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Rice Switches From Downtrend To Neutral
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50L tonnes of paddy arrive in state markets
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Task force to decide soon on rice imports
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Slight Dip in Rice Yields ‘Won’t Affect Exports’
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NorMin’s rice output down by 11% due to El Nino
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Thailand Sells 2 MMT Rice Through G To G Deals
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Rice farmers produce consumer-preferred varieties
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Development of agriculture sector a must for economic development:
Shehbaz
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Future of hybrid rice in the U.S. and world webinar Nov. 12
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East End Foods plc helping to save sight
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Mars Food Commits to 100 Percent Sustainable Rice By 2020
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Farmers in central Thailand urged to grow taro instead of rice
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Farmers bemoan recent govt. policy on rice importation
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Villar backs PhilRice’s 10-5 rice program
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Rice residue
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WASDE Report Released
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U.S.-Grown Rice Earns New "Likes"
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Arkansas Farm Bureau Daily Commodity Report/11/10/2015 Farm Bureau
Market Report
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CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures
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World Rice Production 2015/2016
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Rice Switches From Downtrend To Neutral
Thailand has sold to Indonesia 500 thousand tonnes of new rice
crop for 8bn bahts. The talks around this intergovernmental deal pushed the
grain prices up, but when the deal was cut, the prices went down. Will the rice
continue growing?
Rice
Daily Chart
Judging by the details of the deal between Thailand and
Indonesia, the approximate contract price for rice was $445, which is 4.3%
above the price of $426.6 a tonne for 300 thousand tonnes of the Thai rice sold
to Philippines in September. Meanwhile, the current rice quotes on the CME are
below those of September. Thailand is negotiating selling 1mln tonnes of rice
to China with delivery early next year. In Philippines, the rice crop has
fallen 3% hit by typhoon Lando. Now the officials are going to import extra
1.3mln tonnes of rice next year. According to the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (UN FAO), this year the global rice production will be 0.6% less
than in 2014, totaling 491.4mln tonnes.
In fact, the contraction
may prove to be much more severe in case of El Nino effect.On the daily chart,
the Rice: D1 has switched from the downtrend
to the neutral and is above its 200-day moving average line. Parabolic
indicator and MACD have formed buy signals. RSI is neutral and below 50, no
divergence. The Bollinger bands® have widened, which may mean high volatility.
The bullish momentum may develop in case the rice surpasses the last fractal
high and closes the price gap at 12.74. This level may serve the point of
entry.
The initial risk limit may be placed below the last fractal low
at 11.51. Having opened the pending order, we shall move the stop to the next
fractal low following the Bollinger and Parabolic signal. Thus, we are changing
the probable profit/loss ratio to the breakeven point. The most risk-averse
traders may switch to the 4-hour chart after the trade and place there a
stop-loss moving it in the direction of the trade. If the price meets the
stop-loss level of 1.133 without reaching the order of 1.101, we recommend
cancelling the position: the market sustains internal changes which were not
taken into account.
http://www.investing.com/analysis/technical-analysis-c-rice-:-2015-11-10-270888
50L tonnes of paddy arrive in state markets
CHANDIGARH: More than 49.53 lakh tonnes of paddy has
arrived in the mandis of Haryana till Sunday this season. Of this, 40.75 lakh
tonnes has been purchased by government procurement agencies. In the
corresponding period last year, 35.95 lakh tonnes of paddy had arrived in the
mandis.
An official of the state food and supplies department said out of the total arrivals of paddy, 43.26 lakh tonnes was Grade A and general category, more than 13,555 tonnes was Sharbati variety, 1.73 lakh tonnes was muchhal (PB-1), and 4.4 lakh tonnes were Basmati strains.
The official said 18.50 lakh tonnes of paddy have been purchased by the food and supplies department, 14.50 lakh tonnes by Hafed, 4.24 lakh tonnes by the Haryana Agro Industries Corporation and 3.49 lakh tonnes by the Haryana Warehousing Corporation.
An official of the state food and supplies department said out of the total arrivals of paddy, 43.26 lakh tonnes was Grade A and general category, more than 13,555 tonnes was Sharbati variety, 1.73 lakh tonnes was muchhal (PB-1), and 4.4 lakh tonnes were Basmati strains.
The official said 18.50 lakh tonnes of paddy have been purchased by the food and supplies department, 14.50 lakh tonnes by Hafed, 4.24 lakh tonnes by the Haryana Agro Industries Corporation and 3.49 lakh tonnes by the Haryana Warehousing Corporation.
He said Karnal had the highest
arrival of paddy at 10.70 lakh tonnes, followed by Kurukshetra at 9.91 lakh
tonnes, Ambala at 8.53 lakh tonnes, Kaithal at 6.11 lakh tonnes, Yamunanagar at
4.26 lakh tonnes, Fatehabad at 4.24 lakh tonnes, Jinda at 1.83 lakh tonnes,
Sirsa at 1.57 lakh tonnes, Panchkula at 1.23 lakh tonnes and Palwal at 1.13
lakh tonnes.
