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World's first 'Sustainable Rice' standard
launched
UNEP-backed rice sustainability
standard launched, as food giant Mars commits to sourcing 100 per cent of its
rice from sustainable sources by 2020
A newly launched sustainable rice standard is hoping to slash the
impact of one of the world's most popular food commodities on the environment,
after food giant Mars pledged to source all its rice from suppliers who comply
with the standard by 2020.
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), an initiative started by the United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in 2011, this week
laid out a set of criteria and performance indicators for sustainable rice
cultivation designed to provide a benchmark for farmers who have taken steps to
reduce the environmental footprint of rice production.
Alongside the launch of the new standard, Mars - a corporate
partner of the SRP - committed to sourcing 100 per cent of its rice sustainably
by 2020.
Mars Food said it will use the standard to assess its rice supply
chains and has already begun piloting the scheme with rice farmers in Pakistan
and India.
Fiona Dawson, president of Mars Food, called the standard a
"truly mutual solution" that would benefit rice farmers and
consumers.
"Through the global standard, we hope to create benefits for
all involved from the farmers to our consumers," she said in a statement. "The
benefit for us is that we are ensuring premium quality rice, whilst also
ensuring a higher income for farmers, and a better environment for current and
future generations."
Rice cultivation is hugely resource intensive, using 34 to 43 per
cent of the world's irrigated water and contributing five to 10 per cent of
anthropogenic greenhouse gases, according to the SRP. However, it is also a daily staple for over half the world's
population, many of whom are food insecure, while one fifth of global
population depends on rice cultivation for their livelihood.
The SRP reports that the demand for rice is projected to grow by
50 per cent by 2050. But both yields and area for cultivation are shrinking due
to land conversion, salinisation,and increased water scarcity. Consequently,
campaigners argue there is a compelling economic, as well as environmental
case, for embracing best practices that enhance yields and improve water
efficiency.
While the new Sustainable Rice Standard is the first
sustainability standard to be launched by major companies for rice, there are
already multitude of sustainability standards for foods including palm oil, soy, sugar and cocoa, which are designed to help farmers
curb environmental impacts while allowing food companies to better promote the
green credentials of their products.
Farmer
trampled
October 29, 2015
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”–African
proverb.
In Pakistan, it is worse. The elephants, PML-N and PTI are fighting
in fields where farmers are harvesting their crops. The farmer is being
trampled by the elephants and economically slaughtered by making distress sale
of paddy.Farmers are in deep distress. The morale of the farmer is at the
lowest. He is suffering in silence. When will the silent volcano erupt I don’t
know. The government hasn’t seen the real anger of the farmers yet, and is
assuming they will never see. They may not always be right, as they feel, the
farmer can be handled by the DPO, DCO, SDO, SHO.The words that come out of
farmers mouth after a bumper harvest, but miserable price for his paddy as that
“The government has killed us”. Majority of the people in the rice farming and
business were under the false impression that Iran rice market will open up, in
a big way, in beginning of October. It did not happen.
In my last article dated September 18, 2015, in The Nation, I had
pleaded, to both government and opposition to join hands to find a marketing
solution to the paddy crisis. A joint delegation of government and opposition
to Iran and China would have done the job. The farmer is the loser in the
battle of the giants as focus is out of agriculture and totally on
electioneering.I am positive on Iran buying in large quantities, but not before
January 2016. Farmers total paddy crop will be harvested by end of November. I
talked to a lot of people in the rice business for the way out of the present
rice crisis. All agreed on one point, buying of rice by the government.
Pakistan has to fight back to recapture its lost markets to Indian trade. The
whole rice chain is charged up to fight back.
I met a paddy supplier a few days back at Hafizabad. He informed me
of the death of several rice dealers in the last couple of month most, probably
because they could not take the shock of business loss. In this season the rice
miller or dealer is buying paddy dirt cheap. He will definitely recover his
past losses.For the farmer this harvesting season is even worse than the last
one. The only thing keeping the farmers alive is the courage of the heart, but
for how long? The real loser in the rice fiasco is the rice farmer from the
traditional rice belt of Punjab. He has no options but to grow rice as he sees
no other financially viable crop option.
The crisis of paddy price collapse at harvest time did not happen
overnight. It took years in the making. I wrote an article in The Nation dated
August 23, 2004 titled: New Seeds of Hope. In that I gave my vision and
forewarned of excess paddy production:
“Apparently it seems rice farmers never had it so good. No
government support for the last couple of years and even then the prices the
market has offered them has been rewarding for their hard work. In fact now
rice farming is stretching out in nontraditional areas due to the high returns
and cash payments received by the farmers. The above trend may end up in a
collapse of prices at harvest time.The above scenario has come about with a
very heavy price, water tables have drastically fallen and soils have been
degraded due to salts pumped out from ground water. Weeds have increased
exponentially due to monotonous paddy/wheat rotation.
Organic matter has further gone down as farmers are forced to grow
same crops each year due to favorable returns of paddy/wheat as compared with
multiple cropping with legumes-oilseeds and green manuring crops to increase
the organic matter in the soils.Acreage has to be taken out of paddy/wheat
rotation to be replaced by alternate crops like pulses and oilseeds. Sugarcane
like paddy is a water guzzler and the increase in acreage in them must be
definitely discouraged. We are an arid country but not behaving like one. Any
future planning has to keep this fundamental fact in mind before going for long
term strategies.”In short, our present dilemma is that, we are producing, in
excess, water guzzling and soil exhausting crops with no place to export, or
consume and importing crops that are water efficient and soil building.
The Kissan package given by the government is an outcome of bad
agriculture policies, and not due to depressed commodity prices in the
international market. For example, a policy that led to flooding of our market
with subsidized cheap Indian vegetables and milk powder.
Pakistan has the lowest import duty on milk powder i.e. 20%. Turkey
to safeguard its dairy industry increased duty to 180%. Iran our traditional
rice market of more than 1.0 million tonnes a year was surrendered to
India.Well if Pakistan could import electricity from Iran during the sanctions
and India could export Rice to Iran during this period, Pakistan could also
have found a way to supply rice to Iran, during the sanctions.
The agriculture package given by the government is basically
focusing on supply side and combining with payment of direct cash to the
farmer. A much better alternative would have been total focus on the marketing
side that would have resulted in far greater reward to the farmer.
