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Pump Repair Services Market Worldwide Growing by Size, Share, Demand, Regional Analysis by 2025

 

Pump Repair Services Market Worldwide Growing by Size, Share, Demand, Regional Analysis by 2025

Global Rice Combine Harvesters Market Report 2020 – Market Size, Share, Price, Trend and Forecast is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global Rice Combine Harvesters industry.

Global Rice Combine Harvesters Market 2020 – 2025 report provides in-depth unique Insights with Manufacturers, Suppliers, Distributors, traders, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Customers, Investors and major Types as well as Applications and Forecast period

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The report focuses on global major leading industry players providing information such as company profiles, product picture and specification, capacity, production, price, cost, revenue and contact information. Upstream raw materials and equipment and downstream demand analysis is also carried out. The Rice Combine Harvesters market industry development trends and marketing channels are analyzed. Finally the feasibility of new investment projects are assessed and overall research conclusions offered.

Regionally, this report focuses on several key regions: North America, Europe, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, etc.

Leading Players

The analysts authoring the report have closely analyzed each leading and prominent player of the global Rice Combine Harvesters market. The competitive analysis section of the report provides a list of players competing at a global level and segregates them according to the type segment of the global Rice Combine Harvesters market they focus on. It also provides production analysis by the manufacturer for the period 2015-2020. In addition, readers of the report are provided with revenue analysis and price analysis by the manufacturer at a global level for the period 2015-2020. Considering the same period, the market entry year of each player included in the report has been provided.

This report includes the following manufacturers; we can also add the other companies as you want.

Kubota

ISEKI

Ada Manufacturing Corporation

Yanmar

Nanning Tagrm

AGCO

Laverda

Zoomlion

LOVOL ARBOS GROUP

Branson Tractors

Dongfeng Agricultural Machinery

CLAAS KGaA mbH

CNH Industrial

Market Segment by Type

Drum Threshing Rice Combine Harvesters

Axial-Flow Rice Combine Harvesters

Hybrid Rice Combine Harvesters

Market Segment by Application

Harvesting

Impurity Removal

This Rice Combine Harvesters

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The content of the study subjects, includes a total of 15 chapters: 

Chapter 1 describes Rice Combine Harvesters market product/service scope, market overview, market opportunities, market driving force, and market risks.

Chapter 2 profiles the top manufacturers of Rice Combine Harvesters market, with price, sales, revenue and global market share of Rice Combine Harvesters market from 2014 – 2020. 

Chapter 3 analyses the Rice Combine Harvesters market competitive situation, sales, revenue. The global Rice Combine Harvesters market shares of top manufacturers are analyzed emphatically by landscape contrast. 

Chapter 4 showcases the Rice Combine Harvesters market breakdown data at the regional level, to discuss the sales, revenue and growth by regions, from 2014 to 2020. 

Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 emphasize the sales data at the country level, with sales, revenue, and market share for key countries in the world, from 2014 to 2020. 

Chapter 10 and 11 explain the segments by sales under type and application, with market shares and growth rate under each category, from 2014 to 2020. 

Chapter 12 depicts Rice Combine Harvesters market forecasts by region, type, and application, with sales and revenue projections, from 2020 to 2025. 

Chapter 13 and 14 describe Rice Combine Harvesters market sales channel, distributors, customers, research findings and conclusion, appendix, and other data sources. 

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Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Size, Historical Growth, Analysis, Opportunities and Forecast To 2026| SATAKE, Tw Grandeur Machinery, Buhler, Fowler Westrup

 

Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Size, Historical Growth, Analysis, Opportunities and Forecast To 2026| SATAKE, Tw Grandeur Machinery, Buhler, Fowler Westrup

LOS ANGELES, United States: The global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market is expected to grow at a significant pace, reports QY Research.  Its latest research report, titled “Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Report, History and Forecast 2015-2026”. offers a unique point of view about the global market.  Analysts believe that the changing consumption patterns are expected to have a great influence on the overall market. For a brief overview of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market, the research report provides an executive summary. It explains the various factors that form an important element of the market. It includes the definition and the scope of the market with a detailed explanation of the market drivers, opportunities, restraints, and threats.

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Both leading and emerging players of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market are comprehensively looked at in the report. The analysts authoring the report deeply studied each and every aspect of the business of key players operating in the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market. In the company profiling section, the report offers exhaustive company profiling of all the players covered. The players are studied on the basis of different factors such as market share, growth strategies, new product launch, recent developments, future plans, revenue, gross margin, sales, capacity, production, and product portfolio.

Key Players Mentioned in the Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Research Report: SATAKE, Tw Grandeur Machinery, Buhler, Fowler Westrup, AGREX, Milltech Machinery, HTM, Nishimura Machine, Yamanoto

Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market by Type: Semi-Hard Magnet, Soft Magnet, Hard/Permanent Magne

Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market by Application: Commercial Milling, Village Level Milling

Players can use the report to gain sound understanding of the growth trend of important segments of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market. The report offers separate analysis of product type and application segments of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market. Each segment is studied in great detail to provide a clear and thorough analysis of its market growth, future growth potential, growth rate, growth drivers, and other key factors. The segmental analysis offered in the report will help players to discover rewarding growth pockets of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market and gain a competitive advantage over their opponents.

Key regions including but not limited to North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the MEA are exhaustively analyzed based on market size, CAGR, market potential, economic and political factors, regulatory scenarios, and other significant parameters. The regional analysis provided in the report will help market participants to identify lucrative and untapped business opportunities in different regions and countries. It includes a special study on production and production rate, import and export, and consumption in each regional Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market considered for research. The report also offers detailed analysis of country-level Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery markets.

Questions Answered by the Report:

Which are the dominant players of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market?
What will be the size of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market in the coming years?
Which segment will lead the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market?
How will the market development trends change in the next five years?
What is the nature of the competitive landscape of the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market?
What are the go-to strategies adopted in the global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery market?

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Table of Contents

  • 1 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Overview
    1 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Overview
    1.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Segment by Type
    1.3 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Size by Type
    1.3.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Growth by Type
    1.3.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
    1.3.3 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Revenue and Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
    1.3.4 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Price by Type (2015-2020)
  • 2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Competition by Company
    1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Market Share by Company (2015-2020)
    2.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Revenue and Share by Company (2015-2020)
    2.3 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Price by Company (2015-2020)
    2.4 Global Top Players Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Manufacturing Base Distribution, Sales Area, Product Types
    2.5 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Competitive Situation and Trends
    2.5.1 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Concentration Rate
    2.5.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Share of Top 5 and Top 10 Players
    2.5.3 Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion
  • 3 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Company Profiles and Sales Data
    1 China Shipping Container Lines
    3.1.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors
    3.1.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Category, Application and Specification
    3.1.3 China Shipping Container Lines Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin(2015-2020)
    3.1.4 Main Business Overview
    3.2 HANJIN
    3.2.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors
    3.2.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Category, Application and Specification
    3.2.3 HANJIN Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin(2015-2020)
    3.2.4 Main Business Overview
    3.3 China Ocean Shipping
    3.3.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors
    3.3.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Category, Application and Specification
    3.3.3 China Ocean Shipping Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin(2015-2020)
    3.3.4 Main Business Overview
    3.4 HAPAG-LLOYD
    3.4.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors
    3.4.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Category, Application and Specification
    3.4.3 HAPAG-LLOYD Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin(2015-2020)
    3.4.4 Main Business Overview
    3.5 Mediterranean Shipping
    3.5.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors
    3.5.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Category, Application and Specification
    3.5.3 Mediterranean Shipping Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin(2015-2020)
    3.5.4 Main Business Overview
    3.6 MAERSK
    3.6.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors
    3.6.2 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Category, Application and Specification
    3.6.3 MAERSK Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin(2015-2020)
    3.6.4 Main Business Overview
  • 4 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Status and Outlook by Regions
    1 Global Market Status and Outlook by Regions
    4.1.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Size and CAGR by Regions
    4.1.2 North America
    4.1.3 Asia-Pacific
    4.1.4 Europe
    4.1.5 South America
    4.1.6 Middle East and Africa
    4.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Revenue by Regions
    4.2.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
    4.2.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
    4.2.3 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
    4.3 North America Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin
    4.3.1 United States
    4.3.2 Canada
    4.3.3 Mexico
    4.4 Europe Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin
    4.4.1 Germany
    4.4.2 UK
    4.4.3 France
    4.4.4 Italy
    4.4.5 Russia
    4.4.6 Turkey
    4.5 Asia-Pacific Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin
    4.5.1 China
    4.5.2 Japan
    4.5.3 Korea
    4.5.4 Southeast Asia
    4.5.4.1 Indonesia
    4.5.4.2 Thailand
    4.5.4.3 Malaysia
    4.5.4.4 Philippines
    4.5.4.5 Vietnam
    4.5.5 India
    4.5.6 Australia
    4.6 South America Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin
    4.6.1 Brazil
    4.7 Middle East and Africa Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin
    4.7.1 Egypt
    4.7.2 GCC Countries
  • 5 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Application/End Users
    1 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Segment by Application
    5.1.1 Industrial
    5.1.2 Agricultural
    5.1.3 Automotive
    5.1.4 Others
    5.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Product Segment by Application
    5.2.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales by Application
    5.2.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
  • 6 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Market Forecast
    1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales, Revenue Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.1.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Growth Rate Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.1.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Forecast by Regions
    6.2.1 North America Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Revenue Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.2.2 Europe Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Revenue Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.2.3 Asia-Pacific Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Revenue Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.2.3.1 China
    6.2.3.2 Japan
    6.2.3.3 Korea
    6.2.3.4 Southeast Asia
    6.2.3.5 India
    6.2.3.6 Australia
    6.2.4 South America Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Revenue Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.2.5 Middle East and Africa Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales and Revenue Forecast (2020-2026)
    6.2.5.1 Egypt
    6.2.5.2 GCC Countries
    6.3 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery  Forecast by Type
    6.3.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery  Sales and Revenue Forecast by Type (2020-2026)
    6.3.2 20 Foot (6.09 M) Gowth Forecast
    6.3.3 40 Foot (12.18 M) Gowth Forecast
    6.4 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery  Forecast by Application
    6.4.1 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Sales Forecast by Application (2020-2026)
    6.4.2 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Forecast in Industrial
    6.4.3 Global Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Forecast in Agricultural
  • 7 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Upstream Raw Materials
    1 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Key Raw Materials
    7.1.1 Key Raw Materials
    7.1.2 Key Raw Materials Price
    7.1.3 Raw Materials Key Suppliers
    7.2 Manufacturing Cost Structure
    7.2.1 Raw Materials
    7.2.2 Labor Cost
    7.2.3 Manufacturing Expenses
    7.3 Paddy and Rice Milling Machinery Industrial Chain Analysis
  • 8 Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors
    1 Marketing Channel
    8.1.1 Direct Marketing
    8.1.2 Indirect Marketing
    8.1.3 Marketing Channel Development Trend
    8.2 Distributors
    8.3 Downstream Customers
  • 9 Research Findings and Conclusion
  • Appendix
    Methodology/Research Approach
    Research Programs/Design
    Market Size Estimation
    Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation
    Data Source
    Secondary Sources
    Primary Sources
    Disclaimer