Similarly, more than 1.08 lakh tonnes paddy arrivals were recorded in Sonipat, 39,569 tonnes in Hisar, 20,687 tonnes in Faridabad, 14,627 tonnes in Rohtak, 7,765 tonnes in Jhajjar, 3,676 tonnes in Mewat and 3,400 tonnes in Gurgaon. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/50L-tonnes-of-paddy-arrive-in-state-markets/articleshow/49731720.cms
Similarly, more than 1.08 lakh tonnes paddy arrivals were recorded in Sonipat, 39,569 tonnes in Hisar, 20,687 tonnes in Faridabad, 14,627 tonnes in Rohtak, 7,765 tonnes in Jhajjar, 3,676 tonnes in Mewat and 3,400 tonnes in Gurgaon. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/50L-tonnes-of-paddy-arrive-in-state-markets/articleshow/49731720.cms
November 10, 2015 10:39:00 PM
By Melissa Luz T. Lopez, Reporter
Task force to decide soon on rice imports
THE EL NIÑO Task Force will
decide this month whether the government will need to import additional rice to
serve as a buffer stock amid a prolonged dry spell expected until mid-2016, the
country’s socioeconomic planning chief said yesterday.
Workers
unload rice imported from Vietnam. -- AFP
National Economic and
Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan said the Cabinet
will soon decide on the need to import more rice, the volume of which has yet
to be determined by the interagency task force.Last week Mr. Balisacan said the
task force is looking to bring in an additional 1.3 million metric tons of rice
to augment the existing supply ahead of a “severe” El Niño that is expected to
reduce significantly the local rice production.“We are still assessing the
available information because it is changing, so the DA [Department of
Agriculture] can get to validate the numbers, especially those areas badly
damaged by typhoon Lando and the areas that were hit hard by El Niño,” Mr.
Balisacan told reporters on the sidelines of a forum in Makati City.Asked if
the volume of imports will be decided within the month, Mr. Balisacan said:
“Yes, because it has to be submitted to the President.
”An
additional supply is needed by the second quarter of 2016, the NEDA chief
noted.The National Food Authority is the main agency tasked to import rice. The
planned imports are apart from the 500,000 tons up for shipment in the first
quarter next year from Vietnam and Thailand.The Task Force will also meet on
Wednesday to finalize details of the government’s P19.2-billion master plan to
mitigate the impact of El Niño, Mr. Balisacan said.Officially called the
“Roadmap to Address the Impact of El Niño,” the master plan represents some
P7.5 billion to be spent for the remaining months of 2015 and P11.7 billion for
the first half of 2016. The plan awaits Malacañang’s approval.
Initial
projections showed El Niño would last six months starting September this year,
but this was further expected to stretch until June 2016, according to weather
officials.Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad had earlier said that funding for
the master plan may be reduced in the light of recent events, such as typhoon
Lando which filled dams earlier projected to run dry.The central bank and
international debt watchers have both pointed to the looming dry season as a
risk to growth, citing its potential impact on commodity prices, among other
factors.
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=task-force-to-decide-soon-on-rice-imports&id=118445
Slight Dip in Rice Yields ‘Won’t Affect Exports’
Khmer Times/Sok Chan
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
As the harvest of wet-season rice ends this month, a report from
the Ministry of Agriculture says the yield will fall slightly below the target
but this will not affect exports.
Rice will be harvested from about 2.55 million hectares of land, about 99.53 percent of the targeted 2.56 million hectares, the report said, adding that the yield would be about three tons per hectare on average. Hean Vanhan, deputy director of the General Department of Agriculture, told Khmer Times yesterday the target was almost met despite drought hitting areas of the country since the beginning of the planting season. “Cambodia has an extra 4 million tons of rice in stock after domestic consumption. As a result the loss of about 2,455 hectares [of rice to drought] this year is not a problem,” Mr. Vanhan said.
Rice will be harvested from about 2.55 million hectares of land, about 99.53 percent of the targeted 2.56 million hectares, the report said, adding that the yield would be about three tons per hectare on average. Hean Vanhan, deputy director of the General Department of Agriculture, told Khmer Times yesterday the target was almost met despite drought hitting areas of the country since the beginning of the planting season. “Cambodia has an extra 4 million tons of rice in stock after domestic consumption. As a result the loss of about 2,455 hectares [of rice to drought] this year is not a problem,” Mr. Vanhan said.
This will not affect exports, he added. The ministry
recently told its officials and those at local administrative bodies to
concentrate on water management and advise farmers how to ensure the rice they
harvest meets export standards. Farmers are also being encouraged to expand the
kinds of crops they grow and manage water so they can grow crops during the dry
season.
Var Saroeun, a farmer who is a member of the Mongkol Agriculture Development Community in Battambang province, said that yields this year would be less than last year due to drought. Rice yields are low this year, but we are continuing to grow rice for the dry season,” Mr. Saroeun said. “Yields are not only low but the price is lower than last year,” he said. Last year farmers received about $300 per ton and this year they are getting $250 per ton, Mr. Saroeun said.
Var Saroeun, a farmer who is a member of the Mongkol Agriculture Development Community in Battambang province, said that yields this year would be less than last year due to drought. Rice yields are low this year, but we are continuing to grow rice for the dry season,” Mr. Saroeun said. “Yields are not only low but the price is lower than last year,” he said. Last year farmers received about $300 per ton and this year they are getting $250 per ton, Mr. Saroeun said.
Song Saran, president of exporter Amru Rice, said that even if yields fell slightly during this harvest it would not impact purchases for export. “We are not worried about a shortage,” Mr. Saran said, explaining that according to Amru’s purchasing contracts the company only buys about 50 percent of a farmer’s yield.