A new agriculture policy with sustainable vision is what the
agriculture sector needs. A policy, that will give the first right of domestic
consumer to the local producer.A policy that will focus, on export highways for
our agriculture crops, especially meeting our friendly neighbor country
requirements.A policy, that will give handsome incentives to grow import
substitution crops like oil seeds lentils and pulses which also fix nitrogen in
soil and are water smart.A policy that makes livestock and dairy farming viable
on a smaller scale.
A policy that discourages import of agriculture commodities and
milk powder.A policy that scraps the sweet heart deals given to fertilizer
units in form of low gas rate in the name of farmer support.A policy that will
discourage small and marginal farmer’s sons to sell their one or two acres of
land to go to Europe or middle east, and work as laborers, if they survive the
dangerous journey.A policy that will prepare us to meet the challenge of
climate change by giving numerous options to the farmer to grow crops depending
on the forecast of weather.A policy that will result in farmers financing
agriculture research, as they see the positive impact of research on their
farms.A policy that will encourage family farms instead of corporate or
cooperative farms.A policy where courts do not form a committee to address
climate change but government is pro active themselves.
A policy that will make agriculture sustainable practices mandatory
to be taught in village schools with practical demonstration.A policy that
results in small and marginal farmers becoming a viable unit by making small
dairy and soil building crops growing attractive financially.A policy that
finds avenues for work close to their farms, for small and marginal farmer’s
sons and daughterA policy that will result in agriculture policy becoming the
corner stone of our foreign policy and not houbara bustard hunting.
A policy, that gives respect to the farmer.One word for all the
above policies is called food sovereignty. Food and food sovereignty for every
citizen has to be incorporated in our constitution as recently done by
Nepal.Pakistan has no option but to practice good sustainable agriculture
practices instead of unsustainable mono-cropping agriculture.Our soils are
sick. If we follow the traditional method of agriculture with crop rotation a
must, it will result in our sick soils getting healthier.Once soils get
healthy, then it will take much less fertilizer, to get the same output as it
does from a sick soil, resulting in cost of production going down .I assure you
it is doable, only political will and a change of vision is required.
CBI books basmati firm on fraud
charge
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case
against REI Agro Ltd., said to be the largest basmati rice processing and
marketing company in the world, and its directors for allegedly causing a loss
of Rs. 3,814.39 crore to a consortium of 15 nationalised banks led by UCO Bank.
“The case of alleged conspiracy, cheating and forgery has been
registered against the company and its directors, Sanjay and Sandeep
Jhunjhunwala, N.K. Gupta and K.D. Ghosh. It is alleged that the firm operated
through a web of shell companies for conducting fraudulent transactions in rice
trade. Suspected diversion of funds raised through bank loans is being probed,”
said a CBI official.
On Tuesday, CBI teams conducted searches on the premises of the
company and its directors in Kolkata and Delhi, and also at its three rice
processing units at Rewari in Haryana.
The action has been taken on the basis of a complaint lodged by
UCO Bank alleging that 2013 onwards, the company had taken loans to the tune of
Rs. 3,814.39 crore from the consortium of nationalised banks through fraudulent
means.
Set up in 1994, the company was a co-sponsor of Delhi Daredevils
cricket team in the Indian Premier League-2013 tournament.
Once listed in the London and the Singapore stock exchanges, the
firm ran about 400 super stores under the brand 6TEN in India, said the
official, adding: “It allegedly defrauded banks in India and abroad. The
company was also sued by Singapore-based leading global financial services
company Credit Suisse for recovery of $80 million,” said the official.
The case is understood to be part of the CBI’s action against
private firms which allegedly duped nationalised banks.
The agency had recently registered a corruption and criminal
conspiracy case against liquor baron Vijay Mallya and the chief financial
officer of Kingfisher Airlines for alleged default of Rs. 900-crore loan in
connivance with unknown officials of IDBI Bank.
Another such case was filed against Surat-based fleet operator
firm Siddhi Vinayak Logistics Ltd. and Bank of Maharashtra for alleged default
of Rs. 800 crore.
The Philippine
Order of Sikatuna bestowed on IRRI’s director general
Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jesus I. Yabes conferred the
award on behalf of President Benigno S. Aquino III. During the citation
ceremony, Mr. Yabes said that the award recognizes Dr. Zeigler’s extraordinary
service in nurturing IRRI’s special relations with the Philippines in the 17
years of his residency in the country (10 at the helm of IRRI and 7 as an IRRI
scientist in the late 1980s and early 1990s). During this period, particularly
in the last decade as DG and CEO, the nation benefitted significantly. He
added, “IRRI projects undertaken and completed under Dr. Zeigler’s term
contributed to the country’s long-term food security, rice yield growth and
rise in incomes and productivity of Filipino farmers. Equally significant was
Dr. Zeigler’s sustained advocacy for farmers’ rights and welfare which helped
improve the lives of rural communities.”
The U.S. native, who is retiring in December, is a plant
pathologist with extensive knowledge and experience in plant breeding, forest
ecology, and soil science. During his career, he has obtained distinction in
the fields of agricultural research, development management, and governance in
Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
In accepting the Order of Sikatuna, Dr. Zeigler said, “This is a
tremendous honor and indeed humbling to receive this very, very important honor
from the President of the Philippines. It is truly a moving experience
personally and it is something that reminds me of the importance of IRRI.
Although this honor is bestowed on me, it is really a recognition of the
extreme importance of the work that all of our colleagues at IRRI and our
partner institutions in the Philippines to advance the interest of not only
Philippine farmers but also of all Filipinos. It is with great honor, and I
must say considerable personal pleasure, that I accept this recognition. Thank
you very much.”
Established in 1953, The Order of Sikatuna is a diplomatic merit
for exceptional and meritorious contributions to the Philippines conferred on
diplomats, officials, and nationals for fostering, developing, and
strengthening relations with the country. The Gold Distinction (Katangiang Ginto) is the highest distinction under the Rank of Grand Cross
(Datu), awarded exclusively to crown princes, vice presidents, senate
presidents, house speakers, chief justices, foreign ministers or other cabinet
officials, ambassadors, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, or other
individuals of similar or equivalent rank.
irri.org/
Low
rice prices irk growers, dealers
October 29, 2015
SIALKOT
The condition of growers and dealers is aggravating with every
passing day in Sialkot region due to huge stocks of rice that have not been
exported by the government while the arrival of fresh rice in the markets has
started .
It has resulted in 50 percent decline in the prices of rice,
causing great financial loss to the growers, stockists and dealers.
