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DA may have miscalculated PHL's rice needs – Pangilinan Export of LGW rice to Kenya may decline AgCenter Sets Rice Field Days Various groups call for price controls on rice Gov't to Address Issue of Rice Market Opening adequately .Deputy PM Hyun El Nino could hit China's agricultural yields RI to see decline in rice production this year: BPS Vinafood 2 vindicated in rice export deal but still facing misfortune Gov’t sets review of NFA rice procurement subsidy No shortage of foodgrains despite less rainfall, says Paswan Colder temperatures delay disease incidence in South Louisiana rice India Gets Lowest June Rain in 5 Years as El Nino Looms Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-July 1 Drought raises concerns over Lao rice production Gov't to Address Issue of Rice Market Opening Adequately"...Deputy PM Hyun USA Rice Enlists Retail Dietitians for National Rice Month Heavenly Rice Cheesecake Propels Louisiana 4-H Chefs to Grand Prize Worst impact of poor monsoon likely to be in west India: Govt
News Detail… DA may have miscalculated PHL's rice needs – Pangilinan June 28, 2014 7:17pm
Tags: Department of Agriculture Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization Francis Pangilinan said the Department of Agriculture may have underestimated rice consumption, leading to a hike in prices."Because we did not meet our targets, there is a shortfall. Kasi 11 million (metric tones ang produced), 12 million (metric tons) ang consumption natin,"
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explained Pangilinan in a report on "24 Oras" Saturday.In order to meet demand, President Benigno Aquino III has ordered the importation of more rice and a speedier investigation into cartels supposedly behind higher rice prices. Rice at the Marikina Public Market and Kamuning Market sells at the following prices:
Sinandomeng P43-44 Dinorado P51-53 Angelica P43 Regular NFA P27 Well-milled NFA P32
Pangilinan earlier insisted that "a combination of tightening of supply, high buying price of palay, [and] some traders taking advantage of the situation" caused rice prices to go up.He said his office, the NFA, and the Department of Justice would coordinate efforts to investigate and prosecute traders who are found to be hoarding rice.Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said on June 22 thatthe government will import 800,000 metric tons of rice this year. So far, 193,000 MT have been delivered while 274,250 MT are scheduled for delivery in late June with the balance of 332,350 MT expected in August.Furthermore, he assured the public that NFAsupplied rice will remain steady despite rice prices increasing by P2 per kilogram. — Rie Takumi/JDS, GMA News
Export of LGW rice to Kenya may decline July 01, 2014 RECORDER REPORT
Kenya has imposed a duty of 200 dollar per ton on Pakistan's long grain white (LGW). The duty on the rice is to be implemented from July 1. Chances of losing a major buyer of non-basmati rice have increased as the Kenya has doubled the duty on import of Pakistani non-basmati rice. Export of LGW rice to Kenya is around 0.4 million tons annually with revenue of $180 million and, as such, exporters will now have to pay $80m tax each year to Kenya. Commenting on the situation, sources said: "The demand of Pakistan's LGW Rice in Kenya is very high due to its quality, but the duty can decrease the export. Rice exporters are unable to pay this extra money as they are already paying huge amount to different exportrelated departments," they opined. "Pakistan import 55 per cent of black tea from Kenya as a result of this duty," they added. Meanwhile, rice exporters have appealed to the government to take up the issue with the Kenyan government to provide some relief to exporters. "Recently, the demand of high quality LGW rice, despite its high rate of $400 per ton, has surged in the global market as compared to other rice markets including Thailand and Vietnam. Buyers from all over the world are ready to pay extra premium of $30 to $40
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to buy excellent quality Pakistani rice. Monthly export of non-basmati rice reached to 0.2 million ton with a revenue of $90m. Around 2.8 billion tons of rice has been exported in the last 10 months," they added.
