Pakistan pursues trade ties with Taiwan
Pakistani economic official
secretly visits Taiwan Trade Center in Cairo
By Ching-Tse Cheng, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2020/09/04 11:38
Pakistan
flag. (Pixabay photo)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Pakistan, one of
China's closest strategic allies, is reportedly pursuing secret trade ties with
Taiwan, according to Times of
India.
On Wednesday (Sept. 2), Sidrah Haque, trade
officer at the Pakistani embassy in Cairo, posted a picture of her visit to the
local Taiwan Trade Center and its director Michael Yen (葉人誠). She said their meeting was focused on
developing Pakistan-Taiwan trade ties and sharing information about the local
business market.
Although Haque expressed excitement about
connecting with Taiwanese on trade matters, she quickly deleted the post,
likely due to concerns over Beijing's reaction. However, it is clear that
Pakistan is considering establishing closer economic ties with Taiwan despite
its heavy dependence on China.
With a population estimated at 212 million,
Pakistan relies on rice, cotton, linen, and textiles as its main exports. Its
top imports include petroleum products, electrical machinery, plastics, iron,
and steel.
According to Taiwan External Trade
Development Council (TAITRA) data, Pakistan's imports from Taiwan totaled
US$626 million in 2019. In the same year, its exports to Taiwan were worth
US$100 million, reported CNA.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4001665
Chinese
president reschedules Pakistan visit due to COVID-19
China's
President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan
(L) ahead of their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on
November 2, 2018. (AFP)
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Url
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Updated 04 September 2020
ARAB NEWS
PAKISTAN
September 04, 202010:43
- Chinese
ambassador to Pakistan Yao says both nations working together to finalize
a new date for Xi’s trip
- Pakistani
foreign minister emphasizes need for greater cooperation between Pakistan
and China in agriculture sector
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing said on Thursday that a
planned visit to Pakistan of Chinese President Xi Jinping had been rescheduled
due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pakistani media has reported.
While speaking to journalists at a local mall in Rawalpindi, Yao said the
governments of China and Pakistan were working to finalize a new date for Xi’s
visit, which would be announced soon. He said President Xi would visit Pakistan
on the invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The envoy expressed satisfaction over progress in projects under the
multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) agreement, saying
both nations were aware of threats to the corridor posed by common ‘enemies’.
“We will not allow the enemies to succeed in their nefarious designs and CPEC
projects will continue despite the challenge of COVID-19 on both sides,” Yao
was quoted by Pakistani media as saying.
CPEC has seen Beijing pledge over $60 billion for infrastructure projects in
Pakistan, central to China’s wider Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to develop
land and sea trade routes in Asia and beyond.
Separately on Thursday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met Yao and
emphasized the need for greater cooperation between Pakistan and China in the
agriculture sector.
There is a greater need to revamp and modernize agriculture sector with China’s
co-operation and unleash the Second Green Revolution in Pakistan,” Qureshi said
in a statement.
He said China in recent years had introduced wide-ranging reforms in its
agriculture sector that had contributed significantly to the country’s GDP
growth and strengthened and diversified its research and development capacity.
“It was imperative that Pakistan benefits from China’s experiences,” the
statement said, adding that Qureshi said “deeper agriculture cooperation
between China and Pakistan will lead to job creation, enhancing agricultural
productivity, poverty alleviation and stimulating economic recovery in Pakistan
in the aftermath of COVID-19.”
Welcoming the establishment of the Joint Working Group on Agriculture
Cooperation under CPEC, Qureshi said the inclusion of agriculture under the
CPEC umbrella would promote industrialization and modernization of the
agriculture economy.
https://www.arabnews.pk/node/1729426/pakistan
Excess White Rice Intake Linked To New Onset Of Type 2
Diabetes
Excess
White Rice Intake Linked To New Onset Of Type 2 Diabetes By Hina ZahidPublished
On 4 Sep 2020 10:00 PM | Updated On 5 Sep 2020 1:45 PM
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5 strategies to engage
with online shoppers
'Winning at shelf' is less important than
'winning at couch'
04-Sep-2020 - Last
updated on 04-Sep-2020 at 13:29 GMT
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Once considered a top priority for a food or beverage brand’s success,
‘winning at shelf’ is now only “somewhat important” as the ongoing coronavirus
pandemic reshapes how consumers plan and shop for groceries and how
manufacturers and retailers engage with them, according to industry
stakeholders.
“I think all of us are
trained through the years [that] it’s all about winning at shelf and in the
store,” but “all of
that changed overnight” when the pandemic was declared, Harmless
Harvest CEO Ben Mand said during a roundtable discussion with other plant-based
brand executives and investors hosted by the PR agency JConnelly, Inc.
He explained that before the COVID-19 outbreak, new
and emerging brands relied heavily on in-store demos to drive trial, while all
brands used shelf tags, in-store merchandising, and in store promotions to win
at shelf.
But now, he said, “there’s no longer field reps in there building
big displays. … You no longer have those promotions going on. You no longer can
sample.”
As a result, he said, “winning at shelf, while in the long run that
is still somewhat important, what we felt became far more important is winning
at couch.”
He explained winning at couch means connecting with
consumers online as they order groceries for delivery or pick up, or as they
draft shopping lists so that if they visit a store they can get in and out as
fast as possible.
“For us, and I think
all of us, what we’ve experienced is … [marketing and consumer engagement]
really migrated from the shelf and all the things that you do in-store to: How
do we win at couch? How do we win either the planning of the trip or the actual
shopping?” Mand said.
Earn cart access with instant rebates, ‘surprise and
delight’ campaigns
One way that the plant-based beverage grand Koia has “hacked”
online shopping and planning is by focusing on rebate apps, like Ibotta, that
consumers pre-load or Instacart, said company CEO Chris Hunter.
Another strategy was a “surprise and delight” campaign
that Koia did with the delivery platform goPuff, in which it gave away one
bottle of Koia each to 20,000 orders.
“What that did is put
it in their carts as if they had ordered. It made it pop to the top when they
went to reorder. What we noticed is every month since we’ve done that, our
sales have doubled. It is a unique way for us to get to a customer in a unique
manner and then also link it closer to sales, to the point of sale,” Hunter said.
Koia also partnered meal kits, which Hunter said “reemerged
during this time.” He explained that initially the partnerships
were a way to sample products but then he realized it was a new revenue channel
and way to connect with consumers at home on a continual basis.
Improve online marketing, offer inspiration &
solutions
Ensuring a high-quality digital marketing campaign
with richer content media, including photographs, videos and recipes, is
another way that the plant-based comfort food brand Alpha Foods is winning at
couch, according to the company co-founder and CEO Cole Orobetz.
