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Chinese researchers find evidence of the beginning of rice cultivation
BEIJING (Xinhua) – Chinese researchers have found evidence of the shift from wild rice to rice cultivation.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) collected the samples of phytoliths, a microscopic structure of silicon dioxide, from an archaeological profile at the Hehuashan site, located in the upper Qiantang River region in east China’s Zhejiang Province.
They found and analysed the fan-shaped phytoliths which were contained in rice leaves.
A change in the amount and forms of the fan-shaped phytoliths found at the Early Neolithic site indicated a change from wild rice to cultivated rice at the time of human occupation, which provides evidence of possible manipulation of wild rice during Shangshan Culture period about 10,000 years ago.
Rice cultivation has a long evolutionary process. “Ancient humans recognised wild rice could satisfy their hunger,” said Wu Yan, associate professor from CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. “Then they learnt to collect and preserve wild rice and began rice cultivation.”
The phytoliths were resistant to corrosion and well preserved. They are expected to be a key finding for the research into the origins of rice, said Wu.
Pakistan missed the industrial revolution. A decade after that
mantra made rounds a consensus seems to be emerging: that manufacturing sector
needs to be given the emphasis it deserves to ensure both economic expansion
and labour absorption.
Earlier this year, the Pakistan Business Council (PBC) presented
convincing arguments that manufacturing is a sin in this country. Be it due to
faulty trade policies or tax, or other aspects of economic governance,
manufacturing sector is taking the biggest brunt. Which is why LSM growth has
remained weak for several years (save for FY17 onward), leading to a fall in
Pakistan’s already fragile manufacturing exports. Consequently, foreign
investors haven’t been eyeing Pakistan as a manufacturing hub for exports.
These very sentiments were echoed by Dr. Manzoor Ahmed, the
president of Prime think tank and Pakistan’s former ambassador to the WTO.
Presenting at a recent moot on trade policy organised by Prime, Dr Manzoor
flagged that Pakistan’s share in world exports has fallen from 0.21 percent in
1980 to 0.13 in 2014. Over the same period, India’s grew from 0.43 percent to
1.7, Malaysia’s increased from 0.74 to 1.34, and Thailand’s rose from 0.37 to
1.35 percent.
Pakistan’s basket of exports has also remained little changed
over the last 36 years. In 1980, Pakistan’s top exports included cotton, rice,
soybean, textile fabric, garments, chemical and leather. By 2016, the basket of
top exports isn’t changed, save for food processing replacing chemical and
leather sectors. In contrast, Turkey’s similar raw and low value-added export
basket in 1980 has graduated significantly with its top five items now
including machinery, construction equipment and mining.
The underlying theme behind the arguments of Prime, PBC and
other stakeholders is that global manufacturing has morphed into a value chain
model, which is why over 70 percent of global trade is in intermediate goods.
There is also a wider consensus that Pakistan’s weak trade facilitation, and
wanting quality and efficiency of services is also responsible for falling
manufacturing. However, this is where the agreements seem to end.
There is one camp, which the PBC champions, which demands a
protection for those who want to Make in Pakistan. In a recent interview with
BR Research, PBC’s CEO was very clear that Pakistan needs to provide protection
to industries for a pre-defined period to allow them to gain scale and become
competitive.
The second camp, championed by the likes of Prime, asserts that
one of the key reasons why Pakistan has missed the GVC-led manufacturing growth
is its irrational obsession with tariff and non-tariff barriers.
The first camp wants manufacturing growth through import
substitution. The second camp maintains that equal importance should be given
to imports, especially considering that Pakistan has significantly higher
applied tariffs than peer economies and therefore she is much less integrated
with the global economy.
Let the battle of ideas begin! Hopefully a consensus on at least
broad principles will emerge out of this battle, because ‘unto your graphs,
unto mine’ will only further the gap instead of bridging it. But if the
consensus is not to be had, then let the battle lines of ideas be clearly
spelled out to kick off further research and debates on the subject. May the
best idea win!
Iran Interested in Importing Rice Directly From Pakistan
According
to the former Foreign Minister of Iran Syed Kamal Kharazi, Iran is
looking for the ways of importing Rice Directly from
Pakistan.
The
ceremony held on Sunday was attended by Syed Kamal Kharazi and Acting
Counsel-general Majid Sadeghi Dowlatabadi. Speaking on the occasion and
addressing Pakistani Rice exporters Mr. Kharazi said Iranian people are
rice-eaters and they are fond of Pakistani basmati rice, but unfortunately
Pakistan basmati rice is being imported from Dubai into Tehran which is not
good for both countries as far as bilateral trade is concerned. Pakistan and
Tehran both losing opportunities in this trade, said Kharazi.
Responding
to the demand made by Rice Export Association of Pakistan (REAP) president
Samiullah Naeem, Mr. Kharazi said we are also working on the project to open
bank branches in both countries for direct trade transactions in a currency
other than U.S. dollar in order to avoid U.S. sanctions and concerns.
Iran
is also interested in bilateral trade with Pakistan other than rice, and in
talks with Islamabad to reduce duties on imports in order to enhance trade size
between both countries. He highlighted the support Iran provided when Pakistan
was created and also constructing the Iranian gas pipeline closer to Pakistan’s
border, however, he regretted the latter was unable to complete the work on gas
pipeline due to immense pressure by the United States.
He
said US sanctions put Iran in self-development mode and Iran was able to attain
self-sufficiency in development and defense needs. Earlier Mr. Naeem said the
bilateral trade between Pakistan and Iran accounted for less than $800 million
which could go easily up to $10 billion if we continued bilateral relations
without any external pressure.
Mr.
Naeem demanded the removal of duties from Pakistan exports into Iran prelude to
free trade agreement between two countries. The delegation of rice exporters
should leave for Iran soon and Mr. Kharazi would help the delegation in closing
B2B deals there in Iran—he hoped.
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Venkaiah asks agri scientists to help make farming viable
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu
- The Hindu
Meet deliberates on doubling farm
income
HYDERABAD, APRIL 1
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu
has asked the agricultural scientists to work on making agriculture viable,
profitable and sustainable. They should also strive to ensure food security to
meet “the needs of a burgeoning population.” Addressing agricultural scientists
and researchers at the Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR) here on
Saturday, he asked them to come out with innovative and out-of-the-box
solutions to meet the challenges faced by farmers.
The focus of the discussion was
on ‘Doubling Farm Income by 2022 in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana’. “A happy
farmer makes a happy country,” he said.
“Another issue that needed
attention was raising input costs. Crop diversification and promoting allied
farming activities such as backyard poultry are equally important to increase
farmers’ income,” he felt.
Farm Scientists
should make Agriculture viable, profitable and sustainable : M. Venkaiah Naidu
A HAPPY FARMERS MAKES A HAPPY COUNTRY: STAYING WITH
FARMERS BE MADE MANDATORY OF AGRI-STUDENTS; INTERACTS WITH THE AGRICULTURAL
RESEARCHERS
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Hyderabad , 31
Mar 2018
The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu called upon Farm
Scientists to focus on making agriculture viable, profitable and sustainable,
besides ensuring home-grown food security to meet the needs of a burgeoning
population. He was interacting with the Agricultural Researchers on 'Doubling
Farm Income by 2022 in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana' at ICAR - Indian Institute
of Rice Research, in Hyderabad today.The Vice President posed several questions
to the scientists and elicited their responses on how their research was
translating to empower the farmers. Asking them to come out with innovative and
out-of-box solutions to meet the challenges faced by farmers, the Vice
President said “A happy farmer makes a happy country”.“We know the problems.
What are the solutions, what are the new ideas…what is the way forward to take
technology to the farmers” he asked. He pointed out that lack of quality seeds
is one of the problems faced by farmers.Similarly, another issue that needed attention
was rising input costs. Crop diversification and promoting allied farming
activities like backyard poultry were equally important to increase farmers’
income. He also wanted the scientists to make e-NAM more popular with the
farming community.
Stressing the need for home-grown food security, he said both
productivity and production have to be increased as the country cannot depend
on “imported food security”. He said the Krishi Vigyan Kendras should become
the hubs of activity for farmers.Asking the scientists and researchers to spend
“considerable time” with farmers to come out with practical solutions, he
suggested that staying with farmers should be made mandatory for students
pursuing agricultural courses.?Referring to agricultural credit, Shri Naidu
emphasized the need for giving timely and affordable credit to the farmers at
reasonable interest.Observing that agriculture sector needs a great deal of
attention because a majority of Indians still rely on agriculture and allied
occupations in the rural areas for their livelihood, he said “We have a
situation today where despite phenomenal increase in food production, farmers
are not able to get adequate returns from their investment. Agriculture remains
an unattractive vocation to many families. We must change this
situation”.