The arrival of fresh paddy yields in the markets of Sialkot, Daska,
Sambrial, Uggoki, Satrah, Siraanwali , Mianwali Bangla, Chawinda, Badiana,
Pasrur, Zafarwal, Baddo Malhi, Noor Kot, Shakargarh, Narowal and surrounding
areas remains unable to bring traditional hustle bustle of the growers and
dealers.
The price of rice 386 is Rs600 to 650 per mound in the local
markets now a days, while it had been at Rs1,300 per mound during the last
year. The rice experts were of the view that the prices of the 386 rice would
reduce to Rs1,100 to 1,200 per 40kg this year than the last year's rate of
Rs2,300 to 2,400 per mound.
The situation is worsening day by day putting the financial crisis
beaten growers and dealers into hot waters. They were of the view that the
situation had now become unbearable for them, as they had become forced to sell
out their agricultural lands after giving up their profession. They said that
they were unable to do it because the cost of production had become too much
high and unaffordable for them. They said that they were forced to sell out
their agricultural land to pay back their agricultural and other loans. The
situation had resulted in the sinking of millions of rupees of the investors
due to the three-year aggregating rice crisis while the other investors were
reluctant to invest in the business, they said.
Meanwhile, the local growers started supply of the fresh yield of
Super Basmati to the local rice markets, where the price of Super Basmati is
Rs1,070 to 1,100 per 40kg, with hopes that the rate of rice would be Rs1,800 to
2,000 per 40kg in the markets.
On the other hand, local middlemen Sheikh Nasir, Sheikh Qaisar,
Sheikh Ilyas, Rana Tariq, Abdul Majeed Butt, Sarwar, Arif Mehmood, Jamil,
Iqbal, Arshad Warraich, Boota and Ghulam Hussain said that the business of rice
had been falling down day by day for the last four consecutive years. They said
that the rice exporters had already stopped to pick rice from the local rice
markets after the decline in their rice exports. They said that those invested
in the rice businesses had been suffering great losses due to the
circumstances.
They said that the huge stocks of the previous years' rice had been
lying unattended into the local markets where the fresh arrival of rice had
already started.
They said that the fresh arrival of paddy 386 in the local rice
markets had also dropped paddy prices by about 50 percent in local markets, due
to which millions of rupees of investors have sunk. It is continuously falling
day by day due to lack of support from the government for the paddy growers and
dealers.
Agriculture Department officials said that the maximum rates of 386
rice would be at Rs 1,200 per 40kg and Super Basmati at Rs2,000 per 40kg in the
local markets and there were no chances of increase in rates during the current
season, they added.
http://nation.com.pk/national/29-Oct-2015/low-rice-prices-irk-growers-dealers
Mars
Food Announces First Global Rice Sustainability Standard in Partnership with
the Sustainable Rice Platform
MANILA,
Philippines, Oct. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mars Food,
in partnership with the Sustainable Rice Platform, (SRP), a global alliance of
agricultural research institutions, agri-food businesses, public sector and
civil society organizations convened by the United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), today announced
the first global standard for sustainable rice at the 5th Annual Plenary Meeting and
Assembly here.
As
the leading corporation with the SRP and owner of the world's largest rice
brand, UNCLE BEN'S®, Mars Food played a pivotal role in developing the
standard. Mars Food also announced today its commitment to sustainably source
100 percent of its rice by 2020 using the SRP standard.
"Caring
for our environment as well as our entire supply chain from end-to-end is more
than usual corporate responsibility. It's an imperative for Mars Food,"
said Fiona Dawson, President of Mars Food. "Through the global
standard, we hope to create benefits for all involved from the farmers to our
consumers. The benefit for us is that is that we are ensuring premium
quality rice, whilst also ensuring a higher income for farmers, and a better
environment for current and future generations. It is a truly mutual
solution."
The
SRP standard consists of a set of criteria for sustainable rice cultivation
that can be used across the globe to reduce the environmental footprint of rice
production and improve the lives of rice farmers. The standard consists of 46
requirements organized under eight broad topics, including productivity, food
safety, worker health, labor rights, and biodiversity. Rice plays a critical
role in global food security, providing livelihoods for over 140 million
smallholder farmers in developing countries and is a staple food for nearly
half of the world's seven billion people.
Mars
Food will use the standard as a benchmark against which to assess its rice
supply chains – identifying where there are gaps and developing strategies to
improve sustainability. Mars Food has already begun piloting implementation of
the standard with rice farmers in two countries – Pakistan and India.
A controlled farming program in Pakistan, in partnership with Rice
Partners, LTD, IRRI and Bayer CropScience, has grown from 31 smallholder
farmers in 2011 to 400 farmers in 2015 who produce Basmati rice grown with the
correct application of chemicals and harvested with practices to improve food
safety and water quality. In India, Mars is embedding new learnings while
also piloting the SRP standard.
The
standard complements and builds upon the company's Purpose – Better
Food Today. A Better World Tomorrow – and the Mars Mutuality
Principle, which demonstrate the company's commitment to helping rice farmers
improve yields while reducing water use and greenhouse gas emissions and
improving socioeconomic conditions in the communities where high-quality rice
is grown.
About
Mars Food
Mars
Food is a fast-growing food business, making tastier, healthier, easier meals
for all consumers to enjoy.
Headquartered
in Brussels, Belgium, Mars Food is a leader in producing great tasting
products. Our portfolio includes the following brands: UNCLE BEN'S®,
DOLMIO®, SEEDS OF CHANGE®, MasterFoods®, SUZI WAN®, EBLY®, ROYCO®, KAN TONG®
and RARIS®. In 2013, global sales were approximately $2 billion.
Our
ambition is to become a model business in the areas of health and nutrition and
sustainability, as expressed by our purpose: Better Food Today. A Better
World Tomorrow.
Mars
Food is a segment of Mars, Incorporated.
About
Mars, Incorporated
Mars,
Incorporated is a private, family-owned business with more than a century of
history and some of the best-loved brands in the world including M&M'S®,
PEDIGREE®, DOUBLEMINT® and UNCLE BEN'S®. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars
has more than$33 billion in sales from six diverse business segments:
Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks and Symbioscience. More than 75,000
Associates across 73 countries are united by the company's Five Principles:
Quality, Efficiency, Responsibility, Mutuality and Freedom and strive every day
to create relationships with stakeholders that deliver growth we are proud of
as a company.
