Today Rice News Headlines...
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SMEDA asked to resolve
issues of SMEs
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Four-year rice deal
with Indonesia will bail out troubled sector
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Pak loses Geographical
Indication bid for Basmati rice before Chennai appellate
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Pakistan loses
Geographical Indication bid for Basmati rice
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Rice experts worldwide
to convene in Galveston March 1-4
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MP bid to get GI tag
for basmati hits roadblock
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MOHALE: NEGLIGENCE IN
PADDY PROCUREMENT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
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Expert canvasses rice
revolution for food security
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RICE HUSK, NO MORE A
WASTE
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Inside track: Rice
revelations
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FCI Sends Rice Stock
'Packing'
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Chhattisgarh grain
'scam': Minister says action taken against guilty
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New cropping pattern
boosts mustard cultivation
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SEMINAR ON
CLIMATE-RESILIENT CROPS HELD
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44m tons of rice per
anum by 2050: BRRI
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Rice starch market
research on 9 companies with forecasts to 2021 released by a top publisher
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SMEDA asked to resolve issues of
SMEs
February 08, 2016
KARACHI: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME)
invited the attention of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority
(SMEDA) CEO Alamgir Chaudhry to the difficulties faced by the SME rice growers,
millers, processors and exporters and urged study and examination of the issues
of the rice industry and suggestions for remedial measures to the ministries of
agriculture and commerce to save the rice industry.
UNISAME President Zulfikar Thaver said it is incumbent upon SMEDA to look into the predicament of the SMEs engaged in the rice business, which is in jeopardy due to the issues of the industry and unable to survive under such circumstances, especially when there is a global decline in the commodities market.
One important point which needs to be seriously looked into by
the Pakistan Standard Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) is the sub standard
fertilisers and counterfeit fumigation medicines supplied for destroying
insecticides and pesticides. The SME farmer is paying through the nose for
these inputs and suffering losses because of its ineffectiveness or low
potency. The modern day logistic companies have a system of collateral
management which is comprehensive and covers inspection at different stages,
risk management with insurance, warehouse receipt financing, speedy movements
and tracking, thus making banks comfortable in financing the SME rice traders
before and after shipments.
It is high time the rice industry modernised, and SMEDA can play an important role in its up gradation and modernisation. They also complained about the poor representation and advocacy of the Basmati Growers Association (BGA) at the forum in India whereby Pakistan was denied the Geographical Indication (GI) inclusion of basmati rice.
Basmati is grown in India and Pakistan since more than centuries and not including Pakistani basmati rice in the GI amounts to a very apparent and serious error in judgment but the SMEs fail to understand why on earth the BGA challenged the Indian application in the Indian court when India was aiming at identification in India only and it was not a global GI application. Secondly having challenged it, why did it not do its homework and advocate the case wholeheartedly.
However, it is unfortunate that the Rice Exporters Association
of Pakistan (REAP) and the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) did
not take interest in the matter and pursue to expedite the GI law in Pakistan.
Alamgir Chaudhry has promised and assured UNISAME that he would discuss future
strategy with his team on priority to secure the interest of the SMEs in the
rice sector.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/business/08-Feb-2016/smeda-asked-to-resolve-issues-of-smes
Four-year rice
deal with Indonesia will bail out troubled sector
Islamabad Chamber of Small
Traders Patron Shahid Rasheed Butt on Sunday said the four-year rice export
deal with Indonesia would bail out the troubled sector and stabilise prices at
home.He demanded more long and short term agreements with other countries to boost
rice exports as the sector has been facing problems for the last few years.Butt
said in his statement that export of rice to Indonesia would boost overall
exports to 4.6 million tonnes which would be a record and for which the
government deserved credit.Pakistan’s export forecast had recently been raised
by 0.1 million tonnes in the wake of a deal with Indonesia, he added.He said
the reasons behind the crisis in the rice sector were high production cost, the
exporters focusing on profit instead of quality and the availability of Indian
rice on low rates.
Local exporters wanted to sell
rice at $950 to $1100 per tonne while the Indians offered prices as low as 720
to 850 per tonne because of the low production cost and hidden subsidies in
their country, he added.India’s move to sell basmati at lower prices took a
toll on Pakistan’s exports but its exporters remained unwilling to bring down
their prices, Butt said.The business leader said that Iran was another
promising market where Pakistani rice was in great demand but the payment
mechanism continued to discourage the exporters.India would be a major
competitor to Pakistan in the Iranian market for which exporters and the
government need to make an effective strategy, he added.
