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Pakistan to send a
delegation of rice exporters to Sri Lanka
Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 09:01 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 09:01 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Nov 30,
Karachi: A 15-member delegation of Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan
(REAP) will visit Sri Lanka in December to increase rice exports, a statement
said on Wednesday.
Acting chairman of REAP Rafique Suleman along with former
chairman Abdul Rahim Janoo and Asif Polani met with Consul General of Sri Lanka
in Karachi G L Gnanatheva to discuss their visit.
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Suleman apprised Gnanatheva regarding a communication received
from the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo recommending to send a REAP
delegation on urgent basis as Sri Lanka is facing shortage of rice.
Suleman said they are having a good quality crop of Pakistani
Basmati and Irri-6 rice and they can export good quantity of rice with
competitive prices.
"It is therefore decided to send a (15) members high
profile REAP�s trade delegation to Sri Lanka in the month of December 2017 for
the promotion and marketing of Pakistani rice."
He said the delegation will also discuss to increase the Basmati
rice quota which is remaining at 6,000 tons for many years.
Pakistan to send a delegation of rice exporters
to Sri Lanka
Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 09:01 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 09:01 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Nov 30,
Karachi: A 15-member delegation of Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan
(REAP) will visit Sri Lanka in December to increase rice exports, a statement
said on Wednesday.
Acting chairman of REAP Rafique Suleman along with former
chairman Abdul Rahim Janoo and Asif Polani met with Consul General of Sri Lanka
in Karachi G L Gnanatheva to discuss their visit.
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Suleman apprised Gnanatheva regarding a communication received
from the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo recommending to send a REAP
delegation on urgent basis as Sri Lanka is facing shortage of rice.
Suleman said they are having a good quality crop of Pakistani
Basmati and Irri-6 rice and they can export good quantity of rice with
competitive prices.
"It is therefore decided to send a (15) members high
profile REAP�s trade delegation to Sri Lanka in the month of December 2017 for
the promotion and marketing of Pakistani rice."
He said the delegation will also discuss to increase the Basmati
rice quota which is remaining at 6,000 tons for many years.
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_17B/Nov30_1512012712CH.phpRice
exporters to visit Sri Lanka
KARACHI:
A 15-member delegation of Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) will
visit Sri Lanka in December to increase rice exports, a statement said on
Wednesday.
Acting chairman REAP Rafique Suleman along with former chairman Abdul Rahim Janoo and Asif Polani met with Consul General of Sri Lanka in Karachi Mr G L Gnanatheva to discuss their visit. Suleman apprised Gnanatheva regarding a communication received from the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo, wherein it was recommended to send a REAP delegation on urgent basis as Sri Lanka is facing shortage of rice.
“We are having a good quality crop of Pakistani Basmati and Irri-6 rice and we can export good quantity of rice with competitive prices,” Suleman said. “It is therefore decided to send a (15) members high profile REAP’s trade delegation to Sri Lanka in the month of December 2017 for the promotion and marketing of Pakistani rice.” He added that the delegation will also discuss to increase the Basmati rice quota “which is stagnant to 6,000 tons since many years”.
Acting chairman REAP Rafique Suleman along with former chairman Abdul Rahim Janoo and Asif Polani met with Consul General of Sri Lanka in Karachi Mr G L Gnanatheva to discuss their visit. Suleman apprised Gnanatheva regarding a communication received from the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo, wherein it was recommended to send a REAP delegation on urgent basis as Sri Lanka is facing shortage of rice.
“We are having a good quality crop of Pakistani Basmati and Irri-6 rice and we can export good quantity of rice with competitive prices,” Suleman said. “It is therefore decided to send a (15) members high profile REAP’s trade delegation to Sri Lanka in the month of December 2017 for the promotion and marketing of Pakistani rice.” He added that the delegation will also discuss to increase the Basmati rice quota “which is stagnant to 6,000 tons since many years”.
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Rice in
Windsor? Dainty Foods invests $3M in Canada's only rice mill
Dainty Foods wants Canadians to know more about its rice and its
50-year-old mill on Windsor's west side.
SHARON HILL, WINDSOR STAR
Published
on: December 1, 2017 | Last Updated: December 1, 2017 6:13 PM EST
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Cars, whisky — and rice?
Few people realize it but Windsor is home to the only rice mill in
Canada. Dainty Foods has invested $3 million on equipment in its 50-year-old
mill on Windsor’s west side in the last two years.
The mill at Broadway Boulevard off Ojibway Parkway processes about
50,000 tonnes of rice a year — around 110 million pounds — and packages 10
kinds of dry rice, a canned rice and rice flour making a case for Windsor being
the rice capital of Canada.
“When I talk to friends and families and I tell them that I work
in a rice mill in Canada they are taken aback by that,” general manager Bashir
Mohamed said Thursday. “They don’t even know that existed in Canada.”
On Thursday, a 1,000 kilogram bag of rice from Thailand was
starting its journey inside the five-storey plant while a freight train
carrying long grain rice from Arkansas dropped its load onto an underground
conveyer belt that feeds 24 silos.
The Hom Mali rice from Thailand will be sold as a premium Jasmine
rice, he said. Rice is shipped to Montreal from India, Pakistan, Vietnam,
Cambodia and Thailand, and then trucked to Windsor.
Mohamed said few people realize rice is grown in the southern
United States, including in Arkansas (the largest U.S. rice growing area),
California, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Texas. The mill was built
in Windsor in 1967 to be close to the American border.
People who drive past the mill daily and see the Dainty sign don’t
realize it’s all about rice and a 135-year-old Canadian business, said Nikola
Reford, a Dainty Foods marketing manager in Montreal.
“We really want to get the word out that we are in Windsor and
we’re proud to be doing this and having a Canadian brand,” she said.
Nikola’s great, great grandfather, Robert Reford, was an Irish
immigrant who arrived in Canada at the age of 14. He apprenticed in the grocery
business in Montreal in 1866 and started a shipping business that still exists
but is no longer in the family.
In 1882 he bought a flour mill in Montreal and converted it to the
Mount Royal Rice Mills. At the time rice was being shipped to the east and
west coasts of Canada from all over the world and a large tariff on U.S. rice
made it advantageous to have a rice mill in Canada.
Dainty Foods — the Dainty brand was created in
1947 — was sold in 2015 to the French
company Marbour,
The Montreal mill was closed when the Windsor mill was built.
Today it has about 80 employees in Windsor and 15 at its Montreal headquarters,
and sales that reached $50.7 million in 2016.
Dainty Foods is celebrating its 135-year history by rebranding and
repackaging its rice that’s only sold in Canada. The company invested about
$1.5 million this year and $1.5 million in 2016 for new machinery and plant upgrades,
Reford said.
That included a new packaging line for block bottom bags. The
new rice bags stand up on the shelf and are more visible than the flat, clear
bags of rice.
To help
consumers learn more about the 10 different kinds of dry rice sold by Dainty
and how to cook them, there are different banner colours such as pink for
Basmati rice on the new aqua bags of rice. There’s more descriptions on each
bag such as the “pearly white and delicately fragrant” Jasmine
rice. Dainty Foods also teamed up with Quebec chef Jonathan Cheung to
develop rice recipes for its website and Facebook page.
The mill also cans cooked rice for sale with a spice pouch. The
canned rice has been in the Dainty line for decades and has a loyal fan base
for its convenience, she said. The plant also packages rice for private
labels and food services and sells rice flour in bulk.
Rice has benefitted in the last decade from the increased interest
in gluten-free food, she said. And as different kinds of rice appear on store
shelves, people are experimenting with them. Basmati, jasmine and brown rice
are the top three sellers, she said.
“It’s just a simple, natural product and it’s so versatile. You
can eat it with all kinds of things and you can transform it into all kinds of
things. Just about every ethnic background uses rice in different ways.”
The mill removes the bran layer. Nikola said all rice is white at
its core. Brown or whole grain rice doesn’t have its bran layer removed.
Once the rice moves into the mill by conveyer belts or by bags if
its from overseas, the rice is cleaned and sent to be sifted and ground into
flour or for dry rice, it goes through polishing and more machines from sifters
to optical sorters that remove any debris. The rice essentially polishes itself
as it is agitated and the mill doesn’t add salt or preservatives to the 100 per
cent natural product.
Bashir Mohamed, general manager
at Les Aliments Dainty Foods Inc., picks up a handful of rice in the rail car
receiving area during a tour of the Dainty Foods plant, Thursday, Nov. 30,
2017.
Bashir Mohamed, general manager
at Les Aliments Dainty Foods Inc., explains rice production in the rice mill.
Dainty Foods’ new product line
of rice, pictured Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.
Andrew Tomlinson, a machine
operator at Les Aliments Dainty Foods Inc., inspects a block bottom package of
rice at the Dainty Foods plant, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.
The flour mill at the Dainty
Foods plant.
Packaged rice sits in the
warehouse at Dainty Foods Inc.
Rheal St. Louis, a rail car
unloader, works in the rail car receiving area at Dainty Foods Inc., Thursday,
Nov. 30, 2017.
A couple of handfuls of rice
show the essence of things at the Dainty Foods plant in Windsor.
Dainty Foods’ new line of rice
is sold in packages that stand up on the shelf, as opposed to lie down.
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Rice
Science Museum teaches youth about agri
By Marilyn Galang, Philippine News Agency on December 1,
2017
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Farmers planting rice in the field (Photo courtesy of the Department of
Agriculture)
SCIENCE
CITY OF MUNOZ , Nueva Ecija — The Rice Science Museum of the Philippine Rice
Research Institute (PhilRice) has opened a new exhibit that attempts to engage
the youth to become agriculture advocates.
Dr.