Farmers worried as Pusa 1121
rates hit 5-year low
PATIALA:
After widespread damage to cotton crop and distress sale of Pusa Basmati 1509
variety, rates of widely grown Pusa 1121 basmati have hit a five-year low in
Punjab. Random queries in the grain markets of the region revealed that Pusa
1121, which would fetch almost double the normal paddy till last year, was
fetching rates in the range of Rs 1,700-1,850 per quintal.
Experts said that rates of Pusa 1121 were the lowest since the variety was introduced in 2007-08 when it sold at Rs 1,300-1,400 per quintal. In 2013, rates of Pusa 1121 were in the range Rs 3,500-4,000 per quintal.
"In the grain markets of Patiala and Sangrur districts and markets of Haryana bordering Punjab, Pusa 1121 variety is being procured at Rs 1,800-1,850 per quintal. This is the maximum price. Farmers are getting only Rs 1,600-1,650 for the crop cut with combine harvesters," said rice exporter Naresh Goyal of Patran Foods Private Limited.
"This is the worst price index we are witnessing for Pusa 1121 in the past five-six years. There is hardly any chance that its prices will increase in the coming days. A huge quantum of Pusa 1121 is still lying unsold with the exporters," Goyal added.
Expecting that prices may increase in the coming days, many farmers are reluctant to sell their produce. "If I sell my crop at Rs 1,800 per quintal, it will hardly return the input cost, leave alone profits. So I have no other option but to wait for next couple of weeks hoping that prices may see some surge," said Gurmit Singh, farmer from Bhatiwal Kalan village of Sangrur.
Area of basmati cultivation in Punjab this year is 7.63 lakh hectares as against the total paddy acreage of 28 lakh hectares.
Table:
Average rates of Pusa 1121 per quintal
Year Price range
2015Rs 1,600-1,850
2014Rs 2,700-3,000
2013Rs 4,000-4,500
2012Rs 3,000-3,500
Experts said that rates of Pusa 1121 were the lowest since the variety was introduced in 2007-08 when it sold at Rs 1,300-1,400 per quintal. In 2013, rates of Pusa 1121 were in the range Rs 3,500-4,000 per quintal.
"In the grain markets of Patiala and Sangrur districts and markets of Haryana bordering Punjab, Pusa 1121 variety is being procured at Rs 1,800-1,850 per quintal. This is the maximum price. Farmers are getting only Rs 1,600-1,650 for the crop cut with combine harvesters," said rice exporter Naresh Goyal of Patran Foods Private Limited.
"This is the worst price index we are witnessing for Pusa 1121 in the past five-six years. There is hardly any chance that its prices will increase in the coming days. A huge quantum of Pusa 1121 is still lying unsold with the exporters," Goyal added.
Expecting that prices may increase in the coming days, many farmers are reluctant to sell their produce. "If I sell my crop at Rs 1,800 per quintal, it will hardly return the input cost, leave alone profits. So I have no other option but to wait for next couple of weeks hoping that prices may see some surge," said Gurmit Singh, farmer from Bhatiwal Kalan village of Sangrur.
Area of basmati cultivation in Punjab this year is 7.63 lakh hectares as against the total paddy acreage of 28 lakh hectares.
Table:
Average rates of Pusa 1121 per quintal
Year Price range
2015Rs 1,600-1,850
2014Rs 2,700-3,000
2013Rs 4,000-4,500
2012Rs 3,000-3,500
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/10/29/Farmers_worried_as_Pusa_1121_rates_hit_5year_low/
Drought Wrecks Havoc On
Indonesian Rice Planting
October 29, 2015 - Severe dry
conditions in Indonesia's Java hampers seasonal rice production and threatens
an increase in prices. Julie Noce reports.
From: https://www.youtube.com/user/ReutersVideo
PHL considering options for add'l rice importation
he Philippines is again
considering its options to whether or not import additional rice given the
impact on agriculture not only of El Nino but Typhoon Lando as well.During the
Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) forum Tuesday,
President Beningno Aquino III said they already approved the importation of
500,000 metric tons of rice, which was earlier approved to address the impact
of the dry spell.However, with the flooding caused by Typhoon Lando, which
ravaged most of Luzon last October 14-24, the President said this will
negatively impact on the December cropping season.He said the issue of the dry
spell was somewhat addressed by the rains brought by the typhoon but it also
lessened supply of some commodities.
"We would like to err on the
side of caution. We want to ensure that the public --- there will be sufficient
supplies of the staple at reasonable prices," he said.Aquino said they are
currently reviewing debt of the National Food Authority (NFA) to see if they
can still import additional supply.
"So it seems to be a win-win
solution that we are promoting on where we have approved and we are considering
whether or not there is need to increase the 500,000 metric tons," he
said.The President, however, declined to say when the decision to import or not
would be made."The data is being studied currently. It is a very delicate
balancing act," he added. (PNA)
Tanzania's rice farmers
boost production
Tanzania’s government wants to
improve living conditions for small farmers. Their aim is to produce more food,
to cover growing needs in the future. Betrida Kayega has joined such an
initiative in the Kilombero Region.
The Sushi Project: Farming Fish And Rice in California's Fields
nnovative projects in California are using
flooded rice fields to rear threatened species of Pacific salmon, mimicking the
rich floodplains where juvenile salmon once thrived. This technique also shows
promise for growing forage fish, which are increasingly threatened in the wild.
by jacques leslie
The idea of rearing salmon in fallowed rice fields started in a duck blind. Huey Johnson, California’s Secretary of Resources in the 1970s and at age 82 widely considered the “grand old man” of California environmentalists, is an avid hunter, who has spent hundreds of hours in Central Valley duck blinds. It is perhaps a testament to the contemplation induced by extended
The idea of rearing salmon in fallowed rice fields started in a duck blind. Huey Johnson, California’s Secretary of Resources in the 1970s and at age 82 widely considered the “grand old man” of California environmentalists, is an avid hunter, who has spent hundreds of hours in Central Valley duck blinds. It is perhaps a testament to the contemplation induced by extended
Resource Renewal Institute
Aerial view of a “Fish in the Fields” site, where small forage
fish are being raised in flooded, fallow rice fields.
time spent in blinds that Johnson, surrounded by winter rice
fields flooded to decompose rice straw, began wondering what else could be done
with all that water. His answer: Grow fish. With two environmentally minded
investors, Johnson formed a company called Cal Marsh & Farm Ventures that
in 2011 acquired a Northern California rice field to carry out fish
experiments.