Asking agricultural scientists and managers come up with solutions
that will impact the farmers’ lives positively and increase their incomes, the
Vice-President said “We should focus on production and productivity to have adequate
home grown food security. At the same time it is not merely increasing the
production and per acre productivity alone which is important. It is also
important for us to recognise that along with technology transfer and
‘intensification’ of agriculture, there must be strategic ‘diversification’ and
attention to the key linkages in the eco-system. The farmers must be supported
through market information, ware housing and cold storage facilities as well as
the credit, marketing and insurance facilities”.He said the most critical need
is to establish a dialogue with farmers and provide them with knowledge and
material resources to increase their incomes.
Washington called on President
Duterte to liberalize agricultural trade between the Philippines and the United
States by reducing the barriers to imported farm products.
In the 2018 National Trade
Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers of the US Trade Representative
(USTR), Washington pressed Manila to make the concessionary rates under
Executive Order 23 permanent. The EO issued in May of last year extended for
another three years the reduced rates on agricultural products as part of the
Philippines’s tariff commitments to the World Trade Organization.
The country is implementing
most-favored nation (MFN) rates of duty on certain farm products as concession
to its special treatment on rice that expired July of last year. Legislators
have yet to convert the lapsed quantitative restriction on rice into tariffs,
reason the President had to extend the MFN rates of duty until June 30, 2020,
or until such time the agricultural tarrification law is amended.
Under EO 23, mechanically deboned
or separated meat is slapped with a tariff of 5 percent. It will remain at that
rate until 2020 before reverting to 40 percent in 2021.
Duty on buttermilk, curdled milk
and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented and acidified milk and cream is
kept at a measly 1 percent for another 3 years. The same levy is applied to
cheese until 2020.
Butter and other fats and oils
derived from milk, along with dairy spread, is slapped with a 5-percent tariff
for another three years. Potato exporters enjoy duty-free privilege in the
Philippines before a 10-percent levy is imposed in 2021.
The EO also declared Manila’s
continued compliance with its minimum access volume commitments of importing
805,200 metric tons of rice annually at a 35-percent tariff. In 2021 rice
imports will be punished with a higher duty of 40 percent.
Concessionary rates under EO 23
were viewed enthusiastically by the US and recommended its permanent
enforcement.
Washington is also pressuring
Manila to get rid of its two-tiered system on handling frozen and freshly
slaughtered meat delivered in wet markets. Under this method, tougher requirements
are imposed on the sale of frozen meat, which are mostly imported, than on
fresh meat, which came from animals raised domestically.
The two-tiered system, for the
US, is discriminatory and must therefore be lifted. “The United States
continues to press the Philippine government to remove unjustified requirements
that treat frozen meat differently from fresh meat.”
The US is also averse to the
regulation of the Department of Agriculture mandating importers to obtain a
sanitary and phytosanitary permit before the shipment of any agricultural good
and to transmit the permit to the exporter. The United States said this
“requirement adds costs, complicates the timing of exports and prevents the
rerouting to the Philippines of products intended for other markets, but not
sold there for commercial reasons.”
“Since December 1, 2016, the
process for new permits has included a requirement that permits be signed by
the secretary of agriculture, or his or her chief of staff, introducing further
delays in issuance. The United States continues to work with the Philippine
government to ensure the process does not hamper trade,” the report added.
For many years, Nigeria has been struggling to attain
self-sufficiency in rice production. Different programmes including the Anchor
Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) have been introduced to reduce rice deficit in the
country.
Despite all these efforts put in place, Nigeria still remains the
second largest importer of rice in the world, accounting for 25 per cent of the
continent’s import. Local production is done on 2.8 million hectares of
farmland.
Nigeria produces 2.55 million metric tonnes of the estimated 6.1
million metric tonnes it consumes annually. It is further projected that
Nigeria’s rice consumption will rise to 35 million metric tonnes by 2050,
increasing at the rate of 7 per cent per annum due to estimated population
growth.
But experts believe that to feed the projected growing population,
the Federal Government must consider Integrated Rice-Duck Farming (IRDF)
technology since the conventional ways of planting rice in the country cannot meet
demand.
Rice-duck farming is an integrated type of farming technology,
that is especially suitable for resource poor farmers to produce organic rice
at low cost.
The evidence from various Asian countriesincluding India, Japan,
Bangladesh, Philippines, Vietnam and some other countries, has proved the
integration of ducks in rice field as a successful and productive farming
technology.
Daily Sun investigation revealed that integrating ducks in rice
farming have been proven to increase 30 per cent higher yield with about 60 per
cent higher net return.
This technology has also proven to be far better than conventional
ways of growing rice as the same cultivation area can be used for not only rice
production but also subsidiary products like meat and eggs. At the same time it
reduces labour inputs through control of weeds and insects by ducks.
Experts are of the opinion that growing rice and ducks together in
an irrigated paddy field could well be a solution to providing food security
for a surging population in any developing nation. This method of farming has
reduced poverty, hunger and brought inclusive growth to a large segment of the
population in the Philippines.
Technically, if government can invest and empower farmers to adopt
the technology, Nigeria will save $300 million in import substitution annually.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
Nations(FAO), IRDF technology will enable farmers grow rice without using
pesticide or herbicide. They will also earn extra money when the fully grown
ducks are sold or when they start laying eggs.
The UN agency said, “beside its economic benefits, this technology
is especially environmental-friendly. The application of synthetic fertilisers
and pesticides can be reduced thereby improving soil quality and pest control.
“The additional benefits of this good practice option are a higher
food security to small farming households in times of calamities and on
long-term basis the contribution to reduce methane emission. Hence, integration
of duck in lowland rice production is recommended as climate adaptation and
mitigation option.”
Therefore, experts urged the Federal Government to partner FAO and
one the Asian countries to adopt integrated rice-duck farming by training a
large number of Nigeria’s farmers to embrace the technology.
A Bio-technology Engineer, Roshan Shetty, who runs an AgroBioTech
Channel in India told Daily Sun that the IRDF, in which ducks feed on insects
and weeds in paddies and fertilise rice plants, has been a flagship of Asian
sustainable agriculture movements.
He added: “Farming is being revolutionised by a technological
wave. That’s great news. By 2050, the earth’s population will be 10 billion, so
we need to almost double the amount of food we now produce.”
Speaking on the benefits of rice-duck farming, Shetty said ducks
eat harmful insects and weeds, thereby averting the use of chemical pesticides
and manual weeding in the rice field, adding that ducks get nutritious diet
from eating insects and weeds in rice fields.
He explained that the droplets of ducks act as natural fertiliser
to the rice crop preventing the use of chemical fertilisers. He said the
continuous movement of ducks in the rice field provides natural stimulation and
aeration, which increase the availability of nutrients like nitrogen,
phosphorous and potash to the rice crop.
He hinted that rice-duck technology causes a reduction of emission
of methane gas from rice field, contributing to reduce the global warming.
Experts have also proved IRDF technology to be beneficial in terms
of providing social, economic and environmental benefits. In this type of
farming technology, ducks are released in the field after 10-20 days of rice
transplantation till the time of flowering. The integration of ducks in rice field
creates symbiotic relationship between rice and ducks yielding mutual benefits
to both entities.
In the medium to long-term, the adoption of the IRDF will
contribute to improve the quality of life of farmers, as evidenced by increased
savings and income, better family nutrition (chemical-free rice, duck meat and
duck eggs), and a healthier lifestyle brought about by less exposure to harmful
chemicals.
OU
professor Jizhong Zhou elected ESA Fellow for work in microbial ecology,
climate change
Managerial associate Lindsay Rice, research scientist Liyou
Wu, Jizhong Zhou and Joy Van Nostrand at the Stephenson Research and
Technology Center on March 29.
Jordan Miller/The Daily
Jizhong Zhou’s office is crowded.
More than 25 desks populate the floor for the Institute for
Environmental Genomics, with multiple other people in the labs working on
projects. However, only about five people are part of the institute’s staff —
the rest are there for the opportunity to work with a world-renowned scientist.