“A lot of digital
social messaging and strategy shifted to putting together more interactive
social content, such as cooking with certain chefs and influencers and how to
use the Alpha products in a home setting, versus some of our previous messaging
up until this point with a wide array of grab-and-go items” that focused on “eat-it-quick and run out of the house, which
no longer [is something] people are doing,” he explained.
Mand echoed the value of offering consumers recipes
and inspiration “because there’s a monotony to how we’re living
right now, and finding new ways to cook … new routines and stuff like that is
definitely something that people are searching for,” he said.
Rethink pricing and packaging
Products historically purchased as single-serve items
or grab-and-go can still find their way to consumers’ virtual carts by
repackaging them as a multi-pack or multi-serve option, said Jordan Gaspar,
president and managing partner of AF Ventures.
She also advises brands that historically focused on
the natural channel or more premium retailers to rethink their pricing
strategies to make their products more accessible to online consumers across
channels.
“It’s an important moment
right now, as we think about the macroclimate and sort of recessionary climate
of how do we offer these high-quality products to consumers at a price that
they’re able to afford? Price strategies are top of mind for everybody here
because one of the most important things we all discovered in the past five
months is that the conventional channel is where huge growth came out of,” Gaspar said. “People were buying all of these natural
products at Walmart, Target, Kroger, Publix and Costco. We need to make sure
that the pricing of our products meet the expectations of those consumers so
they’ll continue to [buy] those products from those locations.”
Ultimately, they all agreed that there is still
significant desire by consumers to discover and engage with brands, but it is
up to companies to identify new ways to do so in today's unique and evolving
climate.
Cong to move NHRC over inedible
foodgrain
Suchandana Gupta
| TNN | Sep 4, 2020, 04:57 IST
Bhopal: State Congress on Thursday said it will register a
complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding the
inedible food grain distribution through public distribution system (PDS) in
tribal areas during the Covid lockdown.
In a joint press conference by AICC media convener Abhay Dubey and state PCC
vice-president Bhupendra Gupta, Congress also demanded a high-level probe to
fix responsibility for the substandard food distribution.
The revelation about the rations, “suitable only for goats and sheep”, was made
through a letter from the Union consumer affairs ministry dated August 21.
While ruling BJP claimed that the grains were acquired during the 15-month
Kamal Nath government in the state, Congress said that the substandard rice
distributed is not grown in Madhya Pradesh. Dubey said, “BJP’s allegation does
not target the erstwhile Congress government, it humiliates the toil and hard
work of farmers of this state. Do farmers of MP give this kind of rice for
acquisition to the government?”
Dubey also alleged that the grains were exchanged from the warehouses. “Today
or tomorrow, it will get revealed that a nexus of certain big grain merchants
from a neighbouring state, some big mill owners, senior officials of this state
and senior BJP leaders have a nexus. I say with full responsibility that the
grains were exchanged.”
Congress maintained that genetically if the grains, especially rice is tested,
then it would be revealed that this variety does not grow in MP. “It is a
shameful incident of extreme corruption when the last man in our society, the
poor tribal, is being given inedible rations fit for consumption of animals,”
Dubey added.
Gupta argued that the letter from the consumer affairs ministry states that
gunny bags in which the rice was stored were stamped and dated three years ago.
“If the seal on the rice bags are dated three years ago, how can BJP claim it
was procured during Congress rule? The rice must have been procured by the
previous BJP government because three years ago there was no Congress
government in the state,” he said.
“The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government should state when this rice was
procured,” Gupta added.
Dubey further pointed out that the government procures paddy from farmers and
not rice. “Paddy is procured from farmers and sent to the mills. If BJP was not
involved in this nexus, then it would have registered an FIR against the
culprits by now. But the government hasn’t done that. The Congress party
demands a probe so that responsibility can be fixed on those involved. A chain
of officials certifies the quality of grains,” he said.
Both Gupta and Dubey said that the state Congress will register a complaint
with the NHRC since the incident amounts to gross violation of human rights.
Friday
Fakeaway: Indian chef shares his signature dish, Chillies’ Garlic Butter
Chicken
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We all want to create an
authentic restaurant or takeaway Indian curry in our own home. And now you can
with this recipe for garlic butter chicken.
Indian food is fantastic and
certainly something you can create at home easily enough, but we are all guilty
of sticking to our comfort zone and rarely try to make something different.
Personally if I am cooking Indian
at home, I will make a basic curry, a Madras or some tikka. That is pretty much
my entire repertoire.
But now we can all try to cook
something a little more extravagant, thanks to a local eaterie which has
provided this week’s Friday Fakeaway.
Atik Raj from Chillies Indian restaurant in
Carnoustie,
Angus, has kindly let us in to the secrets of his cooking by providing this
recipe for Chillies’ Garlic Butter Chicken which I will definitely be trying
myself to at home.
Atik is a specialised tandoori
and seafood chef with more than 25 years’ experience in the hospitality
industry.
He worked in many places in
Bangladesh and the UK, including Essex, South London, Kent, Oxfordshire,
St-Andrews and Dundee.
Atik also gained some experience
working with many renowned Thai, Indian and other multicultural chefs.
He said: “This is one of our
best-selling item and chef’s signature dish. This one is highly recommended if
you are looking for a healthy curry.”
You can make this delicious garlic butter
chicken.
Ingredients
For chicken marinade:
·
2 chicken breast (cut into bite
size chunks)
·
1 tsp Fresh ginger (minced)
·
1 clove fresh garlic (minced)
·
Salt (to taste)
·
1 tsp ground cumin
·
1 tsp garam masala
·
½ cup yoghurt
·
2 tbsp lemon juice
For sauce:
·
25g butter
·
1 medium onion (finely chopped)
·
3 garlic cloves, peel cloves by
crushing them lightly with the flat of a knife
·
1 tsp tomato puree
·
3 green chillies (thick chopped)
·
1 tsp fresh ginger (minced)
·
½ tsp turmeric powder-
·
½ tsp cumin powder
·
½ tsp red chilli powder
·
½ tsp coriander powder
·
Salt (to taste)
·
2 tbsp cooking oil
·
2 Bullet chillies (one sliced
into half, another one thick chopped)
·
Spring onion (Finely chopped to garnish)
·
Coriander (Finely chopped to
garnish)
Method
1. Combine
the cubed chicken with the lemon juice, garlic, ginger, salt, garam masala,
cumin, paprika, yoghurt and stir until well-coated.
2. Cover
and refrigerate for at least one hour, or overnight.
3. Preheat
the oven to 500°F (260°C). Line a high-sided baking pan or roasting tray with
parchment paper.