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Rice Transplanter Machine Market by Technology, Solutions, Application, Price, Demand Analysis and Growth Opportunities to 2025

 

Rice Transplanter Machine Market by Technology, Solutions, Application, Price, Demand Analysis and Growth Opportunities to 2025
By Market Study Report  Published: 9 hours agoProduct ID: 2587133

Rice Transplanter Machine  Market by Technology, Solutions, Application, Price, Demand Analysis and Growth Opportunities to 2025

The research report on Rice Transplanter Machine market provides an in-depth assessment of the production and consumption patterns of this business sphere. The document elaborates on major aspects such as growth drivers, potential growth opportunities, as well as challenges and limitations are that likely to influence the market expansion. It also includes Porter’s five forces analysis to assess the competitive dynamics of this business space.

Further, it encompasses the business strategies with a great profit potential. In addition, the study highlights the changes in the industry in the view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A summary of the table of contents of the report:

  • The manufacturing framework of the enlisted products, along with their share in the market and contribution to revenue is included in the report.
  • Important information concerning the product consumption volume and consumption value is highlighted in the report.
  • Based on the geography, the Rice Transplanter Machine market is split into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East & Africa, South East Asia.
  • The production capacity, the predicted growth rate with respect to each region, and production capacity is documented.
  • The product landscape of the Rice Transplanter Machine market is divided into Riding Type andWalking Type.
  • The application spectrum of the product is divided into Household andCommercial.
  • The estimated growth rate of all products, total sales acquired, application segments, and pricing is given in the report.
  • The major contenders in the Rice Transplanter Machine market are Kubota,Iseki,Yanmar,TYM,Jiangsu World Agriculture Machinery,CLAAS,Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery,Changfa Agricultural Equipment,Shandong Fuerwo Agricultural Equipment andDongfeng Agricultural Machinery.
  • Details regarding each product portfolio, along with their top applications and specifications are elaborated.
  • Each contender’s revenue share, manufacturing costs, pricing models, gross margins, and production capacity is included in the study.

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Additional information from the Rice Transplanter Machine market report:

  • The report comprises an assessment of the industry chain of this industry vertical with respect to distribution channels, downstream consumer, upstream raw material & equipment suppliers.
  • It offers an outline for assessing the investment feasibility of a new product with respect to aspects such as the project schedules, project product solutions, investment budget, and project name.

Development policies and plans are discussed as well as manufacturing processes and cost structures are also analyzed. This report also states import/export consumption, supply and demand Figures, cost, price, revenue and gross margins.

Market segmentation

The Rice Transplanter Machine market is split by Type and by Application. For the period 2021-2026, the growth among segments provides accurate calculations and forecasts for sales by Type and by Application in terms of volume and value. This analysis can help you expand your business by targeting qualified niche markets.

Research Objective:

  • Focuses on the key global Rice Transplanter Machine Market manufacturers, to define, describe and analyze the sales volume, value, market share, market competition landscape, SWOT analysis and development plans in the next few years.
  • Trade contributors moreover as trade analysts across the worth chain have taken vast efforts in doing this group action and heavy lifting add order to produce the key players with useful primary & secondary data concerning the world Rice Transplanter Machine market
  • To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market.
  • To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their growth strategies.

Why to Select This Report:

  • Complete analysis on market dynamics, market status and competitive Rice Transplanter Machine view is offered.
  • Forecast Global Rice Transplanter Machine Industry trends will present the market drivers, constraints and growth opportunities.
  • The five-year forecast view shows how the market is expected to grow in coming years.
  • All vital Global Rice Transplanter Machine Industry verticals are presented in this study like Product Type, Applications and Geographical Regions.

The research process begins with internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the Rice Transplanter Machine market. It also provides an overview and forecast for the Rice Transplanter Machine market based on all the segmentation provided for the global region. The predictions highlighted in the Rice Transplanter Machine market share report have been derived using verified research procedures and assumptions. By doing so, the research report serves as a repository of analysis and information for every component of the Rice Transplanter Machine market. 

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14th October,2020 Daily Global Regional Local Rice E-Newsletter

  

 

 

Deja Vu as Hurricane Delta Hits Rice Country  

 

By Kane Webb

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA -- Let me begin by stating that those of us in southwest Louisiana, particularly in the rice industry, have decided we want to officially cancel our subscription to the Hurricane of the Month club! This past weekend, southwest Louisiana and areas northward felt the winds and heavy rains of Hurricane Delta, which made landfall on the Louisiana coast a few miles east of Hurricane Laura's path of destruction just six weeks earlier.

 

Some residents had only seen power returned to their homes and businesses for a few days before losing electricity again on Friday night. Compromised structures suffered further damage, but one of the most devastating results is in the rice fields where the ratoon crop that was ready for harvest has all but been stripped away from the stalk.

 

Christian Richard and Allen McLain, both rice farmers in Vermilion parish, described the damage as "looks like a stripper header went through the crop." Delta also brought more rainfall to the area, causing more flooding, including amounts in excess of 12-13 inches in northeast Louisiana, where the rice harvest was nearing the final stretch to completion. But now the uncertainty of Delta's effects will have to be determined on the remaining rice that was in the field.

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Both Supreme and Falcon rice mills in Crowley have reports of minimal damage, but both lost power Friday until Monday. Farmers Rice Mill in Lake Charles was in the middle of Hurricane Laura repairs, and reports damages to newly replaced roofing, as well as having to replace temporary measures such as tarps and metal siding that were still in place for the ongoing recovery efforts. Kennedy Rice Mill and the surrounding areas of Mer Rouge also lost power, but have reported it was recently restored, and they will be going through start up procedures to fully evaluate any possible damages before returning to on-line operations.

 

Over all, it is difficult in some areas to determine the effects of Delta without knowing what was already damaged from Laura, but it's not hard to see that the progress made over the last six weeks has been set back. The recovery process has begun again to try and finish what was going to be one of the better rice crops we have had in several years, only to now be in question for its final assessment following two major storms weeks apart.

 

 

 

 

Company Commitment to Sustainability on

The Rice Stuff Podcast

By Deborah Willenborg

ARLINGTON, VA -- The U.S. rice industry continues to show great leadership when it comes to sustainable food and agriculture.  More and more companies and organizations within the rice industry are making public commitments and investing in projects that take on-farm conservation efforts from dream to reality. Description: C:\Users\abc\Downloads\unnamed (1).jpg

 

On this week's episode of The Rice Stuff podcast we hear about two different projects focused on just that.  Adam Shea of Riceland Foods talks about his company's commitment to water savings and bringing value for their farmer members, while Cody Corbell of Indigo Ag and Bill Jones of Anheuser-Busch talk about their project to implement technology and practices that save water on-farm with their growers. 

 

"There are so many great sustainability initiatives happening in the U.S. rice industry right now, and it was exciting to hear about these two new projects and what the companies implementing them see for the future," said Lydia Holmes, USA Rice director of industry affairs & sustainability and co-host of the podcast  "Our guests this week bring views from across the supply chain and years of experience working with growers on these practices.  We talk about what's working now, what we hope to see in the future, and how can we measure use of the rice industry's most important resource, water."

 

New episodes of The Rice Stuff are published on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month and can be found on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.  All episodes and additional information can be found on the podcast's dedicated website at thericestuffpodcast.com.  The site includes a "Podcast 101" section on the "About" page for people new to the medium and a means to reach out to the show hosts and guests via the "Talk to Us" button.
 

 

 

 

Empanadas, Rice, and a Dream Built My Family

 

 

When everything else in the world feels unstable, Alex Hardy turns to the ancestors. They tell him to get in the kitchen.

By Alexander Hardy 

October 12, 2020

Description: Empanadas

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When I first expressed my interest in studying the empanada arts, my grandma told me I would need to be prepared to spend a good chunk of time, possibly two days, with her to finish them. Meat on one day, dough and assembly the next day. 

“I take my time with my patties,” she explained. “I can’t stand up all day. And I don’t buy my dough at the store.” 

The small, mighty meat patties have been a staple of family and community gatherings since long before I moseyed onto the scene. Grandma began baking and selling them in her early twenties, after watching women in her community in Colón, Panama prepare and profit from the crescent-shaped beef-patty-adjacent delights. Since then, they have been the star—backed by Miss Ruby’s hot pepper sauce and legendary beef, chicken, and shrimp fried rice—of countless receptions, anniversary galas, Gold Teeth Clan reunions, and any occasion where “The Electric Slide,” or “One Cent, Five Cent, Ten Cent, Dollar” by The Soca Boys would be appropriate. But the process that produced them was always a mystery to me.

