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Rice with fewer stomata requires less water and is better suited for climate change July 24, 2018, University of Sheffield

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Rice plants engineered to have fewer stomataâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tiny openings used for gas exchangeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are more tolerant to drought and resilient to future climate change, a new study has revealed. Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered that engineering a high-yielding rice cultivar to have reduced stomatal density, helps the crop to conserve water and to survive high temperatures and drought. Much of humanity relies on rice as a food source, but rice cultivation is particularly water intensiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;using an estimated 2,500 litres of water per kilogram of rice produced.

However, almost half of the global rice crop derives from rain-fed agricultural systems where drought and high temperatures are predicted to become more frequent and damaging under climate change. Like most plants, rice uses microscopic pores called stomata to regulate carbon dioxide uptake for photosynthesis, along with the release of water vapour via transpiration. When water is plentiful, stomatal opening also permits regulation of plant temperature by evaporative cooling. Under water-limiting drought conditions, stomatal closure normally slows down water loss. Low stomatal density rice conserves its water better under drought, and so has more water left to cool itself when necessary. Dr. Robert Caine, Research Associate from the University of Sheffield's Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and Principal Investigator of the study, said: "Future predicted decreases in water availability, combined with increased frequency of extreme drought and high temperature events, are likely to present particular challenges for farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;resulting in substantial crop loss. "Our study has shown that rice plants with fewer stomata are drought tolerant and more conservative in their water use. This means they should perform better in the future under climate change conditions. "We found that the engineered rice crops gave equivalent or even improved yields, which means it could have a massive impact on our future food security which is threatened by climate change." The new study, published today (Wednesday 25 July 2018) in New Phytologist and conducted in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, found low stomatal density rice lines used just 60 per cent of the normal amount of water. When grown at elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, the low stomatal density rice plants were able to survive droughtand high temperature (40 degrees Celsius) for longer than unaltered plants. Julie Gray, Professor of Plant Molecular Biology and lead author of the study, said: "Stomata help plants to regulate their water use, so this study could have a significant impact on other crops which are at risk under climate change. "At the University of Sheffield we believe in a sustainable future and work towards solutions to the most pressing global challenges." Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-rice-stomata-requires-climate.html#jCp https://phys.org/news/2018-07-

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US-China may be in a trade war, but Pakistan is looking at solutions By Bilal Hussain July 24, 2018

Different countries tend to excel in different sectors, like the US excels in arms, ammunition and machinery PHOTO:AFP

KARACHI: As the US and China battle it out in a trade war, some of the other

countries are reverting to the centuries-old barter system, but an ‗upgraded‘ version of it. With the world‘s two largest economies at each other‘s throats on trade issues, there are some that are adopting open doors and liberal policies. Ahmed Zaman, head of research at the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), says international trade has evolved as competition has intensified. In such a scenario, the centuries-old barter system has been revived, but with a different approach. World on brink of trade war as US slaps tariffs on allies

Countries are now adopting product-based preferential agreements, which could be looked upon as remodeled barter, the ancient form of trade where products were exchanged without the involvement of currency, according to a research paper Zaman has written. Zaman explained that the product-based agreement would involve a country eliminating tariffs and taxes on the import of a specific commodity. In return, the benefactor would reciprocate by extending a similar benefit to the other trading partner. He said that many countries are now adopting the model, including Iran, Russia and India. Moreover, Pakistan has also undertaken it with Iran, importing oil, while exporting kinnow and rice. ―If we don‘t have to pay customs or import duty to Kenya while exporting rice, then it will be cheaper for us, therefore the demand for our product increases,‖ Zaman told The Express Tribune. He added that if Pakistan wants to do that, it will also have to let Kenya export its tea to Pakistan as well, without imposing duties. Pakistan and Kenya are negotiating a product-specific free trade agreement (FTA) to enhance bilateral trade, which currently stands at $789 million, with the volume of Pakistan‘s exports at $319 million and imports at $468 million. Analytical examination shows that bilateral trade is confined to a few products, but is growing.

Pakistan is the largest importer of Kenyan tea, with $592.84 million out of a total $1,424.43 million worth of tea shipments into the country. Similarly, Pakistan exports rice worth $229.104 million in the total import of $259.043 million to Kenya.

Pharmaceutical products comprise $6.36 million out of total Kenyan pharmaceutical imports of $518.28 million. Other items that have a major share in Pakistan‘s export basket to Kenya are textile and furniture. Besides exports, Pakistani investors have also entered in the auto, pharmaceutical and textile sectors. ―If India levies duties on Pakistan‘s rice and its cost becomes higher than elsewhere in the market, then people would not prefer our rice. Certainly, the demand for Pakistan‘s rice would be lower.‖ He said the Planning Commission, which has been preparing the 12th five-year plan, has mentioned in the document that tea producers will be given subsidy in order to encourage them to enter the business. ―This will only contribute to budget and fiscal anomalies. The weather and other conditions in Pakistan are not favourable to produce tea. It will always cost us more than importing it from Kenya. There‘s a need to produce commodities like rice instead, which we can do better,‖ he added. ―Different countries tend to excel in different sectors, like the US excels in arms, ammunition and machinery. Although Pakistan has struggled recently, it could excel in the agricultural sector,‖ the research head explained. With the recent volatility in rupee making trade-related investments difficult, product-based preferential trade agreements would help stabilise to some extent the impact in such cases, he added, referring to the 22% decline in the Pakistani currency in the last eight months. Published in The Express Tribune, July 24th, 2018. https://tribune.com.pk/story/1765034/2-us-china-may-trade-war-pakistan-looking-solutions/

China takes key step in unlocking rice trade with US 07/25/18 6:55 AM By Bill Tomson

KEYWORDS aphis china rice trade usda WTO Bell Tower of Xi'an in Xi'an, China

U.S. rice millers don‘t normally allow visitors into their facilities. The plants must meet rigorous domestic and international sanitary and phytosanitary standards, so allowing people to trudge through is not usually permitted, but 10 operations in Texas, Arkansas, California and Louisiana made an exception last month for a visiting Chinese delegation. In a virtual media blackout, the U.S. rice industry and the USDA hosted representatives of China‘s newly formed State Market Regulatory Administration (SMRA) as they inspected the facilities to make sure they were suitable to provide Chinese consumers with the primary staple in just about every meal they eat. It was – U.S. government and industry officials hope – the final major step in a process to open China‘s massive market to U.S. rice that has so far taken more than a decade. Still, nothing is certain with China. U.S. farmers, millers and exporters won‘t be satisfied until the first sales are made and Chinese citizens are dining on medium and long grain rice grown in U.S. fields. The precarious nature of the deal, being forged now amid an escalating trade war as the U.S. and China continue to hurl new tariffs at each other‘s goods, is why USDA officials hoped to keep the Chinese delegation‘s visit out of the spotlight. A quiet resolution is what they are still hoping for, government and industry sources tell Agri-Pulse. The officials asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue. ―It was a positive sign they carried out the inspections, and we are doing all we can to maintain momentum for our members and to lead the effort with USDA to open this market,‖ a rice industry official said. The delegation‘s visit to the 10 U.S. facilities (China had initially requested to visit 30, according to one U.S. official, but they agreed to streamline the trip) went smoothly with no obvious problems, but the final verdict from the visitors may not be known any time soon. If the Chinese delegation sends back a positive report from its June visit, the U.S. could presumably begin exporting rice almost immediately. It was about a year ago, in July of 2017, that China officially agreed to the sanitary and phytosanitary protocols needed to allow in U.S. rice. That happened during the first

Comprehensive Economic Dialogue meeting between the two countries and the agreement was immediately hailed as a success. ―This is another great day for U.S. agriculture and, in particular, for our rice growers and millers, who can now look forward to gaining access to the Chinese market,‖ U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said at the time. ―This market represents an exceptional opportunity today, with enormous potential for growth in the future.‖

Sonny Perdue Alvaro Durand-Morat, an assistant professor and rice trade expert for the University of Arkansas, agrees. The U.S. exports about half the rice it produces, so farmers are highly dependent on trade, said Durand-Morat, who stressed that even a very small fraction of China‘s market would be a major win for the U.S. rice sector. China consumes about 144 million tons of rice every year and is the world‘s largest rice producing and importing country. ―Any time you open that kind of opportunity, even a 1 percent share of that market would mean a lot for U.S. rice farmers,‖ Durand-Morat said. And some of that market should be guaranteed, thanks to a pledge made by China when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. The country, as one condition for its acceptance into the WTO, agreed to buy at least 2.7 million tons of U.S. rice each year. Ever since then the U.S. has been working with China to settle on protocols that would allow for that trade to take place, but there have been many delays and disappointments over the years as talks dragged on. The rice industry and some USDA officials had initially expected China to send the inspection delegation over soon after the July protocol was signed, but months went by with no word from Beijing. Then earlier this year China sent a 10-page questionnaire to USDA‘s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and demanded that it be completed by mills across the U.S. This added months of delay, and months more may be in store because few in the industry or at USDA expect China to complete the process and open its market while a trade war rages between the two countries. The U.S. first hit China with tariffs on steel and aluminum, prompting retaliatory tariffs. Separately, the U.S. hit China with a second round of tariffs to punish it for intellectual property theft. Part of the Chinese retaliation was a 25 percent tariff on U.S. rice, so even if China were to open up its market, new trade would be unlikely until the two countries settle their differences.

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Broadcasting the Benefits of U.S. Rice in Mexico By Sarah Moran

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- Each month, USA Rice partners with different chefs in Mexico to encourage increased usage of rice in restaurants and in the home. Last month, USA Rice partnered with Executive Chef Omar Cuellar to produce two TV shows on Efekto TV, which is broadcast in Mexico City and viewed throughout Mexico. Cuellar is the executive chef at Tiffany Gourmet, an upscale restaurant here, and has won many culinary awards. During the shows, Cuellar prepared a healthy rice salad and a main dish currently offered exclusively at his restaurant using U.S. parboiled rice as the primary ingredient. The important message he shares with viewers is that U.S. rice is versatile, easy to prepare, and nutritious. "Chef Cuellar has collaborated with USA Rice for many years now, including participating in our professional chef competitions," said Gaby Carbajal, who manages USA Rice promotions in Mexico. "Our promotions activities are meant to build relationships with influencers here in Mexico and encourage them to then spread the great message about U.S. rice." USA Rice conducts more than 20 foodservice seminars in Mexico each year to encourage decision makers in the foodservice industry to incorporate U.S.-grown rice in their operations. Four such seminars were conducted last month, in conjunction with culinary schools and the Mexican Social Security Institute to show how using U.S. rice can increase their profits. "USA Rice conducted an activity with the directors, nutritionists, and kitchen staff of a cafeteria in a busy medical center here," said Brian King, chairman of the USA Rice Western Hemisphere Promotion Subcommittee. "Each day, the medical center serves 600 medical staff and 700 patients, using about 77 pounds of long grain rice. As a result of USA Rice's activities, six new rice dishes are now permanent menu items at the cafeteria." Mexico is the United States' largest export market, bringing in nearly a quarter of all U.S. rice exports, and is USA Rice's most active promotions market with more than 300 marketing activities scheduled each year.

Salt Rice Springs From Chinese Hands in Dubai‘s Sands LIU JING & TANG SHIHUA DATE: MON, 07/23/2018 - 20:33 / SOURCE:YICAI Salt Rice Springs From Chinese Hands in Dubai’s Sands

(Yicai Global) July 23 -- Scientists with East China's Qingdao Seawater Rice Research and Development Center, led by Yuan Longping, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known in China as the ‗Father of Hybrid Rice,‘ have achieved initial success with experiments to grow highly salt-tolerant ‗seawater rice‘ in Dubai. They will introduce the technology to more places in the city, which is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa, the state People‘s Daily media reported. The Qingdao R&D center and the UAE government plan to set up a 100-hectare seawater rice experiment farm next year under a framework agreement styled ‗Green Dubai‘ signed by the center and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE‘s vice president and prime minister and Ruler of Dubai. The project will go into commercial operation with the introduction of external investors, including China‘s Belt and Road sovereign funds. Sheikh Mohammed‘s vision is that from 2020 onward the salt rice acreage will extend to cover over 10 percent of Dubai‘s total area, boosting food supplies for local residents as well as improving the ecosystem in the desert country. The parties will also set up a local research center to introduce the grain strain to the entire Arab world while improving its ecosystem. Sheikh Mohammed learned of the successful trial production of the salty rice in China in November, and his private office contacted Yuan‘s team shortly thereafter and invited them to experiment with the technology in the emirate‘s desert. The group started their trials on Jan. 8, and had more than 80 rice varieties -including the saltwater rice -- mature between May and this month. Five varieties

delivered higher yields than the global average (4.539 tons per hectare), as production tests conducted by a joint international expert team on the first mature crop on May 26 demonstrated. https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/salt-rice-springs-chinese-hands-dubai‘s-sands

Jasmine Rice Market Increasing Demand with Key Players: Jing Chu Da Di, Tai Liang, Hu Bei Jing Chu Liang You, Jin Jian & Wan Nian Gong Jasmine Rice Market Nidhi Bhawsar July 25, 2018

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BIOTECHJP INTRODUCES PROTEIN REDUCED PRECOOKED RICE IN PHILIPPINES Paroma Bhattacharya July 25, 2018 Food & Beverages

BiotechJP Corp. a Philippines subsidiary of a Japanese company, Biotech Japan Corp., is introducing pre-cooked rice to Philippines. Echigo, the ready-to-eat, protein reduced rice introduced by BiotechJP, intended for people suffering from chronic kidney disease, is an engineered rice product that uses the unique technology of the mother company. BiotechJP is working on three products namely a regular pre-cooked microwave-ready rice called Insta Rice, a calorie reduced precooked rice that requires only reheating called Gohan Lite, and a ready to eat rice called Rice-To-Go. All the variants are to be sold in 200-gram packs. The products are all sourced from locally grown Rc-160 rice and licensed by the Food and Drug Administration with a shelf life of 6 months or longer. Incidentally, Biotech Japan Corp. produces rice products that involve plant-based lactic acid bacteria fermentation. The processed rice has reduced protein content and is suitable for chronic kidney disease sufferers. As per records, Philippines has an unusual prevalence of the disease â&#x20AC;&#x201C; apparently, one Filipino dies of the disease every hour. Estimates by The National Kidney and Transplant Institute predict that dialysis patients are increasing at the rate of 15% every year in Philippines. Calorie reduced rice can prove beneficial in combating these alarming trends but NKTI deputy director for medical education, Romina Danguilan, has been reported to say that the institute is yet to conduct its own study to verify the claims presented by protein-reduced rice such as Echigo.

Trisha Ann Garcia, general manager, BiotechJP, claimed that a five-year study conducted in Japan demonstrated that consumption of Echigo can significantly decrease urinary protein excretion. But the major challenge that BiotechJP will have to face in Philippines is the Filipino habit of consuming rice straight out of the pot. Philippines may not take too well to the lifestyle change that eating pre-cooked rice has to offer but BiotechJP is hopeful that this can be changed as rice is a very significant part of the Filipino diet and health-conscious consumers are growing in number recently http://cmferesearch.com/biotechjp-protein-reduced-precooked-rice/10162/

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High yielding Purple paddy The vitamin-enriched rice sees success in Gaibandha

A demonstration plot of Purple paddy seedlings at Shibram village in Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha. Photo: Star

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Following last year's successful cultivation of high yielding Purple paddy during the Borto season, the agriculture department in Sundarganj upazila under the district has started plantation of its seedlings to see the production ratio in the ongoing Aman season. Cultivation of vitamin-enriched purple paddy, locally known as 'Beguni Dhan', started in Gaibandha for the first time last year, said Rashedul Islam, upazila agriculture officer (UAO) of Sundarganj. Dulali Begum, member of IPM Farmer's Club of Ramjibon village, brought a few grams of the paddy seeds from her relative in Gazipur district early 2017 and planted it on 25 decimals of land as per instruction of upazila agriculture department in the last Boro season. She got 25 maunds of yield per bigha whereas Boro produces 18 to 20 maunds per bigha. Five-bigha demonstration plots are being made with seedlings of Purple paddy at different locations and it has created much curiosity among local farmers, said the UAO of Sundarganj. The Purple paddy plants develop 90 centimetres long and have 20 to 28 spikes. Each spike contains 200 to 313 corns, whereas HYV Boro plants possess 180 to 190 corns in each spike.

It needed 140 days to harvest, and the harvested paddy of Boro season was preserved as seed for farming in more areas next time, he said. ―According to agriculture experts, China-origin purple paddy contains high amount of vitamins and fibre. We have sent the sample of the Purple paddy grown in Sundarganj to a rice research laboratory for further research,‖ said the agriculture officer. ―Following last year's success in Purple paddy farming in Boro season, we are now experimenting on its cultivation in the Aman season to see the production ratio of the new paddy with Aman. We have made demonstration plots accordingly,‖ he added https://www.thedailystar.net/country/high-yielding-purple-paddy-1610995

Egypt gives green light to rice imports amid water shortages Amira Sayed Ahmed July 25, 2018

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Farmers in Egypt were appalled by the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s decision to start importing rice as part of its strategy to contain the water crisis. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dals A farmer transplants rice seedlings in a paddy field in Qalyub, in El-Kalubia governorate, Egypt, June 1, 2016.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave the go-ahead for the government's strategy to import rice with the aim of meeting local demands, after limiting the areas allocated for rice cultivation to adapt to a water shortage. The presidential decision, which turns Egypt from a major rice exporter into an importer, came during Sisi's meeting July 8 with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali al-Meselhi. The meeting dealt with a host of files, including the Supply Ministry's strategy to ensure the availability of essential, strategic crops besides controlling the local market, according to presidential spokesperson Bassam Rady. In light of this strategy, Sisi agreed to allow rice imports into the country, assigning the General Authority for Supply Commodities to publicize rice in the upcoming year and determine adequate prices for this important crop in cooperation with the Agriculture Ministry. Rady said that Sisi sent his directives to intensify price control procedures and put an end to the market monopoly and commercial fraud. Egypt's government officially announced its intent to open doors for rice imports on June 6, when then-Prime Minister Sherif Ismail announced that such imports would help provide enough rice stocks so that the majority of citizens can find rice easily. The country started to suffer from the rice crisis in 2016, when citizens failed to find it in markets. At the time, traders were under fire over claims that they stock rice bags so as to sell them at higher prices. Actually, the government's import program demonstrates its desperate attempt to avoid public uproar that may stem from a shortage of rice, which is a staple of the typical Egyptian diet. While this move has been seen as a serious attempt by the Egyptian government to deal a bitter blow to rice monopolists, farmers complain this decision hit them the hardest, adding to their burdens.

