Climate of
Change: Six-part multimedia special on global warming in Asia and around the
world
A mostly dead patch of coral seen in one of the outer
reefs on the outskirts of Port Douglas in Queensland, on May 8, 2018. ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
PUBLISHED
OCT 14, 2018, 10:00 AM SGT
Climate change is here and now.
It is killing coral reefs, devouring crops, drying up water supplies, spreading
disease and wreaking havoc on the weather.
On the heels of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) report and Sunday's Insight, The
Sunday Times is running a series of six multimedia packages each week on global
warming around the world, with a special focus on Asia.
Here is a look at what to expect
from next week:
1. A
REEF IN PERIL
Coral reefs are among the most
diverse, complex and vital ecosystems on the planet, and they’re in big
trouble, according to the first package in the series. Take the Great Barrier
Reef. It is struggling to cope with seas that are getting warmer and more
acidic.
Its plight is cause for everyone
to sit up and take notice, as it is the world’s largest living structure - and
hence, its sensitivity to environmental changes is a warning of how other
creatures and habitats are being damaged.
Some scientists say that if we
are not already in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, it is coming. But
declines can be reversed, as research into coral bleaching – when corals evict
the algae that help them survive – shows.
2. WHEN
TAPS RUN DRY
Countries around the world are
bracing themselves for water shortages, as the rise in freak weather conditions
leads to more droughts. Nowhere is this more apparent than in South Africa’s
Cape Town, where citizens made drastic changes to their lifestyle and water
usage habits to push back “Day Zero”, when the city “will have to turn off all
taps”.
The water crisis is a wake-up
call for all, though. Over in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, for
instance, efforts are being made to transform it from a city dependent on
others for its water into a supply hub for surrounding districts.
This involves laying water and
sewage networks and building sewage treatment plants to tackle pollution of water
sources such as the city’s lakes.
3. CLIMATE
REFUGEES
Every night, Indonesian housewife
Karnah is terrified she will be swept out to sea. Many of her neighbours fled
when rising seas engulfed their homes and fish ponds in Pantai Bahagia village
just outside Jakarta.
Over in the Thingangyi village on
the Myanmar coast, fisherman Thet Naing Tun’s bamboo home has already been
moved inland twice – once when the sand under it disappeared into the sea, and
the second time when the storms got so strong they threatened to destroy the
hut.
Countries are facing increased
risks as the sea-level rise accelerates. And nowhere is the threat more evident
than South-east Asia, where densely populated and low-lying coastal plains make
millions vulnerable to storm surges, coastal erosion and flooding.
4. BREAKING
RICE BOWLS
Asia is the world’s rice bowl,
but increasingly unpredictable weather is choking a once-bountiful harvest.
With the staple that feeds more than half the world under threat, farmers are
forced to adapt.
Farmer Bernado Pelayo, for one,
who grows rice in the village of Maragondon in the Philippines, is
experimenting with seven varieties of rice, as well as other produce like
cassava, banana and coconut, in the hope he won’t go hungry if one crop fails.
Meanwhile, scientists have
ambitious plans to produce super rice. At the International Rice Research
Institute in Laguna, Philippines, experiments on rice varieties and traits hope
to produce crops able to withstand environmental stresses – like high heat,
flood and drought – and still be able to maintain high enough yields.
5.
MOZZIE ATTACK
The world’s deadliest creature is
getting deadlier. Places once devoid of mosquitoes have seen the appearance of
the blood-sucking insects as the planet warms, spreading deadly infectious
diseases such as dengue and malaria. But researchers are bringing the fight
back to the mosquito.
As an alternative to traditional
control measures such as fogging, for instance, they have transferred the
bacteria Wolbachia into the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is then released into
wild populations, where it can block the transmission of dengue and Zika
viruses.
6. GREEN
VS BLACK
Mrs Nguyen Thi Thu lives in
Vietnam’s Tra Vinh province, and her house is opposite a coal-fired power
plant. In the windy season, ash, coal slag and dust fill the air, she laments.
But across the region, a shift is slowly being made towards green energy.
In Indonesia, for instance, coal
has been a major focus, but geothermal, hydro and, more recently, wind and
solar projects have been built as well. At Parepare, a sleepy fishing town in
South Sulawesi province, the nation’s first wind farm has been supplying energy
to homes and industries for some months, and there are plans to expand.
Cereal
killers: puffed rice yields insight into geophysical collapses
What do breakfast and ice sheet destruction
have in common? Lots, it turns out. Lauren Fuge reports.
Puffed rice cereal isn't just for breakfast, after all. It's all
good for modelling dam collapses.
VIKIF/GETTY IMAGES
Want to better understand
collapsing ice sheets? Then pay attention to the snap, crackle and pop of your
breakfast cereal, Australian scientists say.
Researchers have long known that
porous materials can crumble under pressure or be dissolved by fluids over
lengthy timescales. But in many natural systems — such as ice sheets, rockfill
dams or sinkholes — these materials are exposed to both liquid and high
pressures at the same time, meaning that collapse events can get a little more
complicated.
It is, of course, difficult to
keep tabs on a natural system for a million years or recreate massive pressures
in the lab, so scientists don’t yet fully understand how these materials move
and deform.
Now, in a study published in the journal Science
Advances, researchers at the University of Sydney have scaled the problem
down to fit into their morning bowl of cereal, using puffed rice to model these
processes.
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Highly-porous, brittle and soft,
puffed cereal grains share similar properties to rocks and ice.
“All of these tend to crush upon
interaction with chemically active fluid — puffed grains with milk, rock grains
with underground water, and ice with meltwater,” explains lead researcher and
civil engineer Itai Einav.
While the problem of soaking
puffed rice in milk is not as life-threatening as the collapse of a dam, it can
be observed in just minutes — and unlike a dam, a cereal bowl can fit in a lab.
Along with co-author François
Guillard, Einav placed a sample of the rice in a vertical cylinder and applied
constant pressure from the top down. Then fluid was injected into the lower part
of the cylinder to soak the sample. The researchers noticed a sudden drop of
stress in the system, accompanied by clicking sounds caused by the micropores
of the cereal being crushed.
“A whole layer of such micropores
seemed to crush all at once,” says Einav. “Their synchronised sound could be
heard all around our laboratory.”
These events were dubbed
‘ricequakes’, caused by the dry pack collapsing into the wet. The abrupt
collapses kept occurring incrementally, with the delay between quakes
increasing as time went on.
A simple physics-based
mathematical model was then developed to explain the quakes. It linked them to
the flow of liquid into the tiny pores of the puffed rice, making them soggier
and weaker over time.
By scaling the model up to deal
with timescales of years rather than seconds, the researchers believe it may
help understand more significant collapse events, such as in dams and ice
sheets.
“Fascinatingly, the recurring
ricequakes we model in cereal appear reminiscent of recurring tidal icequakes
in Antarctica — twice daily!” Einav says. “In that sense, our modelled
experiments can help to reinterpret such global phenomena.”
It’s important to note, however,
that such a simple model may not be accurate for all systems, some of which
might be dominated by other physical stresses. Icequakes, for example, might
also be affected by the frictional force as ice slides along its rocky
foundations.
But Einav and Guillard have high
hopes for the future of breakfast-related research, and are keen to explore the
existence and dynamics of ricequakes in other materials.
“I believe puffed rice offers a
real opportunity into studying the new and rich physics of brittle porous
materials,” Einav says.
Supor Spherical
Rice Cooker draws raves from Japanese consumers at exhibition in Tokyo
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Oct. 14, 2018, 08:01 PM
TOKYO, Oct.
15, 2018 /PR Newswire/ -- In October 2018,
an exhibition highlighting Chinese craftmanship held at Tsutaya Book Store
in Tokyoattracted visitors from all walks
of life across Japan who were unanimous
in agreeing that the rice cooked in the Chinese-made rice cookers on display
tasted just as good as rice prepared in their Japanese counterparts.
What kind of rice cookers can receive such recognition from
Japanese consumers known for their fastidiousness, and what kind of unique
features can enable the rice cookers to win the hearts of all the visitors at
the event?
Behind this mysterious veil is leading Chinese rice cooker maker
Supor.
The rice cooker showcased at the exhibition is called the Supor
IH Steam Spherical Rice Cooker. The spherical cauldron used in the rice cooker
is based on China's traditional large
iron pot, while the innovative, first-of-its-kind wide-mouth and shallow-bottom
profile increases the heating area of the inner liner by 30% compared with
ordinary rice cookers, allowing the rice to be brought to a higher temperature
and, at the same time, be more evenly heated, while absorbing more moisture,
tasting more authentic, and fully releasing the original flavor.
For more than 20 years, Supor has been committed to perfecting
the inner liners of rice cookers, and to exploring and preserving the authentic
flavor of Chinese rice cooked the traditional way. The research and development
team put the grains of rice under a microscope to fully understand the
microcosm, and researched the gastronomic and dietary traditions behind the
grain, then combined the results with previous experience and modern
craftsmanship to design the new rice cooker. The team behind its creation are
not just researchers of tasty rice, but explorers and pioneers.
The exhibition has proven itself an excellent venue for
demonstrating the ability of Chinese-produced rice cookers to stand side by
side with world's best among its peers. Supor serves as a showcase for the
reputation of Chinese craftsmen while providing new impetus for an interest
among shoppers and consumers worldwide in products made in China.
Replacing Potatoes And Rice With
Lentils
Oct 14, 2018, 10 p.m.
Health is influenced heavily by diet: eating healthy foods
increases the likelihood to be and stay healthy as unhealthy foods are
associated with being more prone to sickness and diseases; many studies have
shown how food affects one’s health.
Lentils have been shown by 2 separate studies in replacement of
starchy carbohydrates such as rice and potatoes to help lower blood sugar
levels, and fight cancer such as researchers from the University of Guelph
showing that eating legumes instead of rice or potatoes can reduce blood sugar
levels by over 20%.
