,700

Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,000 3,800-4,000

Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600

Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100

Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,075 2,000-2,075

Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,250-2,400 2,250-2,400

Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,450 2,300-2,450

Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,250

Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.

MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-4,000 3,200-4,000

MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,800 2,400-2,800

Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,200

Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,800 3,200-3,800

Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,900 2,700-2,900

Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000

Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,700-2,800 2,700-2,800

Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600

Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,500 4,000-4,500

Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000

Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,600 5,200-5,600

Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,900 4,500-4,900

Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 9,500-14,000 9,500-14,000

Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500

Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 6,500-6,900 6,500-6,900

Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 6,000-6,200 6,000-6,200

Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,200 2,000-2,100

Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,700-2,000

WEATHER (NAGPUR)

Maximum temp. 37.7 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 26.9 degree Celsius

Rainfall : Nil

FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rains or thunder-showers. Maximum and

minimum temperature would be around and 38 and 27 degree Celsius respectively.

Note: n.a.--not available

(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but

included in market prices).

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Rice Prices

as on : 14-06-2018 12:19:14 PM

Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market.

	Arrivals			Price
	Current	% change	Season cumulative	Modal	Prev. Modal	Prev.Yr %change
Rice
Risia(UP)	320.00	6.67	7448.40	1700	1600	-
Varanasi(Grain)(UP)	310.00	-11.43	10243.00	2285	2290	-0.65
Akbarpur(UP)	285.00	714.29	3660.00	2215	2180	1.14
Baxirhat(WB)	226.00	-2.59	1386.00	2900	2900	26.09
Siliguri(WB)	164.00	1.23	6822.00	2700	2700	NC
Asansol(WB)	120.00	-1.64	5744.00	2900	2900	11.54
Lucknow(UP)	100.00	NC	1865.00	2275	2250	5.81
Kalna(WB)	95.00	-1.04	2860.00	3350	3350	6.35
Basti(UP)	74.00	34.55	2663.00	2130	2140	0.71
Ghaziabad(UP)	70.00	27.27	3200.00	2675	2675	11.46
Bindki(UP)	45.00	-10	24945.00	2270	2250	-
Cachar(ASM)	40.00	-33.33	2120.00	2400	2400	9.09
Lakhimpur(UP)	40.00	14.29	1547.00	2230	2250	3.24
Jayas(UP)	35.00	-2.78	1448.50	2115	2115	8.46
Gazipur(UP)	34.00	41.67	914.00	2285	2285	7.53
Sahiyapur(UP)	32.50	6.56	2156.50	2155	2160	-
Muzzafarnagar(UP)	29.50	1.72	1378.00	2690	2690	-
Sirsaganj(UP)	28.00	-6.67	786.00	2650	2650	12.77
Naanpara(UP)	27.50	-19.12	1262.80	2225	2225	0.45
Toofanganj(WB)	25.20	1.61	148.20	2900	2900	26.09
Bharthna(UP)	25.00	25	6286.00	2400	2400	-
Purulia(WB)	24.00	50	318.00	2680	2700	14.04
Bazpur(Utr)	20.10	34	1857.50	2400	2400	-2.04
Auraiya(UP)	20.00	NC	919.70	2450	2420	11.36
Jafarganj(UP)	20.00	33.33	731.00	2200	2050	-
Robertsganj(UP)	18.00	-16.28	491.80	2245	2270	13.67
Saharanpur(UP)	18.00	5.88	973.50	2690	2690	13.74
Dhekiajuli(ASM)	17.00	6.25	236.00	2400	2400	4.35
Karsiyang(Matigara)(WB)	16.50	1.85	576.80	3000	3000	11.11
Badayoun(UP)	15.00	7.14	509.00	2410	2450	-
Kicchha(Utr)	13.80	-76.65	613.40	1850	1850	-
Giridih(Jha)	12.34	13.42	399.31	3500	3500	NC
Madhoganj(UP)	12.00	NC	2265.00	2240	2240	4.67
Paliakala(UP)	9.00	-21.74	945.10	2280	2275	-
Muradabad(UP)	8.00	14.29	289.50	2425	2380	-
Kottayam(Ker)	6.00	NC	61.00	3700	3900	-11.90
Kosikalan(UP)	6.00	9.09	101.00	2525	2530	-
Mirzapur(UP)	5.50	-15.38	566.50	2230	2220	-
Bonai(Bonai)(Ori)	5.00	NC	310.40	3000	3000	20.00
Dibrugarh(ASM)	3.00	-52.38	437.20	2920	2920	29.78
Balarampur(WB)	1.82	-1.09	47.80	2660	2660	13.19
Tundla(UP)	1.50	50	113.00	2540	2530	-
Fatehpur Sikri(UP)	0.90	28.57	29.20	2550	2560	0.79
Khairagarh(UP)	0.70	-12.5	82.90	2560	2560	1.59
Ujhani(UP)	0.60	-40	4.50	2380	2300	-

Published on June 14, 2018

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State and Regional Rice Crop on Track

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Times-Democrat News Staff

Rice crops in Clay County, such as this field east of McDougal, are about two weeks ahead of schedule for the 2018 growing season.

TD photo/Tim Blair

Taken into account as the nation’s No. 1 rice producer, Arkansas can have an outsized effect on U.S. rice production one year to the next, depending on fates largely tied to the weather. And, according to officials 2018 is shaping up to be anything but simple — or predictable.

“The rice crop looks great at the moment, but it’s been a difficult season,” said Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. “One of the coldest Aprils on record followed by the hottest May on record has a lot to do with it.”

As of last week, nearly 100 percent of planned rice acreage throughout the state had already emerged, with growers rating 70 percent of the crop as being in “good” or “excellent” condition, according to the June 4 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

But cool weather and rain in April hindered the application — and likely the effectiveness — of herbicides, which may have consequences later in the season,” Hardke said.

“Emergence on early planted rice was extremely delayed by the cold April weather and so we didn’t benefit much from early residual herbicide applications,” he said. “Once we got to May and things warmed up and dried out, they stayed dry and our herbicides didn’t work very well again. Many acres also needed to be flushed to relieve the drought stress conditions and to activate residual herbicides.”

Sporadic rains also interfered with the crop’s ideal fertilization window, leaving growers to try to “play catch-up” during a recent window of dry weather.

Here in Clay County many producers have been able to take advantage of the early planting season, and are now well ahead of schedule.

“The early planted rice is approaching mid-season. There are several mid-season fertilizer applications scheduled for this week and next week,” noted Allison Howell, Clay County Extension Agent, Agriculture. “There are a wide range of maturities this year, but it is all growing very rapidly. The rice is around two weeks ahead of schedule because of the hot temperatures.”

Howell noted local rice farmers continue to maintain, and have not reported many issues.

“So far we haven’t had any disease or insect problems and everything seems to be going pretty well,” she concluded.

The June 2, storm which impacted several areas throughout northeastern Arkansas, particularly St, Francis County between Colt and Forest City, appears to have done relatively little damage to rice growers, although a full assessment of crop damage is incomplete.

“The area that was most impacted was relatively small,” Hardke said. “I know there were some levee issues, but it was a smaller scale and a not all rice in the area has gone to flood yet.”

Hardke said the recent high heat, dry conditions and variable winds have also resulted in some reports of off-target herbicide drift.

One measure of the extremity of the 2018 season is the DD50 program, which measures days during which the temperature rises about 50 degrees Fahrenheit to predict the growth of rice.

“In April, we accumulated the fewest DD50 units in the past 30 years. In May we accumulated the most DD50 units in the past 30 years,” Hardke said.

“Quite a swing. What a season,” he said. “And we’re not even halfway through.”

Those wanting to learn more about row crops in Arkansas may contact their local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.edu Howell may be reached at he Piggott office at 870 598-2246.

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Water shortage likely to badly affect rice sowing

The severe water shortage in the country may negatively affect rice sowing and the production target of 7.2 million tons is unlikely to be achieved, official sources revealed to Business Recorder. Rice is a major Kharif crop and if water supply is not improved, sowing starting in July will be affected and resultantly the production target of 7.2 million tons as well as the growth rate of 3.8 percent set by the government for agricultural sector for 2018-19 would be affected. Sources said that rice is an important food as well as cash crop. After wheat, it is the second main staple food crop and second major exportable commodity after cotton, contributing 3.1 percent of value added in agriculture and 0.6 percent in GDP. The government has set a target of covering 7.05 million acres with rice to achieve the production target of 7.2 million tons with 1,022 kg per acre yield. However, if water supply is not improved, the sowing as well as production is unlikely to be achieved, official added. Pakistan Meteorological Department has estimated that snow cover during the winter season was 20 to 25 percent less than the average. Further rainfalls during April-June were forecast to be less than normal, while the temperature is expected to remain one to two centigrade warmer than the normal. Crops would remain under stress due to subsequent water shortage during Kharif season. Talking to Business Recorder, General Secretary Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) Kashif Rehman said that the country would achieve $2 billion export target of rice this year, but there are several issues in increasing production. He said that country lacks the latest technology to get huge crop with lesser water. The country is facing severe water shortage and affecting rice sowing target. He further said that there are seed as well as supply chain problems, starting from growers to exporters, which are hindering increase in production as well as exports target. Another official said that Pakistan rice export to Qatar has been banned for the last five years though Qatar had been a major rice buyer of Pakistan. Pakistan exported over 50,000 metric tons of basmati rice worth $50 million along with 36,000 metric tons of non-basmati rice worth more than $21 million in 2012-13. But the export graph went downward to 15,000 metric tons of basmati in 2014-15. Pakistan is pursuing an application for the inclusion of Pakistan in the list of importers of rice, said the official, adding that Commerce Ministry needs to utilize all available diplomatic channels in this regard. The Commerce Ministry should take strenuous efforts to enhance Pakistan's trade volume with Qatar. The ministry, in this regard, can fully activate the commercial section at the Pakistani embassy in Doha, which would help in increasing rice exports, official added. Pakistan would also benefit from the price competitiveness against its competitors, Thailand, Vietnam etc. As Indian rice has lost its market in European countries due to excessive pesticide residue, Pakistani rice exporters have the opportunity to capture the EU market.

Author Name: https://fp.brecorder.com/2018/06/20180614381887/

Climate change will make rice less nutritious

Description: 2018-06-05T100517Z_485536484_RC1452ADAF50_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-RICE-940x580 RICE is the primary food source for more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford a diverse and nutritious diet that includes complete protein, grains, fruits and vegetables. They rely heavily on more affordable cereal crops, including rice, for most of their calories. My research focuses on health risks associated with climate variability and change. In a recently published study, I worked with scientists from China, Japan, Australia and the United States to assess how the rising carbon dioxide concentrations that are fueling climate change could alter the nutritional value of rice.

We conducted field studies in Asia for multiple genetically diverse rice lines, analysing how rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere altered levels of protein, micronutrients and B vitamins. SEE ALSO: Suicides and forced migration: The reality of climate change in South Asia Our data showed for the first time that rice grown at the concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide scientists expect the world to reach by 2100 has lower levels of four key B vitamins. These findings also support research from other field studies showing rice grown under such conditions contains less protein, iron and zinc, which are important in fetal and early child development. These changes could have a disproportionate impact on maternal and child health in the poorest rice-dependent countries, including Bangladesh and Cambodia.

image: https://cdn.asiancorrespondent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/file-20180611-191962-177718c.jpg Description: file-20180611-191962-177718c

Many of poorest regions in Asia rely on rice as a staple food. Source: IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA via The Conversation

Carbon dioxide and plant growth

Plants obtain the carbon they need to grow primarily from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and draw other required nutrients from the soil. Human activities – mainly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation – raised atmospheric CO2 concentrations from about 280 parts per million during pre-industrial times to 410 parts per million today. If global emission rates continue on their current path, atmospheric CO2 concentrations could reach over 1,200 parts per million by 2100 (including methane and other greenhouse gas emissions). Higher concentrations of CO2 are generally acknowledged to stimulate plant photosynthesis and growth. This effect could make the cereal crops that remain the world’s most important sources of food, such as rice, wheat and corn, more productive, although recent research suggests that predicting impacts on plant growth is complex. Concentrations of minerals critical for human health, particularly iron and zinc, do not change in unison with CO2 concentrations. Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops – particularly rice and wheat – respond to higher CO2 concentrations by synthesising more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains.

The importance of micronutrients

Worldwide, approximately 815 million people worldwide are food-insecure, meaning that they do not have reliable access to sufficient quantities of safe, nutritious and affordable food. Even more people – approximately 2 billion – have deficiencies of important micronutrients such as iron, iodine and zinc. Insufficient dietary iron can lead to iron deficiency anemia, a condition in which there are too few red blood cells in the body to carry oxygen. This is the most common type of anemia. It can cause fatigue, shortness of breath or chest pain, and can lead to serious complications, such as heart failure and developmental delays in children. Zinc deficiencies are characterised by loss of appetite and diminished sense of smell, impaired wound healing, and weakened immune function. Zinc also supports growth and development, so sufficient dietary intake is important for pregnant women and growing children. Higher carbon concentrations in plants reduce nitrogen amounts in plant tissue, which is critical for the formation of B vitamins. Different B vitamins are required for key functions in the body, such as regulating the nervous system, turning food into energy and fighting infections. Folate, a B vitamin, reduces the risk of birth defects when consumed by pregnant women.

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Prices of different variety of rice are seen in a public market in Kamuning in Quezon City, metro Manila, May 21, 2018. Source: Reuters/Dondi Tawatao

Significant nutrition losses

We carried out our field studies in China and Japan, where we grew different strains of rice outdoors. To simulate higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations, we used Free-Air CO2 Enrichment, which blows CO2 over fields to maintain concentrations that are expected later in the century. Control fields experience similar conditions except for the higher CO2 concentrations. On average, the rice that we grew in air with elevated CO2 concentrations contained 17 percent less vitamin B1 (thiamine) than rice grown under current CO2 concentrations; 17 percent less vitamin B2 (riboflavin); 13 percent less vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid); and 30 percent less vitamin B9 (folate). Our study is the first to identify that concentrations of B vitamins in rice are reduced with higher CO2. We also found average reductions of 10 percent in protein, 8 percent in iron and 5 percent in zinc. We found no change in levels of vitamin B6 or calcium. The only increase we found was in vitamin E levels for most strains.