―Definitely it is a step backward. No Egyptian citizen who genuinely loves his country can be happy with this decision, which supports foreign farmers at the expense of Egyptian ones,‖ Farmers Syndicate head Hussein Abu Saddam complained to Al-Monitor. Egypt will now turn into an importer, wasting hard currency and making the country incur hefty losses, Abu Saddam added. ―Claiming this move will curtail monopoly is groundless. Those greedy traders will monopolize the imported rice as they are doing with the local one. Lack of monitoring is the key reason lurking behind such malpractices,‖ Abu Saddam said. Monopolies are combated by law and not by imports, he stressed. Abu Saddam elucidated that local consumption amounts to around 3.5 million tons. The current area cultivated with rice produces approximately 3 million tons. ―This means that the deficit is nearly 500,000 tons. Such deficit can be met by growing and introducing other low-water rice varieties as well as adopting modern irrigation techniques,‖ he said. It is worth mentioning that Egypt's Ministry of Irrigation and Land Reclamation issued in January a decision to decrease area allocated for the water-intensive rice from 1.14 million acres last year to only about 750,000. This decision came within the framework of the ministry's broader plan to rationalize water consumption in agriculture, which is the largest water consumer in Egypt. The Irrigation Ministry is grappling with numerous water challenges haunting the country in light of the limited water resources, growing population and the nightmarish, anticipated decrease in Egypt's share of the Nile River following the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. However, in May the government agreed to add 104,000 acres to rice cultivation, a matter that brought total rice cultivation area up to 850,000 acres. ―Limiting rice agriculture is posing a serious threat to many lands, making it vulnerable to soil salinity. Rice cultivation is not the reason lurking behind water concerns in Egypt,‖ Abu Saddam confirmed. Egypt's executive and legal authorities also took certain decisions to tighten the grip over rice cultivation by introducing imprisonment as a tool of punishment.

Egypt's parliament in April finally approved certain amendments to Agriculture Law No. 53 of 1966, which were later ratified by Sisi on May 21. Under this bill, the government is authorized to determine certain areas to cultivate water-intensive crops like rice and sugar cane. It can also prohibit the cultivation of particular crops in certain areas. More importantly, this law stipulates that those who do not abide by the ministerial decisions shall face up to six months in jail and shall be fined a maximum of 20,000 Egyptian pounds (around $1,123). Furthermore, Agriculture Minister Ezz El-Din Abou Steit on July 10 warned traders of stockpiling rice to get high profits, saying that they ―will regret‖ the move. He also announced that rice prices will remarkably decline by early September. ―Allowing rice imports into Egypt were highly expected and an inevitable consequence of the amended agriculture law. Those imports will help fill the gap arising from limiting rice cultivation,‖ professor of agricultural economy at the Desert Research Center Sherif Fayyad told Al-Monitor. Fayyad, meanwhile, said he is against imprisonment as a sanction, adding that the agricultural research centers should not be blamed for not introducing new varieties. ―The government allocates a meager part of its budget to scientific research. Of course, we the researchers can provide new varieties with higher productivity and less water consumption, but we need adequate financial support,‖ he said. Despite this heated debate, the import program found much applause by Agriculture Ministry spokesperson Hamed Abdel Dayem, who told the state-run Al-Ahram that these imports will help ensure stability in rice prices in local markets. The competition between the public and private sectors in general will help offer competitive prices, he added. ―Apart from the economic and political reasons behind such a decision, the imported rice will not be appealing for Egyptians. They adore the taste of Egyptian rice,‖ Abu Saddam concluded. Found in:AGRICULTURE AND FARMING

Amira Sayed Ahmed is a Cairo-based freelance journalist and full-time editor of local news at The Egyptian Gazette, Cairo's oldest English-language daily. She has been involved in writing about political, social and cultural issues in Egypt since 2013.

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Vietnam rice farmers in a sticky situation Production of sticky rice in the Mekong Delta over the past weeks has faced challenges due to China’s new import tariff policy, forcing a strong reduction in the price of sticky rice at home and in export markets.

In this case, local enterprises do not want to pay import tax of 50 per cent, so they must buy a quota because enterprises with import quotas and countries joining the most favoured nations (MFN) will not impose the new import rate. However, Don said buying quotas will increase the cost of imports up to US$120 per tonne, so the Chinese importers only buy when the sticky rice price is low or they will accept high prices when demand increases in the local market. At present, the sticky rice inventory of Chinese enterprises is still high, so they buy small volumes or at very low prices. On the other hand, the US-China trade war has no direct impact on the rice sector, but affects the general sentiment of Chinese enterprises as well as China‘s import and export activities. Therefore, exports of sticky rice of Viet Nam can be difficult. Chinese firms have pushed for a reduction in Viet Nam‘s price of sticky rice to $380 a tonne, while sticky rice in the domestic market is traded at VND8,600-8,800 per kilogramme or $374$383 per tonne. They must sell at $400 per tonne to break even. An export price of under $400 per tonne of sticky rice is also the lowest level in the past two years, and marks a sharp fall from the beginning of this year when the price was at $530-$540 per tonne, bringing profit for both businesses and farmers. China‘s recent change in import tax policy on the local rice industry is not its first. A year ago, China also changed its policy of importing sticky rice from Viet Nam, which had an big impact on local enterprises‘ sticky rice exports, although the tariff then wasn‘t as high. In recent years, China has become a major export market for Vietnamese sticky rice. China has promoted the import of sticky rice with high prices, leading to a strong increase in the area producing sticky rice in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region. According to the Viet Nam Food Association (VFA), Viet Nam exported 1.4 million tonnes of sticky rice in 2017, with 90 per cent shipped to China. There is a high risk with exporting a large volume to one market, and warnings were issued about this situation. However, reducing the sticky rice growing area is not easy because the farmers maintain production with the belief that the export price of sticky rice will recover in the future, said Dang Thi Lien, director of Long An Food and Foodstuff Co. In this situation, experts said the Cultivation Department and localities need to monitor more closely the structure of cultivated rice, avoiding any increase in the growing area in the autumnwinter crop. In addition, businesses should also try to expand the export market for sticky rice to other countries, especially those in the Middle East and other Southeast Asian nations, to avoid overdependence on the Chinese market. — VNS http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/205732/vietnam-rice-farmers-in-a-sticky-situation.html

Duterteâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s Sona pitch leaves Congress with full plate of measures By Butch Fernandez and Jovee Marie N. Dela Cruz July 25, 2018

In Photo: President Duterte is flanked by Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez as they say a prayer during the start of the third State of the Nation Address at the House of Representatives in Quezon City on July 23, 2018. AT a meeting of Senate and House leaders last March 13 on their common legislative agenda, the senators came away with a list of 39 measures they wanted passed before the 17th Congress bows out in 2019, of which 15 are economic bills. Besides this list, the lawmakers knew at that time they still had to tackle several other key measures—the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), the Fair Election Act, and federalism and Charter change that they expected would end up with them once President Duterte‘s handpicked Constitutional Committee is done with its work. Topping the economic measures was of course the rest of the tax reform package, or the sequel to the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law that took effect on January 1. Fast forward to July 23, as President Duterte delivers his third State of the Nation Address. To the relief of many quarters, there were no rambling, ad lib portions; no expletives or insults; just a calm, simple delivery of a speech that lasted 48 minutes and packed with at least 15 key legislations and issues that the Chief Executive pitched to Congress. Atty. Raul Lambino, lawyer of newly installed Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and vice president for international affairs of the PDP-Laban, said the leadership of Arroyo is expected to pass all the economic measures of the Duterte administration this year. ―All the economic measures will be prioritized by [Speaker Arroyo] this year,‖ he said in an interview.

Duterte in his Sona asked members of the 17th Congress to prioritize the passage of several economic measures to augment government coffers for the delivery of social services. The President sought urgent passage of: rice tariffication, the second package of the tax reform law, lowering of interconnection rates between telecommunications industry players, universal health care, end of contractualization, a national land use law and environmental protection, among others. In his Sona, Duterte dwelt at length on the BBL, since renamed to Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) or the Bangsamoro Organic Law on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). But since Congress‘s bicameral conference committee cochaired by Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri and House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas had worked overtime during the break to hammer out a compromise version of such a complicated piece of legislation with transcendental implications, at least that task was already completed by the time Sona day rolled around. And all the two chambers had to do was ratify the bicameral conference committee‘s output and send the measure to Duterte, who promised to sign it ―within 48 hours‖ of getting the same. In contrast to the generous pitch for the Bangsamoro, Duterte did not—as analysts and business groups noted—sound as gung-ho on Charter change, although he thanked profusely the chairman of the Constitutional Committee he handpicked to draft a federal charter, former Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno. Business leaders interviewed by the BusinessMirror a day after the Sona expressed some relief about the President‘s applying the brakes on Charter change, as they had worried over the additional bureaucratic layers and more tax burdens that a shift to federalism might entail.

On Wednesday, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said senators are not keen on supporting Cha-cha amid concerns ―it will bloat the government. It will mean another layer and a bigger tax burden that would lead to a credit downgrade,‖ said Recto, adding that it is better to focus on job creation and fix inflation. He stressed that ―Congress cannot rush Cha-cha,‖ and ―senators need to study the issue.‖ Tax reform The BBL or BARMM and the Cha-cha aside, at least four items on the President‘s Sona wish list were coincidentally on the common legislative agenda that was drawn up after the March 23 Senate-House meeting, and therefore these are expected to take priority attention from legislators. Topping the list of these four items that are common to both the Executive and the Legislative agenda is the rest of the tax reform package under TRAIN, which will include a tax amnesty, corporate income tax reduction, rationalization of fiscal incentives, and higher tobacco and alcohol taxes, and a comprehensive mining tax reform. Following Duterte‘s appeal for Package 2 of TRAIN, the House Committee on Ways and Means on Tuesday immediately buckled down to work. Led by committee chairman Dakila Carlo Cua of Quirino, the panel convened for a DOF briefing on the cost-benefit analysis of Package 2 as well as on House measures advocating for lower corporate income tax rate. Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua said the Philippines has one of the highest corporate income tax rates in the region at 30 percent. The government, however, collected only 3.7 percent of gross domestic product in corporate income tax revenue.

―That is a revenue productivity of 12.3 percent. Compare that with Vietnam, Malaysia, or Thailand with much lower rates of 20 percent or 24 percent, but they collect 4 percent, 6 percent, or 7 percent of GDP, respectively, with much, much higher productivity,‖ Chua said. ―On the other hand, we have a very complicated tax incentive system. We grant the most generous fiscal incentives since they are in lieu of all taxes, both national and local, and given forever,‖ he said. In Package 2, he said the government‘s main objective is to arrive at more fair and accountable tax incentives. ―Because every peso granted as tax incentive is a peso off the budget that could have been spent for infrastructure, health, education, and social protection.‖ To be sure, deliberations on the second round of tax reforms are bound to be tough, given the huge clamor for lawmakers to first revisit the original TRAIN that took effect last January 1, in order to satisfy various sectors who insist that the so-called TRAIN played a big role in the higher-than-expected inflation posted in April, May and June. The review of the TRAIN, however, is not seen to derail deliberations on the rest of the tax reform package, given that most stakeholders acknowledge their importance to the economy. Moreover, the last two items on the second batch of tax reforms—taxes on tobacco and mining—are seen to be among the key sources for funding the universal health care act, also listed as a priority for both Executive and Legislative. Universal health care Besides shepherding the tax reform packages, Ways and Means committee chairman Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara had earlier told the BusinessMirror he strongly pushes his friend and ―seatmate‖ Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito‘s advocacy for universal health care.

Ejercito, chairman of the Senate Health committee, had conducted a marathon hearing on the bill in March, and has promised to fast-track the process of enacting the law now that Duterte himself has endorsed it. Asked whether the universal health care that he also strongly supports will now get even faster disposition since Duterte cited it in his Sona, Senate President Vicente Sotto III told the BusinessMirror that ―yes, starting Monday [July 30],‖ the health care measure will be on the Senate‘s agenda. Duterte had said defects in the healthcare system were ―resulting in disparity in health outcomes between the rich and the poor in the urban areas and rural.‖ The House bill‘s main sponsor, party-list representative now Duterte‘s spokesman Harry Roque, said the House bill grants every Filipino the right to health by virtue of citizenship. In the Senate, Ejercito said, ―We‘re targeting passage of universal health care program in September, before the busy month of October, which is the filing of certificates of candidacy for next year‘s election.‖ Following the normal legislative route in the Senate, that means Ejercito‘s committee should be reporting out the measure by early August, so it can be deliberated on and voted upon in plenary. The House of Representatives had approved the bill on third and final reading in September 6 last year while the Senate version—arising from five separate bills—is still pending. Sen. Joel Villanueva authored Senate Bill 60, or the Enhanced Universal Healthcare Act, together with Senators Ralph Recto and Sherwin Gatchalian. The measure seeks to expand the benefit packages being offered by PhilHealth by increasing the amount of benefits to lessen the out-of-pocket expenses on the part of the members, according to Villanueva.

Improving the benefit packages would entail the inclusion of preventive and promotive health services in a bid to alleviate the chances of confinement and encourage a healthy lifestyle among Filipinos. Villanueva, in pushing his bill, had noted that as of 2016, at least 91 percent or 93 million Filipinos are covered by PhilHealth, but about half of them are indigents while the rest are composed of paying individuals from both formal and informal economies and lifetime members. ―We want all Filipinos or 100 percent of the population to be covered by PhilHealth since we believe that every Filipino should not suffer any injustice in availing health services,‖ Villanueva said. The Senate bill aims to qualify every Filipino for health insurance benefits regardless of whether or not he or she is a PhilHealth ID holder. Villanueva crunched data from financial statements of PhilHealth in 2015 that showed it collected P96.7 billion from premium contributions of all its members, including the government subsidy for indigents. ―Consequently, the PhilHealth paid out around P97 billion for benefit payments that covered about 8.4 million claims. If each claim would be treated as one patient, then it can be assumed that on average, each person who availed PhilHealth benefits in 2015 only got P11,500 each, a measly amount to cover annual medical expenses.‖ The bill‘s funding source indicates why pursuing the next-round sin taxes is crucial and must be frontloaded: under the bill, funds from the universal health care program will be sourced from: a) 80 percent of the incremental value collected from sin tax; b) 50 percent share of the national government from Pagcor income; and c) the charity fund from the PCSO. Rice tarrification Besides tax reform, the President pitched at his third Sona the urgent need for rice tariffication—that is, converting quantitative restrictions or caps on rice imports to imposing rice tariffs. This measure is universally seen as a key solution to resolving the problem of rice price spikes on account of supply shortages, a problem that in turn has been blamed for feeding the record inflation in May and June that breached

targets. Together with the global oil price increases that the crafters of the TRAIN law admitted to having underestimated, the rice price hikes had been cited among those that caused blame to be heaped on the tax reform law. The President had said in his Sona that ―we need to switch from the current quota system in importing rice to a tariff system where rice can be imported more freely. This will give us additional resources for our farmers, reduce the price of rice by up to P7 per kilo, and lower inflation significantly.‖ House Agriculture and Food Committee Chairman Jose Panganiban Jr. said House Bill 7735, or the ―Revised Agricultural Tariffication Act,‖ is up for plenary debates in the House of Representatives soon. This will amend Republic Act 8178. In the Senate, Agriculture Committee chairman Sen. Cynthia Villar had, in the last hearing on the measure in May, said she would rather take her time and completely thresh out all issues on the rice tarrification than risk a haphazard bill that would later create problems for the Philippine farm sector. She said she wanted to protect Filipino farmers. Villar‘s indicative timeline of end-2018 for finishing her committee work on the rice tarrification could be problematic, however, because the Philippines risks being subject of a complaint in the World Trade Organization (WTO) if it does not effect the conversion from QR to rice tariffs by the third quarter. The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) echoed President Duterte‘s call on Congress to pass the bill to ―tariffy‖ the country‘s quantitative restriction on rice. In a statement on Tuesday, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia agreed that the passage of the bill will reduce rice prices and make the agriculture sector more competitive in the long run. The Philippines‘ rice waiver, which expired last year, needs to be replaced by a rice tariff for all rice imports. This is part of the country‘s commitments when it acceded to the WTO in the 1990s.

―There is no time to waste. All of us must rally behind the administration‘s reform agenda, most especially the rice tariffication bill, which if implemented will make our agriculture sector competitive in the long term,‖ Pernia said. Two bills are pending in the Senate on the shift from QR to tariffs: SB 1476 amending the Agricultural Tariffication Act, authored by Sens. Ralph Recto and Leila de Lima; and SB 1689, by Sen. Risa Hontiveros. In Neda‘s preliminary estimate, headline inflation rate would be reduced by one percentage point if the domestic wholesale rice market reduces its price to the level of imported rice. Pernia also welcomed the President‘s stern warning against ―rice hoarders, cartels and their protectors‖ who can create the impression of an artificial rice shortage. He said these culprits manipulate the prices of rice to their advantage and to the detriment of the Filipino people. Land Use Act Yet another measure cited in the 2018 Sona that was also listed on the March 23 common legislative agenda of the Senate-House is the long-pending bill for a National Land Use Act (Nalua). On Tuesday, Pernia had welcomed the President‘s inclusion of Nalua as priority. It had been languishing in Congress for 20 years. Pernia said Nalua aims to protect prime agricultural lands, to provide rationalized land use planning in the country, to consolidate national laws on land uses, and to address long-standing land use conflicts. ―We all share the President‘s desire to protect the present and future generations. With the passage of Nalua, we ensure the sustainable use of the country‘s land and physical resources,‖ Pernia said.