A study published in the Journal of Nutrition involving 24 healthy
adults that were fed 4 dishes: white rice only; half white rice with half large
green lentils; lahe white rice with half small green lentils; and half white
rice with half split red lentils; then repeating the process with potatoes and
lentils showed the substitution of half a serving of rice white lentils led to
up to 20% decreases in blood sugar; and replacing potatoes with lentils
resulted with a 35% decrease. The reductions were explained to be result of
lentils slowing digestion and release of starchy foods helping to prevent blood
sugar spikes which is helping in those with diabetes.
Along with lowering the risks for diabetes lentils also help to
reduce risks for cancer according to another study published in the
International Journal of Cancer which examined over 90,000 pre-menopausal women
and found consumption of legumes at least twice a week cut the risks of breast
cancer by 24%.
A Norwegian study showed that those that consume lentils on a
regular basis experience 37% lower risk of cancers of the upper digestive
tract, and nearly 50% decreased risk of colon cancer.
Lentils are edible seeds from the legume family that are low in
calories and great sources of iron, zinc, B vitamins, potassium, magnesium,
fiber, and protein. Consumption of lentils on a regular basis may help to
prevent need for certain medications as they nourish blood vessels, and improve
blood pressure, flow, and circulation.
Lentils come in many types such as beluga lentils which are small
and black that make good bases for warm salads. Brown lentils are the most
common and are good in stews with an earthy flavor. Green lentils which vary in
size and shape. Puy lentils are smaller than green lentils and have a peppery
taste.
Lentils are easy to cook unlike other legumes as they do not need
to be soaked before cooking, however they still need to be rinsed before hand
to remove impurities. Most can be boiled in a pot of water with a dash of salt,
then simmered uncovered for 15-20 minutes. Some lentils such as orange lentils
will split and only take 5 minutes to cook. Once cooked most lentils can last
for up to 5 days in the refrigerator if stored properly.
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The International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) has set a funding pact with nonprofit organization Crop Trust
to conserve and secure the world’s largest rice collection. The agreement
guarantees US$ 1.4 million per year for IRRI’s rice genebank in Los Baños,
Laguna. The facility, which houses 136,000 varieties of rice, has been called
the world’s “largest rice bowl.”
At present, an estimated three
billion people all over the world consume rice every day, 515 million of whom
hail from Asia. Experts project annual global rice consumption to rise from 450
million to 525 million tons by 2050.
Rice breakthroughs at IRRI
Scientists from both IRRI and
across the globe use the samples in the genebank to develop more robust and
resilient varieties of rice. To combat the impact of climate change in
key rice-producing regions such as India, China, and the Philippines, researchers have been working on
improved rice varieties that can withstand severe flooding and drought.
SUPER BOWL. IRRI’s Los Baños rice genebank houses numerous
varieties of the staple crop. (Image: IRRI)
For instance, approximately 20
million hectares of rice land in Asia frequently suffers from flooding. Most
rice varieties can only survive submergence for a few days. However, the
IRRI-developed “scuba rice” can survive up to two weeks of flooding.
Approximately five million farmers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos, the
Philippines and Indonesia are already utilizing this variant. Meanwhile,
researchers are adapting it for Africa, where rice demand grows at an annual
rate of about 7%.
Also included in the IRRI
collection are a number of wild rice species. Researchers studied these wild
species to develop heat-tolerant, pest-resistant, and disease-resistant rice.
They even formulated a variety that resists iron toxicity, which typically affects
flooded, lowland rice areas.
Moreover, the IRRI genebank
functions as a historical repository. Samples of IR8, the world’s first
high-yielding rice, are kept there, as well as its ancestors and subsequent
variants. Nicknamed “miracle rice” due to the role it played in saving Asia
from famine in the 1960s and 1970s, IR8 was the fruit of IRRI researchers’
efforts to improve rice production in developing countries, including the
Philippines.
To 2023 and beyond
Established in 2004, Crop Trust’s
endowment fund provides “sustainable, long-term financial support to the
world’s most important food and agriculture genebanks.” Via this fund, the
agreement will cover the genebank’s integral operations from 2019 to 2023.
Then, a second five-year period will take effect, factoring in any revisions in
the genebank’s operational costs and overall business plans. Afterwards,
renewal of the agreement will continue every five years.
Meanwhile, IRRI will assist five
national genebanks in crop conservation by providing expert advice and
guidance. The Los Baños genebank is one of 11 genebanks under CGIAR. Formerly
known as the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, CGIAR
is a research partnership focused on global food security. The CGIAR genebanks
house millions of crop seeds from all over the world. Additionally, they
distribute over 100,000 rice samples to farmers and researchers per year.
RAINING GRAINS. The funding pact between IRRI and Crop Trust
will secure the future of rice research for the entire world. (Photo: IRRI)
The agreement will be inked on
World Food Day, October 16, at the 5th International
Rice Congress in Singapore
From food security to
nutrition security
Biotechnology
can be a game-changer in the battle against malnutrition in much the same way
that the Green Revolution was in ensuring self sufficiency.
Written by Ashok Gulati , Ritika Juneja | Updated: October 15, 2018 5:39:57 am
From food security to
nutrition security
Innovations in biofortified food can alleviate malnutrition only
when they are scaled up with supporting policies. (Illustration: Suvajit Dey)
October 16 is observed as the World Food Day to mark the
creation of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in
1945. The world body envisions a “zero hunger world” by 2030. Perhaps, the
occasion is incomplete without remembering Nobel Peace laureate Norman E
Borlaug, whose “miracle seeds” of wheat saved over a billion people from
starvation. Borlaug also instituted the World Food Prize in 1986, which is
sometimes described as the Nobel Prize in agriculture. It’s important to
understand the role of science and technology in ushering the Green Revolution,
which ensured food security in India. Today, similar innovations in
biotechnology hold the promise to provide nutrition security.
In 1943, the Bengal Famine claimed 1.5 to 3 million lives. After
independence, India faced the challenge of feeding 330 million people. The
situation became grim when the country was hit by back-to-back droughts in the
mid-1960s. Grain production plummeted from 89.4 million metric tonnes (MMT) in
1964-65 to 72.4 MMT in 1965-66. India became heavily dependent on the PL 480
food aid from the US. Self-sufficiency in foodgrains became the country’s top
policy priority.
In the early 1960s, India imported 18,000 tonnes of the
semi-dwarf high yielding (HY) wheat variety, Lerma Rojo and Sonora 64.
Developed by Borlaug and his team at the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico, these wheat varieties proved to be the
harbinger of the Green Revolution. Indian scientists adapted the imported
germplasm to create indigenous varieties: Kalyan developed by D S Athwal and
Sona created by M S Swaminathan. Around the same time, the HY miracle rice, IR8
— developed by Peter Jennings and Henry M Beachell of the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) — was imported. About a decade later, an improved
variety, IR36 — developed by IRRI’s Gurdev Khush — made its presence felt in
the country’s fields. The breeding programme under the All India Coordinated
Research Project (AICRP) produced Padma and Jaya, the first indigenous HY rice
varieties. These became the centrepiece of India’s rice revolution.
Breakthroughs in Basmati rice came with the development of Pusa
Basmati 1121 and 1509 from 2005 to 2013. These rice varieties were developed by
teams led by V P Singh, A K Singh and K V Prabhu at the Indian Agriculture
Research Institute. Pusa Basmati gave Indian rice more value with less water
and 50 per cent higher yields compared to the traditional basmati. V Singh et
al estimate that the cumulative earnings through exports of Pusa Basmati 1121
between 2008 and 2016 and the sale of the rice variety in the domestic market
in the same period to be about $20.8 billion.
Where does India stand today in terms of wheat and rice? While
the country’s population has grown by more than four times, from 330 million in
1947 to 1.35 billion in 2018, India’s wheat production has increased by over 15
times in roughly the same period — from about 6.5 MMT in 1950-51 to 99.7 MMT in
2017-18. India contributes about 13 per cent of the world wheat production,
next only to China whose share is about 17 per cent. Rice production has shot
up by about 5.5 times — from 20.6 MMT in 1950-51 to 112.9 MMT in 2017-18. India
has a 23 per cent share in world rice production, next only to China whose
share is about 29 per cent. India is also the largest exporter of rice in the
world with about 12.7 MMT, valued at $7.7 billion (Basmati at $4.17 billion and
Non-Basmati at $3.56 billion) during 2017-18.
Notwithstanding its foodgrain surpluses, the country faces a
complex challenge of nutritional security. FAO’s recent publication, The State
of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2018 estimates that about 15 per
cent of the Indian population is undernourished. More than 38 per cent of
Indian children aged below five years are stunted and 21 per cent suffer from
wasting. Several factors ranging from poor diet, unsafe drinking water, poor
hygiene and sanitation, low levels of immunisation and education, especially
that of women, contribute to this dismal situation. But latest innovations in
biotechnology that fortify major staples with micro nutrients like vitamin A,
zinc and iron can be game changers.
Globally, the HarvestPlus programme of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is doing lot of work in this
direction. In India, the group has released the iron-rich pearl millet. The
Indian Council of Agricultural Research has independently released zinc and
iron rich wheat (WB 02 and HPWB 01), rice (DRR Dhan 45), and pearl millet (HHB
299 and AHB 1200) in 2016-17. This could possibly lead to the next breakthrough
in staples, making them more nutritious. A research team led by Monika Garg at
the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute in Mohali has innovated
biofortified coloured wheat (black, blue, purple) through crosses between HY
Indian cultivars (PBW550, PBW621, HD2967) and coloured wheat from Japan and
America. These are rich in anthocyanins (antioxidants such those found in
blueberries) and zinc (40 ppm compared to 5 ppm in white wheat). Farmers of the
Borlaug Farmers Association from Punjab and Haryana have been roped in to
multiply production of this wheat variety. This seems to be the beginning of a
new journey, from food security to nutritional security. The best is yet to
come. But innovations in biofortified food can alleviate malnutrition only when
they are scaled up with supporting policies. This would require increasing
expenditure on agri-R&D and incentivising farmers by linking their produce
to lucrative markets. Can the Modi government do it? Only time can tell.
Gov’t vows steady rice supply
Importation to continue to keep
sufficient stockpiles of main staple food
Updated October 13, 2018, 12:24 AM
By Genalyn Kabiling
The country will continue to
import rice to help prevent the people from going hungry, President Duterte
admitted Friday.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte joins other leaders from the
member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during
the ASEAN Leaders’ Gathering held at the Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua in Bali,
Indonesia on October 11, 2018. Also in the photo is Secretary Christopher
Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President.