Worsening micronutrient deficiencies

At present, about 600 million people — mostly in Southeast Asia — get more than half of their daily calories and protein directly from rice. If nothing is done, the declines we found would likely worsen the overall burden of undernutrition. They also could affect early childhood development through impacts that include worsened effects from diarrheal disease and malaria. The potential health risks associated with CO2-induced nutritional deficits are directly correlated to the lowest overall gross domestic product per capita. This suggests that such changes would have serious potential consequences for countries already struggling with poverty and undernutrition. Few people would associate fossil fuel combustion and deforestation with the nutritional content of rice, but our research clearly shows one way in which emitting fossil fuels could worsen world hunger challenges.

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A farmer harvests rice on a rice paddy field outside Hanoi, Vietnam, June 7, 2018. Source: Reuters/KhamÊ

How could climate change affect other key plants?

Unfortunately, today there is no entity at the federal, state or business level that provides long-term funding to evaluate how rising CO2 levels could affect plant chemistry and nutritional quality. But CO2-induced changes have significant implications, ranging from medicinal plants to nutrition, food safety and food allergies. Given the potential impacts, which may already be occurring, there is a clear and urgent need to invest in this research. It is also critical to identify options for avoiding or lessening these risks, from traditional plant breeding to genetic modification to supplements. Rising CO2 concentrations are driving climate change. What role these emissions will play in altering all aspects of plant biology, including the nutritional quality of the crops that we use for food, feed, fiber and fuel, remains to be determined. Read more at https://asiancorrespondent.com/2018/06/climate-change-will-make-rice-less-nutritious/#qbBj7vXTmLMuyzPC.99

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Rice farmers happy with new farming technologies

Description: Western Provincial Agriculture Coordinating Officer Alex Chilala (r) showing ripe rice grains to Mongu District Commissioner Susiku Kamona (c) and Chief Namutwi (l) during the launch program for Rice Seed Harvesting activities supported by Steward Globe Limited (AFRISEED) at Namushakende Farming Institute in Mongu Rice Farmers in Limulunga district of Western have expressed satisfaction with the improved rice farming technology and the use of new rice varieties under the Agricultural Productivity Programme in Southern Africa (APPSA). Speaking during an exchange visit in Nangila area, Kamwezi Shanika who had been empowered with SUPA MG new rice and used controlled spacing said she used few seeds but the yield is more unlike when she used recycled seed. And Likando Nyambe of Usha area applauded government for taking a bold decision to inculcate the promotion of rice growing adding she was able to fill bags and secure food for her household. Government has been making strides through the US$200,000 APPSA project that has been rolling out its implementation since 2015 by empowering farmers with 1 Kilogram of Rice to demonstrate to how improved farming technology and certified rice varieties would promote higher yield. And speaking when addressing farmers at Nangili area of Limulunga District, Mongu Senior field Crops Officer said 20 lead farmers and 400 follower farmers in Western Province have been benefiting from the Agricultural Productivity Programme in Southern Africa APPSA. She encouraged the local people to ensure that the certified seeds are stored for other members in the community to appreciate the new farming Initiative. And Limulunga District Commissioner Litambo Ndombo told ZANIS in an interview that government is committed to ensuring that people in rural Zambia are empowered to increase their levels of agriculture productivity. Mr. Ndombo said it was gratifying that people have seen the need to improve their farming adding that cultivation should move handy with higher productivity. He urged the local farmers to take advantage of the initiative because it would contribute to alienating hunger as well as to promote the country’s food security. The programme which has rounded Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia is been carried out in Northern, Muchinga and Western Province and has been benefiting Kalabo, Mongu, Senanga and Limulunga districts in selected areas.

Author Name: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2018/06/14/rice-farmers-happy-with-new-farming-technologies/

Date: 14-Jun-2018

Rice farmers happy with new farming technologies

Author Name: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2018/06/14/rice-farmers-happy-with-new-farming-technologies/

Date: 14-Jun-2018

Rice exports up by 30pc to $1.58b in 10 months

Description: Rice exports up by 30pc to $1.58b in 10 months LAHORE - Pakistan has come out of the crisis of low exports, which was observed during the last three years, as the rice exports have increased by around 30 percent to $1.58 billion during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18) as exporters pushed fresh cargoes to Indonesia, Kenya and other markets. Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan chairman Samee Ullah Ch said that value of rice export trade has been showing improvement due to the coordination of REAP members with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and customs. “Our members are putting in untiring efforts, and aggressive marketing to increase rice exports and to earn valuable foreign exchange,” he added. He said rice exporters are making investments to install modern rice processing machinery and using value-addition technology. He said the association is sending trade delegations to various countries for rice marketing. “Last month our delegation came back after a successful visit to Iran, which is very lucrative and a potential market for basmati rice. Around 100,000 tons of rice has so far been exported to Iran during the current season.” He hoped that a handsome amount of foreign exchange would be fetched by Pakistani rice exporters. He said that rice exports amounted to $1.23 billion during the corresponding period last year. Samee Ullah Ch said exports increased 15 percent to 3.23 million tons during the 10 months of the current fiscal year of 2017/18. He said exports of non-basmati rice to Indonesia increased during the period. “We exported 50,000 tons of non-basmati rice to Indonesia during the July-April period. Kenya remained the largest buyer of Pakistani non-basmati rice, buying 323,000 tons of rice amounting to $118 million. China is also one of the largest importers of Pakistani non-basmati rice.” He said demand for rice in the international markets is increasing. The crop was good in terms of both quality and quantity this year, he added.

Author Name: https://nation.com.pk/15-Jun-2018/rice-exports-up-by-30pc-to-1-58b-in-10-months

Date: 15-Jun-2018

Vietnam Rice Exports Growing in 2018

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Hanoi, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam aims to strengthen as the world''s third largest rice exporter thanks to its growing production, greater global demand, behavior of its traditional markets and auspicious international prices.

Sources from the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development stated today that the Philippines and African countries are encouraging buying and selling operations, with consequent opportunities for local distributors. On the other hand,it is considered that China, the largest Vietnamese rice market, will maintain its demand. Vietnam exported about 452,000 tons of rice in May, increasing 2,660,000 tons the annual average, while the income for that concept in the month amounted to $347 million USD to total $1.4 billion USD until then. During the first five months of 2018, rice sales abroad grew 25.7 percent in quantity and 42.6 percent in value, compared to the same period of 2017. According to the referred ministry, importers prioritize the purchase of high quality rice such as the Japonica variety, of which this nation is an important producer. The ministry also predicted that international prices will continue high in the immediate future. Vietnamese rice reached $460 per ton in the global market in mid-May, the highest level in the last four years, a rise attributed to the large volumes of high quality rice. According to estimates, Vietnam expects to sell around 6,500,000 tons of rice this year.

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Date: 18-Jun-2018

Basmati is the pride of our subcontinent

Lack of popular perception can’t serve as a ground for a non-inclusive approach to GI tagging of basmati rice

Factors favouring the cultivation of basmati — temperature, humidity, daylight and soil conditions — are abundant in states such as Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &Kashmir, Delhi, Haryana and MP. India is the world’s leading producer and exporter of Basmati rice with an annual production of 60 lakh tonnes. (Virendra Singh Gosain/HT)

In the film Basmati Blues, Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is a scientist who creates a new fast-growing super-rice and tries to woo villagers to switch. Basmati Blues is now at the centre-stage but with a new context. In this instance, I am referring to the issue of geographical tagging of Basmati rice. India is the world’s leading producer and exporter of Basmati rice with an annual production of 60 lakh tonnes. Experts say Basmati is a produce of India. Countries such as the United States have tried to claim Basmati as their production but failed so far. RiceTec, a US company selling Basmati (grown in the US) under the trademark Texmati and Kasmati, was even granted a US patent. The government of India reacted and a high-level inter-ministerial group from the ministries of commerce and agriculture along with the All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) and Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) were able to furnish evidence to support their case. The patent was declared void. Basmati, the scented pearl, has been the pride of our subcontinent for centuries with earliest records of cultivation in 1766. Scented rice from the royal kitchens of Emperor Akbar included Mushkin (red Basmati). Real transcripts recorded in the Ain-i-Akbari, Akbar’s 16th-century biography, refer to Basmati being grown in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh (MP). Records from the British era indicate cultivation of Basmati in several parts of the country including MP.

As an agricultural scientist I am intrigued by the response of apex bodies such as the APEDA and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research to the GI tagging of basmati, stating that certain states such as MP cannot be granted the GI tag owing to “lack of popular perception”. Scientific records and historical documents have been completely ignored in this. Factors favouring the cultivation of Basmati — temperature, humidity, daylight and soil conditions — are abundant in states such as Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &Kashmir, Delhi, Haryana and MP. These are valid reasons for all of them being granted the GI tag.

“Lack of popular perception” cannot serve as a ground for such non-inclusive approach to the GI tagging of Basmati rice. Such a subjective approach has a detrimental effect on the interest of producers and growers in states like MP.

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“Basmati” derives its roots in two Sanskrit words “Vas” meaning “aroma” and “Mati” meaning ingrained from the origin. Hence the word “Basmati” means “the one containing aroma”. “Basmati” does not per se signify any indication of its geographical origin unlike Darjeeling tea or Kancheepuram silk. It is precisely for this reason that the use of “popular perception” or the lack thereof as a parameter to deny states such as MP and its farmers the GI tag for Basmati is beyond comprehension. Uma Ahuja is former professor of genetic and plant breedng, College of Agriculture, Hisar The views expressed are personal

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A Glance At Local Rice Production

Rice has become the second most important food staple after maize in Ghana and its consumption keeps increasing as a result of population growth, urbanization and change in consumer habits. Ghanaians have over the years developed a strong appetite for imported rice due to its availability and distribution reach in the market as well as its highly polished and fragranced nature. In view of this, government has set an ambitious target to increase rice production this year as a measure to reduce rice imports to save the economy’s foreign exchange. The nation’s value of rice imports has escalated eight-fold – from US$152million in 2007 to a peak of US$1.2billion in both 2014 and 2015. In the same period, the volume of rice imports climbed from 441,000 metric tonnes to 630,000 metric tonnes. According to figures from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) at the end of 2016, Ghana’s rice production stood at 687,680 metric tonnes. Therefore, plans to increase production by 49% in 2017 means an addition of 337,500 metric tonnes which will put total production this year to a little over one million (1,025,180) metric tonnes. The 337,500 metric tonnes increase expected this year is estimated to translate into GH¢371.2million (GH¢371,250,000) as value of this additional production. This will also create some 226,800 direct and indirect employment comprising 32,400 direct jobs, 194,400 indirect jobs. According to Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto rice production target is one of the five crops this year under the ‘Planting for food and jobs’, campaign aimed at turning farmlands and backyards into a huge food basket that is expected to cut down the country’s food import bill drastically. The Avnash Royal Farmers’ rice Although, there are a number of locally produced paddy rice in Ghana, one brand that stands tall among the rice production industry, with enormous contribution to the country’s economy over the years has been the Avansh’s Royal Farmers Rice produced at Nyankpala in the Tolon District of Northern Region. The locally produced premium parboiled long grain rice, the Royal Farmers Rice, is being produced to meet the rising demand for rice and reduce its importation. Royal Farmers Rice is a product of Avnash Rice Mill, located at Nyankpala in the Tolon District of Northern Region, which buys quality rice from local farmers for processing. The rice processing plant, a state-of-the-art facility and a fully automated mill of Buhler make has which has a capacity to process 500 metric tons of paddy rice per day, has been installed and is capable of feeding the country with the highest quality of rice. The Avnash Rice Mill expects increased rice production by both smallholder farmers and a few commercial rice producers, who have cultivated over 1,200-acre under cultivation within the Northern and Upper East Regions to help meet local demand. The commissioning of the Avnash Rice Mill last year reinforces the company’s commitment to its five-year plan to support and create one million direct and indirect jobs for Ghanaians by 2022. Its Chief Executive Officer, Jai Mirchandani, in a recent statement said the processing plant, a state-of-the-art facility with a capacity to process 500 metric tons of paddy rice per day, is capable of feeding the country with the highest quality of rice. “This year, we estimate some 32,000 farmers to benefit from this Rice Mill, while transporters, aggregators, mechanised service suppliers, inputs providers, and their families of an estimated 20,000 people will also benefit,” he said. Avnash Industries Ghana Limited has so far invested about US$150million from 2007 into its agro-business operations and is aimed at adding value to the country’s agricultural produce and creating employment for wealth-creation. The company is also ready to increase its rice milling capacity once the existing capacity is exceeded by the supply of paddy. “We are confident in the hardworking abilities of our farmers and the efforts and support being offered by government will boost the production volumes of rice” said Jai Mirchandani. The company is well known for its businesses in edible oil, rice, soaps and detergents, packaging of its products – including PET and hard plastic containers.

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Myanmar exports over one million ton of rice from Yangon ports

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Myanmar exported more than one million ton of rice from Yangon ports between 2014-15 FY and 2017-18 FY, according to Myanma Port Authority (MPA).

“Myanmar exported one million ton of rice from Yangon ports within four fiscal years and most of them are exported from Sule port terminal,” said Managing Director Ni Aung from the MPA.

It exported over 160,000 tons of rice in 2014-15 FY, about 41,000 tons of rice in 2015-16 FY, over 195,000 tons of rice in 2016-17 FY and over 630,000 tons of rice in 2017-18 FY respectively.

Myanmar exported about 1.7 million tons of rice in last fiscal year and about 700,000 of them are sent through Sule terminal.

Bulk carriers of 300,000 tons deadweight can dock at Yangon port currently.

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https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/rice-farmers-support-closure-of-border-257068.html126K bags of Vietnam rice arrive at Tabaco City port

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Posted on June 20, 2018

LEGAZPI CITY — A total of 126,000 bags of imported rice from Vietnam are now being unloaded from a cargo vessel at the Tabaco City Port to be distributed to National Food Authority warehouses of the six provinces of Bicol next week, a top NFA official in the region said.