He also said his company had increased purchasing prices by about 15 percent for contract farmers to encourage them to grow more rice of export quality. His company’s purchase target is about 10,000 tons and it has already bought about 6,000 tons, he said. Amru will double its target to 20,000 tons if it gets support from NGOs, the government or low-interest loans from local and international banks, Mr. Saran said.Agriculture officials say they are advising farmers whose rainy-season crops were destroyed to plant again in the dry season.
The ministry has set aside rice seeds and seeds for other crops
for planting during the dry season, they said. “We have reserve rice seeds
for farmers,” Mr. Vanhan said. “In locations that are not favorable for growing
rice and do not have enough water in the dry season, we will provide seeds for
other crops because we don’t want to see farmers go hungry due to natural
disaster,” he added.Cambodia exported 408,169 tons of milled rice in the first
10 months of the year, with about 65 percent going to Europe, according to
official figures. Exports of milled rice to China totaled 83,577 tons in the
period.
Image:Drought will not have a major impact on rice yields
nationally this year, officials say.KT / Emmanuel Scheffer
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17674/slight-dip-in-rice-yields----won---t-affect-exports---/
NorMin’s rice output down
by 11% due to El Nino
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — Rice production in
Northern Mindanao dropped by 11 percent in the 3rd quarter of
this year compared to the same period last year due to the dry spell or El Nino
phenomenon, agriculture officials said.Department of Agriculture Region-10
director Lealyn Ramos said the dry spell affected the flowering stage of
the rice planted in June and July.The flowering stage was affected by the
dry spell. The flowers were not able to open fully to shed their pollen,”
Ramos said.
Citing figures from the Philippine Statistics Authority, Ramos
said rice production dropped by as much as 13, 737 metric tons worth P435
million this year.The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical
Services Administration had declared the country is experiencing since July
this year the strongest El Nino phenomenon ever recorded.It predicted that the
month of November will be the driest for Northern Mindanao.Ramos said the dry
spell has already affected 650 hectares in Kapatagan town in Lanao del Norte
where its irrigation system was damaged by tropical storm Agaton in 2014.She
said the cash-strapped National Irrigation System was not able to repair the
damage on the irrigation system of the rice-producing municipality.
She said the same thing happened in the province of Bukidnon
where rice farmers were already fighting among themselves for the limited water
supply from their irrigation canals.She said the agriculture department has
resorted to “cloud seeding” over Lake Lanao and Bukidnon in cooperation with
the Philippine Air Force.Ramos said the planes will be coming from Lumbia
Airport in Cagayan de Oro, a former commercial plane hub which has been
converted into a military airbase.“We are closely watching the weather updates
and have asked the municipalities to monitor the rivers and other water
sources,” she said. (Froilan Gallardo/MindaNews)
http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2015/11/10/normins-rice-output-down-by-11-due-to-el-nino/
Thailand Sells 2
MMT Rice Through G To G Deals
11/9/2015
Agriwatch
Agriwatch
India, Nov. 9 -- Thai commerce ministry is
confidence about increasing demand for Thai rice.It has confirmed that about
two million tonnes of rice has been sold through government-to-government
deals.Its a part of the governmentand's goal to export 10 million tonnes of rice and in the latest
development the Department of Foreign Trade sealed a deal with the Indonesian
Bureau of Logistics (BULOG) to export 500,000 tonnes.Published by HT Syndication with
permission from AgriWatch. For any query with respect to this article or any
other content requirement, please contact Editor athtsyndication@hindustantimes.com
http://www.world-grain.com/news/news%20home/LexisNexisArticle.aspx?articleid=2479011052
Rice farmers produce consumer-preferred varieties
More than 3,000 rice farmers and 700 processors in the Northern
Region are being supported to produce consumer-preferred rice varieties to
substitute imports this year.Under the sponsorship of SNV, a Netherlands
development organisation, the project is expected to yield 8,500 tonnes of
Jasmine rice, this year equivalent to 102,000 bags. That will increase the
incomes of farmers and other actors in the rice value chain to GH¢4million.Last
year, the project supported 1,400 local rice farmers and 600 processors in the
six project districts in the Northern Region to produce 25,000 bags of
consumer-preferred varieties, which yielded GH¢1.2million as income for the
farmers and other actors in the rice value chain.
The
project is being implemented in the Savelugu/Nanton Municipality, Tamale
Metropolitan Area, Tolon, Kumbungu, Sagnarigu and part of the East Gonja
District.The SNV Rice Project Manager, Mr Zakaria Jalil, made this known to the
Daily Graphic at a Farmers’ Field Day at Libga in the Savelugu/Nanton
Municipality in the Northern Region last Saturday.It had the theme:
"Consumer-Oriented Rice Production, Key to a Competitive Rice
Industry."According to Mr Jalil, the support was meant to strengthen the
capacities of local rice farmers and processors to respond to the changing
needs of consumers by offering them quality, tasty, aromatic and stone-free
rice comparable to or even better than imported rice.That, he explained, was
part of the efforts to make Ghana self-sufficient in rice production.