AgCenter Sets Rice Field Days 06/30/2014 05:11 PM 06/30/2014 05:12 PM Baton Rouge -- (Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter) The LSU AgCenter will hold three field days for rice farmers in July.Speakers at the events will include scientists from the AgCenter Rice Research Station who will talk about rice variety development, controlling pests and diseases, soybeans and the grain market.On July 8, the Vermilion Parish Rice Field Day will start at 3 p.m. at the Sammy Noel farm on La. 335 between Abbeville and Kaplan, and then at 4 p.m. at the Lounsberry Farm off La. Highway 14 east of the Mermentau River and Lake Arthur. Signs will be posted on the highways leading to the locations.On July 17, the Northeast Louisiana rice field day will be held at the Woodlands Plantation in Richland Parish, 4 miles west of the intersection of La. Highways 15 and 133. Signs will be in place starting at that intersection to indicate the route.The July 17 field day will start at 9 a.m. with a tour of research plots. It will move to the Rayville Civic Center at 10:30 a.m. and conclude with a soybean update and a presentation from the USA Rice Federation. On July 22, the St. Landry Parish rice and soybean field day will be held at the Charles Fontenot farm north of Palmetto, starting with registration at 8 a.m. To get to the location, while traveling east on La. Highway 10 in Palmetto, turn left on Veazie Road. Go north about 4 miles to the farm and follow LSU AgCenter signs to the site.If you have a disability which requires special assistance, contact the Rice Research Station at 337-7887531 at least three days prior to an event. Copyright 2014 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Various groups call for price controls on rice By Jeannette I. Andrade |Philippine Daily Inquirer 3:49 pm | Monday, June 30th, 2014
MANILA, Philippines — Farmer groups, fisherfolk and civil society organizations called on the government Monday to impose price controls on rice to make the staple affordable for most Filipinos.The groups also urged the government agencies concerned to act against rice hoarders, mostly mill owners, who are allegedly causing the shortage of the cheaper varieties of the staple in the market.At a press conference in Quezon City on Monday, the National Rice Farmers Council
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(NRFC), the Rice Watch and Action Network (R1), Alyansa Agrikultura (Agricultural Alliance), and Pangisda-Pilipinas urged the National Price Coordinating Council to set the suggested retail price of commercial rice at P39.50 per kilo, which is affordable to most Filipino households. NRFC spokesman Jaime Tadeo said, ―Unless the government acts decisively to arrest unscrupulous traders who manipulate prices to assure profits into their pockets, the current average price of P43 per kilo of rice will become the new normal.
‖He added, ―This is dangerous because it may spur increase in hunger incidence and the government‘s touted economic gains will remain elusive to the poor majority of the population.‖R1 convenor Aurora Regalado for her part said, ―Despite the repeated government pronouncements on increasing rice production, we can plainly see the scarcity of affordable rice.‖Tadeo pointed out that the scarcity of affordable rice can be attributed to the National Food Authority‘s failure to buy palay (unmilled rice) early this year from farmers in different provinces.He said that farmers opted to sell their products to private rice millers who bought palay stocks at an average of P22.50 per kilo. Tadeo pointed out that this was because the NFA bought palay at a low price of P17 per kilo. But, he said, this has given rise to rice mill owners monopolizing the supply of the staple and dictating prices.Pablo Rosales, Pangisda-Pilipinas president, condemned the continued rise in rice prices.―We cannot afford to bear any more increase in prices of food, much more the staple food. Removing rice from the dinner table, particularly from the poor, will worsen hunger. The government will drive us deeper to extreme poverty if it will not act on the increasing prices of food. If that happens, it will belie President Aquino‘s words that we are his boss,‖ Rosales said. RELATED STORIES
Gov't to Address Issue of Rice Market Opening adequately .Deputy PM Hyun Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 KOREA IT TIMES (INFO@KOREAITTIMES.COM) SEOUL, KOREA - Hyun Oh-seok, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy & Finance, said on June 30 that his ministry would respond adequately to the upcoming expiration by the year's end of the World Trade Organizationsanctioned postponement to open its rice markets to more foreign competition. The Deputy Prime Minister held a foreign ministerial meeting at Seoul's government building and said, "I will review what has been discussed so far on the issue and get feedbacks from the National Assembly to make final decisions."
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The government was going to make an announcement on the day that it would open up the rice markets from next year on condition that it impose high tariffs rather than increasing quotas and negotiating to extend the cap system. But it changed its direction after a fierce opposition from farmers and the general public by delaying the announcement by next week after consultation and a series of public hearings.He added, "The government has long reviewed major possible issues surrounding the opening of the rice markets by the end of 2014. Before making conclusions, we will take into account many aspects including the future direction of our rice industry."It is unlikely that the market opening would increase the volume of rice imports as heavy tariffs would keep buyers from making overseas purchases. Still the opening has an important symbolic importance in that the nation has allowed the politically sensitive sector to open to foreign competition.