Diadem Gonzales-Esmero, museum curator, said in an interview Friday that
through the exhibit, the youth can experience scientists’ workplay through
puzzles, learn about rice growing, and listen to stories that can motivate them
to finish their food, especially rice.
Esmero
also said that children can familiarize themselves with biodiversity and the
interaction among vegetables, rice, and insects in the field.
“We have
30 million young people. Contrast that to the aging population of farmers, which
averages at 55 years old. For this exhibit, we are educating the children about
their role on ensuring food security,” she said.
Although
the ongoing exhibit, which opened last week, is more focused on the children,
the general audience, especially the farmers, will not feel alienated,
according to Esmero.
“They
will learn about the healthy forms of rice and climate change-ready rice
varieties. We also have a corner where they can read and watch about the latest
practices and technologies on rice production,” she said.
Titled
“Wonderful World of Rice”, this fifth exhibit also showcases rice arts and
artifacts to promote the culture and heritage of rice farming.
Previous
exhibits featured rice farming history focusing on Ifugao collections;
traditional and modern rice farming practices; colored rice varieties; the
colorful Pahiyas Festival in Lucban, Quezon; and the social and technological
history of rice. (PNA)
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http://www.canadianinquirer.net/2017/12/01/rice-science-museum-teaches-youth-about-agri/ USA Rice Outlook Conference Tackles Grain Bin Safety
Tuesday, December 12, 9:30 a.m.
- 10:30 a.m.
217 C, Meeting Level
SAN
ANTONIO, TX - According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration,
2010 was the worst year on record for grain bin engulfments and fatalities - 31
people died and hundreds more were injured. And as more storage bins are
built, the opportunity for potentially tragic accidents increases.
As part of this year's educational programming, the USA Rice Outlook Conference is offering a very important session on the challenges and dangers of grain bin entrapment rescue. Dr. Brent Cox, with Global Emergency Management Solutions, will explore options and low to no cost steps to prevent bin entrapments.
Because it can take rescue personnel a long time to reach isolated farm areas, Dr. Cox also will discuss do's and don'ts to follow while awaiting rescue teams, and analyze the steps taken to successfully rescue trapped victims.
"I think it's in the best interest of everyone in the ag community to be schooled on grain bin safety," says Arkansas rice farmer Jennifer James. "I appreciate Valley View Agri-Systems for sponsoring this session. Being aware of the dangers and how to prevent accidents is vital information that we all can use."
217 C, Meeting Level
SAN
ANTONIO, TX - According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration,
2010 was the worst year on record for grain bin engulfments and fatalities - 31
people died and hundreds more were injured. And as more storage bins are
built, the opportunity for potentially tragic accidents increases. As part of this year's educational programming, the USA Rice Outlook Conference is offering a very important session on the challenges and dangers of grain bin entrapment rescue. Dr. Brent Cox, with Global Emergency Management Solutions, will explore options and low to no cost steps to prevent bin entrapments.
Because it can take rescue personnel a long time to reach isolated farm areas, Dr. Cox also will discuss do's and don'ts to follow while awaiting rescue teams, and analyze the steps taken to successfully rescue trapped victims.
"I think it's in the best interest of everyone in the ag community to be schooled on grain bin safety," says Arkansas rice farmer Jennifer James. "I appreciate Valley View Agri-Systems for sponsoring this session. Being aware of the dangers and how to prevent accidents is vital information that we all can use."
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Updated at 7:09 AM
IMF to update India growth rate forecast in January
By
Lalit K Jha
Washington,
Dec 1 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today said it will update its
growth rate forecast for India in January next year.
Recently,
the US-based Moody's upgraded India's sovereign rating after a gap of 13 years
to Baa2, with 'stable' outlook, from Baa3 earlier, citing improved growth
prospects driven by economic and institutional reforms.
This
was followed by S&P Global Rating, which kept India's sovereign rating
unchanged at BBB- with stable outlook saying vulnerabilities stemming from low
per capita income and high government debt balances strong GDP growth.
"We
will be updating the forecast for India, including the growth rate, and that
will be coming January with the update of our World Economic Outlook," IMF
spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters at a news conference held at its
headquarters here.
The
IMF statement came as the latest figures revealed that India grew at 6.3 per
cent in the September quarter compared to 5.7 per cent in the June quarter,
reflecting an improvement in the Indian economy.
In
its news dispatch from New Delhi, The wall Street Journal said India's economic
expansion accelerated in the latest quarter, ending a five-quarter slowdown and
sparking optimism that the negative effects of recent economic policies may now
be behind Asia's third-largest economy.
CNN
reported that India's economy has bounced back from a year-long slowdown, but
it was not enough to regain the global growth crown from China.
By
Lalit K Jha
Washington,
Dec 1 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today said it will update its
growth rate forecast for India in January.
Recently,
the US-based Moody's upgraded India's sovereign rating after a gap of 13 years
to Baa2, with 'stable' outlook, from Baa3 earlier, citing improved growth
prospects driven by economic and institutional reforms.
This
was followed by S&P Global Rating, which kept India's sovereign rating
unchanged at BBB- with stable outlook saying vulnerabilities stemming from low
per capita income and high government debt balances strong GDP growth.
"We
will be updating the forecast for India, including the growth rate, and that
will be coming in January with the update of our World Economic Outlook,"
IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters at a news conference held at its
headquarters here.
The
IMF statement came as the latest figures showed that India grew at 6.3 per cent
in the September quarter compared to 5.7 per cent in the June quarter,
reflecting an improvement in the Indian economy.
In
its news dispatch from New Delhi, The Wall Street Journal said India's economic
expansion accelerated in the latest quarter, ending a five-quarter slowdown and
sparking optimism that the negative effects of recent economic policies may now
be behind Asia's third-largest economy.
CNN
reported that India's economy has bounced back from a year-long slowdown, but
it was not enough to regain the global growth crown from China.
MedLife Lowland Rice Experiment Records
Success in Gbarnga
By
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December 1,
2017
218
Harvested rice from
MedLife-Liberia farms in Gbarnga.
Imagine a country where a water-loving crop like rice enjoys
bountiful rainfall, fertile soil, and ecosystem suitable for growing it in
abundance. This country is Liberia. Yet, Liberia spends millions of dollars
each year to import rice. This import oriented food policy contributes to loss
of foreign exchange, unemployment and lack of food self-sufficiency. In effect,
Liberia subsidizes farmers in other countries, contributing to rising income
and better living conditions for farmers in rice exporting countries like India
and Thailand.
Workers harvesting rice in
Totota
To change this situation, MedLife Liberia works with local
farmers to create a sustainable pathway to increase rice production. If Liberia
can make use of its available massive swampland to grow lowland rice, the
country’s dependency on rice imports could be minimized and food security could
be assured.
In a few years, the sector could provide massive employment for
thousands of Liberia’s idle youth and improve rural income and livelihood.
MedLife’s experience over the last few years suggests that improving
agricultural productivity is the road to better schooling and healthcare.
Farmers will continue to be reluctant to send their children to school as long
as the price they pay is the risk of hunger due to low productivity. MedLife
believes that we can overcome this food first logic by introducing improved
rice farming techniques to produce surplus, where the children’s hands are
needed on the farm to produce just sufficient food to feed the family.
That was the conclusion reached following a two-year experiment
by a MedLife team that invested in lowland rice production in Totota, Garmu, Palala,
Taylors Town, Fola and Green Hill Quarry with the support of UNDP GEF Small
Grant Program. The program has shown increased promise of a better future for
sustainable lowland rice production.
Mr. Alfred Miller, machine
operator and supervisor of the project
Dr. Khalifa Bility, former deputy minister for planning,
research, and development, is convinced that Liberia could feed herself only
when adequate investment is made in soil, seeds, tools and machines and lots of
common sense policies to support farmers in a process that could bring results
in months and not in years.
But in a country where commitment to work is challenging and
people tend to take advantage of a situation instead of using dignity in labor
as the end of their hard work, Dr. Bility said he has come up with a
performance-based contract system that motivates workers to justify their
income.
“And after two years I have finally found a system to get
increased production,” he said, after a tour of his farms in Totota, Bong
County last Friday.
The seed variety planted in lowland rice cultivation, he said,
is ready to harvest in three months. “And after the harvest, two months later,
you will realize that another harvest will take place after one month,” he
added.
He said he has established five zones with each zone containing
four farms, and each farm contains twenty-three plots, that equal one hectare.
Though he operates from Monrovia, Bility has five core workers
who ensure that they employ contractors, including women and young men, to prepare
the land for planting.
Presently, with support from the UNDP GEF grant and the Chinese
Embassy, he has purchased power tillers, rice mill, a rice thrasher and a rice
harvester, and is planning to introduce additional farming implements that
would graduate into appropriate mechanized farming in the near future.
Alfred Miller, a machine operator, is the supervisor of the
project. He informed the Daily Observer that the project provides employment
for more than 100 Liberians.
“We feed them once a day. They work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or
even more because the system rewards those who stay longer on the job to
complete their day’s work on the farm,” Miller said.
Each worker is paid L$200 or more per day, and they are
harvesting lowland rice planted three months ago; it would take them 5 days to
complete the job.
“So after harvesting,” he said, “we restart the process and
Liberia is blessed with rains that come even in the dry season.” In fact, Dr.
Bility, following a visit to Southeast Asia (India, Malaysia, etc), borrowed a
drainage system that ensures there is water on the farm at all times.
“Rice is a water product,” Dr. Bility said, “and so I borrowed
the system that we have introduced to provide water all year round.”
He said his system is rooted in the spirit of self-help to
generate income. However, the use of the machines is communal because most
farmers cannot afford to purchase a power tiller on their own. This is why the
system is called Fixed Price Communal Commercial Farming in the various communities
in Bong County he is operating his farms.