4. Place
the marinated chicken pieces on bamboo or wooden skewers, then set them over
the prepared baking tray, making sure there is space underneath the chicken to
help distribute the heat more evenly. Bake for about 15 minutes, until slightly
dark brown on the edges.
Make the sauce:
1. Heat
pan add butter and the chopped onions.
2. Fry
on high heat for a few minutes until golden brown in colour.
3. Add
ginger and garlic and cook on medium heat for 2 mins.
4. Add
the tomato puree and green chillies and fry on medium heat for 2 mins.
5. Add
the turmeric, chilli powder, coriander powder and cumin powder, mix & fry
on medium heat for few minutes and then added one third of a cup of water and
cook the sauce until oil comes up to the top of the pan.
6. Now
add the chicken pieces and fry on a high heat.
7. Add
salt, continue to fry on medium heat for another 5 mins.
8. Add
chopped bullet chillies, spring onions and coriander.
9. At
the end garnish the curry with half sliced bullet chillies.
Chillies restaurant, Links
Parade, Carnoustie, is open seven days a week, from 1pm to 10pm for lunch and
dinner. Takeaway and home delivery are available.
Turkish Delight: Mediterranean Takeout at Masa Midtown
Every Weekend
Turkish
Bagels,
·
Masa Midtown
After
sitting empty for over a decade, the former Midtown Chophouse space on the corner
of Broadway and Downs Street in Kingston reopened as Turkish eatery Masa Midtown on March 1. Yep, just in
time for the pandemic (collective eye roll).
"Originally,
we planned to be a catering venue that would host occasional pop-up events in
the space here, with the intention of opening a few days a week for
restaurant-style dining down the road," says chef/proprietor Ozlem
Oguzcan-Cranston. Also known as Chef Oz, she spent the last seven years prior
doing catering and private chefing in the city before relocating upstate
full-time with her husband last year.
They
pair purchased the building housing Masa at 666 Broadway in April 2019 and
spent almost a year planning and renovating the space into a 60-seat
restaurant. The clean homey space has exposed ceiling beams, beadboard
paneling, elegant tile floors, and long wooden tables. They had a grand opening
celebration, and then...lockdown. "We were like, 'Wow, we opened an event
space and then every event in the world got cancelled within a week,'" she
says. "We didn't want to wait for the pandemic to pass, so within two
weeks of everything shutting down, we started doing takeout."
Over
the course of lockdown and the summer, Masa has opened weekends for takeout
dinners, brunch, and pop-up bakery sales. Like its Turkish-born chef, the food
at Masa is homestyle Turkish to the core, and features rustic Mediterranean
fare like zucchini herb fritters with lemon garlic yogurt; raki-steamed mussels
with fennel seed, tomato jus, and charred pita; yogurt-marinated chicken thighs
on the bone with basmati rice; and filo spring rolls with spinach, kale,
shallots, and feta cream.
Oguzcan-Cranston
was raised on many of the recipes she now serves. "I never got concrete
recipes from my mom," she says. "She would say things like, 'You just
have to feel it out.' and 'Taste it." There was a lot of eyeballing. But
as I do it more and more I'm getting pretty close."
The
breakfast/brunch menu, with pastries like borek, a strained yogurt and granola
parfait, and even a Turkish breakfast salad, offer a refreshing, less common
introduction to the Middle Eastern cuisine. "Some people are still
hesitant, but if they try it, they love it," says Oguzcan-Cranston of the
brunch menu. One of the most popular items is the circular, sesame-crusted
simit. "I hate saying it this way, but it's kind of like a Turkish
bagel," she says, defending both her Turkish heritage and her Brooklyn
upbringing. "It's not as dense, it's much lighter and crispier. That's
been really exciting to introduce to people. They love it."
Order the simit on its own, or as part of the breakfast box, which comes with
two simits; a classic, cold breakfast salad; a hard-boiled egg; and whipped
feta (basically Turkish cream cheese). "It's such a common street
food," Oguzcan-Cranston says. "Typically, people break it like a
piece of bread, and schmear each bite as they go, or just eat it without any
kind of topping. It goes really well with Turkish tea."
Masa
is currently open Thursdays and Fridays, 3-8pm, for curbside pick-up of dinner
orders as well as Saturday mornings, 10am-2pm, for brunch takeout. (They're
also catering small events). All ordering is done online via
ToastTab. Keep
your eyes peeled for the weekly are dinner specials. This week, the special
features mild Poblano peppers and grape leaves stuffed with the classic blend
of ground beef, onions, tomatoes, and fresh parsley, with a side of bulgur rice
pilaf and shepherd's salad for $14.
The
restaurant gets its name, "masa" from the Turkish word for table—in
other words, a place to gather and break bread. Although Masa hasn't been able
to do much sit-down hosting since its late winter opening, in August,
Oguzcan-Cranston decided to start offering a pop-up pastry sale in the Masa
space on the first Saturday of every month. (That means then next one is
tomorrow, September 5, 11am-3pm!) "It’s nice for me because the space was
intended for people to come in and gather," she says. And in case you miss
brunch, Masa is also at the Kingston
Waterfront farmers' market on Sundays.
"It's
been awesome," Oguzcan-Cranston says. "Kind of a learning curve, sort
of chaotic, definitely an adventure. But we’ve been so welcomed by the
community—not just Kingston but people from Woodstock, Rosendale, and Stone
Sidge. Word spread, so it’s been really good."
Masa
Midtown
666 Broadway, Kingston NY 12401
(718)
408-0468
Hours:
Thursday and Friday: 3-8pm; Saturday: 10am-2pm
FIR against owners of 18 rice mills in Waraseoni
region
|
Date :04-Sep-2020 |
Staff Reporter :
Power connections of all these mills to be cut for supplying
sub-standard rice n Mills and godowns sealed
The warehouses and fair price shops of Balaghat district were
inspected by Deputy Commissioner, Government of India, Vishwajeet Haldhar
during the period from July 30 to August 2. During this inspection,
sub-standard rice was found in the godowns of Balaghat district which was not
fit to be consumed by humans and was found to be of low grade under the
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Taking this situation into consideration,
a ban has been imposed on the immediate submission of rice from the concerned
millers.
Collector Deepak Arya directed to immediately register an FIR
against the owners of 18 rice mills and nine employees of Warehouse Corporation
and Civil Supplies Corporation. Warehouses have also been sealed. It may be
mentioned that Haldhar had taken the samples of the rice supplied to the
government by the rice millers from the warehouses of Balaghat and Mandla
districts after custom milling. Samples were checked, out of which 31 samples
were found to be defective.