El Nino could hit China's agricultural yields English.news.cn 2014-07-01 13:56:00
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- China's agricultural yields could be hit by El Nino, a weather pattern that can bring drought in some parts while causing flooding in others, the agricultural ministry warned on Tuesday.El Nino of medium to strong magnitude could be experienced, which could trigger low temperatures and rainfall in south China and drought in the north in autumn, and bring earlier frosts to the country's northeast, the ministry cited China Meteorological Administration as saying. El Nino, the Spanish word for boy, is a warming of sea surface in the Pacific that occurs every four to 12 years.The weather pattern would negatively affect the yields of rice in south China and grains in the north, the ministry said.El Nino could result in the worldwide drop, by 2 percent, of yields of corn, spring wheat, winter wheat and rice, the world's top four agricultural products, according to official statistics.However, the ministry cited an unnamed expert as saying that the impact of El Nino on agricultural production would be limited, as the weather pattern would only affect some parts of the country.The ministry urged agricultural authorities at all levels to maintain vigilance against bad weather and work closely with weather observatories to prepare emergency plans for the impact of El Nino.
RI to see decline in rice production this year: BPS The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Business | Tue, July 01 2014, 4:51 PM
The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) predicts that Indonesia's production of rice throughout the year will be 69.87 million tons of husked rice, a 1.98 percent decline from 2013."The decline in rice production is due to decreasing harvest areas in the country by 1.92 percent or equal to 265,031 hectares," BPS head Suryamin told reporters in Jakarta on Tuesday as quoted by Antaranews agency.He also said that the reduction in rice production was triggered by a drop in paddy field productivity from producing 5,152 kilograms of rice per hectare last year to 5,149 kg of rice per hectare this year."It is influenced by the climate, such as floods in a number of regions in the country that caused harvest failure," he said.In addition, the fact that some rice farmers had shifted to planting corn and soybean
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contributed to the fall in rice production.According to the BPS, Java will see a decline of 1.86 million tons of rice. Banten, West Java, and Central Java will record the biggest declines, he said. (nfo)
Vinafood 2 vindicated in rice export deal but still facing misfortune VietNamNet Bridge – Despite accusations that Vinafood 2 bribed Filipino officials in exchange for the right to export 800,000 tons of rice to the Philippines, no proof has yet been offered. The watchdog agency has affirmed that Vinafood 2 is innocent of any wrongdoing. Despite this respite, the firm has plenty of problems, and critics.Some days ago, oryza.com, a Filipino newswire, reported that some Filipino officials ―wheeled and dealed‖ with Vinafood 2‘s senior executives when those executives were in the Philippines to attend the bidding to provide rice to the country.Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan has insisted that Vinafood 2 did not bribe any Filipino officials. He went on to say that the ministry has not received any official information from the Filipino government on the bribery case.However, Tuan still had a meeting with the negotiators, Mr. Nam and Mrs. Tam, who returned from the Philippines after the negotiations finished, to clarify the suspected case. ―Both of them insisted they did not ‗wheel and deal‘ or offer kickbacks to any Filipino officials,‖ Tuan said.The negotiators have been heavily criticized for selling Vietnam‘s rice so cheaply. Analysts believe that the total revenue could have been at least $23.2 million higher if Vietnam had not placed such a low bid.On the issue, Tuan said that Tam and Nam, before leaving Vietnam, were told that the highest goal was to win the bid. Regarding the prices, they were told ―not to sell at a loss‖. In related news, following a working session between the Filipino President Benigno Aquino and high ranking officials of the cabinet, the Filipino government decided last week to buy 200,000 more tons of rice from Vietnam.Though Vinafood 2 has been vindicated in the case of the rice exports to the Philippines, it still has to deal with other troubles.The government inspection agency has announced it will inspect Vinafood 2‘s implementation of the current laws on the state‘s capital use and management following accusations of Vinafood 2 breaking the laws, thus leading to big losses.A report of Vinafood 2 showed that seven out of its dependent units had incurred cumulative losses of VND1 trillion by the end of 2013.Vinafood 2‘s General Director, Huynh The Nang, has attributed the losses to unprofitable investments in catfish farming.―The VND927 billion catfish project failed completely in all cultivation, processing and export. We could not find markets for our catfish products. This was a wrong investment decision,‖ he said.However, taking losses is not the reason Vinafood 2 has become the target of heated public criticism. The food corporation, a state-owned enterprise, has been accused of forcing rice prices down and blocking farmers.