Edna De Guzman, regional director of NFA-Bicol, said Tuesday the 126,000 bags of rice comprise the first tranche of 400,000 bags of rice to be delivered from Vietnam under the G2G or government to government procurement program.

The vessel carrying the rice arrived last June 15 but because of bad weather, unloading of the bags only started last Saturday, June 17. As of today, Tuesday, 18,000 bags have been unloaded.

De Guzman said they expect to finish the unloading very soon and will start to distribute the Vietnamese grains as NFA rice next week to answer the needs of consumers for lower priced commodity.

She said they would allocate provisions to all six provinces of Bicol but the number of bags will depend upon the needs of the population and situation of every province.

Albay will receive 25,000 bags; Camarines Norte, 13,000 bags; Catanduanes, 14,000 bags; Masbate, 14,000 bags; Sorsogon, 15,000 bags and Camarines Sur, the biggest allocation of 35,000 bags.

The regional office of NFA will also have its initial reserve buffer stock of 10,000 bags.

According to de Guzman, they have started supplying NFA rice to public markets and accredited retailers in Legazpi City, offering a lower price of PHP27 per kilo. She also said they are planning to launch an NFA outlet inside their regional office compound in this city for walk-in consumers.

“Maybe next week we will start the truck to truck distribution of NFA rice in Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay and Sorsogon. We are now also preparing for the distribution in the island provinces of Masbate and Catanduanes that will start on July 1,” de Guzman added.

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Rice farmers support closure of border

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The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has commended the federal government’s decision to shut down a neighbouring country through which rice is smuggled on a large scale into Nigeria.

Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, President Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday that the closure of the border would encourage the patronage of local rice.

“If adequate measure is not taken to stop the activities of the smugglers, it would have adverse effects on the bumper harvests expected from the rice revolution and create rice glut,’’ he said.

Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, had announced that government would shut down a neighbouring border soon.

The minister explained that rice are being smuggled into Nigeria through the unnamed country in spite of efforts to prevail on the country to curb the menace.

Goronyo said the move has become imperative because the ongoing Rice Revolution undertaken by many state governments and Strategic Interventions by the Federal Government Agencies must not be jeopardised.

“It is a step in the right direction to ensure self-sufficiency, for the country to make progress, crash the market prices of locally produced rice and for the huge investment on rice production to be meaningful.

He said even though the importation of rice through the land borders was banned since April 2016 with an extension to the restriction of rice into the Nigerian market from the Export Processing Zones (EPZ), yet smugglers still engaged in the unwholesome act.

Goronyo said that long before now RIFAN and the Nigeria Customs Service has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to fight rice smuggling through land border into the country.

RIFAN President said the joint efforts has reduced the activities of the smugglers because the smuggled rice coming into Nigeria is just five per cent of what we consume, and the rice is coming through the informal sector.

“Any smuggler bringing rice into the Nigerian market will have to think twice because it is no longer a profitable venture the landing cost of a 50kg bag of imported rice is now N20, 000.

“So calculate how much will it be sold for the venture to be a profitable one, it’s not worth the smuggling,’’ he said.

He said to achieve the laudable feat the Comptroller-General ordered the deployment of capable officers and men to borders to enforce the order.

Goronyo added that the customs had also re-organised its anti-smuggling patrols to provide additional capability, to enforce the ban of rice import through the land borders.

The RIFAN President commended the customs officials for taking the giant stride to reinstate the confidence of the RIFAN and assuring the farmers of adequate markets for their products.

Goronyo said that the annual rice production in Nigeria has increased from 5.5 million tonnes in 2015 to 5.8 million tonnes in 2017.

He said that in 2015, Nigerians spent not less than N1 billion daily on rice consumption, adding that while spending had drastically reduced, consumption had increased because of increased local production of the commodity.

Goronyo said available data showed that the consumption rate now is 2 million tonnes, while the production rate is 5.9 tonnes per annum.

He commended the efforts of President Buhari for investing adequately in rice production adding that his policies had enhanced the progress made so far in the country.

Goronyo assured Nigerians that with the sustained implementation of the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme RIFAN is working towards achieving self-sufficiency in rice production by 2020 (NAN)

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https://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/chandigarh/criminal-cases-to-be-lodged-against-defaulter-mill-owners.htmlFood & Supplies dept looks to ensure adequate paddy procurement in districts Team MP | 19 Jun 2018 11:14 PM Kolkata: The state Food and Supplies department is taking all necessary steps to ensure adequate procurement of paddy in West Midnapore, Jhargram, Bankura and Purulia. Jyotipriya Mallick, the state Food and Supplies minister, will be visiting the districts in the end of June. Senior officials of the department will also be visiting the places along with the minister. They will be visiting the places to oversee the procurement of paddy. This comes at a time when a target of procuring 35 lakh MT paddy has been set in the boro season. So far, the procurement of 29.5 lakh MT has become possible. The process of procuring the remaining quantity of paddy is going on in full swing to reach the target. Mallick held a high level meeting in Khadya Bhavan on Tuesday. The state Agriculture minister Asish Banerjee, Pradip Mazumder, advisor to the Chief Minister on agriculture, senior officials of the Food and Supplies department, district controllers and representatives of both Bengal Rice Millers' Association and District Rice Millers' Association, were also present in the meeting. After the meeting, Mallick said: "I, along with officials of my department, will be visiting the districts in the end of June to oversee the procurement of paddy." During the minister's visit to the district, he will hold meeting with administrative officers, distributors and dealers there. He further said that rice cannot be stocked for than two months in any district. So, directions have been given in Tuesday's meeting, to disburse the excess quantity of rice after maintaining a stock of two to three months. There are districts including West Midnapore, Purulia, Bankura and Jhargram, where paddy will be sent from Burdwan and Birbhum. It will help in ensuring adequate stock of rice in all districts. Mallick said: "Our target is to support farmers and to ensure that they get the right price so that they do not have to go for distress sell." With steps taken by the Mamata Banerjee government, there was hardly any case of distress sell in the past seven years, since her government came to power

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Rice millers, LCCI, Sani differ on border closure decision

Published June 20, 2018

Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Muda Yusuf

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Rice millers in the country have welcomed the decision of the Federal Government to shut the nation’s borders with an unnamed neighbouring country in an effort to stem the influx of smuggled rice and grow the local industry.

However, the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, and the Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Muda Yusuf, said closing the borders would not be the solution to rice smuggling.

The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, had stated on Monday while speaking with youths at a leadership clinic under the auspices of the Guardians of the Nations International that shutting the borders had become necessary to encourage local production of rice and sustain the Nigerian economy.

Commending the pronouncement, the President, Rice Millers, Importers and Distributors of Nigeria, Mr Tunji Owoeye, said the decision should have been taken long before now.

“They should have shut the border a long time ago. Stakeholders have invested a lot to grow the rice sector and it is smuggling that can mess up the entire efforts,” he told our correspondent in a telephone in interview.

According to him, without smuggling, Nigeria will be self-sufficient in rice production in two years.

The Managing Director, Stine Industries, millers of the Anambra Rice, Mr Akai Egwuonwu, said the decision was a good one and would reduce the appetite of Nigerians for foreign rice, make local millers work harder to fill the demand gap that would be created, and in the process, there would be employment opportunities for people in the rice value chain.

He maintained that even though enforcement was usually a problem with such a move, the fact that the government had pronounced it would send signals to importers that bringing rice across the border was now illegal.

Egwuonwu stated that the situation would make it easy to have statistics of local rice demand to guide the local millers on the volume they needed to supply.

While the millers have commended the decision, other players in the economy, however, expressed reservations about it.

Sani stated that the decision was a wrong one.

“It’s wrong to shut down the land borders because of rice smuggling. Our layers of security operatives should be able to combat or prevent smuggling without suffocating legitimate businesses and stifling border communities,” he noted in a tweet on Tuesday.

The LCCI DG, Yusuf, stated that the approach was a wrong one.

According to him, smuggling is a symptom of a problem and the best way to tackle it is to deal with the cause.

He listed the causes of smuggling as the high cost of local rice, high tariff on imports, and weak and compromised government officials at the borders.

Yusuf maintained that shutting the borders would hurt innocent small business operators who make a living by exporting goods to neighbouring countries.

According to him, the Nigerian economy is not all about rice, and the ministers of the Interior, Foreign Affairs and, Industry, Trade and Investment should be consulted on the matter.

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Rice Transplanter Machine Market to Observe Strong Development of 11.5% CAGR by 2026 | Top Key Company’s (Yanmar, Iseki, Jiangsu World Agriculture Machinery, Changfa Agricultural Equipment, Kubota, TYM, CLAAS)

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The Global Rice Transplanter Machine Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.5% during the forecast period. Growing investment opportunity in the agricultural sector rise in machinery size and proliferation of various types of machines is a key driving factors for the market growth. However, lack of investments for small farmers to replace old machinery is limiting the expansion of the rice transplanter machine market. Moreover, manufacturing of farming plant equipment, engines and construction equipment’s will also boost the opportunities for players in this market. One of the major trends in the market is setting up of research and development centers by such major player.

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Based on Distribution Channel, Offline Distribution Channel segment is anticipated to dominate the market during forecast period. It is generally divided into three types, which are direct-to-consumer, distributors and dealers. The merchants build business collaborated directly with users such as farmers and farming corporations in direct-to-consumer channel. Dealers and distributors as well as international distributors and country distributors contributed almost 80% of revenue to the offline rice planting machine segment because farmers are not technologically advanced to buy the product online.

Geographically, Asia Pacific is the largest growing market owing to the growing the requirement for better machinery. Countries such as China, India, and Indonesia have huge implementation of rice transplanter machines.

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Kumamoto company turns to brown rice paste in bid to revive Japan’s abandoned farmland

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Alarmed by an increase in abandoned rice paddies amid the Westernization of the Japanese diet and a graying population, a Kyushu dealer of major agricultural machinery-maker Kubota Corp. began producing rice flour in 2010 as an ingredient for bread and pasta to make up for declines in rice consumption.

After trial and error, the Kumamoto Prefecture-based company discovered that using paste instead of flour could be cost effective for bread and pasta production and turned its attention to brown rice, whose bran outer layer is rich with nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and fiber.

The layer is polished off in the production of white rice.

Consequently, brown rice paste was born.

“Many people know brown rice is healthy, but don’t make it a part of their diet because its cooking process is rather troublesome. Also, brown rice is harder to chew and digest than white rice,” said Tadahiko Nishiyama, president of Nakakyushu–Kubota Co., which invented the paste.

Brown rice needs to be soaked in water for 12 hours before being cooked, but the paste allows consumers to skip this tedious process. Bread made from brown rice sold at Genkido, the company’s specialized bakery in Kumamoto, has attracted customers from inside and outside the prefecture since its opening in 2014, according to the operator of the bakery.

“The paste can be easily used and its particle size is as fine as starch, making the food made from it moist and doughy. It can also be used to make dressings and sauces,” Nishiyama explained in a recent interview.

In addition to the Kumamoto bakery, the company opened a new outlet in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on June 14 by tying up with a Tokyo public relations agency. The restaurant, Genmai Genkido, features dishes made from the brown rice paste, including pasta, pancakes and canapes.

The new eatery targets health-conscious customers, especially those allergic or sensitive to wheat or proteins found in wheat, as its dishes are free of gluten, Nishiyama said.

“I liked the texture of the pasta. It was elastic,” said a female customer in her 30s who ate spaghetti Bolognese made from the brown rice paste on the restaurant’s opening day.

A 60-year-old woman, who had brown rice risotto, said, “I always had the impression that brown rice was hard to chew, but today’s rice was not.”

Genmai Genkido aims to serve only high-purity brown rice products and offers bread wholly made from the grain, as it strives to become a restaurant known for gluten-free dishes.

Gluten-free diets have been slowly gaining awareness in Japan, after former World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic, who used to be sponsored by Uniqlo, revealed in his 2013 book that going gluten-free transformed his health and pushed him to the sport’s pinnacle.

Technically speaking, processing brown rice into paste has advantages compared with making rice flour from the grain, as the simpler process mitigates damage to the product and reduces production costs, according to Nishiyama.

When brown rice powder is made, bran containing fatty and sugar content tends to stick to milling machines. The powder also oxidizes quickly, making it tougher to keep for long periods of time.

But when brown rice, including the bran it contains, is made into paste, it doesn’t stick to machines. The product can then be frozen and kept for up to six months, meaning it can be conveniently shipped and widely distributed.

“We learned (brown) rice flour has limitations, so we started the business of baking bread with brown rice paste, following the advice of a former farm ministry bureaucrat,” Nishiyama said.

In financial terms, producing brown rice paste costs about the same as making rice flour, but the company hopes its promotion of the new foodstuff results in higher demand for the paste and eventually lower production costs.

The Kumamoto company was eager to curb the decline in rice consumption with its invention, especially after 2011 government data showed annual spending on bread in households of two or more people exceeded that of rice for the first time in Japan.

“About 7 million tons of rice are produced yearly in Japan, while the country imports some 5 million tons of wheat for production of bread, pasta and other food items,” Nishiyama said. “If only 1 million tons of that wheat can be switched to rice, half of some 420,000 hectares of abandoned arable land in the country can be revived.”

According to 2015 government statistics, Japan had 423,000 hectares of deserted farmland, an area roughly the size of Ishikawa Prefecture.

The company has been procuring rice grown by Kumamoto farmers with limited use of pesticides and processing it to a paste at a factory in the prefecture. It also sells brown rice paste wholesale to companies in the food industry and has promoted brown rice pasta at a food event in Singapore.

Although its factory was completed shortly before two major earthquakes hit Kumamoto in April 2016, it could not operate fully for about six months following the disaster.

“If the Tokyo restaurant proves successful, we’d like to further increase food outlets that use brown rice paste and recover the ‘golden harvest’ of rice in local farming villages,” Nishiyama said.

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Arkansas is commonly referred to as the Natural State, but it could also be called the rice state. Rice farmers in the state planted 1.161 million acres last year, about 47.1% of all rice acres planted in the U.S., according to the B.R. Wells Arkansas Rice Research study issued by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.