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/02/08/business/four-year-rice-deal-with-indonesia-will-bail-out-troubled-sector/
Pak loses Geographical Indication
bid for Basmati rice before Chennai appellate
(Representative image)
After APEDA's application was advertised in the GI journal in May 2010, BGA served it a notice. Even though it received a counteraffidavit to its notice and in spite of two extensions, BGA failed to provide evidence supporting its opposition — within the prescribed time and format -under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. So the registry rejected the opposition as `abandoned' on December 31, 2013, IPR attorney P San jai Gandhi said.
BGA moved IPAB, challenging the registry's order BGA's counsel said the asso ciation filed its evidence "diligently" and it was APEDA that countered with missing documents.
Underlining the
require ment for strict compliance of rules, APEDA's counse said BGA's
"explanation was an afterthought and an excuse to cover up gross neg
ligence." A bench of chair man Justice K N Basha and technical member
(trade marks) Sanjeev Kumar Chaswal said there was no explanation to justify
the de lay for filing its evidence.
Pakistan loses
Geographical Indication bid for Basmati rice
Chennai: Pakistan has lost its battle to obtain the prestigious
Geographical Indication (GI) tag for basmati rice, owing to its failure to play
by mandatory rules.Lahore-based Basmati Growers Association (BGA) had moved Intellectual
Property Appellate Board here, challenging the application of the India's
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA)
seeking GI tag for basmati rice cultivated in seven states - Uttar Pradesh,
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. More
importantly, BGA opposed grant of GI tag basmati to India "in
totality." It argued that the assistant registrar of GI in Chennai had
"gravely erred that rice produced in the region of Madhya Pradesh, or for
that matter any part of India can bear the basmati tag." On Friday,
however, IPAB rejected the arguments saying BGA had "miserably
failed" to comply with rules.
After APEDA's application was advertised in the GI journal in
May 2010, BGA served it a notice. Even though it received a counter-affidavit
to its notice and in spite of two extensions, BGA failed to provide evidence
supporting its opposition - within the prescribed time and format - under the
Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. So
the registry rejected the opposition as 'abandoned' on December 31, 2013, IPR
attorney P San jai Gandhi said.
BGA's counsel said his client moved IPAB, challenging the
registry's order. He said the association filed its evidence
"diligently" and it was APEDA that countered with missing documents.
Underlining the requirement for strict compliance of rules, APEDA's counsel
said BGA's "explanation was an afterthought and an excuse to cover up
gross negligence."
A bench of the chairman Justice K N Basha and technical member
(trade marks) Sanjeev Kumar Chaswal said there was no explanation to justify
the delay for filing its evidence.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Pakistan-loses-Geographical-Indication-bid-for-Basmati-rice/articleshow/50884469.cms
Rice experts worldwide to convene in
Galveston March 1-4
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Writer: Kathleen Phillips,
979-845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu
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Contact: Dr. Lee Tarpley,
409-752-2741, ltarpley@tamu.edu
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Dr. Ted Wilson, 409-752-2741, lt-wilson@aesrg.tamu.edu
- Writer: Kathleen Phillips, 979-845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu
- Contact: Dr. Lee Tarpley, 409-752-2741, ltarpley@tamu.edu
- Dr. Ted Wilson, 409-752-2741, lt-wilson@aesrg.tamu.edu
GALVESTON — More than 400 rice scientists, industry
representatives, consultants and growers are expected to gather in Galveston March 1-4 for the 36th
Biennial Rice Technical Working Group meeting at Moody Gardens in Galveston, officials said.
“We’re expecting scientists from across the U.S. as well as a
number of people from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe,” said Dr. Ted
Wilson, center director at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension
Center-Beaumont, which is hosting the event.
Registration and conference details are at http://www.rtwg.net. The meeting takes place every
other year and is held in Texas once a decade.
Wilson said the event will cover everything about rice production,
management and varietal improvement.“As scientists, we often focus
narrowly on one topic,” Wilson noted. “Consultants have to focus on the whole
crop from agronomy to pest management to economics. And growers have to do the
same thing but at yet another level. So these interactions that we will have at
the meeting are really helpful, because by partnering with growers or
consultants, we can do so much more than we can by ourselves.”
Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research plant physiologist in Beaumont
and program chair, said the conference will include 270 presentations.“One
of the really neat things about this meeting is that we have such a wide range
of disciplines,” he said. “We’ve got talks on economics and marketing; weed
control and growth regulation; rice culture; breeding and genetics; grain
quality, processing and storage; and plant protection against disease and
insect
pests.” Tarpley said
six symposia are being held during the meeting to focus on the most important
and timely issues facing the U.S. and world rice industry. Symposia topics are:
Sustainable Organic Rice Production, Water Conservation Technologies for
Sustainable Rice Production, Rice Value-Addition, Updates for Crop Consultants,
The Role of Climatic Stress on Rice Yield and Quality, and Blast Disease.
“Although the U.S. only
produces about 2 percent of all rice in the world, we are leaders in many of
the scientific areas,” Wilson said. “What makes us a leader with our partners
overseas is complementary expertise. It is not just us; it’s us working with
them that really does it.” Wilson
noted that AgriLife Research scientists over the past 25 years have identified
eight key traits in rice plants that interact to explain almost 80 percent of
the average variation in yield. Traits such as producing leaves quickly or
slowly, or the location on the plant where the flower head is formed help
determine yield and are key to the inbred and hybrid rice breeding programs at
Beaumont.
How plant traits interact to
determine rice yield performance under conditions of temperature stress also
will be addressed as part of the climatic stress symposium. The
rice stink bug will be a focus of the pest management topics at the meeting,
according to Dr. Mo Way, AgriLife Research entomologist in Beaumont.
Attendees will learn about possible changes in the threshold numbers that determine when it is economically advantageous to use control
measures on the insect.
Attendees will also get an
update on blast, a serious disease on rice and wheat, according to Dr. Shane
Zhou, AgriLife Research plant pathologist in Beaumont.
“Blast is an important disease
and causes significant damage to rice around the world,” Zhou said. “Wheat
blast is the biggest threat to wheat production in South America, and it poses
a threat to wheat production in the U.S.”“Right now in the U.S., the crop doesn’t have wheat blast, but it has the potential to
spread, so our speakers will focus on developing global strategies for
management of rice blast and wheat blast.” Tarpley
said the conference will include a wide variety of information applicable not
only for rice but for various other cropping systems.
MP bid to get GI tag for basmati
hits roadblock
Over three lakh farmers in Madhya Pradesh
cultivate basmati in over four lakh hectares. They were hoping for a favourable
order which would help them in exports.
More
than three lakh farmers in Madhya Pradesh cultivate basmati on over four lakh
hectares of land and were hoping for a favourable order, which would have
earned them more in exports. (Source: File | Reuters)
Madhya Pradesh’s battle to get the Geographical Indication (GI)
tag for basmati rice grown by its farmers in several districts has hit a
hurdle, with the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) ruling against
it.The assistant registrar of the Geographical Indications Registry had ruled
in favour of Madhya Pradesh on December 31, 2013. But the Delhi-based
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA)
challenged the order. The
Chennai-based IPAB has now sided
with the APEDA, which had argued against allowing GI tag for basmati rice grown
by MP farmers.More than three lakh farmers in Madhya Pradesh cultivate basmati
on over four lakh hectares of land and were hoping for a favourable order,
which would have earned them more in exports.
“We will move the Chennai high court. We will eventually succeed,”
Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Minister Gaurishankar Bisen told The Sunday Express,
a day after Justice K N Basha and technical member Sanjeev Kumar Chaswal gave
their ruling.Principal Secretary (Agriculture) Rajesh Rajora said the state and
other applicants had submitted detailed documentary evidence, such as the
gazetteers during the British rule, to shore up the state’s case. He said the
appeal will be filed in the next few days.Though there are hundreds of
varieties of long grain and scented rice grown all over the world, basmati is
the best known due to its unique properties attributable to agro-climatic
conditions prevailing in a geographical area.
The assistant registrar had asked APEDA to include some districts
in Madhya Pradesh that grow basmati before giving GI tag to the rice grown in
parts of seven states, including Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.The APEDA,
which functions under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, had
challenged the “erroneous” order on several grounds. While arguing against MP’s
inclusion, APEDA claimed to have legally challenged in 40 countries third party
attempted registrations in the name of basmati or any deceptive
variations.Saying MP’s evidence was based on improper verification and
illegible and unreadable documents, it was argued that the state does not fall
in the Indo Gangetic Plain. In the 235 goods granted GI tag by the registry,
only two have been challenged so far.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/mp-bid-to-get-gi-tag-for-basmati-hits-roadblock/#sthash.NILMYqtv.dpuf
MOHALE: NEGLIGENCE IN PADDY PROCUREMENT
WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Minister Punnulal
Mohale on Saturday said that the negligence in purchase and procurement of
paddy for the Public Distribution System (PDS) will not be tolerated.Mohale
added that there was discrepancy in the purchase of 5.30 lakh metric tonne
paddy and procurement at villages Alesur and Devrisuma was less by 18
thousand 317 metric tonne. The district administration in its investigation
found the fraud, and strict action had been taken against the erring officials
in the Kharif Procurement season 2014-15. The Minister said that the probe
had not been done on any complaint but by the State Government and district
administration on its own. There was shortage of 8,870 tonne paddy at
Alesur Procurement Centre and 9,447 tonne paddy at Devrisuma Procurement centre
in the year 2014-15.