Related: How I Got Over Myself and Learned to Make Rice

After convincing her that I was capable of identifying, purchasing, and bringing the correct type and amount of beef, she scribbled a list and said to come by early with the meat log, two big yellow onions, tomato sauce, yellow peppers, and other things she lacked. I still carry that scrap of paper in my wallet. She doesn’t measure when cooking, so when I told her I wanted to capture the recipe in writing, she got out the measuring cups and spoons to scoop and level her way through the ingredients, reminding me with every dump that she never does this and that this was, in fact, slowing her down. 

Grandma was making an order of ten dozen patties, and had told me she would let me do everything while walking me through the process. First, she sauteed onions and such for the pepper sauce we’d use to simmer the filling. As I broke the meat apart in the pan, she said, “Let me see something,” as she grabbed the spatula and took over. “Because I can just do it real quick, and you can still watch.” That was the end of that.

When it came to achieving the right dough texture the next day, she made me wash my hands in front of her so I could put my hands inside the dough she’d completed and told me, “See? You just have to know.”

Well, all right.

Recipe: Mini Panamanian Beef Empanadas

Now that making rice no longer makes me sweat and question my place in the world, I’ve taken off the arm floaties and am finding my current out in the world, making empanadas without grandmotherly guidance. On top of connecting me to my family’s legacy and resulting in joy-filled portable meat pockets, producing empanadas that look and taste good—cooking in general, really—helps me feel a sense of peace, control, and accomplishment in otherwise chaotic times.

There were years when all I wanted was my own sink to leave dishes in.

As I enter my fourth month in my new name-on-the-lease apartment, Casa de Joy, after half a decade of homelessness and keeping it together with tape and glue in other people’s occasionally traumatizing spaces, kitchening has become my happy place again. Even dishwashing offers a daily moment of gratitude. There were years when all I wanted was my own sink to leave dishes in.

Each time I take that deep breath and summon the courage and energy to commit to the journey to Empanadaland, I’m transported back to the grownup shindigs and cousin-filled celebrations anchored by cauldrons of rice and one of Grandpa Johnny’s 19 dozen thousand hundred calypso, reggae, soul, and soca cassette mixtapes that kept the Gold Teeth Clan grooving in their plant-filled sanctuary. I hear the stories Miss Ruby has told me about what empanadas, rice, and a dream allowed her to create for herself and her family. I envision her beaming while showing me her photo of the driveway-blocking pallet of bricks that she bought for her porch extension with hard work.

The patties demand that I put the anxieties of the day to the side and plant my feet and my spirit in the moment.

While I continue turning this apartment into my own sanctuary, that familiar savory aroma floating through the air makes this unpainted, un-jungled space feel like home. The patties demand that I put the anxieties of the day to the side and plant my feet and my spirit in the moment. If I am distracted or overconfident in my dicing, I may lose a chunk of my finger. If I rush through measuring and adding seasonings and sauces because I’m stressed about the 'rona or pending automobills, or get too loose with the flick of my cumin-tossing wrist in an attempt to two-step closer and closer to the Miss Ruby flavor, I risk veering off course and contending with ancestral disappointment. 

The first time I made them alone, after browning and flavoring the beef and making a pepper sauce, I realized I had used the same amount of seasonings and tomato sauce for my two dozen that she used for her ten dozen and felt like the most useless grandchild since Vanessa Huxtable. I must be fully present in the kitchen. 

Discussing a recent batch with her, she told me that, six decades later, “If I movin’ too fast, I still make mistakes. If I’m worrying about something, the patty don’t come out right.” I noticed the same. When I’m not focused or am inconsistent with my form, it shows up in the empanadas. Seeing my babies all egg-washed and full of potential on the parchment-covered pan, I can tell where I was calm and intentional and when I was stressed the hell out or rushing through steps. I can see where I was heavy-handed with the rolling pin or stretched dough too thin across overstuffed patties, especially when my filling bursts out of a patched-up hole during baking. 

Usually, I put on a playlist and "Cha Cha Slide" to and fro or let LeVar Burton read me a story as I chop, stir, roll, and stuff. Lately, I have been cooking with the sound of the knife hitting the cutting board, the whir of the blender, the sizzle of peppers and meat, and the occasional “Whew, shit!” as the soundtrack to my kitchening. With my hands in the flour mixture, clawing and mixing and kneading and rotating the bowl, I feel a little bit freer.

Each empanada teaches me something about myself. 

I celebrate when I leave the perfect amount of space between the meat mound and the edge to seal them with a flour-coated fork and cut the crimped edges with a bowl for the perfect, un-holed shape. Each empanada teaches me something about myself. 

Making patties on my own also gives me space to find my own culinary voice beyond Miss Ruby’s enormous shadow. Now, rather than agonizing over whether I’ve nailed her execution or if my dough is as flaky as hers, I decided to use what I’ve learned of the empanada arts to flourish with my own patties. That exploration keeps my emotional Jheri curl moist.

So, I’ve been experimenting. Whereas she uses ground beef 90% and ground turkey about 10% of the time, my latest batch uses her same pepper sauce base, but one dozen had black beans, minced garlic and smoked Gouda with caramelized peppers and onions, and the other had the same with steak. And: Yes.

I’m strategizing on my take on the glorious pabellón empanadas and arepas filled with tender shredded beef, black beans, and sweet plantain I adored from the Venezuelan bakery while living in Panama. As we contend with Grandma's dementia and, for her safety, the prospect of her inability to cook alone or at all, I hear her coaching and correcting me every step of the way. And telling me to wash my hands again because I looked at my shirt or thought about moving a bowl out of the way with the back of my hand. 

People have told me to let them know when I’m ready to start shipping, but for now, I’m remembering to breathe and consulting the ancestors on what to put inside a sweet patty. They tell me what I already knew: Take the time, tru

https://www.foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/empanadas-rice-and-a-dream-built-my-family

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chicken Soup Manifesto’ features recipes from around the world

 

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By Rachel Myerson from The Nosher

(JTA) – I fell in love with Jenn Louis’ latest cookbook The Chicken Soup Manifesto at first sight. The James Beard-nominated chef has curated a collection of over 100 beautifully photographed chicken soup recipes, which allowed me to vicariously travel the globe with my favorite comfort food as a guide. What more could an Ashkenazi gal with wanderlust wish for? 

When I got a chance to chat with Louis, she was as vibrant as her book. 

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Like me, her prototypical chicken soup was her mother’s matzah ball soup, which she made on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. The recipe is there, on page 62, the matzah balls “exactly how she made them. I think everyone likes a different kind. Mine are really tender on the outside with a bit of chew in the middle. 

If matzah ball soup is your starting point, too, Louis recommends branching out to the Romanian Supa de Pui cu Galuste de Gris (page 196) with semolina dumplings. The dumplings are fluffy with whipped egg whites and poached. 

Some of the recipes come from Louis’ own travels. “I took a cooking class in Ethiopia and learned to make Doro Wat. Even though it’s more of a stew, I really wanted to include it.” But most of them were collected through expansive research. “It’s not a creative book,” explained Louis, “it’s a documentary. It’s a shout-out to how cool these recipes are, and how much we all have in common.” 

Some came from Louis’ periodic appeals on social media, “I’d put call outs on Facebook once in a while. Like, ‘Hey! Who’s got a chicken soup they grew up with in their family?’” 

Others were told to her orally. Was it difficult to translate word-of-mouth instructions into quantifiable amounts? I ask. “Somewhat. There’s a Palestinian recipe – it’s a really great story. This woman sat next to me on a plane and, halfway through the flight, she looked at me and said, ‘Hi, I’m Hanan. I’m a Christian Palestinian, the peaceful kind.’ She was super sweet. I didn’t tell her I was writing a book, but she told me about her mom’s chicken soup recipe and I wrote it down. It called for, like, a ‘handful of rice,’ so I tried my best to replicate it.” Their encounter ended after landing, and Louis never got Hanan’s details. “I’d love to send her a copy [of the book] but I don’t know where she lives!” 

The research process was rich and fruitful. “Just when you think you’re done,” Louis explained, “you find this cool new recipe. It’s really fun to unfold all the layers.” And, she says, despite major differences in flavor, the functions of chicken soup are universal: comforting, often healing broths, intended to stretch a chicken as far as it can go. 

Can she pick a favorite? “The South American soups are so unique because they have corn and yucca, which make them sweet and totally different to anything else.” Louis pauses. “Or the Kanjee from Sri Lanka. I made it in my Instant Pot on a rainy day then went for a walk with my friend. When we got back home, we opened the pot – it was so fragrant. We sat and ate the soup, then split the leftovers because they were so good.”

But, of course, much depends on your mood. Or the time of year. Louis is keen to assure me that chicken soup is not just for winter – “there’s a summer soup from Finland with green beans and baby carrots that you can eat chilled. It’s really lovely.” 

Regardless of the recipe, Louis is full of tips to achieving the most flavorsome dish, with an entire section dedicated to getting the most out of your chicken. “You always want to cook your chicken slow, on a really lazy simmer. If you cook a little slower, it keeps the meat tender,” she tells me. And if you want a richer broth, use homemade chicken stock, “it’s special… heartier and more luxurious than just using water.” 

At the end of the day, Louis reiterates, exploring the diverse offering of chicken soups should be fun. “Make one recipe a week,” she urges, “and learn something new.” 

This post originally appeared in The Nosher.

Afghan Chicken Soup (Yakhni) Recipe

By Jenn Louis

My friend Asya Ghafarshad’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Afghanistan in the 1960s. Asya was born in the U.S., and her mom tells her stories of growing up in Af-ghanistan wearing miniskirts and smoking cigarettes. Her parents own an iconic res-taurant in Claremont, California. Called Walter’s, it serves delicious continental cui-sine, as well as Afghan favorites. This is her father’s chicken soup.

Asya likes to cook the chicken breasts on the bone to make the broth, then shred the cooked chicken and add it back to the soup just as it is nearly done. She does not peel the carrots and the vegetables are cut into larger chunks, just the way her dad made the soup.