"Rice
has now become a staple food consumed by Ghanaians and remains on the menu
charts of restaurants and food joints across the country. It is also served at
social gatherings and events and in order to make local rice farmers and
processors to compete with their counterparts globally, there was a need to
build their capacities to produce to meet the demands of the market", he
stated.Mr Jalil also said significant awareness had also been created on the
need to consume the rice produced locally primarily because of its quality.He
appealed for support from all stakeholders to scale up the project to meet the
country's aspirations of reducing rice imports drastically. Some farmers and
processors who shared their experiences expressed their appreciation to SNV for
the support.They said the introduction of new technologies and provision of
improved seeds and good agronomic practices had increased their yields
resulting in the increase in their incomes.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Rice-farmers-produce-consumer-preferred-varieties-393035
Development of agriculture sector a must for
economic development: Shehbaz
2
days ago BY PPI
Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that the
dream of economical development and stability in the country could never become
true without the development of agriculture.Addressing the participants of the
Kissaan Relief Package cheques distribution ceremony held in Narowal, he said
that a timely and amicable solution to the farmers and growers’ prolonged
problems was the top priority of the government. He said that the prosperity of
Pakistan was closely linked with the prosperity of its farmers.He said Kissaan
Package was an unprecedented financial support package to farmers in the
country’s 68 year history, adding that farmers and growers had been the
backbone of the agro-based country’s economy.
Sharif said that the government was fully aware of the problems
faced by farmers and growers and was making all-out efforts to resolve them and
give maximum relief to those associated with the agricultural sector.He said
that the Kissan Relief Package would also boost the agro based economy of the
country besides helping pull the farmers’ community out of the prevailing
financial crisis. “No government has ever announced such a huge package for
farmers in the history of Pakistan,” he said.Sharif said that despite all the
negative propaganda of the political opponents, the PML-N government was
successfully delivering and was moving in the right direction to achieve the
goal of economic and political stability.
“We wanted to implement Kisaan relief package within a week;
however, some people put hurdles in our way to support the farmers,” he
claimed.He said that the government was meeting the expectations of the masses.The
chief minister said that the relief package had been designed in four parts,
with the first part being direct financial cooperation for farmers; second
being relief in agricultural costs; third, the provision of agricultural loans
and fourth, facilitating the process of obtaining loans.
Under the package, small rice farmers would be provided Rs 5,
000 per acre cash support. The cash assistance of Rs 5,000 has been announced
for cotton growers as well, he added. A reduction in the prices of fertilizers
has also been announced under the Kissan Package.Punjab CM said that a Rs 341
billion mega relief package for small farmers included direct cash support and
provision of soft agriculture loans. He said the package was aimed at
introducing progressive agriculture on scientific lines, reducing production
cost of crops and making the small farmers prosperous.He said the country’s
development was directly related to the uplift of its agriculture sector,
particularly farmers.
He said that under the
package, small farmers would get Rs 147 billion as direct benefit while Rs 194
billion had been allocated for agriculture loans.He said that the farmers
cultivating rice and cotton at up to 12.5 acres of land would be given cash
support of Rs 5,000 per acre. The government would pay Rs 20 billion each in
subsidies for rice and cotton crops.He said the government had already set up a
Rs 20-billion fund to reduce prices of fertilizers which would bring down the
price of Potassium and Nitrate fertilizers by Rs 500 per bag.Also, the
government was negotiating with local fertilizer manufacturers and gas
companies to revert the increase in prices of fertilizers which had gone up by
Rs 200 per bag.DCO Narowal Syed Najaf Iqbal told newsmen on the occasion that
Punjab government would distribute Rs 923.8 million among Narowal district’s
43,000 farmers under the Kissaan Relief Package.
Future of hybrid rice in the U.S. and world webinar Nov. 12
A
webinar that will provide an overview of the current and future role of hybrid
rice technology in global food production will be presented by the University
of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s Food and Agribusiness.The university’s
Bobby Coats, Ph.D, professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics
and Agribusiness, said. “We will review the impact that hybrid rice has had on
the U.S. market, the adoption of hybrid rice in the global market and a
forecast of the evolution of hybrid rice over the next 20 years.”This webinar’s
presenter will be Michael Gumina, who has more than 35 years experience in the
seed industry and is the lead executive for RiceTec AG which is a privately
held, global hybrid rice seed business.
To register for the webinar, which will begin
at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, click the connection here:https://uaex.zoom.us/webinar/register/d1753b665ff1bfe334538d7d4481ef37
East End Foods plc helping to save sight
Monday 9 November, 2015
This Christmas East End Foods is
aiming to raise £15,000 for the charity Sight savers - enough money to fund 500
sight saving operations for people with blinding cataracts across India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Africa.
10p from every pack of 10kg and 20p from 20kg bags of Premium Gold
Chapatti flour and East End Basmati rice will go towards helping Sightsavers
transform the lives of people living with blinding cataracts. These products
will be available in store from 1st October to 31st December 2015.More than
twenty million people in the world are blind due to cataracts. Yet the
condition is easily treatable with a straightforward operation. For many people
living in the poorest parts of the world however, surgery is beyond their
means. Often people can't get to a health centre, they don't know their
condition is treatable, or simply can't afford the operation.Take Mulika Dep
for example. Mulika, from Bangladesh, began losing her sight many years ago.