―We need to do this now,‖ Duterte had said, as the Nalua will ―put in place a national land use policy that will address our competing land requirements for food, housing, businesses and environmental conservation.‖ HB 5240, or ―An Act Instituting a National Land Use and Management Policy, Providing the Implementing Mechanisms and Appropriating Funds Therefor,‖ was approved by the House on May 2, 2017. Until press time, it remained unclear how the Senate environment committee would proceed on the Nalua, for which four separate bills were filed in 2016 and 2017. There are obstacles to land use implementation, said former environment undersecretary Elmer Mercado, and one of them is the conflict between mines and the ancestral domain of indigenous peoples. Conflicting laws also pose a problem. End ‗Endo‘ and contractualization One of Duterte‘s most commented on moments in the Sona was his admission that redressing the situation of workers in order to finally end the scourge of ―Endo‖ was not entirely in his hands, despite his May 1, 2018, executive order proscribing Endo. A lawyer, Duterte realized that it would require congressional action to enact a law that satisfies both labor and employers. He asked Congress ―to pass legislation to end the practice of contractualization once and for all.‖ While the Sona pronouncement may be construed as a marching order for Congress to enact a law to end the odious practice of ―Endo,‖ the slang for ―end of contract‖ (the practice of hiring and terminating workers in five months to avoid the employers‘ burden of regularizing them), labor groups sounded skeptical a day after Edsa. One group said a new order ―without an attached written certification‖ must be taken with a grain of salt.

House Bill 6908 had been approved on third reading since January 2018. The Senate bill (SB 1826) principally shepherded by Villanueva was reported out by his Labor committee in March and awaits plenary approval. Replying to the BusinessMirror about the Senate timeline for passage of the Security of Tenure bill and how he would push it, Villanueva said action on the measure must be ―Asap‖ now that the President himself had explicitly put it on top of the priority agenda. Labor groups feel the President must certify as urgent Senate Bill 1826, to hasten its passage before October, the deadline for filing certificates of candidacy for the May 2019 elections. Villanueva told the BusinessMirror he is confident his security of tenure bill addresses both the concerns of both employers and workers. Right after hearing the Sona, Villanueva said he agreed ―with the President that while the Department of Labor and Employment had some successes in regularizing some workers, there are issues that can only be addressed through tax reforms.‖ Villanueva had released in end-May the committee report on Senate Bill 1826, or the ―Security of Tenure and End of Endo Act of 2018.‖ Once passed into law, the measure, Villanueva explained, would remove ambiguities in the Labor Code, which is the source of circumventions, and: (a) prohibit labor-only contracting, and provide penalties for violation, (b) limit job contracting to licensed and specialized services, (c) classify workers into regular and probationary employees—and treat project and seasonal employees as regular employees, (d) provide security of tenure, (e) clarify standards on probationary employment, and (f) provide a ―Transition Support Program‖ for employees while they are not at work or transitioning in between jobs. In wrapping up his report in May, Villanueva said that in the process of producing the measure, ―we learned the conflicting and contrasting interests of the different stakeholders. But we also learned that these interests converge. We all want economic

growth, we want increase in productivity and we want better quality of life and we want certainty both in doing business and in employment.‖ Hopefully, he can indeed produce a bill that guarantees workers‘ rights without disrupting business unduly, as employer groups had fretted in interviews with the BusinessMirror on Tuesday that the President‘s Sona pitch might be taken as a blanket order against even those forms of contracting that are allowed by law. ―We believe that what we are proposing is consistent to these principles agreed upon by all stakeholders. Ending ‗endo‘ is not anti-business. Guaranteeing the right to security of tenure gives our workers certainty and social protection. It makes them more efficient and more productive, which is the primary concern of every business. Being pro-worker and pro-industry at the same time is not an impossibility,‖ the senator stressed. The Senate measure kept the absolute prohibition on labor-only contracting, which happens ―when a job contractor merely recruits and supplies workers to a contractee or the workers supplied by the job contractor are performing activities which are directly related to the core business of the said contractee or are under the control and supervision of the contractee.‖ Villanueva said that in cases of labor-only contracting, the job contractor shall be considered merely an agent, and the contractee shall be responsible to the workers as if the workers were directly employed by the contractee. Further, in all cases where labor-only contracting is present, the workers shall be regularized by the contractee, retroactive to the date they were first deployed to the said contractee, without prejudice to any criminal, civil, or administrative case against the labor-only contractor and the contractee. The measure further provides for the licensing and regulation of contractors for specialized work, job or services, and imposes penalties for violations including the cancellation of license and administrative penalty for the responsible DOLE officer who licensed a noncompliant contractor.

Coconut farmers fund, EODB, open pit mining The President‘s Sona had also endorsed the creation of the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund, something that Neda‘s Pernia hailed the day after. Three bills on the subject that were filed in the Senate—by Sens. Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, Francis Pangilinan, Ralph Recto and Cynthia Villar—have been consolidated and the resulting measure was pending at the Conference Committee level as of late March 2018. HB 5745 is the House version of the coconut farmers‘ trust fund. Currently, both chambers have approved their versions but with reservations, and this prompted Duterte to openly urge them in the Sona to create a bicameral conference committee promptly and reconcile both bills. Meanwhile, the Senate environment committee has yet to wrap up work on three bills meant to prohibit open pit mining, outlaw black sand mining, and rationalize the sharing of mining revenue, the latter of which was filed by Recto, former ways and means committee chief. Improving telco services The President also cited one of his pet peeves in the Sona: the state of telecommunications service in the country. Despite having prodded all relevant agencies to move quickly to encourage a third telco player seen to end the duopoly in the industry, Duterte still flagged the issue, apparently in a bid to ensure the policy trajectory is sustained. In the Senate, two related bills remain pending after both hurdling second-reading approval: the Open Access in Data Transmission Act and the Public Telecommunications Policy Act. The mention of the recently enacted Ease of Doing Business Law or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act (Republic Act 11032)

was a welcome input, Pernia said, agreeing with the President that it will enhance market competitiveness in the Philippines. Not all legislators were applauding at the Sona, meanwhile. Akbayan party-list Rep. Tom Villarin said ―again his promises to end contractualization, give the coco levy trust fund to farmers, and other basic sector issues are good sound bites but lack political will. He totally skirted the state of our economy, inflation, unemployment and rising debts.‖ The President‘s determination to pursue the controversial war on drugs—still focused on law enforcement primarily—while refusing to treat drug abuse as a health problem as well, was also scored by critics. Lawmakers in the minority in both chambers of Congress were dismayed that Duterte simply glossed over all the issues raised against the bloody manner—with body count estimates ranging from 3,000 to 20,000—in which his administration has fought illegal drugs. In the Senate, 19 drug-related pieces of legislation are pending, an indication of how seriously lawmakers regard the issue. As to how they will handle the drug-related bills, given the plateful of economic measures already on the agenda, bears watching in days to come. Meanwhile, it‘s back to work for everyone, even in the troubled House, where the leadership change that marred the Sona continued to play out till midweek. And no one‘s taking the time to breathe. With reports by Cai Ordinario, Jasper Arcalas, Samuel Medenilla, and interns Mark Joseph Fernandez and Joahna Lei Casilao

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The rice transplanter machine was introduced in Japan by Kubota during the 1960s. It is specifically designed for transplanting rice seedlings in paddy fields. Farmers are required to drive the machine along a straight line to transplant the seedlings in rows. The rice planter comprised of three parts, namely the motor, running gear, and transplanter device. The transplanter consists of a seedling tray, seeding tray shifter, and pickup forks. The seedlings are fed into the seedling trays from where they are picked up by the forks and placed into the ground.

Industry analysts forecast the global rice transplanter machine Market to grow at a CAGR of 9.35% during the period 2017-2021.

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Shift toward mechanization

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Swapping crops Growing crops other than rice could save water and improve nutrition 0

By Staff July 25, 2018

Rice farmers in India. PHOTO: KEVIN KRAJICK Photo: Kevin Krajik

Researchers say the best choice for some developing countries may be to rethink the types of crops they‘re growing. A paper by researchers at Columbia University, published recently in the journal Science Advances, examined the situation in India and found plenty of challenges based on its widespread cultivation of rice. It‘s a water-hungry plant that‘s being grown in a region experiencing more and more moisture stress. Starting in the 1960s, a boom in rice and wheat production helped reduce hunger throughout India. Unfortunately, this Green Revolution also took a toll on the environment, increasing demands on the water supply, greenhouse gas emissions, and pollution from fertilizer, the researchers say. ―If we continue to go the route of rice and wheat, with unsustainable resource use and increasing climate variability, it‘s unclear how long we could keep that practice up,‖ says Kyle Davis, lead author.

Davis and his colleagues studied six major grains currently grown in India: rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, and pearl and finger millet. For each crop, they compared yield, water use, and nutritional values such as calories, protein, iron and zinc. They found that rice is the least water-efficient cereal when it comes to producing nutrients, and that wheat has been the main driver in increasing irrigation stresses. The potential benefits varied widely between different regions, but overall, the researchers found that replacing rice with maize, finger millet, pearl millet, or sorghum could reduce irrigation water demand by 33 per cent.

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Yuan Longpingâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s saltwater rice to become UAE national gift 25th July 2018 Mo Featured, UAE

By Jing Yue File Photo: Yuan Longping inspects on saltwater rice planting in Shandong Province, China (Photo: VCG) Researchers with Qingdao‘s saltwater rice team led by ―the father of hybrid rice‖ Yuan Longping, were recently successful in harvesting rice in Dubai‘s desert. H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), recognized the significance of the breakthrough. To commemorate the moment, the Al Marmoom rice brand was created and will be presented as a souvenir to distinguished guests to help promote the Yuanmi brand. The Chinese government has made it clear it would like to take on more responsibilities and obligations to make greater contributions in agricultural development and economic growth. The Qingdao Saltwater Rice R&D center, led by Yuan, made the saltwater breakthrough in September 2017. HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum values food safety and health in Dubai, the UAE, the Middle East and North Africa. It is hoped that his efforts will help countries overcome long-standing agriculture problems and to help them be more self-sufficient, eliminate hunger, and bring peace and prosperity to nations in need of food. When Maktoum first heard about Yuan and the agriculture breakthrough, he invited the 87-yearold scientist and his research team to Dubai. Yuan‘s research team always adhered to the spirit of the Belt and Road initiative which helped both sides to reach an agreement, establishing a strategic long-term partnership. The project officially began on January 8, from May through July over 80 varieties of rice, including the saltwater rice was created. Experts from the International Rice Research Institute, India, Egypt, the UAE and China conducted the first yield determination tests in May. Ye Guoyou, group leader with the International Rice Research Institute, announced that the tested production yields of five varieties numbered YCLJ59, YCYJ48, YCRN4H, YCSTU9712 and YCLJ58 were respectively: 7.8041 tons/ha, 7.4106 tons/ha, 7.3076 tons/ha, 5.952 tons/ha and 4.8266 tons/ha. All these varieties exceed the world‘s average rice yield of 4.539 tons/ha (From the 2014 FAO statistics).

Growing rice in the desert has always been a challenge. Extreme temperatures, high saline water, low humidity, lack of fresh water, sand storms, lack of proper soil and planting resources have always been obstacles. To overcome difficulties, the team used an advanced intelligent agriculture system to help develop Dubai‘s digital agriculture. Under the guidelines of the ―Green Dubai‖ cooperation framework agreement, the Chinese research team will conduct four stages of experimental and industrial tests. The first stage involved a variety of rice planting methods in different temperatures to help decide genetic resources and growth techniques. Experiments for the rest of 2018 are underway. Confirming optimal soil parameters and fertilizer circulation aimed at reducing production expenses is a primary focus. Both sides will begin the third stage in 2019 which will include the development of a saltwater rice farm. They will also explore green ecological land usage, and introduce commercial investment through the Belt and Road industrial capital. The fourth and final stage involves comprehensive promotion. Maktoum‘s vision wants to expand the area of the saltwater rice rapidly beginning in 2020, and sees the crop covering 10 percent of Dubai‘s total land area. In working with the Qingdao research team, together they will establish the Yuan Longping Middle East and North Africa Saltwater Hybrid Rice Research and Promotion Center, and continue testing, optimizing technology conditions, training and industrial promotion. Both sides are committed to serving the entire Arab world with saltwater rice agriculture methods to solve hunger issues caused by poor nature conditions throughout the region. https://mareeg.com/yuan-longpings-saltwater-rice-to-become-uae-national-gift/

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KRBL gets clearance to export rice to China, says Joint MD Gupta July 25, 2018 10:37 AM

KRBL Ltd, the maker of India Gate basmati rice, posted a lackluster set of earnings due to weakness in its agri business. The net profit for the company was down 11 percent at Rs 100.5 crore versus Rs 112.9 crore for the same quarter last fiscal. The year on year (YoY) revenues were down 15.3 percent at Rs 744.4 crore versus Rs 878.9 crore. EBITDA margins came in at 24.4 percent versus 23.9 percent YoY. Anoop Gupta, Joint MD, KRBL spoke to CNBC-TV18 about the results. "Rs 200 crore revenue from export has been shifted to Q2 because goods could not be shipped in Q1 and were shipped in July. So there will be additional Rs 200 crore topline in second quarter," said Gupta. China has cleared 14 Indian rice companies for exports and KRBL is one of them. Gupta confirmed this news and said they were ready to export to China. He said the basmati market in the Indian market looks good. Moreover, higher MSP rates would be good for them. Overall, they expect to grow by 5-10 percent in FY19.

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Who will win the battle for Punjab as Pakistan votes? The incumbent party has led Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, for 10 years but now faces a serious challenge. by Asad Hashim 24 Jul 2018 ď&#x201A;ˇ ď&#x201A;ˇ

PML-N candidate Ahsan Iqbal arrives in the village of Bhattian, deep in rural

Narowal, for a campaign event [Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera]

Narowal and Lahore, Pakistan â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Driving through the flooded rice paddies of the eastern Pakistani district of Narowal, the sunlight streaming in through the monsoon clouds, Ahsan Iqbal is in turns confident and concerned. He steps off his bulletproof pick-up truck and is immediately surrounded by wellwishers showering him with rose petals and placing colourful garlands around his neck. Armed bodyguards form a ring around him as he walks towards a large tent, where a couple of hundred people have been waiting all day to hear him speak. Ahead of him, some children lead the way, happily chanting the slogan of Iqbal's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) political party, and dancing to the beat of a dhol. "Look who's come, it's the lion, it's the lion," they sing, a reference to the party's election symbol. If massive political rallies, attended by tens of thousands and addressed by party chiefs, are the muscles that power electoral campaigning in Pakistan, then "corner meetings" such as this one, under a small tent in a rice field in the middle of nowhere, are its heart and soul.

Pakistan goes to the polls on Wednesday, and if the PML-N is to fight off the challenge from the opposition PTI, the contest will be decided in constituencies such as this one, in the heart of Punjab province, where 141 of the 272 national parliamentary seats that are up for grabs are located. Iqbal begins his stump speech, one he has repeated dozens of times. He lists the achievements of his party's last five years in power, pointing out his opponent's relative lack of experience, and drawing attention towards his work in the constituency. "You now sleep in comfort under a fan," he says, referring to reduced electricity blackouts, "but the leader who gave you this has no comfort in jail." Nawaz Sharif, the chief of the PML-N, and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were jailed earlier this month after being convicted by an anti-corruption court. His party says he received an unfair trial and alleges the country's powerful military which has ruled Pakistan for roughly half its 70-year history - pressured the judiciary to convict him. Both institutions deny the charge. "You have a debt to him, to release him from jail through the power of your vote," Iqbal continues. Nearby, a young man on a tractor looks on impassively.

'Engineering' and 'aliens' Away from the crowds, Iqbal strikes a different note. This has been no ordinary campaign, with widespread allegations that the military has been "engineering" the electoral process, and encouraging PML-N supporters and candidates to switch loyalties. Political news coverage has also been tightly controlled, with the country's two largest news organisations seeing their distribution networks disrupted when they refused to follow the military's editorial guidelines. "Our hope is that we get a high turnout on voting day so that we have a margin of victory that is too large to manipulate," Iqbal told Al Jazeera.

Countrywide, dozens of PML-N candidates switched parties to the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, weeks ahead of the polls. In Narowal, two key PML-N candidates defected.

Abrar-ul-Haq, a pop star-turned-politician, is hoping to lead the PTI to victory in the Punjab district of Narowal [Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera]

The party's opponents dismiss allegations of rigging. "Honestly, I'm still waiting for the aliens," says Abrar-ul-Haq, the PTI's candidate against Iqbal in Narowal, using a euphemism for the military popularised by PML-N chief Sharif.

"It has been much better than the last elections," says ul-Haq, a pop star-turnedpolitician, about his experience on the campaign trail. "We've had huge rallies, boiling with enthusiasm, especially from the youth." In 2013, Haq lost the race in this constituency to Iqbal by a margin of more than 27 percent of the 154,637 votes polled. This time, he is confident that he will win more support, having engaged more heavily with local kinship group leaders, who control thousands of votes in rural constituencies such as Narowal. "Last time we only concentrated on big political rallies, but this time we have spoken to a lot of the [village and kinship leaders] as well, and many of them have switched their votes to us," says Naeem Ahmed, an official with Haq's campaign. "In local politics, we cannot ignore those blocks of votes, those biraderis [kinship groups], that were with the PML-N last time, they are now with the PTI," says Haq. Iqbal, meanwhile, appears to be preaching a post-biraderi brand of politics, campaigning mainly on service delivery rather than engaging with influential locals. The PML-N has led the government in Punjab for a decade, and socioeconomic indicators have shown improvement during their reign. "I am going direct to the people," he says, en route to another corner meeting. "Citizens are now empowered and informed, and they prefer candidates to come to them directly."

Dangerous games Narowal may be a sleepy town on the edges of Pakistan's mainstream, but there is a dangerous edge to the campaign here, one that is being replicated across the country. In May, Iqbal was shot while at a campaign event, the bullet shattering his elbow and lodging in his stomach. The attacker accused Iqbal of having committed blasphemy by supporting a minor change to an electoral oath pushed through parliament by the PML-N last year.