“Dr. Zhou is internationally known, and people come here
specifically for him that would never come to OU,” said Lindsay Rice,
managerial associate of the Institute for Environmental Genomics. “We get that
recognition and expertise just for his name because he’s so well-known in the
field.”Zhou, who is the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics,
as well as a George Lynn Cross research professor and a presidential professor
in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, is one of the highest-paid
OU employees, with a salary of $400,000, according to Oklahoma
Watch. On March 1, Zhou was elected a fellow of the Ecological
Society of America, which is the nation’s largest community of professional
ecologists, for his advancements in environmental genomics and microbial
ecology.
Fellows are elected based on their overall contributions to the
field, not specific projects or studies, and for 40 years Zhou has been working
in ecology — more specifically, in microbial ecology, which is the study of
microorganisms and their relationships.
“It’s a good recognition for our work here,” Zhou said. “We
(place) more focus on microbial ecology. Generally, you see more focus on
macroecology, like plants and animals. They started recently a few years (ago)
to put more effort in (microbial ecology), so we are more involved in the
society.”
Over the past 40 years, Zhou has also received other awards for
his work, such as the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which he was awarded in 2014
from the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. According to an OU press
release, this is the highest scientific award given out by the department.
“We have pioneered in several areas in microbial ecology,” Zhou
said. “We developed ecology theory to understand microbial ecosystems, like
relationships between diversity and functions in microbial systems. Secondly,
we did work on climate change. ... We are one of the few groups in the world to
study how microbial communities respond to climate change.”
Postdoctoral researcher Lauren Hale has been working with Zhou
for about three years, mostly related to microbial functioning — how
microorganisms function to perform processes that allow for life on Earth.
According to Hale, Zhou’s biggest specific contribution to the field is
GeoChip, which is a “functional gene micro-ray” that allows for quick analysis
of what microbial genes are in different soils.
“That’s a really beneficial tool that completely sped up the
ability to process and understand that type of information,” Hale said. “Beyond
that, he’s really promoted the use of that tool and the implications of the
data we’ve gotten using those tools on many different projects.”
Recently, GeoChip has also led to discoveries in how microbial
functions are affected by climate change. Hale is working on a project under
Zhou that looks at microbial organisms in Alaska — specifically, whether they
will release previously inaccessible frozen carbon into the atmosphere as a
result of increasing temperatures.
“We are (using) a lot of our tools in this group to look at the
microbial organisms in these environments and how they’re shifting in changing
climate conditions,” Hale said. “That’s seen some really high-impact journals.”
Because of Zhou’s prominence in his field, Zhou yearly has about
25 to 30 visiting researchers, sponsored by the China Scholarship Council, to
study and do research under him, Rice said.
Before coming to OU, Zhou got his initial experience in ecology
in China. He received his bachelor’s degree in plant pathology and entomology
in 1981 at Hunan Agricultural University in Changsha, China. He then went on to
earn his master’s in mathematical ecology there as well in 1984. In 1988, he
was a doctoral candidate in systems ecology at the Research Center for
Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
In 1990, he moved to the U.S., obtaining a doctoral degree in
molecular biology in 1993 at Washington State University. Zhou also obtained
two postdoctoral degrees in microbial ecology at Michigan State and at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, in 1995 and 1997, respectively.
After all of this education, Zhou and his team from Oak Ridge
were brought to OU in 2005.
“Twelve years ago, OU had a big initiative called the Life Sciences
Initiative,” Zhou said. “The staff at the university had a lot of funding to
try and hire the best person in the field. I was the first person (they hired)
in the field. They moved the entire group (from Oak Ridge) here. Then we
established the Institute for Environmental Genomics ... OU gave me like $3
million to set up.”
OU vice president for research Kelvin Droegemeier was part of
the process that helped bring Zhou to OU.
“We ... transplanted the entire group of people here because he
is so excellent in environmental genomics,” Droegemeier said. “That was an
area we wanted to grow and expand in the life sciences arena. He’s a really
outstanding scholar and researcher in that arena, that’s essentially why we
brought him here.”
With all of his work, degrees, students and awards over the past
40 years, Zhou said he feels the impact he leaves will help to further advance
ecology as a field.
“We (work) every day on very unique technologies that nobody has
in the world,” Zhou said. “This technology also contributes to society and the
economy ... it’s not a big (contribution), but it does have some impact. We’ve
had more impact really on the sciences ... we’ve moved the field forward.”
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many parts of Kebbi State, raising hopes that Nigeria is on track to achieving
zero importation of the food staple, Olawale Ajimotokan reports
Kebbi State has become a model in
Nigeria’s strides to boost local rice production. Its irrigated plains are
patterned with paddy rice common in 15 out of the 21 local government areas.In
the North-western state, over 200,000 farmers cultivate rice thrice yearly. The
peak of the activity is the dry season when the product is grown twice in the
year.
Rice is produced in Augie,
Argungu, Birnin Kebbi, Kalgo, Bunza, Suru, Dendi, Koko/Bese, Jega, Ngaski,
Bagudo, Tsanga, Yauri, Wara and Myamama local government areas.
Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu
attributed Nigeria’s hyped exit from recession to the N54 billion loans
provided to the rice farmers nation-wide under the CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’
Programme (ABP).
Private millers are also cashing
in on the frenzy. As off-takers, they are setting up high capacity rice mills,
where the yields are processed and distributed into major cities across the
country.
The major mills include Dandi
Rice Mills in Kamba, Labana in Birnin Kebbi and Wacot in Argungu. There are
also Olam and Umza, while corporate billionaire, Aliko Dangote is also
constructing a mill in Jigawa, scheduled to open this year.
The General Manager Labana Rice,
Abdullahi Idis Zuru, said the company, which produces the famous Lake Rice, a
supply arrangement between Kebbi and Lagos States has two plants, with the
installed capacity to process 20 tonnes of rice per hour.Labana requires about
100,050 metric tonnes of paddy per year to meet its installed annual capacity.
The mill has about 1,050 staff
that run on three different shifts.
Zuru said under the ABP, 3,500
farmers were given N750 million. He added that last season, Labana allocated
N450 million to 2,050 farmers that are supplying it with rice.
“The introduction of the ABP has
assisted in getting raw materials for the factory. When it was first launched,
we recorded more than 300 per cent increase in the number of farmers that have
gone to the farm and in the quantity of paddy rice that was supplied. As a
result, most of the rice millers in the country have moved to Kebbi State,
opening offices and establishing ware houses, from where they buy from farmers
and stockpile. Kebbi has become the centre of paddy rice supply to all rice
millers in Nigeria. And it is not just rice, but high quality paddy rice, the
one you can’t get in any part of the country,” Zuru said.
The rice mill in Kamba is owned
by an indigenous entrepreneur. It has two production lines. The installed
capacity of the mill is 370 metric tonnes per day.“The benefits will be
enormous because one of the advantages of siting the company here is proximity
to the source of raw materials, which reduces cost of production. The rice
produced here is highly competitive to rice produced elsewhere in the country,”
said the District Head of Kamba, Mahmoud Fana.
The demand for unprocessed rice
has also led to the emergence of weekly rice markets where agents of the mills
scramble for every available grain on offer.
Many warehouses at the Kamba Rice
Market are rented by the companies while the humming of trucks, waiting to
distribute the commodity to other end users is a common activity.
The CBN introduced the ABP in
2015 to support rice farmers in many states using Kebbi as the pilot state.
Kebbi State Commissioner for
Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammed Garba Dandiga, declared at a FADAMA rice
plantation in Suru that the state has attained self-sufficiency in rice
production and is prepared to meet the country’s 50 per cent rice demand.
Dandiga made the declaration,
when Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, led reporters to
Kebbi State to witness its thriving rice industry.
He projected that an aggregate
2.5 million metric tonnes of rice will be produced for the 2018 dry and wet
seasons.
To make that possible, the Kebbi
State Government recently procured 100 tractors, 300 power tillers, 300
threshers and 200 reapers to support paddy rice growing.
According to Dandiga, the Suru
cluster farms, covering 50kms by 20kms, sold 1.5 million bags of rice about
(115,384mt) last year.
“Last year, we produced over one
million metric tonnes and made a turnover of N40 billion from rice. From the
look of things, we expect a bumper harvest this year. Normally, if the yield
increases, the tonnage also increases. We want to produce 2.5 million metric
tonnes. Our rice production is in fulfilment of our mantra that ‘whenever you
see rice, it must be from Kebbi’,” Dandiga said.