The rice quality was so bad that they were not fit to be
consumed by animals also. After the report of sample of rice, a letter issued
by the Central Government created a stir in State’s politics. After this, on
the instructions of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, rice mills supplying
non-standard level rice identified as Gambhir Sancheti, owner of Sancheti Rice
Udyog Waraseoni, Bhojesh Pardhi, owner of Maa Durga Rice Mill, Hulesh Katre, owner
of Laxmi Rice Udyog, Sancheti Sartex, owner Gaurav Sancheti, Anand Kumar
Thakre, owner of Shree Kumar’s Rice Mill, Gagandas Somani owner of Akash
Industries, Rakesh Tolani, owner of Tolani Rice Mill, Khuman Singh Bisen, owner
of Mahalaxmi Rice Mill Khamaria, Balakrishna Bisen, owner of Siddhivinayak Rice
Mill Khamaria, Ravi Shankar Thackeray, owner of Baba Rice Mill Sanwagi, Hriday
Shay Hirvane, owner of Bajrang Rice Mill, Baihar, Rakesh Agrawal, owner of
Ambika Rice Mill, Baihar, Akash Agrawal, owner of Satakshi Rice Mill, Baihar,
Sasikala Agarwal, owner of Chaitanya Prasad Agrawal Rice Mill, Baihar, Mukesh
Agrawal, owner of Shree Laxmi Rice Mill Ukwa, Barkha Rani Nag, owner of V B
Rice Mill, CWC Garra, Lal Chand Dhanwani owner of Maa Durga Rice Industries of
CWC Garra and Geeta Traders CWC Garra, owner Deepak Dhanwani, were booked and
instructions were issued to register FIR against them.
Along with this, instructions have been given to register FIR
against R K Soni, District Manager of Civil Supplies Corporation responsible
for passing the sub-standard rice, Quality Inspector (then) Nagesh Upadhyay,
Quality Inspector, Mukesh Kanheria, CWC Garra’s Quality Inspector Rakesh Sen, S
L Dwivedi, Baihar’s Quality Inspector Lochan Singh Tembhare, CWC Garra’s Branch
Manager Vipin Bisen, Shweta Warehouse Nevergaon Branch Manager Uday Singh
Rajput and MPWLC Baihar Branch Manager Jitendra Dongre. Collector Arya directed
the Tehsildars of Waraseoni, Lalbarra, Paraswara and Baihar to immediately file
an FIR against the owners and employees of the mills of their areas and submit
a compliance report.
The Superintendent of Police has also been asked to file an
FIR against 18 rice millers and nine employees soon. District Collector Arya
has directed the Superintending Engineer of Madhya Pradesh East Region Power
Distribution Company, Balaghat to immediately cut off the electricity
connection of these 18 rice mills responsible for supplying non-standard level
and submit compliance report.
CM hands over probe of supply of sub-standard rice to EOW The issue of distribution of poor quality
rice (not fit for human consumption and meant for cattle fodder) through fair
price shops in Balaghat and Mandla districts has heated up and also gained
political hues as Congress is making blistering attack on the Government. As
BJP Government coming under fire of harsh criticism from all corners, Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced in a high-level meeting that Economic
Offences Wing (EOW) will investigate the case. In the meantime, former Leader
of Opposition Ajay Singh has demanded CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan that case
pertaining to distribution of cattle grade rice to poor people should be handed
over to the CBI for investigation. Stating that he will personally complain
regarding the matter to President of India and Prime Minister.
He asserted that image of State got stained at national-level
over the issue. He said that Government tried to do away with the issue by
suspending one officer and sacking two contractual employees. He asserted that
he had raised the issue five days back but Government paid no attention. Taking
potshots on State Government, he alleged that good quality rice was sold in
market and recycled rice from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, meant for cattle, was
purchased at cheap rates and supplied through fair price shops. Trying to pass
the heat on Congress, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told that previous
Government (headed by Kamal Nath) did not take any action in the case
pertaining to receiving of sub-standard rice from Balaghat millers and
distribution of it from public distribution system in February this year.
FIR-against-owners-of-18-rice-mills-in-Waraseoni-region.html
FIR
Against owers of 18 rice mills in Waraseoni region
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Photo | PTI)
Apprehending high level nexus in the matter, he said that
action will be taken against guilty after investigation. After inspection of
godowns in Balaghat and Mandla, supply of rice has been stopped from godowns.
In the meeting, CM Chouhan directed for comprehensive probe into the matter and
said that cereal quality will be ensured across the State.
Published: 04th September 2020 12:28
AM | Last Updated: 04th September 2020 12:28
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has asked the state's Economic Offence Wing
(EOW) to probe a matter pertaining to the supply of sub-standard quality rice
under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in Mandla and Balaghat.
Instructions about EOW's probe
into the matter was issued by the CM at a high-level meeting on Thursday
wherein Chouhan blamed former CM Kamal Nath's government for taking
no action on the issue.
The sub-standard quality rice,
which is not fit for human consumption, was procured from the millers in
Balaghat under the public distribution system in February this year.
After inspection, it was found that
over 3,136 metric tonnes rice in Balaghat and 1,658 metric tonnes of rice
in Mandla, were that of sub-standard quality and subsequently, the
supply and transport of this rice was discontinued, which will now be replaced
by rice of the standard quality.
Corruption will not be tolerated at
any level, Chouhan said, adding that cases related to quality of food
grains and ration scam should be investigated thoroughly, including those in
the past and instructed officials to take strict measures.
A total of 51 joint teams have been
formed and 284 of 1000 samples of stored rice have been tested so far.
As per information received from
the local offices of the Food Corporation of India, 72 samples are fit for
distribution, while 57 samples do not meet the standards.
Remaining samples of rice from
other districts of the state will also be completed this week.
The warehouses and mills of the
millers, who had supplied the low-quality rice are also being searched. FIR has
been registered against the related millers.
Meanwhile, according to reports
from Balaghat district, the District Collector Deepak Arya has issued orders to
lodge FIRs against 18 rice mills owners and nine officers and employees of
Warehouse Corporation and State Civil Supplies Corporation, including the district
manager of the Civil Supplies Corporation, who have been prima facie found
guilty in the matter.
The Balaghat district collector has
also asked for electricity connections of the respective rice mills
to be discontinued.
The union ministry has also requested
Madhya Pradesh government to withhold rice stock available in the depots
for further investigation and re-categorisation and also intimated to the state
about “grave lapses by the district officers, officials and authorities.”