That shooting came after supporters of the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party had blockaded the Pakistani capital for weeks over the issue, finally dispersing only after securing the resignation of a federal minister and legal immunity for damage caused during the rioting. Haq, Iqbal's opponent, has frequently repeated the blasphemy allegations at political rallies.

Elections banners for the PML-N and PTI parties fly across Lahore, as the two leading parties in the elections face off for control of the country [Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera]

Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan. At least 74 people have been murdered in connection with accusations of the crime since 1990, according to an Al Jazeera tally.

In Pakistan's largest city of Karachi, Jibran Nasir, an independent candidate, has faced a series of attacks by charged TLP members, also accusing him of blasphemy. "[Haq's] main argument is inciting hatred against me on religious grounds," says Iqbal, gesturing towards a dozen armed guards in two police escort vehicles. "It does restrict you [â&#x20AC;Ś] but at the same time, you also have to take risk. Because politics, or public life, cannot be done from behind a curtain." Asked if he believes it is dangerous to accuse Iqbal of having committed blasphemy, Haq is nonchalant. "As far as it being dangerous is concerned, well in Pakistan it is also dangerous to walk down the street," says the PTI candidate.

Battle for the crown The streets of Lahore are a couple of hours from Narowal, but the differences are stark. Sharif may be in jail, but in Lahore, he is everywhere. Banners across the city repeat his rallying cry: "Give honour to the vote." In the narrow, congested lanes of Gulshan-e-Ravi, PTI candidate Yasmin Rashid is conducting her own corner meetings, despite the rain. Her supporters blast the Sharif family and their alleged corruption, as she smiles and waves from underneath an umbrella. Rashid is attempting to do what many believed, up until a few months ago, to be impossible: to win Lahore's historic NA-125 seat, in the heart of the provincial capital, from the PML-N.

PTI candidate Yasmin Rashid addressees a corner meeting in the eastern city of Lahore [Al Jazeera]

The incumbent party has never lost this seat, the jewel in its crown of dominance over Punjab province over the last three decades. "Imran Khan has worked constantly for 22 years â&#x20AC;Ś he says that until there is justice in Pakistan, he will not stop," she says, as the crowd calls out: "The PTI is coming, the PTI is coming." Rashid's message focuses on the corruption convictions against the Sharifs, while she promises honest, efficient government. "You can feel the pulse is different, and now the majority of them are convinced that Nawaz Sharif has been convicted correctly," she tells Al Jazeera.

Rashid's chances - and those of the PTI across this province - will hinge on how many PML-N voters she is able to convert. "Ever since we were young, we have always voted for the PML-N," says Muhammad Rizwan, 32, a participant at the PTI meeting. "But just look at the state of these streets." The PML-N "have changed nothing" and he will vote for the PTI, he says. Others, however, are unmoved by the PTI's promises to use their electoral symbol, a cricket bat, to strike corruption out of the arena. "I will vote for the PML-N, as I always have," says Muhammad Siddiq, a 62-year-old who sells vegetables on a pushcart. His wife, Nadira, interjects. "Look, whoever wins, whether it's the lion or the bat, the truth is that we're still going to be out on the street, pushing that cart." https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/pakistan-election-pml-battles-pti-political-heartland180723215204956.html

This Week in PNAS Jul 24, 2018 In the early, online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Germany and the UK present findings from a single-cell analysis of blood cells in the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae. Using fluorescence activated cell sorting, single-cell RNA sequencing, imaging flow cytometry, and other approaches, the team profiled blood cell populations in a transgenic mosquito strain containing a fluorescent reporter linked to an immune responserelated gene. With transcriptome sequence data for dozens of individual blood cells and two pooled blood cell samples, for example, the authors defined distinct transcriptional patterns within two blood cell populations that appear to swap some cellular markers. They note that this molecular transfer "may contribute to cellular diversity and plasticity seen across biological systems." A team from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Imperial College London describe enhanced insulin secretion in mice carrying a human zinc transporter gene SLC30A8 with a known loss-of-function mutation. This mutation, known as R138X, was previously shown to protect against type 2 diabetes development in humans, the researchers say. For their new study, they inserted R138X into mice, demonstrating that the mutation could boost insulin secretion by islet cells in mice with induced hyperglycemia. "Our data suggest that the SLC30A8 R138X [loss-of-function] mutation may exert

beneficial effects on glucose metabolism by increasing the capacity of [beta-cells] to secrete insulin under hyperglycemic conditions," the authors say. Researchers from Nanjing University and elsewhere search for genes contributing to high yield in rice using a strategy that brings together pedigree analysis, whole-genome sequencing, and gene knockouts done with CRISPR-Cas9-based editing. Starting with a rice pedigree analysis that included high-yield cultivars related to the "Green Revolution" line IR8, the team used sequencing to narrow in on chromosomal blocks shared in cultivars with particularly pronounced yields, followed by gene knockout analyses to track the effects of specific genes. In addition to highlighting genes with apparent ties to yield, the authors describe clustering of rice genes with related functions. More generally, they say, the strategy used "provides a simple, robust, and fast means to identify candidate genes under directional selection."

Deeply Talks: Understanding Impact Change of onClimate Nutrition the https://www.genomeweb.com/scan/week-pnas-190#.W1nF0tUzbm4

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Andrew Green, the managing editor of Malnutrition Deeply, spoke to two of the study‘s authors: Irakli Loladze, associate professor at the Bryan College of Health Sciences, and Dr. Kristie Ebi, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) at the University of Washington. You can listen to the episode here or read an edited and condensed transcript below, featuring highlights from the discussion with Drs. Ebi and Loladze. Malnutrition Deeply: Can you walk us through the key findings in the paper?

Kristie Ebi: The experiments, that are called free air carbon dioxide enrichment experiments or FACE, will tell you what would happen in a future world where you have higher concentrations of carbon dioxide. And based on earlier work, the study found what would be expected from rice fields in Japan and in China with increased concentration of carbon dioxide. A very large reduction in protein, for iron and for zinc is expected later in the century. Iron and zinc were the only micronutrients that were tested, but there‘s reasons to believe that other micronutrients would decline as well. These results are deeply concerning about maternal and child health. The reductions could affect as many as 600 million people in Southeast Asia who rely heavily on rice. Many of the countries in Southeast Asia, even as they‘re developing, continue to have a major portion of their diet as rice. For example in Bangladesh, three out of four calories on average comes from rice. And this could have profound consequences for nutrition for large portions of the world‘s climate. Malnutrition Deeply: What challenges did you run into while trying to get people interested to fund this research?

evidence. But also it‘s a cross-disciplinary problem at its heart. It goes from the environment to plant physiology to human nutrition and human health, and specialists in each discipline would look at it from their perspective and since they‘ve never heard of the issue as experts, they would think it‘s not a big issue. Malnutrition Deeply: As you mentioned this is deeply concerning, some of these findings, particularly in places where the diet is dependent on rice. What are the policy implications of your research?

Ebi: The answer is equally deeply concerning. The media has found this study fascinating. There has been extensive media coverage on this issue and yet the funding just isn‘t there. There‘s very limited research going into this field. And so most of the work that was done for this paper was done for free. People are concerned about this research, there was efforts to put this information together, but we volunteered our time. Funders aren‘t coming to us saying there‘s a lot more work that needs to be done, and certainly governments haven‘t come to me, saying what are we going in to do about this. We hope that as more media coverage takes place, that it will filter through to the funders and to governments to start taking this issue quite seriously. An area where concern comes in is that when you look, for example, at iron. Iron deficiency anemia affects twice as many people as food insecurity. And yet the typical response from the health sector has been to give people a pill to try and give people iron tablets to increase their iron. And certainly that works, but if it worked really well, we wouldn‘t have 2 billion people who are iron deficient. And so the responses are going to have to be multi-factorial, they‘re going to have to be multisectoral. We‘re going to have to look at ways to get people to have more diverse diets, we‘re going to have to look at new technologies. We‘re going to have to do quite a bit of research to develop a basket of options so that countries can prepare, make sure that they‘ve put in place the kinds of policies and technologies that are needed to reduce this growing impact.

Malnutrition Deeply: What do you want to do next with your research?

Loladze: In terms of what to do next, one question that is really interesting to me that affects people in both developing and developed countries, is that it‘s not just that minerals drop but the ratio of carbohydrates to proteins will increase significantly. We‘re talking about any one plant, 20-30 percent increase in this ratio and ratio carbohydrates to minerals increases. With every bite of our food, we‘re getting slightly more starches and sugars and less nutrients. If we‘re going to consume hundreds of kilograms of these extra empty calories, what is the effect on diabetes or on obesity? And that‘s an open question, there‘s no answer right now. Malnutrition Deeply: Has there been any other pushback that you‘ve received that you wanted to respond to?

Ebi: There‘s been a range of responses on the health side of, basically, this is not a problem, either we‘ll give everybody pills, the compliance on that is not shown to be very good, [or] we‘ll make people wealthier and they‘ll change their diets. But many of the countries in Southeast Asia as they develop have not fundamentally changed how much they rely on rice. This is going to ripple through the food chain in ways we absolutely don‘t understand. https://www.newsdeeply.com/malnutrition/community/2018/07/24/deeply-talksunderstanding-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-nutrition

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Move seen to stabilize prices, temper inflation Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) - July 25, 2018 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) urged lawmakers yesterday to immediately pass the rice tariffication bill, stressing that easing rice importation can slash a percentage point off headline inflation which is expected to remain within the five percent level until the third quarter this year.

In his third State of the Nation Address on Monday, President Duterte called on Congress to deem as urgent the passage of the bill introducing amendments to the Agricultural Tariffication Act of 1996 to replace the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice with tariffs to give the private sector a free hand in the importation of the staple. This is seen to stabilize rice prices and address the artificial rice shortage in the country. Duterte also warned of sanctions against ―rice hoarders, cartels and their protectors,‖ saying he has directed intelligence and law enforcement agencies to uncover these entities so they will be prosecuted. Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said based on NEDA‘s preliminary estimate, headline inflation rate would be reduced by one percentage point if the domestic wholesale market reduces its price to the level of imported rice.

―There is no time to waste. All of us must rally behind the administration‘s reform agenda, most especially the rice tariffication bill, which if implemented will make our agriculture sector competitive in the long term,‖ he said. Passing the bill into law would pave the way for the removal of the QR on rice imports and the imposition of the 35 percent tariff rate instead. The QR on rice imports is a special privilege granted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which has been extended three times since it was first imposed in 1995. This entails restricting the volume of inbound rice shipments to 805,200 metric tons (MT) at 35 percent tariff. Imports outside of this minimum access volume (MAV) are levied higher tariffs. The tariff revenues to be generated would be plowed back to the agriculture sector through the Rice Competitive Enhancement Fund (RCEF) to support projects that would modernize the rice industry and enhance its efficiency. Part of the fund would be used to directly support rice farmers, especially those who would initially be displaced by the removal of the QR, to diversify into other economic activities. NEDA also lauded the attention given during the President‘s SONA on other priority measures pertaining to the country‘s development agenda. The include the Ease of Doing Business Law, the bill establishing the Coconut Farmers‘ Trust Fund, the National Land Use Act (NALUA), the comprehensive tax reform, and a universal health care system. The Ease of Doing Business Act signed into law last May 28 would enhance market competitiveness in the Philippines, said Pernia. The creation of the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund, on the other hand, should exclusively benefit coconut farmers and farm workers, he said. Pernia also reiterated the agency‘s call for the passage of NALUA, which had been languishing in Congress for two decades. The proposed law aims to protect prime agricultural lands, to provide rationalized land use planning in the country, to consolidate national laws on land uses, and to address long-standing land use conflicts. ―We all share the President‘s desire to protect the present and future generations. With the passage of NALUA, we ensure the sustainable use of the country‘s land and physical resources,‖ Pernia said.

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Investigations by the B&FT have revealed that large rice importers in the country are cheating and making away with over US$21million annually – mainly through under-declaration and misclassification of products – at a time government needs more revenue to carry out its projects.

Documents sighted by the B&FT show that the major importers — which control about 60-70 percent of rice imports into the country — together with other minor importers are all complicit in this corrupt act.

In the case of under-declaration or under-invoicing, the importers are able to beat the system by declaring a price lower than how much the rice was bought at source.

For example, in June 2017 for a quantity of 500MT 1kg bagged fragrant rice bought by one of the importers in Vietnam at US$572 and valued at US$286,000, the importer under-declared it at US$440 – giving it a total value of US$220,000.

This means that Ghana Customs can only calculate an official duty rate of 45.9 percent on US$220,000 rather than on US$286,000. So, rather than pay a duty of US$131,000 the company shortchanged government by paying US$100,980; thereby escaping with US$30,294 in just one consignment of 500MT 1kg bagged fragrant rice.

The same situation happened with the 5kg, 4.5kg, 25kg and 50kg bags of rice in various quantities imported by the same company during June 2017 alone. B&FTâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s calculations show that the company made away with over US$711,000 from this dubious activity. Assuming the situation remained like this throughout the year, then just one importer swindled the revenue authorities of more than US$8.5million in 2017.

Misclassifications

Another corrupt strategy that some of the rice importers are using is misclassification. Under this practice, importers do not state the right classification of the rice in order to dodge taxes.

For example, if a company brings in long-grain fragrant rice it is able to declare at Customs that the product is white rice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which attracts lower duties than the fragrant rice.

The documents show that in April and May this year one of the largest importers brought fragrance rice into the country but declared it as white rice at the Tema Port.

The effect of this is that it gives the companies involved undue advantage of selling the rice on the local market cheaper than its competitors paying the right duties, thereby making them uncompetitive.

The analysis made by this paper shows government loses on average US$21million annually from these under-declaration and misclassification practices.

Customs partly to blame

B&FT‘s investigations further revealed that the companies are able to carry out this corrupt activity (under-declaration) by taking advantage of lapses in Ghana Customs‘ system.

Customs has a benchmark price for some products imported into the country—of which rice is part. Under the benchmark pricing, per the documents sighted, all fragrant rice imported into the country is priced at US$440 irrespective of the bag‘s size—be it 1kg or 50kg. Meanwhile, all the various quantities are bought at different prices at source: meaning different duties should be calculated for each bag-size.

Customs, however, require importers to declare the right prices they bought the products for at source. For example, even though Customs has set a benchmark price of US$440 for a quantity of 500 1kg fragrant rice, importers are expected to declare the original price of US$572 they paid in Vietnam.

But this is not the case, as some of the importers are able to use their sister-companies in other countries to declare prices below the original and present invoices to that effect to Ghana Customs.

Customs can address this by simply demanding from importers the original declaration forms at source, in addition to all other relevant documents, for calculation of duties.

Local industry in danger

The situation presented in this story puts the local industry in danger, as efforts by government to boost their capacity will yield no results if the big players continue to make away with millions through these corrupt practices.

The country‘s current rice consumption is about 1.8 million tonnes, with local rice production less than 600,000 tonnes. The Ministry of Agriculture is expecting rice production to hit about 630,000 tonnes by end of the year.

But with the big importers cheating the system, the local industry‘s prospects for competing with them remain very dim indeed.

Effects on revenue

The government has been battling with revenue shortfalls ever since it assumed power in January 2017. Total Revenue and Grants for the period amounted to GH¢41.4million (20.2% of GDP) – 3.7 percent lower than the budget target of GH¢43million (21.3% of GDP). Overall, the outturn for Total Revenue and Grants constituted 96.3 percent of the target.

The revenue shortfall is mainly attributed to lower-than-anticipated non-oil tax revenues, which alone accounted for about 55 percent of the total revenue shortfall. The shortfall in expected receipts from international trade taxes alone explains about 76 percent of the total revenue shortfall, which resulted mainly from the non-realisation of GH¢1billion in anticipated receipts from the limitation of import exemptions.

If government is able to address these business malpractices among the rice importers by blocking all the leakages, it will be able to add at least US$21million to the country‘s revenue. http://www.peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/201807/358334.php

High cost of raw and processed food imports July 24, 2018 BluePrint Newspapers Editorial The recent disclosure that Nigeria spent a whopping N47trn within a 5-year period on the importation of raw materials and products which are abundantly available in the country and in which she obviously has comparative advantage over other countries sharply contrasts with the federal government‘s public stance on growing local content and encouraging the consumption of indigenous goods. According to a research finding published last December, between 2010 and 2015, Nigeria, rather than sustaining its local content policy by enforcing the ban on importation of raw and refined products that Nigerians have capacity to produce with relative ease, has been indecisive, thereby allowing indulgence in this avoidable luxury. Speaking at a workshop in Abuja organised by the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), the Project Manager of the Strategy Implementation Task Unit (SITU) of the Council, Mr. Henry Eteama, regrettably listed 97 items for importation within the period. The Council listed among others semi-milled or wholly milled rice, durum wheat, spelt, common wheat, meslin, frozen fish and birds, and other cash crops easily grown in the country but which surprisingly dominated our imported food items wage bills. Although the Council revealed that the importation of nuclear equipment led with N9trn, vehicle and transport equipment at N8.2trn, electrical equipment at N7.3trn, and petroleum products at

N3.4trn, it, however, frowned at the importation of fish, dairy products, plastics and cereals, in which it believes, Nigeria has comparative advantage over countries where these items were imported from. Aside from the stupendous amount of money spent on the importation of these products, the millions of jobs lost to foreign companies which have productively engaged its citizens invariably cast dust on the implementation of local content policy and deliberately discourage indigenous entrepreneurial drive. Notwithstanding the fact that the latest Nigeria Bureau for Statistics data have shown that Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s trade value had risen for the sixth consecutive quarter to N5.92trn representing a 3.94 per cent QoQ and 23.86 per cent YoY growth, thus lifting the total exports value growth by 15.19 per cent QoQ and 53.85 per cent YoY to N3.57trn while total imports value declined from 9.41 per cent QoQ and 4.47 per cent YoY to N2.35trn, it remains worrisome that Nigeria still depends heavily on importation of raw and refined food materials. To end the trend, the Federal Government has developed the National Strategy for Competitiveness in Raw Material and Product Development that will help to reduce importation by N3trn and create 4.4m jobs in five years. However, it goes without saying that weak enforcement of the ban on the importation of raw and refined food materials and other cash crops in which Nigeria has comparative advantage over other countries is a serious cause for concern. For one, without the political will to drive indigenous entrepreneurial spirit in the production of these raw and processed food materials through effective and implementable policies driven by foresighted and determined officials, dependence on foreign processed food materials which only feed the greed of shylock merchants to the detriment of small-scale manufacturers and entrepreneurs will persist. The Federal Government must refocus, support and collaborate with local content drivers and bring to bear the essence of its ease of doing business policy aimed at stimulating production of raw and processed food items, which have abundant market even locally. In this regard, the policy banning importation of rice and other raw and processed food items which Nigeria has capacity to produce should be pursued with vigour to ensure that local farmers reap heavily from their labour, boost employment drive and lay the foundation for the growth of small-scale industries in the country. We urge the Federal Government to follow up the document developed by the Strategy Implementation Task Unit of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council which has a fiveyear short term plan, a 10-year medium term plan and a 15-year long term plan. In the first five years, the document said that about 4.4m jobs will be created to employ fresh graduates, while saving the Federal Government N3trn from imports. The document, however, suggested that for Made-In-Nigeria goods to be competitive both nationally and internationally, the raw materials have to be competitive in quality and price. This, indeed, is a task that must be accomplished if the economy must grow. https://www.blueprint.ng/high-cost-raw-processed-food-imports/

Rice worth US$ 2.073 bln exported in last year Last Updated On 23 July,2018 03:59 pm

During period from July-June, 2017-18, about 520,759 metric tons of basmati rice were exported.