Those acres accounted for 82.6 million hundredweight of rice, and it represented 46.4% of the 178.2 million hundredweight produced in the country.

During the last three years, Arkansas has accounted for more than 47% of the nation’s total rice production, the report found. Per acre, farmers had a yield of 164.4 bushels per acre or 7,400 pounds. It was the third highest yield on record in the state and a 570 pound per acre uptick from 2016.

Six counties – Poinsett, Lawrence, Lonoke, Jackson, Greene, and Arkansas – account for 43.6% of the rice crop in state in 2017. Planting during the last year outpaced the five-year average, the report found. By mid-April, farmers had planted 68% of the rice crop, as compared to the 38% average by mid-April on average. By the end of that month 89% had been planted, about 24% of ahead of normal pace.

There are a number of factors that have led to Arkansas becoming the top rice-producing state, Craighead County extension chair Branon Thiesse told Talk Business & Politics. Water retention is key to creating a successful rice paddy.

“We’ve got lots of soils that hold water really well,” he said.

Many parts of the state and especially in the eastern section have flat land that is easy to flood, he said. Clay is a common sub-soil in the region, and it doesn’t allow water to penetrate. The weather is suited to growing rice, and until recently the ground water supply was plentiful, he added.

Several other states grow rice, but none have enough suitable land to grow the same volume as the Natural State.

Rice is grown in 40 of Arkansas’ 75 counties and is predominately grown in the eastern section of the state. The first rice crop was grown on a single acre in Lonoke County in 1902, although there are reports of the crop in the state before the Civil War, according to historians. Rice acres steadily grew from then and by 1955 the federal government initiated a set of controls capping the number of rice acres at 500,000. Controls were lifted in the 1970s, and the number of rice acres continued to grow. The state set its all-time rice acreage record in 2010 when farmers planted 1.785 million acres.

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A UA Division of Agriculture report published March 8 estimated a negative impact on Arkansas’ rice crop if countries retaliate to tariffs and other trade barriers proposed by President Donald Trump.

The UA economists assumed that only Canada, South Korea, Mexico, Turkey, Japan, the European Union and Taiwan would retaliate to U.S. trade actions.

“Both the U.S. long grain and medium grain rice markets stand to lose from the retaliatory measures of the selected importing countries,” Alvaro Durand-Morat, assistant professor of agriculture, noted in the report. “We estimate total U.S. rice production and exports to drop 1.3 percent and 3 percent, respectively, and domestic consumption increases marginally, as a result of the implementation of import tariffs on U.S. rice.”

Other report findings include:
• The total value of U.S. rice production would decrease by $151 million due to a combination of lower producer prices and output;
• Rice producers’ welfare, measured by the producer surplus, would decrease by $118 million;
• U.S. consumers would benefit from the trade restrictions through lower prices, increasing their welfare some $66 million; and
• Exports to Mexico and Canada would decrease significantly, but the impact would be much smaller in Japan because it already imposes high restrictions on rice imports.

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The center will sit on a 614 acre swath about five miles south of Jonesboro on Arkansas 1 just over the border in Poinsett County. How much the center will cost has not been determined, and final plans are still being formulated, he said. A timetable for work to begin on the project was not released, but officials hope the facility will be operational by 2021.

The Division of Agriculture now conducts research on rice production in Stuttgart at the Rice Research and Extension Center and at the Northeast Research and Extension Center in Keiser. Soil differences are the reason why another research facility is needed, officials said.

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The IRRI offered its assistance to Sri Lanka when a delegation of the institute led by its Director General Dr. Matthew Morell met with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena at the President's Official Residence in Colombo, today (19).

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During the meeting with President Sirisena, the Director General emphasized the importance of being self-sufficient to meet the demand for rice consumption nationally amid the climatic changes faced by the countries in the region.

The Director General said the IRRI is keen to work with Sri Lanka's Department of Agriculture to increase the quality of rice production in Sri Lanka and to provide technical assistance to reduce post-harvest losses. He also said that it is expected to introduce new techniques to promote the value addition of rice.

President Sirisena noting that the country's rice production has suffered due to climatic changes experienced in the recent past said the objective of the Government is to transform Sri Lanka into a nation self-sufficient in food while facing such challenges.

Extending his gratitude to the IRRI Director General, the President said Sri Lanka is looking forward to exchange the new technical knowledge and experiences with the other countries in the region.

As a first step to begin restoring the country's rice self-sufficiency, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Agriculture and the IRRI signed an agreement today to identify priority areas for Sri Lanka's agriculture and outline broad areas for collaboration.

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Dr. WMW Weerakoon, Director General of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, on behalf of Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera and Director General for IRRI Dr. Matthew Morell signed the agreement, which will guide the planning and implementation of strategic initiatives in the country to re-invigorate Sri Lanka's rice sector and support the government in achieving their key goal of self-sufficiency in rice.

�Sri Lanka's drive to restore rice self-sufficiency aligns with our goal in ensuring food and nutrition security in the region,� said Dr. Morell. �The Heads of Agreement that has been formalized now will help the Institute coordinate its efforts in supporting the Government of Sri Lanka as it strengthens the resilience of its rice and rice-based agri-food systems against climate change,� he added.

Rice is the staple food in Sri Lanka and, until recently, the country had achieved self-sufficiency in rice production. In recent years, however, rice production in the country has been constantly challenged by the increasing impacts of climate change and last year, the country was forced to import 700,000 tons of rice due to untimely flooding and its worst drought after 37 years.

In addition, stagnation in yield growth; high costs of production, particularly labor costs; low private sector investment/engagement in rice-based agri-food systems; and weakening national rice research capacity all challenged the rice production.

These recent challenges highlight the requirement for innovative solutions and partnerships to maintain Sri Lanka's rice self-sufficiency, the IRRI noted.

The 50-year long partnership between the IRRI and Sri Lanka has contributed to the country's rice self-sufficiency. Supported by IRRI's research, Sri Lanka currently cultivates 95% of the land that is available for rice cultivation with rice varieties that produce stable yields, require fewer inputs, and are climate resilient. The institute also helps the conservation of genetic diversity of Sri Lanka's rice varieties through its rice gene bank

The IRRI-Sri Lanka partnership is keen to prioritize opportunities in: improving the exchange of rice varieties and germplasm; developing hybrid rice; ensuring efficiency in rice-based agri-food systems, water use, mechanization, and climate change resilient rice production systems; as well as strengthening national agriculture leadership capacity.

An official work plan is also expected to be signed by the two parties in the near future, to outline a precise plan of action for furthering food and nutrition security via rice-based agri-food systems in Sri Lanka, the IRRI said.

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Rice within the octagon in this field is part of an experiment to grow rice under different levels of carbon dioxide.

Toshihiro Hasegawa, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization of Japan

Plants need carbon dioxide to live, but its effects on them are complicated.

As the level of carbon dioxide in the air continues to rise because of human activity, scientists are trying to pin down how the plants we eat are being affected.

Mounting evidence suggests that many key plants lose nutritional value at higher CO₂ levels, and scientists are running experiments all over the world to try to tease out the effects.

Rows of controlled chambers that look kind of like industrial refrigerators are testing how plants react to different levels of CO₂ at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory outside of Washington, D.C.

On a recent afternoon, Lewis Ziska, who's a plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, demonstrates an experiment there with a crop important to many of us — coffee.

The chamber is really bright to mimic the sun. A few neat rows of green coffee plants are growing. The air that they're absorbing has about the same amount of CO₂ as in the preindustrial age, about 250 years ago.

Across the hall, we can see a possible glimpse of the plant's future. Here, there's a chamber with plants growing at CO₂ levels projected for the end of this century.

"Some of the varieties, you ought to see that they're bigger," says Ziska. They've all been growing for the same amount of time, but the high CO₂coffee plants are larger. The extra CO₂ seems to be making them grow faster.

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Scientists have noticed that in many kinds of plants, higher CO₂ produces bigger crops. That sounds like a good thing.

But there's a problem. Bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. And while they're still testing what this means for coffee's quality, scientists have seen that other crops have lost some of their nutritional value under higher CO₂ conditions.

One example is rice, a primary food source for more than 2 billion people.

Ziska recently teamed up with an international group of scientists to study whether high CO₂ had an effect on the rice's nutrition. "Was it changing not just how the plant grew, but the quality of the plant?" he asked.

They tested how 18 different kinds of rice responded to CO₂ levels that are projected by the end of the century, based on conservative estimates, Ziska says.

The technique they used, called free-air CO₂ enrichment, allowed them to grow the rice and add CO₂ to the air immediately surrounding the plants using a big hoop in the middle of a field, Ziska explains. They did this over multiple years in facilities in Japan and China.

And the effect was clear: Higher CO₂ reduced multiple key measures of rice's nutritional value. Across the different types of rice, they observed average decreases of 10 percent in protein, 8 percent in iron and 5 percent in zinc. Four important B vitamins decreased between 13 and 30 percent. The research was recently published in Science Advances.

Higher carbon dioxide is not just affecting rice. There's evidence that the scope of this is much bigger. Harvard's Sam Myers, who studies the impact of climate change on nutrition, has tested CO₂'s impact on the protein, iron and zinc of a number of staple crops using the same free-air CO₂ enrichment technique.

"Most of the food crops that we consume showed these nutrient reductions," Myers says.

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The effects varied somewhat — he says wheat showed declines in protein, iron and zinc, and soybeans and field peas showed declines in iron and zinc. Maize and sorghum were less affected.

These studies are enough to raise concerns about the impact on human health, he says.

"Under what circumstances would this be a big problem?" Most likely, he says, it would be in situations where someone is "living relatively near a threshold of nutrient insufficiencies, so you're just barely getting enough of that particular nutrient." And secondly, it would more harmful when that person gets a meaningful amount of a nutrient from the crop that's losing nutritional value.

"There's quite high global vulnerability to these effects, and we're likely to see really significant health impacts from these nutrient changes," he adds.

At the same time, the exact health effects of this are still unclear, says Naomi Fukagawa, the director of the USDA's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, who was part of the team researching rice. She says it's hard to know how a person's health will be affected by changes to the nutritional quality of a specific food in a mixed diet. "We don't quite have all the answers yet," she says.

But if this is indeed found to negatively impact people's health, she says, "what we need to then know, is what else do we have that's part of their diet that's culturally sensitive that can make up for those differences?"

Scientists also don't understand what it is about higher CO₂ that causes plants to become less nutritious, Ziska says, though they have some theories.

"We don't have one simple explanation as to what might be happening," he says. One possibility is that it could be a simple dilution effect – "as the plants grow more, they become carbon-rich but nutrient-poor."

However, Myers notes that if this were the cause, all of the nutrients would be decreasing at approximately the same rate. And that's not necessarily the case. For example, with the recent rice study, most of the minerals and vitamins tested went down, but vitamin E went up.

Another theory, Ziska says, is that the rising carbon dioxide levels change how water moves through the plant, which could also affect some of the nutrients.

"There's a lot about this that we don't understand yet," he says. "And the need to understand this in terms of the potential implications for food quality, and of course for human health, are imperative."

CorrectionJune 20, 2018

A previous photo credit misspelled Toshihiro Hasegawa's last name as Jasegawa.

Previously posted on June 19: In previous audio and Web versions of this story, we stated that carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere are rising because of climate change. In fact, they are rising because of human activity.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/19/616098095/as-carbon-dioxide-levels-rise-major-crops-are-losing-nutrients

SUCs and rice importation

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“PH to import 250,000 tons of rice from Vietnam, Thailand”

“Rice importation still needed, says PhilRice.”

When headlines such as these hog the front pages of major dailies, one is wont to ask: Why all the fuss on importation with no mention of production?

Some say that there is a need to import rice to feed the burgeoning population of the country, and to enable consumers access to more affordable rice. Others, on the other hand, aver that importation “aggravates the situation of the hurting rice sector” because farmers cannot compete with cheaper and usually subsidized rice imports.

Controversies of this nature bring us to the role State Universities and Colleges (SUC) – Colleges of Agriculture play on rice production.

Erstwhile CHED Commissioner Carlito S. Puno stated in a Keynote speech “SUCs as Leaders of Economic Development” delivered during the Mid-Year Conference of the Philippine Association for State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) and in a “Symposium on the Rationalization of Public HEIs: Some thirty years ago, we taught the Thailanders how to plant rice. In five years’ time, they became self-sufficient in rice and in another five years, they became the world’s number one exporter of rice.”

In the same manner, 40 years ago there was hunger in South Korea so they sent their agriculturists to the Philippines to learn how to increase their rice production. Our engineers were also tapped to construct the first four-story building and other infrastructure projects in South Korea. In ten years’ time, the situation was reversed.

Commissioner Puno further observed that among our state universities and colleges, a good number are in agriculture. Our agricultural faculty members and researchers, he opined, are world-class academicians. We can see them providing leadership and expertise in international and regional institutions here and abroad. But why has the country’s agricultural sector not been so efficient?

Simply stated, why are we still importing rice despite the agricultural expertise of SUCs?.

Every national government administration promises to remedy this situation, Thus, a few years ago, the DA secretary assured the country that there will no longer be rice importation by 2013 under DA’s Agri-Pinoy program. The secretary told farmers, irrigators, local leaders, and various stakeholders at a Farmers Forum in Kalinga, that the Philippines will achieve rice sufficiency in three years and will stop importing rice from other countries. It is now 2018 and the recent headlines speak for themselves.

As to the SUCs’ rice production record, we take as sample a state university in the province — the University of Eastern Philippines, which celebrates its centennial anniversary today. Founded in 1918 as the Catarman Farm School, it metamorphosed into a National Agricultural High School, to a state college as the Samar Institute of Technology, later converted into the University of Eastern Philippines, a comprehensive university currently with nine colleges producing board topnotchers in nursing, engineering, teacher education, veterinary medicine, accounting; and agriculture, criminology board passers and bar passers.