(ACE MORANDANTE/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
The President acknowledged that
the “stomach comes first” as he pressed the need to keep sufficient government
stockpiles to ensure that affordable rice remain available to families.
“The policy of the government is
to keep the people, not from – keep them away from hunger so we have to import
whether we like it or not and we have to plan,”Duterte pointed out during a
press conference in Davao City airport Friday morning upon his arrival from
Indonesia.
Self sufficient
As he tackled rice importation,
Duterte reiterated that the country was unlikely to become self-sufficient in rice
production amid the shrinking farmlands.
He said agricultural lands have been used to plant cash crops instead of food crops.
He said agricultural lands have been used to plant cash crops instead of food crops.
“Frankly, I do not think that we
will be rice sufficient. I don’t know if – in the years to come,” he said.
In the previous administration,
then Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala had declared that the Philippines
will become 98 percent rice self-sufficient by the end of 2014. But this was
never even after previous administration ended in 2016.
Balanced formula
Duterte said he expects
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol to craft a formula to balance the issues
and concerns on rice importation and the welfare of local rice farmers.
He noted that rice importation must be scheduled during the lean months.
He noted that rice importation must be scheduled during the lean months.
“Maybe, during harvest time or a
later period after that. There must be space for the local products to be
consumed – bought and consumed. Then after comes the lean months which we have
also to consider,” he said.
Duterte said when the country was
confronted with rice supply problems, he immediately ordered the importation of
rice despite differing views from some Cabinet members.
He said he wanted government warehouses to be filled to the ceiling with rice.
He said he wanted government warehouses to be filled to the ceiling with rice.
“As I have said in the Cabinet
meeting, I thought that problem would never confront me. So that early on I
appointed people, precisely to meet the challenges of rice shortage.
But would you believe it or not, it really happened and – I was the first one who ordered the importation. Merong gusto, meronghindi,” he said.
But would you believe it or not, it really happened and – I was the first one who ordered the importation. Merong gusto, meronghindi,” he said.
Tough times ahead
As this developed, President
Duterte warned of tough times ahead as the sharp surge in oil costs continue to
affect local consumer prices.
The President asked the public to
brace for economic hardship during his term, saying the country was not a rich
oil-producing nation and continues to rely on imported fuel.
“Sabihin nila, ‘Ano ‘to siDuterte?Bakit ‘yung pandesal niya kasinglaki na lang ng monggo?’ Ano bang magawa ko? Walangatayong oil,. eh [They say, ‘What’s with Duterte? Why is the bread as small as a bean? What can I do? We have no oil],”Duterte said during a press conference in Davao City.
“Sabihin nila, ‘Ano ‘to siDuterte?Bakit ‘yung pandesal niya kasinglaki na lang ng monggo?’ Ano bang magawa ko? Walangatayong oil,. eh [They say, ‘What’s with Duterte? Why is the bread as small as a bean? What can I do? We have no oil],”Duterte said during a press conference in Davao City.
“This is not the end of the
story, guys. Sabihinninyopanahonkotalagangmaghirap [You say we will suffer
during my time]. If things will move forward in accordance with the present
calculations now, talagang sa panahon ko maghirap tayo. Kung mag-wala kayo, ‘di
lahat na tayo. Mag-wala na tayong lahat kasi ako apektador in. Iyan ang
problema ngayon [we will really suffer under my term. If you lose it, we’ll all
lose it because I am also affected. That’s the problem today],” he said.
The President lamented that the
Philippines was not one of the fortunate nations given with oil resources. He
noted that the country largely depends on imported oil, whose rising prices
have driven the soaring inflation.
“The problem now is… Indonesia,
Malaysia, and Brunei… maybe good fortunes have oil, but we have none,” he said.
“Maramisilang oil.Hindi sila
dependent.Tayo, sabi ng Pilipino, inflation. Correct. There is inflation,” he said.
Duterte admitted that there would
be inflation spike if oil prices will continue to escalate.
“I must give you the warning now.
‘Pagmagtaas ‘yang oil, you can be sure next week mag-announce na naman ng price
increases. Because oil is everything. The world cannot move. There’s not enough
solar power to run this country,” he said.
The President had earlier raised
the possibility of the government suspending the fuel excise taxes to tame the
country’s rising inflation. “Maybe,”Duterte said during press conference in
Malacañang last Tuesday, when asked if the government would suspend the excise
taxes on petroleum products.
He noted that Finance Secretary
Carlos Dominguez III would look into the possible P2 reduction of the fuel
excise taxes.
Under the Tax Reform for
Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, the government could suspend the next
increase in fuel excise taxes if Dubai crude hits $80 per barrel for a period
of three months.
Indonesia asked
to setup JVs for palm oil production in Pakistan
Online
Pakistan, a major importer of palm oil to meet its domestic needs while Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil and its investors should set up joint ventures in Pakistan for production and processing of palm oil that would help in reducing our import bill.
Ahmed Hassan Mughal, President, Islamabad
Chamber of Commerce & Industry said this while exchanging views with
WisnuSuryoHutomo, Head of Economic & Commercial Department, Embassy of
Indonesia during his visit to Chamber House.
ICCI President said that Pakistan’s palm oil
import witnessed a 23 per cent increase during the first half of 2017-18 and
stressed that Indonesia should cooperate with Pakistan in enhancing local
production of this commodity.
Speaking on the occasion, WisnuSuryoHutomo,
Minister Counsellor of Indonesian Embassy said that Indonesia was ready to
cooperate with Pakistan in the cultivation of high-yielding palm plants in
addition to establishing palm oil refineries in Pakistan for meeting its
domestic needs.
He said that his country was also willing to
set up joint ventures in the production and processing of palm oil along with
manufacturing of high-value palm oil products in Pakistan.
Pakistan was exporting rice while there was a
huge demand for Pakistani Kinnow and mangoes in Indonesia which should be
exploited, he told.
He said both countries should focus on the
regular exchange of trade delegations to further strengthen bilateral trade
relations.
Prices Of Imported
Rice Soar
By Iseghe
Ajayi
October 14, 2018
Owing to the implementation of stiff disciplinary measures
against smugglers of imported rice and other banned items by the Nigerian
Customs Service, bringing the commodity into the Nigerian market has become a
very dangerous venture for smugglers. This made supply of the commodity
limited.
The Customs personnel are waging serious battle against rice
smuggling such that the smugglers that ran out of luck, do not only get their
goods seized, but are also arrested.
The situation has discouraged some of the smugglers to continue
with the business. But the ones that are still in the business are left with no
option than to inflate the prices of the commodity, after taking cognisance of
the high cost of logistics.
The ban on the commodity by the Federal Government without
providing alternative for the masses has continued to have an adverse effect on
the price, making it beyond the reach of many.
Even prices of the locally produced rice that is expected to be
an alternative to imported smuggled rice are not favourable and has not helped
the consumers either.
Findings from a market survey across some states by the Business
and Market Intelligence Unit of DAILY INDEPENDENT indicated that prices of the
commodity which was previously at a downward trend soared by over 5 and 10 per
cent in few markets between August and October 11, 2018.
Reasons for the hike as indicated by the survey results were due
to high foreign exchange rate, unavailability, weakening value of Naira and
closure of the borders.
Checks at the Ogbeogologo and Igbudu Markets in Delta State showed
that prices of a 50kg bag of imported rice witnessed an upswing, ranging
currently from N17,500 to N18,000 as against N16,500 sold initially, signifying a 6 or 8 per cent rise.
That of the local rice was also on the high side, attracting
between N14,500 and N15,000 up from N14,000 it attracted earlier.
Mr. Lawrence Ibeh, who trades in the commodity at the Ogbeogolo
Market, Asaba, linked the hike to scarcity caused by the Federal Government’s
ban.
He, however, attributed that of local rice to the weakening
value of the Naira and high cost of processing the commodity.
The same could be said of Nkwo Nnewi Market, Anambra State,
especially with the current prices of a 50kg bag of the commodity going for
between N17,500 and N17,800 as against N17,000 previously sold.
At the Oba Market, Benin City, the trend was not different,
although prices of imported rice were somewhat lower when compared with that of
Asaba and Anambra.
For example, a 50kg bag of imported smuggled rice which was
previously selling for between N15,000 and N15,500 rose by 6 per cent to between
N16,000 and N16,500 depending on the brand and the haggling power of the
customer.
That of Dawanau Market, Kano, also witnessed a slight increase
as a 50kg bag of imported smuggled rice formerly sold for between N13,500 and
N14,000 grew by 7 percent to N14,500 during the week.
Many of the traders in a chat with DAILY INDEPENDENT linked the
situation to shortfall in supply.
Likewise, that of the Kaduna Central Market, Kaduna, went up to
N15,500 from N14,500 sold previously.
At the Gombe Main market, Gombe State, the price of a 50kg bag
of the commodity currently goes for between N16,500 and N17,000 up from N16,000 sold
before.
A man named Friday Enebeli, who deals with all kinds of grains
at the Gombe Main Market, connected the situation to high cost of
transportation and foreign exchange rate.
Visit to Lafenwa Market, Ogun State, revealed that prices of the
commodity were at an upward trend; with a 50kg bag of imported rice currently going for between
N15,000 and N15,300 as against N14,500 sold initially of which many of the
traders interviewed ascribed to inadequate supply arising from scarcity.
That of Bodija Market, Ibadan, was not different, snowballing to
between N16,000 and N16,500 from N14,500 sold formerly. This, however, depends on the
quality and negotiating power of the buyer.
Alhaja Sadiat Mumuni, who trades in all kinds of grains at the
Bodija, market, Ibadan, blamed the increase on shortfall in supply due to
closure of Seme-border by the Nigerian Customs.
For that of Itam Market, Uyo, prices of a 50kg bag of imported
rice experienced an increase of 6 percent, currently selling for N17,500 as
against N16,500 earlier sold.
