Basmati shipments may rise as Iran recommences rice imports
Big earner Basmati is the second-largest product in Apeda’s
export portfolio, after buffalo meat. KAMAL NARANG
In recent years, Iran has been
placing temporary curbs to protect its growers
BENGALURU, JANUARY 30
The reopening of rice imports by
Iran could give a fillip to India’s basmati shipments, which have risen by
about a fourth in rupee terms in the first eight months of the current
financial year.
Iran is the largest buyer of
India’s basmati and accounts for a fourth of India’s annual aromatic rice
shipments of around four million tonnes.
Iran, which ended the seasonal
import ban in November, has started registration for rice imports, which will
be from January 21 till June 21.
In recent years, Iran has been
placing temporary curbs on rice imports during the July-January period, mainly
to protect its domestic paddy growers and support local prices during the
harvest season.
“Based on the current export
trend, we expect basmati shipments to be higher than last year,” said DK Singh,
Chairman, Apeda (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development
Authority).
Basmati is the second largest
product in Apeda’s export portfolio after buffalo meat and accounts for over 22
per cent of the total shipment value.
In the April-November period this
fiscal year, basmati exports grew 29 per cent to $2.61 billion from $2.02
billion in the corresponding period last year.
In rupee terms, basmati exports
grew 24 per cent to ₹16,838 crore during the
April-November period from ₹13,571 crore in the corresponding year-ago period. In 2016-17,
India’s basmati exports stood at 3.98 million tonnes valued at over $3.22
billion.
However, Indian rice exporters
are cautiously optimistic over the shipment prospects with Iran, considering
the fact that they have been facing issues relating to traces of fungicide in
exports to the European Union, another major market.
“We expect basmati shipments this
year to be the same as last year or even higher,” said Rajen Sundaresan,
Executive Director, All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA).
Sticking points
“While Iran has reopened its
market, it has stopped extending concessional foreign exchange to its rice
importers,” said Vijay Setia, President, AIREA. The move is aimed at
discouraging more rice imports into the West Asian country.
Further, Iran has also been
raising objections to the digital phyto-sanitary certificates issued by Indian
authorities. The issues have been taken up with the Agriculture Ministry and
are likely to be resolved soon, sources said.
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Iran
lifts ban on registration for imports of rice
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LONDON
(Reuters) - Iran has lifted ban on registration for imports of rice for five
months, the customs administration announced in a statement published by the
Fars news agency on Tuesday.The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration
(IRICA) said “the registration for imports of rice is allowed from January 21
until June 21”.The government in November ended its seasonal import ban on rice
which was imposed to support local prices during the harvest season.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-rice/iran-lifts-ban-on-registration-for-imports-of-rice-idUSKBN1FJ17Q
Unhusked rice price drops, farmers hit hard
Banyuasin, South Sumatra | Tue, January 30, 2018 | 07:16 pm
People’s
Consultative Assembly Speaker Zulkifli Hasan (center, front row), House of
Representatives Speaker Bambang Soesatyo (second left) and Agriculture Minister
Andi Amran Sulaiman (second right) pose for a photograph after witnessing a
rice harvest in Banyuasin regency, South Sumatra on Jan. 29.
While the government is importing rice to help
bring down the price, harvest season has begun and farmers have been hit hard
by the lower price of unhusked rice.
People’s Consultative Assembly Speaker Zulkifli
Hasan, House of Representatives Speaker Bambang Soesatyo and Agriculture
Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman have expressed concern about the drop in price.
Zulkifli, who witnessed a rice harvest in
Banyuasin regency, South Sumatra, on Monday, noted that the price of unhusked
rice in the area had dropped to Rp 4,200 (31 US cents) per kilogram from Rp
5,500 per kg a few days ago. It means each farmer earns Rp 1,300 less for each
kilogram of rice sold, he said.
“While we are waiting for harvests in the
coming days, the unhusked rice price has dropped,” he said as reported by tribunnews.com.
The government announced that it would import
500,000 tons of rice to ease prices, which had exceeded the price ceiling,
particularly in urban areas. The imported rice will arrive in coming weeks.
“We want to talk to President Joko “Jokowi”
Widodo. We reject rice imports after learning from the field,” he added.
Meanwhile, Amran said that the price of
unhusked rice in East and Central Java had decreased Rp 300 to Rp 700 per kg.
Therefore, he called on the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) to buy 600,000 tons
from farmers instead of the usual 150,000 tons. (bbn)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/01/30/unhusked-rice-price-drops-farmers-hit-hard.html
8 factors which point to higher
rice prices
Possibilities
exist for rice prices to improve.
We are in a farming price
depression as I write this. Almost all things grown with a futures market are
going down in price. If you were trading ag for profit, why wouldn’t you be
short the grain markets?
The trend is your friend. I would
not argue with the bears, but rice may be dancing to a different animal. Some
of the eight factors and turning points listed below, which point to higher
rice prices, apply only to rice, and some apply to all ag products:
1. Stocks in the hands of the
five major rice exporters are at their lowest level to world rice trade in the
last six decades, and world rice trade is trending higher.
2. Two major rice exporters have
disastrously low levels of water resources per capita: India and Pakistan. The
U.S. is not a poster child for good water management either, but has seven
times more water resources per capital than these two countries that export
about 15 million metric tons or one-third of traded rice per year. Their
water metrics are dropping by 1 percent to 2 percent per year. That is a dire
trend over the next two decades.
3. If India cuts back its rice
exports as it has its cotton exports, the world rice price would double over
night. India would export less of its scarce water to boot.
4. China has 65 percent of the
world’s rice stocks now, and apparently has been piling up rice for the last 11
years. I say apparently because technically grain stocks are a military secret
there. Those who know do not tell and those who tell do not really know for
sure.
Why is China importing 5 million
to 7 million metric tons of rice per year, increasing production and stocks and
selling off very little in the world market? One answer is that their price
inside the country is about $18 per hundredweight; no one would buy their rice
without massive export subsidies in the global market that is $7 (India) to $12
(Vietnam) per hundredweight.
If China drops its domestic rice
support price, it must contend with labor costs rising at 15 percent per year,
and tiny rice farms with polluted soils and water and not much of that either.
Also, if it dropped its domestic price to farmers to Vietnamese prices — much
less Indian rough prices — it would import a huge share of world rice trade
that could easily double the world price.
5. The global corn yield is now
30 percent higher than rice yields, and its upward trend could be 50 percent
higher in the next five years. Is that bearish on rice, which suffers from a
GMO ban?
6. Long-grain rice, like cotton,
cannot easily be grown above the Bootheel of Missouri. If you extend that line
across the world, most of the world cannot grow rice north of that latitude.
You can grow high corn yields in Canada now. You can grow oats, wheat,
soybeans, canola, and sunflowers very far north, but not long grain rice. Rice
is latitude-challenged.
6. Our weather consultant,
www.commoditywx.com believes we are entering a period of extreme cold winters
that could last a decade or longer due to a decline in sunspot activity. If the
northern latitude growing season is reduced, what would that mean for rice?
Work I have done suggests that global warming is kind to rice; but wet, cold
growing seasons decimate rice in North and East Asia.
7. So, exporter stocks are
historically very tight. What happens if trade is disrupted by a withdrawal of
the U.S. as the world’s oceanic police force? I say the answer is stockpiling.
8. The U.S. dollar went down in
value in 2017, making the export price of all grains and cotton, rice included,
cheaper to foreign buyers. This trend could continue in 2018. That is good news
for demand for U.S. rice on the global market.
So, I watch the charts closely and I see these eight turning
points ahead for rice. I am still a grain price bear, but I am not hibernating.
I am watching what is going on from the mouth of my dismal economic cave and
sniffing the market for a more positive price outlook.
http://www.deltafarmpress.com/rice/8-factors-which-point-higher-rice-prices
Timing is key
January 30, 2018
The National Food Authority’s
plan to increase its stockpile via importation was put on hold after the
interagency National Food Security Committee (NFSC) and the NFA Council
recently thumbed down its request to buy 250,000 metric tons of imported rice.
The NFAC reasoned out that the country’s total rice stock is good for 90 days,
or three months, hence there was no need for the food agency to import the
staple. Of the total Philippine rice inventory, the bulk is with households and
commercial traders.
As proof that the current
national inventory is enough, the NFAC pointed out that commercial prices
remain relatively stable. The highest policy-making body of the NFA also noted
that top rice-producing provinces would start harvesting rice in March and that
production forecast is “bright.” The Philippine Statistics Authority earlier
projected that paddy output from January to March would rise by 5.65 percent to
4.67 million metric tons. The Philippines ended 2017 with a paddy production of
19.28 MMT, nearly 10 percent higher than the 2016 record of 17.36 MMT. These
figures appeared to have given the NFAC enough confidence that imports are not
needed to ensure the stability of the country’s rice supply.
In terms of its ability to
influence the rice market, it would seem that the NFA’s impact is miniscule. In
a statement, the NFA said it accounts for only 6 percent to 10 percent of the
Philippine rice market. But the NFA’s presence in the market and its mandate to
stabilize domestic rice prices have effectively prevented unscrupulous traders
from taking advantage of situations when rice supply is tight. There are
unconscionable Filipino traders who are not averse to profiting from natural
disasters. To keep them in check or correct unwarranted rice prices, all the
NFA has to do is channel part of its stockpile into areas where the staple is
needed. This and the sale of cheap rice at fixed rates help keep inflation in
check.