Ingredients:

 1/3 cup olive oil
1 large yellow onion, cut into 1/2” cubes
2 Roma or plum tomatoes, cut into 1/2” cubes
8 cups water or chicken stock
1 cup yellow or red lentils or 1 cup basmati rice
2 lb skinless chicken breast, bone in
2 large carrots, cut into 2″ pieces
2 large russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2” half-moons
2 oz cilantro, leaves and stems roughly chopped, plus sprigs to garnish
1 Tbsp ground turmeric
1 Tbsp ground coriander
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 Tbsp ground cardamom
2 oz fresh spinach
1 lemon, to serve

Directions:

Heat oil in a large pot over a medium–high heat. Add the onion and cook for 3–4 minutes until it begins to become translucent.

Add the tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes until the tomatoes release their juices.

Add the remaining ingredients, then bring to the boil. Immediately reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender, the soup has thickened and the chicken is cooked – a thermometer will read 74°C (165°F) when inserted into the thickest part of the breast and the juices of the chicken will run clear.

When the chicken is cooked, remove from the pot and leave until cool enough to handle. Using your hands, shred all the meat and discard the bones. Add the meat back to the soup and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Squeeze the lemon juice into the soup, adding as much tangy flavor as possible with-out it becoming sour, and garnish with cilantro sprigs.

Main Photo: Afghan Chicken Soup (Yakhni) (Credit: Ed Anderson and George Dolese)

http://www.jewishledger.com/2020/10/the-chicken-soup-manifesto-features-recipes-from-around-the-world/

 

 

 

 

Haryana farmers fret as basmati prices fall to 1,800 per quintal

Farmers blame it on lack of proper pricing policy as private traders have been making the most of it by procuring the variety at their own prices.

Description: https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2020/10/13/Pictures/_61b90af8-0cbb-11eb-ad34-7b89fdec39d1.jpg For the first time in past several years, the PUSA 1509 variety of Basmati is being sold at 1,800 per quintal in Haryana, which is far less than the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of 1,888 fixed for the Parmal varieties procured by government agencies. There is no fixed MSP for the Basmati variety. Raj Kumar, a marginal farmer from Ladwa, has been visiting the Kurukshetra grain market daily for last three days to sell the PUSA 1509. However, private traders are not ready to procure his produce above 1,800 per quintal. Several other farmers have also been left crestfallen since the prices of this premium aromatic variety of rice is 1,100 less than last year. Farmers blame it on lack of proper pricing policy as private traders have been making the most of it by procuring the variety at their own prices. Last year, farmers had fetched 2,700 to 2,900 per quintal for this Basmati variety. Farmers, however, say this year they will have to sell it below 1,800 since they have to repay their debts. Ram Kumar, a farmer from Yamunanagars Radaur said, After waiting for three days, I had to sell my produce of two acres to a trader at 1,815 per quintal. I feared that the prices may fall further since there are no buyers. Therefore I sold it even below the MSP of parmal.” Lack of pricing policy Due to the lack of a pricing policy for the Basmati, farmers are left with no option but to sell their produce at prices fixed by private traders. On the other hand, growers of Parmal are not concerned about the prices since the government has fixed the MSP for this variety. Farmers say the per acre yield of Parmal is around 30 to 35 per quintal and they easily get 60,000 per acre. However, the yield for PUSA 1509 is around 18 to 22 quintals and the growers get below 40,000 per acre. Mahinder Singh, a commission agent at Nilokheri grain market, said, It is because of the MSP. The difference between the earning from Parmal and Basmati is over 20,000 per acre. Farmers have been fighting to get the MSP for Basmati since the private traders have been buying the variety at their own prices. People associated with the rice industry have also blamed the lack of proper pricing mechanism for the Basmati. Vijay Setia, former president of the All-India Rice Exporters Association, said, “There is no ban on export of Basmati and the government has also reduced the market fee and rural development fee from 2% each to half a percent. Still, the farmers are not getting any benefits and are left on the mercy of traders.” On more than 50% fall in the prices of Basmati, additional chief secretary, food, civil supplies and consumer affairs department, PK Das said, “Earlier, there was a policy decision that the government agencies will procure the PUSA 1509 on the MSP of Parmal if farmers are forced to sell at lower prices. However, in past couple of years the prices of PUSA 1509 had gone up. We stand by our decision to buy Basmati on the MSP of Parmal variety if farmers are not getting fair prices.”

Date: 13-Oct-2020

 

 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/haryana-farmers-fret-as-basmati-prices-fall-to-1-800-per-quintal/story-N0NXV37R3jSn6lCs124q9O.html

 

Pakistan Opposes India’s Application for the Exclusivity of Basmati in the EU

 

Pakistan and India are at odds over Geographical Indication tagging of aromatic long grain rice. Accordingly, Pakistan to challenge India’s application for the exclusivity of basmati in the European Union.

Pakistan Opposes India’s Claim Over Basmati

The meeting concluded that India’s claim for basmati exclusivity is unjustified as Pakistan is its major grower. Also, Dawood stated that it would oppose New Delhi from obtaining any exclusive rights. Moreover, Pakistan legalized GI Registration and Protection Act in March this year. This gives it the right to challenge India’s claim for GI tag for basmati rice.

Pakistan Opposes India’s Exclusivity of Basmati in EU

Fine Aromatic Long rice is Authentic to India

Published in an official journal of EU on 11th September, India’s application highlights that basmati is an Indian origin product. Further, it added that this special long grain aromatic rice is authentic to the geographical region of the Indian sub-continent. This region is part of northern India, below the foothills of the Himalayas. Though Pakistan produces and exports a wide range of basmati from the country, basmati of particular characteristic grows only in districts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and also in some parts of UP and Jammu and Kashmir. In a notification dated 10th August, the DGFT deferred the requirement for EIC to export to the EU till 1st Jan 2021. In all, Pakistan has vehemently opposed India’s claim over the origin of basmati.

Date: 13-Oct-2020

 

https://www.grainmart.in/news/pakistan-opposes-indias-application-for-the-exclusivity-of-basmati-in-the-european-union/

 

 

 

Shs16b tax waiver splits rice importers 

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13 2020

    

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By Damali Mukhaye

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A row has erupted among rice growers after the Ministry of Trade allowed a single firm to import tax-free rice from Tanzania.
Since Sunday Monitor broke the story on October 4, rice farmers have protested the ministry’s decision, saying it puts them at a disadvantage and frustrates rice growing in the country.

The Rice Association of Uganda (RAU) headed by Ms Racheal Mbabazi, sent a protest note to the Minister of Trade, Ms Amelia Kyambadde, questioning the justification behind the decision to allow a single firm, Gotovate Uganda Limited, to import 50,000 tonnes of rice from Tanzania without taxation.
“I find it odd that (the Ministry of) Trade would be soliciting from (the Ministry of) Finance an exemption for an importer. It is the trader’s job to solicit and not the minister,” Ms Mbabazi told 
Daily Monitor on Friday.

However, Mr Isaac Kashaija, the chairperson of the Rice Business Sector Association Limited, another rice growers association uniting 58 companies, on Wednesday castigated RAU for protesting the ministry’s decision on tax exemption for one company.
Mr Kasahija said the major reason for exempting Gotovate Uganda Limited is to address the rice shortage in the country and tame rice prices that escalated during the Covid-19 lockdown.

He said currently, the demand for rice in Uganda stands at about 380,000 tonnes per month, but the total local production is approximately at 180,000 tonnes, leaving a deficit of 200,000 tonnes.
“Ugandan rice farmers are facing a number of challenges, something that has led to low production. If we fight importation of rice from our neighbours within the East African region, our consumers in Uganda will not have enough food. We can also borrow expertise from Tanzania on how they are succeeding instead of fighting each other,” Mr Kashaija said.

He added that the Ministry of Trade did not exempt only one company as alleged by RAU. He said two other companies, have also benefitted from the tax exemption to import 150,000 tonnes each. 
He, however, said the other two companies, Akhcom and Williex, are still sorting certain issues before they import.
“Gotovate Uganda, a company under our association, only requested to import rice from August to December 2020 to save Ugandans who were in total lockdown from exploitative traders that were charging them exorbitant prices,” Mr Kashaija said.

He further said 14 other companies have been importing rice from Tanzania with tax exemption of more than Shs1 trillion following a decision of court.
“This was a decision which was taken by the government after 14 rice trading companies petitioned court against the 18 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) charge in 2014. Court declared an injunction and since then the case has never been resolved, leaving the 14 companies to import without paying tax,” Mr Kasahija said.

“We have also learnt that Ms Mbabazi is one of the beneficiaries of the 14 companies that were overcharging Ugandans [for rice] and she is not happy that Ugandans are getting relief from the exploitation and wants to disorganise the rice industry,” he added.

He urged government through the Attorney General to expeditiously dispose of the pending petition in court because an injunction is a short term intervention, but in this case it has taken close to seven years.
Daily Monitor could not reach Ms Kyambadde for a comment as she did not answer our calls or respond to our text message.

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/shs16b-tax-waiver-splits-rice-importers--2470478

 

 

 

Rice Prices

as on : 13-10-2020 02:02:29 PM

Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market.