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Dr. Nguyen Van Nam, former director of the Trade Research Institute, claimed that Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2, the nation‘s key rice exporters, have not helped improve the competitiveness of Vietnam‘s rice. They have even suppressed the price of Vietnamese rice by selling the product too cheaply on the world market. Dat Viet Tags:Vinafood,rice export,rice scandals,philippines,
Gov’t sets review of NFA rice procurement subsidy By Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) | Updated July 1, 2014 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - The government is set to review whether it will continue providing subsidies for rice purchases as it seeks to reduce the National Food Authority‘s (NFA) debt, a Cabinet official said.Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization Francis Pangilinan told reporters yesterday the review on subsidies would be discussed in a meeting that would thresh out the NFA‘s road map over the next two years.He said the meeting, which is scheduled on July 16, would look into different topics including the minimum access volume for imports, quantitative restriction on rice, as well as how to trim the debt of the NFA which amounts to P160 billion. The state grains agency‘s debt covers imports, subsidies and other expenditures.The NFA‘s subsidy comes in the form of procurement of palay or unmilled rice.―Before the end of the July, we will have a clear picture,‖ Pangilinan said.To address the hike in rice prices and to increase the government‘s buffer stocks, Pangilinan said the government would import an additional 200,000 metric tons (MT) of the staple.The 200,000 MT to be imported, would be on top of the previously announced volume of 800,000 MT to be purchased from overseas this year.Pangilinan said the government may conduct a repeat order for the additional rice imports, citing the procurement law which provides that direct procurement of goods from the previous winning bidder could made when there is a need to replenish the items. ―The imports should arrive during the lean months. It can‘t be in September because there is schedule of harvest in September and October,‖ he said.Asked if imports of rice by the private sector would be allowed this year, he said the government still needs to monitor developments.―We will look at an El Niño impact, supply situation and then we will decide if we will allow private sector importation,‖ he said.Meanwhile, farmers and civil society groups such as Rice Watch and Action Network, Alyansa Agrikultura, National Rice Farmers Council
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and Pangisda-Pilipinas have called on the National Price Coordinating Council to set a price ceiling at P39.50 per kilo for commercial well-milled rice to ensure there is available and affordable supply of the staple.In a statement, the groups said there is shortage of affordable rice in the market today. ―Unless the government acts decisively to arrest unscrupulous traders who manipulate prices to assure profits into the pockets, the current average price of P43 per kilo of rice will become the new normal. As a matter of fact, there are several stores selling rice at P45 per kilo and higher. This is dangerous because it may spur increase in hunger incidence and the government‘s touted economic gains will remain elusive to the poor majority of the population,‖ National Rice Farmers Council spokesperson Jaime Tadeo said.According to the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, the average retail price of rice in the third week of June is P42.85 per kilo and has been continuously increasing from P41.57 per kilo in April to P42.19 per kilo in May.The average price of rice in June 2013 was P35.31 per kilo.
No shortage of foodgrains despite less rainfall, says Paswan By Surabhi Shaurya Monday, 30 June 2014 09:59 PM Seoni (MP): Union Food and Civil Supplies Minister Ramvilas Paswan assured here today, that despite warnings of less rainfall predicted by the Met Department, there will not be any shortage of foodgrains in the country. "The government has enough stock of wheat and rice to meet foodgrain requirements of the country for a year and the country is fully prepared to meet a situation like drought in the event of less rainfall," Paswan said, addressing an even on food security. Targeting UPA government for criticising the BJP-led NDA government on the issue of inflation, he said that the present govrnment was in office for nearly 35 days and it is trying to improve the system. "You are not expected to clear a lifetime of burdens in just a day. It will take time," Paswan said, adding even the Met Department has warned of less rainfall this season.On the occasion, the minister also announced that out of the total allocation of foodgrains to Madhya Pradesh, the Centre would provide 75 per cent wheat and 25 per cent rice. Paswan also praised the MP government led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for implementing the Food Security Act despite the fact that more than 25 states in the country are unable to implement it.He also lauded the MP state government for launching its one rupee per kilogram wheat, rice and salt scheme under the Mukhyamantri Annapurna Scheme. Paswan said that in Madhya Pradesh out of a 7.5 crore population, 5.42 crore were included under the Food Security Scheme, while in Bihar and other states not even 10 per cent of people are covered under it. He also said that he has already ordered provision of 50 lakh tonne of rice in the
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open market and added that at Chouhan's request, the Centre has raised the quota of rice to 25 per cent from 20, and reduced the quota of wheat from 80 to 75 per cent, since people in the state consume more rice.