Rice production did not spread out much to the province. The agricultural school, however, had its moments of seeming abundance, ironically when the agricultural school was converted into the Samar Institute of Technology. Under the watch of its first president Lt. Col. Emeterio Asinas, faculty members and employees – from the president down to the lowliest gardener, were receiving a sack of rice and 2 dozen eggs every month, to the point that a few began selling rice and eggs in sari-sari stores. But nowhere was the plentiful rice due to the presence of the agricultural college in the university. And the same may be said of the presence of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the UP Los Baños, or any big-name agricultural school in an SUC. Not one can claim to have averted rice importation in a province, region and/or country because of its production.

What then is the answer to the past commissioner’s comment on the efficiency of the agricultural sector?

SUCs may claim that their main function is to teach and not necessarily to produce. In fact, the Chinese proverb, “Give a man fish and he will live for a day; teach a man to fish, and he will have food for life,” is now being paraphrased in the joke, “Teach a man to plant rice and he will know how to import.”

Time was when the SUCs tripod functions were Reseach, Instruction, and Extension. Now a fourth one has been added: Production, with many implications inclusive of manpower production, instructional materials, agricultural technology flyers research outputs, bookwriting, consultancy, and community services.

Rice importation they say, is not a technical question, nor an academic problem to be solved by the SUCs “world class academicians” and expert agriculture faculty and researchers.

So, to import or not to import? To produce or not to produce?

The question is political, to be addressed by the state and not by the academe.

https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/06/19/sucs-and-rice-importation/

oal plant waste helps build environmentally-friendly, cementless concrete

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Michael Irving

June 19th, 2018

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A scanning electron microscope image of fly ash particles, which have been used to make an environmentally friendly binder for concrete production that requires no cement(Credit:Multiscale Materials Laboratory)

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Concrete production is one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the world, after transportation and energy. To make the ubiquitous building material more environmentally friendly, the industry has been adding by-products from coal-fired power plants, but doing so had its own problems. Now, researchers at Rice University have developed a new composite binder that can almost completely replace cement, and reduce waste from power plants at the same time.

Fly ash is made up of the loose, airborne particles created as coal is burned in power plants. This material is usually captured, and while some is recycled, most ends up in landfill. Concrete is one of the main uses of recycled fly ash, since binders based on that waste material don't need the same high-temperature, energy-intensive processing that Portland cement does. In turn, that cuts back on the emissions generated during concrete production, plus it can also make the resulting concrete stronger and more resistant to corrosion.

But most of these mixtures only use a relatively small amount of fly ash, and worse, it requires larger amounts of sodium-based activators. That can cancel out both the environmental and cost benefits.

"The industry typically mixes five to 20 percent fly ash into cement to make it green, but a significant portion of the mix is still cement," says Rouzbeh Shahsavari, co-author of the study. "And in the end it was more expensive than cement."

Using Taguchi analysis, the Rice researchers were able to determine the most effective recipe and mixing strategies for their new composite. That allowed them to settle on an optimal balance of about 80 percent fly ash, five percent of a sodium-based activator, and the rest made up of nanosilica and calcium oxide. The mixture is completely free of Portland cement, the team says.

The type of fly ash used is key. Most other projects use what's known as type F fly ash, rich in silicon and aluminum. The Rice team however used type C, which has a higher calcium content.

"A majority of past works focused on so-called type F fly ash, which is derived from burning anthracite or bituminous coals in power plants and has low calcium content," says Shahsavari. "But globally, there are significant sources of lower grade coal such as lignite or sub-bituminous coals. Burning them results in high-calcium, or type C, fly ash, which has been more difficult to activate. Our work provides a viable path for efficient and cost-effective activation of this type of high-calcium fly ash, paving the path for the environmentally responsible manufacture of concrete."

In tests, concrete made using the new fly ash binder was found after seven days to have compressive strength of 16.18 MPa, which is comparable to conventional concrete made with Portland cement.

While these early results are promising for a more environmentally friendly concrete that's just as strong as the regular stuff, the team says it plans to further investigate the properties of the new material, including its long-term behavior, shrinkage and durability.

The research was published in the Journal of the American Ceramics

https://newatlas.com/fly-ash-concrete-strong-green/55087/

Director General of IRRI met with President

PMD News (Ge) Tuesday June 19th, 2018

The Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said that they are ready to provide required technical assistance in utilizing satellite technology to reduce the impact of climate change on the country’s rice production.

The Director General of the IRRI Dr. Matthew Morell made these remarks when he and his delegation met with President MaithripalaSirisena at the President’s Official Residence in Colombo, today (19).

During this meeting he emphasized the importance of being self-sufficientto meet the demand forrice consumption nationallywith the climatic changes faced by the countries in the region.

The Director General said that their institutionis keen to work with the Department of Agriculture to increase the quality of rice production in Sri Lanka and to provide technical assistance to reduce post-harvest losses. He also said that it is expected to introduce new techniques to promote the value addition of rice.

Expressing his views President Sirisenasaid that the country’s rice production has been affected due to climatic changes that were experienced in the recent past.

The President said that the objective of the Government is to transform Sri Lanka into a self-sufficient nation while facing such challenges and further said that it is expected to exchange the new technical knowledge and experiences with the other countries in the region.

The President extended his gratitude to the Director General of the International Rice Research Institute for visiting Sri Lanka and said that he wish to visit the IRRI in Philippines in the near future.

http://www.pmdnews.lk/director-general-of-irri-met-with-president/

Global Rice Seeds Market 2018 – Bayer,Nuziveedu Seeds,Kaveri,Mahyco,RiceTec,Krishidhan,Rasi Seeds,JK seeds,Syngenta

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Replacing Potatoes or Rice with Lentils Lowers Blood Glucose

Jun 19, 2018 by News Staff / Source

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A new study from the University of Guelph shows that replacing half of the available carbohydrates from potatoes or rice with cooked lentils can lower blood glucose levels by more than 20% in healthy adults. The study appears in the Journal of Nutrition.

Lentils significantly reduce blood glucose. Image credit: Maxmann.

“Pulses, such as lentils, are extremely nutrient-dense food that have the potential to reduce chronic diseases associated with mismanaged glucose levels,” said Professor Alison Duncan, from the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph.

“They contain components that inhibit enzymes involved in absorption of glucose, and fiber contained in these foods can encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids, which can also help to reduce blood glucose levels.”

In the study, Professor Duncan and co-authors aimed to determine the extent to which the blood glucose response is lowered when half of the available carbohydrates from rice or potato is replaced with cooked lentils.

They involved 24 healthy adults fed four dishes: white rice only, half white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils.

They measured glucose levels in the participants’ blood before they ate and during two hours afterward. They repeated the process for white potatoes alone and the same combinations of potatoes and lentils.

“We mixed the lentils in with the potatoes and rice because people don’t typically eat pulses on their own, but rather consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we wanted the results to reflect that,” Professor Duncan explained.

Blood glucose fell by similar amounts when half of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils.

“Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20%,” the scientists said.

“Replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35% drop.”

Blood glucose comprises sugar found in the blood during digestion in the upper digestive tract and depends on the starch content of foods consumed.

Pulses can slow digestion and the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing blood glucose levels.

“This slower absorption means you don’t experience a spike in glucose,” Professor Duncan said.

“Having high levels over a period of time can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk.”

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Dita Moravek et al. 2018. Carbohydrate Replacement of Rice or Potato with Lentils Reduces the Postprandial Glycemic Response in Healthy Adults in an Acute, Randomized, Crossover Trial. Journal of Nutrition 148 (4): 535-541; doi: 10.1093/jn/nxy018

http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/lentils-blood-glucose-06114.html

Warned 30 years ago, global warming 'is in our living room'

June 19th, 2018by Associated Pressin NewsRead Time: 4 mins.

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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2017 file photo, smoke rises behind a destroyed apartment complex as a wildfire burns in Ventura, Calif. In the 30 years since 1988, the number of acres burned in the U.S. by wildfires has doubled. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — We were warned.

On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn't approaching — it had already arrived. The testimony of the top NASA scientist, Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley said, was "the opening salvo of the age of climate change."

Thirty years later, it's clear Hansen and other doomsayers were right. However, the change has been so sweeping that it is easy to lose sight of effects large and small — some obvious, others less conspicuous.

Earth is noticeably hotter, the weather stormier and more extreme. Polar regions have lost billions of tons of ice; sea levels have been raised by trillions of gallons of water. Far more wildfires rage.

Over 30 years — the time period climate scientists often use in their studies in order to minimize natural weather variations — the world's annual temperature has warmed nearly 1 degree, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the temperature in the United States has gone up even more — nearly 1.6 degrees.

"The biggest change over the last 30 years, which is most of my life, is that we're no longer thinking just about the future," said Kathie Dello, a climate scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. "Climate change is here, it's now and it's hitting us hard from all sides."

Warming hasn't been just global, it's been all too local. According to an Associated Press statistical analysis of 30 years of weather, ice, fire, ocean, biological and other data, every single one of the 344 climate divisions in the Lower 48 states — NOAA groupings of counties with similar weather — has warmed significantly, as has each of 188 cities examined.

The effects have been felt in cities from Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the yearly average temperature rose 2.9 degrees in the past 30 years, to Yakima, Washington, where the thermometer jumped a tad more. In the middle, Des Moines, Iowa, warmed by 3.3 degrees since 1988.

South central Colorado, the climate division just outside Salida, has warmed 2.3 degrees on average since 1988, among the warmest divisions in the contiguous United States.

When she was a little girl 30 years ago, winery marketing chief Jessica Shook used to cross country ski from her Salida doorstep in winter. It was that cold and there was that much snow. Now, she has to drive about 50 miles for snow that's not on mountain tops, she said.

"T-shirt weather in January, that never used to happen when I was a child," Shook said. When Buel Mattix bought his heating and cooling system company 15 years ago in Salida, he had maybe four air conditioning jobs a year. Now he's got a waiting list of 10-15 air conditioning jobs long and may not get to all of them.

And then there's the effect on wildfires. Veteran Salida firefighter Mike Sugaski used to think a fire of 10,000 acres was big. Now he fights fires 10 times as large.

"You kind of keep saying 'How can they get much worse?' But they do," said Sugaski, who was riding his mountain bike on what usually are ski trails in January this year.

In fact, wildfires in the United States now consume more than twice the acreage they did 30 years ago.

The statistics tracking climate change since 1988 are almost numbing. North America and Europe have warmed 1.89 degrees — more than any other continent. The Northern Hemisphere has warmed more than the Southern, the land faster than the ocean. Across the United States, temperature increases were most evident at night and in summer and fall. Heat rose at a higher rate in the North than the South.

Since 1988, daily heat records have been broken more than 2.3 million times at weather stations across the nation, half a million times more than cold records were broken.

Doreen Pollack fled Chicago cold for Phoenix more than two decades ago, but in the past 30 years night time summer heat has increased almost 3.3 degrees there. She said when the power goes out, it gets unbearable, adding: "Be careful what you ask for."

The Associated Press interviewed more than 50 scientists who confirmed the depth and spread of warming.

Clara Deser, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said when dealing with 30-year time periods in smaller regions than continents or the globe as a whole, it would be unwise to say all the warming is man-made. Her studies show in some places in North America — though not most — natural weather variability could account for as much as half of local warming.

However, when you look at the globe as a whole, especially since 1970, nearly all the warming is man-made, said Zeke Hausfather of the independent science group Berkeley Earth. Without extra carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, he said, the Earth would be slightly cooling from a weakening sun. Numerous scientific studies and government reports calculate that greenhouse gases in the big picture account for more than 90 percent of post-industrial Earth's warming.

"It would take centuries to a millennium to accomplish that kind of change with natural causes. This, in that context, is a dizzying pace," said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

Since the 1800s scientists have demonstrated that certain gases in Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun like a blanket. Human activities such as burning of coal, oil and gasoline are releasing more of those gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. U.S. and international science reports say more than 90 percent of the warming that has happened since 1950 is man-made.

Others cautioned that what might seem to be small increases in temperature should not be taken lightly.

"One or two degrees may not sound like much, but raising your thermostat by just that amount will make a noticeable effect on your comfort," said Deke Arndt, NOAA's climate monitoring chief in Asheville, North Carolina, which has warmed nearly 1.8 degrees in 30 years.

Arndt said average temperatures don't tell the entire story: "It's the extremes that these changes bring."

The nation's extreme weather — flood-inducing downpours, extended droughts, heat waves and bitter cold and snow — has doubled in 30 years, according to a federal index.

http://www.newstribune.com/news/news/story/2018/jun/19/warned-30-years-ago-global-warming-is-in-our-living-room/731184/

Scientists develop eco-friendly concrete from fly ash

Fly ash binder does not require the high-temperature processing of cement, yet tests showed it has the same compressive strength after seven days of curing.PTI | June 19, 2018, 15:40 IST

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Description: Scientists develop eco-friendly concrete from fly ash Washington: Scientists have developed a material using fly ash - a byproduct of coal-fired power plants - that can replace cement in concrete, paving the way for greener buildings and structures in the future.

Fly ash binder does not require the high-temperature processing of cement, yet tests showed it has the same compressive strength after seven days of curing.

It also requires only a small fraction of the sodium-based activation chemicals used to harden cement.

The material is cementless and environment friendly, said Rouzbeh Shahsavari, an assistant professor at the Rice University in the US.

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Over 20 billion tonnes of concrete are produced around the world every year in a manufacturing process that contributes 5 to 10 per cent of carbon dioxide to global emissions, surpassed only by transportation and energy as the largest producers of the greenhouse gas.

Manufacturers often use a small amount of silicon- and aluminum-rich fly ash as a supplement to Portland cement in concrete.

"The industry typically mixes 5 to 20 per cent fly ash into cement to make it green, but a significant portion of the mix is still cement," said Shahsavari.

Previous attempts to entirely replace cement with a fly ash compound required large amounts of expensive sodium-based activators that negate the environmental benefits, he said.

"And in the end it was more expensive than cement," he said.

"A majority of past works focused on so-called type F fly ash, which is derived from burning anthracite or bituminous coals in power plants and has low calcium content," Shahsavari said.

"But globally, there are significant sources of lower grade coal such as lignite or sub-bituminous coals. Burning them results in high-calcium, or type C, fly ash, which has been more difficult to activate," he said.