“We make sure to identify suitable lowland and then we get the
community’s help to clear or brush the land and remove all tree trunks from the
soil,” he said. “There is additional work to be done, including the developing
rice nursery for transplanting, weeding, as well as fertilizer and water
management.”
Dr. Bility said the experiment received less than 20% external
help from the UNDP and he has borne all expenses.
His system is organized in such a way that even birds that make
their presence during the growing stage after planting are kept out of the
farms.
His objective, he said, is to bring his products to the Liberian
market and to help reduce government’s rice imports, which is in the hundreds
of millions, to zero so that the money could circulate in the country.
Dr. Bility said after two years, he is succeeding, because “you
can predict the behavior of people by knowing their interest.”
The quality of the rice from his farms, he said, is the same as
those that are imported from other countries. He admitted that it will not hurt
the Liberian government to provide support to ensure that food security is
sustained in the country.
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https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/bihar/row-over-paddy-hits-assembly-190052 Rice Packaging Business In Nigeria
By
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December 1, 2017
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Rice is
an increasingly important crop in Nigeria relatively easy to produce and is
grown for sale and for home consumption.
In some
states, there is a long tradition of rice growing, but for many, rice has been
considered a luxury food for special occasions only. With the increased
availability of rice, it has become part of the everyday diet of many in
Nigeria.
Nigerians
spent not less than N1 billion daily on rice consumption, while spending had
drastically reduced, consumption had increased because of increased local
production of the commodity.
“The
consumption rate now is 7.9 million tonnes and the production rate has
increased to 5.8 tones per annum. This is as a result of CBN’s Anchor Borrowers
Programme (ABP) with a total of 12 million rice producers and 4 million
hectares of FADAMA rice land. Since inception of the programme, it has created
economic linkage between Small Holder Farmers (SHF) and reputable large-scale
processors, thereby increasing agricultural outputs and significantly improving
capacity utilisation of processors.
Rice
Packaging And Branding Business
With
the above you will be sure of getting enough quantity of local rice to package
and brand into your own name.
The
local rice are available in different states in Nigeria such as Kano, kaduna,
Enugu, Gombe State, Niger State, Kebbi State, Ebonyi State, Anambra State.
All you
need to do is to buy the 100kg bag of stone free quality local rice and brand
and bag into different kg such as 2kg,5kg,10kg,25kg with your brand name and
supply to shops. Branding in rice is key as your brand will sell your rice as
far as it is good.
Things
You Need To Consider Before Going Into Rice Branding And Packaging
Capital:
The capital you need depends on the scale you want to operate such as small,
medium, larger scale. But any amount from #250,000 will go a long way.
Rice
variety: You really need to investigate all kinds of rice varieties in Nigeria.
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Decide your market better still, look for one. Your market is your business and
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Fayemi, Fashola,
Kale Others Bag Excellence In Public Service Awards
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi,
on Thursday evening received the Businessday Newspaper’s Excellence in Public
service award 2017 in recognition of the reforms and innovations that have
repositioned the mining sector under his watch.
Other public servants that also bagged awards at the event, which held in Abuja, included the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde fashola (SAN); Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Elenamah; Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale; and Yewande Shadiku, the Executive secretary of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission.
Former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, while presenting the award to Fayemi, said his leadership of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has helped to inject a new lease of life into the country’s comatose minerals and mining sector.
Stressing that public service could be a thankless job, Abdusalami said it takes a combination of patriotic zeal, brilliance and integrity for a public servant to make a mark.
Abdusalami urged Nigerians who have found themselves in positions of leadership to always strive to make positive impact, adding that the country would fare better with more purpose-driven public servants.
Fayemi, who was joined by the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari, in receiving the award, said Nigerians could build Nigeria of their dream with more dedication and with everyone playing his or her roles well.
He lauded Businessday Newspaper for its daily brilliant reportage and analyses of the Nigerian and global economic developments.
The Minister was on November 2 honoured with an award by the authorities of the Federal University of Technology, Akure as well as the students body of the institution.
A day earlier, he had received the Excellence in Governance Award 2017 of the Global Patriots Newspapers in Lagos.
Other public servants that also bagged awards at the event, which held in Abuja, included the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde fashola (SAN); Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Elenamah; Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale; and Yewande Shadiku, the Executive secretary of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission.
Former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, while presenting the award to Fayemi, said his leadership of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has helped to inject a new lease of life into the country’s comatose minerals and mining sector.
Stressing that public service could be a thankless job, Abdusalami said it takes a combination of patriotic zeal, brilliance and integrity for a public servant to make a mark.
Abdusalami urged Nigerians who have found themselves in positions of leadership to always strive to make positive impact, adding that the country would fare better with more purpose-driven public servants.
Fayemi, who was joined by the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari, in receiving the award, said Nigerians could build Nigeria of their dream with more dedication and with everyone playing his or her roles well.
He lauded Businessday Newspaper for its daily brilliant reportage and analyses of the Nigerian and global economic developments.
The Minister was on November 2 honoured with an award by the authorities of the Federal University of Technology, Akure as well as the students body of the institution.
A day earlier, he had received the Excellence in Governance Award 2017 of the Global Patriots Newspapers in Lagos.
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Nutritive Golden Potato Is the Latest GMO Superfood
A genetically modified tuber with high amounts
of vitamins A and E could potentially help to nourish the world — but will it
ever make it to market?
BY LUCY
JORDAN
PUBLISHED ON 12/01/2017
6:28 PM EST
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·
·
Sufferers of
malnutrition in the global south could soon find help from an unlikely source:
a humble potato, genetically tweaked to provide substantial doses of vitamins A
and E, both crucial nutrients for health.
Dubbed the “golden potato,” boosted levels of
provitamin A carotenoids — which are found naturally in carrots and sweet
potatoes — give the new tuber its yellow-orange flesh, and are converted into
vitamin A by digestive enzymes when eaten.
The potato, created in a lab in Italy and
studied at Ohio State University, is the most recent staple crop to be
genetically transformed into a colorful superfood, joining such creations
as antioxidant-rich
purple rice and beta-carotene-enhanced
golden rice.
But while foods with genetic tweaks to make them
more commercially successful by increasing yield or longevity are relatively
common — in the US, we have FDA-approved apples that don’t brown, bruise-free
potatoes, and insect-resistant soy, among many other examples of
genetically modified produce — these vitamin-enriched staples have yet to be
grown commercially.
Potatoes are the fourth most popular crop
worldwide, after rice, wheat, and corn, according to the US Department of
Agriculture. It is a staple food in some Asian, African, and South American
countries where vitamin A and vitamin E deficiencies are common.
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is the leading cause
of preventable blindness in children, and is also key for growth,
immunity, organ development, and reproductive health. Vitamin E protects
against oxidative stress and inflammation, conditions that are associated with
damage to nerves, muscles, vision, and the immune system.
The Ohio State
University
A single serving of the
golden potato could provide up to 42 percent of a child’s recommended daily
intake of vitamin A and 34 percent of their recommended vitamin E intake,
according to a
recent study co-led by researchers at Ohio State, the Italian
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Development
(ENEA) in Rome, and the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and
Economics.
Women of reproductive age could get 15 percent
of their recommended vitamin A and 17 percent of their vitamin E intakes from
the same 5.3 ounce serving, the researchers said.
Malnourishment is possible
even when people appear to have ample food. This phenomenon is known as “hidden
hunger,” as people can be surviving chiefly on crops that supply calories but
lack essential nutrients for growth and health.
Mark Failla, a professor emeritus of human nutrition
who lead the research at Ohio State, said that this is particularly prevalent
in developing countries, where staple food crops have often been bred for high
yield and pest resistance instead of nutritional quality.
“More than 800,000 people depend on the potato
as their main source of energy and many of these individuals are not consuming
adequate amounts of these vital nutrients,” said Failla in a statement.
The potato was genetically engineered in Italy
using a technique called biofortification.
“Carotenoid biofortification has proven itself
with ‘golden’ rice and maize,” said Giovanni
Giuliano, coordinator of the studies from ENEA. “Potato was the third crop to
join this group.”
Giuliano noted that the level of technology
necessary for enrichment is dependent on the crop. Maize and cassava can be
enriched with beta-carotene using traditional breeding techniques, where
parents with the desired trait are crossed over several generations — a bit
like breeding labradors to retrieve, or border collies to herd.
But with crops where beta-carotene is not
naturally occurring, it has to be transgenically inserted. Traditional breeding
can then pass the trait down the genetic line.
Once the potato had been genetically
manipulated, researchers in Failla’s Ohio lab created a simulated digestive
system — complete with virtual mouth, stomach, and small intestine — to
determine how much provitamin A and vitamin E could potentially be absorbed by
someone who eats a golden potato.
“We ground up boiled golden potato and
mimicked the conditions of these digestive organs to determine how much of
these fat-soluble nutrients became biologically available,” Failla explained.
The group began the work focused on provitamin A
availability, so their discovery that the potato also supplied a 10-fold dose
of vitamin E was an unanticipated and pleasant surprise.
“Universities and other
research labs regularly put out press releases saying they have developed a GM
crop that will help feed people.”
The potato will join a
growing stable of other genetically modified staple crops. Just this July,
biotechnologists at the Queensland University of Technology announced that they
had created a vitamin A-enhanced “golden banana.”
But while researchers are keen to tout such
crops as potentially transformational, the reality is that these foods are slow
to have an impact. Golden rice was heralded with splashy headlines declaring
its potential to save millions of lives when it was unveiled in 1999. But 18
years later, it still has yet to be marketed commercially.