In keeping with its mandate to
stabilize supply and prices, the NFA has to keep a buffer stock of 15 days at
any given time, and 30 days during the lean season. The food agency resorts to
importation when its procurement program falls short of its target. A few
months before the start of the lean season in July last year, the NFA sought
the go signal of the NFAC to import rice to boost its dwindling stockpile. The
approval was given only last May, after the NFA had complained that it could
not compete with traders who paid more for locally produced paddy.
While the decision of the NFAC to
reject the food agency’s request to import is lamentable, as the NFA’s rice
stock is good for only three days, the council and the NFSC had no choice. The
requested volume would arrive sometime in April and May, when farmers in top
rice-producing provinces, such as Nueva Ecija, are already harvesting their
crop. The arrival of imports would only give traders a reason to slash their
buying price.
If imported rice is no longer a
viable option for the NFA, the government must find a way to help the food
agency buy more paddy rice from farmers. The NFA buys rice from farmers at P17
per kilogram, lower than the farm-gate price of P18 to P21 per kg last year.
It’s time for the NFAC to consider increasing this support price to reduce the
NFA’s reliance on rice produced by farmers abroad.
Basmati shipments may rise as Iran recommences rice imports
Big earner Basmati is the second-largest product in Apeda’s
export portfolio, after buffalo meat. KAMAL NARANG
In recent years, Iran has been
placing temporary curbs to protect its growers
BENGALURU, JANUARY 30
The reopening of rice imports by
Iran could give a fillip to India’s basmati shipments, which have risen by
about a fourth in rupee terms in the first eight months of the current
financial year.
Iran is the largest buyer of
India’s basmati and accounts for a fourth of India’s annual aromatic rice
shipments of around four million tonnes.
Iran, which ended the seasonal
import ban in November, has started registration for rice imports, which will
be from January 21 till June 21.
In recent years, Iran has been
placing temporary curbs on rice imports during the July-January period, mainly
to protect its domestic paddy growers and support local prices during the
harvest season.
“Based on the current export
trend, we expect basmati shipments to be higher than last year,” said DK Singh,
Chairman, Apeda (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development
Authority).
Basmati is the second largest
product in Apeda’s export portfolio after buffalo meat and accounts for over 22
per cent of the total shipment value.
In the April-November period this
fiscal year, basmati exports grew 29 per cent to $2.61 billion from $2.02
billion in the corresponding period last year.
In rupee terms, basmati exports
grew 24 per cent to ₹16,838 crore during the
April-November period from ₹13,571 crore in the corresponding year-ago period. In 2016-17,
India’s basmati exports stood at 3.98 million tonnes valued at over $3.22
billion.
However, Indian rice exporters
are cautiously optimistic over the shipment prospects with Iran, considering
the fact that they have been facing issues relating to traces of fungicide in
exports to the European Union, another major market.
“We expect basmati shipments this
year to be the same as last year or even higher,” said Rajen Sundaresan, Executive
Director, All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA).
Sticking points
“While Iran has reopened its
market, it has stopped extending concessional foreign exchange to its rice
importers,” said Vijay Setia, President, AIREA. The move is aimed at discouraging
more rice imports into the West Asian country.
Further, Iran has also been
raising objections to the digital phyto-sanitary certificates issued by Indian
authorities. The issues have been taken up with the Agriculture Ministry and
are likely to be resolved soon, sources said.
Iran lifts ban on registration for imports of rice
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has lifted ban on registration for
imports of rice for five months, the customs administration announced in a statement
published by the Fars news agency on Tuesday.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) said
“the registration for imports of rice is allowed from January 21 until June
21”.
The government in November ended its seasonal import ban on rice
which was imposed to support local prices during the harvest season.
Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin; editing by Jason Neely
Mekong
Delta seeks to turn agriculture challenges into opportunities
VNA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018
Farmers use combine harvesters to harvest rice
(Photo: VNA)
Can Tho
(VNA) – A workshop on new techniques under the
Consortium for Unfavourable Rice Environments (CURE) was held in Can Tho city
on January 30, highlighting the need to turn challenges into opportunities for
Mekong Delta agriculture.
Prof. Bradford Mills from the US’s University of Virginia said saltwater and
flood prevention, a traditional agricultural practice in the Mekong Delta, no
longer matches modern agricultural development. Studies show that using farming
plant varieties and animal breeds that suit local soil conditions will help
turn challenges into opportunities.
Agreeing, CURE expert Jeffrey Alwang said the Mekong Delta needs to plan
agricultural activities according to agro-ecological zones, elaborating that in
upper river areas, agricultural production should be switched to eight crops
per three years, including rice-aquatic farming, rice-lotus farming and luc
binh (water hyacinth) farming.
Instead of preventing saline intrusion in the river mouth and coastal areas,
farmers should consider saltwater as a natural resource and adopt crops other
than rice such as rice-shrimp farming and farming of saltwater aquatic species.
Meanwhile, integrated agriculture-forestry like cajuput-aquaculture and
cajuput-rice-aquaculture should be promoted in the Ca Mau Peninsula, which has
submerged forests.
Nguyen Thi Lang, Director of the Mekong Delta Institute for High Technology
Agriculture Research, suggested solutions to improve Vietnamese rice quality,
aiming to export rice to demanding markets instead of shipping up to one-third
of total rice exports to China like at present.
She said scientists need to advise the Government about communication
strategies and training to raise farmers’ adaptability to high-tech
agriculture. It is also important to develop rice varieties tolerant of harsh
natural conditions and climate change.
Lang added her institute is transferring saltwater, flood and drought tolerant
varieties which have been successfully piloted in many provinces.-VNA
Researchers continue studying
‘fish in the fields’
Researchers with the
Nigiri project monitor different aspects of water quality and available food in
the flooded rice fields on Knaggs Ranch. Daily Democrat file photo
By Democrat staff
01/30/18, 1:04 PM PST
MARYSVILLE
>> The Resource Renewal Institute is mounting the second phase of a
control study measuring how the introduction of freshwater forage fish into
fallow rice fields can reduce methane emissions from rice cultivation.
After
six years of work demonstrating that small fish grow rapidly in flooded fallow
rice fields, using these small fish to control methane emissions from rice
cultivation could be a huge Climate Change breakthrough.
Preliminary
results indicate that reviving and modernizing the simple, age-old practice of
raising fish in rice fields can reap enormous benefits worldwide, according to
spokeswoman Deborah Moskowitz, “dramatically reducing climate-changing methane
emissions, protecting our ocean wildlife, supporting more sustainable and
profitable agriculture, and providing a new source of protein for the earth’s
growing population.”
On
Thursday, a team of scientists from the University of Montana and UC Davis will
introduce Golden Shiner minnows into experimental rice field ponds near
Marysville to measure the effect small fish have on nutrient levels and methane
emissions in rice fields.
Samples
taken from the flooded fields over the past two months confirm there is an
abundance of protein-rich zooplankton for fish to dine on. Scientists have also
noted the presence of methane emissions, a harmful greenhouse gas.
“Understanding
why and how these small fish be used to reduce methane emissions may surpass
the project’s goals to sustainably produce a second crop of fish, since methane
emissions from rice cultivation around the world make up 1.5 to 2 percent of
global greenhouse gas emissions (the equivalent of nearly 1.4 billion tons of
CO2),” stated Moskowitz.
Since
1985, Resource Renewal Institute has facilitated the creation, development, and
implementation of practical strategies to solve environmental problems in a
comprehensive framework.
The
project is similar to the one undertaken at
Yolo County’s Knagg’s Ranch,
where salmon have been introduced into rice fields as a means of accelerating
their growth before they are released into the Sacramento River.
This Type of Non-Dairy Milk is the
Healthiest, Study Says
January 30, 2018
That almond milk latte may be delicious,
but a study just published in the Journal of Food Science
and Technology suggests that the trendy beverage also has
some drawbacks. When researchers compared the nutritional profiles of four
popular “alternative” milks, they found that soy milk came out on top—and that
almond, rice and coconut “milks” all lacked essential nutrients important for
overall health.
Plant-based “milks” are often marketed as
wholesome and appropriate substitutes for the real thing. To find out if these
claims measured up, scientists at McGill University in Canada studied the
nutrition labels of several unsweetened almond, soy and rice milks, plus
coconut dairy-free beverages, on grocery-store shelves.
Cow’s milk, the researchers say, is still
the most complete and balanced source of protein, fat and carbohydrates. Soy
milk, a popular alternative option for more than four decades, was found to be
the most comparable to cow’s milk in terms of overall nutrient balance. It’s
also the highest in protein of all the alternative milk options studied, with
about 7 to 12 grams (and about 95 calories) per 8-ounce serving.
Soy milk also contains phytonutrients known
as isoflavones, which have been shown to have cancer-fighting properties. It’s
not a perfect substitute, though; some people complain about its “beany
flavor,” the authors wrote, and some scientists have expressed concerns about
“anti-nutrient” substances naturally found in soy, like phytic acid, which can make it harder for the
body to absorb and digest important vitamins and minerals.