She was embarrassed and didn't tell anyone about the problem for a
long time, but would struggle to do her housework. It wasn't until a
Sightsavers-supported health worker came to her village to screen eyes that she
discovered her condition was treatable. Although nervous at being referred to
the hospital for surgery, she was thrilled when, following a quick operation;
she was able to see once again.David Wouhra Managing Director East End Foods
says: “This is the latest project by East End
Foods as part of its commitment to continually improving the health and social
status of our society. We are very grateful to Sightsavers for the opportunity
to help us restore sight to and improve the lives of many more people, like
Mulika, living with blinding cataracts”.
Press release distributed by
Pressat on behalf of Sightsavers, on Monday 9 November, 2015. For more
information visit http://www.pressat.co.uk/
Mars Food Commits to 100 Percent Sustainable Rice By 2020
Mars Food Commits to 100 Percent Sustainable Rice By
2020
Nov
10, 2015 | 9:00 am
Rice
is a key
food staple for more than half of the global population and
supports more than 140 million smallholder farmers in the developing world.
Unfortunately, rice production alone is currently responsible for 5 to 10
percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 35 to 45 percent of the world’s
irrigated water use. But it’s possible to improve production methods to
prevent these environmental impacts while improving food security in the
developing world. The U.N Environment
Programme (UNEP) and the International
Rice Research Institute (IRRI) recently announced the
first-ever worldwide standard for sustainable rice production, as part of a
partnership, the Sustainable Rice
Platform (SRP), at a kickoff workshop in Cambodia.
Mars Food is the first company to
commit to the new standard, and will apply it to 100 percent of its
rice by 2020, including Uncle Ben’s, which is the world’s largest rice brand.
Mars is already piloting the new standard in Pakistan and India with practices
that work to improve both food safety and water quality.The standard
implemented by the SRP includes 46 requirements for productivity, food safety,
worker health, labor rights, and biodiversity, designed to reduce the environmental
footprint of rice cultivation while improving the incomes of small
farmers. “Caring for our environment as well as our entire supply chain
from end-to-end is more than usual corporate responsibility. It's an imperative
for Mars Food," says Fiona
Dawson, President of Mars Food.
"Through
the global standard, we hope to create benefits for all involved from the
farmers to our consumers. The benefit for us is that is that we are
ensuring premium quality rice, whilst also ensuring a higher income for
farmers, and a better environment for current and future generations. It is a
truly mutual solution."The SRP vision for success includes benchmarks to
reduce expenditures on rice by people under the US$1.25 poverty line, to avert
1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and to reduce hunger in Asia by 12
percent, all by 2035.
http://www.thedailymeal.com/mars-food-commits-100-percent-sustainable-rice-2020
Farmers
in central Thailand urged to grow taro instead of rice
English.news.cn 2015-11-10 19:37:02
BANGKOK, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) --
Farmers in Thailand's central region are suggested to replace rice with taro on
their farms in a bid to cope with droughts, said a senior government official
on Tuesday.Those who have been used to cultivating rice, especially in the
basin of Chao Praya River, are now advised to go for taro which will yield more
income than rice, according to Apichart Lawanprasert, head of the Rice
Department's Rice Research Center in Pathum Thani province.The authorities have
urged the farmers in 20-plus central provinces to turn to types of plants which
do not need so much water as rice since critical droughts have reportedly
prevailed throughout the region.
The rice department has discouraged
the farmers from only growing rice on all arable plots of land and from doing
extra crops of rice so as to contain severe drought problems.The government has
repeatedly called on the rice farmers to cultivate just one crop of the
"water-consuming" rice in a year to better cope with droughts.Premier
Prayut Chan-o-cha recently blamed extra-crop farmings in the Chao Praya River
basin in previous years which had allegedly demanded large volumes of water
from major dams up north for this year's sustained droughts.In particular, the
premier pointed an accusing finger at a controversial rice subsidy program
implemented by a previous Yingluck Shinawatra government.
The rice program had allegedly
prompted the farmers to produce rice "in excess" at the expense of
large volumes of the dam-generated water.Those major dams, namely Bhumibol dam
in Tak province, Sirikit dam in Uttaradit province, Kwai Noi dam in Pitsanulok
province and Pasak Chonlasit dam in Lopburi province, could no longer release
so much water to the Chao Praya River basin as in previous years because they
had to keep large volumes in reserve and alleviate droughts this year and
beyond, according to the premier.Since last year, Gen Prayut has ordered the
Irrigation Department to close water gates which control daily flows of water
from those dams to deny irrigation for extra-crop season in low-lying areas throughout
the central region.The Chao Praya River basin is the country's largest
producing area of the indigenous rice, which differs in texture, shape and
prices from the relatively world-famous Hom Mali (fragrant jasmine) rice,
largely grown in the Esarn (northeastern) region.
Meanwhile, Apichart assured that
the rice farmers could even be better off by growing such edible roots as
taro."Taro can bring up more income than rice. For instance, one ton of
taro currently sells for an average of 25,000 baht (about 694 U.S. dollars),
compared to the average price of only 6,500 baht (about 180 U.S. dollars) for a
ton of rice," he said."Taro is not only on high demands throughout
the country, especially during a vegetarian festival and Chinese New Year season,
but is exported in limited quantity. There never seemed to be enough taro
either for the domestic or export market," he said.Nevertheless, the
agency has by no means called on the farmers to stop growing rice completely
but to spare some of their farmland for the cultivating of taro or other plants
which do not consume so much water while leaving other plots as rice farms as
usual, according to the director of the department's rice research center.