One problem is that genetic engineers don’t
always have control over where exactly the beta-carotene enhancing transgenes
land in the target organism’s DNA, said Glenn Davis Stone, a professor of
anthropology and environmental studies at Washington University and a longtime
observer of golden rice.
It was only earlier this year that the
International Rice Research Institution in the Philippines — the world’s top
rice research institution and the center of the effort to commercialize golden
rice — felt able to submit the enhanced grain for regulatory approval.
Before that, Stone noted, its yields were
significantly lower than the same rice without the “golden” trait, “probably
because the trait had been inserted into a gene that controlled root
development.”
IRRI anticipates that the first high-yield
varieties of golden rice will be available toward the end of the decade.
As for the chances of
the golden potato and other new superfoods making it to market, Stone is
skeptical.
“Universities and other research labs regularly
put out press releases saying they have developed a GM crop that will help feed
people,” he told Seeker. “Lycopene-enhanced tomatoes, sorghum with more
digestible protein, iron-enhanced cassava, vitamin-E-enriched canola, and so
on.”
“The biotech industry has shown no interest in
commercializing these crops,” he added. “These potatoes will never be
commercialized.”
Another challenge to crops like the golden
potato is the fact that vitamin A is fat soluble, meaning we can only absorb it
if it comes with enough dietary fat. As VAD often affects people with a
generally poor diet, this is by no means assured.
In one heavily cited human trial of golden rice
from 2012, the participating children were eating the rice as part of a
balanced meal in which 20 percent of the calories were from fat. As Stone
suggested in a 2015
blog post, this demonstrates only that golden rice successfully
imparts vitamin A to children who don’t need it.
He pointed out that over the past decade or so,
the Philippines has succeeded in slashing its VAD rate without using golden
rice.
“For some reason, the GMO supporters who claim
to be deeply concerned about VAD have not celebrated this,” Stone said.
WATCH: Solving Hunger Is Just a Matter of
Logistics
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Rice basmati up on
stockists' buying
PTI | Dec 1, 2017, 14:37 IST
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New Delhi,
Dec 1 () Rice basmati prices firmed up by Rs 200 per quintal at the wholesale
grains market today on emergene of stockists buying against restricted arrivals
from growing regions.
Bajra also
ended higher on increased offtake by consuming industries.
Traders
said fresh buying by stockists against restricted arrivals from growing regions
and some enquiries from rice mills mainly attributed the rise in rice basmati
prices.
In the
national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa- 1121 variety went up by Rs 200
each to Rs 7,900-8,000 and Rs 6,400-6,500 per quintal respectively.
Non-basmati
permal raw, wand,sela and IR-8 also settled higher at Rs 2,325-2,375, Rs
2,375-2,425, Rs 2,700-2,900 and Rs 1,950-2,000 from previous levels of Rs
2,300-2,350, Rs 2,350-2,400, Rs 2,600-2,800 and Rs 1,950-1,975 per quintal
respectively in line with rice basmati trend.
Other bold
grain like bajra also moved up by Rs 1,215- 1,220 per quintal.
Following
are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
Wheat MP
(desi) Rs 2,125-2,325, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 1,840-1,845, Chakki atta
(delivery) Rs 1,845-1,850, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 260-300, Shakti Bhog (10
kg) Rs 255-290, Roller flour mill Rs 990-1,000 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,030-1,040
(50 kg)and Sooji Rs 1,060-1,070 (50 kg).
Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super
Basmati Rice Rs 9,800, Basmati common new Rs 7,900-8,000, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs
6,400-6,500, Permal raw Rs 2,325-2375, Permal wand Rs 2,375-2,425, Sela Rs
2,700-2,900 and Rice IR-8 Rs 1,950-2,000, Bajra Rs 1,215-1,220, Jowar yellow Rs
1,375-1,425, white Rs 2,750-2,850, Maize Rs 1,320- 1,325, Barley Rs
1,480-1,490. SUN KPS ADI MKJ
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/rice-basmati-up-on-stockists-buying/articleshow/61878206.cms IRRI and BASF team up to promote direct-seeded rice
in Asia
01.12.2017
The
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and BASF signed three agreements,
paving the way for wider dissemination and adoption of direct-seeded rice (DSR)
tools and technologies. Through this partnership, the two organizations will
establish a multi-stakeholder DSR Consortium and further research on the use of
non-genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant rice.
Under optimal conditions, direct seeding is considered a more efficient and cheaper method of growing rice than manual rice transplantation. It requires less resources such as labor and water, and it emits less greenhouse gases compared with other rice growing methods.
Although direct seeding is widely practiced in the United States and South America, challenges such as higher yield losses due to weed infestation have limited its wide-scale adoption in Asia.
Furthermore, the consortium will enable IRRI to develop DSR technologies and test rice varieties suitable to Asian environmental conditions. Membership is open to the public and private sectors, research organizations, NGOs, and farmer groups.
“Feeding the world is not just a public sector concern. It's a problem that needs everyone's contribution, including the private sector. With this partnership, we're enabling organizations like IRRI to work closely with companies like BASF toward a common goal, which is sustainable development,” said Jacqueline Hughes, IRRI’s Deputy Director General for Research.
The partnership will also advance research on non-genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant rice to safely control weed infestation in DSR systems. Once these varieties are introduced to the market, a third-party organization will assess their impact on rice productivity, profitability, and ecological sustainability.
“This partnership with IRRI will expand our reach and expertise, and we are confident that this will contribute to faster and wider dissemination of rice technologies, such as the Clearfield Production System, that raise rice productivity and farmers’ income at the same time. Through this collaboration, we are excited to provide products and program support that contribute to food security in a significant and environmentally sustainable way,” said Gustavo Palerosi Carneiro, head of BASF’s Crop Protection Division in Asia Pacific.
Under optimal conditions, direct seeding is considered a more efficient and cheaper method of growing rice than manual rice transplantation. It requires less resources such as labor and water, and it emits less greenhouse gases compared with other rice growing methods.
Although direct seeding is widely practiced in the United States and South America, challenges such as higher yield losses due to weed infestation have limited its wide-scale adoption in Asia.
Furthermore, the consortium will enable IRRI to develop DSR technologies and test rice varieties suitable to Asian environmental conditions. Membership is open to the public and private sectors, research organizations, NGOs, and farmer groups.
“Feeding the world is not just a public sector concern. It's a problem that needs everyone's contribution, including the private sector. With this partnership, we're enabling organizations like IRRI to work closely with companies like BASF toward a common goal, which is sustainable development,” said Jacqueline Hughes, IRRI’s Deputy Director General for Research.
The partnership will also advance research on non-genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant rice to safely control weed infestation in DSR systems. Once these varieties are introduced to the market, a third-party organization will assess their impact on rice productivity, profitability, and ecological sustainability.
“This partnership with IRRI will expand our reach and expertise, and we are confident that this will contribute to faster and wider dissemination of rice technologies, such as the Clearfield Production System, that raise rice productivity and farmers’ income at the same time. Through this collaboration, we are excited to provide products and program support that contribute to food security in a significant and environmentally sustainable way,” said Gustavo Palerosi Carneiro, head of BASF’s Crop Protection Division in Asia Pacific.
http://www.blackseagrain.net/novosti/irri-and-basf-team-up-to-promote-direct-seeded-rice-in-asia AIDS affected
children advised to live long with hope and confidence : Collector
Kakinada
| Friday, Dec 1 2017 IST
East Godavari District Collector
Kartikeya Mishra has advised the AIDS infected and affected children to
overcome the disease and live long with hope and confidence on future.
While interacting with the AIDS infected and affected
children at his camp office hereon Friday, over breakfast in connection with
World AIDS day, Mishra has assured them that AIDS was a manageable disease
and people can lead quality life protecting themselves with proper medication
and discipline.
He also assured all out support to them in health and
education aspects and cited the life of famous basketball player Michel
Jordon who was infected by AIDS but leading a healthy life as a basketball
coach for the past three decades.
The Collector gave away nutritious food kits, blankets
and towels to the AIDs affected children donated by rice millers association
and other organizations.
City Mayor Sunkara Pavani, Joint Collector Dr
Mallikharjuna, Joint Collector 2 Radhakrishnamurty, Medical college Principal
Ravula Mahalakshmi, GGH superintendent Dr Raghavendrarao, DMHO Dr Chenchaiah,
AIDS nodal officer and additional DMHO Dr Pavan kumar were among those
attended the event.
Later, the Mayor Pavani has flagged off AIDS awareness
rally at the PR Government college grounds.UNI XC KNR CS 1910
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rice prices soar amid sharply lower production
December 1, 2017 - by Ron Sterk
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U.S. rice production is down 20% from 2016.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, U.S. — U.S. rice
production is estimated down 20% from 2016 while nearby rough rice futures traded
in Chicago were up nearly 30% from a year ago in late November.
The drastic reduction largely was the result of reduced planted
and harvested area as rice (as well as corn and sorghum) lost acreage mainly to
soybeans and cotton due to relative prices when planting decisions were made
earlier in the year. Slightly better national average rice yield provided some
offset to lower acreage.
Rice prices were declining in March while soybean prices were
rising, Nathan Childs, PhD, an agricultural economist with the U.S. Department
of Agriculture said earlier in the year, and U.S. rice carryout for 2017 at the
time was forecast at more than a 30-year high.
The USDA in its November Crop Production report estimated 2017
U.S. rice production at 178.382 million cwts, down 5% from its initial forecast
in August, down 20% from 224.145 million cwts in 2016, down 13% from the recent
five-year average and the lowest since 1996. A record crop of 243.104 million
cwts was harvested in 2010. Harvested area was estimated at 2.391 million
acres, down 706,000 acres, or 23%, from 2016 and the lowest since 1987. Average
yield based on Nov. 1 conditions was estimated at 7,461 pounds per acre, up 3%
from last year.