As it happened, in the late 1990s two scientific teams — one led by Ted Sommer, a floodplain biologist in California’s Department of Water Resources, and the other by Peter Moyle, a University of California, Davis, biologist and leading inland fish expert — had begun carrying out similar experiments in the Central Valley. They sent juvenile salmon downstream across floodplains instead of via rivers, where predators were more numerous. Their work showed that juvenile salmon diverted from the Sacramento River’s main channel and retained in its adjacent floodplain for a few weeks grew more than twice as fast as fish that stayed in the river.
In 2012 Cal Marsh & Farm Ventures and the scientists joined forces in theNigiri Project, named after a kind of sushi because both combine rice and fish,
As it happened, in the late 1990s two scientific teams — one led by Ted Sommer, a floodplain biologist in California’s Department of Water Resources, and the other by Peter Moyle, a University of California, Davis, biologist and leading inland fish expert — had begun carrying out similar experiments in the Central Valley. They sent juvenile salmon downstream across floodplains instead of via rivers, where predators were more numerous. Their work showed that juvenile salmon diverted from the Sacramento River’s main channel and retained in its adjacent floodplain for a few weeks grew more than twice as fast as fish that stayed in the river.
In 2012 Cal Marsh & Farm Ventures and the scientists joined forces in theNigiri Project, named after a kind of sushi because both combine rice and fish,
There is persuasive evidence that salmon benefit greatly by
lingering in flooded rice fields.
to use rice fields to promote salmon restoration. The
scientists have since compiled persuasive evidence that salmon benefit greatly
by lingering in flooded rice fields, while Johnson has started another
enterprise that uses rice fields to grow forage fish for protein.
The salmon project is likely within a year or two of overcoming the last bureaucratic obstacles keeping it from operating as a government-sanctioned method of mitigating environmental harm. Though less-developed, the forage fish venture offers the prospect of global impact by taking pressure off of wild fish stocks. Both projects suggest the rising influence of "reconciliation ecology," which argues for the reconfiguration of human-dominated landscapes to include other species as the only way left to sustain most ecosystems.
Two centuries ago the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. When the Sacramento River flooded, juvenile salmon beginning their journey downstream to the ocean were cast onto its floodplain, where they stayed for months, fattening themselves on plankton and insects that were part of the floodplain’s biological cornucopia. But the construction of ever-higher levees in the 19th century, vividly described in Robert Kelley’s 1989 classic
The salmon project is likely within a year or two of overcoming the last bureaucratic obstacles keeping it from operating as a government-sanctioned method of mitigating environmental harm. Though less-developed, the forage fish venture offers the prospect of global impact by taking pressure off of wild fish stocks. Both projects suggest the rising influence of "reconciliation ecology," which argues for the reconfiguration of human-dominated landscapes to include other species as the only way left to sustain most ecosystems.
Two centuries ago the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. When the Sacramento River flooded, juvenile salmon beginning their journey downstream to the ocean were cast onto its floodplain, where they stayed for months, fattening themselves on plankton and insects that were part of the floodplain’s biological cornucopia. But the construction of ever-higher levees in the 19th century, vividly described in Robert Kelley’s 1989 classic
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The Sacramento River Valley, site of initiatives to raise salmon
and other fish in flooded rice fields.
Sacramento River history,Battling
the Inland Sea, separated the Sacramento from its
floodplain.
The result was that salmon were hurtled down the river’s main channel, reaching the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta and the Pacific Ocean too early, when they were underweight and unprepared for predators. Combined with dams, gold mining, and water diversions for agriculture and municipal consumption, the river’s isolation from the floodplain has reduced three of the Sacramento’s four salmon runs to endangered levels.
Southeast Asians have raised fish in rice fields for many centuries, but they do it while the rice is growing, using fish suited to the paddy water’s warm temperatures. What distinguished Johnson’s idea from the traditional Asian practice was that he wanted to grow salmon in the winter, after rice was harvested and water temperatures were low enough for salmon. This wasn’t even possible until the early 1990s, when California’s clean air laws placed tight restrictions on burning rice straw, the farmers’ preferred method of eliminating rice residue.
Farmers then began flooding their fields starting in the late summer or fall, inadvertently producing a simulacrum of the vast 4-million-acre Central Valley wetlands that had existed two centuries ago. Winter-flooded Central Valley rice fields now cover a larger area — 250,000 to 300,000 acres — than the 200,000 acres of original valley wetlands that remain.
The switch to flooding has generated a huge resurgence of the Pacific Flyway, as millions of migratory birds desperate for water in the increasingly drought-prone valley began using the rice fields as way
The result was that salmon were hurtled down the river’s main channel, reaching the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta and the Pacific Ocean too early, when they were underweight and unprepared for predators. Combined with dams, gold mining, and water diversions for agriculture and municipal consumption, the river’s isolation from the floodplain has reduced three of the Sacramento’s four salmon runs to endangered levels.
Southeast Asians have raised fish in rice fields for many centuries, but they do it while the rice is growing, using fish suited to the paddy water’s warm temperatures. What distinguished Johnson’s idea from the traditional Asian practice was that he wanted to grow salmon in the winter, after rice was harvested and water temperatures were low enough for salmon. This wasn’t even possible until the early 1990s, when California’s clean air laws placed tight restrictions on burning rice straw, the farmers’ preferred method of eliminating rice residue.
Farmers then began flooding their fields starting in the late summer or fall, inadvertently producing a simulacrum of the vast 4-million-acre Central Valley wetlands that had existed two centuries ago. Winter-flooded Central Valley rice fields now cover a larger area — 250,000 to 300,000 acres — than the 200,000 acres of original valley wetlands that remain.
The switch to flooding has generated a huge resurgence of the Pacific Flyway, as millions of migratory birds desperate for water in the increasingly drought-prone valley began using the rice fields as way
Rearing fish could add to the rice farmers’ environmental
credentials while adding to their incomes.
The production of rice and fish on the same field is a prime example of reconciliation ecology, first articulated in a 2003 book called Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth’s Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise. The author, Michael L. Rosenzweig, a University of Arizona ecologist, argues that humans have so thoroughly transformed the earth’s surface that environmental restoration is impossible on virtually all of it, and the few areas set aside as natural reserves aren’t big enough to sustain many species. Instead, he says, the only way to ward off mass extinctions is to convert working landscapes to support other species while continuing to fulfill human needs.
