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NEWS DETAILS: Commerce Ministry to sell more rice via roadshow in China Date : 14 กันยายน 2557 BANGKOK, 14 Sep 2014, (NNT) - The Commerce Ministry is planning to sell more of the pledged rice in the Government warehouse via roadshows in China.According to Director General of the Department of Foreign Trade, Duangphon Rodphaya, next week Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradee Tantraphon is leading a delegation to take part in China-ASEAN Expo in the city of Nanning in Guangxi, China. The ministry will showcase Thailand’s famous jasmine rice at the event, in its bid to penetrate the Chinese rice market and reclaim the number one rice exporting nation spot.High grain prices and contamination issues have knocked Thailand back to third place, behind Vietnam and Pakistan, as China’s top rice exporter.China is the one of the world’s top importers of rice. It imports an average of 2.95 million tons of rice a year; two-thirds of the amount ,or 66%, from Vietnam, 22% from Pakistan, and only 10% from Thailand.
Reducing moisture content in paddy will hit millers Press Trust of India | Fatehgarh Sahib (Pb) September 13, 2014 Last Updated at 20:40 IST Add to My Page
Punjab Rice Millers Association today said the Centre's move of reducing moisture content in paddy will hit rice millers, saying it will be 'impossible' for them to convert paddy into rice with lower moisture content. "The Centre has reduced moisture content from 15 per cent to 14 per cent. This move will hit the rice milling industry as it will be difficult for us to convert paddy into rice with lesser moisture content," Punjab Rice Millers
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Association president Tarsem Saini said today. Rice millers said the Centre had recently reduced the moisture content in rice from 15 per cent to 14 per cent. Because of untimely rains in Punjab, moisture content in the paddy crop would remain high, a rice miller pointed out. The industry has also protested the Centre's move of shortening the rice delivery period from June 30 to April 15. "This move is also unjustified as FCI does not have time for taking delivery of rice as its whole staff remains busy in wheat procurement at that point of time. Then how and to whom we will be delivering rice within stipulated time," Saini added. Peeved at the Centre's decision, rice millers have approached Punjab Food Minister Adesh Partap Kairon, seeking his help in taking up the matter with the Centre.
Customs generates P393.13-M from rice auction September 12, 2014 5:06pm The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Friday said it generated P393.13 million in revenues – its highest earnings generated via public auction – from the sale of rice seized late last year.The sale of the seized rice – totaling 315 container vans stored inside the Manila International Container Port (MICP) yard – will also help reduce congestion inside the country’s largest port.
The BOC-MICP Collection District sold about 163,775 sacks of rice through a public auction on Thursday, the agency said in an e-mailed statement Friday.BOC-MICP District Collector Elmir Dela Cruz said the sale was 31 percent higher than the minimum floor price of P299.69 million initially set.“We are pleased with the outcome of the auction which we conducted with utmost care and consideration for transparency, accountability and compliance with policies and procedures," Glutinous (malagkit) rice was sold at an average price of P56.93 per kilogram, while white rice was sold as an average of P36.10 per kilogram.From a total of 16 bidders, three won the bidding for 4,679 metric tons (MT) of glutinous rice and 3,510 MT of white rice in eight lots. Four lots were won by Sta. Rosa Farm, three by Victor Del Rosario and one by LOM Marketing. The winning bidders paid 50 percent of the bid price at the close of the auction and were required to pay the remaining balance Friday.The rice was seized from Bold Bidder Marketing and San Carlos Multi Purpose Cooperative from October to November 2013 for lack of required import permits from the National Food Authority (NFA), which was subsequently forfeited in favor of the government. Under the law, all importations of rice require import permits from the NFA, which regulates quotas to ensure fair competition and the viability of the local rice industry.But lawyers representing Bold Bidder and Jade Bros. Farm and Livestock, who were accompanied by Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) representatives, served a 20-day temporary restraining order against the sale of the seized rice during the auction.In a two-page resolution signed by Associate Justices Lovell Bautista and Esperanza Fabon-Victorino dated September 11, the CTA’s Third Division barred BOC from auctioning the rice shipment of Jade Bros. to prevent “irreparable injury” on the petitioner while the case is still being heard.But the basis invoked by the rice traders is now moot and academic, Customs Commissioner John P. Sevilla said in the same statement.
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"We have always maintained that all imported rice without valid NFA permits is illegal and now that the World Trade Organization has allowed the Philippines to keep imposing quotas on rice imports, this policy should be very clear by now to all rice importers,� he said. Proceeds from the auction will be held in trust by the BOC since the rice is still subject of on-going cases in the CTA. – Danessa O. Rivera/VS, GMA News
Rice bids better than floor prices Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 02.42 | Viewed: 800 | Comments: 0 Newspaper section: Business Writer: Post Reporters
The second rice auction, held yesterday by the military regime, attracted 38 bidders.Through the Foreign Trade Department, the government auctioned 139,000 tonnes of mainly Hom Mali, white glutinous and broken Hom Mali rice.White rice was not included, as quality inspections by authorities are still pending.Department director-general Duangporn Rodphaya said 90,000 tonnes of rice fetched offers higher than the floor prices set by the panel handling rice sales.Offers by bidders averaged 26,500 to 29,500 baht a tonne for Hom Mali rice and 14,000 to 18,500 baht a tonne for 10% glutinous rice. "This shows demand for Hom Mali fragrant rice remains strong," Ms Duangporn said.The bids will be assessed by the rice panel before approval can be granted. Thailand's military regime, which halted rice sales to carry out nationwide stock inspections, last month resumed sales of rice the previous government stockpiled over the past two years during the costly pledging scheme.The National Council for Peace and Order allowed the first lot of 167,000 tonnes to go under the hammer on Aug 7, drawing 46 exporters, millers and rice packers.