Colder temperatures delay disease incidence in South Louisiana rice Last winter‘s colder-than-normal temperatures may have been uncomfortable at the time, but they appear to have resulted in less disease pressure in Louisiana rice fields this summer.―We‘re having a fairly light disease year compared to normal,‖ says the Rice Research Station‘s Don Groth. ―We had a very cold winter that killed a lot of the stubble crop that grows down here. Pathogens usually overwinter on that stubble crop.―We‘re just now seeing some blast and cerscospera starting to develop, which is much later in the season than normal. Sheath blight is in some fields, but in others you can‘t find any sheath blight. But where it is it is growing very rapidly. These hot humid conditions are favorable for its development.‖Groth, plant pathologist at the LSU AgCenter station, was one of several speakers at the Station‘s annual field day June 25. The traditional tours during the field day, which annually attracts several hundred rice producers and industry specialists, had to be moved indoors because of the threat of rain for only the second time in at least 30 years.Bacterial panicle blight, which has been a problem in some rice-growing states some years, has been absent, Groth noted. ―Unless it gets a lot hotter than it already is, we‘re not going to see much. We‘re not anticipating a lot of bacterial panicle blight.―Where we have sheath blight and blast, we‘re recommending farmers go ahead and spray because the potential is they could develop to eipidemic levels in a short period of time, and fungicides are justified in those conditions. ‖Groth talked about the rhizoctonia solani or sheath blight pathogens that have developed resistance to the strobilurin fungicides, such as Quadris, Quilt, Stratego. ―Basically, we have lost the strobilurin technology in these resistance areas. They have no activity against this fungus.‖Growers should be alert to areas in the field that aren‘t being controlled when those fungicides are applied. Because of the potentisal for resistance, producers should switch to other modes of action such as Sercadis, a new fungicide that received federal registration for application on sheath blight in rice earlier this year.―We also have Convoy and the propiconazoles have different activity,‖ he noted. ―But the idea is to start using some of these alternate fungicides before you have resistance because if you lose the strobilurins, you‘ve lost such a major tool. We‘re not going to recover from that.‖ Cercospora is another disease that should be on growers‘ radar. After favorable environmental conditions – and a lack of effective fungicides – contributed to a major outbreak of the disease in 2006, farmers have had to include the disease on their scouting lists.
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India Gets Lowest June Rain in 5 Years as El Nino Looms
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By Prabhudatta Mishra and Swansy Afonso Jul 1, 2014 3:36 PM GMT+0500
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Julie Hyman and Robbert Van Batenburg, director of market strategy at Newedge, examine the potential financial impacts of the El-Nino weather pattern. They speak in "On The Markets" on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop."India, the world‘s second-biggest rice, sugar and cotton grower, recorded the lowest June rainfall since 2009 amid predictions for an El Nino that previously caused droughts and cut crop output, the state forecaster said.
The country got 92.4 millimeters (3.6 inches) of rain last month, or 43 percent less than the average between 1951 and 2000, the India Meteorological Department said yesterday on its website. The monsoon has made no progress over India‘s western and central regions since June 15.With 90 percent of India getting deficient rains, sowing of crops from rice to corn, soybeans and cotton has been delayed, hampering Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s efforts to rein in inflation and revive growth from near a decade low. An estimated 833 million people out of the 1.2 billion population depend on agriculture for their livelihood and the sector accounts for 14 percent of the nation‘s gross domestic product.―The rainfall pattern has gotten distorted this year, and it will have some impact on agricultural productivity,‖ Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist at Crisil Ltd., S&P‘s local unit, said by phone from Mumbai. ―If rains revive in July and August, then you can make up for it because you have a window for late sowing till July 15. It is a risk to food inflation but not an unmitigable risk.‖ Photographer: Arindam Dey/AFP/Getty Images) An Indian motorcyclist drives through flooded streets following a heavy downpour in... Read More
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Inflation Impact
Consumer inflation gains in India slowed to 8.28 percent in May, a three-month low, official data show. That compares with 8.34 percent in Pakistan and 2.5 percent in China. Food makes up about 50 percent of India‘s consumer-price inflation basket.Monsoon rainfall will be 7 percent below average this year as the El Nino emerges, the meteorological department predicts. In 2009, the last time India experienced the event, rainfall was 22 percent below the 50-year average, reducing food-grain output and more than doubling inflation from the previous year, official data show. The seasonal showers are the main source of irrigation for the nation‘s 263 million farmers because about 55 percent of crop land is rain dependent.El Nino, which can roil world agricultural markets as farmers contend with drought or too much rain, may be established by September, according to climate models surveyed by Australia‘s Bureau of Meteorology. Forecasters from the U.S. and the United Nations are also warning an El Nino will occur.Climate models indicate the weather event is likely to develop by spring, which starts in September, and there‘s a 70 percent chance of the pattern this year, the Australian bureau said on its website today. Tackling Shortages