The paddy had been released without any proper delivery
order to the rice millers. Sarna variety paddy had been released on the coarse
paddy Delivery Order, embezzlement in the weights and measures of paddy to the
rice millers and unusual discrepancy in the quantity of paddy. There was no
case against the transporters. Mohale stated that the erring officials,
Devrisuma Procurement Centre In-charge Mahendra Bret and Alesur Procurement
Centre In-charge Ramanuj Singh Thakur had been suspended by the MarkFed in July
2015. Investigation is going on against the two officials. F.I.R. had been
registered at the Batapara Police Station in November 2015.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/mohale-negligence-in-paddy-procurement-will-not-be-tolerated.html
Expert canvasses
rice revolution for food security
February 7, 2016
African governments and policymakers have been
urged to improve management practices and policies as a way of increasing rice
production on the continent.A professor of development economics and an
agricultural development expert in both Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Keijiro
Otsuka, said that if this was done, Africa would increase its rice production
capacity by 50 per cent.Otsuka, who spoke during a seminar at the International
Rice Research Institute, stressed that Africa needed a Green Revolution
particularly for rice, which had become very important on the continent.
According to him, currently, an African eats 25
kilogrammes of rice annually, compared with only 10 kilograms 30 years ago.
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Otsuka lamented the fact that imported Asian
rice accounted for more than one third of African consumption, and that in
Sub-Sahara Africa alone, consumption had been rising faster than production.The
Food and Agriculture Organisation had identified Africa’s inability to reach
self-sufficiency in rice production as being connected with several constraints
in the industry.It stated that these challenges required urgent redress to stem
the trend of over-reliance on imports and to satisfy the increasing demand for
the staple in areas where the potential of local production resources was
exploited at very low levels.
According to an FAO report, rice is a staple in
many African countries and constitutes a major part of the diet, with as many
as 21 of the 39 rice-producing countries in the continent importing between 50
and 99 per cent of their rice requirements.The report added that in the past
three decades, the crop had seen consistent increases in demand and its growing
importance was evident in the food security planning policies.“With the
exception of a few countries that have attained self-sufficiency in rice
production, rice demand exceeds production and large quantities of rice are
imported to meet the demand at a huge cost in hard currency. Africa consumes a
total of 11.6 million tonnes of milled rice per year, of which 3.3 million
tonnes (33.6 percent) is imported,” the report added.
But Otsuka, who is a former chair of IRRI’s
board of trustees, stressed that “an African Green Revolution in rice is
feasible as the crop is the most promising one for raising food productivity on
small farms in sub-Sahara Africa.Citing a study, which showed that many areas
in the SSA had attained high yields by adopting Asian-type technologies and
improved management practices, he expressed the belief that if sufficient
resources were allocated to capacity building for effective extension systems,
a green revolution in rice was possible in Africa.
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RICE HUSK, NO MORE A WASTE
Ms Rahat
Naseer
Sunday, February
07, 2016 - Rice is one of the important crops in Pakistan.
According to Pakistan Economic Survey 2014,total
production of rice is 6160 thousand tons in Pakistan. As rice
husk comprises 20% of the paddy rice,
production of rice husk comes to 1540 thousand tons annually. Rice grain contains a rough and hard outer covering, called rice husk which
is inedible for human consumption and is also not being fully incorporated in livestock feeding. Rice husk contains 35 percent
cellulose, 20 present hemi cellulose, 30 percent lignin, 18 percent pentose and
17 percent ash. Rice husk is one of the by-products of rice threshing process
and abundantly available in the central Punjab.
Traditionally, rice husk obtained from rice thresher has been used as ingredient in ruminant and poultry feeds but the problem of low nutrients digestibility, high silica/ash content and abrasive characteristics are limiting factors in its utilization. According to the International Rice Research Institute, rice is one of the important staple food crops, daily food for more than 3.5 billion people of the world. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) estimated world rice production of 700 million tons in 2010. Since the husk constitutes 20% of rice, vast quantities of rice husk is disposed of as waste, or burned in open fields, polluting the environment.