He said the state government had
assisted farmers to increase output by subsidising the prices of fertilisers
which are supplied to farmers at N5,200 as against the market cost of
N7,000-N8,000.
The Suru FADAMA Rice Farm is the
biggest rice market in the state, closely trailed by Oroba (Dendi), Samanegi,
Jega, Dogoraha, Dogosuho and Argungu.
At Jega where there are 15,000
farmers, a local farmer, Alhaji Ibrahim, was lauded for his outstanding feat in
using superior farming techniques to improve yields from the national average
of 2.5 metric tonnes to 10-11 metric tonnes per hectare.
Bagudu, who is the Chairman of
the Presidential Task Force on Rice and Wheat Production in Nigeria, noted that
the Kebbi rice approach has been replicated in other states as the country is
inching towards self-sufficiency in rice production.
He said though it is possible for
rice to be delivered at N10,000-N11,000 for a bag of 50kg rice there is a need
for deliberate investments in the sector as the country is competing with other
nations which are also investing.
“If you consider the
sacrifices made by countries that are dependent on oil- Algeria, Saudi Arabia,
Venezuela and Russia, they have not achieved the kind of low level growth that
Nigeria achieved largely through agriculture,” Bagudu said.
He also called for greater
lending to agriculture.
According to him, the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) indicated that in the first two months of
this year, fuel subsidy alone was about N180 billion, while the lending to
agriculture under two and half years to farmers across 31 states was only N54
billion.
“We need massive investments in
agriculture. Countries that have achieved food sufficiency spent decades
supporting agriculture in form of subsidies and providing different producer
support and that is what we should do,” Bagudu said.
In Kebbi, the farmers grapple
with a complexity of problems that are impacting on their ability to maximise
their production potential.
They irrigate the farms and the
water is derived through pressure pump powered by generators. High cost of fuel
is a major problem. The farmers buy at N300 and above the official price of
N150 because of activities of cross border smugglers.
Water is scarce to find during
the dry farming season as the farmers pay N120,000 per annum for water, compared
to farmers in Kano State, who are charged N20,000 only.
“Most of our farmers use
irrigation. In some states it is possible to use gravity where you don’t buy
fuel, you just use the water pump in order to produce rice. Because of this our
farmers are always buying petrol not at N145 assumed in the model or at most
N150. The farmers, in some places, buy fuel for as much as N300. Despite the
best effort of the federal government the challenges still remain. Kebbi is
contiguous to Benin and Niger Republic and as presented by the NNPC, the prices
of petroleum products in both countries are over N320, which is an incentive
for people to smuggle petrol,” Bagudu lamented.
He appealed to the federal
government to aid Kebbi with the provision of dams and channelisation as the
state lacks the means to embark on those projects.
In addition, farmers like Ibrahim
Salihu and Sumaila Mohammed in Kamba and Oroba said inputs like fertilisers are
not readily available.
Salihu is one of the 12 farmers
that work on a cluster paddy farm in the dry season. Last year, he managed to
harvest only five bags of rice but only with the low yields as he did not get
government support.
“I was not opportune to get
fertilisers and all sort of inputs distributed by government. It is only the
farmers that obtain the loan that will tell you if they are given the second
phase or not,” he said.
Sumaila Mohammed Kamba, who is
the Coordinator on Agricultural Project to Dendi Local Government, fingered
high cost of fertilisers and water as a limitation as they buy
diesel, dig the well and source for fuel to irrigate their farms.
On Sunday, the day to begin procurement of
wheat in the state, it was the paddy (basmati rice) that flooded the Faridkot
grain market.
After holding their stock of slender-grained
aromatic rice for more than four months, hoping to get a remunerative price,
basmati farmers in the area have started commanding a better price for their
produce now and are bringing their stock to the mandi to sell it to private
traders.
Against Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,100 per quintal price
of basmati (depending on moisture content) that the farmers fetched in October
2017, this aromatic variety of rice, PB 1121, is now getting farmers Rs 3,600
per quintal in Faridkot.
Tarsem Sachdeva, a commission agent in
Faridkot, said the arrival of wheat in the mandi would start in the next week
as the crop is yet to fully ripen in this region.Higher demand for basmati from
Iran and West Asia has further ignited the market of slender-grained rice.
Besides, the rising export is helping basmati
farmers in the region to command a better price for their produce.
Not only rising export, even the rise in
domestic consumption of the aromatic rice in the recent times is also a reason
behind better price, said a commission agent at Kotkapura.
The Faridkot mandi is showing high arrival of
basmati these days as compared to Kotkapura and the reason is that basmati is
fetching an extra Rs 100 to Rs 150 per quintal in Faridkot.
While traders and rice millers in Kotkpaura are
operating in a cartel, the Faridkot mandi is witnessing high competition among
buyers, said a commission agent at Kotkapura, preferring anonymity.
The price of basmati in Kotkapura was about Rs
3,510 per quintal on Sunday but it was sold at Rs 3600-Rs 3,610 per quintal in
Faridkot.
Due to this, many farmers of Kotkapura have
brought their crop to Faridkot.
Arrivals are at their peak in Faridkot these
days and the daily traded volume is around 5,000 to 7,000 bags (each of 50 kg)
of basmati, sources in the Market Committee, Faridkot, said. The quantity is
around 2,000 bags in Kotkapura.
Authors: Rainer Heufers, CIPS,
and Arianto A Patunru, ANU
Despite years of reasonable
economic growth, 19.4 million Indonesians are still unable to meet their daily dietary needs.
The 2017 Global Food Security Index ranks Indonesia 69th out of 113 countries,
and its overall score (which is independent of relative country rankings) has
barely increased over the past five years. The continuity and severity of this
problem indicate that Indonesia is facing chronic food insecurity.
The Indonesian government has
aimed to address this problem by increasing supply through increasing rice
production and developing higher-value crops, but these strategies have proven
ineffective. The government’s focus on national food supplies mimics an
outdated understanding of food security as meaning only the domestic
availability and the stability of food supplies.
Since the mid-1990s, the UN’s
Food and Agriculture Organization has added individuals’ access (the
affordability of food and individual food preferences) and utilisation (food
safety and nutritional benefit) to what constitutes real food security. These
two dimensions reflect the demand side of food security, and it is demand-side
measures that the Indonesian government has neglected in trying to guarantee
food security.
This conception of food security
suggests that an immediate solution to the problem is to increase competition
in domestic food markets. Competition leads to technological progress,
improvements in food quality and price reductions. Indonesian food markets
remain highly concentrated and there have been several investigations by the
national anti-monopoly authority of monopoly power in food markets.
Competition in domestic food
markets and increasing food availability of food supplies recommend opening
food markets up to cheaper imports. Indonesia’s political leadership largely
ignores the importance of imports for food security, incorrectly believing that
that food insecurity comes from dependence on food imports. A number of
Indonesian laws stipulate that imports are only permissible when domestic
supplies are ‘insufficient’.
No national government has ever
managed to plan production and consumption accurately for the whole country —
let alone a country with an enormous population like that of Indonesia. The
government’s insistence on controlling market supplies leads to serious
problems with the cost of food, its quality and availability.
For starters, in Indonesia
different ministries have different ideas about food statistics. The Ministry
of Agriculture disagrees with Statistics Indonesia on the total harvested area
of rice paddies. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries disagrees with
the Ministry of Industry on the necessary amount of salt imports. Several
agencies have different numbers for the annual per capita consumption of rice.
With these data discrepancies, central coordination of food supplies is
impossible.
When domestic prices soar and the
government finally allows food imports into the country, importers have to go
through a complex licensing process that involves several government
authorities. Delays caused by this process have resulted in losses of 303
billion Indonesian rupiah (US$22 million) for Indonesian taxpayers since 2010.
In addition, the government’s influence in the process opens opportunities
for rent-seeking behaviour and
corruption.
Indonesian prices for beef, rice
and several other commodities have soared above international market prices.
Retail food prices are often much higher in Indonesia than in neighbouring
and much richer countries. These price premiums ‘taxed’ Indonesian consumers
approximately US$98 billion between 2013 and 2015 — well above the cost even of
the EU Common Agricultural Policy levies on European consumers.