Reconciliation ecology represents a shift among environmentalists from focusing on a particular place, such as a nature reserve, to a natural process. “We invest a lot of money in postage-stamp, high-profile conservation efforts that really are just a blip on the larger landscape,” Jacob Katz, the Nigiri Project’s lead scientist, said. “Instead, we should be thinking about how water flows across the entire landscape and managing those natural processes so that basically the habitat takes care of itself.” The juvenile salmon reared in the Nigiri Project may benefit rice fields as much as rice fields benefit them, while both foster the resurgence of the floodplain food web. Floodplains are much richer, more varied biological environments than rivers; reconnecting floodplains to rivers infuses downstream basins with life. Flooded rice fields awaken dormant plankton in the soil, insects flourish on the plankton, and the fish dine on both. In turn, the fishes’ presence reduces insects, weeds, and diseases that may harm rice.
Rice farming is often criticized for its sizable water use, but it’s the only crop that flourishes in the Sacramento Valley’s clayey soils. The clay holds back the water from percolating deeper into the soil and contains it in the
If farming forage fish increases, it could reduce pressures on
overfished ocean stocks.
fields until they’re drained in March. As the water, now laden with nutrients
and fertilizing fish excrement, makes its way down the basin and back into the
river, it enriches the downstream environment all the way to the estuary,
benefiting native fish there. Once the river reconnects with the floodplain,
the Sacramento’s dwindling stock of wild salmon regains an edge over hatchery
salmon, which scientists say could enable a resurgence of the genetically
superior wild salmon.
A major liability of rice is that it’s the only agricultural crop whose production causes methane emissions, a process that was intensified by the use of Green Revolution chemical fertilizers. For that reason, the cultivation of rice, the staple of 3 billion people worldwide, is the leading agricultural source of greenhouse gas emissions. But fish in paddies reduce the need for chemical fertilizers without lowering rice productivity. Accordingly, as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported in 2012, “Rice-fish farming reduces the emission of methane by almost 30 percent compared with traditional rice farming.”
In 2010 Cal Marsh & Farm Venture’s managers — environmental land manager David Katz and rice farmer John Brennan — began what has been a five-year struggle to make floodplain restoration a key part of the management of the Sacramento River-San Joaquin River Delta. The project research so far has taken place in a Sacramento River floodplain known as the Yolo Bypass, through which water is diverted to avoid flooding Sacramento. First, Katz and Brennan encountered resistance from Yolo County officials, who feared that the project would destroy agriculture in the Bypass floodplain. As more and more pieces of the project’s biological research confirmed that rice fields benefited from fish, Katz and Brennan held hundreds of meetings with Yolo County rice farmers to explain it, and eventually won them over. The pair overcame similar opposition from duck hunters.
Their last barrier, bureaucracy, may be the most formidable, for they’ve found that the regulatory zeal of government officials often stifles innovation. Though the project has no outright opponents and support from surprising places, including the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it still needs state approval. Instead, Katz said, when project scientists applied to acquire hatchery
A major liability of rice is that it’s the only agricultural crop whose production causes methane emissions, a process that was intensified by the use of Green Revolution chemical fertilizers. For that reason, the cultivation of rice, the staple of 3 billion people worldwide, is the leading agricultural source of greenhouse gas emissions. But fish in paddies reduce the need for chemical fertilizers without lowering rice productivity. Accordingly, as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported in 2012, “Rice-fish farming reduces the emission of methane by almost 30 percent compared with traditional rice farming.”
In 2010 Cal Marsh & Farm Venture’s managers — environmental land manager David Katz and rice farmer John Brennan — began what has been a five-year struggle to make floodplain restoration a key part of the management of the Sacramento River-San Joaquin River Delta. The project research so far has taken place in a Sacramento River floodplain known as the Yolo Bypass, through which water is diverted to avoid flooding Sacramento. First, Katz and Brennan encountered resistance from Yolo County officials, who feared that the project would destroy agriculture in the Bypass floodplain. As more and more pieces of the project’s biological research confirmed that rice fields benefited from fish, Katz and Brennan held hundreds of meetings with Yolo County rice farmers to explain it, and eventually won them over. The pair overcame similar opposition from duck hunters.
Their last barrier, bureaucracy, may be the most formidable, for they’ve found that the regulatory zeal of government officials often stifles innovation. Though the project has no outright opponents and support from surprising places, including the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it still needs state approval. Instead, Katz said, when project scientists applied to acquire hatchery
Resource Renewal Institute
Juvenile fish such as these thrive in the nutrient-rich
environment of flooded rice fields.
Despite that, the project is now a featured part ofCalifornia EcoRestore, the state’s stripped-down proposal, announced last April, for restoring the severely impaired Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta. EcoRestore is less than the sum of its parts, for most of the projects it trumpets were started before the plan was even devised. The notable exception is the Nigiri Project.
“Here is a restoration effort which has the lowest uncertainty and highest return on investment of them all,” said Jeffrey Mount, an emeritus University of California, Davis, geomorphologist and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. “The research that shows the use of the floodplain as rearing and spawning habitat for native fishes like the salmon is as solid evidence as you’re ever going to get — period.”
Johnson grew so frustrated with the bureaucratic obstacles that he turned over operation of the salmon project to Katz, Brennan, and CalTrout, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that supports research to help wild fish. Then he launched another fish-rice project, called “Fish in the Fields,” that attracts far less government scrutiny than the Nigiri Project, partly because its focus is unheralded forage fish, not charismatic salmon.
Johnson plans to use winter rice fields to grow small, non-native forage fish that can be harvested when the fields are drained. Then the fish can be turned into bait, livestock and poultry feed, pet food, fertilizer, dietary supplements, and food for humans. The fish would never reach the floodplain, let alone the river or ocean, but if plentiful enough they could generate another kind of environmental benefit, by reducing the intensifying pressures on overfished ocean stocks of sardines, anchovies,
With record drought and warming waters due to climate change,
scientists are concerned that the future for Chinook salmon — a critical part
of the state’s fishing industry — is in jeopardy.
herring, and mackerel. At the same time, the project offers
the possibility of an additional source of protein without requiring any more
land, at a time when human demand for protein is growing and land-use conflicts
are multiplying.
Johnson started his experiments in 2013 with 45,000 Arkansas golden shiners, a hardy minnow variety that grew prodigiously in early rice field experiments. Last month he finished building the nation’s first golden shiner hatchery in a rice field eight miles northeast of Marysville, California, and hopes to harvest its fish next spring. Because the fish are harvested much closer to consumers than the trawlers that collect ocean forage fish, they could be a cheaper and less-carbon-intensive source than the oceans. Johnson hopes his pilot project will prompt rice farmers around the world to enter the $5.6-billion global forage fish market.