Arrivals

Price

Current

%
change

Season
cumulative

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%change

Rice

Gondal(UP)

125.00

5.93

8681.00

2350

2360

-4.08

Hardoi(UP)

80.00

33.33

5572.80

2400

2440

-5.14

Kandi(WB)

56.00

-20

1991.50

2710

2750

4.23

Manvi(Kar)

50.00

-33.33

1257.00

1580

1628

-

Aligarh(UP)

50.00

NC

4047.00

2550

2550

NC

Lakhimpur(UP)

50.00

25

2987.00

2350

2380

-4.86

Barhaj(UP)

50.00

-10.71

8292.00

2580

2560

7.50

Allahabad(UP)

45.00

12.5

2392.00

2350

2300

-9.62

Basti(UP)

33.00

-5.71

1755.50

2560

2555

3.43

Bankura Sadar(WB)

32.00

NC

1968.00

2500

2500

NC

Azamgarh(UP)

30.00

25

6205.70

2560

2550

4.07

Sehjanwa(UP)

30.00

-25

3227.50

2580

2550

19.44

Sahiyapur(UP)

29.00

222.22

2062.50

2570

2560

4.47

Gazipur(UP)

27.00

17.39

1300.50

3200

3200

-3.03

Egra/contai(WB)

27.00

-10

572.50

2600

2500

13.04

Mathura(UP)

26.00

13.04

2614.50

2580

2580

0.78

Rampur(UP)

17.00

-10.53

782.50

2600

2595

1.96

Bahraich(UP)

16.60

-33.6

1238.00

2370

2360

-3.66

Paliakala(UP)

15.00

-21.05

968.50

2330

2400

-2.51

Mawana(UP)

12.00

9.09

592.20

2865

2860

-

Badayoun(UP)

11.00

57.14

818.50

2560

2680

-2.48

Shahganj(UP)

11.00

-50

195.00

2360

2650

1.72

Soharatgarh(UP)

10.50

23.53

834.20

2570

2565

4.05

Karvi(UP)

10.00

25

580.00

2445

2450

3.60

Indus(Bankura Sadar)(WB)

6.00

-25

764.00

2800

2800

NC

Unnao(UP)

5.00

NC

364.90

2375

2400

-12.04

Fatehpur(UP)

4.20

-33.33

1710.10

2470

2480

2.92

Shikohabad(UP)

2.50

66.67

169.50

2625

2650

-11.02

Purwa(UP)

2.00

11.11

14.90

2385

2410

-

Muskara(UP)

1.60

33.33

87.90

2360

2450

-0.84

Anandnagar(UP)

1.20

20

173.90

2545

2540

4.09

Atrauli(UP)

0.60

NC

23.50

2550

2560

-

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Haryana farmers fret as basmati prices fall to 1,800 per quintal

Farmers blame it on lack of proper pricing policy as private traders have been making the most of it by procuring the variety at their own prices.

CITIES Updated: Oct 13, 2020, 00:18 IST

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Neeraj Mohan
Hindustan Times, Karnal

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 (HT File)

     

For the first time in past several years, the PUSA 1509 variety of Basmati is being sold at ₹1,800 per quintal in Haryana, which is far less than the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of ₹1,888 fixed for the Parmal varieties procured by government agencies.

There is no fixed MSP for the Basmati variety.

Raj Kumar, a marginal farmer from Ladwa, has been visiting the Kurukshetra grain market daily for last three days to sell the PUSA 1509. However, private traders are not ready to procure his produce above ₹1,800 per quintal. Several other farmers have also been left crestfallen since the prices of this premium aromatic variety of rice is ₹1,100 less than last year.

Farmers blame it on lack of proper pricing policy as private traders have been making the most of it by procuring the variety at their own prices. Last year, farmers had fetched ₹2,700 to ₹2,900 per quintal for this Basmati variety. Farmers, however, say this year they will have to sell it below ₹1,800 since they have to repay their debts.

Ram Kumar, a farmer from Yamunanagar’s Radaur said, “After waiting for three days, I had to sell my produce of two acres to a trader at ₹1,815 per quintal. I feared that the prices may fall further since there are no buyers. Therefore I sold it even below the MSP of parmal.”

Lack of pricing policy

Due to the lack of a pricing policy for the Basmati, farmers are left with no option but to sell their produce at prices fixed by private traders. On the other hand, growers of Parmal are not concerned about the prices since the government has fixed the MSP for this variety.

Farmers say the per acre yield of Parmal is around 30 to 35 per quintal and they easily get ₹60,000 per acre. However, the yield for PUSA 1509 is around 18 to 22 quintals and the growers get below ₹40,000 per acre.

Mahinder Singh, a commission agent at Nilokheri grain market, said, “It is because of the MSP. The difference between the earning from Parmal and Basmati is over ₹20,000 per acre. Farmers have been fighting to get the MSP for Basmati since the private traders have been buying the variety at their own prices.”

People associated with the rice industry have also blamed the lack of proper pricing mechanism for the Basmati. Vijay Setia, former president of the All-India Rice Exporters Association, said, “There is no ban on export of Basmati and the government has also reduced the market fee and rural development fee from 2% each to half a percent. Still, the farmers are not getting any benefits and are left on the mercy of traders.”

On more than 50% fall in the prices of Basmati, additional chief secretary, food, civil supplies and consumer affairs department, PK Das said, “Earlier, there was a policy decision that the government agencies will procure the PUSA 1509 on the MSP of Parmal if farmers are forced to sell at lower prices. However, in past couple of years the prices of PUSA 1509 had gone up. We stand by our decision to buy Basmati on the MSP of Parmal variety if farmers are not getting fair prices.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/haryana-farmers-fret-as-basmati-prices-fall-to-1-800-per-quintal/story-N0NXV37R3jSn6lCs124q9O.html

 

 

 

 

 

Rice procurement up 33%, but MSP eludes other crops

While the procurement of the kharif staple is robustly continuing, farmers in Punjab and Haryana, however, continue to protest a set of laws enacted by Parliament to deregulate agricultural markets, which they fear will weaken the MSP system

INDIA Updated: Oct 13, 2020, 15:58 IST

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Zia Haq
Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Description: Crops, such as soybean, ragi, maize and cotton, are selling up to 30% below MSPs, data from Agmarknet, the agriculture ministry’s portal that tracks prices in mandis or wholesale markets, shows.

Crops, such as soybean, ragi, maize and cotton, are selling up to 30% below MSPs, data from Agmarknet, the agriculture ministry’s portal that tracks prices in mandis or wholesale markets, shows. (AP File)

     

The government has bought over 4 million tonne of paddy from nearly 350,000 farmers, who have been paid minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 8,032 crore till October 11 since procurement of crops began on September 24. The quantity procured so far is 33% higher than the corresponding period last year, according to data cited by the farm ministry.

While the procurement of the kharif staple is robustly continuing, farmers in Punjab and Haryana, however, continue to protest a set of laws enacted by Parliament to deregulate agricultural markets, which they fear will weaken the MSP system, whereby farm produce is bought by the government at assured prices.

The Centre would also procure pulses, oilseeds and copra at MSP prices beyond the quantity approved so far from any state where the market rate falls below MSP under its price support scheme, the agriculture ministry said a statement.

Despite this, several summer-sown crops, such as soybean and maize, are selling below minimum set by the government because the government procures too little of non-cereals.

The government “continues to procure kharif 2020-21 crops at its MSP from farmers as per its existing MSP schemes” and procurement is “going on smoothly”, a farm ministry statement said, pointing to the higher procurement trend.

Till October 11, the government through its food agencies has additionally procured 606.56 tonne of two pulses—moong and urad—with an MSP value of Rs 4.36 crore.

The government has also approved requests from 10 states to procure 3.70 million tonne of pulses and oilseeds. These states are Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.

The government has also sanctioned the procurement of 100,000 tonne of copra, a perennial crop, from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Crops, such as soybean, ragi, maize and cotton, are selling up to 30% below MSPs, data from Agmarknet, the agriculture ministry’s portal that tracks prices in mandis or wholesale markets, shows.

Poor returns from crops have been a lingering problem for farmers, especially during episodes of glut, such as now. MSPs, which are fixed at 50% over cost for nearly two dozen crops, don’t necessarily lead to higher farm incomes as the government’s procurement at MSP rates is largely restricted to wheat and rice. For most other crops, farmers are mostly price takers, meaning they are forced to accept whatever the markets dictate.

“Nudging the private sector towards triggering a market-clearing price that is closer or equal to MSP will depend on the extent of government’s procurement,” economist Abhijit Sen said.

For commodities, such as pulses and oilseeds, the government’s procurement is insufficient to improve market rates. For instance, the nearly 3.70 million tonnes of pulses and oilseeds they government has approved for procurement at MSP is less than 15% of the total production—too small a quantity to make a difference in prices offered by private entities.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rice-procurement-up-33-but-msp-eludes-other-crops/story-NdKDCLtLkTPY66KF5UBpaL.html

 

 

 

 

Basmati Rice to be imported under Pakistan-Sri Lanka Trade Agreement.

 

Written by Zulfick Farzan    13 Oct, 2020 | 2:38 PM

COLOMBO (News1st): Sri Lanka has restricted the importation of Basmati rice under a trade agreement with Pakistan to two state firms, the government announced on Tuesday.

Earlier, the private sector was also allowed to import Basmati rice under the Pakistan – Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement that allowed 6000 metric tonnes of the rice variety to be imported annually.

However, the permission granted to the private sector has been revoked, due to complaints that were received on “various irregularities” committed by importing rice of other varieties.

Accordingly, the ministerial cabinet has decided to allow only the state-run Sri Lanka State Trading (General) Corporation and the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment to import rice under the agreement.

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/10/13/basmati-rice-to-be-imported-under-pakistan-sri-lanka-trade-agreement/

PADI PLANTING HAS BEEN DELAYED THIS YEAR. DOES THIS MEAN MALAYSIA WILL BE SHORT OF RICE?

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Sabrina Noor

 

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You’d probably remember what your parents would say whenever you don’t finish your rice. No, not the pimples growing on your future significant other’s faces but something about how some kids in another continent would starve. Now, imagine that happening to you but it’s not because there isn’t just enough food in general but because… farmers can’t plant rice on time?

As it turns out, paddy farmers in Kedah and Perlis might miss their usual paddy planting schedule this time of the year. Just recently, a group of paddy farmers under an NGO called the Malaysian Paddy Farmers Association (PeSAWAH) sent a memorandum to the govt to voice their issues on this. 

Waitamin. Does that mean we’re not gonna have rice on our plates? Well, before we get to that answer, we found out that…

 

This is not the first time farmers had missed the schedule

Planting schedules are set by agencies under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries such as Muda Agricultural Development Authority (MADA) and Kemubu Agricultural Development Authority (KADA). And within a year, the agencies set two schedules for two rice planting seasons. 