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Crop Monitor for AMIS | No. 76 – September 2020
Format
Analysis
Source
Posted
4 Sep 2020
Originally published
4 Sep 2020
Origin
Attachments
Overview:
As of the end of August, conditions are generally
favourable for maize, rice, and soybeans while mixed for wheat. In the northern
hemisphere, winter wheat harvesting is wrapping up under mixed conditions while
spring wheat harvest is beginning under favourable conditions. In the southern
hemisphere, winter wheat conditions are mixed due to dry and cool conditions.
For maize, conditions are generally favourable except for some areas of concern
main due to dry conditions.
Rice conditions are generally favourable except for some areas in China,
Indonesia, and Japan. Soybean conditions are generally favourable except for
some areas in the US and Ukraine.
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Crop Monitor for Early Warning | No. 51 – July 2020
Format
Analysis
Source
Posted
2 Jul 2020
Originally published
2 Jul 2020
Attachments
Overview:
In East Africa, planting continues for main season
cereals in the north while in the south crops are in vegetative to reproductive
stage and have benefitted from the record March to May rainfall, except in
areas affected by floods or desert locusts. In West Africa, conditions are
favourable for main season crop development in southern bimodal areas, and planting
activities continued in the Sahel under favourable conditions. In North Africa,
harvest of wheat and barley crops is nearly complete, and production prospects
are below-average in Morocco and parts of Algeria and Tunisia as crops were
unable to recover from seasonal drought and high temperatures. In the Middle
East, harvest of wheat crops will finalize next month and final yield prospects
are favourable except in areas affected by conflict. In Southern Africa,
harvest of main season cereals is complete, and final yields were generally
favourable except in drought-affected areas. Planting activities continued for
winter wheat crops under favourable conditions. In Central and South Asia,
conditions are favourable for the harvesting of winter wheat to be finalized in
August and for the development of spring wheat to be harvested in October. In
northern Southeast Asia, harvest is mostly complete for dry-season rice, and
poor yields resulted in Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. Wet season rice is
developing under generally favourable conditions and benefitted from recent
rainfall. In Central America and the Caribbean, recent tropical storms resulted
in flooding, landslides, and localized crop losses but were generally
beneficial for the development of Primera season crops.
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A year after border closure:
Stakeholders speak on rice production
SEPTEMBER 4, 20202:13 AMIN AGRIC Kindly Share
This Story:FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsAppPinterestShare By Jimoh Babatunde When
President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the partial closure of the land borders in
August last year due to massive smuggling activities, especially rice, many saw
it as a fulfilment of one of his campaign promises to increase local production
of rice. Today, one year down the lane, major stakeholders in agriculture have
divergent views on the impact of the continued closure of the borders on the
country’s economy. Speaking on the effects on the economy, a rice farmer, Bunmi
Ade, said the border closure helped push Nigeria’s rice production to 9.2
million tonnes last year and that the outlook would have been better this year
if not for the Coronavirus pandemic. ALSO READ: Only agro-revolution can save
us, not Oil — Ayade Dr (Mrs) Nike Olagunju, a rice processor, in an interview
with journalists recently, said the statistics of rice farmers in Nigeria in
recent times had shown that the closure “is a decision taken in the right
direction. “Suffice to say that it’s an indication that the growth of our
economy is in our hands.” She said Nigerians are getting used to eating
locally-produced rice, and farmers are now confident that there is a steady
market waiting for their produce unhindered and they could go all the length in
production of paddy rice. “The COVID-19 pandemic has also taught us a great
lesson that we can look inwards and better our economy without foreign
interventions, even now that the whole world is in a great crisis; economic and
food-wise. “The border closure on rice importation has also favoured employment
of labour in the various rice production chain, invariably enhancing the GDP of
our nation,” she argued. Local rice farmers are getting better by the day and
closing the quality gap between imported and Nigerian rice. Also, the
President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Mr. Ibrahim Kabir,
explained that when the border closure happened, Nigeria did not know there would
be a pandemic, but luckily, the border closure prevented food items from going
out of the country informally as they used to, especially in Katsina. Kabir
added that as time goes on, the borders will have to be reopened “because we
have signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AFCTA, but the
misbehaviour of our neighbours indicated they were not there for us. “They were
working with some unscrupulous Nigerians to smuggle in what we have comparative
advantages in. We were forced to close the borders.”
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/a-year-after-border-closure-stakeholders-speak-on-rice-production/
Kharif sowing touches
new record at 1,095.38 lakh hectare: Govt
New Delhi, Sep 4 (PTI) Sowing of kharif (summer)
crops touched a new record at 1,095.38 lakh hectare so far in the current
season on the back of good rains and timely pre-positioning of crop inputs, according
to the agriculture ministry.
Sowing of rice still continues while sowing of pulses, coarse
cereals, millets and oilseeds is almost over. The final sowing figures for the
current kharif season will be closed on October 2, it said.
The previous record was achieved in 2016 when farmers had sown
kharif crops in a total area of 1,075.71 lakh hectare.
Kharif sowing begins with the onset of southwest monsoon from
June and harvesting from October onwards.
According to the ministry''s data, kharif crops have been sown
in a record area of 1,095.38 lakh hectare so far this season, as against
1,030.32 lakh hectare in the year-ago.
Good rains and the timely prepositioning of inputs like seeds,
pesticides, fertilisers, machinery and credit has made it possible for large
coverage even during pandemic lockdown conditions, it said.
"There is no impact of COVID-19 on progress of area
coverage under kharif crops as on date," the ministry added.
As per the data, total area sown to rice has increased by 8.27
per cent to 396.18 lakh hectare so far in the current kharif season from 365.92
lakh hectare in the year-ago.
Area under pulses has increased by 4.67 per cent to 136.79 lakh
hectare as against 130.68 lakh hectare, while that of area sown to coarse
cereals increased by 1.77 per cent to 179.36 lakh hectare area as against
176.25 lakh hectare in the year-ago.
Similarly, area under oilseeds increased sharply by 12 per cent
to 194.75 lakh hectare so far in the current kharif season as against 174.00
lakh hectare in the year-ago.
Among cash crops, sugarcane area rose 1.30 per cent to 52.38
lakh hectare from 51.71 lakh hectare, while that of cotton acreage rose 3.24
per cent to 128.95 lakh hectare from 124.90 lakh hectare in the said period.