ISLAMABAD (APP) - About 4.106 million tons of rice worth US$ 2.073 billion were exported during 12 months of last financial year as compared the exports of 3.523 million tons valuing US$ 1.606 billion of the corresponding period of last years. The exports of above mentioned commodity had registered 26.78 percent growth during the period under review, according the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the period from July-June, 2017-18, about 520,759 metric tons of basmati rice worth US$ 540.231 million were exported as against 496,263 metric tons valuing US$ 453.441 million of same period of last year. The exports of basmati rice witnessed 19.14 percent growth when the quantity was compared with the same period of last year, the data reveled. Meanwhile, the country earned US$ 1.496 billion by exporting rice other then basmati as about 3.585 million tons of other rice exported as against the exports of 3.053 million tons worth US$ 1.153 billion of same period last year.

It may be recalled that food group exports from the country recorded about 29.28 percent growth as country earned US$ 4.797 billion exporting different food commodities, which were recorded at US$ 3.711 billion in the same period of last year. The other commodities which recorded positive growth in their exports during the period under review included fish and fish products by 14.57 percent, fruits and vegetables by 5.8 percent and 30.56 percent respectively. During the period under review fish and fish products worth US$ 451.026 million, fruit and vegetables US$ 400.237 million and 241.426 million respectively were exported. On the other hand country spent US$ 6.185 billion on the import of food during last financial year, which was recorded at US$ 6.143 billion during the same period of last year, showing an increase of 0.68 percent, the data added. During last year country consumed about 183,321 metric tons of tea costing US$ 551.881 million as compared the 194.833 metric tons and US$ 523.790 million of same period of last year.

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Global Organic Rice Protein Market 2018 Share, Trends and Leading Players by 2023 jessica aniston July 23, 2018

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Rice Transplanter Machine Market 2021 Growing At 9.35% CAGR: Developments | Opportunities | Consumption | Technological Advancements July 24, 2018 Umang.S

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Global Rice Milling Machinery Market Analysis Report 2018: Lushan Win Tone Machinery Manufacture, Zhengzhou Whirlston Machinery, Alvan Blanch and Lianyungang Huantai Machinery Lori Lobato July 24, 2018

distributors, traders and dealers in the global rice milling machinery market. Firstly, the overview section of the report includes perceptive data about rice milling machinery market growing elements and key developments in the market. The report additionally wraps the boosters as well as restrainers that influence the current nature and future status of the global rice milling machinery market. In order to catch up with the current market scenario, the report is divided into key market segments such as rice milling machinery product type, end-use, and region. The market segments are benchmarked based on their market size, growth rate, and rice milling machinery market attractiveness in terms of opportunity. Get a Free Sample PDF Copy of Report at http://reporte.us/global-rice-milling-machinerymarket/#request-sample Global Rice Milling Machinery Market: Competitive Landscape An important section of the report highlights the competitive scenario of the rice milling machinery market to provide dashboard view and key differentiators among the competitor firms. The report analyses all the major players according to the company profile, rice milling machinery market share analysis, key recent developments, manufacturing capacity, rice milling machinery product innovations, market plans followed by them and their geographic presence. This section also incorporates various recent developments activities carried out by the leading players of the global rice milling machinery market. Main Leading Players in the Rice Milling Machinery Market Are: 

Lushan Win Tone Machinery Manufacture

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Zhengzhou Whirlston Machinery

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Alvan Blanch

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Lianyungang Huantai Machinery

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Kingka Tech Industrial Limited

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Satake

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Shenzhen Wandaan Precision Technology

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Shenzhen Seetop Science and Technology

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Zaccaria Brazil

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Beijing Time Progress Technology

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American Milling Group

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Buhler

Global Rice Milling Machinery Market: Segmentation The research study offers a decisive view of the global rice milling machinery market by segmenting it in terms of product type, application, and regions. These segments are extensively analyzed based on production, consumption, and rice milling machinery market share in terms of value and volume in different active regions. The regional segmentation of the rice milling machinery market includes current and forecasts demand in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, The Middle East & Africa.

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North America Europe China Japan Middle East & Africa India South America

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Capacity <1.5 Tonne/Hour Capacity 1.5-3.0 Tonne/Hour Capacity 3.0-4.5 Tonne/Hour Capacity >4.5 Tonne/Hour

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Rice Flour Beans Wheat

Inquiry more about this report at http://reporte.us/global-rice-milling-machinery-market/#inquiry Important Constraints of Global Rice Milling Machinery Market – The report provides the extensive analysis of the global rice milling machinery market trends and shares from 2013 to 2023. The market size and forecast has been provided in terms of value ((in US$ Mn) and volume (units). – The rice milling machinery report identifies key factors responsible for the growth of the market and gives an upcoming opportunistic roadmap to up-and-coming participants of the rice milling machinery industry. – The rice milling machinery research report offers market size in terms of US$ Mn for each segment for the period from 2013 to 2023. The report identifies opportunities and compares the attractiveness of rice milling machinery market segments on the basis of CAGR and global market share.

– The report offers a detailed competition landscape for market players dominating the rice milling machinery industry to understand competition level. Although SWOT analysis of players to gain a strategic position in the global rice milling machinery market. – The report includes detailed value chain analysis which demonstrates the work stream in the global rice milling machinery market. In addition potency of the raw material supplier, rice milling machinery buyers and distribution channels are also covered that enable stakeholders to make profitoriented business decisions. – The research report provides the regional scope of the rice milling machinery market which would further help in designing regional market strategies. – This rice milling machinery report is the essential tool to improve your product development and sales strategies and enhancing your marketing activities.

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Farm's centennial a milestone for region Corrie Davis, managing partner and chairwoman at Gorrill Ranch in Durham, Calif., stands near the operation‘s rice drying facility before speaking at the farm‘s 100th anniversary celebration on July 20About 275 people gather at 100-year celebration for Gorrill Ranch, mark resilience of Sacramento Valley agriculture.

Tim Hearden | Jul 25, 2018 For many who‘d gathered under a warm midday sun to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Gorrill Ranch, the July 20 event was also a milestone in the resilience of agriculture in the Sacramento Valley.

About 275 guests enjoyed tours of the Durham, Calif., farm, along with lunch and presentations from local dignitaries to laud the operation‘s contributions in the century since founder Ralph Gorrill first planted rice on the roughly 2,400-acre property.

Over the years, the farm has worked to preserve Gorrill‘s legacy as a conservationist, including by leading a project in 1999 to replace diversion dams along nearby Butte Creek to restore winter- and spring-run Chinook salmon populations. ―Our family is a standing example‖ of the importance of environmental stewardship to farming, says Corrie Davis, a fourth-generation family member who is the farm‘s managing partner and chairwoman. Without conservation, ―we would not have been able to stand for 100 years,‖ she says. The farm‘s efforts typify the work of many rice growers in the valley, whose cultivation practices provide 550,000 acres of wetland to some 230 species, according to Davis. California rice is the source of almost all sushi rice in the United States, and 97 percent of the state‘s rice crop is in the Sacramento Valley, Davis notes. ―For today, I can certainly appreciate the legacy you have,‖ U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., told the Gorrill family during his presentation. LaMalfa is himself a rice grower, having taken over a farm in nearby Richvale that‘s been in his family for 87 years. ―I‘ve always felt a quiet kinship with you,‖ he told the family. ―This comes from the heart. This is a neighbor thing, not just official business.‖ THE FAMILY‘S STORY Born in 1884 in Oakland, Ralph Gorrill was an engineer who was in the area in 1917 helping to lay out and build a portion of what is now Highway 99E between Durham and Nelson, according to the ranch‘s website. Gorrill was impressed by the richness of the soil and the land‘s access to Butte Creek and to the highway, the website explains.

He surveyed the land, leveling the ground a section at a time, and designed a gravity-fed water delivery system that was economical and environmentally efficient. It is the basis for all the irrigation today on the main rice ranch, the website adds. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had three daughters – Sally, Anne and Jane. The three took over the farm when their father died in 1964, continued to grow the operation and diversified with the development of tree crops including prunes, almonds, walnuts and pecans. Since then, Ralph Gorrill‘s 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren – including Davis – have assumed leadership roles at the farm. Over the years, in addition to offering employee benefit packages that well exceed industry standards, the farm has supported about a dozen community causes, including Ag in the Classroom, the Butte County Fair and Chico High School‘s farm program, according to the website. All told, Gorrill Ranch has given $300,000 to community causes, Davis says. At the gathering, the business presented a check for $10,000 to a representative of the California Rice Research Board‘s Rice Experiment Station near Oroville. The family‘s legacy impressed Juleah Cordi, a field representative for state Assemblyman James Gallagher who herself comes from a six-generation farming family. ―These ties to ag are very, very important to our office … and to this region,‖ Cordi says. ―It‘s an inspiration to come here today and see the legacy and commitment of this family.‖ Butte County supervisor and cattleman Steve Lambert pointed to the dozens of family members and employees wearing blue shirts to mark the occasion. ―Every one of these blue shirts has a story about a piece of the ground,‖ he says. SALMON RECOVERY

Before the July 20 presentations, guests took hayrides to view the farm‘s Butte Creek fish screen and ladder, a project longtime ranch manager Don Heffren completed in 1999. The retrofitted dam protects fish from entering irrigation systems and provides fish ladders to allow passage in both the summer and winter months, the website explains. The dam was one of four along the creek that were retrofitted by area growers, who worked together to restore 25 miles of unimpeded flows, Davis says. While fewer than 20 percent of salmon populations returned as adults in the 1990s, the creek now has more than 10,000 returning adults every spring, she says. ―Being stewards of the land requires partnerships,‖ she says. The tours come as the Northern California Water Agency has recently been encouraging growers to embrace innovative solutions that create common ground with regulators and environmentalists while preserving their water rights. At a meeting in March, NCWA chairman Bryce Lundberg told growers that voluntary conservation agreements are part of a broader strategy for the organization, which continues to support the Sacramento Valley Salmon Recovery Program. The program is being implemented by a coalition of Sacramento River settlement contractors, state and federal agencies and environmental groups. It includes about 50 projects designed to improve the health of salmon populations, of which 15 have been completed, Lundberg said then. At the Gorrill Ranch gathering, he congratulated the family for achieving its milestone. ―It‘s a special day for my family,‖ added Lundberg, vice president of Lundberg Family Farms in Richvale. ―We recognize this as an incredible achievement, one of many for the Gorrill family … We thank you for your commitment to agriculture.‖

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A major study published recently in Science Advances revealed how rice grown in higher levels of carbon dioxide has reduced amounts of key nutrients. This will have a significant impact, particularly on communities that depend on rice as a vital source of nutrition. The researchers involved in the study say it is now imperative to begin unpacking what this could mean for consumers, policymakers and the private sector. Andrew Green, the managing editor of Malnutrition Deeply, spoke to two of the studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s authors: Irakli Loladze, associate professor at the Bryan College of Health Sciences, and Dr. Kristie Ebi, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) at the University of Washington. You can listen to the episode here or read an edited and condensed transcript below, featuring highlights from the discussion with Drs. Ebi and Loladze. Malnutrition Deeply: Can you walk us through the key findings in the paper?

And based on earlier work, the study found what would be expected from rice fields in Japan and in China with increased concentration of carbon dioxide. A very large reduction in protein, for iron and for zinc is expected later in the century. Iron and zinc were the only micronutrients that were tested, but there‘s reasons to believe that other micronutrients would decline as well. These results are deeply concerning about maternal and child health. The reductions could affect as many as 600 million people in Southeast Asia who rely heavily on rice. Many of the countries in Southeast Asia, even as they‘re developing, continue to have a major portion of their diet as rice. For example in Bangladesh, three out of four calories on average comes from rice. And this could have profound consequences for nutrition for large portions of the world‘s climate. Malnutrition Deeply: What challenges did you run into while trying to get people interested to fund this research?

Irakli Loladze: Back in 2002 I was doing post-doctoral work at Princeton and published in a top journal, and logically proved the link between rising CO2 and human nutrition. I thought things had kind of gone well, but then what followed was just pain and more pain. I‘m still puzzled as to reasons, and one … is that, at the time the data was limited, and biologists, of course, need evidence and it took years to get the evidence. But also it‘s a cross-disciplinary problem at its heart. It goes from the environment to plant physiology to human nutrition and human health, and specialists in each discipline would look at it from their perspective and since they‘ve never heard of the issue as experts, they would think it‘s not a big issue. Malnutrition Deeply: As you mentioned this is deeply concerning, some of these findings, particularly in places where the diet is dependent on rice. What are the policy implications of your research?

to put this information together, but we volunteered our time. Funders aren‘t coming to us saying there‘s a lot more work that needs to be done, and certainly governments haven‘t come to me, saying what are we going in to do about this. We hope that as more media coverage takes place, that it will filter through to the funders and to governments to start taking this issue quite seriously. An area where concern comes in is that when you look, for example, at iron. Iron deficiency anemia affects twice as many people as food insecurity. And yet the typical response from the health sector has been to give people a pill to try and give people iron tablets to increase their iron. And certainly that works, but if it worked really well, we wouldn‘t have 2 billion people who are iron deficient. And so the responses are going to have to be multi-factorial, they‘re going to have to be multisectoral. We‘re going to have to look at ways to get people to have more diverse diets, we‘re going to have to look at new technologies. We‘re going to have to do quite a bit of research to develop a basket of options so that countries can prepare, make sure that they‘ve put in place the kinds of policies and technologies that are needed to reduce this growing impact. Malnutrition Deeply: What do you want to do next with your research?

Malnutrition Deeply: Has there been any other pushback that you‘ve received that you wanted to respond to?

Ebi: There‘s been a range of responses on the health side of, basically, this is not a problem, either we‘ll give everybody pills, the compliance on that is not shown to be very good, [or] we‘ll make people wealthier and they‘ll change their diets. But many of the countries in Southeast Asia as they develop have not fundamentally changed how much they rely on rice. This is going to ripple through the food chain in ways we absolutely don‘t understand. https://www.newsdeeply.com/malnutrition/community/2018/07/24/deeply-talks-understanding-theimpact-of-climate-change-on-nutrition

United States Electric Rice Cooker Market Research Analysis and Growth Forecast by Manufacturers & Geographical Regions from 2018-2025 July 24, 2018 Mrudula.k

United States Electric Rice Cooker Market report provides vital information on every parameter which is required for making strategic decisions and development of every business in policies. players are growing their existence, native vendors are result it tough to contest with them, particularly concerning features such as quality, technology, and price. Get a Sample of United States Electric Rice Cooker Market report from – https://www.marketreportsworld.com/enquiry/request-sample/11809167 The Key Players that are included in the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market report are Toshiba Corporation Panasonic Bajaj Electricals Pigeon Corporation, Zojirushi America Corporation Cusinart Tiger Corporation Sunbeam Products Aroma Housewares Company Various policies and news are also included in the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market report. This includes labour cost, depreciation cost, raw material cost and other costs. The production process is analysed with respect to various aspects like, manufacturing plant distribution, capacity, commercial production, R&D status, raw material source and technology source. By Product Analysis the United States Electric Rice Cooker Industry is Segmented into Glass Fibre, Carbon Fibre and by End Users/Applications Analysis the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market is segmented into: Consumer Goods and Others.