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Farmers are supposed to start planting rice dy but they can’t. Img from MADA

See, the schedule is important because the process of growing rice could take up to 6 months before it can be harvested. Normally, farmers would place their orders between three and six months before they start planting to give time for suppliers to produce the seeds. 

And while waiting for the seeds, farmers would prepare the field to plant the seeds. They would floodploughpuddle and level the field before transplanting the seeds in the field. You can watch the video below to get a clearer picture of how planting paddy works.

In addition, the planting schedule depends on the weather forecast such as when it rains to collect water in water catchment centres or the monsoon season to prevent farmers from huge losses to big. Govt agencies like MADA and KADA always remind farmers to follow the schedule mainly to prevent water wastage because the irrigation system continuously supply water to fields even though there isn’t any seeds planted.

“Farmers are always reminded to follow the schedule set because it is made based on the water supplied from the water catchment centres.” – Abdul Rashid to Malaysiakini, translated from BM.

But there have been several times where farmers had actually missed the schedule. Back in 2012, farmers missed on the planting schedule because they needed to dry out the paddy fields before planting new seeds. And, in the first season in 2019, farmers had to delay planting rice due to weather conditions.

In both aforementioned examples, farmers were sorta advised to delay rice planting. However, in 2020, most farmers just had no choice but to delay the planting schedule.

According to PeSAWAH’s Exco, Abdul Rashid Yobsome farmers claimed that the seeds sold to them by suppliers were hella expensive and majority of them claimed that the seeds were OUTTA stock.

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Abdul Rashid. Img by Ramieza Wahid from Malaysiakini

“But the majority of farmers in the first and second phase can’t start planting because the seeds that they want are not in stock.” – Abdul Rashid to Malaysiakini, translated from BM.

He also added that the some farmers were charged a maximum of RM60 instead of the usual RM28 per kg. As if that’s not enough, they were also supplied with low quality seeds. If you’re into planting anything, you might know that planting bad seeds would only slow the growth of the plant. And the same can be said about paddy seeds.

And this problem isn’t really new considering how PeSAWAH sent a similar memorandum in 2019… tho the govt didn’t do anything about it. Abdul Rashid assumed that it may be because of the backdoor govt drama the govt changed sometime earlier this year.

But we found that the problem farmers have with the suppliers may have started in 2012 when…

 

The govt approved a RM165 million tender to companies with NO experience in supplying rice seeds

While researching for this story, we were super curious as to which companies are responsible for supplying rice seeds to farmers. And a quick search brought us to a list of these suppliers, according to a study done by Khazanah Research Institute (KRI).

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Screenshot from KRI study

So back in 2012, some of the companies listed in the image above were under fire for being awarded with tender to supply paddy seeds to farmers for two years (2013 to 2014). The Finance Ministry awarded the RM165 million tender to various companies tho… they were deemed unqualified for the job in the first place.

See, the whole process of approving the tender was quite dodgy to begin with. The tender was approved despite some documents being incomplete, while a few of the companies seeking the tender weren’t even able to meet criteria such as attending the necessary briefings. Some of them even failed a financial evaluation.

And although they passed the technical evaluation criteria, the technical evaluation committee weren’t too keen on these tenderers because they have ZERO experience in producing paddy seeds under the Agriculture Ministry.

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Not an exact representation of the conversation between the committee and the tenderers. Img from imgflip

And some of these companies didn’t even try to hide this fact. The then manager of Haji Md Nor bin Haji Abd Rahmah (M) Sdn Bhd (HMN), Mansor Md Nor admitted that his and other companies awarded with the tender did not meet the tender criteria. And all he had to say was…

“This is not an issue.” – as quoted by Malaysiakini.

To Mansor, it’s not really an issue because, at least, his company managed to help farmers fix their fields according to the criteria set by the authorities. And he may be right considering how these companies are still the supplier of rice seeds now.

But the incompetence of these companies may not be the only concern farmers have. This is because they are also suspecting that there is an abuse of power by some parties who purposely charge farmers extra money for a kilogramme of rice seeds.

“Coupled with our assumption that there is an abuse of power by the authorities who take a commission on the approved seeds. Seed producers annually demand a subsidy of RM20 for each bag of 20kg of seeds.” – Abdul Rashid, as quoted by Malaysiakini. Translated from BM.

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PeSAWAH. Img by Ramieza Wahid from Malaysiakini

And there might also be a possibility that the suppliers might be supplying farmers with non-certified seeds, which may explain why they’re low quality. Although it’s not illegal to sell these seeds, farmers who buy them won’t be entitled for the farmers subsidies la. In addition, the seeds are incomparable to the cheaper, subsidised certified seeds which are of higher quality.

This may be why MADA had urged its farmers to always purchase certified seeds that are sold by the three main suppliers in Kedah and Perlis which are the Syarikat Perniagaan Peladang MADA Sdn. Bhd. (MADACorp.), Pertama Padi Sdn. Bhd. and KB Seri Merbok Sdn. Bhd.

But with the current situation where the rice plantation would be delayed, does that mean we’re not gonna have rice on our plates soon?

 

We’ll still have rice on our plates in the near future thanks to MADA. Kinda.

Just in case you don’t know, 70% of rice that we consume are grown locally in paddy fields under MADA and KADA which are located in locations below:

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Granary areas in Malaysia. Img by KL Heong on Research Gate

By now, you’re probably wondering if you’d be able to get enough rice in the near future considering the problem faced by the farmers now. Well, fret not. You will and we might have MADA to thank la. Sorta.

We say sorta because MADA claimed that there’s enough seeds for the farmers after all(?). In fact, they claimed that the seeds are MORE than enough.

“Based on the presentation by the three producers, it was found that the total production of Certified Seeds is expected to be sufficient at 14,517 metric tonnes, exceeding the requirement for use in the Muda Area of ​​14,096 metric tonnes.” – MADA, in a statement to Harakah Daily. Translated from BM.

MADA also urged the Agriculture Ministry to take firm actions against those who manipulate the price of rice seeds.

Besides MADA, the farmers had given also out several suggestions to prevent the same thing from happening again like…

·        Introducing price ceiling for rice seeds

·        Allowing farmers to keep some of the seeds they harvest so they don’t have to always rely on suppliers

·        Give license to Local Farmers Organisations (PPK) to supply rice seeds to farmers

However, at the time of writing, there is no further news on the govt’s response to the farmers memorandum. So, until the govt does something about this problem, it seems as though the farmers might be stuck in an endless cycle of buying low-graded seeds at a high price, that might eventually affect their rice bowls in the future.

 

So you know how you’d walk into a Popular bookstore and they’ll be blaring out Top 40 hits? Or when you enter a cafe and you’ll just be hearing Siti Nurhaliza singing her heart out on the speakers? Well, believe it or not, these premises actually have to pay a fee to play the artistes’ music in public, according to the Copyright Act 1987.

And that basically what royalty means – it’s when you allow your music to be used by other parties in public for a certain fee. Anyone slightly familiar with the music scene would know that royalties play a pretty big part in the lives of artistes. We suppose it’s fair to say that royalties may easily be the bread and butter for artistes, and it’s no different for Malaysian artistes.

However, despite it being bread and butter, it seems some parties didn’t read the Copyright Act 1987 carefully, because it’s alleged that artistes haven’t been paid royalties for 20 years! Walao, why so teruk one? Well, to tell the complicated story, we have to go back to the complicated beginning, where…

 

 

Karyawan president, Freddie Fernandez. Image from Harian Metro

To get a little bit more understanding to the story, we contacted Karyawan president, Freddie Fernandez. FYI, Karyawan‘s essentially an NGO that upholds the rights of Malaysian artistes, and they’re currently demanding for the artistes to be paid their dues. We also contacted two intellectual property (IP) lawyers Lim Zhi Jian and Bryan Boo just to wade us through the legal terms.

And Freddie basically told us that despite it having been made a legal requirement, artistes are still suffering from unpaid royalties, specifically public performances – either performed by themselves or someone else.

“The issue of public performance royalties has been a thorn in the side of Malaysian artistes, namely singers and musicians in the recording industry.” – Freddie, in an interview with Cilisos

One of the main reasons behind this is because there were no one to help artistes collect royalties. See, when it comes to royalty collection, most Malaysian artistes will generally sign themselves up to a collective management organization (CMO).

“When you sign up with a CMO, you’re allowing it to monitor and collect royalties on your behalf. For a fee, of course.” – Boo, in an interview with Cilisos

But back in 2000, Freddie told us there were only two such CMOs, which are:

·        Music Authors Copyright Protection (MACP)

·        Public Performance Malaysia (PPM)

However, despite having two CMOs, neither of them actually collect royalties on behalf of artistes. Instead, MACP only represents composer and PPM represents record labels and publishers.

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Karyawan members. Image from Karyawan

It was only 2001 when Karyawan came into the picture, proposing to the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs that PPM split the royalties to be shared between recording companies and the artistes.

“Ultimately, it was the artistes’ performances from which PPM collected royalties, so they should get paid too.” – Freddie

However, the proposal apparently didn’t sit well with PPM, because it then proceeded to set up a separate organization called PRISM Sdn Bhd in 2001 to oversee the distribution of royalties for artists. So artistes began signing up with PRISM Sdn Bhd, expecting that they’ll finally get paid what they deserved. Back then, it seemed that things were finally looking up, and yet…

 

The artistes were apparently still not getting paid their full royalties

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GIF from Tenor

To be fair, artistes were getting paid, but not the full amount. See, most of us would think PRISM Sdn Bhd would be the one collecting and distributing royalties to artistes, like PPM did with record labels and MACP with composers, but that’s Freddie told us that this was how it actually worked:

1.     PPM would still be the sole collection agency

2.     PPM would share the collected royalties with PRISM Sdn Bhd

3.     PRISM Sdn Bhd will, in turn, distributed the royalties given by PPM to the artistes

And at the end of the day, Freddie said that the artistes were still getting the short end of the stickIto Mohd, vocalist of a Malaysian band Blues Gang, and Aznan Alias, a prominent musician in Malaysia are two of the victims. They’re both represented by Karyawan.