“You essentially have new ecosystems that we’ve never had around before,” said Moyle, the dean of California fish biologists. “That makes them difficult to manage, but it’s also pretty exciting. You have to find ways to make working landscapes benefit fish and wildlife. It means everybody has to give up something, but in the long run everybody is better off.”
Also, rice is now an arsenic-laden crop. This has been written about, I think maybe, even on this website. Lundberg had to stop using it for baby food because of the arsenic content. How will this be reflected in the fish?
Johnson started his experiments in 2013 with 45,000 Arkansas golden shiners, a hardy minnow variety that grew prodigiously in early rice field experiments. Last month he finished building the nation’s first golden shiner hatchery in a rice field eight miles northeast of Marysville, California, and hopes to harvest its fish next spring. Because the fish are harvested much closer to consumers than the trawlers that collect ocean forage fish, they could be a cheaper and less-carbon-intensive source than the oceans. Johnson hopes his pilot project will prompt rice farmers around the world to enter the $5.6-billion global forage fish market.
“You essentially have new ecosystems that we’ve never had around before,” said Moyle, the dean of California fish biologists. “That makes them difficult to manage, but it’s also pretty exciting. You have to find ways to make working landscapes benefit fish and wildlife. It means everybody has to give up something, but in the long run everybody is better off.”
Also, rice is now an arsenic-laden crop. This has been written about, I think maybe, even on this website. Lundberg had to stop using it for baby food because of the arsenic content. How will this be reflected in the fish?
The salmon are in the fields during the winter (after the harvest) when the water is the correct temperature (http://caltrout.org/regions/central-california-region/the-nigiri-concept/).
As for the arsenic, the fish don't eat the rice, so they don't acquire it the way we do. If the arsenic is water soluble and in the soil, they might pick it up as the water runs over their gills.
House Passes 2-year Budget Deal, Promises
to Reverse Cuts to Crop Insurance
Oct 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. House of
Representatives approved the Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2015 which raised
the debt ceiling until March 2017 and increased federal spending by $80 billion
over two years. Fortunately for agriculture, the previously reported $3
billion cut to federal crop insurance will be reversed during the
Appropriations process later this fall.
Thanks to hundreds of calls to Capitol Hill this week by the farm sector, 57 Members of the House of Representatives officially pledged to oppose the legislation if the cuts to crop insurance weren’t addressed. Outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had no choice but to work with other leadership to come to an agreement to secure the bill’s passage.
USA Rice Vice President of Government Affairs Ben Mosely said, “I’m pleased that the agriculture community around the country was able to successfully coordinate the defense of one of our key safety net programs. Reopening the Farm Bill at this point would directly go against everything that we stand for.”
Mosely added, “I’d really like to thank the rice industry for their engagement as 11 of the 57 Members that pledged to stand up for crop insurance also represent rice-growing Congressional Districts. That participation is a direct effect of the calls our growers made to legislators on Tuesday and Wednesday.”
The Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2015 now heads to the Senate where it will be taken up as early as next week. Earlier today, Senate Republican leaders also vowed to restore the cuts to crop insurance. It remains unclear where the $3 billion in offsets will be found.
Thanks to hundreds of calls to Capitol Hill this week by the farm sector, 57 Members of the House of Representatives officially pledged to oppose the legislation if the cuts to crop insurance weren’t addressed. Outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had no choice but to work with other leadership to come to an agreement to secure the bill’s passage.
USA Rice Vice President of Government Affairs Ben Mosely said, “I’m pleased that the agriculture community around the country was able to successfully coordinate the defense of one of our key safety net programs. Reopening the Farm Bill at this point would directly go against everything that we stand for.”
Mosely added, “I’d really like to thank the rice industry for their engagement as 11 of the 57 Members that pledged to stand up for crop insurance also represent rice-growing Congressional Districts. That participation is a direct effect of the calls our growers made to legislators on Tuesday and Wednesday.”
The Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2015 now heads to the Senate where it will be taken up as early as next week. Earlier today, Senate Republican leaders also vowed to restore the cuts to crop insurance. It remains unclear where the $3 billion in offsets will be found.
http://usarice.com/blogs/usa-rice-daily/2015/10/29/house-passes-2-year-budget-deal-promises-to-reverse-cuts-to-crop-insurance
USA
Rice Daily
Rice States
Must Begin Section 18 Emergency Exemption Requests for AV-1011
Don't delay
The EPA will have extensive data requests on
bird damage from previous years and commercial handlers will need time to treat
seeds with AV-1011 before they are delivered to farms.
USA Rice is working closely with all parties,
including EPA, to facilitate the use of AV-1011 by rice growers.
Contact:
Steve Hensley (703) 236-1445
USA
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marketing-year high--for 2015/2016 were up 68 percent from the previous week
and up noticeably from the prior four-week average, according today's Export Sales Highlights report. Increases were reported for Costa Rica
(22,400 MT), Mexico (20,900 MT), Honduras (16,000 MT), Haiti (13,500 MT), and
Japan (12,400 MT).
Exports of 78,300 MT, up 29 percent from the previous week and 19 percent from the prior four-week average, were reported to Iran (32,000 MT), Haiti (18,500 MT), Japan (13,000 MT), Mexico (3,500 MT), and Canada (2,700 MT). This summary is based on reports from exporters from the period October 16-22, 2015. |
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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open-Oct 29
thu Oct 29, 2015 2:17pm IST
Nagpur, Oct 29 Gram prices today
moved down in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and
Marketing Committee (APMC) here on
lack of demand from local millers amid high moisture content
arrival. Downward trend on NCDEX
and easy condition in Madhya Pradesh gram prices also pulled
down prices here, according to
sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Gram varieties reported down in open market here on poor demand from
local traders
amid good supply from millers because government raids fear.
TUAR
* Tuar varieties showed weak tendency in open market here on poor demand
from local
traders. Reports about increased overseas arrival also pulled down
prices.
* Wheat mill quality reported down in open market on poor demand from
local
traders amid good arrival from producing regions like Punjab and
Haryana.
* In Akola, Tuar - 11,500-11,800, Tuar dal - 18,200-18,400, Udid -
12,900-13,300, Udid Mogar (clean) - 15,900-16,500, Moong -
11,000-11,200, Moong Mogar (clean) 12,100-12,400, Gram - 4,700-4,900,
Gram Super best bold - 6,400-6,700 for 100 kg.