The tragedy is that, despite the
highly inflated food prices paid by Indonesian consumers, farmers do not
benefit from this self-sufficiency policy. Two-thirds of Indonesian farmers are
net consumers of food and therefore suffer from inflated food prices
themselves. Low farming revenues result in low household incomes — small-scale
farmers holding less than 0.25 hectares of land in Central Java earn just
500,000 rupiah (US$36.35) per person per month.
The self-sufficiency policy is
meant to protect farmers, but it is the middlemen, rice millers and wholesalers
who reap the largest benefits from it.
The food self-sufficiency policy
is supposed to shield Indonesia from extreme international food price
volatility. Global rice prices soared by more than 100 per cent in 2007–08,
whereas Indonesian rice prices remained relatively stable. But the stability
was costly and short-lived. Indonesia actually imported 1 million tons of rice
in 2007 — five times the annual average of the preceding three years. And
domestic prices jumped dramatically again in December 2009 when world prices
subsided. By the end of 2012, Indonesia’s rice price was 65 per cent above the
international price, which threw millions of people into poverty.
International rice price spikes
are only one of many risks
to Indonesian food security. Macroeconomic crises, insect and plant diseases,
and natural disasters all impact on the level of undernourishment in Indonesia,
and these can’t be fixed by domestic supply-side measures.
The government’s food policy may
temporarily protect Indonesians from food insecurity in times of international
food price spikes. But in doing so, it creates serious problems and contributes
to chronic food insecurity among Indonesia’s poor. Removing all trade barriers
(especially the import bans) might be politically difficult for
President Joko Widodo. But gradual reform is possible.
Only such reforms are going to
permit Indonesia to feed its people and achieve genuine food security.
Rainer Heufers is the Executive
Director of the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS).
Arianto A Patunru is a Fellow in
the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics and the Indonesia Project in the
Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
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The Rice Importers Association of
Liberia (RIAL) has issued a warning to a group of individuals claiming to be
journalists who are in possession of fabricated documents to blackmail its
members to extort money to desist from such an unprofessional behavior or they
will be exposed to the Press Union of Liberia (PUL).
The
blackmailers sets a date claiming to meet with President Weah
The Association said it is
regrettable that the group claiming to be journalists is involved in a campaign
of blackmail to extort money from members of the Rice Importers Association.
In a press release issued over
the weekend, RIAL said a group of journalists a few weeks ago started to send
messages comprising ‘fabricated documents’ through photoshop, making others
believe that it is an email message between rice importers.
“This was known recently when
some of them made it visible to members of the Association,” the release said.
“The blackmailers were made to understand that it was a fabricated scam
intended to extort money from the business community.”
The release added, “Those
individual journalists and others said they would do all to extort money from
the importers, even though they know it is makeup scam. The public will not
investigate that, they usually say.”
The RIAL said “In the most recent
example they fabricated an email communication about United Commodities, Inc.
(UCI) in which they could not even spell properly the name of the person they
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Arkansas
Foundation Seed Program helps feed the world
Mar 31, 2018
Arkansas Foundation Seed Program develops, maintains seed
varieties in rice, soybeans and wheat
State-of-the-art
facility constructed in 2016
STUTTGART — Arkansas continues to lay claim as the nation’s rice
production leader, but agricultural researchers with the University of Arkansas
System Division of are always working to improve the crop.
TOP SEED -- The University of Arkansas System Division
of Agriculture's Foundation Seed Program, operated from this facility on the
Rice Research and Extension Center near Stuttgart, assures pure, high quality
foundation seed is available to seed growers and dealers for rice, soybean and
wheat.
Division of Agriculture researchers recently developed a new
variety of aromatic rice. It’s just one example of Arkansas striving to improve
agriculture here, and in doing so, help feed the world.
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Rice Research and Extension Center near Stuttgart, plays a key role in
facilitating rice varietal development, making the enterprise more efficient
and attractive to farmers.
“Our research and
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not only here but around the world,” said program director Glenn Bathke.
“We view ourselves as a service organization. We provide seed at
a low cost to seed dealers and make seed of new varieties available to be sure
there is profit left for the farmers,” Bathke said.
Foundation seed is the purest seed stock produced from breeder
seed under the Division of Agriculture’s control. Foundation seed is purchased
by seed growers and used to produce certified seed that is sold for crop
production.
The Foundation Seed facility, which opened in 2016, continues
cooperative efforts between the state Rice Research and Promotion Board and the
Division of Agriculture. These efforts have led to the development of new
technologies related to fertility, pest control, irrigation, and weed control,
in addition to the development of new rice varieties.
Just last fall, a new long-grain aromatic rice variety called
Aroma 17 was made available to the state’s rice growers after development at
the Rice Research and Extension Center.
“It has much more of an aroma to it than conventional long grain
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worth developing, he and his staff work to produce a high volume of the seed
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“The growers really love them,” he said. “Medium grain varieties
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The Foundation Seed Program’s work has played a significant role
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Make students’ stay with farmers mandatory:
Venkaiah
SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD,MARCH 31, 2018
23:03 IST
UPDATED: APRIL
01, 2018 07:41 IST
Vice-President
interacts with researchers of Indian Institute of Rice Research
Vice-President
M. Venkaiah Naidu suggested that agriculture students’ stay with farmers be
made mandatory.In an interaction with the researchers of Indian Institute of
Rice Research here on Saturday, he asked students as well as scientists to
spend considerable time with farmers to come up with practical solutions to
their problems.
He said the
most critical need was to establish a dialogue with farmers and provide them
with knowledge and material resources to increase their income. There was a
need to educate farmers not just on various possibilities of diversifying the
crop, but give them facilities for taking up allied activities like dairy,
fisheries and poultry. Awareness on various cropping patterns based on soil
profile and water availability in different agro-climatic zones was an
important aspect in improving agriculture productivity.
“It would be
beneficial if there is a two-way dialogue between agriculture scientists and
farmers so that it helps the former in studying their innovative practices
apart from understanding their problems,” he said.
A release said
Mr. Naidu posed several questions to scientists and elicited their responses on
how their research translated to empowering farmers.
He stressed on
the need for increasing both productivity and production as the country could
not depend on “imported food security” for long.
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Vice President of India, Venkaiah
Naidu was interacting with the agricultural researchers on 'Doubling Farm
Income by 2022 in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana' at ICAR - Indian Institute of
Rice Research, in Hyderabad today
The Vice President of India, M.
Venkaiah Naidu called upon agriculture scientists to focus on making
agriculture viable, profitable and sustainable, besides ensuring home-grown
food security to meet the needs of a burgeoning population. He was interacting
with the agricultural researchers on 'Doubling Farm Income by 2022 in Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana' at ICAR - Indian Institute of Rice Research, in
Hyderabad today.
The Vice President posed several
questions to the scientists and elicited their responses on how their research
was translating to empower the farmers. Asking them to come out with innovative
and out-of-box solutions to meet the challenges faced by farmers, the Vice
President said, “A happy farmer makes a happy country”.
“We know the problems. What are the
solutions, what are the new ideas…what is the way forward to take technology to
the farmers” he asked. He pointed out that lack of quality seeds is one of the
problems faced by farmers.
Similarly, another issue that
needed attention was rising input costs. Crop diversification and promoting
allied farming activities like backyard poultry were equally important to
increase farmers’ income. He also wanted the scientists to make e-NAM
(e-National Agriculture Market) more popular with the farming community.
Stressing the need for home-grown
food security, he said both productivity and production have to be increased as
the country cannot depend on “imported food security”. He said the Krishi
Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) should become the hubs of activity for farmers.
Asking the scientists and
researchers to spend “considerable time” with farmers to come out with
practical solutions, he suggested that staying with farmers should be made
mandatory for students pursuing agricultural courses.
Referring to agricultural credit,
Naidu emphasised the need for giving timely and affordable credit to the
farmers at reasonable interest.
Observing that agriculture sector
needs a great deal of attention because a majority of Indians still rely on
agriculture and allied occupations in the rural areas for their livelihood, he
said. “We have a situation today where despite phenomenal increase in food
production, farmers are not able to get adequate returns from their investment.
Agriculture remains an unattractive vocation to many families. We must change
this situation”.