A lady who simply identified herself as Lizzy connected the hike
to scarcity caused by few traders besieging Cotonou for the commodity. This is
just, as Chuks Emmanuel of same market shared similar view but linked the
principal cause to the ban, leading to closure of the borders.
For that of Lagos, visits to popular markets such as Daleko,
Iddo and Mile 12 showed that prices of the commodity skyrocketed, particularly
with few number of shops having the product on display.
Prices of the commodity soared by over 10 percent as a 50kg bag
that was previously sold for between N13,000 and N13,500 currently goes for between
N14,500 and N14,700, a situation many traders attributed to unavailability and
high cost of logistics.
The worst hit, however, were consumers who procured the
commodity in smaller measures as the impact of the increase reflected greatly
on their purchases.
For instance, prices of a paint bucket measurement that
previously went for between N1,200 and N1,500 depending on the quality,
currently goes for between N1,500 and N1,800.
Unimpeded rice imports may hold back inflation
Updated October 14, 2018, 9:35 AM
After nine straight months
of rising prices, the government took its first big step to stop the rise last
Tuesday. It removed all restrictions on rice importations. Since food
prices make up the biggest part of inflation figures and rice is the principal
food item of Filipinos, unimpeded rice importation should have an impact on the
whole market situation in the country.
For years, rice imports had been
controlled and limited, with each trader needing to apply and obtain an
accreditation permit from the National Food Authority (NFA), then an order from
the NFA Council on the volume of rice to be imported. With this system,
the government has sought to help Filipino farmers have a market for their
harvests.
A bill has been filed
in Congress to replace this system of restrictions with a tariff of 35
percent on imports from Southeast Asia and 180 percent
on imports from elsewhere. But with the worsening price situation in the
nation’s markets, President Duterte said there is no need for the importers to
wait for the new law as long as they pay the tariffs.
We will now watch the markets to
see whether the announcement of “free-for-all” rice importations will
have the desired effect of stropping the rising inflation rate which had
already reached 6.7 percent last September.
There was more bad news from
abroad last week. World oil prices continued to rise as Iran faced restrictions
on its oil exports with the United States withdrawal from Iran’s agreement with
Western nations. As a result, oil firms in the Philippines raised their prices
anew, with diesel up by another P1.45 per liter last Monday. The
higher fuel price will be reflected in even higher food market prices, since it
now costs more to transport food products from the farms to city markets.
The decision to allow unimpeded
rice importation is the first important government move to stop rising
inflation. Other moves have been proposed by various quarters, including
suspension of the 2 percent TRAIN excise tax on diesel which started in
January. There is also a proposal to suspend the Value-Added Tax
(VAT) which has been in place for years.
For now, we await the
effects of the new policy of unimpeded rice imports. We hope it will help
stop the unabated rise in prices in these final weeks of the year which
also happen to be our traditionally blessed Christmas season.
Open rice importation favors big firms
Published October 13, 2018, 10:00 PM
By Madelaine B. Miraflor
The “unimpeded” rice importation
order of President Rodrigo Duterte did not only prompt an altercation between
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III and Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol
but also fueled concerns that it could negatively impact local farmers and the
country’s domestic output.
MB file
Such order, a couple of
non-government organizations (NGOs) agreed, will only benefit companies like
San Miguel Corp. (SMC) and AgriNurture, Inc. (ANI), which have openly expressed
their interest to import rice.
In a statement, the National
Movement for Food Sovereignty (NMFS) and the Integrated Rural Development
Foundation (IRDF) raised concern over Duterte’s sudden proclamation on allowing
free importation of rice despite the fact that the bill allowing the
tariffication of rice is still pending in the Senate.
During a Cabinet meeting on
Monday, Duterte ordered to put an end to restrictions on rice imports
supposedly as a measure to ease the soaring inflation, which recently surged to
its fastest level in nearly a decade.
NMFS and IRDF said in a joint
statement that Duterte’s recent directive spells doom for more than three
million rice farmers, while it supports the plan of big companies such as SMC
and rice cartels to conduct “mega rice import transactions.”
The groups have claimed that rice
farmers are already suffering from higher production costs due to Tax Reform
for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law and the rising fuel cost.
In 2017, a data from the
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that net returns from palay
farming stand only at only P25,193 and P21,743 during the dry and wet season
respectively or a total of P46,936.00 annually.
This could be further lowered
once the country liberalized rice importation through the passage of
Agriculture Tariffication Act.
Based on the projection of
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), the impact of rice
tariffication could reduce a farmer’s annual rice income to P33,325.00.
“The proposed scheme for cash
transfer/decoupled payment to farmers in the event of tariffication of P9,500
per hectare will not even compensate for this loss,” the joint statement reads.
Right now, since most farmers are
highly indebted and are dependent on traders and financiers for their
production capital, further reduction in their incomes would result to
increased indebtedness that could lead to mortgaging, selling, and conversion
of farmlands.
“Most of our farmers are ageing
and lack the skills and education that could enable them to shift easily from
farming to other occupation. The President’s call for free importation thus
spells death to the livelihoods of already impoverished small-scale rice
farmers,” NMFS and IRDF further said.
On the longer term, it is also
feared that rice tariffication may induce reduction in domestic rice output
that could trigger further rice price increases, especially when supply
tightens.
“Our country could not rely on
the international market for our food security, since international rice trade
accounts for only 5 percent-6 percent of global rice production.
Moreover, international rice prices have been increasing steadily in recent years suggesting that factors such as speculation that led to the unprecedented food price increases in 2008 to 2009 still persist,” NMFS and IRDF further said.
Moreover, international rice prices have been increasing steadily in recent years suggesting that factors such as speculation that led to the unprecedented food price increases in 2008 to 2009 still persist,” NMFS and IRDF further said.
Food and Agriculture Organization
rice price update shows that international rice prices from 2017 (January to
September) to 2018 (January to September) jumped from $366 per metric ton (MT)
to $417 per MT for Vietnam’s five percent broken rice, suggesting a 13.7
percent increase.
The statement of NMFS and IRDF
are in line with the stand of Piñol, who thinks the country can’t rely on
importation to supply the growing demand for rice.
For his part, Dominguez said that
rice tariffication and reforms in food policy are needed to address the
repeated rice supply problems.
The rice tariffication bill, once
passed into law, is expected to liberalize the importation of rice in the
country by imposing a corresponding tariff rate of 35 percent.
Rice starts to stabilize
Gov’t allocates P6.7 B to buy
palay from local farmers
Published October 14, 2018, 12:03 AM
By Madelaine Miraflor
The Philippines may no longer
need an “unimpeded rice importation” this year as the supply of rice has
started to stabilize ahead of the peak of the harvest season.
END OF SHORTA GE — A vendor arranges rice varieties on retail at
his store at Paco Market in Manila, as the government reports that the supply
of the country’s staple food has started to stabilize ahead of the peak of the
harvest season. (Ali Vicoy/ MANILA BULLETIN)
Right now, the country is
anticipating the delivery 750,000 metric tons (MT) of imported rice to be
procured by the National Food Authority (NFA). Apart from this, major retailers
have been authorized to directly purchase 350,000 MT of rice as part of the
Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) proposal.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel
Piñol also revealed that the government has allocated an initial fund of P6.7
billion for the aggressive local palay procurement program.
NFA Deputy Administrator Tomas R. Escarez, who now serves as the agency’s officer-in-charge, said that with the palay procurement fund he is optimistic that the agency could procure 2.6 million bags of palay.
NFA Deputy Administrator Tomas R. Escarez, who now serves as the agency’s officer-in-charge, said that with the palay procurement fund he is optimistic that the agency could procure 2.6 million bags of palay.
If successful, this could help
fill the agency’s buffer stock with sufficient amount of rice without resorting
to importation, Escarez said.
President Duterte recently
authorized the “unimpeded importation” of rice to boost local supply and lower
prices in the market.
The President acknowledged that
the “stomach comes first” as he underscored the need to continue importing rice
to keep sufficient government stockpiles and ensure the availability of
affordable rice to families.
These additional imports were
supposed to help temper the non-stop increase in the price of local rice as
well as replenish the stocks of NFA.
The original plan of NFA is to
squeeze in three bidding process in the span of more than a month to cover the
importation of the 750,000 MT of rice.
But NFA spokesperson Angel
Imperial said it may not necessarily happen anymore.
NFA already conducted last week
the pre-bid conference for the purchase and supply of the first 250,000 MT of
imported rice, which will be done through an open tender scheme. The supply
contracts are expected to be awarded next week.
After that, Imperial said the NFA
will not immediately conduct another importation and would instead check if
there’s still a need for it.
“For the next 250,000 MT of rice,
it has already been approved but we will still look at it. We will look at the
market, the supply and demand, and then we will again make recommendations to
the NFA Council,” Imperial said in a phone interview.
With all the pending rice
importation, the farm-gate price of palay continues to drop during the last
week of September, while the cost of well- and regular-milled price were also
mostly down.
A data from Philippine Statistics
Authority (PSA) showed that farm-gate price of palay continues to decline by
2.05 percent to P22.41 per kilogram (/kg) week-on-week. Compared to the average
price in the same period of the previous year, it rose by 16.54 percent.
At the wholesale trade, the
wholesale price of well milled rice fell by 0.20 percent to P45.95/kg, while at
the retail trade, the average price is lower by 0.14 percent to P49.30/kg on a
weekly basis.
Meanwhile, compared to previous
week’s level, the average wholesale price of regular-milled rice at P43.08/kg
went down by 0.09 percent, while the average retail price of regular milled
rice inched up by 0.46 percent to P46.04/kg.
“We can see through our gradual
monitoring that the prices are going down. We are situational. Sizable volume
from the existing importation program are still being delivered,” Imperial
said.
As of now, the country’s total
rice inventory stands at 1.18 million MT. Of this, 128,000 MT is held by NFA.
Meanwhile, the NFA launched on
Friday its national local paddy rice procurement program in San Jose, Mindoro
Occidental by offering an additional incentive of P3 per kilo, on top of the
P17.70 per kilo buying price, for clean and dry paddy rice.
The P3 additional incentive per
kilo marks the first time that the NFA provided a higher payment for the
farmers’ produce since 2008 when the buying price of palay was increased from
P11 to P17.