There has been a 9 per cent increase in the overall rainfall in
the country so far. PTI LUX ANS ANS
Rice Prices
as on : 04-09-2020 01:38:07 PM
Arrivals in tonnes;prices in
Rs/quintal in domestic market.
|
Arrivals |
Price |
|||||
|
Current |
% |
Season |
Modal |
Prev. |
Prev.Yr |
|
|
Rice |
||||||
|
Sultanpur(UP) |
200.00 |
-20 |
8837.00 |
2350 |
2300 |
-13.76 |
|
Gondal(UP) |
115.50 |
10 |
9825.50 |
2400 |
2400 |
-3.23 |
|
Dadri(UP) |
100.00 |
17.65 |
3005.00 |
5950 |
5950 |
- |
|
Barhaj(UP) |
90.00 |
-18.18 |
11985.00 |
2520 |
2570 |
4.13 |
|
Kalipur(WB) |
84.00 |
16.67 |
3823.00 |
2400 |
2400 |
2.13 |
|
Mandya(Kar) |
74.00 |
-71.76 |
8099.00 |
2500 |
2400 |
- |
|
Kopaganj(UP) |
62.00 |
NC |
2120.00 |
2550 |
2575 |
3.87 |
|
Choubepur(UP) |
45.00 |
16.88 |
2778.95 |
2400 |
2450 |
-10.11 |
|
Aligarh(UP) |
40.00 |
14.29 |
5007.00 |
2550 |
2540 |
NC |
|
Raibareilly(UP) |
39.50 |
618.18 |
1798.00 |
2300 |
2300 |
-2.13 |
|
Jhargram(WB) |
37.00 |
2.78 |
1052.00 |
2900 |
3000 |
NC |
|
Lalitpur(UP) |
36.00 |
-5.26 |
1931.50 |
2475 |
2460 |
-5.89 |
|
Mainpuri(UP) |
36.00 |
2.86 |
4463.50 |
2500 |
2650 |
-3.47 |
|
Allahabad(UP) |
35.00 |
NC |
2902.50 |
2550 |
2500 |
NC |
|
Bharwari(UP) |
35.00 |
-12.5 |
310.50 |
1700 |
1700 |
- |
|
Saharanpur(UP) |
34.00 |
36 |
3179.50 |
2820 |
2800 |
-1.40 |
|
Lakhimpur(UP) |
30.00 |
-14.29 |
3333.00 |
2440 |
2430 |
1.67 |
|
Beldanga(WB) |
30.00 |
NC |
1835.00 |
2700 |
2700 |
3.85 |
|
Firozabad(UP) |
28.50 |
14 |
2094.60 |
2600 |
2590 |
- |
|
Muradabad(UP) |
28.00 |
-6.67 |
2180.00 |
2610 |
2600 |
1.95 |
|
Madhoganj(UP) |
27.00 |
28.57 |
3904.00 |
2430 |
2425 |
5.19 |
|
Balrampur(UP) |
26.00 |
4 |
1355.00 |
2400 |
2400 |
4.35 |
|
Sahiyapur(UP) |
21.50 |
7.5 |
2855.50 |
2530 |
2530 |
3.48 |
|
Vilaspur(UP) |
21.00 |
NC |
1957.20 |
2585 |
2580 |
2.99 |
|
Paliakala(UP) |
20.00 |
NC |
941.00 |
2420 |
2400 |
4.09 |
|
Champadanga(WB) |
18.00 |
28.57 |
892.00 |
3250 |
3250 |
10.17 |
|
Sirsaganj(UP) |
16.00 |
-3.03 |
1381.50 |
2610 |
2600 |
-1.88 |
|
Rasda(UP) |
16.00 |
6.67 |
714.50 |
2550 |
2560 |
1059.09 |
|
Medinipur(West)(WB) |
16.00 |
-11.11 |
241.00 |
2900 |
2900 |
1.75 |
|
Gazipur(UP) |
15.50 |
3.33 |
2321.50 |
3260 |
3260 |
0.93 |
|
Islampur(WB) |
15.00 |
NC |
799.80 |
3400 |
3400 |
-5.56 |
|
Raiganj(WB) |
15.00 |
NC |
700.50 |
3300 |
3300 |
-5.71 |
|
Unnao(UP) |
14.00 |
211.11 |
335.50 |
2450 |
2450 |
-7.55 |
|
Soharatgarh(UP) |
13.50 |
-15.62 |
1774.70 |
2520 |
2510 |
3.28 |
|
Sindhanur(Kar) |
13.00 |
- |
13.00 |
2800 |
- |
- |
|
Farukhabad(UP) |
13.00 |
4 |
1383.50 |
2450 |
2460 |
-7.55 |
|
Utraula(UP) |
12.50 |
-34.21 |
799.70 |
2400 |
2420 |
- |
|
Mawana(UP) |
11.00 |
57.14 |
464.20 |
2800 |
2850 |
- |
|
Vishalpur(UP) |
10.00 |
-37.5 |
548.20 |
2650 |
2550 |
0.57 |
|
Indus(Bankura Sadar)(WB) |
10.00 |
-16.67 |
1279.00 |
2800 |
2800 |
1.82 |
|
Badayoun(UP) |
8.00 |
100 |
1195.50 |
2600 |
2620 |
1.56 |
|
Etah(UP) |
8.00 |
33.33 |
557.00 |
2600 |
2610 |
1.56 |
|
Mahoba(UP) |
7.80 |
-13.33 |
509.60 |
2430 |
2460 |
7.28 |
|
Mohamadabad(UP) |
6.80 |
13.33 |
963.10 |
2450 |
2470 |
- |
|
Fatehpur(UP) |
6.50 |
16.07 |
2433.10 |
2510 |
2500 |
5.46 |
|
Devariya(UP) |
6.50 |
8.33 |
1189.50 |
2535 |
2530 |
3.47 |
|
Amroha(UP) |
5.50 |
22.22 |
142.50 |
2590 |
2570 |
-0.38 |
|
Kasganj(UP) |
5.00 |
25 |
571.50 |
2610 |
2620 |
1.95 |
|
Mirzapur(UP) |
5.00 |
25 |
358.50 |
2665 |
2675 |
10.12 |
|
Kayamganj(UP) |
5.00 |
-28.57 |
2149.00 |
2470 |
2480 |
-6.79 |
|
Nadia(WB) |
5.00 |
66.67 |
303.00 |
3200 |
3350 |
-15.79 |
|
Lucknow(UP) |
4.30 |
19.44 |
5013.20 |
2410 |
2400 |
-13.93 |
|
Jhijhank(UP) |
4.00 |
-20 |
515.50 |
2500 |
2475 |
- |
|
Jahangirabad(UP) |
3.50 |
-12.5 |
344.50 |
2640 |
2640 |
2.52 |
|
Chitwadagaon(UP) |
3.50 |
-22.22 |
508.30 |
2620 |
2640 |
24.76 |
|
Kalyani(WB) |
3.50 |
NC |
113.00 |
3400 |
3400 |
NC |
|
Fatehpur Sikri(UP) |
3.40 |
6.25 |
182.70 |
2590 |
2585 |
-0.96 |
|
Chhibramau(Kannuj)(UP) |
3.40 |
3.03 |
667.70 |
2460 |
2450 |
-7.52 |
|
Buland Shahr(UP) |
2.50 |
108.33 |
166.60 |
2665 |
2650 |
0.57 |
|
Chandoli(UP) |
2.20 |
10 |
112.60 |
2590 |
2580 |
11.16 |
|
Khurja(UP) |
2.20 |
83.33 |
217.00 |
2666 |
2650 |
-0.34 |
|
Charra(UP) |
1.70 |
-5.56 |
145.70 |
2560 |
2560 |
0.79 |
|
Jhansi(UP) |
1.60 |
-20 |
171.00 |
2505 |
2490 |
5.47 |
|
Melaghar(Tri) |
1.50 |
87.5 |
81.70 |
2800 |
2800 |
3.70 |
|
Lalganj(UP) |
1.50 |
50 |
293.00 |
2300 |
2300 |
31.43 |
|
Pilibhit(UP) |
1.50 |
-94.64 |
46986.00 |
2585 |
2605 |
-1.71 |
|
Muskara(UP) |
1.50 |
NC |
100.50 |
2400 |
2360 |
0.84 |
|
Wazirganj(UP) |
1.50 |
-25 |
56.00 |
2590 |
2590 |
- |
|
Alibagh(Mah) |
1.00 |
NC |
111.00 |
2200 |
2200 |
NC |
|
Murud(Mah) |
1.00 |
NC |
109.00 |
2200 |
2200 |
NC |
|
Anandnagar(UP) |
1.00 |
-28.57 |
237.90 |
2515 |
2510 |
4.79 |
|
Bangarmau(UP) |
0.80 |
-77.14 |
223.00 |
2450 |
2450 |
3.16 |
|
Atrauli(UP) |
0.60 |
NC |
17.10 |
2555 |
2560 |
|
No impact
of coronavirus on kharif season: Summer crops sowing touches record high
By: FE
Online |
September
4, 2020 5:54 PM
While the year has not fared well
for the economy, India can at least find some respite in its agricultural
sector with the sowing of kharif or the summer crops touching a new record in