Harvested area for rice, corn and sorghum declined a combined
2.103 million acres in the six rice states of Arkansas, California, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Missouri and Texas, while harvested area for soybeans and cotton
increased a combined 2,015,000 acres, according to USDA data.
Some rice acreage losses also resulted from heavy rains and
flooding related to Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana. Although much of
the crop was harvested when the hurricane hit, there were significant losses to
the second harvest, known as the ratoon crop, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture said in its November Rice Outlook. Additional acreage was lost to
flooding earlier in the year in top-producing Arkansas, which accounted for
about 60% of the total reduced harvested area.
The nearby January rough rice future closed at $12.42 a cwt on
Nov. 24, up 29% from a year ago and up 20% from the first of the year but below
September highs above $13 a cwt. Rice futures last week neared $13 a cwt in the
July 2018 contract and didn’t drop below $12 until the new 2018 crop November
contract.
In its November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
report, the USDA forecast the average farm price of all rice in 2017-18
(August-July) at $12.50 to $13.50 a cwt, with the midpoint up $2.60 a cwt, or
25%, from $10.40 a cwt a year earlier and compared with $12.20 a cwt in
2015-16.
The USDA in its WASDE forecast carryover of rice on Aug. 1, 2018,
at 29.9 million cwts, down 35% from 46 million cwts in 2017 and the lowest
since 2007-08.
Unlike wheat, corn and soybeans, the United States is not a major
producer of rice on the global stage, missing the top 10 by a couple of slots.
Still, the United States exports about 55% of its rice production (similar to
wheat and soybean export percentages). But the United States also imports a
substantially larger share of its rice supply (about 10% of total supply and
about 20% of domestic consumption) than the other commodities mainly due to the
classes of rice produced and the varieties desired by consumers. The USDA
forecast U.S. rice imports in 2017-18 at a record 24.5 million cwts.
Despite the sharp decline in U.S. rice production, global supplies
are ample after record outturn of 486.57 million tonnes in 2016-17. Though
forecast production for the current year is down 1% from last year at 481.20
million tonnes, 2017-18 ending stocks at 141.51 million tonnes are the highest
since a record 146.7 million tonnes in 2000-01.
Looking ahead, the USDA in its preliminary long-range projections
released last week, forecast 2018 U.S. rice planted area at 2.9 million acres,
up 17% from 2017, and harvested area at 2.878 million acres, up 20%, though
both still are below 2016 acreage. Production next year was forecast at 220.2
million cwts, up 23% from 2017. The average farm price was forecast to decline
5% to $12.30 a cwt in 2018-19.
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Crop Tech Corner
Weeds Nibble Away at Nitrogen
12/1/2017 | 9:25 AM CST
(DTN photo illustration by Nick Scalise)
Research
recently published in the Journal Crop and Pasture Science indicates weeds
could be stealing Nitrogen (N) from crops.
The
study "investigated the ability of several plant species commonly
occurring as weeds in Australian cropping systems to produce root exudates that
inhibit nitrification via biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)."
The
weeds -- wild radish, great brome grass, wild oats and annual ryegrass -- were
considered.
Read the preliminary results of the study here: http://bit.ly/…
Each of
the weed species showed the ability to suppress nitrification, which could help
them to compete with other plants for nitrogen. "This highlights that
increasing our understanding of how plants influence soil microbiota and
associated nutrient cycling could open the door to potential novel
weed-management strategies," according to the study. Further research is
needed to explore whether it is possible to enhance weed-control strategies by
manipulating the form and or timing of N supplied to crops.
"Weeds
are called weeds for a reason," writes Cathryn O'Sullivan, a researcher
with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
"They are masters of invasion, and they use sneaky tricks to give them an
advantage over our crops. This is very interesting research that could one day
give us another tool in our arsenal against our selfish weeds."
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THE CORN BELT-RAISED RICE
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/crops/article/2017/12/01/weeds-nibble-away-nitrogen-3 Record rice harvest seen this year
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We are now in a time of the year associated with rice harvests
in the country, especially in Central Luzon, Western Visayas, Cagayan Valley,
and Central Mindanao. Many years in the past, we were hit by powerful typhoons
and floods that destroyed harvests while destroying homes and communities. This
year, however, we seem to have been spared from such calamities as
super-typhoon Yolanda in November, 2013, and the floods of tropical storm Ondoy
in September, 2009.
These natural calamities impact a
great deal on our annual rice harvests. This year, the Department of
Agriculture expects a record rice harvest of about 19.4 million metric tons for
2017. But this is still below our total need of 20 million tons a year. We thus
still need to import 600,000 tons of rice.
There was a time when we had to
import 1.8 million tons of rice a year, due to our fast-increasing population,
loss of ricelands to real estate development, and natural calamities such as
storms and floods. We gradually reduced this shortage through high-yielding
rice varieties, farm mechanization, and this year, a program of free
irrigation.
Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said that
reports from department regional offices indicate that the fourth quarter
harvest will be better than previous yields. The most welcome report came from
Nueva Ecija whose farmers – using hybrid seeds developed by private firms in
collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los
Banos, Laguna, and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PRRI) in Nueva Ecija
– have posted harvests of 10 tons per hectare. This compares with the national
average of 4.38 tons per hectare.
These high-yielding hybrid rice
varieties are now being planted in about 360,000 hectares – out of a possible
4.9 million hectares in the country. The DA has set a target of one million
hectares planted wih hybrid rice by the year 2020. This modest goal means an
additional production of 4 million tons per harvest a year – so much more than
our present shortage of 600,000 tons.
Agriculture truly carries our
greatest hope for economic growth in the coming years. It would provide
much-needed employment for Filipinos, most of whom now live in the rural areas.
Its growth is bound to impact on other sectors of the national economy.
Self-sufficiency in rice will be a
particular source of satisfaction to Filipinos, whose IRRI and PRRI trained the
rice growers of Vietnam and Thailand. We have the land, we have the technology,
we have the high-yielding rice varieties. We should be able to produce the rice
needs of our own people
http://tempo.com.ph/2017/12/01/record-rice-harvest-seen-this-year/ After Strong 9 Months of Sales, Kubota Ups Full-Year
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Stronger than expected sales
of agricultural and light construction machinery was the basis for managers at
Kubota to increase their forecast for year-end revenues.
With the Farm &
Industrial Machinery division recording a 10% upturn in revenues for the 9
months to the end of September, Kubota executives now expect a full year figure
equivalent to almost $15 billion, up $176 million or just over 1% on previous
forecasts.
In North America, sales of
compact tractors, construction machinery and engines grew due to expanded
demand, in addition to the positive effect from favorable exchange rates and
the contribution from Salina, Kan.-based Great Plains, which was acquired in
2016.
Short and long term finance
receivables increased due to the expansion in sales financing operations in
North America, where retail sales were strong, notes Kubota. Trade notes and
accounts receivable decreased because of the inventory control by dealers in
the U.S.
Increased sales in Europe
also contributed to a near 12% increase in over- seas revenues over the period,
with the Kverneland Group implements business doing better as it supplies an
increasing number of machines to Kubota dealers, as well as its Vicon and
Kverneland independents.
China contributed a
significant increase in revenues due to better sales of rice transplanters,
construction machinery and engines, which more than offset slowing demand for
combines.
In Japan, sales of tractors
and implements, engines and other equipment in the division’s portfolio
increased 3.8%, thanks to recovering sales of tractors previously held back by
the strengthening of emissions regulations.
Overall, the farming-related
division accounted for 82% of Kubota group revenues in the 9-month period. For
3 months ended Sept. 30, sales of farm equipment and engines were up 8%.
Domestic sales rose 5.6%, while overseas sales increased by 8.7%.
U.S. sales for the quarter
were $991 million.
https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/14909-after-strong-9-months-of-sales-kubota-ups-full-year-outlook Rice
Science Museum teaches youth about agri
By Marilyn Galang, Philippine News Agency on December 1,
2017
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FILE:
Farmers planting rice in the field (Photo courtesy of the Department of
Agriculture)
SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ , Nueva Ecija — The Rice Science Museum of
the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has opened a new exhibit that
attempts to engage the youth to become agriculture advocates.
Dr. Diadem Gonzales-Esmero, museum curator, said in an interview
Friday that through the exhibit, the youth can experience scientists’ workplay
through puzzles, learn about rice growing, and listen to stories that can
motivate them to finish their food, especially rice.
Esmero also said that children can familiarize themselves with
biodiversity and the interaction among vegetables, rice, and insects in the
field.
“We have 30 million young people. Contrast that to the aging
population of farmers, which averages at 55 years old. For this exhibit, we are
educating the children about their role on ensuring food security,” she said.
Although the ongoing exhibit, which opened last week, is more
focused on the children, the general audience, especially the farmers, will not
feel alienated, according to Esmero.
“They will learn about the healthy forms of rice and climate
change-ready rice varieties. We also have a corner where they can read and
watch about the latest practices and technologies on rice production,” she
said.
Titled “Wonderful World of Rice”, this fifth exhibit also
showcases rice arts and artifacts to promote the culture and heritage of rice
farming.
Previous exhibits featured rice farming history focusing on
Ifugao collections; traditional and modern rice farming practices; colored rice
varieties; the colorful Pahiyas Festival in Lucban, Quezon; and the social and
technological history of rice. (PNA
Rice Science Museum teaches youth about agri
By Marilyn Galang, Philippine News Agency on December 1,
2017
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Farmers planting rice in the field (Photo courtesy of the Department of
Agriculture)
SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ , Nueva Ecija — The Rice Science Museum of
the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has opened a new exhibit that
attempts to engage the youth to become agriculture advocates.