The local procurement program
with the added incentive is also aimed at establishing a support price for
farmers who may be affected by the lifting of the Quantitative Restrictions
(QR) on imported rice.
NFA rice in Cebu still not
available in groceries
Problem solved? President Rodrigo Duterte’s
order to make National Food Authority (NFA) rice more accessible to the public
should help consumers in Cebu, where majority of the rice is sourced outside
the province, cope with rising prices. Implementation of the order, though,
seems to have stalled. (SunStar Foto / Alex Badayos)
Local stocks. Of the first batch of national
rice imports totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority 7
got 49,000 MT. Some 30,000 MT more is expected to arrive in the last quarter.
(SunStar File)
Problem solved? President Rodrigo Duterte’s
order to make National Food Authority (NFA) rice more accessible to the public
should help consumers in Cebu, where majority of the rice is sourced outside
the province, cope with rising prices. Implementation of the order, though,
seems to have stalled. (SunStar Foto / Alex Badayos)
Local stocks. Of the first batch of national
rice imports totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority 7
got 49,000 MT. Some 30,000 MT more is expected to arrive in the last quarter.
(SunStar File)
Problem solved? President Rodrigo Duterte’s order
to make National Food Authority (NFA) rice more accessible to the public should
help consumers in Cebu, where majority of the rice is sourced outside the
province, cope with rising prices. Implementation of the order, though, seems
to have stalled. (SunStar Foto / Alex Badayos)
Local stocks. Of the first batch of national
rice imports totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority 7
got 49,000 MT. Some 30,000 MT more is expected to arrive in the last quarter.
(SunStar File)
October
13, 2018
TESS (not her real name) stared at the selection of commercial
rice sold at the produce section of a grocery store in Cebu City for nearly
five minutes.
When she first arrived in Cebu to study almost four years ago, her parents bought her a small rice cooker since she'd be staying in a boarding house.
Since then, the 20-year-old college student has been buying five kilos of rice monthly, which she said has helped her save.
"I only have to think about the meat. But because I'm graduating soon, I have been stress-eating a lot. My supply runs out even before the month ends, so I have to buy again," she told SunStar Cebu in Cebuano.
Tess only has P500 in her pocket until her parents in Bohol can send her money.
She usually buys Ganador, one of the well-known variants of commercial rice. Its price, though, has increased from P53 per kilo to P56.
"It's getting expensive, but I really need it. That's why I take time to decide what to buy. I'm supposed to be a Math major, but all these numbers on the price tags are making me dizzy," Tess said.
With commercial rice continuously increasing in price, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered more National Food Authority (NFA) rice to be made available nationwide, particularly in supermarkets.
But how come we don't see that yet?
According to NFA 7 Director Fernando Nuñez, their central office is waiting for the transfer of project funds by the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association (Pagasa) directly to any NFA branch on cash basis.
"This is in accordance with the tripartite memorandum of agreement among NFA, Pagasa and the Department of Trade and Industry," he said.
The NFA is a government office tasked to ensure national food security, and to stabilize supply and prices of staple cereals both in the farm and consumer levels.
It sets a uniform buying price of rice based on various standards to give farmers return of their investment, and puts in the market accessible, safe and affordable NFA rice at fixed prices.
Around 20 percent of the total rice consumed in Cebu annually is NFA rice.
Contrary to popular belief that only poor families are qualified to buy NFA rice, any consumer is actually eligible to buy the low-priced rice, as evidenced by a certification from the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
At present, there are 410 NFA rice retailers in major and minor markets in Cebu.
Recently, Prince Warehouse Club Inc. announced that it is in the process of complying with the requirements to sell rice from the NFA.
Each supermarket is allotted 50 bags of NFA rice sold at either P27 or P32 per kilo. The supermarket owners go to the nearest NFA branch to pay for their stocks.
After this, they will proceed to the designated NFA warehouse to withdraw their allocation similar to what regular NFA-accredited retailers are currently doing.
Consumers will be allowed to buy NFA rice at supermarkets in two-kilo packs.
The NFA, though, is still looking for more accredited retailers to make low-priced rice accessible to more consumers.
"NFA Cebu determines the need to open and/or accredit more outlets in specific areas in accordance with its matrix of rice consumption requirement by municipality versus number of existing NFA-accredited outlets in said place," Nuñez said.
An interested sole proprietor will have to submit two copies of passport-sized pictures, photocopies of their business permit and a sketch of their store's location.
Corporations, partnerships and cooperatives, on the other hand, are required to submit two copies of their board resolution authorizing the representative to sign for and in behalf of the entity; passport-sized photos of the representative; articles of incorporation and bylaws; and a certificate of registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission or certificate of cooperation with the Cooperative Development Authority.
Nuñez, though, stressed that the lack of cheap rice is not necessarily caused by lack of retailers and vice versa.
It can be attributed instead to agricultural damage caused by natural calamities, among others.
Because of this, commercial rice continues to be abundant in the market, but their prices are high.
The NFA 7 buffer buildup comes from rice procurement from local farmers, local rice influx from other regions and rice procurement from imports.
"NFA 7 can buy a very minimal volume from Cebu farmers since the province's rice production is meager compared to the burgeoning population or consumption. Cebu does not have big rice millers," Nuñez said.
The region's imported rice allocation depends on the national import volume.
Of the first batch of national imports this year totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), NFA 7 got 9.8 percent, or 49,000 MT.
An additional allocation of 30,000 MT is expected to arrive in the last quarter and will represent four percent of the next batch of 750,000 MT national imports.
NFA 7 relies heavily on international rice supply through importation usually from Vietnam and Thailand. The source of local rice, on the other hand, was the milled output of rice procured from local farmers.
Around 99.8 percent of NFA 7 rice distribution in the last four years was imported rice and a measly 0.2 percent was local rice.
Nuñez said this is because farmers in Central Visayas not only produce inadequate supply, they also don't sell their products to the government because the NFA buying price for clean and dry rice is only P17 per kilo.
"NFA wants to buy from local farmers, but its buying price, since its effectivity in February 2009, cannot compete with the prices of traders and millers," he continued.
Farm gate prices of freshly harvested rice has already soared to as high as P29 per kilo.
Aside from this, Cebu's mountainous terrain is not ideal for rice production. There is also the conversion of farm lands into industrial and residential areas.
Small farm areas in the provinces are only 0.5 hectares per farmer and there is the lack of continuous water supply, especially during the summer.
When she first arrived in Cebu to study almost four years ago, her parents bought her a small rice cooker since she'd be staying in a boarding house.
Since then, the 20-year-old college student has been buying five kilos of rice monthly, which she said has helped her save.
"I only have to think about the meat. But because I'm graduating soon, I have been stress-eating a lot. My supply runs out even before the month ends, so I have to buy again," she told SunStar Cebu in Cebuano.
Tess only has P500 in her pocket until her parents in Bohol can send her money.
She usually buys Ganador, one of the well-known variants of commercial rice. Its price, though, has increased from P53 per kilo to P56.
"It's getting expensive, but I really need it. That's why I take time to decide what to buy. I'm supposed to be a Math major, but all these numbers on the price tags are making me dizzy," Tess said.
With commercial rice continuously increasing in price, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered more National Food Authority (NFA) rice to be made available nationwide, particularly in supermarkets.
But how come we don't see that yet?
According to NFA 7 Director Fernando Nuñez, their central office is waiting for the transfer of project funds by the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association (Pagasa) directly to any NFA branch on cash basis.
"This is in accordance with the tripartite memorandum of agreement among NFA, Pagasa and the Department of Trade and Industry," he said.
The NFA is a government office tasked to ensure national food security, and to stabilize supply and prices of staple cereals both in the farm and consumer levels.
It sets a uniform buying price of rice based on various standards to give farmers return of their investment, and puts in the market accessible, safe and affordable NFA rice at fixed prices.
Around 20 percent of the total rice consumed in Cebu annually is NFA rice.
Contrary to popular belief that only poor families are qualified to buy NFA rice, any consumer is actually eligible to buy the low-priced rice, as evidenced by a certification from the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
At present, there are 410 NFA rice retailers in major and minor markets in Cebu.
Recently, Prince Warehouse Club Inc. announced that it is in the process of complying with the requirements to sell rice from the NFA.
Each supermarket is allotted 50 bags of NFA rice sold at either P27 or P32 per kilo. The supermarket owners go to the nearest NFA branch to pay for their stocks.
After this, they will proceed to the designated NFA warehouse to withdraw their allocation similar to what regular NFA-accredited retailers are currently doing.
Consumers will be allowed to buy NFA rice at supermarkets in two-kilo packs.
The NFA, though, is still looking for more accredited retailers to make low-priced rice accessible to more consumers.
"NFA Cebu determines the need to open and/or accredit more outlets in specific areas in accordance with its matrix of rice consumption requirement by municipality versus number of existing NFA-accredited outlets in said place," Nuñez said.
An interested sole proprietor will have to submit two copies of passport-sized pictures, photocopies of their business permit and a sketch of their store's location.
Corporations, partnerships and cooperatives, on the other hand, are required to submit two copies of their board resolution authorizing the representative to sign for and in behalf of the entity; passport-sized photos of the representative; articles of incorporation and bylaws; and a certificate of registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission or certificate of cooperation with the Cooperative Development Authority.
Nuñez, though, stressed that the lack of cheap rice is not necessarily caused by lack of retailers and vice versa.
It can be attributed instead to agricultural damage caused by natural calamities, among others.
Because of this, commercial rice continues to be abundant in the market, but their prices are high.
The NFA 7 buffer buildup comes from rice procurement from local farmers, local rice influx from other regions and rice procurement from imports.
"NFA 7 can buy a very minimal volume from Cebu farmers since the province's rice production is meager compared to the burgeoning population or consumption. Cebu does not have big rice millers," Nuñez said.
The region's imported rice allocation depends on the national import volume.
Of the first batch of national imports this year totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), NFA 7 got 9.8 percent, or 49,000 MT.
An additional allocation of 30,000 MT is expected to arrive in the last quarter and will represent four percent of the next batch of 750,000 MT national imports.