Almond milk, on the other hand, is low in
calories (about 36 per serving) and rich in monounsaturated fatty acids.
Getting more of these healthy fats may be beneficial to weight loss and weight
management, the authors wrote, and they have also been shown to reduce LDL—or
“bad”—cholesterol. But almond milk is also low in protein and carbohydrates,
making it less nutritionally balanced than cow or soy milk.
Meanwhile, dairy-free coconut beverages
have no protein. And although it’s low in calories (about 45 per serving), most
of that energy comes from saturated fat. On the plus side, the report states,
drinking this type of beverage has been associated with increases in HDL—or
“good”—cholesterol and reductions in LDL cholesterol.
Sweet-tasting rice milk can serve as an
alternative for people with allergies to soybeans and almonds, but it’s high in
calories (133 per serving) and relatively low in beneficial nutrients. Research
suggests that “consumption of rice milk as an alternative to cow’s milk without
proper care can result in malnutrition,” the authors wrote, “especially in the
case of infants.”
Cow’s milk, by comparison to the dairy
alternatives, contains about 158 calories per 8-ounce serving, along with 8
grams of protein, 9 grams of fat (5.5 of it saturated fat), and 11.5 grams of
carbohydrates. That’s the “perfect composition of nutrients” for baby cows, the
authors wrote in their paper, and it’s similar to the composition of human
breast milk.
Milk is also an important source of
vitamins and minerals—including calcium, which the body needs for bone health,
especially during childhood and adolescence. Most milk substitutes are
fortified with calcium to mimic the levels in cow’s milk, although the authors
point out that “further research is needed to establish the consequences of
added calcium in the human body.”
So why the need for alternatives? For one,
dairy is one of the most common allergens among infants and children. Between
2% and 4% of children have a milk allergy (that’s more than peanuts or tree
nuts), although as many as 80% may outgrow them by age 16. Plus, milk has been
linked to outbreaks of pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli around the
world, suggesting that it’s not always the safest beverage for children or for
adults.
Then there’s the issue of lactose
intolerance. Somewhere between 15% and 75% of adults—depending on race, food
habits and gut health—lack sufficient amounts of the enzyme needed to properly
digest dairy products, according to the report. It’s even been estimated that
up to 80% of people of African origin, and up to 100% of people of Asian and
Indigenous American origin, are lactose intolerant.
Finally, while studies suggest that dairy
products—even full-fat versions—can be a healthy part
of a balanced diet, some people may not want to overdo it on high-calorie,
high-fat cow’s milk. For all of these reasons, the authors say, consumers
should know how popular milk substitutes compare.
“It is quite clear that nutritionally soy
milk is the best alternative for replacing cow’s milk in human diet,” they
concluded in their paper. They acknowledge, though, that more people may enjoy
the flavor of almond milk. Those who choose the latter should make sure they’re
getting enough essential nutrients, like carbs and protein, through other
sources in their diet, they write.
That should be easy enough for adults, says
lead author Sai Kranthi Kumar Vanga, a PhD candidate in McGill’s department of
bioresource engineering, since they can also get protein from meats, nuts and
beans, and healthy fats from sources such as olive oil. It can be more
difficult, he adds, for babies and young children with dairy allergies.
“Parents have to monitor their diet and provide them with appropriate
alternatives for the lost nutrients, which is not easy,” he wrote in an email.
And while swapping out a few tablespoons of
milk in your coffee every day won’t make a big difference in overall nutrition,
Vanga says there could be implications for adults who consume considerably more
milk—like every morning with their cereal. “Just replacing your cow’s milk with
one of the plant-based milks and assuming it’s fulfilling the nutritional
requirement could lead to health complications in the long run,” he says.
Genome sequencing of 7 wild rice varieties
completed: IRRI
Source:
Xinhua| 2018-01-30 17:33:44|Editor: pengying
MANILA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines announced on Tuesday that the
genome sequencing of seven wild rice varieties has finally been completed,
claiming it will open opportunities for healthier and climate-smart rice.
"This breakthrough is expected to provide opportunities for
breeders worldwide in developing better rice varieties that will respond to the
changing needs of farmers and consumers," said the IRRI, an international
agricultural research and training organization with headquarters in Los Banos,
a town in Laguna province south of Manila.
This work is published by Nature Genetics, which is a scientific
journal publishing high-quality researches in genetics, the IRRI said in a
statement.
The study, which started in 2003, details the generation of
seven wild and two cultivated genomes, the IRRI said.
Because the wild relatives of rice are adapted to different
biogeographic ranges and can tolerate many biotic and abiotic stresses, the study
says they constitute an important reservoir for crop improvement.
"Strategies to harness such traits for the crop improvement show clear
promise," it says.
Rod Wing, a professor in genetics at the University of Arizona,
is one of the lead scientists in the study. He said: "Rice breeders
urgently need to develop new and sustainable rice varieties with higher yield,
healthier grains and reduced environmental footprints."
"The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties
is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and
domestication," said Wing.
Ruaraidh Hamilton, IRRI lead scientist for genetic diversity,
added the breakthrough opens the door for rice breeders to harness genes from
the wild relatives of rice, "allowing us to improve crops with traits that
are preferred by farmers and consumers."
"It will also bring us steps closer to our goal of ensuring
global food and nutrition security through sustainable rice production,"
Hamilton said.
The cultivation of rice, the staple food of more than half of
the world's population, faces challenges including the threat of climate change
and the onslaught of pests and diseases. The IRRI said the genetic traits that
allow crops to overcome most, if not all, of these stresses can frequently be found
in the wild relatives of rice.
"This research could significantly improve the rice
breeding scenario, allowing shorter periods for genetic discovery and varietal
improvements that would normally take years to develop," the IRRI said.
Wild' genes open opportunities
for healthier, climate-smart rice
January 30, 2018 - by
Holly Demaree-Saddler
The wild relatives of rice are repositories of
important traits that help breeders improve rice. Photo courtesy of IRRI.
LOS BAÑOS, THE PHILIPPINES — The genome
sequencing of seven wild rice varieties has finally been completed. According
to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), this breakthrough is
expected to provide opportunities for breeders worldwide in developing better
rice varieties that will respond to the changing needs of the farmers and the
consumers.
“As the global population is
projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050, rice breeders urgently need
to develop new and sustainable rice varieties with higher yield, healthier
grains and reduced environmental footprints,” said Rod Wing, Ph.D., leader of
the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA chair holder at
the International Rice Research Institute, professor at the University of
Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study. “The completed sequencing
of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further
genome evolution and domestication.
“Because the wild relatives of rice
are adapted to different biogeographic ranges and can tolerate many biotic and
abiotic stresses, they continue to be an important reservoir for crop
improvement. Strategies to harness such traits show clear promise to meet the
future consumption demand,” he continued.
Ruaraidh Hamilton, Ph.D., IRRI lead
scientist for genetic diversity and head of IRRI Genebank, welcomed the
breakthrough.
“This opens the doors for rice
breeders to harness genes from the wild relatives of rice, allowing us to
improve crops with traits that are preferred by farmers and consumers,”
Hamilton said. “It will also bring us steps closer to our goal of ensuring
global food and nutrition security through sustainable rice production.”
The cultivation of rice, the staple
food of more than half of the world’s population, faces challenges, including
the threat of climate change and the onslaught of pests and diseases. The
genetic traits that allow crops to overcome most, if not all, of these stresses
can frequently be found in the wild relatives of rice. This research could
significantly improve the rice breeding scenario, allowing shorter periods for
genetic discovery and varietal improvements that would normally take years to
develop.
This scientific breakthrough was a
product of close collaborative research work with multiple institutes across
the globe throughout the years. It all started in 2003 when Wing and Scott
Jackson, Ph.D., a professor, GRE Eminent Scholar, and director of the Center
for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia, initiated a
collaboration with Darshan Brar, Ph.D, former IRRI plant breeder and head of
the Plant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in
Los Baños, the Philippines. Having isolated DNA for a number of wild species,
Wing and Jackson took the samples back to their laboratories to produce the
genome libraries used for sequencing.
Rice workshop discusses new breakthroughs
in informatics
January 29, 2018 - by
Holly Demaree-Saddler
LOS BAÑOS, THE PHILIPPINES — The
International Rice Informatics Consortium (IRIC) conducted its annual workshop
that aims to provide researchers who share a common vision for rice informatics,
a platform to exchange their ideas and innovations. The workshop also seeks to
further the interest of stakeholders in the consortium.IRIC
is an organization that aims to give stakeholders access to comprehensive
information about rice, and facilitate collaboration in the rice community.
The workshop featured scientific
talks that highlighted the achievements of IRIC, as well as new products and
technologies that are expected to help achieve progress in the agricultural
sector. Attended by genetic scientists and researchers in plant and animal
research, the workshop was an effective platform to update stakeholders about
innovations in their fields of specialization.
Nickolai Alexandrov, IRRI senior
scientist and IRIC coordinator, deliberated on topics such as the support of
IRIC to Rice Data Interoperability, improvements in the SNP-Seek database, and
the results of large structural variation analyses of the 3K rice genomes.
Other presenters in the workshop talked about new technologies being applied in
agriculture, which, when utilized, could help farmers increase yield.