Purchase the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market Report at: https://www.marketreportsworld.com/purchase/11809167 Regions covered in the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market report include: United States, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia. Further in the United States Electric Rice Cooker Industry research report, following points Production, and Revenue, Supply and Consumption and other analysis are included along with in-depth study of each point. Production of the United States Electric Rice Cooker is analysed with respect to different regions, types and applications. Here, price analysis of various United States Electric Rice Cooker Industry key players is also covered. Both, and revenue are studied for the different regions of the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market. Another major aspect, price, which plays important part in the revenue generation, is also assessed in this section for the various regions. In continuation with , this section studies supply and consumption for the United States Electric Rice Cooker Industry. This part also sheds light on the gap between supply and consumption. Apart from the aforementioned information, trade and distribution analysis for the United States Electric Rice Cooker Market, contact information of major manufacturers, suppliers and key consumers is also given. In continuation with this data sale price is for various types, applications and region is also included. Additionally, type wise and application wise consumption figures are also given. https://theaerospacenews.com/united-states-electric-rice-cooker-market-research-analysis-and-growthforecast-by-manufacturers-geographical-regions-from-2018-2025/161433/

Global Rice Market In-depth Assessment, Demand And Forecast Until 2026 July 24, 2018 Carl Sanford

MarketResearch.Biz recently announce a new study on Rice market. In this research Rice study focused the detailed market analysis with future anticipation of Rice market. The Rice study includes significant information which makes the Rice research document a helpful resource for Rice executives, managers, industry experts and other individuals get ready-toaccess and Rice self-study analysis together with charts, graphs and tables to in understanding Rice market trends, drivers and Rice market challenges. The Rice report also gives forecasts for investments from 2017 till 2026. Global Rice Market Research Report 2018 provides overall market outlook of the Rice industry which talks about market size, Rice product scope, revenue(USD$), development opportunities, Rice volumes(sales) and figures, growth projection in upcoming years, current Rice industry rivals and their sales/revenue metrics. The Rice industry report lists up the leading competitors and offers the insights strategical Rice industry study of the key factors affecting the Rice market. The worldwide Rice market is valued at XX.XX Mn USD in 2018 and is expected to hit XX.XX Mn USD value by the end of 2026, rising at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of XX.XX% between 2017 and 2026. The Rice market in the Asia Pacific is expected to register a CAGR of Xx.Xx% during the forecast period 2017-2026. Request a Free Sample Report @ http://mresearch.biz/rice-market#request-sample Key Companies Comprises In This Reports Are: Riceland foods Inc. K. Rice Mill and Ash Co., Ltd. KRBL Limited A.P Foods Ltd Asia Golden Rice Co., Ltd. Riviana Foods Inc. Agistin Biotech Pvt. Ltd. EBRO Foods Inc. LT Foods Limited American Rice, Inc. Major Rice Market Segment Are:

Segmentation by rice length: Long grain Medium grain Short grain Segmentation by type: Arborio rice Black rice Jasmine rice Brown rice Rosematta rice Red cargo rice Parboiled rice Sushi rice Others (including wild rice, valencia rice, glutinous rice etc.) Segmentation by distribution channel: Retail stores Specialty store Department store Super market Hypermarket E commerce Regions Covered: Japan, Rice Market in China, Europe, North America Rice Market and other regions (India, Southeast Asia, Central & South America, and Middle East & Africa). The 2018 Rice market report includes the forecasts, analysis, and exploration of ongoing Rice industry trends, size, share estimates and Rice leading players company profiles. Geographically, this Rice industry report is segmented into various key regions, with sales, revenue, Rice market share (%) and Growth Rate (%) in these regions, from 2017 forecast to 2026. View Entire Report @ http://mresearch.biz/rice-market The study objectives of Rice report are: -To study and analyse the global Rice capacity, production, scope, Rice value, consumption(sales), status and forecast (2017-2026). -Highlights on the key Rice manufacturers, to analyse the capacity, production, value, Rice market share and improvement plans in future. -Focuses on the worldwide Rice key manufacturers, to define, explain and study the Rice market competitors landscape, SWOT study.

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Global Rice Milling Machinery Market Analysis, Trends & Industry Forecast to 2027 - ResearchAndMarkets.com July 24, 2018 06:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Rice Milling Machinery Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

―Global Rice Milling Machinery Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2027‖ The Global Rice Milling Machinery Market is poised to grow strong during the forecast period 2017 to 2027. Some of the prominent trends that the market is witnessing include Increase in rice milling market in Asia Pacific, optimizing industrial structure and continuous development of rice milling technology. On the basis of Operation, the market is segmented into Grading Machinery, Pre Cleaning Machinery, Rice Whitening Machinery, Separating Machinery and Other Operations. Depending on the mechanism, the market is segmented into Fraction Rice Milling Machine, Grind Rice Milling Machine. On considering the direction, the market is divided into Horizontal Mill Rollers, Vertical Type Mill Rollers. On the basis of systems the market is divided into Commercial Milling Systems, Village Level Milling Systems. This industry report analyzes the market estimates and forecasts of all the given segments on global as well as regional levels presented in the research scope. The study provides historical market data for 2015, 2016 revenue estimations are presented for 2017 and forecasts from 2018 to 2027. The study focuses on market trends, leading players, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, and future strategies. With comprehensive market assessment across the major geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America and Rest of the world the report is a valuable asset for the existing players, new entrants and the future investors. Companies Mentioned 

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AGREX SPA

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Milltech Machinery Private Ltd

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Zanotti

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1 Market Outline 2 Executive Summary 3 Market Overview 4 Rice Milling Machinery Market, By Operation 5 Rice Milling Machinery Market, By Mechanism 6 Rice Milling Machinery Market, By Direction 7 Rice Milling Machinery Market, By Systems 8 Rice Milling Machinery Market, By Geography 9 Key Player Activities 10 Leading Companies For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dtvml3/global_rice?w=4

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The research report entitled ―Global Rice Milling Machinery Market Analysis 2018‖ offers widespread and fundamental research of rice milling machinery industry based on the latest trends and development activities in the global market. The report speaks about the key factors driving the market, the growth rate of the rice milling machinery market in 2023, sales, revenue, opportunities and challenges faced by the manufacturers, distributors, traders and dealers in the global rice milling machinery market. Firstly, the overview section of the report includes perceptive data about rice milling machinery market growing elements and key developments in the market. The report additionally wraps the boosters as well as restrainers that influence the current nature and future status of the global rice milling machinery market. In order to catch up with the current market scenario, the report is divided into key market segments such as rice milling machinery product type, end-use, and region. The market segments are benchmarked based on their market size, growth rate, and rice milling machinery market attractiveness in terms of opportunity. Get a Free Sample PDF Copy of Report at http://reporte.us/global-rice-milling-machinerymarket/#request-sample Global Rice Milling Machinery Market: Competitive Landscape An important section of the report highlights the competitive scenario of the rice milling machinery market to provide dashboard view and key differentiators among the competitor firms. The report analyses all the major players according to the company profile, rice milling machinery market share analysis, key recent developments, manufacturing capacity, rice milling machinery product innovations, market plans followed by them and their geographic presence. This section also incorporates various recent developments activities carried out by the leading players of the global rice milling machinery market. Main Leading Players in the Rice Milling Machinery Market Are: 

Lushan Win Tone Machinery Manufacture 

Zhengzhou Whirlston Machinery

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Alvan Blanch

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Lianyungang Huantai Machinery

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Kingka Tech Industrial Limited

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Satake

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Shenzhen Wandaan Precision Technology

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Shenzhen Seetop Science and Technology

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Zaccaria Brazil

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Beijing Time Progress Technology

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American Milling Group

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Buhler

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North America Europe China Japan Middle East & Africa India South America

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Capacity <1.5 Tonne/Hour Capacity 1.5-3.0 Tonne/Hour Capacity 3.0-4.5 Tonne/Hour Capacity >4.5 Tonne/Hour

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Rice Flour Beans Wheat

– The rice milling machinery report identifies key factors responsible for the growth of the market and gives an upcoming opportunistic roadmap to up-and-coming participants of the rice milling machinery industry. – The rice milling machinery research report offers market size in terms of US$ Mn for each segment for the period from 2013 to 2023. The report identifies opportunities and compares the attractiveness of rice milling machinery market segments on the basis of CAGR and global market share. – The report offers a detailed competition landscape for market players dominating the rice milling machinery industry to understand competition level. Although SWOT analysis of players to gain a strategic position in the global rice milling machinery market. – The report includes detailed value chain analysis which demonstrates the work stream in the global rice milling machinery market. In addition potency of the raw material supplier, rice milling machinery buyers and distribution channels are also covered that enable stakeholders to make profitoriented business decisions. – The research report provides the regional scope of the rice milling machinery market which would further help in designing regional market strategies. – This rice milling machinery report is the essential tool to improve your product development and sales strategies and enhancing your marketing activities. https://thefreenewsman.com/global-rice-milling-machinery-market-analysis-report-2018-lushan-wintone-machinery-manufacture-zhengzhou-whirlston-machinery-alvan-blanch-and-lianyungang-huantaimachinery/508670/

Row, Row, Row Your Rice By Josh Hankins

RAYVILLE, LA -- The Northeast Louisana (NELA) Rice Growers' Association hosted its annual field day last week that began at the Elliot Colvin Farm and ended at the Rayville Civic Center. Different from years past, this was their first ever Row Rice Field Day. Furrow-irrigated rice, also known as row rice, is becoming a more popular irrigation technique across the Mid-South. It involves planting and watering into furrows similar to corn, soybeans, and cotton. The irrigation technique was on full display at the Elliot Colvin Farm, where Louisiana State University (LSU) has an impressive research project that has provided a great deal of data discussed during the research presentations. Dr. Dustin Harrell, agronomist with the LSU AgCenter, was one of the presenters in the morning line-up, and said, "Row rice production has several advantages. One is you can put rice into production on nontraditional rice ground, such as ground that has a little too much slope. Another advantage is it can give the producer the ability to make later decisions on which crop to produce, by reducing the field preparation time. And, yet another advantage is a producer can save a lot of money pulling fewer levees, which is a big draw up here in northeast Louisiana. In some years, it could reduce irrigation water use." Harrell cautioned that row rice also has its disadvantages, namely weed control, which can be a little more difficult and more costly as compared to typical flooded rice. Another disadvantage is weed pressure and disease pressure, such as blast. Harrell said, "When choosing row rice, it is important to choose a cultivar that has a very good blast resistance, which might limit choice to hybrids. And maybe one of the biggest disadvantages is nitrogen application and nitrogen use efficiency. Going from a wet condition to a dry condition can cause more nitrogen loss."

Some of the growers in attendance have been growing row rice for 5+ years, and though this technique is often referred to as new, it is being heavily adopted across the Mid-South. Scott Franklin, a rice farmer from Rayville and vice president of the NELA Rice Growers Association, said, "Furrow-irrigated rice has quickly become a staple of Northeast Louisiana rice production, making up around one-third of the rice acres in this area of the state. Our producers have excelled in maximizing land production while saving water and fuel in the process. I believe this is only the beginning for row rice for the American rice industry." Back at the Rayville Civic Center, attendees were treated to boudin, sausage made with locally-grown rice that is a staple of Cajun cuisine. The NELA Rice Growers Association gave out scholarships to three aspiring young people, and also heard from Ben Mosely, USA Rice vice president of government affairs, who gave an update on the Farm Bill negotiations. The techniques and economics of row rice on a farm will be discussed at the Mississippi County Water Management Field Day in Osceola, Arkansas, on August 6. More information can be found here.

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Rice Webinar: Thursday July 26

Tune in Thursday, July 26 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time, for a new rice webinar hosted by Dr. Bobby Coats, with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Arkansas. USDA's Dr. Nathan Childs will analyze the current U.S. rice market forecasts for both the 2017/18 and 2018/19 market years, highlighting the impacts of the June NASS Acreage and Rice Stocks reports, as well as current and revised trade data.

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Naturopathic Doctor Nazirahk Amen Helps Bring Rice Farming Back to the Region "Once I figured out the value of growing food, how important it was, it was almost like this fever took over." LAURA HAYES

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Nazirahk Amen. All photos by Laura Hayes. ―The neighbors are going to be pretty surprised to

see rice growing in their backyard,‖ says Nazirahk Amen. The naturopathic medicine practitioner and founder of Purple Mountain Organics pays $200 a year to grow dry-land rice on a sunny field at the back of a suburban development dotted with mansions in Ashton, Maryland. He‘s one of a few experimental farmers who have figured out how to grow rice in the region. And he doesn‘t have to flood a field to do it. Amen‘s distinct aesthetic is visible as soon as he turns into the development. He‘s outfitted his purple 2003 MINI Cooper with a racing suspension and the car purrs when he takes the turns that lead to the rice field. Then he steps out of the car. Loose-fitting purple clothing in hues ranging from eggplant to amethyst swirl around his frame like a tempest. ―The neighbors know us as the purple people,‖ Amen says. Back at his purple home that doubles as his medical practice in Takoma Park, Amen‘s wife and children are also festooned in purple garb. ―At this point the purple represents peace beyond gain or loss,‖ Amen explains. ―Whether you have everything or you have nothing, you‘re content with the life that you live.‖ Amen lived in a spiritual community for three years, but elects not to discuss that period of his life.

Amen grew up with his family on 20 acres outside Opelousas, Louisiana. ―We lived off of land between what we grew and what we hunted,‖ he says. ―My mom only went to the grocery store for oatmeal and stuff that wasn‘t a necessity.‖ But Amen‘s family didn‘t want him to become a farmer. ―I grew up in a community that viewed agricultural pursuits as hard work and toil and education as the door to progress,‖ he says. His parents sent him to get a college degree in biology, hoping he‘d never look back. During his stint as an EMT in New Orleans from 1987 to 1991, Amen decided to make a career out of natural medicine. ―I saw there was little or no prevention offered to many of the problems encountered daily from chronic health issues to drugs and street violence,‖ he says. Amen enrolled in a naturopathic and acupuncture program at Bastyr University in Washington state. His first job in the field brought him to D.C., where he worked at a natural medicine practice on Connecticut Avenue NW before opening his own business in Takoma Park. He sees patients at Wisdom Path Healing Center Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and every other Saturday. A tour of the purple-walled space reveals shelves lined with crystals Amen and his family mined in Arkansas, a pillow-packed meditation sanctuary, an acupuncture room, a closet of Chinese medicine, and a kitchen used for vegan cooking classes. Amen places all of his new patients on a detox diet. ―It‘s a way to trick people into eating healthier because if you eat healthier for three weeks or a month and try to go back to eating crappy food, your body will let you know,‖ he says. ―From there people started asking us how to grow the food,‖ Amen continues. ―That‘s how we started Purple Mountain Organics in 2004.‖ For Amen, farming is an extension of natural medicine. ―At some point buying veggies and meats from the grocer became less expensive than growing your own and it‘s cost many communities their health,‖ he says. ―If people are healthy, they have some type of relationship with their food.‖ His first farming projects focused on urban agriculture, and included turning the ground over for the K Street Farm at the Walker-Jones Education Campus, working with Common Good City Farm in LeDroit Park, and teaming up with Bread for the City to launch the City Orchard at University of the District of Columbia‘s College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences (CAUSES) Firebird Research Farm in Beltsville. But eventually growing fruits and vegetables wasn‘t satisfying enough for Amen. He yearned to try his hand at growing grains.

Amen wrote and received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to determine if growing dry-land rice in the midAtlantic was feasible. He carried out his research from 2014 to 2016 at the Firebird Research Farm with Che Axum, the director of urban farming for UDC CAUSES. With the grant, Amen became one of the first people to attempt growing rice in the Chesapeake region in more than a century. He followed Heinz Thomet of Next Step Produce, who first gave it a try in 2011 in Newburg, Maryland. Thomet once sold his rice at the Dupont Circle FRESHFARM Market. Now you can try it at restaurants like Baltimore‘s Woodberry Kitchen and Lovettsville, Virginia‘s Restaurant at Patowmack Farm. The two rice farmers aren‘t at odds. ―We have a slightly different approach, but it‘s mutually beneficial to learn from each other,‖ Thomet says. Amen even brings his rice to Thomet‘s farm for cleaning and drying. According to the International Rice Research Institute, the world produces 700 million tons of rice in paddies annually. The irrigated conditions make it challenging for weeds to grow, thus requiring less upkeep and labor. The downside to paddy production is that it yields a high amount of methane, a harmful greenhouse gas. The dry-land growing technique Amen uses is modeled after techniques from the System of Rice Intensification—a method designed to reduce methane emissions while increasing yield from rice fields. He lays biodegradable mulch and drip tape in soil high in microbial activity, and covers the middle paths with black landscape fabric, which controls weeds and speeds the maturation process by trapping heat. Then he pokes small holes and tediously transplants seedlings about ten inches apart. His highest yielding variety produces about 4,800 pounds of rice per acre, while some of the better tasting varieties, such as the Japanese sushi variety, Koshihikari, yield closer to 3,500 pounds per acre. Comparatively, farmers growing rice in paddies in the U.S. net 8,000 pounds per acre. Amen continues to work with UDC CAUSES to build a local grain hub where District residents and regional grain growers can access tools and other support to help them get their grains from field to table. Like Thomet‘s products, the rice Amen grows on private plots of land like the one in Ashton ends up on restaurant menus. Chefs see the quality of the rice and make it the star of the plate, instead of a side.

Republic in Takoma Park, for example, serves a ―Purple Mountain Rice Bowl‖ with baby bok choy, piquillo peppers, scallions, sautéed mushrooms, tempura baby carrots, and ginger sambal. ―We love working with local farms like Purple Mountain because they live and breathe the products they grow,‖ says Republic chef Danny Wells. ―There is a lot of character and subtle differences between the different varieties of Purple Mountain rice. The process by which the rice is hulled results in more texture and fl

avor than any rice Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ve tried.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;

Amen has experimented with more than 30 varieties of rice and waits to hull it until a restaurant places an order. He says rice loses half of its nutritional value and flavor within eight weeks of being hulled.

Chef Spike Gjerde also serves Purple Mountain Organics rice as an entrée at his restaurant, A Rake‘s Progress. A crown of hearth-kissed spring vegetables surrounds the mound of rice in the bowl. ―Hulling it to order was an amazing move on his part,‖ Gjerde says. ―It underscores his commitment to nutrient-dense food.‖ Gjerde is hellbent on sourcing locally for his restaurants. ―Small grains in the Mid-Atlantic for me in a way closes the circle on what our region is capable of,‖ he says. ―Guys like Nazirahk who are pushing it are doing the hardest, most interesting work. The price can be a little offputting, but what you‘re buying is not just the product, but also the possibility that this could become a more viable part of our food system.‖ Purple Mountain Organics rice costs restaurants $10 per pound. Amen‘s latest project involves experimenting with grains like sorghum, millet, quinoa, oats, and heirloom wheat. Seylou Bakery in Shaw has expressed interest in using his grains. To

bring the project to fruition, Amen is working to secure a lease on a 12-acre plot near Bowie. ―I consider myself a landless farmer,‖ Amen says. ―I have the skill and know-how, but not the land.‖ For a long time Amen hesitated to call himself a farmer. ―I‘ve never had to rely on selling food to pay my bills,‖ he says. ―It wasn‘t my livelihood, so as to not disrespect anyone, I didn‘t call myself a farmer.‖ But that changed once he started traveling to organic farm shows up and down the East Coast. ―People would come up and say, ‗Tell us about rice production,‘‖ he says. ―We started teaching farmers how to farm. Now I can say we‘re legitimate. Farmers call us farmers.‖ Despite the fact that Amen‘s parents urged him to find a career outside of agriculture, he couldn‘t help but make it a significant part of his life. ―Growing up black in the south, the goal was to get away from the toil, get an education, and have a better life,‖ he says. ―But then there was this emptiness. Once I figured out the value of growing food, how important it was, it was almost like this fever took over.‖ Amen is hopeful that others will catch on, even if they‘re just farming backyard plots or shared city gardens. ―The next generation of farmers has to come from the inner city,‖ Amen says. ―It has to be those people who have come to value food security and sustainability. These people take the initiative … You have to have people who bring the heart to farming.‖

onderful story, however, I suggest that those that comment should read the enter article which indicates that Dr. Amen has a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine as well as a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s degree. https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/young-hungry/article/21012832/naturopathic-doctornazirahk-amen-helps-bring-rice-farming-back-to-the-region Brad Robb

New LSU rice breeding strategies include genetic markers Dr. Adam Famoso provides insight into what growers are learning about Provisia Rice System during its first year of commercial availability.