NFA 7 relies heavily on international rice supply through importation usually from Vietnam and Thailand. The source of local rice, on the other hand, was the milled output of rice procured from local farmers.
Around 99.8 percent of NFA 7 rice distribution in the last four years was imported rice and a measly 0.2 percent was local rice.
Nuñez said this is because farmers in Central Visayas not only produce inadequate supply, they also don't sell their products to the government because the NFA buying price for clean and dry rice is only P17 per kilo.
"NFA wants to buy from local farmers, but its buying price, since its effectivity in February 2009, cannot compete with the prices of traders and millers," he continued.
Farm gate prices of freshly harvested rice has already soared to as high as P29 per kilo.
Aside from this, Cebu's mountainous terrain is not ideal for rice production. There is also the conversion of farm lands into industrial and residential areas.
Small farm areas in the provinces are only 0.5 hectares per farmer and there is the lack of continuous water supply, especially during the summer.
IRRI, Crop Trust agree to share rice varieties
| Published Date Oct 13, 2018 0:53 AM
The International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) and the Crop Trust have signed an agreement to fund the
world’s largest rice collection for the conservation and sharing of 136,000
varieties of the crop.
IRRI in a press statement
yesterday said the agreement guarantees funding worth US$1.4 million a year, in
perpetuity, will be signed on World Food Day, October 16 at the 5th
International Rice Congress in Singapore.
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The amount will be paid from the
Crop Trust’s endowment fund which was established in 2004 to provide
sustainable, long-term financial support to the world’s most important food and
agriculture genebanks.
The Director General of IRRI,
Matthew Morell, in the statement said “this is fantastic news for the future of
rice research,” adding that “half of the world’s population-around 3.5
billion people-eats rice every day and the IRRI genebank is fundamental to
global efforts to make the rice sector more resilient, sustainable and
equitable.By 2050, annual global rice consumption is estimated to rise from 450
million to 525 million tonnes. Asians eat more than 90 per cent of this rice;
the region’s 515 million hungry are particularly dependent on the crop. This is
in addition to the demand for rice in Africa growing at almost 7 per cent, per
year.
Snap, Crackle, Pop: What Rice Cereal Can Tell Us
About Collapsing Ice Shelves
New research reveals how wet porous materials collapse under
pressure.
Image
credits:
Francois Guillard and Itai Einav
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 14:00
(Inside Science) -- The crackle
of wet rice puffs is more than snappy advertising strategy: Pouring milk into a
bowl of cereal might help shed light on the collapse of ice shelves and dams of
compacted earth, a new study finds.
Brittle, porous materials are
prone to suddenly crumbling when they encounter high pressure or are soaked in
liquids, an effect linked with the collapse of rockfill dams and the formation of
sinkholes. However, it was uncertain what happens when such materials are
subjected to both pressure and liquid at the same time, as might happen at the
base of giant ice shelves.
Experimenting with an ice shelf
or a rockfill dam can prove difficult and dangerous. Instead, scientists
have conducted research on how porous materials behave using puffed rice.
In the new study, the researchers
filled a vertical cylinder with puffed rice, applied constant pressure on top,
and then injected milk into the lower part of the cylinder. The fluid naturally
got pulled upward through microscopic pores in each puffed rice grain, the same
effect that helps draw water up inside trees.
They found that the cereal
experienced repeated incremental collapses, as well as loud clicks from abrupt
collapses of wet puffed rice, which they dubbed "ricequakes." The
delays between these clicks slowly lengthened over time.
The scientists developed a
"crushing wave model" they suggested could explain the delays between
collapses in the dry regions after fluid injection. This model could help analyze
the effects of pressures in the Earth's crust and at the bottom of massive ice
sheets over time, they noted.
Researchers Itai Einav and
François Guillard at the University of Sydney in Australia detailed their findings online Oct. 12 in the
journal Science Advances.
Almost all known varieties of rice crops to be
saved, forever
The world’s largest rice
collection to receive permanent funding for the conservation and sharing of
136,000 varieties of the staple crop that feeds more than three billion people
worldwide.
The world’s largest rice collection is to receive permanent
funding for the conservation and sharing of 136,000 varieties of the staple
crop that feeds more than three billion people worldwide. The agreement between
the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Crop Trust, which
guarantees funding worth US$1.4 million a year, in perpetuity, will be signed
on World Food Day, 16 October, during the 5th International Rice
Congress in Singapore.
Scientists worldwide use the seeds stored at IRRI’s high-tech
facility in Los Baños, Philippines to develop improved rice varieties that can
withstand climate change impacts—such as severe flooding and drought—while
keeping pace with the growing world population and changing consumer
preferences. By 2050, annual global rice consumption is estimated to rise from
450 million to 525 million tons. Asians eat more than 90 percent of this rice;
the region’s 515 million hungry are particularly dependent on the staple.
This is in addition to demand for rice in Africa growing at almost 7 percent
per year.
Scientists at IRRI have used the rice samples stored in the bank to develop rice breakthroughs tailored to climate extremes like drought and flooding which are already threatening production in key rice-producing regions, including India, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
One major innovation is set to benefit farmers tending to some 20 million hectares of rice land across Asia regularly hit by flooding. Whereas most rice dies within days of submergence under water, “scuba rice” withstands flooding for up to two weeks. This rice is currently grown by five million farmers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos, the Philippines and Indonesia. Researchers are now adapting the rice for Africa.
Scientists at IRRI have used the rice samples stored in the bank to develop rice breakthroughs tailored to climate extremes like drought and flooding which are already threatening production in key rice-producing regions, including India, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
One major innovation is set to benefit farmers tending to some 20 million hectares of rice land across Asia regularly hit by flooding. Whereas most rice dies within days of submergence under water, “scuba rice” withstands flooding for up to two weeks. This rice is currently grown by five million farmers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos, the Philippines and Indonesia. Researchers are now adapting the rice for Africa.
The IRRI genebank is one of 11
genebanks of CGIAR, a global research partnership dedicated to reducing
poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security and improving natural resources
and ecosystem services. The CGIAR genebanks conserve millions of crop seeds,
distributing more than 100,000 samples to researchers and farmers around the
world every year.
NFA rice in Cebu
still not available in groceries
Problem solved? President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to make
National Food Authority (NFA) rice more accessible to the public should help
consumers in Cebu, where majority of the rice is sourced outside the province,
cope with rising prices. Implementation of the order, though, seems to have
stalled. (SunStar Foto / Alex Badayos)
Local stocks. Of the first batch of national rice imports
totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority 7 got 49,000 MT.
Some 30,000 MT more is expected to arrive in the last quarter. (SunStar File)
Problem solved? President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to make
National Food Authority (NFA) rice more accessible to the public should help
consumers in Cebu, where majority of the rice is sourced outside the province,
cope with rising prices. Implementation of the order, though, seems to have
stalled. (SunStar Foto / Alex Badayos)
Local stocks. Of the first batch of national rice imports
totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority 7 got 49,000 MT.
Some 30,000 MT more is expected to arrive in the last quarter. (SunStar File)
Problem solved? President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to make
National Food Authority (NFA) rice more accessible to the public should help
consumers in Cebu, where majority of the rice is sourced outside the province,
cope with rising prices. Implementation of the order, though, seems to have
stalled. (SunStar Foto / Alex Badayos)
Local stocks. Of the first batch of national rice imports
totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), the National Food Authority 7 got 49,000 MT.
Some 30,000 MT more is expected to arrive in the last quarter. (SunStar File)
October 13, 2018
TESS (not her real name) stared at the selection of commercial
rice sold at the produce section of a grocery store in Cebu City for nearly
five minutes.
When she first arrived in Cebu to study almost four years ago, her parents bought her a small rice cooker since she'd be staying in a boarding house.
Since then, the 20-year-old college student has been buying five kilos of rice monthly, which she said has helped her save.
"I only have to think about the meat. But because I'm graduating soon, I have been stress-eating a lot. My supply runs out even before the month ends, so I have to buy again," she told SunStar Cebu in Cebuano.
Tess only has P500 in her pocket until her parents in Bohol can send her money.
She usually buys Ganador, one of the well-known variants of commercial rice. Its price, though, has increased from P53 per kilo to P56.
"It's getting expensive, but I really need it. That's why I take time to decide what to buy. I'm supposed to be a Math major, but all these numbers on the price tags are making me dizzy," Tess said.
With commercial rice continuously increasing in price, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered more National Food Authority (NFA) rice to be made available nationwide, particularly in supermarkets.
But how come we don't see that yet?
According to NFA 7 Director Fernando Nuñez, their central office is waiting for the transfer of project funds by the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association (Pagasa) directly to any NFA branch on cash basis.
"This is in accordance with the tripartite memorandum of agreement among NFA, Pagasa and the Department of Trade and Industry," he said.
The NFA is a government office tasked to ensure national food security, and to stabilize supply and prices of staple cereals both in the farm and consumer levels.
It sets a uniform buying price of rice based on various standards to give farmers return of their investment, and puts in the market accessible, safe and affordable NFA rice at fixed prices.
Around 20 percent of the total rice consumed in Cebu annually is NFA rice.
Contrary to popular belief that only poor families are qualified to buy NFA rice, any consumer is actually eligible to buy the low-priced rice, as evidenced by a certification from the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
At present, there are 410 NFA rice retailers in major and minor markets in Cebu.
Recently, Prince Warehouse Club Inc. announced that it is in the process of complying with the requirements to sell rice from the NFA.
Each supermarket is allotted 50 bags of NFA rice sold at either P27 or P32 per kilo. The supermarket owners go to the nearest NFA branch to pay for their stocks.
After this, they will proceed to the designated NFA warehouse to withdraw their allocation similar to what regular NFA-accredited retailers are currently doing.
Consumers will be allowed to buy NFA rice at supermarkets in two-kilo packs.
The NFA, though, is still looking for more accredited retailers to make low-priced rice accessible to more consumers.
"NFA Cebu determines the need to open and/or accredit more outlets in specific areas in accordance with its matrix of rice consumption requirement by municipality versus number of existing NFA-accredited outlets in said place," Nuñez said.