"Our work provides a viable path for efficient and cost-effective activation of this type of high-calcium fly ash, paving the path for the environmentally responsible manufacture of concrete. Future work will assess such properties as long-term behaviour, shrinkage and durability," he added.

Shahsavari suggested the same strategy could be used to turn other industrial waste, such as blast furnace slag and rice hulls, into environmentally friendly cement-like materials without the use of cement.

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	*EPA scientists get a lesson in rice production irrigation from California farmer Mike DeWitt*

EPA Staff Explores California Rice Country

By Lydia Holmes

SACRAMENTO, CA -- Last week USA Rice and the California Rice Commission (CRC) hosted five staff from across the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs to experience rice growing and milling in California firsthand.

With the need for new plant protection products ever growing, these tours bring EPA personnel, new and experienced, out to the farm to inform them of key pesticide issues facing rice growers across the country.

"USA Rice arranged a similar tour of Louisiana rice country last year," said USA Rice Regulatory Affairs and Food Safety Committee Chairman Ray Vester. "It served as a bridge building exercise between the regulatory agency and the rice industry, and all involved deemed it an unqualified success. Continuing the tour this year was a no brainer."

Stops on the tour included several rice farms to learn about how rice is grown and to see pesticide application by ground sprayer, a rice mill to learn how rice gets from farm to grocery store shelves, a flying service to discuss aerial pesticide application, the California Rice Experiment Station to learn more about key pests and diseases, and another rice farm to observe the immense wildlife that call rice fields home.

A special interest of the EPA scientists was water modeling, so a large focus of the week was the role of water in rice production, and water monitoring done in the area for pesticide residue, as required by the State of California through the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Department of Pesticide Regulation.

The group had plenty of opportunities to interact with all segments of the rice industry and see firsthand many things directly related to their day-to-day work. And of course, before they left town, they got to enjoy world-class sushi made with California rice to round out a week of learning.

"We really appreciate the hospitality of all California industry members who generously took time from their schedules to share knowledge with the U.S. EPA guests," said Roberta Firoved, CRC manager of industry affairs. "Fostering relationships with the U.S. EPA is invaluable in seeking new chemistry and maintaining products for the benefit of the rice industry."

Rice Webinar: Thursday June 21

Tune in Thursday, June 21 at 3:00 p.m. Central Time, for a new rice webinar hosted by Dr. Bobby Coats, with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Arkansas. Dr. S. Aaron Smith, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, will discuss marketing corn and soybeans during the growing season, plus this year's outlook and pricing opportunities.

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Climate change to make rice less nutritious

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Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 3:15 PM - Rice is the primary food source for more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford a diverse and nutritious diet that includes complete protein, grains, fruits and vegetables. They rely heavily on more affordable cereal crops, including rice, for most of their calories.

My research focuses on health risks associated with climate variability and change. In a recently published study, I worked with scientists from China, Japan, Australia and the United States to assess how the rising carbon dioxide concentrations that are fueling climate change could alter the nutritional value of rice. We conducted field studies in Asia for multiple genetically diverse rice lines, analyzing how rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere altered levels of protein, micronutrients and B vitamins.

Our data showed for the first time that rice grown at the concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide scientists expect the world to reach by 2100 has lower levels of four key B vitamins. These findings also support research from other field studies showing rice grown under such conditions contains less protein, iron and zinc, which are important in fetal and early child development. These changes could have a disproportionate impact on maternal and child health in the poorest rice-dependent countries, including Bangladesh and Cambodia.

Many of poorest regions in Asia rely on rice as a staple food. IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA

Carbon dioxide and plant growth

Higher concentrations of CO2 are generally acknowledged to stimulate plant photosynthesis and growth. This effect could make the cereal crops that remain the world’s most important sources of food, such as rice, wheat and corn, more productive, although recent research suggests that predicting impacts on plant growth is complex.

Concentrations of minerals critical for human health, particularly iron and zinc, do not change in unison with CO2 concentrations. Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops – particularly rice and wheat – respond to higher CO2 concentrations by synthesizing more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains.

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears to be on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the global population. FAO, CC BY-ND

The importance of micronutrients

Insufficient dietary iron can lead to iron deficiency anemia, a condition in which there are too few red blood cells in the body to carry oxygen. This is the most common type of anemia. It can cause fatigue, shortness of breath or chest pain, and can lead to serious complications, such as heart failure and developmental delays in children.

Zinc deficiencies are characterized by loss of appetite and diminished sense of smell, impaired wound healing, and weakened immune function. Zinc also supports growth and development, so sufficient dietary intake is important for pregnant women and growing children.

Higher carbon concentrations in plants reduce nitrogen amounts in plant tissue, which is critical for the formation of B vitamins. Different B vitamins are required for key functions in the body, such as regulating the nervous system, turning food into energy and fighting infections. Folate, a B vitamin, reduces the risk of birth defects when consumed by pregnant women.

Anemia affects one-third of women of reproductive age globally – or about 613 million women.FAO, CC BY-ND

Significant nutrition losses

On average, the rice that we grew in air with elevated CO2 concentrations contained 17 percent less vitamin B1 (thiamine) than rice grown under current CO2 concentrations; 17 percent less vitamin B2 (riboflavin); 13 percent less vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid); and 30 percent less vitamin B9 (folate). Our study is the first to identify that concentrations of B vitamins in rice are reduced with higher CO2.

We also found average reductions of 10 percent in protein, 8 percent in iron and 5 percent in zinc. We found no change in levels of vitamin B6 or calcium. The only increase we found was in vitamin E levels for most strains.

Rice within the octagon in this field is part of an experiment designed to grow rice under different atmospheric conditions. Rice grown under carbon dioxide concentrations of 568 to 590 parts per million is less nutritious, with lower amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals. Dr. Toshihiro HASEGAWA, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization of Japan, CC BY-ND

Worsening micronutrient deficiencies

The potential health risks associated with CO2-induced nutritional deficits are directly correlated to the lowest overall gross domestic product per capita. This suggests that such changes would have serious potential consequences for countries already struggling with poverty and undernutrition. Few people would associate fossil fuel combustion and deforestation with the nutritional content of rice, but our research clearly shows one way in which emitting fossil fuels could worsen world hunger challenges.

How could climate change affect other key plants?

It is also critical to identify options for avoiding or lessening these risks, from traditional plant breeding to genetic modification to supplements. Rising CO2 concentrations are driving climate change. What role these emissions will play in altering all aspects of plant biology, including the nutritional quality of the crops that we use for food, feed, fiber and fuel, remains to be determined.

Kristie Ebi, Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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Lentils significantly reduce blood glucose levels, U of G study reveals

Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study

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Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study.

Prof. Alison Duncan, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and Dan Ramdath of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, found that swapping out half of a portion of these starchy side dishes for lentils can significantly improve your body's response to the carbohydrates.

Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20 per cent. Replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35-per-cent drop.

"Pulses are extremely nutrient-dense food that have the potential to reduce chronic diseases associated with mismanaged glucose levels," said Duncan, who worked on the study with PhD student Dita Moravek and M.Sc. students Erica Rogers, Sarah Turkstra and Jessica Wilson.

Yet very few Canadians eat lentils, she added.

"Canada has a huge production of lentils, but we export most of it and only 13 per cent of Canadians eat them on any given day," said Duncan. "We are hoping this research will make people more aware of the health benefits of eating pulses."

Published and specially featured in the Journal of Nutrition, the study involved 24 healthy adults fed four dishes - white rice only, half white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils.

Researchers measured glucose levels in the participants' blood before they ate and during two hours afterward. They repeated the process for white potatoes alone and the same combinations of potatoes and lentils.

"We mixed the lentils in with the potatoes and rice because people don't typically eat pulses on their own, but rather consume them in combination with other starches as part of a larger meal, so we wanted the results to reflect that."

Blood glucose fell by similar amounts when half of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils.

Blood glucose comprises sugar found in the blood during digestion in the upper digestive tract and depends on the starch content of foods consumed.

Pulses, such as lentils, can slow digestion and the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing blood glucose levels, said Duncan.

"This slower absorption means you don't experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk."

Pulses contain components that inhibit enzymes involved in absorption of glucose, and fibre contained in these foods can encourage the production of short-chain fatty acids, which can also help to reduce blood glucose levels, added Duncan.

Health Canada requires a 20-per-cent reduction in blood glucose levels before a health claim about blood glucose lowering can be approved, said Duncan.

"We are hoping that building evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will further encourage people to add pulses to their side dishes."

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Dan Ramdath of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, U of G Ph.D. student Dita Moravek and U of G Prof. Alison Duncan. Credit: University of Guelph

Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study.

Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20 per cent. Replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35-per-cent drop.

"Pulses are extremely nutrient-dense food that have the potential to reduce chronic diseases associated with mismanaged glucose levels," said Duncan, who worked on the study with Ph.D. student Dita Moravek and M.Sc. students Erica Rogers, Sarah Turkstra and Jessica Wilson.

Yet very few Canadians eat lentils, she added.

Published and specially featured in the Journal of Nutrition, the study involved 24 healthy adults fed four dishes—white rice only, half white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils.

Blood glucose fell by similar amounts when half of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils.

Blood glucose comprises sugar found in the blood during digestion in the upper digestive tract and depends on the starch content of foods consumed.

Pulses, such as lentils, can slow digestion and the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing blood glucose levels, said Duncan.

Health Canada requires a 20-per-cent reduction in blood glucose levels before a health claim about blood glucose lowering can be approved, said Duncan.

"We are hoping that building evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will further encourage people to add pulses to their side dishes."

Explore further: Consumption of legumes associated with lower risk of diabetes

More information: Dita Moravek et al, Carbohydrate Replacement of Rice or Potato with Lentils Reduces the Postprandial Glycemic Response in Healthy Adults in an Acute, Randomized, Crossover Trial, The Journal of Nutrition (2018). DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxy018

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Cattle major link to disease

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Cattle are a much bigger factor than rats and mice in spreading the devastating disease leptospirosis in northern Tanzania, University of Otago research suggests.

''Livestock are a major source, that's really important,'' Michael Maze, of Otago's Centre for International Health, said this week.

Leptospirosis is a major cause of febrile illness and death in Africa, and is transmitted from animals to people, but little is known about risk factors for human infection.

The disease affects more than 1million people worldwide each year, and causes about 59,000 deaths.

Dr Maze said the findings from two research papers, which have just been published in the scientific journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, had implications for potential control of leptospirosis in Africa.

The Otago-led studies amounted to a ''significant step forward'' and, given a ''finite resource'' of health funding, provided a clear indication the disease could be countered by improving health protection linked to cattle and rice-farming.

Dr Maze, who holds an MBChB from Otago University, has been based in Moshi, Tanzania.

He is a lead investigator in the studies, which involved research he undertook for his PhD thesis.

The studies are part of a larger collection investigating zoonotic infections in Tanzania that are led by Otago centre co-director Prof John Crump, and also involve Associate Prof Katrina Sharples of the Otago department of medicine, and overseas researchers.

The new research has shown that exposure to cattle and rice farming are risk factors for the disease in northern Tanzania, but that rodents, identified as related problems elsewhere, were not the main threat in this area.

In one study, the researchers tested rodents, cattle, goats and sheep for Leptospira infection and found cattle had a high prevalence of infection (7%), goats (1.2%) and sheep (1.1%).

Among 384 trapped rodents, no animals were found to carry the infection.

The researchers also investigated risk factors for the disease among 1293 patients with fever attending hospitals in northern Tanzania between 2012 and 2014.

The researchers identified work in rice fields as an important risk factor for human leptospirosis, where humans were infected through prolonged contact with water that may be contaminated by infected animal hosts.

https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/dairy/cattle-major-link-disease

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Many of poorest regions in Asia rely on rice as a staple food. IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA

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After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears to be on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the global population. FAO, CC BY-ND

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Anemia affects one-third of women of reproductive age globally – or about 613 million women.FAO, CC BY-ND

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LSU Ag Center continues series of field days in Acadia Parish

Posted: Jun 14, 2018 3:29 AM PSTUpdated: Jun 14, 2018 3:48 AM PST

The LSU Ag Center is continuing its series of field days in Acadia Parish this week.

The event is held to help rice farmers learn about the latest practices to improve their crop production.

Experts gave presentations on development fertility and controlling problems.

"This is a time when our growers and consultants can get a closer look of the different herbicide technologies that are out there and available to producers," said Dustin Harrell, Research Coordinator, LSU Ag. "It's probably one of the highlights of the weed research for rice in the state."

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Lentils significantly reduce blood glucose levels

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Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a new study. Researchers found that swapping out half of a portion of these starchy side dishes for lentils can significantly improve your body's response to the carbohydrates. Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20 per cent. Replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35-per-cent drop.

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Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study.

Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20 per cent. Replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35-per-cent drop.

Yet very few Canadians eat lentils, she added.

Published and specially featured in the Journal of Nutrition, the study involved 24 healthy adults fed four dishes -- white rice only, half white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils.

Blood glucose fell by similar amounts when half of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils.

Blood glucose comprises sugar found in the blood during digestion in the upper digestive tract and depends on the starch content of foods consumed.

Pulses, such as lentils, can slow digestion and the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, ultimately reducing blood glucose levels, said Duncan.

Health Canada requires a 20-per-cent reduction in blood glucose levels before a health claim about blood glucose lowering can be approved, said Duncan.

"We are hoping that building evidence for approval of a health claim for pulses will further encourage people to add pulses to their side dishes."

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1. Dita Moravek, Alison M Duncan, Laura B VanderSluis, Sarah J Turkstra, Erica J Rogers, Jessica M Wilson, Aileen Hawke, D Dan Ramdath. Carbohydrate Replacement of Rice or Potato with Lentils Reduces the Postprandial Glycemic Response in Healthy Adults in an Acute, Randomized, Crossover Trial. The Journal of Nutrition, 2018; 148 (4): 535 DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxy018

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180613162701.htm

Water shortage likely to badly affect rice sowing

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The severe water shortage in the country may negatively affect rice sowing and the production target of 7.2 million tons is unlikely to be achieved, official sources revealed to Business Recorder.Rice is a major Kharif crop and if water supply is not improved, sowing starting in July will be affected and resultantly the production target of 7.2 million tons as well as the growth rate of 3.8 percent set by the government for agricultural sector for 2018-19 would be affected.