Ryan Poplin, Machine Learning
Technical Lead at Google Research, presented DeepVariant — a genome variant
discovery program that uses deep neural networks and its application to the
3000 rice genomes dataset.
Zhang Zhang, director of the
Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) Data Center, talked about the re-annotation
of the rice genome using new experimental evidence from high quality RNA-seq
data.
Max Troukhan spoke about Persephone,
a next-generation web-based genome browser that can efficiently render images
quickly and as needed. This innovation is helpful in viewing multiple genomes
from different species and varieties and their annotations at the same time.
Another innovation is Knetminer, a
web tool that uses knowledge graphs to integrate public and experimental data
to discover genes potentially causative to traits of interest. This was
discussed by Keywan Hassani-Pak of Rothamsted Research.
Finally, Matthieu Conte of Syngenta
presented the Gene Information Network, an infrastructure that allows discovery
of candidate genes from GWAS and QTL data that helps in prioritizing targets
for use in rice breeding.
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The healthy
meal plan you'll be able to stick to: Food blogger Leah Itsines shares her new
four-week programme to kickstart your metabolism - and a typical day on her
plate
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Food
blogger, Leah Itsines, 22, spoke to FEMAIL about her new foodie e-book
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The
22-year-old sister of Kayla follows a balanced and realistic eating approach
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Leah
revealed her day on a plate - which consists of burrito bowls and Pita pizza
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She
also shared an exclusive recipe from her new four-week meal plan
04:42 GMT, 30 January 2018 | UPDATED: 04:42 GMT, 30 January 2018
She's the
little sister of global fitness star, Kayla, with a rather big following of her
own.And now, Adelaide-based food blogger, Leah Itsines, has launched a healthy
eating plan and e-book - BARE - which stands for Balanced And
Realistic Eating.
Speaking to
FEMAIL as the book launches, Leah exclusively revealed one of the recipes from
the book - as well as her own approach to food and diet and a typical day on
her plate.
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Adelaide-based food blogger, Leah Itsines
(pictured), has launched a healthy eating plan and e-book - BARE - which stands
for Balanced And Realistic Eating
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Speaking to FEMAIL, Leah (pictured with
Kayla) exclusively revealed one of the recipes from the book - as well as her
own approach to food and diet and a typical day on her plate
USA Rice Wants GM Rice from China to Stay There
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - Last week, Chinese news agencies
excitedly reported on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granting
approval to an experimental genetically modified rice strain, Huahui-1.
USA Rice does not share their excitement and does not want the GM rice to enter
the United States.
"'Approval' is not quite the correct word
anyway," explained Betsy Ward, USA Rice president and CEO. "The
agency simply joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in letting
the rice developers at Huazhong Agricultural University know that based on the
information the university submitted, they had no follow-up concerns or questions
regarding human or animal food that could be derived from this rice."
The rice strain is still banned in China and cannot be
cultivated there, and if researchers are looking to grow these GM cultivars
here, even in test plots, they should look elsewhere, according to Ward.
"Our position on GM rice has not changed,"
she said. "While we do not object to sound science, the public
overwhelmingly does not want GM rice. Until that changes, we see no need
to introduce GM rice into the food supply here."
U.S.-grown rice is proudly marketed here and around the
world as GMO free and this presents a clear marketing advantage.
"While GMOs are perfectly safe, the fact that
there is no GMO rice in commercial production in the U.S. resonates very
strongly with customers, dietitians, and importers around the world," said
Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice manager of domestic promotion. "When I'm at
a trade show talking with consumers or chefs and I tell them the crop is
completely GMO free, their eyes light up. Why would we change that?"
Ward said now that it is clear FDA and EPA have no
objections to this rice, it could conceivably be grown somewhere and milled and
imported into the U.S. She hopes importers will reject it as potentially
damaging to the image of U.S.-grown rice, but admits there is little her
organization can do at this point.
"It is Huazhong's continuing responsibility to
ensure that foods marketed by Huazhong are safe, wholesome, and in compliance
with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements," the FDA letter to
the university warns.
"The marketplace does not want GM rice, so neither
do we," Ward said. "Consumers can be sure they are getting a GMO-free
rice product by purchasing rice that is grown in the USA."
This is taking place against the backdrop of more than
a decade of phytosanitary negotiations between the U.S. and China to clear the
way for U.S. rice to be exported to China. Those negotiations appeared to
be successfully concluded last summer, but continue to drag on.
"It's ironic that that our government has just
opened the door to Chinese GMO rice that nobody wants here, while we still
cannot send a single grain of healthy, safe, delicious rice to China despite
significant interest in the product there," said Ward
USA Rice Daily
CHINA TO
CUT 2018 RICE ACREAGE BY 2.2 PCT AMID BULGING STOCKS
1/30/2018
BEIJING, Jan 30 (Reuters) - China
will curb planting ofrice, its most important food grain, the agriculture
ministrysaid on Tuesday, in a major step towards reducing a growingmountain of
unsold stocks.The world's second-largest rice grower will aim to slash
theacreage planted by over 10 million mu or about 670,000 hectares,
it said, around 2.2 percent of its plantings for 2017.
It is the first time China has
sought to curb plantingacreage of its most important food, underlining its
worry overstock levels. "It is a major policy shift. It will be the first
time thestate aimed to cut rice acreage. The government policy has
always been increasing and stabilizing rice production," saidChen Xiaoshan,
an analyst with commodities consultancyZhuochuang based in Shandong.
The reduction will be focused on
the north-east where cold weather
limits japonica rice yields, and on production of indicarice in the Yangtze
river basin."According to changes in market demand, we willappropriately
reduce the rice area," said the document publishedon the agriculture
ministry's website.
The plan follows steps that were
taken to curb production ofcorn, after state purchasing policies encouraged
farmers toincrease planting even as demand showed little change. That ledto
huge stockpiles of ageing corn, which Beijing has been forcedto sell off at
bargain prices.
Rice stocks are around 200 million
tonnes, similar to the volumes
corn stocks had grown to when the government tookaction, but getting rid of the
rice could be more challenging,since much less processing capacity is installed
in the majorrice-growing provinces of the south, said analysts."China has
huge rice stocks. But unlike corn, there is not aseries of processing industries
for rice. Rice destocking canmostly rely only on eating," said Cherry
Zhang, an analyst withShanghai JC Intelligence.
China has also stepped up exports
of rice in a bid to reducethe surplus.
The ministry document also called
for a continued focus onreducing corn planting in non-significant production
areas. Wheat planting will also be reduced in regions contaminatedby
fertilizers as well as in places facing depletedgroundwater in North China
and Xinjiang.
Soy milk most nutritionally valuable among
plant-based milks
A study looking into the relative
merits of different plant based milk to the lactose intolerant has found soy to
be the most nutritious.
DREAM BEAN: Soy was the best replacement for the nutritional value
in cow's milk
Researchers at the McGill University in Montreal looked at the four
most-commonly consumed types of milk beverages from plant sources around the
world – almond, soy, rice and coconut. They compared their nutritional value
with that of cow’s milk, which the scientists said remained the ‘most
nutritious’, in the search for the one which offered the most benefits to the
lactose intolerant.
Soy emerged as a clear winner, with a “balanced nutritional
profile”. The milk substitute, which has been used for four decades,
offered a range of health benefits, including the anti-carcinogenic
properties of phytonutrients present in the milk known as isoflavones.
However, there remained, as with all the tested ‘substitutes’
and the cow’s milk, a range of drawbacks. In the case of soy, these
were the ‘beany flavor‘ and the presence of anti-nutrients
(substances that reduce nutrient intake and digestion).
Widely consumed in Asia and South America, coconut milk was
found to have no protein and few calories, and most of those came from fat. But
consumption can help reduce levels of harmful low-density lipoproteins (bad cholesterol) that are associated
with cardiovascular diseases.
A flowchart illustrating the pros and cons of various milk
alternatives
Rice milk was found to be
relatively low in nutritional value. One of the pros of rice milk is that it
can act as an alternative for people with allergies caused by soybeans or
almonds. Concerns, apart from the high carbohydrate count, is that
consumption of rice milk without proper care can result in malnutrition,
especially in infants.
Finally, almond milk had benefits
like a high content of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) that are
considered helpful in weight loss and weight management. MUFA also helps in
reduction of low-density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol). The scientists noted a
need for consumers to seek complementary sources of food to provide
essential nutrients.
The study also points out that
there are drawbacks to cow’s milk even among the non-lactose intolerant. These
included the presence of various pathogens like Salmonella spp and Escherichia
coli O157:H7 in milk have been associated with disease outbreaks around the
world.
Researchers described cow’s milk
as a “wholesome, complete food, providing all major nutrients like fat,
carbohydrates and protein” adding that it “can help humans by providing a wide
range of host-defence proteins because various beneficial anti-microbial
effects are found in both human and bovine milks. (E.g., a study shows that in
the case of infants, consumption of cow’s milk has considerably reduced risk of
fever and respiratory infections)”.
They said that more work will
need to be done to understand the effects of various conventional and novel
processing methods on the nutritional profile, flavour and texture of these
alternative milks.
Telangana: Shortage makes fine rice
prices shoot up
PublishedJan 31, 2018, 1:59 am IST
UpdatedJan 31, 2018, 1:59 am IST
Neighbouring states are buying fine rice from TS.