“The company profited from my songs. Can you imagine five of us in the band sharing 5 per cent of royalty money? That’s 1 per cent for each member.” – Ito, as quoted from AsiaOne

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Ito Mohd (L), Aznan Alias (R). Images from BERITA MediacorpDrum Thai

And apparently, the artistes and Karyawan launched so many complaints that PPM decided to shut down PRISM Sdn Bhd once and for all in 2011. But who’s gonna represent the artistes now then? Well, the following, another CMO for artistes was set up, and it’s called the Recording Performers Malaysia (RPM). The thing is, though, PRISM Sdn Bhd’s unpaid royalties for public performances still weren’t paid out, and RPM didn’t seem like it planned on taking over.

This time around, RPM was chaired by Malaysian singer Sheila Majid, who would be doing things her own way rather than follow PRISM Sdn Bhd’s footsteps.

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An artiste representing artistes seems pretty fair. Image from Esplanade

Alright, fine, so there’s still a CMO that’ll represent artistes, which should be sufficient. But then, out of the darkness and into the light, the former members of PRISM Sdn Bhd came back and formed their very own CMO representing artistes as well, and it’s called…………PRISM Bhd independently. #wowza #muchcreativity

“So then, we had four CMOs – two for artistes, one for composers, and one for recording labels.” – Freddie

Walao, why so many agencies one? Look, man, we told you it’s complicated. But before these CMOs could smoothly lay out the process of royalty collection and distribution, something else came knocking on the door.

 

The M’sian govt added one more CMO to the horde in 2016

…and it’s called Music Rights Malaysia (MRM).

 

Image from MRM Facebook

At the time, there was apparently a lot of people who were complaining that they had to pay too many CMOs to use one song. So remember when we mentioned that public premises like a bookstore or even a cafe has to pay a fee to use artistes’ songs in public, be it through the speakers or for public performances?

Well, these fees are actually paid to the CMOs, who will then convert them into royalties to be paid back to the artistes. For example, a hotel wants to play one song, but the composer’s represented by MACP, the record label’s represented by PPM, and the artiste’s represented by RPM – and they all want their royalties – then the hotel will have no choice but to pay all three CMOs.

“Music users were up in arms about having to pay so many parties for the same music and complained to the government.” – Freddie

As a result, the govt decided to set up MRM in 2016 to resolve the too-many-CMOs issue, which is ironic, if you think about it. Lim told us that MRM took over responsibilities of licensing out the music and collecting royalties, while the other CMOs can sit back, relax, and distribute the royalties that the MRM had collected. So basically, everyone who wants to use the music of Malaysian musicians only has to pay MRM and they’re good to go.

“MRM was the sole collection agency, while the four licensing bodies focused on distributing the monies collected amongst their members.” – Lim, in an interview with Cilisos

But MRM didn’t last long. Freddie told us that PPM wasn’t happy with getting lesser than they’re used to at MRM. Plus, it seems that even when they tried to centralize things up, MRM itself didn’t know how to divide payments between RPM and PRISM Bhd, because they both represent artistes. And when PRISM Bhd was dissolved in 2019 for unknown reasons, it only served to stump MRM more.

“MRM couldn’t figure out how to solve the problem of dividing the money between RPM and PRISM Bhd’s artistes.” – Freddie

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Original image from Know Your Meme

As a result, due to its purported mismanagement of royalties, MRM was dissolved earlier this year. So we’re back to the status quo, where there are three CMOs – because PRISM Bhd shut down – and you gotta pay all of them to use one song. And twenty years after the Malaysian government made it compulsory for artistes to be paid royalty, well, they’re still left hanging in the air as to where their money went.

After all the hang-ups with PRISM Sdn Bhd, PRISM Bhd, and MRM, which went on 20 years, there are currently around 2,800 artistes who signed on to RPM and PRISM Bhd that have yet to be paid – and the total amount owed is allegedly a whopping RM30mil! Wait, wait, so what does the law say actually?

 

Well, it’s actually compulsory for artistes to be paid royalties

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Screenshot from UKM

According to the Copyright Act 1987, it is agreed that artistes should be paid their royalties in full under Section 16(B), whenever their work is used for performances or played in public, like on the radio or even somewhere as simple as a hotel.

“As soon as you’ve licensed out your work, you are entitled to be paid certain fees whenever it’s used in public, regardless of whether it’s a song or even a tech product.” – Boo

So yes, regardless of whether there’s a middleman like a CMO or not, artistes have the right to claim royalties. However, while it does sound like the CMOs mentioned above are the bad guys of the whole thing, it’s also possible that they’re not entirely at fault here. According to Lim, the IP lawyer we consulted, when it comes to licensing out your work and collecting royalties, it all boils down to the contract you have with the CMO.

“It’s subject to internal agreements between the relevant parties, which can dictate how, when, or what an artiste should be paid.” – Lim

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So basically, if everything Freddie told us was true, it’s possible that the CMOs are breaking the law when they don’t pay artistes their royalties. We’ve also tried to get in touch with the CMOs involved, but they have yet to respond to our inquiries at the time of writing. So really, it’s hard to tell whether it’s an issue of the artistes’ contracts or something else.

In the meantime, while it was recently reported that the government had taken over and would be paying the outstanding the royalties to the artists by December, Freddie’s currently still suspecting corruption, where there are supposedly ‘hidden hands’ manipulating the royalties to maximize their own profits between the CMOs.

“When you’re dealing with hundreds of millions of ringgit as we are here, there are bound to be parties that try to make a quick buck.” – Freddie

As such, Karyawan is urging the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to investigate the matter and find out whether there really has been corruption for 20 years that might have taken advantage of artistes in Malaysia.

“The fact that they’re asking MACC implies that there’s corruption involved. But there’s also a high possibility that their contracts with the CMOs are unclear on how, when, or what to pay.” – Boo

As of now, there’s still no telling whether the alleged RM30million worth of royalties will be paid in full to the artists – we’ll only get to know in December. At the end of the day, these artists have put in grit and determination to build themselves up as artistes. Regardless of what’s going on behind the scenes, they deserve to get paid for their efforts, just like we all get paid for doing our jobs.

 

 

 

https://cilisos.my/padi-planting-has-been-delayed-this-year-does-this-mean-malaysia-will-be-short-of-rice/

 

 

Palay prices dip to P12/kg in September – PSA data

 

Published October 13, 2020, 5:00 AM

by Madelaine B. Miraflor

Palay prices had sunk to as low as P12 per kilogram (/kg) in some areas in the country during the third week of September, which means some farmers barely made money during this harvest season.

This, while the Department of Agriculture (DA) claimed that buying prices of palay in the country’s top rice producing areas actually reached P19/kg.

In Davao City, palay’s price went down to as low as P12.74/kg, while the prevailing price settled at

P13.90/kg, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed.

Caraga, North Cotabato, and Surigao del Sur, too, saw palay prices going down by as low as P12/kg to P12.80/kg.

To produce a kilo of rice in the Philippines, Filipino rice farmers currently have to spend P12.72, which is higher compared to the production cost of farmers in Vietnam and Thailand at P6.22/kg and P8.86/kg, respectively.

This means that the breakeven farmgate price of fresh harvest should be around P14.50/kg.  
Meanwhile, DA was correct too about palay prices reaching P19/kg or more in some areas.

To be specific, palay prices reached P19/kg or more in Central Luzon, Ilocos Region, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, among others, according to the same PSA data.  

Over the last few weeks, a lot of farmers’ groups have been complaining about low palay prices, which was dismissed by the DA by saying that palay prices have actually been improving.

Still, Agriculture Secretary William Dar pledged to support rice farmers by asking the National Food Authority (NFA), which buys palay at P19/kg, to ramp up its palay procurement.

He said the government is also considering giving another batch of one-time cash assistance to rice farmers.

On Monday, agriculture lobby group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) wrote to President Rodrigo Duterte to complain DA’s inaction about the declining price of palay.

“This is to bring to your attention the dire situation of the millions of our rice farmers who are at present facing low prices of their newly harvested palay, which are pegged at P11/kg (wet) and P 14/kg to P15/kg (dry), respectively,” SINAG Chair Rosendo So told Duterte.

“Instead of recognizing these realities, Agriculture Secretary William Dar unfortunately chose to claim that palay prices are averaging P18/kg in Central Luzon and P19.00/kg in Cagayan Valley,” he added.

So said low prices of palay means that farmers will not be able to recoup their farm expenses during this cropping period, and may force them to stop planting palay for good.

SINAG then asked Duterte to ask the DA to allot P36 billion that will be used to subsidize the farmgate price of palay at P4/kg.

This would be enough to buy 9 million metric tons (MT) of palay, supposedly being bought now for only P11/kg to P15/kg, from farmers without shortchanging them.  

 

https://mb.com.ph/2020/10/13/us-gives-ph-213-m-new-grant-2/

 

 

 

 

Stoppage of rice import to affect Zamboanga City

 

 

October 13, 2020

AN OFFICIAL of the Department of Agriculture (DA) has advised the local government to start sourcing out rice supply in preparation for the stoppage of rice importation by the national government.

Melba Wee, regional technical director for Research, Policy Planning and Regulatory, and Integrated Laboratories, issued the advice as Zamboanga City will be greatly affected by it.


Wee said the local government officials, at this early, should meet and discuss with the officials of the provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga del Norte to sell their rice surplus to the city.

The three provinces serve as the rice granary of the region since Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga del Norte have 23,000 hectares, 46,699 hectares and 19,000 hectares of rice, respectively.

Zamboanga City depends on importation since it is not rice self-sufficient, as there are only 5,156 hectares of farmlands planted to rice with a million population.