Sources said that rice is an important food as well as cash crop. After wheat, it is the second main staple food crop and second major exportable commodity after cotton, contributing 3.1 percent of value added in agriculture and 0.6 percent in GDP.

The government has set a target of covering 7.05 million acres with rice to achieve the production target of 7.2 million tons with 1,022 kg per acre yield. However, if water supply is not improved, the sowing as well as production is unlikely to be achieved, official added.

Pakistan Meteorological Department has estimated that snow cover during the winter season was 20 to 25 percent less than the average. Further rainfalls during April-June were forecast to be less than normal, while the temperature is expected to remain one to two centigrade warmer than the normal. Crops would remain under stress due to subsequent water shortage during Kharif season.

Talking to Business Recorder, General Secretary Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) Kashif Rehman said that the country would achieve $2 billion export target of rice this year, but there are several issues in increasing production. He said that country lacks the latest technology to get huge crop with lesser water. The country is facing severe water shortage and affecting rice sowing target.

He further said that there are seed as well as supply chain problems, starting from growers to exporters, which are hindering increase in production as well as exports target.

Another official said that Pakistan rice export to Qatar has been banned for the last five years though Qatar had been a major rice buyer of Pakistan. Pakistan exported over 50,000 metric tons of basmati rice worth $50 million along with 36,000 metric tons of non-basmati rice worth more than $21 million in 2012-13. But the export graph went downward to 15,000 metric tons of basmati in 2014-15.

Pakistan is pursuing an application for the inclusion of Pakistan in the list of importers of rice, said the official, adding that Commerce Ministry needs to utilize all available diplomatic channels in this regard. The Commerce Ministry should take strenuous efforts to enhance Pakistan's trade volume with Qatar. The ministry, in this regard, can fully activate the commercial section at the Pakistani embassy in Doha, which would help in increasing rice exports, official added.

Pakistan would also benefit from the price competitiveness against its competitors, Thailand, Vietnam etc. As Indian rice has lost its market in European countries due to excessive pesticide residue, Pakistani rice exporters have the opportunity to capture the EU market.

https://fp.brecorder.com/2018/06/20180614381887/

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Climate Changes In Pakistan

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Pakistan is suffering from climate-changing effect. In 2010, we have witnessed a flood that still haunts us and those who suffered from it are still recovering from that disaster. The effect of such climate disasters are very catastrophic for a developing nation and it takes a long time to recover from it.

Pakistan is at 7th number in the list of countries suffering from climate change. This change in the climate possesses a threat not only for Pakistan but for the world as well. As the climate is changing day by day – which is harmful to everyone on this planet – it is constantly giving us signals about its mass destruction abilities through the different type of natural disaster.

This climate change is melting our glaciers down in Himalayan and its melting rate is increasing with each passing day. It is also affecting our timing of monsoon season and the strength of rainfall in this season which is directly affecting our agriculture sector and energy sector as our agriculture sector and farmer are financially very weak. They are not adaptive to rapid changes. As result, their productivity and efficiency are decreasing and their output is being affected. Our farmers are uneducated and they don’t have any knowledge of geographical and demo-graphical changes so it is necessary that we give them information about changing pattern of the weather so they can plan accordingly.

Due to climate change, people are migrating and this migration is taking place from environmentally fragile areas of Pakistan. This climate change migration is producing environmental refugees for which the government of Pakistan has to formulate the strategies and make the policies in a way which will help these migrants. This issue must be addressed properly so that the migrants who are facing the socio-economic problem and health problem are resolved. This problem must not be taken for granted because this is a humanitarian issue and the better policy must be introduced in accordance with it.

As we are living in an era of industrialization and the industries are developed all over the world. These industries are focused on mass production and as a result, these are emitting gases which have a high temperature. These gases are called greenhouse gases. When these gases are emitted into the atmosphere they lead to global warming and our climate changes. The environmental scientists have said that if these emitting gases are not reduced then the global temperature will be raised in future from 1.1 to 6.5-degree centigrade. The major industrialized countries which are contributing to global warming are United State, Canada, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Korea and Japan.

The truth is that the developing countries and underdeveloped countries are not responsible for this climate change and these countries contribute only 10 percent in the emission of carbon dioxide in annual emission but these least developed or developing countries are highly affected by this climate change. The reason behind this is their geographical location, socioeconomic factors, and many other factors as well. Pakistan is facing the similar situation. Our country only emits 0.43 percent of greenhouse gases which is nothing as compared to other developed countries and comes at the 135th number in the world for emission of carbon dioxide and yet it is at 7th in the world among those countries which are facing changing climate problem.

In Pakistan, the main reason for climate change is deforestation. Trees are responsible to reduce 50 percent of carbon dioxide from the environment. We have to plant new trees in our forest and in our cities so that this threat of climate change can be minimized. According to report 13 million hectares of forests all around the globe are cut down yearly.

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AfDB to invest $120m to boost cassava, rice, maize, sorghum, millet, wheat production in Africa

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it would invest $120 million in the next three years to boost cassava production and transform production of eight other commodities, the bank said at a conference on the produce.

Martin Fregene, AfDB’s director of agriculture, who spoke at the ongoing conference on Global Cassava Partnerships (GCP) for the 21st Century in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, the fourth in its series, listed the nine commodities as cassava, rice, maize, sorghum, millet, wheat, livestock, aquaculture, high iron beans, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes.

He said that transforming cassava on the African continent would help African nations to cut imports and redirect about $1.2 billion into African domestic economies.

“The bank’s investment in cassava comes at a time when African governments are scaling up efforts to end food imports and create wealth. Cassava is a strategic crop for Africa food security and wealth creation for youth and women. Another dimension to the importance of cassava is in nutrition, where cassava can enhance the nutrition of children directly or as feed for poultry and other livestock,” Fregene said.

According to him, the largest volume of cassava coming from Africa supported more than 350 million people.

Kenton Dashiell, deputy director-general for partnerships for delivery at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), said that unlocking the potential of cassava required partnerships.

He stated that close collaboration of partners in the cassava value chain would address constraints facing the crop.

He commended the GCP21 for filling the gaps in cassava research and development by organising conferences, thereby enabling experts to share knowledge on innovations in cassava.

https://www.businessamlive.com/afdb-to-invest-120m-to-boost-cassava-rice-maize-sorghum-millet-wheat-production-in-africa/

Rice Fruit Co. busy with a wide range of retail, import, facility improvements

BY CHRISTINA DIMARTINO | JUNE 14, 2018

Leading Pennsylvania apple producer and shipper, Rice Fruit Co., headquartered in Gardners, PA, is currently in the final quarter of marketing its 2017 crop.

In mid-May, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Brenda Briggs, said market demand in recent weeks had been stronger than expected.

“Additionally, we are working with our retail partners on programs and promotions for the upcoming season,” said Briggs. “And we are working with industry partners to provide quality control, storage and packing for import programs. Everything combined, we are in the midst of a great deal of activity and energy moving these initiatives forward.”

Description: Brenda-Briggs-VP-Sales-and-Marketing--Ben-Rice-President-1 Brenda Briggs, vice president of sales and marketing, and Ben Rice, president of Rice Fruit Co.Rice Fruit Co. has a long and strong history. In 1790 Daniel Rice, the first Rice family member to settle in Adams County after emigrating from Germany, recognized that the scenic foothills of South Mountain, the eastern-most ridge of the Appalachians, had ideal soil and a perfect climate for growing many kinds of fruit, and especially apples.

Rice Fruit Co. was founded in 1913 by Daniel Rice. For the next four generations the Rice family continued to plant orchards as the notoriety of Adams County-grown fruit began to spread. In 1955, Arthur Rice Jr., built the current packing facility in Gardners. He also formed a partnership with William Lott to form R&L Orchards, which grew most of the fruit packed by Rice Fruit. This partnership still continues. Today, Rice Fruit receives, stores, packages and markets fruit for over 40 farm families in the surrounding areas.

Briggs said that over the next few months the company has several important facility projects scheduled that will keep it operating with the newest advancement in packing technologies.

“These projects include upgrading our packing line vision system to Compac’s new Spectrim platform, which will enhance our defect and blemish grading capabilities,” she explained. “We will also be upgrading our internal quality sorting platform to Compac’s latest-generation Inspectra 2 model, which will allow us to leverage our advanced internal quality sorting capabilities.

She pointed out that these next-generation technologies are powerful tools that bring efficiency and precision to Rice Fruit’s packing operation.

“As we kick off the new apple marketing season in August, we will have additional packing power with additional bag and pouch packing machinery,” added Briggs.

Rice Fruit Co. will also be installing a solar system on its north storage building with the assistance of a grant from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Financing Authority and the PA Department of Community and Economic Development. This initiative will reduce its use of purchased electricity and further its commitment to social responsibility and sustainable practices.

“We are completing several improvements to the wet end of our main packing line,” noted Briggs. “By incorporating the latest hygienic design principles, we are further building upon our very comprehensive food-safety initiatives.”

The company is always on top of its food-safety and traceability initiatives. Briggs said the company continues to maintain a diligent environmental monitoring program to ensure the highest quality, safest fruit.

“In recent weeks improvements have been made to our packing line equipment to further perfect the quality of our grading and wax finish,” she said.

Rice Fruit is strongly engaged with the locally grown movement, and it works closely with its retail partners to promote and highlight the premium fruit grown in Pennsylvania.

“We are working on collaborative initiatives to continue building relationships with our local consumers who seek to support their community, know where the food is grown and enjoy the quality of food grown in their region of the world,” said Briggs.

Rice Fruit does a strong business with D’Arrigo Bros. Co. of New York, whose headquarters in on the Hunts Point Produce Market.

“Hunts Point Market is amazing in its diversity and sheer volume of product that moves through it to retailers, food service, small grocers and restaurants,” Briggs pointed out.

“After nearly three decades in this market, we have developed a strong following for our apples and peaches through our partnership with D’Arrigo Bros.”

http://www.producenews.com/more-company-profiles/company-profiles/24287-rice-fruit-co-busy-with-a-wide-range-of-retail-import-facility-improvements

Rice Transplanter Machines Market 2018 | Trends by Key Players, Manufacturing Process, Raw Materials, Cost and Revenue 2022

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Alibaba to help cultivate and sell saline soil rice

Source: Xinhua| 2018-06-14 15:00:39|Editor: mmm

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Alibaba has pledged to cooperate with a saline soil rice research and development (R&D) team to increase production and farmers' incomes, according to Thursday's Beijing Youth Daily.

The saline soil rice R&D team of Yuan Longping, China's "father of hybrid rice," will be supported by Alibaba in retail and big data.

The saline soil rice will be cultivated on a large scale with the cooperation of Yuan's team and Alibaba, vice president of the e-commerce giant Wang Jianxun told the newspaper. And Alibaba will help explore the sale of saline soil rice.

There are over 99 million hectares of alkaline land in China, which is 10 percent of the world's total.

Cultivating the saline soil rice could both increase the country's grain yield and help farmers shake off poverty, the newspaper said.

Yuan Longping, 88, said that if 6.7 million hectares of saline land could be used to grow saline-alkali tolerant rice, the country could produce an extra 30 billion kg of rice.

The yield of 30 billion kg a year is enough to feed 80 million people.

Yuan began theoretical research of hybrid rice 50 years ago. His hybrid rice development has greatly enhanced China's rice yields and contributed to ensuring the country's food security, as about 65 percent of Chinese people depend on rice as a staple food.

In north China's Hebei Province last year, Yuan's experimental fields achieved a yield of 17.2 tonnes per hectare.

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Climate change will make rice less nutritious, putting millions of the world’s poor at risk

By The Associated PressJune 13, 2018 6:40 am

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)

Kristie Ebi, University of Washington

(THE CONVERSATION) Rice is the primary food source for more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford a diverse and nutritious diet that includes complete protein, grains, fruits and vegetables. They rely heavily on more affordable cereal crops, including rice, for most of their calories.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here: http://theconversation.com/climate-change-will-make-rice-less-nutritious-putting-millions-of-the-worlds-poor-at-risk-97914.

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The Philippines to help Bihar better its rice

Sanjeev Kumar Verma Jun 14, 2018 00:00 IST

EYE ON FUTURE: Agriculture minister Prem Kumar (left) with Matthew Morell at Vikas Bhavan in Patna on Wednesday. Picture by Manoj Kumar

Patna: Matthew Morell, the director general of International Rice Research Institute, Manila, The Philippines, on Wednesday had a meeting with state agriculture minister Prem Kumar and other senior department officials.

The participants discussed the avenues through which the premier research institute could help Bihar to enhance rice productivity and help the state in providing seeds of paddy of such a quality which could withstand vagaries of weather.

Morell said: "We see a very good opportunity to work with Bihar farmers and universities in the state for enhancing rice productivity and add more value to the crop."

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The institute had introduced seven new varieties of paddy in the state last year, and this year too it has introduced two new varieties ahead of the kharif season when paddy cultivation is mainly done in the state.

The institute is going to work in close cooperation with the Bihar Agriculture University and the state agriculture department for collecting data from the field to assess the outcome of its efforts by introducing new varieties of paddy. The international institution has also set up its south Asia regional centre at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

Agriculture minister Prem Kumar said he urged the institute team to provide paddy varieties to Bihar which could withstand the vagaries of nature as Bihar had 21 flood-prone districts in its northern parts and 17 drought-prone districts in the southern region.

"I have been informed that International Rice Research Institute has developed a paddy variety whose plant does not get damaged even if it remains under water for 15 days. This could be very useful for north Bihar districts and urged the team to develop such a variety which could survive up to one month despite being under water. Similarly, I drew the team's attention towards the water problem in south Bihar districts and requested to provide varieties which could give good productivity even when there is a scarcity of water," Prem said while sharing the details of the meeting.

Paddy cultivation is being done in 33 lakh hectares in Bihar and the state produced around 71 lakh metric tonnes of rice last year. Productivity-wise the state stands at sixth place in the country. Even within the state there are wide variations in productivity and while it is around 2,000kg per hectare in the Bhojpur region, its level comes down to around 1,000 kg per hectare in the Bhagalpur region.