Asking agricultural scientists and
managers come up with solutions that will impact the farmers’ lives positively
and increase their incomes, the Vice-President said, “We should focus on
production and productivity to have adequate home grown food security. At the
same time it is not merely increasing the production and per acre productivity
alone which is important. It is also important for us to recognise that
along with technology transfer and ‘intensification’ of agriculture, there must
be strategic ‘diversification’ and attention to the key linkages in the
eco-system. The farmers must be supported through market information,
warehousing and cold storage facilities as well as the credit, marketing and
insurance facilities”.
He said the most critical need is
to establish a dialogue with farmers and provide them with knowledge and
material resources to increase their incomes.
Fiji Rice Limited – formerly known as Rewa Rice Fiji – will
resume with the supply of rice to farmers of the Fiji Sugar Corporation after
two decades.
This was confirmed by the company’s mill manager Ashrit Pratap.
“We had discussions with South Pacific Fertilisers who conveyed
the idea of our company supplying to FSC,” Mr Pratap said.
“This season we are supplying to Vanua Levu farmers and hope to
supply whole of Fiji in coming years.
“FSC wants 196.9 tonnes for March/April supply and same amount
later in the year and will start with the delivery soon,” he said.
He said the company used to supply imported rice to FSC farmers
in the past but stopped because the production of local rice dropped and the
mill shifted to Dreketi from Nausori.
When questioned whether the company was in a position to meet
FSC’s demand, Mr Pratap said it all depended on the production.
“We are not able to meet the entire demand of FSC but with the
focus on self sufficiency in terms of rice, we hope to achieve this in few
years time,” he said.”
Payments will be made through a recovery basis, expected to be
made in May and July.
This partnership will bring benefit to FSC as we will be
supplying at cheaper price compared to last year. Farmers will save around 16
cents per kilogram.”
Mr Pratap said it was a good time for farmers to venture into
rice farming.
“With Government’s subsidies on machinery, weedicide and
fertilisers, I urge all farmers to choose rice farming,” Mr Pratap added.
Adopt these rice farming
systems for bigger harvest
A farmer harvests rice at Doho. Photo by
Lominda Afedraru
In Summary
·Figures
from the Ministry of Agriculture indicate total production of milled rice by
2014 to be 154, 050 metric tonnes and total consumption rate at 215,707 metric
tonnes.
·The
imported rate is 132,316 metric tonnes valued at $45.4 million about (Shs163.8
billon) and the export rate was at 70,659 metric tonnes.
By Lominda Afedraru
In Uganda, rice growing is considered as one of
the strategic agricultural enterprises with the potential to contribute to
increasing rural incomes and livelihoods and improving food and nutrition
security.
However current rice yields are still low a situation partly attributed to the
fact that farmers hardly use best agronomy practice to realise good harvest.
But with massive sensitisation work going on
and use of improved seed which has been released by breeders is changing the
situation with more farmers engaged in growing the crop as a commercial
venture.
Speaking to Simon Elibu, a scientist majoring in rice breeding at the National
Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI); this is what he advises farmers to
do as they go about with daily routine work of growing rice.
Land preparation
Alibu explained that before rice can be planted, the soil should be in the best
physical condition for crop growth and the soil surface is well leveled.
Farmers are expected to till land in time about one month before the rains
start. Ploughing and harrowing is done twice before planting seeds.
Traditional method of tilling using hoe and ox plough or modern method of using
tractors particularly for large scale farmers owning huge acres of land is
recommendable.
Upland rice growing practices
Alibu narrates that farmers growing upland rice are expected to plant rice seed
in rows with spacing of 1ft by 1ft.
Planting method
There are three methods of direct seed planting which include broadcast method
where farmers sow seed using hand.
The other method is the metallic drilling method where a line is drilled using
metallic fork measuring 30cm by 15cm.
Seed is dropped into the drilled lines and
covered and a farmer uses one kilogrammes of seed in a 200 square mile land.
The third method is the dibbling or spot planting mainly practiced along
mountain slopes where ploughing is difficult.
Farmers use a metallic hook to make a hole comprising 30cm by 12.5 cm and in
each hole seven seeds are dropped and covered with soil.
Weeding
It takes a week for the seeds to germinate and after three weeks from
germination farmers are advised to weed their gardens or farm.
This is the time to apply the first round of fertilizer namely UREA and
Diammonium phosphate (DAP) measuring 50 kilogrammes per hectare.
It is better to apply the fertilisers before
weeding to allow the weeding process cause it to infiltrate to the soil.
The second fertiliser is applied during the second time of weeding is UREA
measuring 50 kilogrammes of per hectare.
The second weeding is done after 50 – 60 days from planting time. Rice takes
about 70 days to flower depending on the variety and farmers are expected to
start harvesting 30 days from the date of flowering.
Rice varieties
Most farmers in the country are growing Nerica rice varieties namely Nerica 1,
4 and 10 which is considered as old generation of rice.
Nerica 4 matures between 110 – 120 days with yield capacity of 4-5 tons per
hectare and it is tolerant to drought.
Nerica 2 and 5 are high yielding and it is
mostly adopted and grown by farmers in Northern Uganda.
The seed does not break easily meaning there is less loss during processing. A
farmer milling 100 kilogramme of harvested seed is able to process 70
kilogrammes.
Nerica 1 matures between 105-115 days and the yield is between three to four
tonnes per hectare and it is aromatic while Nerica 10 matures in a short period
of 100 -105 days with yield rate of three to four tonnes per hectare.
Nerica 6 is tolerant against Yellow Mortal
Virus (YMV) and it matures in 130 – 140 days with yield potential of three to
five tonnes per hectare.
Wita 9 variety is high yielding and farmers can harvest five to six tonnes per
hectare with maturity period of 140 - 160 days. It is resistant to YMV
Alibu and his breeding team at Namulonge in 2013 released upland varieties
namely Namche1, 2, 3, and 4.
Namche 1 is widely adopted because it is early maturing taking 100 days to
harvesting.
The agronomy
Farmers engaged in growing lowland rice are expected to prepare nursery beds
for raising seedlings. A farmer is expected to heap soil of about one metre
wide and sow seed in holes, cover the beds with grass and keep watering for
germination to take place.
Farmers must have a good source of water and drainage which will channel water
into the field. Seedlings are transplanted after raising them for three
weeks.
At the nursery preparation organic manure and fertiliser should be added. The
bed should be prepared in 30cm by 60cm trays. Construction of water drainage
channels is essential.
The farm for low land rice must be flat to enable even flow of water. The
fertiliser is applied on the same day of transplanting.
Usually weeds are not a problem in low land
rice growing because the water tends to kill the weeds.
Farmers are therefore expected to weed once and that is 50 days from date of
planting and the second fertiliser application should be done after 80 days
from date of planting.
Lowland rice takes about 140 to 150 days to mature and farmers grow it in one
season.
The recommended varieties released by scientists from NaCRRI include Wita9,
Komboka, Agoro and Okile.
Other traditional varieties are K85 and K98 commonly known as Kaiso and Super
rice.
Pests and diseases
Farmers face challenge of pests such as stalked eyed flies which feed on the
plant tissue causing destruction of stems, string bug and rice bug which suck
the juicy panicles thereby staining the grain, termites and snails cut the
stems and birds which eat the grains. Farmers may eradicate them by spraying
recommended fungicide and human labour for the birds.
The major diseases are rice blast which produces spots on the leaves, rice
yellow mortal which makes the leaves turn brown, brown spot, false smut which
affect the grain and bacterial blight.
Farmers can get rid of snails by draining water from the farm and in any case
the snails eat up rice seedlings which have grown for six weeks and thereafter
the plants are safe.
Farmers who are broadcasting chemical spray are advised to restrict the flow to
avoid environmental damage to other earth species.
Harvesting
Farmers are advised to harvest their rice when 80 per cent of the farm is
looking brown. Any slight delay will enable the seeds to shutter and less rice
will be harvested, therefore timely harvesting is recommended. It is advisable
to thresh using small machines to avoid breakages. Drying should be done in
three to four days on raised racks.
Statistics
Figures from the Ministry of Agriculture indicate total production of milled
rice by 2014 to be 154, 050 metric tonnes and total consumption rate at 215,707
metric tonnes.
The imported rate is 132,316 metric tonnes valued
at $45.4 million about (Shs163.8 billon) and the export rate was at 70,659
metric tonnes
Vice President M
Venkaiah Naidu today said
that the agriculture sector
needs a great deal of attention as he called upon farm scientists to focus on
makingagriculture viable,
profitable and sustainable.