In the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, a study was conducted in which rice husk was subjected to acid alkali water and fermentation. Different concentrations of acid and alkali were used. All these concentrations were selected carefully not to be harmful for animal consumption. A ration formulation was designed using processed rice husk. Feeding trials of Lohi sheep were carried out for two months. Results showed remarkably good acceptance of rice husk as a replacer of wheat bran in total mixed ration.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=288398
Inside track: Rice revelations
In his biography The Z Factor, television
mogul Subhash Chandra has been extraordinarily candid about his past.
Written by Coomi Kapoor | Published:February 7, 2016
12:05 am
Subhash Chandra
In his biography The Z Factor, television mogul Subhash Chandra
has been extraordinarily candid about his past. He acknowledges what was long
suspected: that he profiteered enormously from dubious rice deals with the
Soviets in the early 1980s. He was awarded a lucrative contract to export
basmati to Russia, on the understanding that he would share 50 per cent of his
profit with his benefactors in the Congress party. Chandra confesses that it was
Rajiv Gandhi who steered the deal his way through his aide Vijay Dhar. Chandra
writes that he deposited half the share of profits, first with Dhirendra
Brahmachari, then with Sitaram Kesri and finally with Arun Nehru.
An interesting sidelight to the story is that while the Soviets
were paying for expensive basmati rice, Goyal cut corners by mixing basmati
with the cheaper ‘parmal’ variety. The Russians, unfamiliar with the various
grades of Indian rice, assumed that he was cheating them since their
long-standing rice supplier, Tulsi Tanna, had only been supplying parmal and
they thought parmal was the better quality rice. Chandra did not argue with the
Russians, but made even bigger profits by exporting only parmal henceforth.
Kilogram index
Togetherness
The oldest invitee at the Beating the Retreat function this year was 90-year-old N D Tiwari, a veteran Congressperson who has served over the years as Central minister, chief minister and governor. He came in a wheelchair steered by his son Rohit Shekhar, who was attired in identical clothes as his father, right down to the Gandhi cap. A few years ago, a court, acting on a paternity suit Shekhar filed, had declared him to be Tiwari’s son.
The oldest invitee at the Beating the Retreat function this year was 90-year-old N D Tiwari, a veteran Congressperson who has served over the years as Central minister, chief minister and governor. He came in a wheelchair steered by his son Rohit Shekhar, who was attired in identical clothes as his father, right down to the Gandhi cap. A few years ago, a court, acting on a paternity suit Shekhar filed, had declared him to be Tiwari’s son.
Falling apart
Vice-President Hamid Ansari was keen to study the 1920 law which created Aligarh Muslim University and asked Parliament House library to send a copy of the Act to his office. The Parliament House library could not oblige since the only available copy is in very poor condition and the pages crumble easily. The document could not be removed from the bookshelf and transported. An attempt to microfilm the papers proved futile since the microfilm was unreadable when magnified. It was suggested that the vice-president personally visit the library. Instead, someone from his office was sent to clarify a particular date.
Safe distance
M Natarajan, the husband of Jayalalithaa’s aide Sasikala, had managed to persuade President Pranab Mukherjee to attend his Pongal celebrations in Chennai on January 12. However, Mukherjee’s proposed visit was scuttled after the Tamil Nadu CM put her foot down and objected to a presidential visit at that point of time. Natarajan was, however, present at the President’s ‘At Home’ function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Republic Day. He was seen talking to BJP ministers and other dignitaries and discussing the forthcoming Tamil Nadu elections. IAS and IPS officers from the Tamil Nadu cadre kept a safe distance from him. They feared that if they were seen even greeting him, the news would be conveyed back to Amma and they might by blackballed.
Misusing his name
Initially, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar wanted to appoint Madan Mohan Jha as HRD minister in his Council of Ministers. But C P Joshi, Congress general secretary incharge of Bihar, informed the CM that Rahul Gandhi was keen that Ashok Choudhary, Bihar Congress president, be given the HRD portfolio. Recently, when the Bihar CM met Rahul he pointed out that Choudhary had been made HRD minister on his request. A shocked Rahul made it clear that he had made no such suggestion. Subsequently, Choudhary has had a tough time getting an appointment with the Congress vice-president.