One reason for this is that the state government does not
pay the minimum support price (MSP) to procure fine rice varieties that were
sown in the kharif season.
Hyderabad: Fine rice varieties (sanna biyyam) from Telangana state are
making their way into Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat,
leading to severe shortage of stocks and steep escalation of prices in the
state.
One reason for this is that the
state government does not pay the minimum support price (MSP) to procure fine
rice varieties that were sown in the kharif season. It procured only thick rice
varieties at MSP from farmers for the public distribution system. The
production of fine rice varieties fell sharply throughout the country last year
due to an attack of brown plant hopper. There were several instances of farmers
setting their pest-infected crops on fire in November last in TS to prevent the
pest from spreading to the next season’s crop.
Traders from other states vied to
purchase the limited stocks of fine rice available only in Telangana state by
offering higher prices to farmers, resulting in a huge demand-supply gap and
leading to escalation of prices.
The price of top fine rice brands
increased by upto Rs 1,600 per quintal over the past year, taking it beyond the
reach of many families.
The undivided Karimnagar and
Nizamabad districts are famous for producing fine rice varieties.
In Karimnagar, these rice
varieties were sown on nearly one lakh acres. Normally, each acre produces 25
quintals of paddy, which fell to 15 quintals due to the pest attack. While 2.5
lakh quintals was expected to be harvested, only 1.5 lakh quintals was
realised.
Traders from other states offered
up to `2,200 per quintal, which is the highest in recent times. Traders get up
to 70 kg of rice per quintal after milling.
There is yet another problem:
traders are not passing on the GST benefit to consumers. There used to be a
five per cent VAT on rice. The GST placed rice in the zero tax category, but
traders continue to collect the old tax.
The price of rice should come
down by `400 to `500 per quintal under GST, but has increased.
Civil supplies commissioner C.V.
Anand said special teams have been formed to raid rice millers and traders, and
to check GST violations and price rise.
“Rice millers and traders have to
pass on zero tax benefit to consumers but we have received complaints that they
continue to levy 5 per cent tax that prevailed in VAT due to which consumers
are ending up paying a higher price. Hoarding of stocks by millers and traders
to create artificial storage is also leading to price rise,” Mr Anand said.
Special teams have been formed to
conduct raids on millers and traders to check these irregularities.” Mr Anand
said.
He added that if GST benefit is
passed on to consumers, and hoarding is checked, the price of rice will come
down to some extent.
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/310118/telangana-shortage-makes-fine-rice-prices-shoot-up.html
Hike in rice prices slowly creeping in
By Jed Macapagal
January 31, 2018
The National Food
Authority (NFA) has instructed all its field offices to conduct a more
intensive market monitoring and augment existing teams to ensure there are no
unreasonable increases in rice prices.
The order comes as the price of the grain has gone up since last month as the
country entered the lean months.
The increases, though minimal, have yet to incorporate if any, the impact of
higher fuel excise taxes on the transportation cost of the commodity.
“I have instructed our market monitoring teams to quickly spot any
unwarranted increase in rice prices. Overpricing, profiteering and hoarding are
grains trading violations punishable by law, and we assure the public that the
culprits will be dealt with accordingly,” Jason Aquino, the agency’s
administrator, said in a statement.
The official is set to meet with leaders in the grains business to solicit
their support in policing their ranks,so rice remains affordable to all as it
is the basic staple food in the country.
NFA said based on records, rice prices slightly increased during the lean
months between December and February, the period when farmers have fully
harvested their main crop and await the summer crop harvest which starts in
March. It is also the period when traders are selling newly-milled stocks
bought at higher prices from the preceding harvest season.
The agency added on a review of the monthly and annual trend in prices from the
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), prices of regular-milled and well-milled
rice tend to increase by P1 to P2 per kilogram between December and February.
The price of well-milled rice in the first two weeks of January this year were
recorded at P42.37 per kg nationwide and P41 per kg in Metro Manila, lower than
prices during the same period in 2015 at P43.11 and P43 per kg, respectively.
The same trend was also noted for regular-milled rice, at an average of P38.24
per kg on the national level and P37.50 per kg in Metro Manila during the first
half of January 2018, compared to the P38.81 and P40 per kg during the same
period in 2015.
In 2016 and 2017, prices of well-milled and regular-milled rice followed the
same trend of higher averages in the months of January and February, and
settling down to slightly lower prices during the rest of the year.
Aquino said between December 2017 and January 2018, the retail price of
well-milled rice increased by only about P0.11 per kg, from an average of
P42.26 to P42.37 per kg on the national level and P1 per kg in Metro Manila,
from P40 to P41 per kg.
For regular-milled rice, the price increase was about P0.19 per kg, from P38.05
to P38.24 per kg on the national average and higher by P0.50 per kg for Metro
Manila, from P37 to P37.50 per kg.
“The PSA records clearly show that the slight increase in rice prices at this
time happens each year, during this same period, not because of external
influences such as tax measures but as a natural consequence of the lack of
harvest and the sale of newly-milled stocks bought at higher prices,” Aquino
said.
Time and labor savings cited as key advantage for row rice
Furrow-irrigated
row rice provides time and labor savings for Arkansas farm.
Yield comparison between
furrow-irrigated or row rice and traditional flood-irrigated rice was
statistically the same, for Mississippi County, Arkansas farmers Mike and Ryan
Sullivan.
But with fewer trips across the
field to prepare land for the next soybean crop saved time, labor and
money, said Ryan during a presentation at the January national Conservation
Systems Cotton and rice Conference in Memphis.
Pulling levees was one of
the reasons Ryan decided to try furrow-irrigated rice. Although he’s a recent
graduate of Arkansas State University, Ryan has spent his whole life on the
fifth-generation rice-soybean farm.
“Every fall we would go in with a
field cultivator and a Kelly Diamond to get the soybean fields ready so we
could plant rice flat,” he said in his presentation. “We drilled into the old
soybean beds from last year. We planted at an angle because we couldn’t get
good down pressure in the middles.”
Planting on the old soybean beds
meant the Sullivans didn’t have to put up levees in their rice, a practice that
on their heavy gumbo soils could require five or six trips with a tractor and a
levee plow. The lack of levees means the fields are also less likely to become
rutted during harvest.
Sullivan said the
furrow-irrigated fields that were grown in side-by-side comparisons with
conventionally-planted rice produced an average of 4.6-bushels-per-acre less
rice than the fields of levee rice. (The 477.2 acres of furrow rice produced an
average of 196.5 bushels vs. 201.1 bushels per acre on 539 acres of flooded
rice.)
SLAC ties up to
quadruple Lanao Sur’s rice yield
January 30, 2018
HYBRID-RICE firm SL Agritech
Corp. (SLAC) on Wednesday inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with
the provincial government of Lanao del Sur for the establishment of a
50-hectare techno- demo farm that seeks to more than quadruple the province’s
average rice yield.
“We usually do techno-demo farms
in about 2 to 3 hectares; this is the biggest we will have. And we are spending
for the labor, inputs, rice seeds, chemicals and everything,” SLAC Chairman and
CEO Henry Lim Bon Liong said in a news briefing on January 30.
“As part of Go Negosyo, we are
doing our part to help the people of Marawi to recover,” Lim added.
SLAC Senior Technical and
Promotion Consultant Dr. Frisco M. Malabanan said the firm is spending around
P1.65 million for the establishment of the 50-hectare techno-demo farm in
Bubong, a municipality near war-torn Marawi City. The project costs around
P30,000 to P35,000 per hectare, Malabanan said.
The average rice yield in the
area is around 3 metric tons (MT) to 3.5 MT, way below the 7 MT to 14 MT per
hectare average yield of SLAC’s hybrid-rice varieties.
“This is a 50-hectare model farm
so the farmers of Marawi and surrounding areas of Lanao del Sur will benefit
from hybrid-rice technology,” Malabanan said.
“We already conducted a technical
briefing to around 55 farmers from the Marawi area and we started already the
seed sowing in the area using our varieties SL8 and SL18,” Malabanan added.
Lim said they are planning to set
a harvest festival in the 50-hectare techno-demo farm by April, where they
would invite President Duterte as a special guest.
Provincial Agriculturist Engr.
Mohamadali D. Macaraya of Lanao del Sur said the establishment of a techno-demo
farm in their province would encourage farmers in their area to adapt to
modern rice-farming technologies. This, Macaraya noted, would allow the
province to improve their rice output and reduce their reliance for food supply
from other nearby rice-producing provinces.
“This is a big help for Marawi
and Lanao del Sur. You know Lanao del Sur has been using traditional methods of
farming and now, we have a new technology from the SLAC, who contributed this
50 hectares to our people,” he said.
“This will be replicated to
nearby barangays and municipalities of Lanao del Sur. Lanao del Sur has a
potential of 40,319 hectares of irrigable areas and only 3,000 hectares are
irrigated. Much of of food consumption are bought from nearby provinces,” he
added.