the season.
Kharif
acreage has been 1,095.38 lakh hectare so far thanks to good rains and timely
pre-positioning of crop inputs.
While
the year has not fared well for the economy, India can at least find some
respite in its agricultural sector with the sowing of kharif or the summer
crops touching a new record in the season. Kharif acreage has been 1,095.38
lakh hectare so far thanks to good rains and timely pre-positioning of crop
inputs, the agriculture ministry said in a statement today. The sowing of
pulses, coarse cereals, millets and oilseeds is almost over while on the other
hand, rice continues to be sown. The final sowing figures for the current
kharif season will be closed on 2nd October. A year ago, farmers had sown a total
area of 1,030.32 lakh hectare.
Before
this year’s record high, the previous max mark was achieved in 2016 when
farmers had sown kharif crops in a total area of 1,075.71 lakh hectare. Monsoon
rains play a pivotal role in kharif acreage which begins with the onset of
southwest monsoon from June and harvesting is done from October onwards. Other
than good rains, timely prepositioning of inputs like seeds, pesticides,
fertilisers, machinery and credit has made it possible for large coverage even
while the country continued to face the headwinds of coronavirus, the ministry
said. “There is no impact of COVID-19 on progress of area coverage under kharif
crops as on date”.
Record 0.18m tonnes Aush rice produced in
Rangpur
Published: September 04, 2020
16:12:12 | Updated: September 04, 2020 19:38:58
File photo (Collected)
Braving the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
and damages caused by recent floods, farmers produced an all-time record 0.18
million tonnes of clean Aush rice (0.27 million tonnes of paddy) this season in
Rangpur agriculture region.
Officials of the Department of Agricultural
Extension (DAE) has said farmers achieved the fixed production target of 0.18
million tonnes of Aush rice despite damage of the crop on 4,597.68 hectares of
land caused by floods this year in the region, reports BSS.
“The farmers achieved the record Aush rice
output following various government programmes despite huge losses caused by
recent floods,” Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur region Agriculturist
Muhammad Ali said on Thursday.
The programmes included distribution of
special intensives in terms of Aush rice seed and fertilisers among farmers for
expanding cultivation of Aush rice and providing training, technical support
and conducting motivational campaigns.
“Earlier, the DAE had fixed a target of
cultivating Aush rice on 59,675 heaters of land to produce over 0.18 million
tonnes of clean rice (0.27 million tonnes of paddy) for the region this
season,” Ali said.
However, the farmers had brought 63,690
hectares of land under Aush rice cultivation in the region, higher by 4,150
hectares or 6.73 per cent than the fixed farming target for the season.
Of them, farmers had cultivated the hybrid
varieties of Aush rice on 12,638 hectares of land, high yielding varieties on
50,902 hectares and local varieties of Aush rice on 350 hectares of land.
However, recent floods damaged standing Aush
rice crop on 4,597.68 hectares of land in the flood-affected areas of Rangpur,
Nilphamari, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Lalmonirhat districts of the region.
After completing harvest on the rest of
59,092.30 hectares of land by Wednesday, farmers finally produced over 0.18
million tonnes of Aush rice with the yield rate of 3.10 tonnes per hectare and
achieved the fixed production target.
“If the standing Aush rice crop on 4,597.68
hectares of and were not damaged by floods, the total production of the crop
might be over 0.19 million tones in terms of clean rice (0.29 million tonnes of
paddy) this time,” Ali said.
In the last year of 2019, farmers produced
0.14 million of clean Aush rice and 0.12 million tonnes of clean Aush rice in
the previous year of 2018 in Rangpur agriculture region.
Farmers said they are happy getting bumper
Aush rice output and excellent market price between Tk 800 and 900 per mound of
paddy (every 40 kilogram) of the crop.
Farmers Echhahaq Alim Ayub Hossain, Akram
Hossain and Ariful Haque of different villages in Rangpur said they cultivated
Aush rice successfully, completed its harvest and got excellent yield with
lucrative market price this year.
Agriculturist Dr Md Abdul Mazid, who got the
Independence Award 2018 Medal in food security category, said that Aush rice
farming is increasing following various effective steps taken by the present
government in the last 12 years.
He said cultivation of short duration Aush
rice should be increased further using unused seasonal rainwater during May,
June and July as an additional crop on the lands that remain fallow during the
off season.
“After harvesting Aush rice by mid-August,
farmers are easily cultivating Aman rice on the same land to further increase
rice production for attaining sustainable national food security amid changing
climate,” Dr Mazid added.