Climate Change Forces Moths to Find New Host By Jenna Iacurci Sep 13, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
Climate change, it seems, has forced moths in northern Iran to find a new host plant, posing some problems for its newly acquired target, according to recent research.A team of Iranian researchers from the Rice Research Institute of Iran has discovered that Gynnodomorpha permixtana, a well-known moth species from Europe and Asia, has changed its host preferences in order to adjust to northern Iran's changing climate.Until now, larvae of this moth species have munched on the seeds and flowers of plants like water-plantain, eyebright, lousewort, bitter root and European yellow-rattle, all of which are abundant
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across Europe and Asia. But this new study shows that they have now set their sights on arrowheads. Arrowheads (Sagittaria trifolia) are a group of broadleaf weeds that thrive in rice fields and waterways. And luckily for these rice crops, problematic arrowheads are being eaten away and losing germination potential because of hungry G. permixtana."To our surprise, it looks like this moth chose new host plant in Iran," study lead author Atousa Farahpour Haghani added in a news release. This new discovery, which suggests that climatic and environmental conditions in northern regions of Iran prompted the change of host plant, also provides insight into how species such as these moths adapt to a changing world."Many factors can possibly influence host plant choice including food quality and quantity, climatic conditions, synchronization, physiological conditions in both insect and food plant, genetic modifications etc.," Haghani explained."Some of these factors are not stable and change in different environmental conditions, so an insect can change its choice of food plant on the basis of seeking the most beneficial complex of factors. It seems that in the northern regions of Iran, and luckily for rice crops, the problematic arrowheads present the best choice for G. permixtana," he added.The findings were published in the journal Nota Lepidopterologica. Photo: Climate change, it seems, has forced moths in northern Iran to find a new host plant, posing some problems for its newly acquired target, according to recent research. (Photo : Atousa Farahpour Haghani; CCBY 4.0)
Customs generates P393.13-M from rice auction September 12, 2014 5:06pm The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Friday said it generated P393.13 million in revenues – its highest earnings generated via public auction – from the sale of rice seized late last year.The sale of the seized rice – totaling 315 container vans stored inside the Manila International Container Port (MICP) yard – will also help reduce congestion inside the country’s largest port.e BOC-MICP Collection District sold about 163,775 sacks of rice through a public auction on Thursday, the agency said in an e-mailed statement Friday.OC-MICP District Collector Elmir Dela Cruz said the sale was 31 percent higher than the minimum floor price of P299.69 million initially set. We are pleased with the outcome of the auction which we conducted with utmost care and consideration for transparency, accountability and compliance with policies and procedures," Glutinous (malagkit) rice was sold at an average price of P56.93 per kilogram, while white rice was sold as an average of P36.10 per kilogram.From a total of 16 bidders, three won the bidding for 4,679 metric tons (MT) of
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glutinous rice and 3,510 MT of white rice in eight lots.Four lots were won by Sta. Rosa Farm, three by Victor Del Rosario and one by LOM Marketing. The winning bidders paid 50 percent of the bid price at the close of the auction and were required to pay the remaining balance Friday.The rice was seized from Bold Bidder Marketing and San Carlos Multi Purpose Cooperative from October to November 2013 for lack of required import permits from the National Food Authority (NFA), which was subsequently forfeited in favor of the government. Under the law, all importations of rice require import permits from the NFA, which regulates quotas to ensure fair competition and the viability of the local rice industry.But lawyers representing Bold Bidder and Jade Bros. Farm and Livestock, who were accompanied by Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) representatives, served a 20-day temporary restraining order against the sale of the seized rice during the auction.In a two-page resolution signed by Associate Justices Lovell Bautista and Esperanza Fabon-Victorino dated September 11, the CTA’s Third Division barred BOC from auctioning the rice shipment of Jade Bros. to prevent “irreparable injury” on the petitioner while the case is still being heard.But the basis invoked by the rice traders is now moot and academic, Customs Commissioner John P. Sevilla said in the same statement. We have always maintained that all imported rice without valid NFA permits is illegal and now that the World Trade Organization has allowed the Philippines to keep imposing quotas on rice imports, this policy should be very clear by now to all rice importers,” he said.Proceeds from the auction will be held in trust by the BOC since the rice is still subject of on-going cases in the CTA. – Danessa O. Rivera/VS, GMA News
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