"I have always held that
the agriculture sector
needs a great deal of attention because a majority of Indians still rely
on agriculture and
allied occupations in the rural areas for their livelihood," Naidu said.
The Vice President said
there is a situation today where despite phenomenal increase in food production,farmers
are not able to get adequate returns from their investment.
"Agriculture remains
an unattractive vocation to many families. We must change this situation,"
an official release quoted him as saying.
He urged the scientists to come out
with innovative and out-of-box solutions to
meet the challenges faced by farmers.
He pointed out that lack of quality
seeds was one of the problems faced by farmers. Another issue that needed
attention was rising input costs. Crop diversification and promoting allied
farming activities like backyard poultry were equally important to increase
farmers' incomes, Naidu said.
The Vice President also
wanted the scientists to make e-NAM more popular with the farming community.
Stressing the need for home-grown
food security, he said both productivity and production have to be increased as
the country cannot depend on 'imported food security'. He wanted Krishi Vigyan
Kendras to become hubs of activity for farmers.
Asking scientists and researchers
to spend 'considerable time' with farmers to come out with practical
solutions, Naidu suggested
that staying with farmers be made mandatory for students pursuing agricultural
courses.
Naidu also said it
would also be possibly beneficial if there was a two way dialogue between agriculture scientists
and farmers so that the researchers not only understood farmers problems, but
also study any innovative practises which the farmers might have already taken up.
He said in addition to knowledge
and awareness, it was also important for timely adequate credit to be made
available to all farmers. As the vagaries of nature impact the agricultural
sector, they also needed to be given adequate financial protection through crop
insurance, Naidu said.
Asking agricultural scientists and
managers to come up with solutions that will impact farmers' lives positively
and increase their incomes,he said focus should be on production and
productivity to have adequate home grown food security.
At the same time it was not merely
increasing production and per acre productivity alone which is important. Along
with technology transfer and
intensification of agriculture, there must be strategic diversification' and
attention to the key linkages in the eco-system, he said.
Farmers must be supported through
market information, warehousing and cold storage facilities as well as the
credit, marketing and insurance facilities," he said.
"I am happy that each one of you
is engaged in doing your best in your domain. I would urge each of you to think
further on possible solutions to
these challenges and as agricultural scientists and managers, come up with
solutions that will impact farmers' lives positively and increase their
incomes," he said.
(This story has not been edited by
Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
GI tag for jardalu mango, katarni rice and
betel leaf
TNN | Updated: Apr 1, 2018, 11:52 IST
PATNA: Jardalu mango, katarni rice and Magahi paan
(betel leaf) of Bihar have
been officially recognized in the Geographical Indication (GI) registry on
March 28.
“Bhagalpur’s jardalu mango and katarni rice,
along with Magahi paan (betel leaf) cultivated mainly in Nawada,
Aurangabad and Gayadistricts
of Magadh region, have received international recognition and provided with
GI tags. The farmers and vice-chancellor and scientists of Bihar Agriculture University (BAU) deserve the credit for the GI tags,” state
agriculture minister Prem Kumar said in a statement.
An official from the agriculture department said
jardalu mango, that is light yellow in colour, is known for its sweet
fragrance. “Katarni rice is known for its long thin grain and fragrance while
Magahi paan is relished for its sweetness and tender textured leaf. Farmers in
Nawada still cultivate Magahi paan using traditional methods,” the official
said.
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It is good that Jardalu mango,
katarni rice and Magahi paan (betel leaf) of Bihar have been officially
recognized in the Geographical Indication (GI) registry on March 28.Mithilesh Kumar
The GI tag has been given to Bhagalpur’s Jardalu
Aam Utpadak Sangh in Sultanganj block of the district. Sweet and tender Magahi
paan leaf has been recognized under the Magahi Paan Utpadak Kalyan Samiti of Deori village in Nawada district while
katarni rice received the GI tag under Bhagalpur Katarni Dhan Utpadak Sangh of
Jagdishpur village.
The coveted tag, awarded by the GI registry in
Chennai, indicates that the product possesses certain qualities and is made
according to traditional methods or enjoys a certain reputation, due to its
geographical origin. Products such as Kashmiri pashmina, Darjeeling tea and
Kancheepuram silk have been awarded GI tags.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/gi-tag-for-jardalu-mango-katarni-rice-betel-leaf/articleshow/63561090.cmshttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/gi-tag-for-jardalu-mango-katarni-rice-betel-leaf/articleshow/63561090.cms
Through genetic manipulation, Kyoto University
researchers have cracked the code of cherry trees and found a way to make them
bloom in both spring and fall. | GETTY IMAGES
To the delight of sakura (cherry blossom) lovers
everywhere, botanists at Kyoto University have discovered a way to make cherry
trees flower more than once a year and plans are already afoot to introduce
pink to the autumnal palette.
By manipulating the sakura’s genetic markers, researchers say
they have essentially tricked Mother Nature into reproducing spring’s bounty
again in the fall.
Like so many great scientific discoveries, the breakthrough was
a bit of a fluke.
Aiming to boost Japan’s rice production, the university
researchers had been hard at work studying the genome of a fast-growing strain
of Vietnamese rice that can be harvested up to four times a year.
“We’ve not yet been able to crack that nut,” head researcher
Kohei Yoshimoto said. “Yes, we’ve produced a similar strain, which we’ve named
Chumpa, that can be harvested more than once, but it really didn’t pass the
team’s taste tests.”
On a lark, the researchers decided to turn their attention to
Japan’s most cherished tree.
“Call it self-serving, but our
lab’s hanami (cherry blossom
viewing) parties are legendary,” Yoshimoto said with a wink. “We thought it was
a shame that we can only let our hair down once year.”
Though still in its initial
stages, the promise of the project — code-named Sakura AF (short for aki (autumn) flower) — has
excited both the tourism industry and Japan Inc.’s retail sector.
“This really is too good to be true,” said JTB spokesperson Mei
Naito. “We’ve seen a steady increase in tourists during the cherry
blossom-viewing season, so doubling that with more hanami tourism is an
auspicious accomplishment. We couldn’t be happier.”
Beverage and confectionery makers are especially keen to release
new lines of aki sakura drinks and sweets to complement the festivities.
Although the scale and location of the genetically modified
trees has yet to be decided, Yoshimoto said there have been talks of starting
with the Tohoku region to help revitalize the area’s flagging tourism numbers.
The idea, however, has not been welcomed by everyone.
Already a group has been formed to oppose the implementation of
the project. Named Hanami no Dentou wo Zettai ni Mamoru Kai (the People Who
Will do Anything to Protect the Tradition of Hanami), the group has threatened
to cut down the biannual sakura trees if the plan ever comes to fruition.
“These are mutant species, a blight on the soul of Japan,” said
group leader Kenji Yamato. “The thought of these symbols of ephemeral beauty
being programmed to pop open at will makes my blood boil. It’s a perversion of
this nation’s unique four seasons. Next thing you know, they’ll be making them
bloom rainbows.”
A Happy Farmer
makes a Happy Country:Vice President Venkaiah Naidu
Stressing the need for home-grown
food security, he said both productivity and production have to be increased as
the country cannot depend on “imported food security”. He said the Krishi
Vigyan Kendras should become the hubs of activity for farmers.
Government Press Release31 Mar 2018, 09:23 PMViews : 44
Farm Scientists should make Agriculture viable, profitable and
sustainable. (representative image)
The Vice President of India, Shri
M. Venkaiah Naidu called upon Farm Scientists to focus on making agriculture
viable, profitable and sustainable, besides ensuring home-grown food security
to meet the needs of a burgeoning population. He was interacting with the
Agricultural Researchers on 'Doubling Farm Income by 2022 in Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana' at ICAR - Indian Institute of Rice Research, in Hyderabad today.
The Vice President posed several
questions to the scientists and elicited their responses on how their research
was translating to empower the farmers. Asking them to come out with innovative
and out-of-box solutions to meet the challenges faced by farmers, the Vice
President said “A happy farmer makes a happy country”.
“We know the problems. What are
the solutions, what are the new ideas…what is the way forward to take
technology to the farmers” he asked. He pointed out that lack of quality seeds
is one of the problems faced by farmers.
Similarly, another issue that
needed attention was rising input costs. Crop diversification and promoting
allied farming activities like backyard poultry were equally important to
increase farmers’ income. He also wanted the scientists to make e-NAM more
popular with the farming community.