Agriculture damage due to restive
Mayon volcano reaches P165M
Affected commodities include rice,
corn, high value crops, and fiber crops
Published 7:00 PM, January 30, 2018
Updated 8:50 AM,
January 31, 2018
MAYON. High school students in Guinobatan, Albay pass through a
rice paddy as they run away from cascading volcanic materials from the slopes
of Mount Mayon. File photo by Rhaydz B. Barcia/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – The
Department of Agriculture (DA) said the damage and losses to the agriculture
sector caused by the activity of the Mayon volcano had reached P165.54 million
as of noon on Tuesday, January 30.
In a memorandum dated January 30,
the agriculture department said the situation in Albay affected a total of
8,138 hectares of agricultural areas, and 8,294 farmers.
Christopher Morales, chief of the
DA Field Programs Operational Planning Division, said the estimated volume of
production loss was at 36,023 metric tons, and the affected commodities were
rice, corn, high value crops, and fiber crops.
Rice suffered the largest share
of production losses at P139.79 million (82.45%), covering 6,380 hectares,
which is equivalent to 61.35% of the total standing crop of 10,399 hectares.
"The losses were due to the
effect of ashfall [on] the leaves and tillers of newly planted rice
crops," the memorandum reads.
Nine areas in Albay were
affected: Santo Domingo, Malilipot, Legazpi City, Daraga, Camalig, Guinobatan,
Ligao City, Polangui, and Oas.
Below is a summary of damage and
losses per commodity as of noon on Tuesday:
|
COMMODITY
|
NO. OF FARMERS AFFECTED
|
TOTAL AREA AFFECTED (HA)
|
VOLUME (MT)
|
TOTAL (PHP)
|
|
Rice
|
4,253
|
6,380
|
-
|
139,794,637
|
|
Corn
|
773
|
708
|
2
|
4,378,793
|
|
High value crops
|
3,268
|
1,049
|
36,023
|
20,890,320
|
|
Fiber crops
|
-
|
99
|
6
|
478,000
|
*Data from the Department of
Agriculture
According to the memorandum, the
proposed rehabilitation plan from different banner programs for rice, corn,
high value crops, organic agriculture, as well as livestock and poultry totaled
P48.076 million.
How The
Rice Husk Pellet Making Machine Can Change A Problem Right Into A Profit
Published on January 31, 2018
Beston
Machinery, a professional pellet making machine manufacturer.
It has
been said many times over that way too much of anything, even natural products,
in one location is hazardous waste. The problem with plenty of farms and their
processing plants is the fact there exists almost always some form of waste
leftover. Wheat has the straw, corn has stalks and husks, rice has husks, peaches
have pits, and olives have pits at the same time. Do you want to use rice husk
to earn money? You can invest a rice husk pellet mill.
While
you possibly will not imagine tiny olive pits becoming a problem, once you have
100 a great deal of them, that’s a tremendous pile. Recently farmers are
already paying higher and higher fees to possess these agricultural wastes
hauled away, many times on the local landfills.
The
landfills are reaching capacities and want to slice back, increase prices, and
reduce costs in any manner they are able to. Now, because of modern technology,
you will find answers to handling most of these different waste elements,
safely, economically, and environmentally friendly. If you have other raw
materials, like straws, you can select a straw pellet mill for sale.
Now There Are Pellet Mills For Pretty Much Anything Manufactured
From Cellulose
As you
may have often heard, one man’s garbage is yet another man’s treasure and so it
complements cellulose waste nowadays. You will find stoves and furnaces that
could be created to are powered by nearly just about any pelletized cellulose
waste. These stoves may be used to heat barns, factories, homes, or found in
other manufacturing processes.
The
pellets burn clean and leave almost no ash and considering they are created
from biomass, their CO2, or carbon dioxide, is an element of a renewable cycle.
Because of this it doesn’t add or subtract from the normal quantities of co2
from the atmosphere. Also there is a unique biomass machine, which can turn
wastes into biofuel, you can choose from numerous biomass pellet machine
manufacturers.
What a
rice husk pellet making machine is capable of doing to the rice farmer is take
a huge problem, one that costs many thousands of dollars in hauling and dump
fees, and transform it into a profitable business. The pellets can be utilized
in the farm, in your house, or sold wholesale to some pellet stove company for
heating homes. A sizable expense is changed into revenue for your farmer.
The Rice Husk Pellet Making Machines Can Be Found In Several Sizes
You can
tailor how big your machine to the tonnage of rice husks you want to process at
the farm. Checking just one maker online implies that machines can easily be
bought that may process husks from 250 lbs. per hour all the way up upto 1,000
lbs. each hour. While that might appear to be a lot, there are rice fields who
have very much waste and much more.
Before
selecting a particular machine, it’s best to spend some time researching to
determine if the equipment has got the right specifications you require. You’ll
want to make certain that parts can be found quickly coming from a local
supplier. There shouldn’t be any flaws within the design and you may check
online customer reviews to discover how many other buyers have experienced
together with the machine you’d prefer to buy. Therefore, you need to do a
survey and make a comparison from many suppliers, and choose a reliable
pellet machine manufacturer, and put your money on their machine,
you can get high returns.
It
should are available having an excellent warranty and possess great customer
satisfaction at the same time. This is an excellent instance of how
technologies have found a problem with excess waste and turned it into a
profitable venture that earns money and is also eco-friendly too.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-rice-husk-pellet-making-machine-can-change-problem-pellet-machine/
What’s The Best Milk Alternative? A New Study Found
This Non-Dairy Milk Is The Most Nutritious
At some point in our history,
someone looked at a calf nursing from its mother and was like, "Heck yeah,
let's put that in coffee." But in the last few years, the popularity of
non-dairy milks has grown 61 percent, reaching an estimated $2.11 billion in
sales, according to research from market intelligence agency Mintel, which
means a whole lot of people are looking at things like soybeans and almonds and
going, "Heck yeah, let's put that in coffee." With
more and more people drinking milk alternatives, it's no surprise people are
wondering which non-dairy milk is the most nutritious.
Luckily, McGill University is
here to answer that question. A new study from the university looked
at four of the most commonly consumed non-dairy milks — almond milk, soy milk,
rice milk, and coconut milk — to see if their health benefits stack up.
"Though they are popularly advertised as healthy and wholesome, little research has been done in
understanding the nutritional implications of consuming these milk beverages in
short term and long term," the team wrote in the study's report.
The nutritional value of each
non-dairy milk was weighed against the nutritional value of regular ol' cow's
milk, and according to researchers, soy milk is "a clear
winner," said a press release from McGill. Don't worry,
though — you can still "Heck yeah" any of the four milks. According
to the McGill University researchers, it turns out all four non-dairy
milks do have
their own benefits aside from giving folks who are lactose-intolerant or who
simply don't like dairy milk another option.
The study concluded that soy
milk, which "has been a substitute for cow's milk for
4 decades," according to the press release, has the most balanced
nutritional profile, and also has "health benefits linked to the
anti-carcinogenic properties of phytonutrients present [...] known as
isoflavones."
According to Oregon State
University, observational studies of soy isoflavones "suggest that higher
intakes of soy foods early in life may decrease the risk of breast cancer in
adulthood," but "[t]here is currently little clinical evidence that
taking soy isoflavone supplements decreases the risk of incident and recurrent
breast cancer."
McGill university researchers did
mention in the study's press release that they have concerns about soy milk's
"beany flavor,"
which, fair. They also expressed concerns about "the presence of
anti-nutrients (substances that reduce nutrient intake and digestion)" in
soy milk, but still concluded that of the four milks, it comes the closest to
meeting dairy milk's nutritional profile.
Rice milk turned out to be almost
the exact opposite of soy milk, according to the researchers. No "beany
flavor" was present; instead rice milk was reviewed as being
"sweet" but having "relatively little
nutrition." The McGill University team suggested rice milk
as a good alternative for consumers who can't ingest soy milk or almond milk
because of allergies, and that it's high in carbohydrates. That aside, though,
"consumption of rice milk without proper care can result in malnutrition,
especially in infants."
Coconut milk received a "no protein and few calories"
tag from the researchers, who added that the calories are mostly from fat.
Coconuts also "help reduce levels of harmful low-density lipoproteins (bad
cholesterol) that are associated with cardiovascular diseases," the
researchers added, but the benefits of coconut milk go down if it's stored for
more than two months.it’s not
fair that I have to pay extra for non-dairy milk in my drinks. I didn’t choose
to be lactose intolerant but now I’m 50 cents broker than my regular lactose
tolerant counterparts. #EqualityForMilk
Almond milk received a
not-quite-positive review, with McGill researchers stating there's a "need for complementary sources of
food to provide essential nutrients." However, researchers
asserted that almonds also have fatty acids that are helpful when it comes to
reducing the same "bad cholesterol" coconut milk helps lessen.
In contrast to all four non-dairy
milks, cow's milk was called "a wholesome, complete food,"
by the researchers, who said it can provide us with all the major nutrients we
require, like "fat, carbohydrates, and proteins." Cow's milk also
provides "a wide range of host-defence [sic] proteins because various
beneficial anti-microbial effects are found in both human and bovine
milks," and research has shown that "in the case of infants,
consumption of cow's milk has considerably reduced risk of fever and
respiratory infections."
Researchers did point out that
lactose intolerance is widespread, affecting between 15 and 75 percent of
all adults "depending on race, food habits, and gut health," and said
that future research on "alternative milk" is required to fully
understand the effects soy, rice, coconut, and almond milk have on us.