Brad Robb | Jul 23, 2018 Dr. Adam Famoso, talks to rice growers about the latest breeding efforts from the scientists and researchers at the LSU AgCenter in Rayne, La., during its recent rice field day.

The LSU AgCenter has a long history of rice breeding success. At its recent field day at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in Rayne, La., area rice farmers heard the latest performance data on the Clearfield Rice Production System, the Provisia Rice System, and what growers can expect from both systems and their impact on the future U.S. rice production.

One presentation was given by Dr. Adam Famoso, who joined the staff of the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in May 2015. Famoso is not only developing breeding strategies for the station, he is also carrying the breeding program into the next generation of breeding technology, including the use of genetic markers. He has begun incorporating DNA marker-based selection by genotyping the rice varieties of the future through DNA analysis prior to the standard field testing. ―We are working to build upon the strong breeding foundation in place at the LSU AgCenter by integrating molecular tools to accelerate the release of the best varietal lines for our growers,‖ says Famoso. Breeding Traits

Famoso provided some insight into what growers are learning about Provisia Rice System — the first herbicide-tolerant system released since the Clearfield Production System was released 15 years ago — during its first year of commercial availability.

―It always takes a few steps in the breeding process to increase the performance of the new herbicide-resistant varieties when the technology is being incorporated from unadapted material, as we work to get them to the point where our adapted varieties are today,‖ says Famoso. ―We have to look for specific traits in thousands of lines and select for things such as maturity, height, and grain quality to increase a variety‘s commercial value to a producer. That‘s what had to be done with PVL01.‖ Despite being a little lower yielding than the varieties released under the Clearfield designation, PVL01 is exhibiting some excellent qualities like low chalk and a nice long grain. ―Similar to the Clearfield varieties when they were first released, we expected a little yield drag,‖ adds Famoso. ―After 10 years of breeding though, the Clearfield varieties are the highestyielding on the market today.‖ Another Provisia

Famoso and the rest of the scientists have been analyzing data from another Provisia line, PVL108. It has improved characteristics over PVL01 like better milling and yield. ―In addition to having very low chalk, PVL108 has shown a 10 percent yield advantage over PVL01 in three years of statewide testing,‖ says Famoso. ―That is pretty significant.‖ PVL108 is maturing a week earlier than PVL01 — a trait which Louisiana rice producers prefer, especially now that hurricane season has begun. ―The earlier we can get a rice variety to mature, the less risk our growers will have to assume toward the end of the year,‖ says Famoso. Although longer-maturing varieties typically yield more, in the balance of all things, farmers in the line of fire from hurricanes know earlier is better.

While PVL108 has some yield and earliness advantages, it is 2 inches taller than PVL01. Shorter plant height is preferred to reduce the risk of lodging. PVL108 also has a shorter grain than PVL01. ―One positive aspect of PVL01 is its long grain, although PVL108 is classified as a long grain variety, its grain length is slightly shorter than PVL01,‖ explains Famoso. Seed increase

In the interests of time, efforts are under way to begin the necessary seed increase and purification for PVL108. ―We started with a seed increase in Puerto Rico over the winter. We brought back 50 pounds of seed and planted it on 5 acres at 10 pounds an acre here at the research station,‖ explains Famoso. ―If we decide to move forward with this variety, we should have a good bit of seed available for seed production next year, and in producers‘ fields for the 2020 growing season.‖ Famoso knows the disease resistance in PVL108 is not as active as it is in CL153, but there are some materials currently in early-stage testing that are showing not only an improvement in yield, but also a much-improved resistance to blast. ―It‘s our intention to release a new variety every two to three years that will chip away at some of the limitations we are seeing in these current Provisia varieties,‖ adds Famoso. ―I‘d like to see them perform up to the levels of the Clearfield varieties as quickly as possible.‖ https://www.deltafarmpress.com/rice/new-lsu-rice-breeding-strategies-include-genetic-markers

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Duterte Sona 2018 levy rice imports By Luchi de Guzman, CNN Philippines Updated 22:08 PM PHT Mon, July 23, 2018 1771

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 23) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; President Rodrigo Duterte cited two agricultural bills as urgent, adding that he would pursue harsh action against rice hoarders. In his 2018 State of the Nation Address (SONA), Duterte cited the two agricultural bills as those that he would want Congress to expedite. First, Duterte reiterated the need to shift from the current rice quota system, which imposes taxes on rice imports that exceed a certain volume, to a rice tariff, which would impose a general tax on rice imports. "We need to switch from the current quota system in importing rice to a tariff system where rice can be imported more freely. This will give us additional resources for our farmers, reduce the price of rice by up to ?7 per kilo, and lower inflation significantly," Duterte said in his speech. The shift to a rice tariff system, Duterte said, would allow for more imports. An increase in the supply of rice could lower its price in the market and make it more accessible. Rice was among the goods whose prices spiked during the successive months of inflation increases. Duterte's call for agricultural reform came with his usual warnings against those who may stand in his way. "I now ask all the rice hoarders, cartels and their protectors, you know that I know who you are: stop messing with the people," Duterte warned. He added that he is ready to bring the full force of the State against those that practice this form of economic sabotage. "I am directing all intelligence agencies to unmask the perpetrators of this economic sabotage and our law enforcement agencies to bring them to justice," Duterte said. Duterte also called for the consolidation of the Senate and House bills for the creation of the Coconut Farmers' Trust Fund. Both legislative branches have ratified their versions of the bill, but have yet to convene as a bicameral conference to consolidate the two. "Our farmers, especially our coconut farmers, form a significant part of the basic sectors of society... I urge you Congress to convene the [bicameral] conference committee and pass at the soonest possible time the bill establishing the Coconut Farmers' Trust Fund," Duterte said.

The trust fund to be created for coconut farmers would in part return the coco levy fund, which was one of Duterte's campaign promises in the 2016 elections. A part of the coco levy fund came from taxes imposed by the administration of then President Ferdinand Marcos and his alleged cronies during the martial law era. These funds were allegedly used to acquire the United Coconut Planters Bank, San Miguel Corporation, and other businesses. http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/07/23/duterte-sona-2018-coco-levy-rice-imports.html

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Price of best rice rises as output falls

Myanmar women work in a paddy field on the outskirts of Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. Photo EPA

The price of high-quality rice in the country is increasing annually because of a decline in production, according to the Myanmar Rice Federation.Myanmar people mainly consume highquality Pawsan rice, which is grown in Ayeyarwady Region, and Shwe Bo Pawsan rice grown in Shwe Bo township of Sagaing Region. In 2014, a bag of Pawsan rice cost K29,000 (US$20). That rose to K35,000 in 2015 and K42,000 this year. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s an increase of more than 44 percent over the four-year period.Meanwhile, the price of a bag of Shwe Bo Pawsan rice rose 58pc to K57,000 in 2018 over the same period. U Thaung Win, vice chairman of the federation, said prices of these grain varieties are rising as more farmers focus on low-quality varieties for export. In the meantime, the government will develop a rice reserve plan for the local market in view of rising demand. When the price of the high-quality variety rises in the domestic market, the government will have the option to sell from its rice reserve, U Thaung Win said. Currently, paddy in Shwe Bo is priced at over K1 million per 100 baskets. Paddy in Ayeyarwady Region brings over K500,000 and K600,000 per 100 baskets. The federation has suggested that

to increase yield and reduce production costs, farmers, merchants, and exporters should work together to develop a contract farming scheme. : https://www.mmtimes.com/news/price-best-rice-rises-output-falls.html

Rice Prices as on : 26-07-2018 12:23:15 PM Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market. Arrivals Current

Price % change

Season cumulative

Modal

Prev. Modal

Prev.Yr %change

Rice Shahjahanpur(UP)

180.00

3728.40

2340

2360

Bolpur(WB)

160.00

-5.88

705.00

2540

2440

20.95

Cachar(ASM)

100.00

2900.00

2400

9.09

Bahraich(UP)

92.80

9.69

6734.00

2250

0.90

Allahabad(UP)

90.00

28.57

295.00

2560

Kasimbazar(WB)

80.00

-1.23

2499.50

2800

12.90

Jayas(UP)

54.00

74.19

1733.50

2100

7.69

Gauripur(ASM)

50.00

2063.60

4500

Karimganj(ASM)

40.00

970.00

2400

2.13

Akbarpur(UP)

39.00

121.00

2210

2215

Lakhimpur(UP)

35.00

16.67

347.00

2260

2280

4.15

Gazipur(UP)

34.00

-43.33

267.00

2715

2700

Bazpur(Utr)

32.10

-19.75

2096.20

2300

2450

-6.12

Kicchha(Utr)

30.00

117.39

643.40

2150

1850

Kandi(WB)

29.00

-3.33

425.00

2700

Maharajganj(UP)

25.00

-16.67

190.00

2160

2140

Bharthna(UP)

25.00

66.67

6486.00

2430

2440

Falakata(WB)

20.00

156.00

2800

30.23

Alipurduar(WB)

20.00

740.00

2800

21.74

Sahiyapur(UP)

18.50

-17.78

2337.50

2160

Jaunpur(UP)

18.00

-5.26

1444.60

2230

1640

6.19

Madhoganj(UP)

16.50

57.14

55.00

2240

2230

Saharanpur(UP)

15.00

-25

1094.00

2680

13.32

Mugrabaadshahpur(UP)

15.00

36.30

2160

Jafarganj(UP)

15.00

87.5

837.00

2200

2150

Raiganj(WB)

12.00

-20

883.00

3200

3150

26.73

Alappuzha(Ker)

10.00

140.00

6800

6750

51.96

Bethuadahari(WB)

10.00

66.67

208.77

4300

86.96

Islampur(WB)

10.00

758.50

3300

3250

46.67

Barhaj(UP)

9.00

-25

328.00

2170

2160

Champadanga(WB)

8.00

-55.56

423.00

3200

3150

16.36

Kannauj(UP)

7.00

7.69

181.00

2450

2400

11.36

Farukhabad(UP)

6.00

-25

238.40

2450

2440

10.86

Khurja(UP)

5.00

-50

733.00

2600

Mirzapur(UP)

4.50

672.00

2210

2215

Dibrugarh(ASM)

4.40

-20

553.10

2920

29.78

Kalyanpur(Tri)

4.00

-4.76

58.90

2990

3000

8.73

Buland Shahr(UP)

2.50

-37.5

142.00

2660

2650

13.68

Khair(UP)

1.50

-25

1170.50

2560

2575

0.39

Darjeeling(WB)

1.50

64.80

3150

6.78

Tundla(UP)

1.20

130.80

2650

2640

Kendrapara(Marshaghai)(Ori)

1.00

2500

Fatehpur Sikri(UP)

0.90

32.20

2660

2670

5.14

Khairagarh(UP)

0.80

93.30

2560

1.59

Published on July 26, 2018 https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/rice-prices/article24518502.ece

Rice Prices as on : 24-07-2018 12:33:03 PM Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market. Arrivals Current

Price % change

Season cumulative

Modal

Prev. Modal

Prev.Yr %change

Rice Sainthia(WB)

130.00

-1.52

928.00

2520

2470

14.03

Cachar(ASM)

100.00

400

2800.00

2400

9.09

Indus(Bankura Sadar)(WB)

60.00

2815.00

2750

7.84

Kopaganj(UP)

55.00

5.77

2296.00

2150

2155

-0.46

Howly(ASM)

45.00

-41.56

3274.50

1400

-22.22

Gauripur(ASM)

40.00

-20

2013.60

4500

Bazpur(Utr)

40.00

196.3

2064.10

2450

2525

Karimpur(WB)

35.00

-12.5

465.00

3700

17.46

Jayas(UP)

31.00

14.81

1679.50

2100

7.69

Lakhimpur(UP)

30.00

-6.25

312.00

2280

2270

5.07

Sirsaganj(UP)

30.00

919.00

2725

15.96

Bindki(UP)

30.00

87.5

25116.00

2250

Maharajganj(UP)

30.00

-14.29

165.00

2140

2150

Badayoun(UP)

20.00

66.67

541.00

2380

2420

Saharanpur(UP)

20.00

66.67

1079.00

2680

2690

13.32

Kaliaganj(WB)

20.00

100

320.00

3150

2850

18.87

Falakata(WB)

20.00

136.00

2800

30.23

Alipurduar(WB)

20.00

720.00

2800

21.74

Fatehpur(UP)

18.50

-22.92

1367.10

2280

2275

3.64

Muzzafarnagar(UP)

18.50

-5.13

1504.00

2685

2695

Kayamganj(UP)

15.00

7.14

590.00

2280

Bharthna(UP)

15.00

-50

6461.00

2440

2425

Madhoganj(UP)

10.50

-16

38.50

2230

2220

Alappuzha(Ker)

10.00

130.00

6750

50.84

Khurja(UP)

10.00

728.00

2600

2610

Vilthararoad(UP)

10.00

600.00

2090

-2.79

Dadri(UP)

10.00

-50

794.00

2670

12.42

Fatehabad(UP)

8.20

57.69

16.40

2400

2320

Deogarh(Ori)

8.00

-11.11

456.00

2500

Farukhabad(UP)

8.00

232.40

2440

2460

10.41

Haathras(UP)

7.00

16.67

60.50

2490

2450

Dibrugarh(ASM)

5.50

-19.12

548.70

2920

29.78

Bijnaur(UP)

5.00

-16.67

119.00

2460

2440

Buland Shahr(UP)

4.00

-20

139.50

2650

2600

13.25

Jahangirabad(UP)

3.50

-41.67

134.00

2550

2530

8.51

Kasganj(UP)

3.00

64.00

2820

Mirzapur(UP)

3.00

-14.29

667.50

2215

2210

Khair(UP)

2.00

1169.00

2575

2580

0.98

Shahganj(UP)

1.50

-78.57

86.00

4210

2110

100.48

Kalimpong(WB)

1.50

-16.67

22.10

4800

84.62

Bangarmau(UP)

1.40

16.67

39.30

2200

2150

7.32

Chandoli(UP)

1.20

-20

232.30

2245

2235

Tundla(UP)

1.20

129.60

2640

2650

Ujhani(UP)

0.90

6.00

2440

Bilsi(UP)

0.80

14.29

2.50

2300

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/rice-prices/article24501769.ece

Dubai plans to expand Chinese saltwater rice into Arab world, Africa 2018-07-24 08:56:39Global TimesEditor : Li Yan

Workers reap rice in Dubai. (Photo/Courtesy of Qingdao Saltwater Rice Research and Development Center)

Special: Xi Visits Five Arab and African Countries, Attends BRICS Summit

Dubai aims to create an oasis that covers more than 10 percent of its land with saltwater rice developed by Chinese researchers and then expand out to the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.

The Qingdao Saltwater Rice Research and Development Center, led by China's "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping, is trying to breed saline-tolerant rice varieties adapted to Dubai's climate, together with a plant protection system that uses sensors and big data technologies. The surface temperature of Dubai can reach 54 C between June and July, the temperature in one day can swing over 30 C, and there is salt water with a salinity of 1.6 percent seven to right meters under the desert. "We are choosing the most suitable breeds for Dubai from more than 80 varieties," Zhang Guodong, deputy director of the center, told the Global Times. The saltwater rice varieties that the center has developed can grow with 0.6 percent saline water. Seawater is saline up to 3.5 percent, Zhang said. The first batch of mature rice yielded in Dubai in May has a maximum yield of 7.8 tons per hectare. The agricultural cooperative project of growing saltwater rice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is promising, as the country mulls shifting its oil-based economy to other industries, Yin Gang, a researcher at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times. If the UAE project is successful, the technology could feed the entire Arab world, Yin said. UAE Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, personally named a saltwater rice souvenir "Al Marmoom," to commemorate the successful test of the first batch of rice. It will be presented to distinguished guests as a future "national gift," according to the center's statement. A 100-hectare saltwater rice experimental farm is going to be launched in the Dubai desert in 2019. The farm will be funded by commercial investment, including capital from China's Belt and Road initiative. The UAE also agreed with the center to establish the Yuan Longping Middle East and North Africa Salt Water Hybrid Rice Research and Promotion Center, which will promote rice growing technology in the Middle East and North Africa.

http://www.ecns.cn/news/sci-tech/2018-07-24/detail-ifywhfmh2718710.shtml

NEDA renews call for rice tariff, land use bills

ABS-CBN News Jul 24 2018 04:16 PM

MANILA - The National Economic and Development Authority on Tuesday renewed its call for Congress to pass a law imposing tariffs on rice in place of import quotas.President Rodrigo Duterte said during his State of the Nation Address on Monday that rice tariffs are "urgent." His economic managers had said it would help bring down prices of the staple grain. Socioeconomic Planning Sec. Ernesto Pernia said prices of rice "will likely go down" once the tariffs are implemented. "There is no time to waste. All of us must rally behind the administration's reform agenda, most especially the rice tarrification bill, which if implemented will make our agriculture sector competitive in the long-term," Pernia said. Pernia also reiterated the call for the passage of the National Land Use Act which was also pushed by the President during his SONA. The law aims to protect prime agricultural lands and to address "long-standing" land use conflicts, among others, NEDA said. http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/07/24/18/neda-renews-call-for-rice-tariff-land-use-bills

Indian traders intend to carry on with tea, rice exports to Iran: Media Date: 2018/07/24 Time: 12:21

New Delhi, July 24, IRNA – Indian traders of tea and basmati rice have started to feel the heat from the US sanctions on Iran, wrote Indian media.