Dr. Diadem Gonzales-Esmero, museum curator, said in an interview
Friday that through the exhibit, the youth can experience scientists’ workplay
through puzzles, learn about rice growing, and listen to stories that can
motivate them to finish their food, especially rice.
Esmero also said that children can familiarize themselves with
biodiversity and the interaction among vegetables, rice, and insects in the
field.
“We have 30 million young people. Contrast that to the aging
population of farmers, which averages at 55 years old. For this exhibit, we are
educating the children about their role on ensuring food security,” she said.
Although the ongoing exhibit, which opened last week, is more
focused on the children, the general audience, especially the farmers, will not
feel alienated, according to Esmero.
“They will learn about the healthy forms of rice and climate
change-ready rice varieties. We also have a corner where they can read and
watch about the latest practices and technologies on rice production,” she
said.
Titled “Wonderful World of Rice”, this fifth exhibit also
showcases rice arts and artifacts to promote the culture and heritage of rice
farming.
Previous exhibits featured rice farming history focusing on
Ifugao collections; traditional and modern rice farming practices; colored rice
varieties; the colorful Pahiyas Festival in Lucban, Quezon; and the social and
technological history of rice. (PNA
http://www.canadianinquirer.net/2017/12/01/rice-science-museum-teaches-youth-about-agri/ FFAR awards $1 million grant to create open source technology for gene
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research is being led by Principal Investigator Pamela Ronald, Ph.D., in the
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The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit
established in the 2014 Farm Bill with bipartisan congressional support,
awarded a $1 million Seeding Solutions grant to University of California, Davis
to study the genetics of rice plants. Together with researchers at the
University of North Carolina and collaborators, the team will develop and
implement a chemistry-driven gene discovery approach to identify genes that
modulate root traits. The FFAR grant has been matched with funding from the UC
Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Structural Genomics
Consortium, AgBiome, and Promega for a total $2.3 million investment.
The project targets protein kinases, enzymes that control diverse
biological process in plants, such as root architecture and drought response.
Genes corresponding to kinases discovered in this project will be further
characterized using a recently established comprehensive collection of mutants
to assess their roles in root system architecture and drought tolerance.
“The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research is encouraged
by the collaborative nature of this research,” said Sally Rockey, executive
director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research. “This project is
a prime example of how public-private partnerships can advance our
understanding of plant genetics to develop crops resistant to drought and other
climate extremes.”
To accomplish their goals, the team will create and characterize
a set of kinase inhibitors that collectively inhibit most of the kinases in
rice. The starting point will be approximately 1,000 human kinase inhibitors
carefully selected from a library of chemical compounds donated to the
partnership from eight pharmaceutical companies. The set will be distributed
without restriction to scientists studying other plants and traits, thus
serving as a broadly useful platform. The team has agreed to operate under open
access principles—specifically prohibiting filing for IP on any of the results
and will communicate the results widely.
The research is being led by Principal Investigator Pamela
Ronald, Ph.D., in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at UC
Davis.
“I am delighted to work with this talented and diverse team of
researchers to advance rice genetics research. We are grateful for FFAR support
that has allowed us to launch this project,” said Ronald.
“The pharmaceutical industry has poured resources into the study
of human kinase inhibitors for drug discovery,” said David Drewry, Ph.D., co-PI
and professor at University of North Carolina. “We are excited to leverage this
investment and apply what we have learned to the important problem of water
scarcity. An open science approach will allow us to build our understanding of
genes that influence root growth more effectively and efficiently.”
In addition to those listed in the above article, researchers on
this project include:
Aled Edwards, Ph.D., collaborator, professor at the University
of Toronto and director of the Structural Genomics Consortium; and
Rafael Najmanovich, Ph.D., collaborator, professor at the
University of Montreal.
This project is supported by FFAR through its Seeding Solutions
grant program, which calls for bold, innovative, and potentially transformative
research proposals in the Foundation’s seven Challenge Areas. This grant
supports the Overcoming Water Scarcity Challenge Area, which aims to increase
the efficiency of water use in agriculture, reduce agricultural water
pollution, and develop water reuse technologies.
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White
Rice Pales in Comparison to These Antioxidant-Rich Grains
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Why does switching from white rice to brown rice enable overweight individuals to
significantly reduce their weight, their waist size, their blood pressure, and
the level of inflammation within their bodies?
We think it might be the fiber. Brown rice has four times as much dietary
fiber as white rice, including prebiotic types of fiber that foster the growth
of our good bacteria, which may help account for the anti-obesity effects of
brown rice.
Besides the prebiotic fiber, when brown rice is milled into white, there
are all sorts of vitamins and minerals that also are lost, as well as phytonutrients such as gamma
oryzanol, which may help shift one’s preferences to healthier
foods. Petri dish studies suggest gamma oryzanol may help lower
cholesterol. And, along with other compounds found in the rice bran, which is
what makes brown rice brown, gamma oryzanol may inhibit human cancer cell growth through
antioxidant means, anti‑proliferative and pro-cancer cell suicide mechanisms,
immune system modulation, and increasing barrier protection. However, this was
all seen in test tubes, not people.
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There are two human studies, though. The Adventist Health Study found that brown rice was one of four
foods associated with significantly decreased risk of colorectal polyps, which
can turn into colorectal cancer. Eating cooked green vegetables every day was
associated with 24 percent lower risk, which was as much as eating dried fruit
just three times a week. Eating beans, chickpeas, split peas, or lentils at
least three times a week was associated with 33 percent lower risk, but brown
rice seemed to garner 40 percent lower risk, and that was just a single serving
or more a week.
The other human study reported increased muscle strength after
supplementation with a brown rice compound in hopes that it could provide a
side effect-free alternative to anabolic steroids. The dose the researchers
were giving, however, is equivalent to approximately 17 cups of brown rice a
day, so it’s not clear if it works at practical doses.
Naturally pigmented rice, such as black rice and red rice, may be even more nutritious than brown rice.
During the last decade, research has shown that these natural anthocyanin
plant pigments may have a variety of beneficial effects. Anthocyanins are
what make blueberries blue and red cabbage
red. “Recent recognition of the fact that taking diet rich in plant foods
lowers the risks of cancer promotes the enthusiasms in isolating…[these
components as] pharmaceutical agents”—but why not just eat the blueberries or
add some red cabbage to your stir fry atop some colorful rice?
Black, purple, and red rice—and their pigment compounds—have been found to be involved in a variety of
antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-heart disease, anti-diabetes, and anti-allergy
activities, but these were all studies done in a lab. We don’t yet have
clinical studies, but these pigmented rice varieties have everything that brown rice has, plus
five times more antioxidants and a variety of extra benefits. That’s why I, or
rather my rice cooker, has always cooked red, black, or purple rice with a
handful of lentils or split peas thrown in for good measure, since they cook in
the same time frame.
But why don’t most people even choose brown over white? Well, brown
rice does not last as long on the shelves, so
it can actually be more expensive even though it’s less processed. White rice,
on the other hand, is like food for the apocalypse, even puttingTwinkies to shame. White rice was still
edible after 30 years—though, by then, it may have a “slight playdough” odor.
In health,
Michael Greger,
M.D.
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China's CITIC closes $1.1 bln Brazil takeover, sees
more ahead
December 01, 2017, 08:35:00 AM EDT
By Reuters
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By Marcelo Teixeira
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, Brazil, Dec 1
(Reuters) - China'sCITIC Agri Fund said on Friday it had completed its $1.1
billion acquisition of Dow Chemical Co's corn seed business in Brazil, a
potential vehicle for future purchases in Latin America.
CITIC plans to rename the business
LP Sementes Ltda and have its Yuan LongPing High-tech Agriculture Co run it.
Beyond seeds, Shi said the main
areas the fund is looking at are animal genetics, veterinary products such as
vaccines, and crop protection products. But there are no negotiations with
possible targets at the moment, he added.
The Dow deal, announced in July,
includes seed processing plants and seed research centers, a copy of Dow
AgroSciences' Brazilian corn germplasm bank, the Morgan seed brand and a
license for the use of the Dow Sementes brand for a limited time.
Dow sold the seed business as a
condition of its merger with DuPont, which was completed this year.
Chinese companies have been
investing heavily in Brazil as their local counterparts seek partners to
improve their capital structure after the country's harshest recession on
record.
Chinese companies invested $14 billion
in deals in Brazil in the first nine months of 2017, already making it the
second-biggest year since the Brazilian government began tracking such data in
2003.
LongPing Chief Executive Officer
Zhang Xiukuan said the company planned to expand the seed business in Brazil
and was looking for a location to build a rice research center there.
The company is a leader in hybrid
rice technology in China, with about 30 percent of the market.
Zhang said there was large potential
to expand rice cultivation in Brazil, which is mainly grown in the southern Rio
Grande do Sul state. The new LP Sementes subsidiary is also looking to expand
corn seed sales to countries such as Paraguay and Argentina, where it already
has operations, he added.
Demand for food in China will
continue to grow, he said, while Brazil has a large area available for
agriculture expansion
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/chinas-citic-closes-11-bln-brazil-takeover-sees-more-ahead-20171201-00381
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/chinas-citic-closes-11-bln-brazil-takeover-sees-more-ahead-20171201-00381
Have NAFTA Talks Reached A Breaking Point?
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by Nathaniel Parish Flannery. Instagram: @NathanielParish
A girl walks by a section of the
border wall in Tijuana, Mexico that has been painted like the American flag.
As efforts re-negotiate the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) continue, the U.S. team continues to push
a hardline stance that the governments of Canada and Mexico aren't going to
accept. Right now it seems like very little progress is being made. On November
29 Mexico's Minister of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo exited a meeting with
Trump's team in Washington with a negative outlook. “I was clear that the
domestic content [proposal] is something that is not viable at this point,”
Guajardo said.