Stressing the need for home-grown
food security, he said both productivity and production have to be increased as
the country cannot depend on “imported food security”. He said the Krishi
Vigyan Kendras should become the hubs of activity for farmers.
Asking the scientists and
researchers to spend “considerable time” with farmers to come out with
practical solutions, he suggested that staying with farmers should be made
mandatory for students pursuing agricultural courses.
Referring to agricultural credit,
Shri Naidu emphasized the need for giving timely and affordable credit to the
farmers at reasonable interest.
Observing that agriculture sector
needs a great deal of attention because a majority of Indians still rely on
agriculture and allied occupations in the rural areas for their livelihood, he
said “We have a situation today where despite phenomenal increase in food
production, farmers are not able to get adequate returns from their investment.
Agriculture remains an unattractive vocation to many families. We must change
this situation”.
Asking agricultural scientists
and managers come up with solutions that will impact the farmers’ lives
positively and increase their incomes, the Vice-President said “We should focus
on production and productivity to have adequate home grown food security. At
the same time it is not merely increasing the production and per acre
productivity alone which is important. It is also important for us to recognise
that along with technology transfer and ‘intensification’ of agriculture, there
must be strategic ‘diversification’ and attention to the key linkages in the
eco-system. The farmers must be supported through market information, ware
housing and cold storage facilities as well as the credit, marketing and
insurance facilities”.
He said the most critical need is
to establish a dialogue with farmers and provide them with knowledge and
material resources to increase their incomes.
Following is the text of Vice President's address:
“I am happy to participate in
today’s interaction with all of you and learn a little more about the excellent
work being done by each of your institutions. Because of a number of
initiatives taken by our scientists like you and the farming community, India’s
food production has increased from a mere 50 million tonnes in 1950 to 275
million tonnes in 2017. As you have just now mentioned, India is the leading
exporter of rice and contributes nearly 10% to our GDP. This spectacular achievement
in the agriculture sector is in a large measure due to technology led
improvements in agricultural productivity, investments in R&D and allied
sectors and effective transfer of this technology to farmers over the last 7
decades.
I thought I should deepen
my understanding and be aware of the state of the art and the current
research being conducted by each one of you and see how the research findings
are proving to be beneficial to the farmers.
Thank you for your detailed
briefing on your activities.
I have always held that
agriculture sector needs a great deal of attention because a majority of
Indians still rely on agriculture and allied occupations in the rural areas for
their livelihood.
We have a situation today where
despite phenomenal increase in food production, farmers are not able to get
adequate returns from their investment. Agriculture remains an unattractive
vocation to many families. We must change this situation.
I am happy that each one of you
is engaged in doing your best in your domain. I would urge each of you to think
further on possible solutions to these challenge and as agricultural scientists
and managers come up with solutions that will impact the farmers lives
positively and increase their incomes.
We need to focus on increasing
productivity and improve the rural, agro-based economy, especially the incomes
of farmers.
We should focus on production and
productivity to have adequate home grown food security. At the same time it is
not merely increasing the production and per acre productivity alone which is
important. It is also important for us to recognise that along with
technology transfer and ‘intensification’ of agriculture, there must be
strategic ‘diversification’ and attention to the key linkages in the
eco-system. The farmers must be supported through market information, ware
housing and cold storage facilities as well as the credit, marketing and
insurance facilities.
I think that the most critical
need is to establish a dialogue with farmers and provide them with knowledge
and material resources to increase their incomes. I notice that you have been
engaging in this dialogue and providing the required support services as well.
There is a need for educating the
farmers on various possibilities to diversify not only in terms of alternative
cropping patterns but also to give them facilities for taking up allied activities
like dairy, fisheries, poultry and other allied occupations. Awareness about
various cropping patterns based on soil profile and water availability in
different agro-climatic zones is an important element in improving agriculture
productivity.
I also feel that there is immense
potential for value addition through agro based industries and food processing
industries. Encouraging farmers to venture into these new areas of agro-based
industries can be successful only if focus upon an important element. That
element is effective transfer of knowledge and technology, transferring the
‘know-how’ and the ‘do-how’ from the lab to the land.
We should examine as to what
extent we have been successful in conveying the vast knowledge base we have in
our research institutions to the farmers. We should continue to innovate and
search for more effective ways of transferring this knowledge to the farming
community.
It would also be possibly
beneficial if there is a two way dialogue between agriculture scientists and
farmers so that the researchers not only understand the farmers’ problems but
also study any innovative practices which the farmers might have already taken
up.
Of course in addition to
knowledge and awareness, it is also important that timely adequate credit is
available to all the farmers.
In addition, with the vagaries of
nature impacting the agricultural sector, the farmers need to be given adequate
financial protection through crop insurance.
I am aware that government has
been taking up these issues very seriously and a number of measures have been
taken up.
I am happy that all of you are
actively engaged in not only advancing the frontiers of knowledge and have
taken up very relevant research but are also taking up the challenge of
communicating your research findings to the farming community.
I wish you all the best in your
endeavours.
Jai Hind!"
(This is a reproduced press release from Government of India as
it is. Devdiscourse bears no responsibility towards grammatical or factual
errors that may have been presented in the report.)
New
Delhi, Mar 31 () Rice basmati prices edged up by Rs 100 per quintal at the
wholesale grains market today on pick up in demand against fall in supplies.
A few bold grains also settled higher on increased offtake by
consuming industries.
Traders said besides uptick in demand, tight stocks position on
fall in arrivals from growing regions mainly pushed up rice basmati prices.
In the national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa-1121
variety moved up by Rs 100 each to Rs 7,700-7,800 and Rs 6,800-6,900 per quintal
respectively.
Non-basmati rice sela also edged up to Rs 3000-3100 from
previous level of Rs 2,900-3,100 per quintal.
Other bold grains like jowar yellow rose by Rs 50 to Rs
1,500-1,550 per quintal. Maize and barley also rose by Rs 40 and Rs 10 to Rs
1,500-1,505 and Rs 1,490-1,500 per quintal respectively.
Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):
The talks between
representatives of truck unions and officials of the food and civil supplies
department could not make any headway even as rice millers came forward to join
the tendering process in several areas of the state. (HT File/Representative image
)
The stalemate between truckers and
the Punjab government over the cap imposed on rates for wheat transportation
continued on Saturday. The talks between representatives
of truck unions and officials of the food and civil supplies department could
not make any headway even as rice millers came forward to join the tendering
process in several areas of the state. They submitted bids in 15 of the 58
clusters in Sunam, Dirba and Sangrur, which are known stronghold of truck
unions, amid heavy security, said a senior official privy to information
collated by the department. Of 395 clusters, bids have been
received in 150, including 100 where contracts have been finalised, in the
above 8-km category in which large trucks are used to carry foodgrains. In
short distance category (within eight kilometres), labour and cartage contracts
have been finalised for 165 of the 314 clusters. With truck unions boycotting the
tendering process, the response from rice millers and other splinter groups has
provided much-needed relief to state authorities. They had allowed rice millers
to participate in the tendering process for transportation of wheat from grain
markets to storage godowns. Special helpline, security for
bidders The government, which has refused
to give in to the truck operators agitating against its decision to cap the
rates, has deployed 1,000 police personnel to provide security to bidders and
set up a special ‘181’ toll free helpline, said the officer requesting
anonymity. The state top brass had on Friday considered the possibility
invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to ensure smooth
procurement and transportation of wheat in the state in case the truck
operators do not fall in line or create trouble. Punjab Truck Operators’ Union
president Happy Sandhu, who first held a meeting of working committee of all
unions and then met the state officials in Patiala, said there was no headway
as the government refused to increase the rate and the truck operators were not
willing to carry foodgrains at the rate being offered. “We suggested Rs 2,200 a day plus
diesel from the department for carrying nine tonnes of wheat for a distance of
nine kms as against Rs 1,650 being offered. But, they said the centre does not
give that much,” he said. Unions meet on April 3 The union has asked all its
district chiefs to meet the operaters in their respective areas to take their
view and will hold another meeting at Sahnewal on April 3 to decide its future
strategy. The state transporters have been charging high rates for carrying
foodgrains in the past 8 to 10 years, bleeding the state exchequer. However,
the fund-crunched government decided this time to align the rates with the
reimbursement it gets from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for
transporation of wheat and paddy procured in the state.