In the case of all non-dairy
milks, though, if you're committed to staying away from cow's milk, the smart
thing to do seems to be to raise a glass of your favorite non-dairy milk, but
also watch your intake and make sure you're compensating for what soybeans or
rice or almonds can't give you on their own. Cheers, y'all.
Maharashtra govt machinery responsible for farmer's death: Shiv
Sena
Jan 30, 2018 12:42 PM
IST | Source: PTI
The Shiv Sena today held the
Maharashtra government machinery responsible for the death of an elderly
farmer, who consumed poison over inadequate compensation for his land, and said
ministers and officials concerned should be booked for culpable homicide.
A farmer spreads
fertilizers on his rice plants in Patra village in the northern Indian state of
Punjab August 4, 2007. REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA) - GM1DVVWDZSAA
The Shiv Sena today held the Maharashtra government machinery
responsible for the death of an elderly farmer, who consumed poison over
inadequate compensation for his land, and said ministers and officials
concerned should be booked for culpable homicide.
Taunting the Devendra Fadnavis-led dispensation, the BJP's
warring ally said problems like food, clothing and shelter are not solved
merely by giving speeches.
Dharma Patil, 84, died at a government hospital on January 28,
six days after he consumed poison at Mantralaya, the state secretariat, here on
January 22. The farmer was protesting inadequate compensation for a plot of
land acquired by the government for a project.
"When Dharma Patil reached Mantralaya, the chief minister
was in Davos seeking investment for the state. What is the use of such
investment when farmers back home are ending their lives?
"Problems like food, clothing and shelter are not solved
merely by giving speeches. 'Bhashan (speech) mafia' has killed this farmer. The
chief minister should run the government and not the BJP," the Sena said
in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana'.
The death of Dharma Patil, it added, is not a sign of good
administration.
"Those who have been going around painting a rosy picture
saying 'acche din' have arrived in peoples' lives are the ones responsible for
his death. The compensation of only Rs 4 lakh for his land was a cruel joke
played on him by the government," the Uddhav Thackeray-led party said.
The saffron party alleged that the government has appointed
agents to acquire lands in the name of development and schemes. These agents,
it said, ensure that farmers like Dharma Patil are only given Rs 4 lakh instead
of the right amount of compensation.
"The state administration is responsible for Dharma Patil's
death. Therefore, those demanding that the ministers and officials concerned
should be booked for culpable homicide are not wrong," the Sena said.
Opposition parties are also making a similar demand. But they
themselves were in power in the state for 15 long years, the party said.
During their tenure, as many as 15,000 farmers from
Vidarbha-Marathwada regions committed suicide. Hence, those who were in power
at that time should also be booked for culpable homicide, it added.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/maharashtra-govt-machinery-responsible-for-farmers-death-shiv-sena-2494593.html 30, 2018
DAVAO CITY—The Depart-ment of
Agriculture (DA) is offering incentives to farmers in the Caraga region in
Northeastern Mindanao to put up demonstration or model farms in raising corn
for the government’s rice-corn blend.
The DA Caraga office has
coordinated with the local government units across the region to help it look
for areas suitable for the establishment of white-corn production as a model
farm “that would showcase to the farmers the viability of flint-type white-corn
production.”
The flint type, one of six major
types that also include dent, flour, pod, pop and sweet corn, is suitable for
the production of the corn cereals needed in the blending with rice to produce
a healthier and cheaper staple for Filipinos.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F.
Pinol launched it here last December.
The DA Caraga said it would
prefer model farms that are cluster areas with strong farmer associations.
“Other areas can also be tapped,
as long as they have potential for flint-type corn production,” Caraga Regional
Corn Coordinator Melody M. Guimary said. The preferred sites “should be compact
and not less than 50 hectares.”
“The farmers qualified to
participate in the model farm will be assisted with interventions, such as
technical training, inputs and farm machinery and equipment,” she added.
The DA Caraga and the local
governments have begun to benchmark the local demand of the flint-type white
corn in the region “to ascertain local marketing
opportunities.”
This white-corn variety is
distinguished by its hard outer covering likened to flint stone, hence its
name, which serves as natural protection for the usually soft interior of the
kernels.
Although it has been commonly
used with processed d, industrial food and feeds, it has been recently tapped
as a good source for the rice-corn blend initiated by the DA “to lessen the
dependence of Filipinos on rice as their staple food.”
When it was launched here, the
Philippine Maize Federation, a federation of corn-farmer associations signed a
memorandum of agreement with the DA and the National Food Authority for the
processing and marketing of the product.
“The rice-corn blend is also a
business opportunity for cooperatives, associations or private individuals who
would like to invest in processing and marketing of the rice-corn blend,”
Guimary added.
Provincial Corn Coordinator Oscar
Tuyor of Agusan del Norte said the blending of rice and corn is not entirely
new for Filipinos, with many in the Visayas and Mindanao already eating corn as
a regular staple.
“Rice can be blended with corn
either on a ratio of 70:30 or 50:50, or depending on the preference of the
consumer,” he said.
Lydia Apatan, an agricultural
extension worker of Nasipit, Agusan del Norte, said the rice-corn blend was a
welcome initiative. “Aside from helping lessen the dependence on rice among
Filipinos, it is a healthy alternative since corn has a low glycemic index and
is high in fiber.”
Glycemic index is a number
associated with the carbohydrates in a particular food that indicates the
effect of these carbohydrates on a person’s blood glucose, commonly called
blood sugar.
Under the National Corn Staple
Development Plan, the DA would increase production of quality flint corn for
nutrition and food security and to increase the income of farmers, specifically
to increase production of flint corn, from 1.952 million metric tons in 2017 to
4.91 MMT by 2022.
The DA information office said
the flint-type white corn serves as a staple food of about 15 percent of the
total population, mostly in the islands of the Visayas and Mindanao, in the
form of corn grits.
Manuel Cayon
has written about Mindanao for several national newspapers for more than two
decades, the most part of it on conflict-reporting, and on the political,
insurgency and civil rights front. He also scribbles on the religious and human
rights issues for the Thailand-based Catholic news agency as well as he strings
for several wire agencies. His stint with then TODAY newspaper started his
business reporting obtaining in Mindanao, continuing to this day with
BusinessMirror. He received citations and awards, including two Biotechnology
awards for reporting. He was a fellow of the US International Visitors’ Program
Leadership in 2007 on conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution.
He attended college at the Mindanao State University and the Ateneo de Davao
University
Southeast, Three Rivers discontinue
offering courses at Malden sites
Tuesday, January 30,
2018
Southeast Missouri State University
and Three Rivers College has announced they are discontinuing offering courses
at their Malden campuses as the two institutions shift their efforts to align
with current trends in student learning.
Southeast President Carlos Vargas
and Three Rivers College President Wesley Payne cited budgetary needs,
declining enrollments and a decrease in demand for face-to-face and interactive
television (ITV) course offerings at their Malden facilities for their decision
to cease face-to-face and ITV coursework there, effective at the end of the
spring 2018 semester.
The presidents said the two
institutions will shift their delivery to online offerings while also encouraging
Malden area students to continue their coursework at their nearby locations.
Vargas emphasized that face-to-face and ITV educational offerings will remain
readily available at Southeast’s regional campuses in Sikeston and Kennett.
Payne added that Three Rivers students in the Malden area will be able to
continue face-to-face and ITV instruction at their locations in Dexter,
Kennett, Sikeston and Piedmont, Missouri, and at the main campus in Poplar
Bluff.
Although Southeast Missouri State
University-Malden has served thousands of students over the years, Vargas said
Southeast’s total headcount at its Malden campus has steadily declined. In fall
2010, fall unduplicated headcount at the Malden campus was 248. By fall 2017,
total unduplicated headcount had dropped to 106. This spring, just 91 students
are enrolled in at least one course at Southeast’s Malden campus, he said.
Three Rivers’ Malden facility has
experienced similar enrollment declines. In fall 2010, Three Rivers students
were enrolled in 1,380 credit hours of coursework, accounting for 92 full-time
equivalencies. That number dropped to 620 credit hours, or 41 full-time
equivalencies, by fall 2017, Payne said.
Vargas and Payne also referenced
the popularity of online coursework, which allows students with busy lives to
stay on target with their academic goals while balancing the demands of family
and work. Vargas said there are more Southeast students today enrolled as
online students from Stoddard and neighboring counties than those enrolled at
the Malden campus.
He also cited the growing number of
high school students earning dual credit, which has more than doubled since
2012, as a contributing factor to declining numbers who attend Southeast’s
Malden campus.
“While this has been a very difficult
decision, it also has been an opportunity to evaluate shifts in technology and
reorganize our instructional offerings consistent with the needs of today’s
students,” he said.
Vargas said Southeast has been
strategic in its budget reduction decisions in an effort to minimize the impact
on students and faculty. Of the 91 students currently enrolled at Southeast’s
Malden campus, 48 are taking coursework only in Malden. He said he is
encouraged knowing nearly half of them already take coursework both at Malden
and at another Southeast location. In addition, 86 percent of the students
currently enrolled at Southeast’s Malden campus reside in Dunklin, New Madrid
and Stoddard counties, making travel to Southeast’s regional campuses in
Kennett or Sikeston accessible to continue their education.