The U.S. appears to be adamant that
it will squeeze concessions out of Mexico and Canada and deliver a win for
Donald Trump's administration. So far Trump's team is ignoring criticism
from business groups in the U.S. that have warned about the potentially
disastrous consequences of the U.S.'s current proposals.
In a statement U.S. Trade
Representative Robert Lighthizer said, “While we have made progress on some of our
efforts to modernize NAFTA, I remain concerned about the lack of headway. Thus
far, we have seen no evidence that Canada or Mexico are willing to seriously
engage on provisions that will lead to a rebalanced agreement. Absent
rebalancing, we will not reach a satisfactory result."
Representatives from Canada and
Mexico, however, aren't yet willing to seriously discuss the U.S.'s controversial proposals for new rules for increasing the
U.S. content on cars produced under the NAFTA framework or a so-called sunset
provision that would require the three countries to re-affirm their commitment
to NAFTA every five years. One Canadian official explained, “On the controversial proposals, we cannot
really negotiate as there seems to be little room to do so and little logic to
the proposals.”
Trump's team appears to be
threatening to be ready to cancel NAFTA if serious concessions aren't made.
Mexico and Canada, however, are willing to stall and wait for Congress and U.S.
business chambers to increase the pressure on the Trump administration to
preserve the current framework. Right now it's still not clear if Trump really
is willing to walk away from NAFTA and risk losing up to $12.8 billion in
yearly exports to Mexico and up to 50,000 jobs in both the U.S.
agricultural and auto manufacturing sectors. After all, most people in the U.S.
might end up blaming Trump if NAFTA ends and the U.S. economy takes a serious
hit. Trump has latched on to out-dated mercantilist ideas that don't account
for the complexity of the modern economy. Trump needs to understand that
walking away from NAFTA would be a major disruption for important U.S.
corporations with complicated cross border supplier and client networks such as
Ford, GE, John Deere, and HP.
For now the talks appear to be
stalling and negotiations are expected to drag on (at minimum) into early 2018.
To ask about what we might see next
in the NAFTA talks I reached out to Jason Marczak, the Director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America
Center at the Atlantic Council, a Washington D.C. based think-tank.
Nathaniel Parish Flannery: How optimistic are you right now that progress is being
made in the ongoing talks about NAFTA's future?
Jason Marczak: Last week, the 5th round of NAFTA negotiations
concluded in Mexico City. So far, progress has been made in the minor and more
technical sectors of the pact such as digital trade, the establishment of a
NAFTA Trilateral Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SME) Dialogue, food safety,
sanitary and environmental standards. Although all countries are in favor of
updating the agreement to better fit the needs of a 21st century
economy Canada and Mexico will not accept a deal that is bad for them.
Little progress has been made on the major points of contention such as
rules of origin, labor standards, dispute settlement resolution, agricultural
trade and government procurement. On average, the United States has taken 18
months to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement that then has to be ratified by
the U.S. Congress. The March deadline is overly ambitious. Assuming all parties
continue to agree to meet, we will likely see this process conclude in 2019. It
will be quite tough for negotiators to make concessions in heat of the campaign
leading up to the Mexican presidential election in July 2018, and the U.S.
mid-term elections in November.
Negotiators from the three countries
are going to have to find a way to tackle the sticky issues that remain. For
example, in this last round we saw how Mexico presented a counter offer to the
U.S.’s sunset clause, with Mexico instead proposing periodic reviews for the
pact. This is an example of a concession that could be agreed to as long as all
countries are willing to give and take.
Parish Flannery: Right now what are the main sticking points?
Marczak: The sticky points are far-reaching at this point. I’ll just
cover three of them. One is rules of origin, which determine what percentage of
a product needs to be made in North America to be entitled to preferential
tariff treatment under NAFTA. At the last round, the U.S. proposed that
half of all content of autos be from U.S. and that the total required North
American content rise from 62% (currently the highest of any trade agreement) to
at least 85%. From the Canadian and Mexican side, country-specific rules of
origin are considered as non-starters for negotiations since they could
eliminate the competitive edge North America has globally in the automotive
sector. Both have called for content to be measured regionally instead of
nationally.
A second issue is the dispute
settlement mechanisms, specifically Chapter 19 of the agreement, which allows
the private sector to challenge antidumping and countervailing duty rulings.
Currently this takes place in an international tribunal, but the U.S. would
like to bring it into the U.S. court system. Canada on the other hand has
repeatedly stated that the NAFTA dispute settlement mechanism cannot be
eliminated or weakened and should remain independent of any single national
justice system. Canada could walk away if an independent dispute resolution
mechanism isn’t reached. Remember, this was a hold-up for Canada when NAFTA was
first negotiated.
Hopefully there could agreement
around the sunset clause. The underlying assumption from Canada and Mexico is
that a sunset clause would ultimately drive down confidence and hurt long-term
investment in the region, two of the big wins under NAFTA. With all the
instability in different areas of the world today, the last thing we should be
doing is detracting from the stable market we have created right here in North
America.
Parish Flannery: At this point how optimistic are you that NAFTA is going to
survive 2018?
Marczak: I think – and hope – that it continues to be abundantly
clear that ending NAFTA would have dire consequences on the U.S. workers who
already are concerned about their future. Why add to their uncertainty? Why
upend the jobs of millions of Americans? In the end, not only would a
withdrawal from NAFTA hurt U.S. workers, but it would cause significant harm to
the United States beyond North America. We would be seen as a less credible
trading partner. It would give huge advantages to China to make further gains
in its quest to be the driver’s seat in setting global trade rules. And China
surely wont’ be writing those rules to benefit the American worker.
So, I believe that the United States
and our NAFTA partners see the bigger picture implications of getting this deal
right. Either way, U.S. credibility is already being questioned. It is critical
that we reach a successful conclusion so that we reverse this.
As well, if the U.S. administration
does decide to terminate the agreement, it is still a lingering question how
much authority Congress has to prevent elements of any such decision from being
enacted.
In the end, I remain optimist. I see
a deal as being reached eventually. And if we get this right, it can serve as a
blueprint for future deals.
Additional Reading: How Mexico City Is Beginning To Rebuild After The Earthquake
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Ricegrowers
Association of Australia to help shape future leaders
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FUTURE leaders of the rice industry
have been given the support of the federal government.
The Ricegrowers’ Association of
Australia (RGA) has welcomed an announcement it will be benefiting
from the government’s $5 million Leadership in Agricultural Industries Fund.
Assistant Minister for Agriculture
and Water Resources, Senator Anne Ruston, announced the RGA would receive
$367,960 in funding to develop industry leaders into the future.
The news was welcomed by the RGA
president Jeremy Morton, who was hopeful it would mean the industry can
continue to grow and boom.
“It has been great leadership in the
past that has brought our industry to where it is today, and through this
funding we can ensure our leaders will continue to adapt and grow our
industry,” he said.
RGA will use the funding to develop a
Rice Industry Leadership Program.
It will be aimed at equipping
participants across industry with the skills, knowledge and confidence to take
on leadership roles within its main bodies and associated entities.
http://www.irrigator.com.au/story/5093885/future-leaders-are-now-possible-after-rice-industry-gains-a-handy-funding-boost/?cs=1524 Govt
to procure 300,000 tonnes of rice at Tk 39 per kg
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Dhaka
01-Dec-2017 12:53
The government will procure a
total of 300,000 tonnes of aman rice at a rate of Tk 39 per kg from the
internal market during the current aman season.The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting of food planning and monitoring committee (FPMC) held at the Bangladesh secretariat on Thursday. The procurement drive will continue from 3 December 2017 to 28 February 2018.
"Decision has been taken to procure 300,000 tonnes rice during the current aman season at a rate of Tk 39 per kg as the farmers have to spend Tk 37 for growing a kg of rice," food minister Qamrul Islam told journalists after the meeting.
Last year, the government also procured 300,000 tonnes of aman
rice at a rate of Tk 33 per kg and production cost of per kg rice was Tk 29.
The food minister said the government has a target of growing 14
million tonnes of aman rice this year. "I am hopeful about achieving this
target," he added.
Replying to a question, he said the production cost of per kg
paddy will be Tk 24.63 while cost of per kg rice will be Tk 37.02.
Food minister Qamrul Islam chaired the meeting while finance
minister AMA Muhith, agriculture minister Begum Matia Chowdhury, secretaries of
the concerned ministries and other senior ministry officials, among others,
attended it.
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Foodgrain Prices Open- December 1, 2017
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APMC/Open Market-December 1
Nagpur, Dec 1 (Reuters) –
Gram prices recovered in Nagpur Agriculture Produce Marketing
Committee (APMC) on good
demand from local millers amid weak arrival from producing regions.
Fresh rise on NCDEX, upward
trend in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and reported demand from
South-based millers also
boosted prices, according to sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Gram varieties quoted static in open
market here but demand was poor.
TUAR
* Tuar varieties ruled steady in open market
here on subdued demand from local traders
amid ample stock in ready position.
* Rice Shriram varieties recovered strongly
in open market on increased marriage
season demand from local traders.
* In Akola, Tuar New – 4,000-4,150, Tuar dal
(clean) – 5,700-5,800, Udid Mogar (clean)
– 8,000-8,500, Moong Mogar (clean)
7,000-7,300, Gram – 4,525-4,675, Gram Super best
– 7,300-7,500
* Wheat, other varieties of rice and other
foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in
scattered deals and settled at last levels
in weak trading activity.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market
prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 3,800-4,200 3,750-4,100
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction n.a. 3,822-3,927
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 1,600-1,680 1,600-1,696
Gram Super Best Bold 7,000-7,800 7,000-7,800
Gram Super Best n.a. n.a.