The minister also announced that the agriculture department would provide land to the International Rice Research Institute in its farms both in north and south Bihar so that the institute could demonstrate the benefits of using its paddy varieties among farmers.

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Lentils help lower blood glucose levels by up to 35%

Tuesday, 19 June, 2018

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Blood sugar levels can be easily reduced by swapping out some starches such as potatoes or rice with lentils, according to a study.

Researchers from the University of Guelph found that replacing some starchy side dishes with lentils, also known as pulses, can improve the body’s response to the carbohydrates, lowering blood glucose levels by more than 20%.

Published in the Journal of Nutrition, 24 healthy adults had the glucose levels in their blood measured before and two hours after they were given four dishes: white rice only, half white rice and half large green lentils, half white rice and half small green lentils, and half white rice and half split red lentils. The four dishes were repeated using white potatoes instead of rice.

There was a similar reduction in blood glucose when half of the starch was replaced with each of the three types of lentils, but replacing potatoes was particularly beneficial. Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused blood glucose to drop by up to 20%, while this increased to a 35% drop when replacing potatoes.

This is because pulses help slow digestion and the release of sugars found in starch into the bloodstream, which reduces blood glucose levels. Duncan said nutrient-dense pulses help reduce chronic diseases associated with mismanaged glucose levels, such as diabetes.

“This slower absorption means you don’t experience a spike in glucose. Having high levels over a period of time can lead to mismanagement of blood glucose, which is the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes. Essentially, eating lentils can lower that risk,” she explained.

Despite these benefits, the researchers said that pulses are not commonly consumed but they hope these results will highlight their health benefits and encourage people to increase their intake. Lentils are similar to rice and potatoes, so it is hoped that consumers should easily be able to replace some starches without overhauling their diet.

https://www.foodprocessing.com.au/content/ingredients/article/lentils-help-lower-blood-glucose-levels-by-up-to-35--1509641123

PHILIPPINES TO IMPORT RICE THROUGH 2020 DESPITE RISING OUTPUT - MINISTER

6/19/2018

The latest forecast misses Piñol's own target for the
Philippines to be self-suffient in rice production by 2020, but
is in line with comments last week by President Rodrigo Duterte.

The region's second most heavily populated nation after
Indonesia with about 105 million people, the Philippines
consumes roughly 11.7 million tonnes of rice every year.

The state grains stockpiling agency, the National Food
Authority, also buys rice free of tariffs.

Recent rice shortages have pushed up domestic prices and put
pressure on inflation.

(Reporting by Enrico dela Cruz; editing by Richard Pullin)

https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/philippines-to-import-rice-through-2020-despite-rising-output-minister

Imports lower rice prices, says NFA

posted June 19, 2018 at 01:40 am by Vito Barcelo

Commercial rice is now priced at P36 to P38 per kilo due to the arrival of the 250,000 metric tons of National Food Authority rice from Vietnam and Thailand, the Palace said Monday.

Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque also announced that the price of NFA rice will be sold at P27 to P32 per kilo as soon as the imported rice is transferred to Subic, in Pampanga, and distributed to Metro Manila.

The Palace official said prices of rice should go down with the presence of more NFA rice in the market.

President Rodrigo Duterte earlier ordered the NFA to proceed with the rice importation following a shortage in the government rice inventory.

The low NFA buffer stock has reportedly led to the sudden increase in the prices of commercial rice.

The additional 250,000 MT of rice will ensure the affordability of the staple, Roque said.

The Philippines has existing rice supply agreements with Vietnam and Thailand—two major exporters of the staple in the region.

To boost the country’s rice supply, Roque said the government wants to prioritize the purchase of local grains from Filipino farmers over rice importation.

He said the NFA has already been reminded to buy palay from local farmers during harvest season to avoid a repeat of the shortage in government stocks.

http://www.manilastandard.net/news/top-stories/268417/imports-lower-rice-prices-says-nfa.html

Rice prices go up after govt hikes import duty

Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:05, Jun 19,2018 | Updated: 23:40, Jun 18,2018

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DA changes tune on rice self-sufficiency; goal is competitiveness

June 18, 2018 | 10:25 pm

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“Whenever there’s an importation, no matter how many kilos that is, we will never reach 100% because there are imports in the computation,” he said.

The DA, for its part, also said that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) should be omitted from the computation as OFWs are not part of the population consuming rice domestically.

Mr. Morales said that the DA through its rice road map has set a target national yield of six metric tons per hectare by 2022.

“The main target of the DA is to improve productivity because if you improve productivity and you lower the costs, definitely you can increase the income of the farmers,” he added.

In the meantime, Mr. Morales said that importation remains unavoidable. A rice tariffication law is expected to be passed this year.

“All these procedures [for importation]… will take time,” he added.

“Let’s just see if domestic production will be enough to supply the domestic demand. If not, then there’s a need to import,” he added. — Anna Gabriela A. Mogato

http://bworldonline.com/da-changes-tune-on-rice-self-sufficiency-goal-is-competitiveness/

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June 19, 2018

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Trailer loads of smuggled rice seized by Nigerian customs along Lagos-Badagry Expressway recently

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that it will shut down its border with a neighboring country on account of rice smuggling. Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said as much earlier on this week while speaking at a Guardians of the Nation International (GOTNI)-sponsored forum.

Mr Ogbeh, however, failed to mention the particular country and border. He further endorsed this move necessary in order to encourage local production and sustain the economy of the country. Among the countries Nigeria shares borders with are Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon.

The minister went on to explain the unprecedented risks that come with the consumption of said rice. According to him, rice planted in certain parts of the land could lead to poisoning of the same. Furthermore, some of the countries around the Delta there have been reports of arsenic found in the rice. This is in instances where rice is planted in the same place for six years consecutively.

Mr. Ogbeh also said that the Federal Government had in two years managed to reduce rice importation by 95%. This is while the number of rice farmers increased from five to 30m.

In 2014, the smuggling had taken a turn for the worst with rice traders and importers attributing the same of the tariff increase on imported rice by the Federal Government. As a result, some marketers in Lagos as well as the dealers resulted to smuggling of the product. Unfortunately, the high tariff placed on rice at the Nigerian port to discourage smuggling of the product has not been effective.

The President of Rice Millers and Importers Association noted that smuggling, while destroying the Nigerian economy, is boosting the economy of other developing countries. He is of the opinion that increased tariff will help increase patronage for locally produced rice in Nigeria.

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Rice imported from Vietnam arrives in Albay, GenSan

18.06.2018

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Over 100,000 sacks of rice have arrived in the Philippines from Vietnam, as part of the imported buffer stock ordered by the National Food Authority (NFA).

According to a report on GMA's "24 Oras Weekend" on Sunday, some 100,000 sacks from Vietnam arrived in the port of Tabaco in Albay. The shipments will be discharged on Monday, and will be distributed to the Bicol region.

Description: http://www.blackseagrain.net/foto/grain-cereals/rice.png/image_large Another batch arrived in the port of General Santos, which has been temporarily stored in an NFA warehouse in the area. The supply will be distributed to commercial areas in Sarangani and in General Santos.

The Philippines last month ordered an additional supply of 250,000 metric tons (MT) of rice to increase the stock in the country: 130,000 MT from Vietnam, and the remaining balance of 120,000 MT from Thailand.

The NFA earlier said the additional imports would arrive in the Philippines by the end of May, and would effectively stabilize rice prices by June.

The state grains agency last week, however, said the delivery was stalled due to enhanced rains brought about by Typhoon Domeng.

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Why price for rice is going up

Supply expected to increase starting next month

Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | The price of rice, which had dropped by around 30% last year, has spiked again owing to low off-season production and increased import costs, according to millers and traders.

In the past three months, the commodity’s price has increased by more than 33% to Shs4, 500 per kilogram – meaning consumers have to pay more.

This is the same price that the commodity traded at in April last year prior to government intervention.

Phillip Idro, the managing director of Upland Rice Millers Company Limited, who also doubles as the chairperson of Rice Millers Council of Uganda, told The Independent in an interview that the surge in the price of the household commodity is attributed to low off-season production early in the year leading to rice scarcity.

“At the moment, it is off-season and there is no rice to mill,” he said. “We expect some of the crop to start maturing next month and this could drive the price downwards.”

Idro, who claims to have more than 30,000 rice out growers, however, said, the current commodity price could have been even higher had it not been for the imports from Tanzania that boosted supply.

However, he could not state the amount of rice imported into the country.

Geoffrey Adito, the director for technical services and development at FOL Group, the company behind the production of Kingdom Rice, said the current surge in price is as a result of high cost of imports and scarcity of locally produced rice to mill.

“As I talk now, we have not been processing rice in the last two months because of scarcity,” he said.

He said the company has also failed to import unprocessed rice, commonly known as brown rice, into the country to mill as a result of the government’s decision to re-instate import taxes on the commodity.

The government had in April last year waived taxes on import of brown rice to increase supply and make the commodity affordable to buy and consume. This was after the price per kilo had risen by 30% starting January.

Last year, the surge in the price was attributed to the prolonged drought that led to food shortage in different parts of the country.

Currently, importing a metric tonne of rice attracts US$345 or 75% of the value of import whichever is higher as a tax irrespective of the type of rice-husked, milled, processed or packed ready for distribution.

“Since the re-instatement of taxes…importing brown rice for processing locally has become uneconomical. We are now simply waiting for our rice in Northern Uganda to mature and start milling again,” Adito said.

FOL Group, with a capacity to process at 300 tonnes of rice per day, acquired 14,000 acres of land sometime back in Nwoya district, with 1,000 acres already under rice cultivation.

On the other hand, sources at the SWT Tanners, the company behind the Pakistan SWT Rice, said weakening of the shilling against US dollar has also contributed to the surge in rice prices countrywide.

Data from Bank of Uganda shows the shilling has since December last year lost its value against the US dollar by approx.6.5% to Shs3, 820.

This development comes amidst several demands that rice farmers have put before government. In the recent weeks, farmers and dealers under their umbrella organisation Rice Association of Uganda cried out to government to rethink a policy that is encouraging more imports of the commodity – which they say is pushing them out of business.

Need for import subsidy

Farmers and other dealers in this trade appear to be pushing for different interests. For instance, in a two-page appeal published in The Daily Monitor, the farmers said they are alarmed by the “ongoing dilution of the East African Common External Tariff policies and the shift towards increasing importation of rice”.

The publication was in response to reports that Rice Millers Council Uganda had met President Yoweri Museveni asking for a reduction in import duty on brown rice from US$345 per tonne to around US$150.

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18 JUN 2018 STORY CLIMATE CHANGE

Warming weather could reduce the nutritional value of rice

Reuters

Hundreds of millions of people in Asia rely on rice not only as a staple but as their main source of nutrition. But new research suggests the rice they eat will become less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

The study found that rice exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide contains lower amounts of several important nutrients.

Currently, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere average around 410 parts per million, up from 350 parts per million in the 1980s, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels. The researchers, a New York Times articleexplains, looked at how crops responded to levels of around 580 parts per million, which could prove tough to avoid this century without drastic changes.

The research involved exposing experimental rice fields in China and Japan to the same elevated levels of carbon dioxide that are expected to occur worldwide later this century.

What did the study find?

The scientists found 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.

“A strong correlation between the impacts of elevated CO₂ on vitamin content based on the molecular fraction of nitrogen within the vitamin was observed,” says the study.

“Potential health risks associated with anticipated CO₂-induced deficits of protein, minerals, and vitamins in rice were correlated to the lowest overall gross domestic product per capita for the highest rice-consuming countries, suggesting potential consequences for a global population of approximately 600 million,” it concludes.

“We used multiyear, multilocation in situ FACE (free-air CO₂ enrichment) experiments for 18 genetically diverse rice lines, including Japonica, Indica, and hybrids currently grown throughout Asia,” the authors write.

“While these CO₂ enrichment experiments do indicate the threat climate change poses to nutrition security, rice breeding programmes across the world all breed and select under conditions of increasing CO₂ and many are cognizant of the need to maintain and increase nutrient concentration in newly released rice varieties,” says Oliver Frith, Head of Business Development at the International Rice Research Institute.

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Challenges ahead

Rice is the primary food source for 3.5 billion people, and production will need to increase significantly by 2050 to meet global demand. One challenge is the likely scarcity of water for rice production due to competing demands for water, environmental degradation and the effects of climate change.

Another conundrum for policymakers is that rice also accounts for 9-11 per cent of global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This could be significant, given that for every one billion people added to the global population, an additional 100 million tons of rice needs to be produced every year.

Atmospheric methane (CH₄) is recognized as one of the most important greenhouse gases and may account for 20 per cent of anticipated global warming.

“We know that higher concentrations of atmospheric CO₂ can lead to significant reductions in the amount of zinc, iron and protein in staple crops like rice,” says Montira Pongsiri, former Commissioner of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health. “Particularly in Asia-Pacific, this has important implications for nutritional security – in fact, this is a nutritional insecurity issue for Asia-Pacific communities.”

UN Environment’s rice work

In October 2017 UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) signed a partnership agreement to promote climate-smart and innovative technologies for rice production in developing countries.

Furthermore, the proposed Global Environment Facility (GEF) programme Inclusive Sustainable Rice Landscapes - securing multiple environmental benefits and improved farmer welfare is under development by a multi-stakeholder consortium led by UN Environment and the Food and Agriculture Organization, in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

“The programme builds on the efforts of the Sustainable Rice Platform – hosted by UN Environment, and its 87 institutional members to work with governments and value chain actors at landscape level to drive adoption of proven climate-smart best practices and innovative technologies to reduce the environment footprint of the sector, as well as to benefit farmers’ welfare,” says UN Environment ecosystems expert Max Zieren.

The above partners will host a side event during the GEF Assembly in Da Nang, Viet Nam, on 25 June to introduce this new multi-stakeholder initiative.

For further information: Max Zieren zieren[at]un.org or William Wyn Ellis (Coordinator, Sustainable Rice Platform) ellisw[at]un.org

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