He added that one acre of farm
could possibly yield as much as 10 tons of taro for which its producing costs
might amount up to 2,800 U.S. dollars but it could sell for more than 6,900
U.S. dollars.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/10/c_134802872.htm
Farmers bemoan recent govt. policy on rice
importation
November 10, 2015
By PHILIP IKPONKO
Rice farmers in Katsina State coming under the aegis of All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, have faulted the recent decision of the Nigerian Customs Service legalising the importation of rice through land borders.Speaking yesterday through the state chairman of AFAN, Dr Yau Umar Gojogojo, the farmers urged the government to reconsider the policy insisting that it was capable of discouraging local production.They warned that adopting the policy at a time when the nation needed to adopt measures to boost farming “including the cultivation of rice for which we have fertile lands, is to say the least, counter-productive.
”According to Gojogojo, “What the government need to do and
should be seen doing is for it to provide enabling environment including making
improved rice seeds available and accessible to farmers,” he noted.“Once this
is done, our farmers can cultivate enough rice for both local consumption and
for export” he added even as he lauded the Senate for condemning the policy.The
Katsina AFAN boss said what the nation needed at this time of dwindling revenue
from oil was to aggressively pursue the farming option noting “once government
will use the advice of specialists and real farmers, we will attain the much
needed food security”.He stressed that to boost farming and ensure that the
nation attains food security and self-sufficiency, the government must
genuinely look at the issues of providing improved seeds and encourage constant
soil test so as to ascertain the suitability of crops in a given area.“Government
needs to provide equipment for soil measurements because we need a good
understanding of our soil through accurate tests,” he said.
Villar backs PhilRice’s 10-5 rice program
November
10, 2015
Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Food, expressed her full support for the 10-5 rice production
project of PhilRice in order to achieve rice supply sufficiency with
competitive cost in the future.Villar visited PhilRice Batac City branch to
grace its 2015 Field Day event on Tuesday for the celebration of the National
Rice Awareness Month this November.Joining Villar in the occasion were Ilocos
Norte Governor Imee Marcos, Batac City Mayor Jeffrey Jubal Nalupta, PhilRice
Executive Director Calixto M. Protacio, the researchers and employees of
PhilRice; officials from the Department of Agriculture in
Region 1. 
The 2015 field day tour was also attended by the rice farmers,
researchers and students from the academe in La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos
Norte.“The 10-5 rice production program is a nationwide project of PhilRice meaning
the production of rice at 10 metric tons per hectare at a cost of P5.00 per
kilogram,” she explained.She said the program is very necessary for making the
country more competitive to the upcoming Asean Economic Integration.
“If we could lower the cost of our fresh palay grains from the
traditional P10.50 per kilo to P5 per kilo, we are very much lower to other
Southeast Asian Nations. Thus, we are more competitive; we don’t need to import
rice; we are more rice sufficient; we will eliminate rice smuggling,” she said.She
cited the importance of the field day tour initiated by the PhilRice to
showcase their new rice production technologies that would probably enhance the
rice output of the farmers.
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RICE MUSEUM — Senator Cynthia Villar, (left) chairperson of the
Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, and Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos
enjoy a chat as they stand before an attractive canvass of the Banaui Rice
Terraces installed in the Rice Museum of PhilRice Branch in Batac City, Ilocos
Norte, yesterday. Villar was in town to grace the 2015 Field Day Tour at the
PhilRice-Batac City Branch. (Freddie G. Lazaro)
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Rice residue
New UD study looks at adding rice residue to
lower arsenic, improve crop yields
A
new study by University of Delaware researchers considers how adding
silica-rich rice residue to improve crop yields and decrease arsenic uptake may
affect the soils in which rice plants are grown.
8:24 a.m., Nov. 10, 2015--A new study by University of Delaware
researchers considers how adding silica-rich rice residue -- such as husks,
straw and the ash of those materials -- to improve crop yields and decrease
arsenic uptake may affect the soils in which rice plants are grown. The
results of the study were recently published in Plant and Soil, an international journal on
plant-soil relationships. The study was carried out by Evanise Penido, a
visiting student from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) in Brazil.Penido
worked on the project, led by Angelia Seyfferth, assistant professor in the Department
of Plant and Soil Sciences, in collaboration with Tom Hanson,
professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy and associate director of the marine biosciences program, and
Alexa Bennett, a graduate student in the College
of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.
Seyfferth said the current practice of removing silica-rich rice
residues and not incorporating them into soil is a leading cause of yield
declines and the susceptibility of rice to abiotic and biotic stress. “Rice
is a very efficient silicon accumulator. It’s able to pull silicon out of soil,
and the rice straw and the rice husk have a lot of silicon stored in the
tissues,” Seyfferth said. “If we incorporate those residues back into soil and
get more into a holistic farming approach – kind of like with organic residues
– we could improve the health of the soil and provide a source of nutrients for
plant-uptake.”Because farmers in developing countries need a low cost solution
to lower arsenic uptake in rice, the leftover material could prove to be a
viable option, something that became apparent to Seyfferth when she conducted
work in Cambodia. “These residues are removed from the field and just
piled up, but if we were able to take these materials and put them back into
soil, they might provide a source of silicon for the plants that would be
something that farmers in developing countries would easily have access to and
could utilize,” said Seyfferth.