The monsoon covered Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, parts of Haryana, Punjab and some more areas of Uttar Pradesh today, India‘s weather bureau said today. Conditions are favorable for advance of the monsoon into more parts of Madhya Pradesh, remaining parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and New Delhi during the next 48 hours, it said.The government should take steps to tackle any shortage of food items caused by inadequate rains and import lentils and edible oils, Crisil‘s Joshi said.―It now behooves all policy makers, at the center and the state, to start planning for the worst,‖ Saugata Bhattacharya, a Mumbaibased economist at Axis Bank Ltd., said in an interview to Bloomberg TV India yesterday. ―The budget should now start to be leveraged for providing relief in the worst-hit districts, both by way of subsidies and movement of stocks.‖
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Selling Rice Modi‘s government has pledged to tackle price gains by offloading 5 million tons of rice, about a quarter of its state stockpiles, at subsidized rates and cracking down on food hoarders. It will also help states to import pulses and cooking oils if needed and set minimum export prices for potatoes, according to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.Farmers planted rice in 2.2 million hectares as of June 27, down from 3.6 million hectares a year earlier, according to the Agriculture Ministry. Sowing of oilseeds has dropped 47 percent to 479,000 hectares, while the area under cotton has slumped 48 percent to 2.9 million hectares, ministry data showed.―We will watch the progress until the first week of July before deciding the next course of action,‖ Agriculture Commissioner J.S. Sandhu, said by phone from New Delhi. To contact the reporters on this story: Prabhudatta Mishra in New Delhi atpmishra8@bloomberg.net; Swansy Afonso in Mumbai at safonso2@bloomberg.net
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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-July 1 Tue Jul 1, 2014 2:41pm IST Nagpur, July 1 (Reuters) - Gram and tuar prices in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and Marketing Committee (APMC) firmed up again on good demand from local millers amid thin arrival from producing belts. Fresh rise in Madhya Pradesh, repeated enquiries from South-based millers and no sign of monsoon arrival in Maharashtra said to be the reasons for upward trend in these commodities, according to sources. *
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FOODGRAINS & PULSES GRAM * Desi gram raw recovered further in open market on increased buying support from local traders amid thin supply from producing regions.
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TUAR * Tuar varieties ruled steady in open market on subdued demand from local traders amid ample stock in ready segment.
* Moong varieties quoted down in open market in absence of buyers amid profit-taking selling by stockists at higher level.
* Rice HMT and rice Chinnor recovered strongly in open market on good marriage season demand from local traders amid thin restricted supply from producing regions like Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
* In Akola, Tuar - 3,800-4,100, Tuar dal - 5,700-6,000, Udid at 6,500-6,800, Udid Mogar (clean) - 7,600-8,100, Moong - 7,200-7,600, Moong Mogar (clean) 8,600-9,300, Gram - 2,100-2,300, Gram Super best bold - 3,100-3,400 for 100 kg. * Wheat, other varieties of rice and other commodities remained steady in open market in thin trading activity, according to sources. Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg FOODGRAINS
Available prices
Gram Auction
2,250-2,660
Gram Pink Auction Tuar Auction Moong Auction Udid Auction
n.a.
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2,200-2,600 2,100-2,600
3,380-4,475 n.a.
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3,710-4,380 4,400-4,700
4,300-4,500
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Masoor Auction
n.a.
Gram Super Best Bold
2,600-2,800 3,700-3,800
Gram Super Best
3,700-3,800
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Gram Medium Best
3,300-3,500
3,300-3,500
Gram Dal Medium
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Gram Mill Quality
2,900-3,000
2,900-3,000
Desi gram Raw
2,700-3,000
2,700-2,900
Gram Filter new
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3,200-3,400
Gram Kabuli
3,200-3,400
8,000-9,500
Gram Pink
7,300-7,500
Tuar Fataka Best
8,000-9,500 7,300-7,500
6,400-6,700
Tuar Fataka Medium
6,400-6,700
6,200-6,400
Tuar Dal Best Phod
6,200-6,400
5,700-5,950
Tuar Dal Medium phod
5,700-5,950
5,400-5,700
5,400-5,700
Tuar Gavarani
4,400-4,500
4,400-4,500
Tuar Karnataka
4,200-4,300
4,200-4,300
Tuar Black
7,600-7,900
Masoor dal best
6,100-6,300
Masoor dal medium Masoor
5,900-6,100
n.a.
Moong Mogar bold
8,200-9,000
Moong Mogar Medium best
Moong dal Chilka
6,100-6,300
5,900-6,100
n.a.
Moong dal super best
7,600-7,900
8,400-9,200
7,700-8,000
7,400-7,800 7,500-8,100
7,800-8,200
7,500-8,000 7,700-8,300
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Moong Mill quality
n.a.
n.a.