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/inside-track-rice-
FCI Sends Rice
Stock 'Packing'
By
Published: 08th February 2016 05:59 AM
Last Updated: 08th February 2016 05:59 AM
JEYPORE: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) of Jeypore
has returned over 800 quintals of rice to millers in the last three days citing
sub-standard packing. Poor quality gunny bags used for packing rice has been
cited as the reason. The gunny bags are supplied by the Odisha State Civil
Supplies Corporation as per the direction of the State Government.According to
sources, it was decided that miller agents have to deliver 70 per cent rice
quota to the Corporation and 30 per cent quota to FCI after procuring paddy
from the farmers and the gunny bags for packing should be provided by the Food,
Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department. The weight of the gunny bags should
be between 546 grams and 580 grams.
But
the gunny bags supplied by the department weighed less than 500 grams. Citing
poor quality of the bags, the Control Quality wing of the FCI rejected the
stock.Meanwhile, the millers’ association of Koraput has appealed to the State
Government and the FCI to consider the ground realities and allow
them to supply rice with the available gunny bags.Jeypore FCI
Quality Control Manager Dilip Dash said, “We have rejected the rice stock of
millers as the gunny bags weigh below 546 grams and it would be difficult to
store rice in the godowns with such low quality bags.” The FCI would not
compromise with the standard, he added.Meanwhile, district civil supply sources
clarified that the department had supplied the gunny bags to all districts and
Jeypore office distributed it among the millers as per their requirement.
Chhattisgarh grain 'scam': Minister
says action taken against guilty
By PTI | 7 Feb, 2016, 10.17PM IST
"An FIR was
registered against the duo in Bhatapara police station in November 2015,
besides a departmental inquiry is underway against them," Mohle
said.RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Government today said stringent action has been
initiated against those found prima facie guilty in irregularities in the
purchase and distribution of grain, since the incident came to light. "The
government and the administration of Balodabazaar-Bhatpara district has taken
strict action against those found prima facie guilty in irregularities which
came to light in Kharif
Year 2014-15.
"The investigation revealed the shortfall of 18,317 tonne of grain out of total 5,30,000 tonne of grain purchased from farmers under the 'Minimum Support Price' policy," State Food Minister Punnulal Mohle said today. The opposition Congress alleged that a scam of Rs 130 crore had taken place at the grain storage centres in the district and that government avoided conducting probe in the same.
"The investigation revealed the shortfall of 18,317 tonne of grain out of total 5,30,000 tonne of grain purchased from farmers under the 'Minimum Support Price' policy," State Food Minister Punnulal Mohle said today. The opposition Congress alleged that a scam of Rs 130 crore had taken place at the grain storage centres in the district and that government avoided conducting probe in the same.
He said the probe has exposed irregularities in Alesur and
Devrisuma storage centres in Kharif Year 2014-15. "The probe detected
shortfall of 8870 tonne of grain in Alesur Storage Centre and that of 9447
tonne in Devrisuma storage centre. The probe also detected instances like rice
millers getting grain without posting orders, irregularity in weight of grains
etc," he said. Incharges of Alesur and Devrisuma centres, namely Ramanuj
Singh Thakur and Mahendra Bareth, were suspended in July 2015 by the
Chhattisgarh State Co-operative Marketing Federation in this connection, the
minister said. An FIR was registered against the duo in Bhatapara police
station in November 2015, besides a departmental inquiry is underway against
them," Mohle said. He said a district Marketing Officer and an Incharge
Food Officer were also suspended in December last year.
"The action of
recovering cost of (short-fallen) grain was initiated against officials
concerned of the Markfed (State Marketing Coooperative Federation)," the
minister said, adding that an FIR was registered against two rice millers while
three rice millers have deposited the requisite amount. He said the government
is awaiting the inquiry report of grain stored in centres in Balodabazaar in
Kharif years 2012-13 and 2013-14. Mohle said the government will act swiftly
against the guilty on receipt of the report in this regard.
Economic times
New cropping
pattern boosts mustard cultivation
District Training Officer of the DAE for Nilphamari Aftab Hossain
attended the field day as the chief guest and inaugurated harvesting of BARI
Sorisha-14 mustard in the field of farmer Mahindra Chandra Roy of the village.
With Member of Ward No-1 of local Tupamari union Prohlad Roy in the chair,
Acting Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Agriculture Officer Tanvir Ahmed Sarker
attended the event as the special guest. Head of the Training Division of
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Dr Noel Magor, its Bangladesh
Representative Dr Ahmed Salauddin, Agriculture & Environment Coordinator of
RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid and its Programme Coordinator for Nilphamari
district unit KM Rashedul Arefin attended, among others.