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RICE-Thai rates ease on baht slide, low supply lifts Vietnam rates
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SEPTEMBER
4, 2020 / 6:34 AM
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(Repeats story published on Sep 3
with no changes to text)
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Demand for Thai rice still flat
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India prices unchanged after 3-week long rally
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Weak demand likely to cap Vietnamese rates - traders
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Bangladesh decision on imports pending- official
By
Arundhati Sarkar
Sept 3 (Reuters) - Rice export
prices in Thailand eased this week, snapping a three-week-long rally as the
baht slid following the exit of the country’s finance minister, while rates for
the Vietnamese grain rose on waning supply.
Prices of second-biggest exporter
Thailand’s 5% broken rice RI-THBKN5-P1 slipped to $500-$513 per tonne on
Thursday from $500-$520 last week.
The baht was hit by the sudden
resignation of recently appointed finance minister, Predee Daochai, on Tuesday,
raising uncertainty in an economy already reeling from the coronavirus.
“The day the finance minister
resigned, the rice price suddenly dropped by 0.20 baht, so it did have a
psychological effect on rice trade,” a Bangkok-based trader said.
Fresh supplies also contributed
to the lower prices.
But another trader said the
volume of Thailand’s off-season crop harvested this month has been
underwhelming.
Rates for Vietnam’s 5% broken
rice RI-VNBKN5-P1 rose to $490 a tonne on Thursday from $480-$490 last week on
thin supplies, but traders said weak demand should prevent a further rise in
coming weeks.
Supplies aren’t likely to build
until the autumn-winter harvest starting November, a Ho Chi Minh City-based
trader said.
Preliminary government data
showed Vietnam’s rice shipments in the first eight months likely fell 1.7% to
4.5 million tonnes from last year.
Top exporter India’s 5% broken
parboiled rice rates RI-INBKN5-P1 were unchanged at $384-$390 per tonne.
“Exporters haven’t made any
changes in prices, but they have to raise prices if rupee rises further,” said
an exporter based at Kakinada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
The rupee has appreciated about
3% over the past two weeks.
Neighbouring Bangladesh continued
to grapple with floods, which have destroyed rice crop worth $4.29 billion and
led to a fresh price rise.
“The decision on importing rice
is pending. There’s no shortage at the moment,” said Sarwar Mahmud, head of the
Directorate General of Food. (Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um in Bangkok, Khanh Vu
in Hanoi, Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai and Ruma Paul in Dhaka; editing by Arpan
Varghese and Ramakrishnan M.)
Farmers expect more profitable fall-winter crop
Friday,
September 04, 2020 16:31
While farmers in the Mekong Delta are eager to harvest the bumper
summer-fall crops because of high price and demand of rice, the forecast of low
flood level made them more exciting to grow the fall-winter crop.
Farmers expect more profitable
fall-winter crop (Photo: SGGP)
According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development in An Giang Province to the west, farmers have harvested approximately
227,000-ha summer-fall crop with average productivity of over 5.7 tons per
hectare till early September.
Moreover, dealers were offering to buy IR rice at
VND5,800 -VND6,100 per kilogram at paddy fields. Traders agreed to buy
Taiwanese rice, Jasmine rice and Japanese rice at VND6,100 - VND6,300 per
kilogram, VND6,300 per kilogram and VND7,500 a kilogram respectively.
Farmers can earn a net profit from VND20 million to
VND25 million a hectare at this price. Farmers were so exciting that they turned
over the soil to begin the next crop.
Director of the Department of agriculture and Rural
Development in An Giang Nguyen Si Lam said farmers have sown seeds on 106,000
hectares and the work keeps continuing as the province will grow the
fall-winter crop on 161,500 hectares.
Meantime, farmers in Kien Giang have harvested half
of the summer-fall crop or 141,000 hectares. Forecasters have told that this
year flood is not serious like previous years, agriculture sector in Kien Giang
decided to expand the land for fall-winter crop to 83,000 hectares.
In Dong Thap Province at the heart of the Mekong
Delta, farmers have enjoyed bumper crop with productivity of 800,000 tons.
Farmer Nguyen Van Tuyen in Vinh Thanh Commune said thanks to good embankment
system, fall-winter crop will be safer.
Moreover, forecasters announced this year flood will
not be as high as before, farmers decided to expand rice farming area.
The Department of crop Production under the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development said local agriculture sector decision to
grow the fall-winter crop on 800,000-ha land is reasonable to make up the
shortage in the fall-winter crop before due to drought and salinity.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
said that consumption of rice is prospective to increase because of rise in
exports.
https://sggpnews.org.vn/business/farmers-expect-more-profitable-fallwinter-crop-88314.html
Rice from Vietnam arrives in Iligan, CdeO ports
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 4:12
PM
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 04
September) – Rice imported from Vietnam arrived at the ports in Iligan City
and Cagayan de Oro City, Medardo Sosobrado Jr., acting manager of the
Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) in Iligan said.
Two cargo vessels unloaded a
total of 344,000 bags in Iligan while another ship brought thousands of bags
more to Cagayan de Oro, Sosobrado said.
Rice from Vietnam arrives at the port in
Iligan on Thursday, 3 September 2020. MindaNews photo by RICHEL V. UMEL
MV New Xala arrived in Iligan on
Aug. 29 bringing 164,000 bags of rice equivalent to 4,118
metric tons while MV Troung Lou docked on Sept. 3 with 180,000 bags
or 4,519 metric tons of the same cargo, he said.
The official added that thousands
of bags of rice were also unloaded in Cagayan de Oro.
He said the bulk of rice supply
from Vietnam was received by Soda Enterprises in Iligan and will be
allocated to different rice traders in Mindanao.
Sosobrado said the PPA is
strictly imposing the standard health protocols as the city is under a modified
enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).
As of Sept. 3, the Emergency
Operations Center Health Cluster managed by Dra. Belinda Lim said the city had
a total of 377 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 142 recoveries and 221
active cases.
Of the active cases, 145 were
placed in an isolation facility, 42 were confined in a hospital and 34 were on
home quarantine.
Iligan Vice Mayor Jemar Vera Cruz
and City Councilor Petronilo Pardillo had confirmed that they have been
infected with the virus.
Vera Cruz said” the city
council has designated Councilor Ryan Ong as acting vice mayor.
He said Ong is bonded and allowed
to sign checks on his behalf.
Vera Cruz was placed on home
quarantine while Pardillo was confined in a private hospital.
Despite Iligan’s MECQ status the
two malls in the city were still allowed to open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but with
a limit on the number of people who may enter. Mall goers were required to wear
face masks and face shields. (Richel V. Umel/MindaNews)
https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2020/09/rice-from-vietnam-arrives-in-iligan-cdeo-ports/