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered DA Secretary William Dar to suspend rice importation to help the local farmers to earn more.

Duterte has also asked Congress to appropriate sufficient fund intended to buy the produce of local rice farmers. (SunStar Zamboanga)

 

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1873293/Zamboanga/Local-News/Stoppage-of-rice-import-to-affect-Zamboanga

 

 

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Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana

 

(Chris Granger/The Advocate via AP)

 

Monday, October 12th 2020, 11:02 AM CDT

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The day after Hurricane Delta blew through besieged southern Louisiana, residents started the routine again: dodging overturned cars, trudging through knee-deep water to flooded homes with ruined floors and no power, and pledging to rebuild after the storm.

Delta made landfall Friday evening near the coastal Louisiana town of Creole with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph). It then moved over Lake Charles, a city where Hurricane Laura damaged nearly every home and building in late August. No deaths had been reported as of Saturday afternoon, but officials said people were not out of danger.

While Delta was a weaker storm than Category 4 Laura, it brought significantly more flooding, Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter said. He estimated that hundreds of already battered homes across the city took on water. The recovery from the double impact will be long, the mayor said.

“Add Laura and Delta together and it’s just absolutely unprecedented and catastrophic,” Hunter said. “We are very concerned that with everything going in the country right now that this incident may not be on the radar nationally like it should be.”

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said no fatalities had been reported as of Saturday, but a hurricane’s wake can be treacherous. Only seven of the 32 deaths in Louisiana and Texas attributed to Laura came the day that hurricane struck. A leading cause of the others was carbon monoxide poisoning from generators used in buildings without electricity.

“Everybody needs to exercise a lot of caution even now, and really, especially now,” Edwards said.

Delta, the 25th named storm of an unprecedented Atlantic hurricane season, was the 10th named storm to hit the mainland U.S. this year, breaking a record set in 1916, Colorado State University researcher Phil Klotzbach said.

It rapidly weakened over land and slowed into a tropical depression Saturday morning. Forecasters warned that heavy rain, storm surges and flash floods continued to pose dangers in areas from Texas to Mississippi. Large swells and rip currents closed beaches down to the Mexican border.

Remnants of the storm also could spawn tornadoes in the Tennessee Valley into Sunday, and flash floods could hit the southern Appalachians, the National Weather Service said.

Louisiana avoided one feared scenario: that the winds would pick up the debris left by Laura - piles of soggy insulation, moldy mattresses, tree limbs and twisted metal siding - and turn it into projectiles. In at least some neighborhoods, the small mountains stood on curbs more or less intact.

Delta inflicted most of its damage with rain instead wind. It dumped more than 15 inches of rain on Lake Charles over two days and more than 10 inches on Baton Rouge. Southwest parishes such as Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion and Acadia that sustained heavy blows from Laura took the hardest hit.

The governor cautioned that it would be difficult to distinguish the damage Delta caused from what was leftover from the August hurricane. More than 9,400 people were being sheltered by the state Saturday, but only 935 were Delta evacuees, Edwards said. The others were still displaced by Laura.

Edwards said 3,000 Louisiana National Guard soldiers were mobilized to clear roads and to distribute meals and tarps, and 10,000 utility workers were working to get power restored to nearly 600,000 customers.

With the water knee-deep along Legion Street in Lake Charles, resident Patrick King had to wade through the water Saturday to get to his home after he returned from spending the night in Beaumont, Texas.

“I was hoping and praying that it didn’t get into the house, but it did. It rose up close to the furniture,” King said.

Before evacuating, he had put sandbags and plastic in the doorway to keep water out of his one-story brick house. Pulling them back upon his return, he saw worms and spiders scurrying about inside.

“Look at that, look at that,” he said. “Worms! My wife sees that, she’s going to cry.”

“It’s totally frustrating and in fact, it makes you want to give up, but you have to keep on pushing,” King said. “Me and my wife, we are praying people, so we just believe that God let things happen for a reason.”

The damage also stretched inland, with trees shorn of leaves and falling onto streets in Louisiana’s capital of Baton Rouge. The storm blew down two homes under construction in Galveston, Texas, and toppled the steeple of a church in Jennings, Louisiana.

Calcasieu Sheriff Tony Mancuso told KPLC-TV that the vehicles overturned on Interstate 10 should give pause to anyone thinking about rushing back to the disaster area.

“Rising water with all the rain is the biggest problem,” Mancuso said. “It’s still dangerous out there, and we’re just going to have to start over from a few weeks ago.”

The U.S. Gulf Coast is no stranger to hurricanes, and its people are resilient, Lake Charles resident Katie Prejean McGrady said. But the double punch of the back-to-back storms — on top of the pandemic — has left many in the community reeling, she said.

“I’m taxed out. And I think that’s most people in town,” she said. “There’s a mental exhaustion that sets in and then there’s a fear of ‘Does anybody outside this region care?’” she said. “The reality is our town won’t be the same for a year, if not longer.”

McGrady and her family had just returned to their home for the first time since evacuating ahead of Hurricane Laura when she was nine months pregnant. They arrived back in Lake Charles last weekend, got a new roof on Monday and had to evacuate again Thursday.

“My husband hadn’t even unpacked his suitcase,” McGrady said, who works for a Catholic publisher. “I had just put away my daughter’s toys.”

https://www.rfdtv.com/story/42753246/delta-adds-insult-to-injury-in-hurricaneravaged-louisiana

 

The impact of Hurricane Delta on Louisiana's agriculture

Monday, October 12th 2020, 3:43 PM CDT

Hurricane Delta is all but a memory now, but it left about 370,000 people without power as it made landfall near Creole, Louisiana. The storm continued over Lake Charles, which was still in full recovery mode following Hurricane Laura. 

Homes damaged and destroyed by that storm are now flooded due to rain from Delta. The storm took at least two lives: one in Louisiana and one in Florida.

"One of the primary effects of Delta, as you add it to the damage from Laura, is that our ratoon crop of rice, our second cutting... we're going to lose a lot of our second crop of rice, and of course substantial more timber damage because it came in a lot of the same spots," Dr. Mike Strain, the Louisiana Ag Commissioner, said. 

Strain says that out of the state's 64 parishes, 56 are in an emergenc

Avery Davidson with the Louisiana Farm Bureau says the main thing the state needs after Delta is good dry weather. He said Louisiana could also use some prayers from the public because it may be in rough shape after this. 

"We need them to not forget that this is a long-term issue... we needed this year to be a home run," he said. "This has been anything but a home run."

 

https://www.rfdtv.com/story/42754278/the-impact-of-hurricane-delta-on-louisianas-agriculture

 

 

 

Hurricane Delta deluges farmers in the midst of harvest season

AGRICULTURE

by George Jared (gjared@talkbusiness.net) 

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Farmers throughout the Arkansas Delta had to grapple with the remnants of Hurricane Delta during the weekend. The storm dumped inches of rain on agriculture fields throughout the region during the heart of harvest season.

Some counties in the region received five inches or more of rain from the storm after two weeks of relatively dry and cooler weather, according to the National Weather Service.

The Laura weather system — first a hurricane, then a tropical storm — pushed through Arkansas in late August, and slowed both the Arkansas sorghum and corn harvests, which had already begun, and effectively delayed the beginning of the rice harvest. Between Sept. 21-22, nearly the entire state received between a half inch and five inches of rain, followed by a week in which the southeastern corner of the state received an additional five to six inches of rain.

Despite the periods of turbulent weather, Arkansas producers have made strong gains in harvesting rice, corn and soybeans, with each commodity seeing 10% or more of its respective total acreage harvested over the past week alone. About 86% of the state’s corn acreage had been harvested, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. That puts growers still behind the five-year average of 96% by this point in the season, but within sight of the crop’s last leg.

Jason Kelley, extension wheat and feed grains agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said corn producers in the state are trying to wrap harvest up this week.

“We are more than 90% done at this point, and we would make a good push at nearing completion without the rain that Delta is bringing,” Kelley said. “Corn that has not been harvested yet really needs to miss this rain and wind, as many fields are lodging and will be more difficult to harvest if we get wind from Delta.”

The rains stopped winter wheat planting. Prior to the rains, the state’s wheat crop was expected to add acres this year due to higher grain prices, but the window to plant is now narrower, Kelley added.

About 70% of the state’s rice acreage had been harvested as of Oct. 4, according to NASS, with growers making the most of the first week of the month. Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the Division of Agriculture, said last week’s above-average temperatures aided progress.

“We’re making excellent progress on rice harvest right now,” Hardke said. While we’re still behind the five year average, we should have over 80 percent of rice harvested by the time Hurricane Delta reaches the state. If the upper two-thirds of eastern Arkansas can avoid major rainfall amounts, we have an excellent long-range forecast after Delta leaves to try and finish harvest on a high note.”

Soybean producers were still seeing the effects of saturated soils, however. Jeremy Ross, extension soybean agronomist for the Division of Agriculture, said the fields would need additional time to dry from September’s penetrating rains.

“On the soybean side, we just need some dry weather to get the crop harvested,” Ross said. “Prolonged periods of wet, cloudy weather could have some quality issues. We have seen some quality issues after Tropical Storm Laura, but most everything looks good so far.”

Of the state’s major commodity crops, cotton has struggled the most this season. As of Oct. 4, only 13% of the state’s total acreage had been harvested, well behind the five year average of 29% of acreage typically harvested by this point in the season.

“Cotton harvest statewide has just gotten rolling this week, and should be 20% complete as the rain bands from Hurricane Delta arrive,” Bill Robertson, extension cotton agronomist for the Division of Agriculture, said. “This time last year, we were over 50% harvested.”

Weather conditions could be advantageous to farmers in the coming days. NWS projects few chances of rain during the next week with mostly dry conditions. Highs are expected in the upper 70s with lows in the upper 40s.

“We need mother nature to be a little more kind to us,” he said.

https://talkbusiness.net/2020/10/hurricane-delta-deluges-farmers-in-the-midst-of-harvest-season/