More than 200 male and female farmers of the area, officials of
the DAE and RDRS Bangladesh, public representatives, local community leaders
and journalists attended the occasion. Research Assistant of Krishi Gobeshona
Foundation Mohidul Islam delivered welcome speech narrating the new cropping
pattern and cultivation technologies for increasing food production in
attaining sustainable food security amid changing climate. The new cropping
pattern is being popularised among the farmers in association with BSMRAU under
funding of KGF with DAE assistance in Rangpur division since 2011. He said 300
farmers have set up exhibition plots of BARI Sorisha-14 on 300 bigha lands in
Nilphamari district after harvesting short duration Aman rice this season
adopting the cropping pattern with the assistance of RDRS Bangladesh. Special
guest Tanvir Ahmed Sarker said BARI Sorisha-14 is a short duration crop that
can be cultivated between the gap of harvesting short duration Aman and
cultivation of Boro rice to harvest in 80-85 days to get average yield rate of
over 1.5 tonnes per hectare.
After harvesting the BARI Sorisha-14, farmer Mahindra Chandra Roy
got its 1.81 tonne yield rate per hectare, which is much higher than the yield
rate of the traditional varieties of the crop. The chief guest suggested the
farmers for expanded cultivation of BARI Sorisha-14 along with bee farming
adopting the new cropping pattern and using more compost fertilisers to
increase crop yield side by side with improving soil health.-Asfar
SEMINAR ON CLIMATE-RESILIENT CROPS HELD
Major effective steps should be
taken to tackle global warming and climate change and reduce the greenhouse gas
emission, said the speakers at a seminar held by the Orissa Environmental
Society (OES) on Sunday.Climate-resilient crops should be developed for the
food security in the polluted environment, said National Rice Research
Institute Scientist Dr Bhaskar Chandra Patra. The OES organised the seminar on
the topic ‘Climate-Resilient Crops’ at its premises.Dr Patra also said Indian
agriculture today faces multi-pronged challenges like flood, drought, etc.
Agriculture is also further affected the extreme weather variations.
He said research on
climate-resilient crop is in progress at the National Rice Research Institute
and the OUAT so that the problem of food security in the changing climate can
be addressed. OES president Dr Sundar Narayan Patro chaired the meeting.
OES secretary Jaya Krushna Panigrahi gave a brief introduction on the topic of
discusssion. OES vice-president BM Farooq gave welcome address.
44m tons of rice per anum by 2050:
BRRI
Bangladesh will need to produce
over 44 million metric tons of rice to meet the growing demand for a projected
population of 215 million by 2050.With the pace of rice output over the last
five years, the production can reach up to 47.2 million metric tons by 2050,
with a surplus of 2.6 million metric tons.
Different sector wise projections
suggest that both problems and prospects equally exist on the way to reach the
goal.However, it is possible to achieve the target and show the way forward to
development if collaborative efforts of scientists continue.
These projections were revealed at
the inaugural session of the six-day 24th Rice Research and Extension Workshop,
and BRRI Annual Research Review Workshop 2014-2015 held at the auditorium of
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) in the capital on Saturday; said a
press BRRI.Agriculture Secretary Shyamol Kanti Gosh was present in the
programme as the chief guest with BRRI Director General Dr Jiban Krishna Biswas
in the chair.