“I would like to offer my heartfelt
thanks and sincere appreciation to the Crisp Bootheel Education Center Advisory
Board, the citizens, and the city of Malden who for more than 30 years have
offered their unwavering commitment, both financially and with their steadfast
dedication to and support of our campus here,” Vargas said. “While the
magnitude of the University’s budget needs necessitates this refocusing of our
instructional efforts, I am encouraged that Malden students will still be able
to pursue their educational goals close to home.
“While this is an announcement I
regret having to make, I take some comfort in knowing our regional campuses in
Sikeston and in Kennett, and Southeast Online, will continue to serve the needs
of the many first-time, first-generation and non-traditional students in the
Malden area who wish to pursue their educational dreams in the Bootheel without
traveling to Cape Girardeau,” he added.
Student Informational Session
Coursework at Southeast’s Malden
location will end with the close of spring 2018 final exams on May 11.
Southeast’s Malden campus will continue its normal operating hours through June
29. An informational session for Southeast Malden students is planned for
4-6:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Malden campus. Administrators and academic advisors
will be on hand to answer questions and explain the timeline for changes in
instruction and other options to continue coursework. Students may come and go
any time during the session as it is convenient for them.
Coursework at Three Rivers-Malden
will end with the close of spring 2018 final exams on May 17. Normal operations
will continue through May 25. College staff will be available during normal
hours of operation to answer questions and assist students in planning future
coursework.
Future Plans for Southeast Missouri
State University-Malden
Moving forward, Southeast will
continue to operate its Malden facility for non-credit events, including career
development workshops. Online course advisement for Malden area students will
continue to be available through Southeast Online as is currently the practice.
Operation of the Bootheel Youth Museum will continue as well, Vargas said.
Agricultural rice research
conducted in the Rice Research Greenhouse at the campus will continue in
partnership with the Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council and
Southeast’s Department of Agriculture. The 1,500-square-foot greenhouse, which
opened on the east side of the building last spring, provides laboratory and
research space for producing new high-yielding, public domain rice varieties in
southeast Missouri. A USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant helped support
construction of the greenhouse which is within close proximity to the Missouri
Rice Research Farm on Highway J between Malden and Glennonville, Missouri.
Vargas said Southeast may also use
the vacated instructional space for events, workshops and satellite space for
the University’s Economic and Business Engagement Center (EBEC) activities, specifically
its Agriculture Technology Virtual Incubation program. This initiative
encourages innovation and offers support to the agriculture industry, a sector
vitally important to the Bootheel economy. Incorporating technology
advancements in agriculture operations, including the use of unmanned aircraft
systems (UAS), are playing an increasing role in the region’s agriculture
industry. The Incubation Program assists small businesses, including those in
the agriculture industry, with capitalizing on these opportunities by providing
additional services and expertise.
Future Plans for Three Rivers
College-Malden
Three Rivers currently operates in
leased facilities, and while the closing of the location means that there will
no longer be a physical presence in the city, students will be served at
locations in Dexter and Kennett. Students will also continue to have the
opportunity to enroll in online classes as they currently do.
Three Rivers remains committed to
serving the area through its Dual-Credit program and plans to continue to offer
the Patrons of the Arts shows in the Malden elementary and middle schools.
merous vacant positions have been
either eliminated or remain unfilled in an effort to maintain a balanced
budget.
In spite of the reduction in state support
and the ensuing budget challenges, Three Rivers remains committed to continuing
to serve the region with accessible affordable education. Even as enrollment
has declined at its other external locations, they have remained fiscally
healthy and continue to provide a robust selection of coursework where it is
needed.
“While this decision has been very
difficult and is the type of decision that no college wants to make, we will
continue to serve students through our online offerings and continue to provide
face-to-face and ITV classes in Dexter, Kennett and Sikeston,” said Payne.
Despite the reductions in state
support last year and the proposed further reduction for the coming year, Three
Rivers has been able to continue to provide high quality instruction while
minimizing the impact on tuition. Payne stated that “while it is regrettable
that we will no longer be able to offer face-to-face classes in Malden, Three
Rivers remains committed to its mission and will continue to provide
high-quality opportunities that are both affordable and accessible. Anyone who
is seeking a better future will find Three Rivers College ready to help them
reach their goals.”
Rice quota bad for PNG families: Opposition
BY: Loop Business
10:23, January 30, 2018
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There will
be a massive increase in rice prices for PNG families if there is monopoly of
the rice market.
“There were
disturbing reports in mainstream media on 26 January that Agriculture and
Livestock Minister, Benny Allan, had stated that foreign-controlled Naima would
take control of the rice market in PNG once the state solicitor had cleared the
80 percent quota and 10-year tax holiday,” said the Shadow Minister for
Treasury and Finance, Ian Ling-Stuckey.
“Surely
these are not issues for the State Solicitor to resolve. These are fundamental
issues of public policy, of choices that should be given to parliamentarians to
balance the needs of PNG’s consumers, the future of their children and an
obscure foreign firm with its ministerial besties.”
The shadow
minister questioned why Naima rice should be given a 10 year tax holiday when
poor PNG workers are struggling with high levels of tax.
“This rice
plan is a really bad deal for PNG,” said Ling-Stuckey.
“If the
government really understood the needs of its PNG people, they would
immediately cancel this arrangement. Instead, the government should do more to
invest in smallholder extension activities, research and development and
improved transport and storage systems.”
He said when
this proposal was floated, there was near universal condemnation of this
outrageous, protectionist proposal.
Furthermore,
the National Research Institute put out a spotlight paper stating “PNG’s
experiences of monopolies in the delivery of crucial goods and services have
been dreadful. A monopoly trader emerging in the rice industry is therefore a
dangerous prospect especially with rice fast becoming a staple food throughout
the country; the cost of survival for many households will increase.”
“The PNG
Independent Consumer and Competition Commission condemned the proposal, saying
it could have ‘major negative effects upon consumers and competition’ and ‘it
is essential that no domestic rice monopoly is created by the issuing of
pioneer status to only one rice grower’,” stated Ling-Stuckey.
Outside
experts like Professor Stephen Howes at the ANU have also criticised the
proposal.
Prof Howes
was reported as saying: “As any economist will tell you, a quota, especially a
quota to a monopoly, will push up prices and profits.”
Ling-Stuckey
pointed out that researchers from the 1960s have highlighted that in most areas
in PNG, there are other crop options with much higher returns to our farmers.
“Rice was a
low return crop relative to potatoes, oil palm, cocoa, coffee and vanilla. Why
force our farmers into these high labour, risky areas under a massive subsidy
that will hurt PNG families with increases in prices?
“Why are we
ignoring the advice of these experts?
“Economists
are clear that the worst protectionist policy is quotas, then tariffs, then
direct subsidies, then competition under a properly regulated market.
“Why is the
government going for an option that is the worst of all the protectionist
policy options? This is the one with the greatest risk to consumers.
“Current
price monitoring arrangements with weak enforcement provisions mean that Naima
could effectively start asking almost any price it wants for rice.
“Of course,
we know that there will be the normal political rhetoric of good noises made
that rice prices will decrease, but the people of PNG are just too wise to
believe those stories yet again,” stressed the shadow treasurer.
“Another
major loser from this proposal are the people of PNG through the budget. It is
one thing to give Naima a license to print money through this scheme, but then
to give them a ten-year tax holiday?
“I do hope
the PNG Treasurer, Charles Abel, will fiercely oppose this suggestion as the
budget desperately needs budget repair. How on earth could the government
support a 10-year tax holiday when our debt levels are already blowing out of
control?” s
Ling-Stuckey
said there are much better ways to build up our agriculture sector than this
type of dangerous and destructive proposal.
“In the
spirit of APEC and trade integration, we should invest our time and funds
instead into ways that PNG smallholders can grow products both for our own
markets as well for the supermarkets of Asia.
“The APEC
meeting is an opportunity to demonstrate the potential of PNG, and we can
invite firms with much greater expertise to make investments in our agriculture
sector. Setting up a rice monopoly absolutely undermines the ideals of APEC and
puts our role as host to shame.
“The
O’Neill/Abel government should cancel the Naima proposal.
“There are
better ways to build up our agriculture sector and lift the incomes and job
opportunities for our people,” said the shadow treasurer.
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study on PNG’s agricultural systems (665 pages) Food and Agriculture in Papua
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Importing of rice halted
Wednesday, 31 January 2018 - 10:18
President
Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the cabinet to stop importing rice
since the Maha Season paddy harvest has begun.
President gave
the directive following detailed facts regarding the matter being put forward
at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon(Jan.30).
Responding to
an enquiry, a senior government minister said that accordingly, a cabinet
sub-committee was set up to look into rice stocks currently available in the
market.
The committee
includes the ministers of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce as well as the
minister of Rural Economy.
In addition,
reports state that discussions relating to a proposal to import 100,000 metric
tonnes of rice, has been postponed.
Meanwhile, the
cabinet approval was granted to set up a special High Court bench of three judges
to expedite the hearing of the cases regarding bribes or corruption charges.
The cabinet
also approved the suggested amendment for revising the court organization act.
It was decided
to have this special high court in addition to the high court currently in
operation.