Moong Chamki best
7,600-8,900
Udid Mogar Super best (100 INR/KG) Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) Batri dal (100 INR/KG)
7,200-7,500
3,800-4,800
5,800-6,600 5,000-5,400
3,800-4,800
2,800-2,900
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
2,900-3,200
Watana White (100 INR/KG)
2,800-2,900 2,900-3,200
3,500-3,600
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG)
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)
3,500-3,600
4,900-5,500
1,200-1,500
Wheat Mill quality(100 INR/KG)
7,200-7,500
5,800-6,600
5,000-5,400
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)
7,800-9,000
4,900-5,500
1,200-1,500
1,550-1,800
1,550-1,800
1,200-1,400
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG)
1,200-1,400
1,900-2,200
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG)
1,900-2,200
1,600-1,800
n.a.
n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 2,500-3,200 MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)
1,600-1,800
2,500-3,200
2,000-2,400
2,000-2,400
Wheat 147 (100 INR/KG)
1,100-1,300
1,100-1,300
Wheat Best (100 INR/KG)
1,500-1,800
1,500-1,800
Rice BPT (100 INR/KG) Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG)
2,900-3,200 1,600-1,800
2,900-3,200 1,600-1,800
Rice Swarna old (100 INR/KG)
2,700-2,900
2,600-2,800
Rice HMT (100 INR/KG)
4,000-4,300
3,800-4,200
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Rice HMT Shriram (100 INR/KG)
4,600-5,200
4,400-5,200
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 10,400-13,900 Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) Rice Chinnor (100 INR/KG)
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
7,300-10,000
5,000-5,600
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)
10,400-13,900
1,300-1,500 1,600-1,700
7,300-10,000
4,800-5,400 1,300-1,500 1,600-1,700
WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 39.9 degree Celsius (103.8 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp. 26.1 degree Celsius (78.9 degree Fahrenheit) Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest - n.a. Rainfall : nil FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky. Rains or thunder-showers likely towards evening or night. Maximum and Minimum temperature likely to be around 41 and 26 degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices.)
Drought raises concerns over Lao rice production Drought raises concerns over Lao rice production
VIENTIANE, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Late wet season rain has raised concerns over rice production in several Lao provinces, according to state-run daily Vientiane Times on Tuesday.According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, drought has forced some farmers to re-seed their properties. Most farmers in Borikhamxay, Khammuan, Xieng Khuang and Huaphan provinces are only now beginning sowing rice seeds.The setbacks have called into question whether the government's rice production target of 3.2 tons per hectare for this year can be met.Each year a large amount of rice production is lost due to natural disasters such as drought and floods.Last year, the ministry encouraged farmers to achieve a yield of 2.9 tons per hectare with a target of 720,000 hectares nationally.
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Of that, however, over 45,500 hectares were damaged by floods, which destroyed thousands of tons of crop.According to Vientiane Times, assistance from Vietnam and China has enabled Laos to produce a rice seed of higher quality. These quality seeds and improved rice varieties are more adaptable to environment and climate changes.The ministry aimed to increase rice production from 3.8 million tons to 4 million tons this year.Laos is one of the largest rice growers in the ASEAN region, with annual rice exports to Vietnam, Thailand, China and other countries averaging 200,000-300,000 tons.Since 2000, Laos has been able to sufficiently meet domestic demand for rice. In subsequent years the focus of rice production has become increasingly export oriented. Annually, Laos has approximately one million tons of surplus.According to Vientiane Times, the government is still welcoming domestic and foreign investment in rice production to further increase yield by providing farmers with access to technology.
Gov't to Address Issue of Rice Market Opening Adequately"...Deputy PM Hyun Economy Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 SEOUL, KOREA - Hyun Oh-seok, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy & Finance, said on June 30 that his ministry would respond adequately to the upcoming expiration by the year's end of the World Trade Organizationsanctioned postponement to open its rice markets to more foreign competition. The Deputy Prime Minister held a foreign ministerial meeting at Seoul's government building and said, "I will review what has been discussed so far on the issue and get feedbacks from the National Assembly to make final decisions." The government was going to make an announcement on the day that it would open up the rice markets from next year on condition that it impose high tariffs rather than increasing quotas and negotiating to extend the cap system. But it changed its direction after a fierce opposition from farmers and the general public by delaying the announcement by next week after consultation and a series of public hearings.He added, "The government has long reviewed major possible issues surrounding the opening of the rice markets by the end of 2014. Before making conclusions, we will take into account many aspects including the future direction of our rice industry."It is unlikely that the market opening would increase the volume of rice imports as heavy tariffs would keep buyers from making overseas purchases. Still the opening has an important symbolic importance in that the nation has allowed the politically sensitive sector to open to foreign competition.