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Figure
Picture of Rice Starch 1
Figure Rice Starch Characteristics Compared to Other Starches 2
Table Product Specifications of Rice Starch 2
Table Specification Comparison of Different Types of Rice Starch 2
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2015 4
Figure Food Grade Picture 4
Figure Industry Grade Picture 5
Table Applications of Rice Starch 5
Figure Global Consumption Volume Market Share of Rice Starch by Applications in 2015 6
Figure Food Industry Examples 6
Table Major Consumers from Food Industry 7
Figure Pharmaceutical Industry Examples 7
Table Major Consumers from Pharmaceutical Industry 7
Figure Cosmetic Industry Examples 8
Table Major Consumers from Cosmetic Industry 8
Figure Industry Chain Structure of Rice Starch 8
Table Global Major Regions Rice Starch Development Status in 2015 9
Table Industry Policy of Rice Starch 9
Table Industry News List of Rice Starch 12
Table Raw Material Suppliers and Price Analysis 14
Figure 2010-2015 China Rice Price Trend (USD/MT) 14
Figure 2010-2015 Global Caustic Soda Price Trend (USD/MT) 15
Table Equipment Suppliers and Price Analysis 15
Figure United States Average Hourly Wages in Manufacturing (USD/Hour) 16
Figure Rice Starch Characteristics Compared to Other Starches 2
Table Product Specifications of Rice Starch 2
Table Specification Comparison of Different Types of Rice Starch 2
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2015 4
Figure Food Grade Picture 4
Figure Industry Grade Picture 5
Table Applications of Rice Starch 5
Figure Global Consumption Volume Market Share of Rice Starch by Applications in 2015 6
Figure Food Industry Examples 6
Table Major Consumers from Food Industry 7
Figure Pharmaceutical Industry Examples 7
Table Major Consumers from Pharmaceutical Industry 7
Figure Cosmetic Industry Examples 8
Table Major Consumers from Cosmetic Industry 8
Figure Industry Chain Structure of Rice Starch 8
Table Global Major Regions Rice Starch Development Status in 2015 9
Table Industry Policy of Rice Starch 9
Table Industry News List of Rice Starch 12
Table Raw Material Suppliers and Price Analysis 14
Figure 2010-2015 China Rice Price Trend (USD/MT) 14
Figure 2010-2015 Global Caustic Soda Price Trend (USD/MT) 15
Table Equipment Suppliers and Price Analysis 15
Figure United States Average Hourly Wages in Manufacturing (USD/Hour) 16
Figure
United States Average Weekly Hours 16
Figure Euro Area Average Monthly Wage (EUR/Month) 17
Figure China Minimum Monthly Wages (CNY/ Month) 17
Figure Indonesia Average Monthly Wages in Manufacturing (IDR THO/Month) 18
Figure Vietnam Wages In Manufacturing (VND Thousand/Month) 18
Figure Thailand Average Monthly Wages in Manufacturing (THB/Month) 19
Table 2015 Global Electricity Price of Industry (USD/KW•h) by Country 19
Table Manufacturing Cost Structure Analysis of Rice Starch in 2015 20
Figure Manufacturing Process Analysis of Rice Starch 21
Table Capacity (K MT) and Production Type of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 22
Table Manufacturing Plants Distribution of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 22
Table Manufacturing Method Status and Technology Source of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 23
Table Raw Materials Sources Analysis of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 23
Table Global Capacity (K MT) of Rice Starch by Regions 2011-2016 25
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2011 25
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2015 26
Table Global Production (K MT) of Rice Starch by Regions 2011-2016 26
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2011 26
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2015 27
Table Global Revenue (Million USD) of Rice Starch by Regions 2011-2016 27
Figure Euro Area Average Monthly Wage (EUR/Month) 17
Figure China Minimum Monthly Wages (CNY/ Month) 17
Figure Indonesia Average Monthly Wages in Manufacturing (IDR THO/Month) 18
Figure Vietnam Wages In Manufacturing (VND Thousand/Month) 18
Figure Thailand Average Monthly Wages in Manufacturing (THB/Month) 19
Table 2015 Global Electricity Price of Industry (USD/KW•h) by Country 19
Table Manufacturing Cost Structure Analysis of Rice Starch in 2015 20
Figure Manufacturing Process Analysis of Rice Starch 21
Table Capacity (K MT) and Production Type of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 22
Table Manufacturing Plants Distribution of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 22
Table Manufacturing Method Status and Technology Source of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 23
Table Raw Materials Sources Analysis of Global Rice Starch Major Manufacturers in 2015 23
Table Global Capacity (K MT) of Rice Starch by Regions 2011-2016 25
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2011 25
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2015 26
Table Global Production (K MT) of Rice Starch by Regions 2011-2016 26
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2011 26
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Regions in 2015 27
Table Global Revenue (Million USD) of Rice Starch by Regions 2011-2016 27
Table
Global Capacity (K MT) of Rice Starch by Types 2017-2022 127
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2017 127
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2022 128
Table Global Production (K MT) of Rice Starch by Types 2017-2022 128
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2017 128
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2022 129
Table Global Revenue (Million USD) of Rice Starch by Types 2017-2022 129
Figure Global Revenue Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2017 129
Figure Global Revenue Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2022 130
Table Global Consumption Volume (K MT) of Rice Starch by Regions 2017-2022 130
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2017 127
Figure Global Capacity Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2022 128
Table Global Production (K MT) of Rice Starch by Types 2017-2022 128
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2017 128
Figure Global Production Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2022 129
Table Global Revenue (Million USD) of Rice Starch by Types 2017-2022 129
Figure Global Revenue Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2017 129
Figure Global Revenue Market Share of Rice Starch by Types in 2022 130
Table Global Consumption Volume (K MT) of Rice Starch by Regions 2017-2022 130
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