An interested sole proprietor will have to submit two copies of passport-sized pictures, photocopies of their business permit and a sketch of their store's location.
Corporations, partnerships and cooperatives, on the other hand, are required to submit two copies of their board resolution authorizing the representative to sign for and in behalf of the entity; passport-sized photos of the representative; articles of incorporation and bylaws; and a certificate of registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission or certificate of cooperation with the Cooperative Development Authority.
Nuñez, though, stressed that the lack of cheap rice is not necessarily caused by lack of retailers and vice versa.
It can be attributed instead to agricultural damage caused by natural calamities, among others.
Because of this, commercial rice continues to be abundant in the market, but their prices are high.
The NFA 7 buffer buildup comes from rice procurement from local farmers, local rice influx from other regions and rice procurement from imports.
"NFA 7 can buy a very minimal volume from Cebu farmers since the province's rice production is meager compared to the burgeoning population or consumption. Cebu does not have big rice millers," Nuñez said.
The region's imported rice allocation depends on the national import volume.
Of the first batch of national imports this year totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), NFA 7 got 9.8 percent, or 49,000 MT.
An additional allocation of 30,000 MT is expected to arrive in the last quarter and will represent four percent of the next batch of 750,000 MT national imports.
NFA 7 relies heavily on international rice supply through importation usually from Vietnam and Thailand. The source of local rice, on the other hand, was the milled output of rice procured from local farmers.
Around 99.8 percent of NFA 7 rice distribution in the last four years was imported rice and a measly 0.2 percent was local rice.
Nuñez said this is because farmers in Central Visayas not only produce inadequate supply, they also don't sell their products to the government because the NFA buying price for clean and dry rice is only P17 per kilo.
"NFA wants to buy from local farmers, but its buying price, since its effectivity in February 2009, cannot compete with the prices of traders and millers," he continued.
Farm gate prices of freshly harvested rice has already soared to as high as P29 per kilo.
Aside from this, Cebu's mountainous terrain is not ideal for rice production. There is also the conversion of farm lands into industrial and residential areas.
Small farm areas in the provinces are only 0.5 hectares per farmer and there is the lack of continuous water supply, especially during the summer.
When she first arrived in Cebu to study almost four years ago, her parents bought her a small rice cooker since she'd be staying in a boarding house.
Since then, the 20-year-old college student has been buying five kilos of rice monthly, which she said has helped her save.
"I only have to think about the meat. But because I'm graduating soon, I have been stress-eating a lot. My supply runs out even before the month ends, so I have to buy again," she told SunStar Cebu in Cebuano.
Tess only has P500 in her pocket until her parents in Bohol can send her money.
She usually buys Ganador, one of the well-known variants of commercial rice. Its price, though, has increased from P53 per kilo to P56.
"It's getting expensive, but I really need it. That's why I take time to decide what to buy. I'm supposed to be a Math major, but all these numbers on the price tags are making me dizzy," Tess said.
With commercial rice continuously increasing in price, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered more National Food Authority (NFA) rice to be made available nationwide, particularly in supermarkets.
But how come we don't see that yet?
According to NFA 7 Director Fernando Nuñez, their central office is waiting for the transfer of project funds by the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association (Pagasa) directly to any NFA branch on cash basis.
"This is in accordance with the tripartite memorandum of agreement among NFA, Pagasa and the Department of Trade and Industry," he said.
The NFA is a government office tasked to ensure national food security, and to stabilize supply and prices of staple cereals both in the farm and consumer levels.
It sets a uniform buying price of rice based on various standards to give farmers return of their investment, and puts in the market accessible, safe and affordable NFA rice at fixed prices.
Around 20 percent of the total rice consumed in Cebu annually is NFA rice.
Contrary to popular belief that only poor families are qualified to buy NFA rice, any consumer is actually eligible to buy the low-priced rice, as evidenced by a certification from the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
At present, there are 410 NFA rice retailers in major and minor markets in Cebu.
Recently, Prince Warehouse Club Inc. announced that it is in the process of complying with the requirements to sell rice from the NFA.
Each supermarket is allotted 50 bags of NFA rice sold at either P27 or P32 per kilo. The supermarket owners go to the nearest NFA branch to pay for their stocks.
After this, they will proceed to the designated NFA warehouse to withdraw their allocation similar to what regular NFA-accredited retailers are currently doing.
Consumers will be allowed to buy NFA rice at supermarkets in two-kilo packs.
The NFA, though, is still looking for more accredited retailers to make low-priced rice accessible to more consumers.
"NFA Cebu determines the need to open and/or accredit more outlets in specific areas in accordance with its matrix of rice consumption requirement by municipality versus number of existing NFA-accredited outlets in said place," Nuñez said.
An interested sole proprietor will have to submit two copies of passport-sized pictures, photocopies of their business permit and a sketch of their store's location.
Corporations, partnerships and cooperatives, on the other hand, are required to submit two copies of their board resolution authorizing the representative to sign for and in behalf of the entity; passport-sized photos of the representative; articles of incorporation and bylaws; and a certificate of registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission or certificate of cooperation with the Cooperative Development Authority.
Nuñez, though, stressed that the lack of cheap rice is not necessarily caused by lack of retailers and vice versa.
It can be attributed instead to agricultural damage caused by natural calamities, among others.
Because of this, commercial rice continues to be abundant in the market, but their prices are high.
The NFA 7 buffer buildup comes from rice procurement from local farmers, local rice influx from other regions and rice procurement from imports.
"NFA 7 can buy a very minimal volume from Cebu farmers since the province's rice production is meager compared to the burgeoning population or consumption. Cebu does not have big rice millers," Nuñez said.
The region's imported rice allocation depends on the national import volume.
Of the first batch of national imports this year totaling 500,000 metric tons (MT), NFA 7 got 9.8 percent, or 49,000 MT.
An additional allocation of 30,000 MT is expected to arrive in the last quarter and will represent four percent of the next batch of 750,000 MT national imports.
NFA 7 relies heavily on international rice supply through importation usually from Vietnam and Thailand. The source of local rice, on the other hand, was the milled output of rice procured from local farmers.
Around 99.8 percent of NFA 7 rice distribution in the last four years was imported rice and a measly 0.2 percent was local rice.
Nuñez said this is because farmers in Central Visayas not only produce inadequate supply, they also don't sell their products to the government because the NFA buying price for clean and dry rice is only P17 per kilo.
"NFA wants to buy from local farmers, but its buying price, since its effectivity in February 2009, cannot compete with the prices of traders and millers," he continued.
Farm gate prices of freshly harvested rice has already soared to as high as P29 per kilo.
Aside from this, Cebu's mountainous terrain is not ideal for rice production. There is also the conversion of farm lands into industrial and residential areas.
Small farm areas in the provinces are only 0.5 hectares per farmer and there is the lack of continuous water supply, especially during the summer.
WORLD'S LARGEST
RICE GENE BANK SECURES FUNDING TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
10/15/2018
By Michael Taylor
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 (Thomson
Reuters Foundation) - The world's largest collection of rice varieties has
secured indefinite funding in what officials say will be crucial for the
development of seeds resilient to the effects of climate change.
The International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) will sign an agreement with Bonn-based non-profit the Crop
Trust on Tuesday in Singapore to secure $1.4 million per year to fund IRRI's
rice gene bank in Los Baños, the Philippines.
"It is really important to the
future of food security," said Matthew Morell, director general at IRRI.
"Within those rice varieties
are genetics that will allow us to preserve the ability to produce rice in the
face of climate change," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
About 3 billion people - mostly in
Asia - depend on rice as a staple. But as the world's population increases,
farmers are struggling to meet rising demand, while crops suffer from extreme
weather conditions linked to climate change.
By 2050, annual global rice
consumption is projected by IRRI to rise from 450 million tonnes to 525 million
tonnes.
The Philippines-based IRRI was
established in 1960 and one of its first activities was to collect rice
varieties from around Southeast Asia and South Asia.
The IRRI conserves and shares
136,000 rice varieties with farmers, breeders and scientists, said Marie Haga,
executive director of the Crop Trust.
The Crop Trust is building an
endowment fund, currently at $300 million, and hopes to eventually secure $850
million to provide permanent funding for the IRRI's rice bank, one of the most
important agricultural gene banks in the world, Haga said.
Most of the Crop Trust's funding
comes from governments, and as the endowment fund grows, it will increase the
number of crop collections it funds.
"The most important threat to
food security is that the climate changes faster than plants are able to
adapt," Haga told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "That's why we need
to help them and we can do that by natural breeding."
Scientists at IRRI have used rice
stored in the bank to develop varieties that can withstand drought and
flooding, which are already threatening production in countries like India,
China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.
Morell said that a main focus is
developing varieties that are more resistant to high temperatures, and more
frequent droughts and floods from rain as well as the ocean.
"In Asia we have areas which
grow rice along coastal zones, where typhoons bring sea water into the rice
fields, so those genetics for salinity resistance is important," he said.
(Reporting by Michael Taylor
@MickSTaylor; Editing by Jared Ferrie. Please credit the Thomson Reuters
Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian
news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, and climate
change. Visit http://news.trust.org)
IRRI to get permanent
funding; international rice conference kicks off
Tarra Quismundo, ABS-CBN News
SINGAPORE - The International
Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the world’s premier rice science organization,
is set to receive permanent funding to support its initiatives towards ending
world hunger.
IRRI, based in Los Baños, Laguna,
is set to sign an agreement with Germany-based non-profit the Crop Trust for a
guaranteed annual funding of $1.4 million on Tuesday, World Food Day, also the
second day of the 5th International Rice Congress (IRC) here.
“This is fantastic news for the
future of rice research,” said IRRI Director General Matthew Morell in a
statement.
“The Crop Trust funding enables
IRRI to focus on using its large and diverse rice collection to benefit the
world,” he said.
The funding will come from Crop
Trust’s endowment fund, established in 2004 “to provide sustainable, long-term
financial support to the world’s most important food and agriculture gene
banks.”
“This is a landmark moment for
IRRI and for the Crop Trust. At a time when many donors have increasingly
complex demands on their resources, it’s important that the world’s crop
collections are safe, secure and the gene banks functioning effectively,” said
Marie Haga, Crop Trust Executive Director.