Penido added that most farmers in South and Southeast Asia have
small-scale operations and cannot afford regular applications of silicon
fertilizers because of the high costs and limited availability. “A low
cost solution, such as applying rice residues into rice paddies, is important
to both the environment and human health. We are recycling wastes which can be
used by small-holder farmers in developing countries, providing enough silicon
to decrease arsenic uptake by rice,” said Penido.
Importance of silicon
Seyfferth said that silicon helps rice plants grow stronger, expend
less energy and work more efficiently. “It’s almost like the plant has
glass within it and when the plant has glass within its tissue, it makes things
like fungal pathogens less able to chew through it. In that way it helps to
increase resistance to diseases because of the rigidity it provides to the rice
plant,” she said.
In addition to that rigidity, the silicon also directly competes
with the predominant form of arsenic — the reduced form of arsenic called
arsenite — that is present in flooded rice paddy soils.
“Arsenite looks very similar chemically to dissolved silicon and
the two get taken up through rice roots along the same transport pathway. So
just by increasing the amount of dissolved silicon, we can effectively decrease
the amount of arsenic that gets taken up and stored in the grains,” said
Seyfferth. In addition to decreasing arsenic uptake in the rice, silicon
also helps improve crop yields by making the plant more rigid, stronger and
healthier. When the rice plants have more silicon, they use less water and
employ water and nutrients more efficiently.
Impact on soils
The researchers were also interested in what happens when the
residue is added back to the soil to see how they impacted the pH, the silicon
and arsenic availability, and also the dissolved methane in the soils. “What
we don’t want to do is add something that would increase methane emissions,”
said Seyfferth. Penido explained that to conduct the research, they
collected soil from UD’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) farm and had three kilograms of soil added in each
pot. “Different particle sizes of fresh straw, fresh husk and the ash of
straw or husk were incorporated into soil. Pots were then flooded to five centimeters
above the soil surface and kept flooded during the entire eight-week
experiment.
Pore water samples were obtained every week, for a total of
eight weeks and analyzed,” Penido said. The study showed that
incorporating the straw has drawbacks because, while it has a lot of silicon,
it also leads to more methane production and more arsenic release. Husk
addition, on the other hand, is very beneficial because it provides the most
silicon of all the residues studied, doesn’t release much arsenic and has a low
impact on methane emissions. “There were a lot of benefits from
incorporating the husk,” said Seyfferth.
Time at UD
As for her time at UD, Penido, who is currently working toward a
master’s degree in chemistry at UFLA, said, “As an international student I just
loved being a Blue Hen. UD for me was home away from home. I made really good
friends, studied a lot, made the fall dean's list, and had a lot of support.
Dr. Tom Sims, Maria Pautler and Ashley Fry were of extreme importance to make
my dream of studying at UD true. Ashley was the best adviser I could have asked
for. I am thankful for everyone from CANR who welcomed me.
I loved living in the
dorms, the social events and clubs, the UDairy Creamery, Ag Day and the good UD
atmosphere – everyone is so happy.” Of working with Seyfferth, Penido
said, “She was always willing to teach and help me, not just with the project
but also with the courses I was taking. She always showed me kindness and
respect. She was my adviser for my senior thesis and was very willing to help
me prepare for research presentations. I want to continue our studies in the
near future.” Seyfferth remains in touch with Penido, who she said was
great to work with on the project.
“She was so engaged and outgoing and I think it was a testament
to the quality of students that UFLA has and brings here,” said Seyfferth, who
added that she now has another UFLA student in her lab who is in a doctoral
program. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for us to get high quality students
and also to have this exchange. I think it’s opened the doors for a lot of
collaboration,” said Seyfferth. The research was funded by a National
Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Award that Seyfferth
received, as well as an NSF research starter grant and the UD Research
Foundation.
Article by Adam Thomas
WASDE
Report Released
 WASHINGTON,
D.C.--U.S. all rice production in 2015/16 is forecast at 190.8 million cwt,
up 3.0 million from last month, with the increase entirely due to a higher
yield. The average all rice yield is forecast at 7,423 pounds per acre, up
116 pounds from last month. Yields are raised for all states except for Texas
and Arkansas. Yields are lowered for Texas and unchanged for Arkansas. The
California all rice yield is raised 600 pounds per acre to 8,600 pounds.
Long-grain and combined mediumand short-grain rice production are both raised
from last month, with long-grain production projected at 132.4 million cwt
and combined medium- and short-grain production at 58.4 million.
The all rice import forecast is unchanged at 25.5 million cwt.
All rice domestic and residual use is raised 2.0 million cwt to 127.0 million
cwt, 1.0 million each in long-grain and medium- and shortgrain rice. All rice
exports are raised 1.0 million cwt to 98.0 million cwt with the increase in
longgrain. Long-grain exports are projected at 65.0 million, and medium- and
short-grain exports at 33.0 million. All rice ending stocks are projected at
39.8 million cwt, unchanged from last month with long-grain stocks at 21.8
million, and medium- and short-grain at 16.1 million. he 2015/16 long-grain season-average farm price range
is projected at $11.50 to $12.50 per cwt, down $1.30 per cwt on both ends from
last month. The medium- and short-grain farm price range is projected at
$17.60 to $18.60 per cwt, up 30 cents per cwt on each end of the range. The
California medium- and short-grain rice price at a midpoint of $21.50 per cwt
is up $0.50 per cwt from last month.