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USA Rice Enlists Retail Dietitians for National Rice Month ARLINGTON, VA -- One-third of supermarkets have a registered dietitian on site and 86 percent employ registered dietitians at a corporate level. The growing need to help shoppers with food and nutrition issues places supermarket registered dietitians (SRDs) in a unique position to impact public health while at the same time supporting the business of food retail. As an extension of the USA Rice Federation's outreach to health professionals, USA Rice has now developed a toolkit specifically for SRDs to use with consumers during National Rice Month (NRM) this September.
Last week, USA Rice emailed more than 400 SRDs with NRM reminders and links to the new 2014 NRM Toolkit. The customizable toolkit includes consumer handouts, recipes, rice nutrition research, sample blog and social media posts, as well as media pitch ideas. "Retail dietitians are an important group to target because of their growing number and ability to directly influence consumer purchases," said Mark Denman, Chairman of the USA Rice Federation and a member of the USA Rice Retail Subcommittee. "They offer product recommendations, recipe ideas, and educational seminars on healthrelated topics as well as provide healthy eating tips on social media channels and appear in local media and at community events." "I believe the toolkit is a useful resource and I hope the SRDs agree," said Betsy Ward, USA Rice's president and CEO. "The kit also has use beyond National Rice Month, so hopefully we'll continue to see positive messages about U.S.-grown rice year round." Ward said USA Rice will monitor toolkit downloads and follow-up directly with SRDs to encourage usage of the toolkit materials during NRM and beyond. Contact: Katie Maher, (703) 236-1453
Heavenly Rice Cheesecake Propels Louisiana 4-H Chefs to Grand Prize U.S. rice put the curl in that moustache! BATON ROUGE, LA -- The Louisiana Chef contest was held during 4-H University, June 17-20, on the Louisiana State University campus. The competition measures how well 4-H youth promote Louisiana commodities, including rice, through an individual or team demonstration. Nineteen entries competed for the prize of a 4-H educational trip to Orlando, Florida. The winning demonstration promoting rice was conducted by Vermilion 4-H
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members Adam Gaspard and Caroline Guidry. Adam and Caroline, Kaplan High School tenth graders, are veteran 4-H demonstrators and have been partners on the parish and state levels for many years. The team altered a favorite cheesecake recipe by including Louisiana rice and spotlighted rice in their speech.The "Heavenly Rice Cheesecake" was a hit during their numerous practice sessions and on contest day. Throughout the experience, Adam and Caroline learned about production, economics, and nutrition of Louisiana rice. Contact: Randy Jemison, (337) 738-7009
Worst impact of poor monsoon likely to be in west India: Govt New Delhi: The worst impact of a sub-normal monsoon is likely to be in western India, with possible drought-like conditions in some areas, agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said Tuesday.―Monsoon is delayed. Western India is expected to be worst affected and drought-like situation might prevail in some pockets,‖ Singh told reporters after a delegation from Maharashtra met him on this matter. A separate contingency plan will be worked out along with the state governments for drought-prone regions, such as Vidharbha in Maharashtra, to ensure there is no shortage of drinking water and fodder, he said. ―Vidharbha region is drought-prone. We will think of all possible measures to help farmers so that they are not forced to commit suicides due to crop failure,‖ he added. As per the Met department, the monsoon is likely to improve after 6July, the minister said, adding, ―If it improves, the loss in sowing of kharif crops will definitely be compensated.‖ He also said the agriculture ministry will soon move a cabinet note on providing diesel and seed subsidy if states declare drought in some areas. On vegetable prices rising in anticipation of a poor monsoon, Singh said, ―We have to improve the supply system, though there is no shortage in onion and potato production in the country. ‖ A delegation-led by Maharashtra BJP president Devendra Fadanvis updated the minister about the monsoon situation in the Vidharbha region and sought special measures to tackle the possible drought this year.The overall area under kharif crops last week decreased to 131.52 lakh hectares from 200.96 lakh hectares in the year-ago period. Sowing of kharif (summer) crops including paddy starts with the onset of the southwest monsoon in June.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the monsoon this year is expected to be 93% of the long-term average. For the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall up to 25 June was 40% below the average. Conditions are expected to improve in July and August. Image: Drought-like situation may prevail in some pockets of western India, says agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh .The agriculture minister says a separate contingency plan will be worked out along with the state govts for drought-prone regions, such as Vidharbha in Maharashtra. Photo: Hindustan Times
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