Gram Medium Best 6,400-6,800 6,400-6,800
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a
Gram Mill Quality 4,700-4,800 4,700-4,800
Desi gram Raw 4,950-5,050 4,950-5,050
Gram Kabuli 12,400-13,000 12,400-13,000
Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,200-6,400 6,200-6,400
Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,900-6,100 5,900-6,000
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,400-5,700 5,400-5,700
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,100-5,350 5,100-5,350
Tuar Gavarani New 4,100-4,200 4,000-4,100
Tuar Karnataka 4,550-4,850 4,550-4,850
Masoor dal best 5,000-5,200 5,000-5,200
Masoor dal medium 4,600-4,800 4,600-4,800
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,100-7,500 7,100-7,500
Moong Mogar Medium 6,300-6,700 6,300-6,700
Moong dal Chilka 5,200-6,000 5,200-6,000
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 7,000-7,500 7,000-7,500
Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New)
8,500-9,000 8,500-9,000
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,800-7,000 5,800-7,000
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,300-6,400 5,300-6,400
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,100-5,200 5,100-5,200
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,800-2,900 2,800-2,900
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,100-3,200 2,900-3,000
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 3,400-3,800 3,400-3,800
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000
Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 1,850-1,950 1,850-1,950
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,450 2,200-2,400
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,150 1,900-2,100
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,100-3,600 3,100-3,600
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,700 2,300-2,700
Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,500 3,000-3,500
Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,800-2,900 2,800-2,900
Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,400 2,200-2,400
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,400 2,300-2,400
Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,250-3,600 3,250-3,600
Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,200 4,800-5,100
Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,700 4,400-4,600
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 10,200-14,000 10,200-14,000
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,200-7,500 5,300-7,500
Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 5,000-5,500 5,000-5,500
Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 4,700-5,000 4,700-5,000
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. 30.6 degree
Celsius, minimum temp. 12.2 degree Celsius
Rainfall : Nil
FORECAST: Mainly clear sky.
Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 30 and 12 degree
Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs
are excluded from plant delivery prices, but
included in market prices)
https://in.reuters.com/article/nagpur-foodgrain/nagpur-foodgrain-prices-open-december-1-2017-idINL3N1O134L Rice basmati up on stockists' buying
PTI | Dec 1, 2017, 14:37 IST
New Delhi,
Dec 1 () Rice basmati prices firmed up by Rs 200 per quintal at the wholesale
grains market today on emergene of stockists buying against restricted arrivals
from growing regions.
Bajra also
ended higher on increased offtake by consuming industries.
Traders
said fresh buying by stockists against restricted arrivals from growing regions
and some enquiries from rice mills mainly attributed the rise in rice basmati
prices.
In the
national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa- 1121 variety went up by Rs 200
each to Rs 7,900-8,000 and Rs 6,400-6,500 per quintal respectively.
Non-basmati
permal raw, wand,sela and IR-8 also settled higher at Rs 2,325-2,375, Rs
2,375-2,425, Rs 2,700-2,900 and Rs 1,950-2,000 from previous levels of Rs
2,300-2,350, Rs 2,350-2,400, Rs 2,600-2,800 and Rs 1,950-1,975 per quintal
respectively in line with rice basmati trend.
Other bold
grain like bajra also moved up by Rs 1,215- 1,220 per quintal.
Following
are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
Wheat MP
(desi) Rs 2,125-2,325, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 1,840-1,845, Chakki atta
(delivery) Rs 1,845-1,850, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 260-300, Shakti Bhog (10
kg) Rs 255-290, Roller flour mill Rs 990-1,000 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,030-1,040
(50 kg)and Sooji Rs 1,060-1,070 (50 kg).
Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300,
Super Basmati Rice Rs 9,800, Basmati common new Rs 7,900-8,000, Rice Pusa (1121)
Rs 6,400-6,500, Permal raw Rs 2,325-2375, Permal wand Rs 2,375-2,425, Sela Rs
2,700-2,900 and Rice IR-8 Rs 1,950-2,000, Bajra Rs 1,215-1,220, Jowar yellow Rs
1,375-1,425, white Rs 2,750-2,850, Maize Rs 1,320- 1,325, Barley Rs
1,480-1,490. SUN KPS ADI MKJ
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World Demand for
Pakistani rice rises
ISLAMABAD: Demand for
Pakistani rice has increased due to its special fragrance, colour and quality
across the world.
A spokesman of
Agriculture Department talking to Radio Pakistan said the Agriculture
Department launched a special campaign about poison free paddy crops this year.
He said international
rice export companies have lauded the initiative of the agriculture department.
Pakistan produces world
class rice and has a well developed rice processing industry as proven by its
exports to high-end and the most sensitive markets around the world.
“We want to move
towards value-added products to increase exports,” he added.
https://www.pakissan.com/2017/12/01/world-demand-for-pakistani-rice-rises/
NFA: Rice prices up by P1 to P2 per kilo
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THE
National Food Authority (NFA) has proposed to import 350,000 metric tons of
rice before 2018’s first harvest in order to beef up government stocks, an
official of the state grains agency said yesterday.
“‘Yung import
volume, nag-request kami ng 350,000 (MT) which is
under consideration ngayon sa… food security committee” that checks
domestic grains stock levels, NFA Grains Marketing Operations Division Director
Rocky L. Valdez said, adding that the agency submitted the recommendation to
the NFA Council on Nov. 22.
The
council’s membership includes Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Nestor
A. Espenilla, Jr.; Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III; Trade and
Industry Sec. Ramon M. Lopez; Socioeconomic Planning Sec. Ernesto M. Pernia and
Executive Sec. Salvador C. Medialdea, among others. Alternate members include
BSP Deputy Gov. Diwa C. Guinigundo, National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon,
Trade and Industry Undersecretary Teodoro C. Pascua as well as National
Economic and Development Authority Assistant Sec. Mercedita A. Sombilla.
“Hopefully,
by next week, meron na silang evaluation to import or not to
import,” Mr. Valdez said in a telephone interview.
“Kung
papayagan (If approved, the shipments will arrive) January to
February; bago anihan ipaparating namin ito (before the
harvest). At kahit dumatingnaman ng harvest, di naman namin
ilalabas ito sa market. Naka-standby langang mga
ito ng lean months sa (And even if shipments arrive
amid harvest, we will not release them in the market. They will be on standby
for the lean months of ) May, June, July, August,” he added.
The
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Nov. 21 that it expects
unmilled rice output to increase by 2.58% year-on-year to 4.533 million MT in
2018’s first quarter.
Mr.
Valdez said that current inventory at the NFA “has thinned,” sufficient for
just six days — well below requirements. This is expected to decline further to
three- to four-day levels by the end of the year.
The
NFA is required to maintain a buffer stock good for at least 15 days at any
time and keep its inventory levels sufficient for 30 days during the lean
periods that peak in the third quarter.
The
350,000 MT volume requested is expected to add 11 days to government stocks.
The
national rice inventory, however — including stocks in households and
commercial warehouses — is good for 61 days, according to Mr. Valdez.
For
this final quarter alone, the PSA expects palay production to increase by 6.26%
annually to 7.45 million MT, as yield improvement offsets a contraction of
harvest area.
That,
plus the arrival between Dec. 20 and Feb. 28 next year of about 805,200 MT that
was bought by private-sector traders, should help buoy the country’s rice
buffers.
Last
year, government approved the importation of 500,000 MT but brought in just
half of that volume.
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NFA ASSURES RICE PRICE INCREASE IS NOT DUE TO LACK OF SUPPLY
The
National Food Authority (NFA) today assured the public that the reported slight
increase in rice prices is actually price related and not due to lack of
supply.
“We
have adequate volume of industry wide rice inventories at this time. The
country’s rice stocks, at 1.944 million metric tons, would last for 61 days
based on the average national daily requirement of 31,462 MT,” NFA said.
The
rice varieties whose prices were observed to have increased by P1-P2/kilogram
were of premium, special and aromatic rice, or those with 5 to 15 percent
brokens, and not the regular and well-milled varieties traditionally consumed
by the majority of consumers, the NFA noted.
Another
reason for such an increase in price, NFA says, is that the low-priced stocks
held by traders and retailers are starting to be depleted. “Traders are now
milling and starting to sell their newly harvested stocks bought at
higher ex-farm prices. This harvest season, for example, traders were
buying palay from P18 to P24/kg. Thus, when processed into rice, the higher
wholesale and retail prices will be passed on to retailers and consumers,” NFA
said.
Also,
the main harvest that started in late September is almost over and lean months,
or the period when there is very low or no harvest is looming (December to
February) and it’s normal that prices will slightly increase, the NFA said.
A
review of the past three-year period showed that rice prices indeed tend to
register slight increase at this period, although this year’s increase is
observed to be even lower than during the same period in previous years. In
November 2014, the price of regular-milled and well-milled rice were at P40.74
and P43.63/kg.; in 2015 – P38 and P42/kg; in 2016 – P35.97 and P41.80. This
month, the average retail prices for regular and well-milled varieties are at
P37 and P40/kg.
Nevertheless,
NFA assures that the agency is doing its best to arrest any abrupt increase in
rice prices. “We continue to sell low-priced NFA rice at P27 and P32/kilogram
through our accredited retailers so that consumers will have an option to buy
good quality but lower-priced rice,” NFA said.
The
agency has also fielded monitoring teams in markets and supermarkets to ensure
that NFA rice is available in places where slight rice price increases are
noted.
The
NFA believes that rice prices will eventually settle down to its previous
levels when private sector imports via the minimum access volume (MAV) quota
start arriving in December. ###