The Other States medium- and short-grain rice price at a
midpoint of $13.00 WASDE-547-3 per cwt is lowered $1.00 per cwt. The all rice
season-average farm price is forecast at $13.30 to $14.30 per cwt, down $0.90
per cwt on each end of the range. Lower-than-expected prices published by the
National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for August and September,
along with price expectations the remainder of the marketing year, support
the downward adjustment in rice prices from a month ago. Global 2015/16 ending stocks are raised 2.7 million
tons or 3 percent due mostly to an increase in beginning stocks and a
decrease in consumption. Beginning stocks for 2015/16 are raised 1.9 million
tons due mostly to downward adjustments in 2014/15 consumption for China and
India, that consequently raised 2014/15 ending stocks.
Consumption changes in
recent years for China and India are based on reports received from the
Agricultural Counselor's offices in each country. In China, consumption is
lowered for both 2014/15 and 2015/16 due to higher prices, inconsistent
quality of state rice reserves, and changing consumption patterns. In India,
consumption is lowered and ending stocks are raised to better reflect
government of India reports on the stocks situation. Global production for
2015/16 is lowered 0.5 million tons to 473.5 million, primarily due to
smaller crops forecast for Bangladesh, Cambodia, and the Philippines,
partially offset by increases for Sri Lanka, South Korea, and the United
States.
World consumption is
projected at 486.2 million tons, down 1.3 million from last month, but still
a record. Consumption is lowered for Cambodia, China, India, and Vietnam.
Trade for 2015/16 is lowered slightly due mostly to smaller exports by
Cambodia, and smaller imports by Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Global ending stocks
are forecast at 91.0 million tons, up 2.7 million from last month, but a
decrease of 12.7 million tons from the preceding year, and the lowest stocks
since 2007/08. The 2015/16 stocks-to-use ratio at 18.7 percent is the lowest
since 2006/07.
Read the full report here.
U.S.-Grown Rice Earns New "Likes"
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ARLINGTON, VA -- Eight major grocery chains with more
than 1,200 store locations in 23 states have used USA Rice messages and
recipes to promote U.S.-grown rice to their customers this fall. Overall,
promotion activities by these stores earned USA Rice an additional 3.9
million impressions among consumers during September and October.
"We were beyond thrilled to get such a positive
response to our program this fall," said Katie Maher, director, domestic
promotion programs. "These numbers are especially impressive because USA
Rice did not pay for any of the partnership activities. Each month we see
growth in this program and expand to new stores and audiences."
USA Rice recipe cards were distributed through Big Y,
Giant Eagle, Meijer's, and Skogen's Festival Foods to more than 1 million
shoppers during September as a National Rice Month (NRM) promotion. As an
extra effort, Meijer, Giant Eagle, Jewel Osco, Raley's, and Big Y stores used
Twitter and Facebook to link consumers to recipes and reached a combined 1.8
million viewers through social media.
Redner's featured rice in the September/October issue
of their HealthCents newsletter. A
full-page article titled "Reach for Rice" told readers how to
select the best type of rice for their dish and passed along nutrition facts
on each type along with a USA Rice recipe. The newsletter reaches more than
30,000 shoppers in-store and online.
Dietitian blogs were also a popular tool with
supermarkets. Jewel Osco posted information and graphics from USA Rice's Healthy Rice Bowls materials to more than
150,000 readers. "Tasty and Healthy Options with Whole Grains" was
the title of the blog post from Lowes Foods' dietitian in October. The post
featured USA Rice's consumer infographic 10 Reasons to Eat Rice Grown in the USA. Raley's Season Blog blog promoted the infographic and shared
two recipes perfect for California shoppers looking for locally grown
products.
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Rice Comment
Rice futures traded in a wide
range today before winding up in the red. The USDA production report raised
total US production by 3 million cwt to 190.8 million cwt due entirely to
higher yields. Total long grain production was projected at 132.4 million cwt,
with medium and short-grain production pegged at 58.4 million. Ending stocks
are projected at 39.8 million cwt, which is unchanged from last month due to
increased domestic use and export projections. The average long-grain price is
projected down $1.30 from last month to $11.50 to $12.50. Global ending stocks
for 15/16 were raised by 3 percent (2.7 million tons) due to an increase in
beginning stocks and a decrease in consumption.
http://www.arfb.com/ag-markets-statistics/report/
World Rice Production 2015/2016
This month the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that the World Rice Production 2015/2016 will be 473.5 million metric tons, around 0.52 million tons less
than the previous month's projection.
Rice Production last year (*) was
478.28 million tons. This year's 473.5 estimated million tons could represent a
decrease of 4.79 million tons or a 1% in rice production around the globe.
Rice
Production by Country
(Values in Metric Tons)
China: 145,500,000
India: 103,500,000
Others: 40,533,000
Indonesia: 36,300,000
Bangladesh: 34,600,000
Vietnam: 28,200,000
Thailand: 16,400,000
Burma: 12,200,000
Philippines: 11,500,000
Brazil: 8,000,000
Japan: 7,900,000
Pakistan: 6,900,000
United States: 6,057,000
Cambodia: 4,350,000
Korea, South: 4,258,000
Egypt: 4,000,000
Sri Lanka: 3,300,000
Next Update will be December 09, 2015.
https://www.worldriceproduction.com/?Referer=Newsletter
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