The funding will initially cover
“essential” IRRI gene bank operations from 2019 to 2023, “including
conservation, regeneration and distribution of its cultivated and wild seed
collections” IRRI said.
Under the agreement, IRRI will
also “provide expert advice to five national gene banks to help their crop
conservation efforts.”
The pact will be renewed every
five years “into the future,” IRRI said.
The Crop Trust is hoping that
IRRI will be just the first of many significant global gene banks to receive perpetual
funding from the organization.
IRRI has the world’s largest rice
collection, with 136,000 varieties of the staple consumed by more than 3
billion people around the world. It has been at the forefront of rice research,
including the development of high-yielding and climate-resilient varieties such
as “scuba rice,” which can withstand submergence in floods for up to two weeks.
At the opening of the IRC here
Monday, officials from global agriculture and research organizations, as well
as host Singapore, reaffirmed their commitment to ending world hunger in
symbolic rites where they pressed the “sustainability button.”
Representatives from IRRI, FAO, IFAO, and
host Singapore push “sustainability button” to renew commitment to end global
hunger at Int’l Rice Congress opening | via @TarraQuismundo
Some 1,500 participants,
including public and private sector representatives from 40 countries, turned
up for what is considered “the Olympics of rice science,” where participants
will engage in three days of discussions on innovations in rice production and
trade, and other developments in agriculture.
In opening the conference, Morell
emphasized the need for governments, the academe, research institutions, and
the public and private sectors to work together towards addressing the threat
of climate change to food security.
He cited the need to “recognize
that transformation of the rice sector cannot be accomplished by any one rice
research organization or the public or private sector alone.”
Morell added that IRRI continues
to engage in “catalytic” activities that could lead to the “discovery,
validation and implementation” of rice innovation to benefit farmers and
consumers, as population increase continues to strain the world’s food
resources.
In his speech, Gilbert Houngbo,
president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, called for
investment in rural transformation as a means to address the risk of extreme
hunger in impoverished parts of the world.
He cited the threat of droughts,
floods and pest diseases to crops, further aggravated by climate change.
“Climate change is now magnifying
these risks. The impact on small farmers, who often have no resources with
which to cope, could be severe unless they are able to adapt,” he said.
He said it was “essential” to
help small farmers double their agriculture production and, hence, their income
by 2030, as envisioned under the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs).
“If we are to achieve SDGs, if we
are to end poverty and double small holders’ production and income by 2030, we
need not only to innovate but for our ideas to be implemented and to be scaled
up,” he said.
“To feed the world sustainably,
we need rural areas to become places where new ideas are incubated and grown.
Only the new and innovative approach with small holders at the center can
deliver the rural transformation we are looking for,” he said.
World's largest
rice science conference opens in Singapore, to discuss challenges facing rice
production
SINGAPORE - The production of rice, one of the world’s most
important crops, is facing major problems, such as slow growth and climate
change, which could increase its price by more than 30 per cent by 2050.
“We need major changes to our rice and food production systems,
to make them more resilient to weather disruptions, and also the reduce their
emissions and their impact on the environment,” said Minister for National
Development Lawrence Wong on Monday (Oct 15).
Speaking at the opening of the International Rice Congress, Mr
Wong said although Singapore is a rice consumer instead of a producer,
the country has turned its limited land space to experiment with more
productive farming methods.
“After all, necessity is the mother of invention,” said Mr Wong,
who is also Second Minister for Finance, citing examples of urban farming that
produce more rice with less land.
The congress, also called the “Olympics of Rice Science”, is the
world’s largest scientific conference on rice. It is held every four years, and
is in Singapore for the first time.
This year’s conference, organised by the International Rice
Research Institute (Irri) and Agri-food and Veterinary Authority, brings
together 1,500 participants from 40 countries including scientists, government
officials and representatives from international organisations like the United
Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Among the announcements on Monday was a four-year
partnership between Irri and Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural arm of
chemical giant DowDuPont, which aims to improve global rice production and
quality.
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PRESS RELEASE PR Newswire
Oct. 14, 2018, 08:01 PM
TOKYO, Oct. 15, 2018 /PR Newswire/ -- In October 2018, an exhibition highlighting Chinese craftmanship held at Tsutaya Book Store in Tokyoattracted visitors from all walks of life across Japan who were unanimous in agreeing that the rice cooked in the Chinese-made rice cookers on display tasted just as good as rice prepared in their Japanese counterparts.
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The rice cooker showcased at the exhibition is called the Supor IH Steam Spherical Rice Cooker. The spherical cauldron used in the rice cooker is based on China's traditional large iron pot, while the innovative, first-of-its-kind wide-mouth and shallow-bottom profile increases the heating area of the inner liner by 30% compared with ordinary rice cookers, allowing the rice to be brought to a higher temperature and, at the same time, be more evenly heated, while absorbing more moisture, tasting more authentic, and fully releasing the original flavor.
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12 OCTOBER 2018
World's largest rice gene bank secures permanent funding
The
International Rice Research Institute is home to 136,000 varieties and aims to
develop crops resistant to climate change.
Rice is a staple food
for almost half the world’s population.Credit: Erik De Castro/Reuters
A major global
repository of rice biodiversity has secured permanent funding.
The International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) gene bank, based in Los Baños, the Philippines,
harbours some 136,000 varieties of rice and its wild relatives — resources that
scientists can study and that breeders can use to develop new kinds of rice.
On 12 October, the
Crop Trust, a non-governmental organization based in Bonn, Germany that
supports food security and crop diversity, announced funding of US$1.4 million
a year "in perpetuity" to support the rice gene bank.
“This is fantastic
news for the future of rice research,” said Matthew Morell, director-general of
IRRI in a press release. “The Crop Trust funding enables IRRI to focus on using
its large and diverse rice collection to benefit the world.”
Rice is a staple food
for almost half the world’s population, and new varieties could help to
maintain crop production in the face of increased drought, flooding and other
manifestations of global climate change.
“Today’s announcement validates 20 years of
work and 50 years of thinking on how the international community can safeguard
crops used for food and agriculture," said Marie Haga, executive director
of the Crop Trust, in a press release. “We hope IRRI will be the first of
several globally significant gene banks to receive permanent financial support
from the Crop Trust.”
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| Key Players | Type | Application | Region |
| KRBL Limited, Amira Nature Foods, LT Foods, Best Foods, Kohinoor Rice, Aeroplane Rice, Tilda Basmati Rice, Matco Foods, Amar Singh Chawal Wala, Hanuman Rice Mills, Adani Wilmar, HAS Rice Pakistan, Galaxy Rice Mill, Dunar Foods, Sungold |
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| United States, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India |
Study Objectives of Basmati Rice Sales Market:
- To analyze and study the global Basmati Rice sales, value, status (2013-2017) and forecast (2018-2025);
- To analyze the top players in North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and India, to study the sales, value and market share of top players in these regions.
- Focuses on the key Basmati Rice players, to study the sales, value, market share and development plans in future.
- Focuses on the global key manufacturers, to define, describe and analyze the market competition landscape, SWOT analysis.
- To define, describe and forecast the market by type, application and region.
- To analyze the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks.
- To identify significant trends and factors driving or inhibiting the market growth.
- To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders by identifying the high growth segments.
- To strategically analyze each submarket with respect to individual growth trend and their contribution to the market
- To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market
- To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their growth strategies.
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Rice Seeds market worth $7.62 billion by 2023
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The rice seeds market is projected to reach USD 7.62 billion by 2023, from USD 5.47 billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 6.85% during the forecast period.
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The market is driven by factors such as the increasing technological advances in rice breeding, declining prices of hybrid rice seeds, growing adoption of hybrid rice seeds in the developed and developing countries, and rising seed replacement rate for paddy across Asian countries.
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Long-grain rice seeds are estimated to be the most widely used variety of rice seeds in 2018.
Long grain rice is cultivated at a high rate across different countries due to the changing consumer demand and limited application of short grain rice in the food industry.
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The production of long rice has been growing across the globe, particularly in the US and Asian countries. Basmati and jasmine are some of the long grain rice varieties that are exported from Asia in large quantities and have industrial importance from the perspective of rice millers in terms of price value.
In addition, hybrids and OPV seeds offered by key players such as Bayer and DowDuPont are mainly for long rice grains, followed by medium-sized rice and short rice.
The treated segment is projected to witness the fastest growth during the forecast period.
Seed treatment has been gaining importance for field crops, such as corn, wheat, and soybean, to reduce crop loss from early pest attacks. However, the adoption of this technology for rice is still gradual across countries.
Rice is mainly cultivated in the Asian countries. However, farmers are reluctant toward investing capital on crop inputs and prefer adopting the traditional techniques of crop protection.
Due to the rising need for sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management guidelines laid by governments in the Asian countries has encouraged farmers to adopt seed coating technologies. On the account of these factors, this segment is projected to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period.
Asia Pacific is estimated to dominate the market in 2018 and is projected to be the fastest-growing market for rice seeds through 2023.
Asia Pacific is a major consumer and producer of rice across the globe, and inadequate arable land in this region has encouraged farmers for better yield from their cultivation. Adoption of advanced technologies such as hybrid and certified seeds is also increasing in this region.
According to the recent data of USDA published in 2016, India and China are the two major producers and consumers of rice, not only in the Asia Pacific region but across the globe. The Asia Pacific market for rice seeds is consolidated with two players occupying the largest share, followed by other players.
Since rice cultivation in other regions of the world is comparatively low, the growth of the Asia Pacific market is projected to remain steady during the forecast period.
This report includes a study of the development strategies, along with the product portfolios of leading companies. It also includes the profiles of leading companies such as Bayer (Germany), DowDuPont (US), Syngenta (Switzerland), Advanta Seeds (UPL) (India), and Nuziveedu Seeds (India), Mahyco (India), BASF (Germany), Kaveri Seeds (India), SL Agritech (Philippines), Rasi seeds (India), Rallis (India), JK Seeds (India), Hefei Fengle (China), LongPing (China), Guard Agri (Pakistan), and National Seeds Corporation (India).
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