* Other varieties of wheat, rice and other commodities remained steady
in open market
in weak trading activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market
prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS
Available prices Previous
close
Gram Auction
4,000-4,300 4,100-4,400
Gram Pink Auction
n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction
n.a. 8,000-9,500
Moong Auction
n.a. 6,000-6,400
Udid Auction
n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction
n.a. 2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold
6,400-6,800 6,600-7,100
Gram Super Best
n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best
6,100-6,300 6,400-6,700
Gram Dal Medium
n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality
5,000-5,300 5,200-5,300
Desi gram Raw
4,900-5,000 5,000-5,100
Gram Filter new
5,700-6,000 5,750-6,050
Gram Kabuli
5,800-7,100 6,000-7,000
Gram Pink
6,200-7,000 6,500-7,200
Tuar Fataka Best
18,000-18,500 18,100-18,600
Tuar Fataka Medium
17,000-17,300 17,100-17,400
Tuar Dal Best Phod
16,500-17,000 16,600-17,100
Tuar Dal Medium phod
15,500-15,900 15,600-16,000
Tuar Gavarani New
11,800-12,400 11,900-12,500
Tuar Karnataka
12,900-13,100 13,000-13,400
Tuar Black
18,800-19,300 18,900-19,400
Masoor dal best 8,600-8,800 8,600-8,800
Masoor dal medium
8,300-8,500 8,300-8,500
Masoor
n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold
12,400-12,900 12,400-12,900
Moong Mogar Med
11,600-11,800 11,600-11,800
Moong dal Chilka
10,000-10,300 10,000-10,300
Moong Mill quality
n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best
12,300-12,700 12,400-12,800
Udid Mogar Super best (100 INR/KG)
16,300-16,800
16,300-16,800
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)
15,500-15,700
15,500-15,700
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)
10,800-12,200
10,800-12,200
Batri dal (100 INR/KG)
5,600-5,900 5,600-5,900
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)
4,300-4,500 4,300-4,500
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
3,600-3,700 3,600-3,700
Watana White (100 INR/KG)
3,400-3,600 3,400-3,600
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)
3,500-3,700
3,500-3,700
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)
1,600-1,700 1,600-1,700
Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG)
1,550-1,750
1,750-1,850
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)
1,550-1,750 1,550-1,750
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG)
2,500-2,650
2,500-2,650
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG)
2,300-2,400 2,300-2,400
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG)
n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG)
3,400-3,800
3,400-3,800
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)
2,700-3,100
2,700-3,100
Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG)
3,000-3,400
3,000-3,400
Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG)
2,600-2,800
2,600-2,800
Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG)
1,600-1,800 1,600-1,800
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG)
2,100-2,200
2,100-2,200
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG)
1,800-1,900
1,800-1,900
Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG)
3,400-3,800
3,400-3,800
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG)
3,100-3,300
3,100-3,300
Rice HMT Shriram best(100 INR/KG)
4,200-4,600
4,200-4,600
Rice HMT Shriram med.(100 INR/KG)
3,600-4,100
3,600-4,100
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG)
8,000-10,000
8,000-10,000
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG)
7,000-7,500 7,000-7,500
Rice Chinnor best(100 INR/KG)
5,200-5,400
5,200-5,500
Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG)
4,600-5,000
4,700-5,000
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)
1,900-2,200
1,900-2,200
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
1,700-1,900 1,700-1,900
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 33.0 degree Celsius
(91.4 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp.
20.8 degree Celsius (69.4 degree
Fahrenheit)
Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest -
n.a.
Rainfall : nil
FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky.
Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 33 and 20
degree Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are
excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices.)
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/10/29/nagpur-foodgrain-idINL3N12T3F420151029
Arkansas
Farm Bureau Daily Commodity Report
A comprehensive daily commodity market report for Arkansas
agricultural commodities with cash markets, futures and insightful analysis and
commentary from Arkansas Farm Bureau commodity analysts.
Noteworthy benchmark price levels of interest to farmers and
ranchers, as well as long-term commodity market trends which are developing.
Daily fundamental market influences and technical factors are noted and
discussed.
Soybeans
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Soybean Comment
Soybeans close lower today as the market continues to worry
about South American weather. Weather forecast continue to point towards needed
showers across major growing years in Bra-zil. While today's export sales
report was again good for soybeans the market right now is wor-ried about the
large global supplies.
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Wheat Comment
Wheat prices closed higher today. We continue to see speculative
buying in wheat after last week's report showed speculators heavily short in
the market. While sales today were a little better, shipments remain weak. The
U.S. again failed to get an Egyptian tender as other coun-tries beat out the
U.S. again. Price remain in a sideways attar between support at $5 and
re-sistance at recent highs near $5.31.
Grain Sorghum
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386
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310
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New Crop
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386
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330
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Corn
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High
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Low
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Cash Bids
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391
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351
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New Crop
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403
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373
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Corn Comment
Corn prices closed hired today despite another poor export sales
report. The market continues and choppy trade as prices continue to find support
near 370 but they stiff resistance near four dollars. The market likely remain
in the sideways pattern as are my little pressure or support to move prices
outside of this current trading range.
Cotton
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Cotton Comment
Cotton futures were a bit higher, with December holding above 62
cents. Technical selling in the face of overbought indicators has resulted in
the downturn of the past two weeks. The crop is 42% harvested nationwide, but
behind schedule in the eastern costal states that are still waiting for fields
to dry out to be able to evaluate the condition of the crop and get the pickers
rolling.
Rice
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High
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Low
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Long Grain
Cash Bids
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- - -
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- - -
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Long Grain
New Crop
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- - -
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- - -
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Rice Comment
Rice futures opened a bit lower but turned around to close
higher. Recent price action signals a move to the 62% retracement level of
$11.18. Global production problems have helped support the market since the
summer, however, disappointing U.S. yields have likely been built into prices
at this point.
Cattle
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Feeders:
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Arkansas Prices
Charlotte Livestock Auction
Green Forest Livestock Auction
Ratcliff Livestock Auction
Oklahoma City
El Reno Livestock Market, El Reno, OK
Cattle Comment
Livestock prices failed to hold yesterday's gains. After being
shocked by a strong boxed beef and cash cattle prices, markets failed to find
major support to help prices continue the rally.
Hogs
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