'Basmati exporters said new contracts are being delayed and the tea trade is bracing for a knock as exporting tea to Iran will become expensive as it may have to be routed through Dubai or other Middle East countries,' wrote Economic Times. ―Iran is a big market for Indian basmati rice. At present, shipments for old contracts are going to Iran. But there is a delay in new contracts. So the trade is worried about Iran market,‖ said Gumnam Arora, joint managing director, Kohinoor Foods. At present, basmati rice fetches $1,200-$1,300 per ton in the world market. India exported 0.87 million tons of basmati rice to Iran in FY18 of the total exports of 4.05 million tons. Exporters are hopeful of exporting 1 million tons of basmati rice to Iran this fiscal year, wrote Economic Times. European nations have not imposed sanctions on Iran. Only the dollar is eliminated. ―Also, we have to see whether there are sanctions on food items,‖ said an Iranian trader. Indian exporters mostly receive payments in rupees for exports to Iran under a mechanism worked out in 2012 when banking channels were restricted due to the US sanctions.

Indian companies receive payments for exports to Iran using the oil payments held in rupee balances at UCO Bank. The mechanism helped India narrow its trade deficit with Iran from about $11.3 billion in 2012 fiscal year to about $3.5 billion in 2016 fiscal year when the sanctions were lifted, wrote the website. Iran also imports 29 million kg of high quality Indian orthodox teas. Azam Monem, chairman of India Tea association (ITA), said exports to Iran are currently going on in full swing. â&#x20AC;&#x2022;There are a lot of queries from Iran. The sanctions will become effective from November 4. We are hoping that we will be able to ship the entire volume before sanctions become effective. Or else we have to route it through Dubai or other Middle East countries, which will increase our cost. The rupee-rial arrangement is still there, which will help the trade,â&#x20AC;&#x2013; the ITA chairman said. http://www.irna.ir/en/News/82980223

US Sanctions on Iran Pinch Indian Tea, Rice Exporters Tuesday, July 24, 2018 US Sanctions on Iran Pinch Indian Tea, Rice Exporters

Indian traders of basmati rice and tea have started to feel the heat from US sanctions looming on Iran.

Basmati exporters said new contracts are being delayed and the tea trade is bracing for a knock, as exporting tea to Iran will become expensive as it may have to be routed through Dubai or other Middle East countries.

―Iran is a big market for Indian basmati rice. At present, shipments for old contracts are going to Iran. But there is a delay in new contracts. So the trade is worried about Iran market,‖ said Gumnam Arora, joint managing director, Kohinoor Foods, The Economic Times reported. India also exports basmati rice to the US, Europe, Middle East and South East Asia. At present, basmati rice fetches $1,200-$1,300 per ton in the world market. India exported 0.87 million tons of basmati rice to Iran in FY18 from its total exports of 4.05 million tons. Exporters are hopeful of exporting 1 million tons of basmati rice to Iran this fiscal year. An Iranian trader said US sanctions can only affect dollar trade. In that case, euro or other local currencies can be used for trading. European nations have not imposed sanctions on Iran. Only the dollar is eliminated. ―Also, we have to see whether there are sanctions on food items,‖ he added. Indian exporters mostly receive payments in rupees for exports to Iran under a mechanism worked out in 2012 when banking channels were restricted during the earlier round of US sanctions. Indian companies receive payments for exports to Iran using the oil payments held in rupee balances at UCO Bank. The mechanism helped India narrow its trade deficit with Iran from about $11.3 billion in FY12 to about $3.5 billion in FY16 when the sanctions were lifted. Iran also imports 29 million kg of high quality Indian orthodox teas. Azam Monem, chairman of India Tea association, said exports to Iran are currently going on in full swing. ―There are [a] lot of queries from Iran. The sanctions will become effective from Nov. 4. We are hoping that we will be able to ship the entire volume before sanctions become effective. Or else we have to route it through Dubai or other Middle East countries, which will increase our cost. The rupee-rial arrangement is still there, which will help the trade,‖ the ITA chairman said. However, some traders pointed out that although the rupee-rial trade is continuing, a major chunk of the Indo-Iranian trade has now shifted to euro payments.

https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-business-and-markets/90350/us-sanctions-on-iran-pinchindian-tea-rice-exporters

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUL 26, 2018 Reuters Staff JULY 26, 2018 / 

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-July 26, 2018 Nagpur, July 26 (Reuters) – Gram prices reported higher in Nagpur Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) on increased demand from local millers amid thin supply from producing belts. Fresh hike on NCDEX and good recovery in Madhya Pradesh gram prices also boosted sentiment. About 1,100 bags of gram reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to sources. FOODGRAINS & PULSES GRAM * Desi gram firmed up in open market here on renewed demand from local traders amid weak arrival from producing belts. TUAR * Tuar varieties ruled steady in open market here on subdued demand from local traders amid ample stock in ready position. * Batri dal and watana dal recovered strongly in open market on increased demand from local traders. * In Akola, Tuar New – 3,950-4,050, Tuar dal (clean) – 5,700-5,850, Udid Mogar (clean) – 6,900-7,600, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,300-8,100, Gram – 4,050-4,200, Gram Super best – 5,200-5,300 * Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity. Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg FOODGRAINS Gram Auction Gram Pink Auction Tuar Auction Moong Auction Udid Auction

Available prices Previous close 3,800-3,970 3,730-3,970 n.a. 2,100-2,600 n.a. 3,500-4,040 n.a. 3,900-4,200 n.a. 4,300-4,500

Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800 Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,860-1,980 1,850-1,980 Gram Super Best Bold 6,200-6,400 6,200-6,400 Gram Super Best n.a. n.a. Gram Medium Best 5,500-5,700 5,500-5,700 Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a Gram Mill Quality 4,150-4,250 4,150-4,250 Desi gram Raw 4,150-4,250 4,100-4,200 Gram Kabuli 8,000-10,000 8,000-10,000 Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,100-6,300 6,100-6,300 Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000 Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,600-5,700 5,600-5,700 Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Tuar Gavarani New 4,050-4,150 4,050-4,150 Tuar Karnataka 4,400-4,550 4,400-4,550 Masoor dal best 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Masoor dal medium 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000 Masoor n.a. n.a. Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,200 Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-7,300 6,500-7,300 Moong dal Chilka New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000 Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a. Moong Chamki best 7,700-8,500 7,600-8,500 Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 6,500-7,500 6,500-7,500 Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-5,800 5,000-5,800 Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 4,500-5,000 4,500-5,000 Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,500-5,700 5,200-5,500 Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,600-2,700 2,600-2,700 Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,800 4,300-4,600 Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600 Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100 Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,050 2,000-2,050 Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,250-2,400 2,250-2,400 Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,450 2,350-2,450 Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300 Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a. MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-4,000 3,200-4,000 MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,800 2,400-2,800 Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,200 Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,800 3,200-3,800 Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,900 2,600-2,900 Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000 Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,800 2,600-2,800

Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600 Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,400 4,000-4,400 Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,600-3,900 3,600-3,900 Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,500 5,200-5,500 Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,700 4,600-4,800 Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 9,500-14,000 9,500-14,000 Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500 Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 6,600-7,000 6,500-7,000 Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 6,200-6,400 6,100-6,300 Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,200 2,000-2,100 Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,700-2,000 WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 30.0 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 23.5 degree Celsius Rainfall : 1.2 mm FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky with few spells of rains or thunder-showers. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 30 and 24 degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices) ATTN: Soyabean mandi, wholesale foodgrain market of Nagpur APMC and oil market in Vidarbha will be closed tomorrow, Friday, on the occasion of Gurupournima. https://in.reuters.com/article/nagpur-foodgrain/nagpur-foodgrain-prices-open-jul-26-2018idINL4N1UM3J7

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUL 25, 2018 Reuters Staff JULY 25, 2018

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-July 25, 2018 Nagpur, July 25 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices firmed up again in Nagpur Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) on good demand from local millers amid weak supply from producing regions because of transporters‘ stir. Notable rise on NCDEX in gram and enquiries from

South-based millers also boosted prices. About 800 bags of gram and 300 bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to sources. FOODGRAINS & PULSES GRAM * Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here but demand was poor. TUAR * Tuar gavarani recovered in open market on good seasonal demand from local traders. * Udid varieties declined sharply in open market on poor demand from local traders. * In Akola, Tuar New – 3,900-4,000, Tuar dal (clean) – 5,700-5,850, Udid Mogar (clean) – 6,900-7,600, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,300-8,100, Gram – 4,000-4,100, Gram Super best – 5,200-5,300 * Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity. Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close Gram Auction 3,800-4,170 3,750-4,150 Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600 Tuar Auction 3,500-4,040 3,400-3,950 Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200 Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500 Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800 Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,850-1,990 1,800-1,950 Gram Super Best Bold 6,200-6,400 6,200-6,400 Gram Super Best n.a. n.a. Gram Medium Best 5,500-5,700 5,500-5,700 Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a Gram Mill Quality 4,150-4,250 4,150-4,250 Desi gram Raw 4,100-4,200 4,100-4,200 Gram Kabuli 8,000-10,000 8,000-10,000 Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,100-6,300 6,100-6,300 Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000 Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,600-5,700 5,600-5,700

Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Tuar Gavarani New 4,050-4,150 4,000-4,100 Tuar Karnataka 4,400-4,550 4,400-4,550 Masoor dal best 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Masoor dal medium 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000 Masoor n.a. n.a. Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,200 Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-7,300 6,500-7,300 Moong dal Chilka New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000 Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a. Moong Chamki best 7,700-8,500 7,600-8,500 Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 6,500-7,500 6,800-7,800 Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-5,800 5,000-6,000 Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 4,500-5,000 4,800-5,300 Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,600-2,700 2,600-2,700 Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,900-4,000 3,900-4,000 Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600 Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100 Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,050 2,000-2,050 Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,250-2,400 2,250-2,400 Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,450 2,350-2,450 Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300 Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a. MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-4,000 3,200-4,000 MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,800 2,400-2,800 Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,200 Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,800 3,200-3,800 Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,900 2,600-2,900 Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000 Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,800 2,600-2,800 Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600 Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,400 4,000-4,400 Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,600-3,900 3,600-3,900 Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,500 5,200-5,500 Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,700 4,600-4,800 Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 9,500-14,000 9,500-14,000 Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500 Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 6,600-7,000 6,500-7,000 Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 6,200-6,400 6,100-6,300 Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,200 2,000-2,100 Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,700-2,000

WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 28.5 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 24.0 degree Celsius Rainfall : Nil FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky with few spells of rains or thunder-showers. Maximum and minimumtemperature would be around and 29 and 24 degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, butincluded in market prices) https://in.reuters.com/article/safrica-brics-declaration/brics-bloc-signs-declaration-reaffirmingmultilateral-trade-as-per-wto-rules-idINKBN1KG1TT

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- JUL 24, 2018 Reuters Staff JULY 24, 2018 Nagpur Foodgrain Prices – APMC/Open Market-July 24, 2018 Nagpur, July 24 (Reuters) – Gram and tuar prices reported down in Nagpur Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) on lack of demand from local millers amid high moisture content arrival. Easy condition in Madhya Pradesh gram prices release of stock from stockists also pushed down prices. About 800 bags of gram and 200 bags of tuar reported for auction in Nagpur APMC, according to sources. FOODGRAINS & PULSES GRAM * Gram varieties reported higher in open market on good seasonal demand from local traders. TUAR * Tuar varieties recovered in open market here on good demand from local traders amid weak supply from millers. * Masoor varieties reported higher in open market on good seasonal demand from local traders. * In Akola, Tuar New – 4,100-4,150, Tuar dal (clean) – 5,700-5,850, Udid Mogar (clean) – 6,900-7,600, Moong Mogar (clean) 7,300-8,100, Gram – 4,300-4,350, Gram Super best

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5,200-5,300 * Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in scattered deals and settled at last levels in thin trading activity. Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close Gram Auction 3,800-4,260 3,800-4,280 Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600 Tuar Auction 3,400-3,815 3,400-3,900 Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200 Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500 Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800 Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,850-1,990 1,800-1,950 Gram Super Best Bold 6,200-6,400 6,200-6,400 Gram Super Best n.a. n.a. Gram Medium Best 5,500-5,700 5,500-5,700 Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a Gram Mill Quality 4,150-4,250 4,150-4,250 Desi gram Raw 4,100-4,200 4,100-4,200 Gram Kabuli 8,000-10,000 8,000-10,000 Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,100-6,300 6,100-6,300 Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000 Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,600-5,700 5,600-5,700 Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Tuar Gavarani New 4,000-4,100 4,000-4,100 Tuar Karnataka 4,400-4,550 4,400-4,550 Masoor dal best 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Masoor dal medium 4,800-5,000 4,800-5,000 Masoor n.a. n.a. Moong Mogar bold (New) 7,500-8,500 7,500-8,200 Moong Mogar Medium 6,500-7,300 6,500-7,300 Moong dal Chilka New 5,950-6,950 5,950-6,950 Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a. Moong Chamki best 7,700-8,500 7,600-8,500 Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 7,000-8,000 7,000-8,000 Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-6,000 5,000-6,000 Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 4,800-5,300 4,800-5,300 Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,500 5,200-5,500 Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,600-2,700 2,600-2,700 Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,900-4,000 3,900-4,000 Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600

Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100 Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,050 2,000-2,050 Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,250-2,400 2,250-2,400 Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,450 2,350-2,450 Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300 Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a. MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-4,000 3,200-4,000 MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,400-2,800 2,400-2,800 Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,200 2,100-2,200 Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,200-3,800 3,200-3,800 Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,900 2,600-2,900 Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000 Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,600-2,800 2,600-2,800 Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600 Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,400 4,000-4,400 Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,600-3,900 3,600-3,900 Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,500 5,200-5,500 Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,500-4,700 4,600-4,800 Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 9,500-14,000 9,500-14,000 Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500 Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 6,600-7,000 6,500-7,000 Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 6,200-6,400 6,100-6,300 Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,200 2,000-2,100 Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,700-2,000 WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 28.1 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 24.0 degree Celsius Rainfall : 0.6 mm FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky with few spells of rains or thunder-showers. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 28 and 24 degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, butincluded in market prices) https://in.reuters.com/article/safrica-brics-declaration/brics-bloc-signs-declaration-reaffirmingmultilateral-trade-as-per-wto-rules-idINKBN1KG1TT

Webinar: Rice Market â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Larger Supplies, Increased Exports, Higher Ending Stocks, July 26 Posted on July 23, 2018 By Bobby Coats, University of Arkansas Professor of Economics Share Tweet Pin Email Share

ÂŠDebra L Ferguson Stock Photography Join in Thursday, July 26 at 10 a.m. CST as we host Dr. Nathan Childs. He will analyze the current U.S. rice market forecasts for both the 2017/18 and 2018/19 market years, highlighting the impacts of the June NASS Acreage and Rice Stocks reports, as well as current and revised trade data. Despite expectations of larger U.S. exports in 2018/19, an almost 20-percent increase in production is projected to result in a 31-percent boost in U.S. rice ending stocks.

In the global rice market, a slight decrease in global production is projected to result in a small decline in 2018/19 world ending stocks, with global trade in 2019 projected record high. Register here.

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Rice is stored at a Dong Thap Food Co warehouse. Half of Viet Nam’s rice volume exported to China has been sticky rice in recent years. According to Do Ha Nam, general director of Intimex Group JSC, China‘s Ministry of Finance announced an increase in the import tax on rice to 50 per cent from July 1, 2018, including sticky rice. China‘s sudden announcement had a huge impact on the export performance of enterprises. Half of Viet Nam‘s rice volume exported to China has been sticky rice in recent years. The change in China‘s import tax policy has pushed local businesses to delay exports of thousands of tonnes of sticky rice that were ready to ship to this market. They must now reduce selling prices or stockpile the product. Nguyen Van Don, director of Viet Hung Co Ltd, one of the enterprises specialising in exporting sticky rice to the Chinese market, said due to the new policy, local enterprises could not increase the volume of their sticky rice exports to China. In this case, local enterprises do not want to pay import tax of 50 per cent, so they must buy a quota because enterprises with import quotas and countries joining the most favoured nations (MFN) will not impose the new import rate. However, Don said buying quotas will increase the cost of imports up to US$120 per tonne, so the Chinese importers only buy when the sticky rice price is low or they will accept high prices when demand increases in the local market. At present, the sticky rice inventory of Chinese enterprises is still high, so they buy small volumes or at very low prices. On the other hand, the US-China trade war has no direct impact on the rice sector, but affects the general sentiment of Chinese

enterprises as well as China‘s import and export activities. Therefore, exports of sticky rice of Viet Nam can be difficult. Chinese firms have pushed for a reduction in Viet Nam‘s price of sticky rice to $380 a tonne, while sticky rice in the domestic market is traded at VND8,600-8,800 per kilogramme or $374-$383 per tonne. They must sell at $400 per tonne to break even. An export price of under $400 per tonne of sticky rice is also the lowest level in the past two years, and marks a sharp fall from the beginning of this year when the price was at $530-$540 per tonne, bringing profit for both businesses and farmers. China‘s recent change in import tax policy on the local rice industry is not its first. A year ago, China also changed its policy of importing sticky rice from Viet Nam, which had an big impact on local enterprises‘ sticky rice exports, although the tariff then wasn‘t as high. In recent years, China has become a major export market for Vietnamese sticky rice. China has promoted the import of sticky rice with high prices, leading to a strong increase in the area producing sticky rice in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region. According to the Viet Nam Food Association (VFA), Viet Nam exported 1.4 million tonnes of sticky rice in 2017, with 90 per cent shipped to China. There is a high risk with exporting a large volume to one market, and warnings were issued about this situation. However, reducing the sticky rice growing area is not easy because the farmers maintain production with the belief that the export price of sticky rice will recover in the future, said Dang Thi Lien, director of Long An Food and Foodstuff Co. In this situation, experts said the Cultivation Department and localities need to monitor more closely the structure of cultivated rice, avoiding any increase in the growing area in the autumn-winter crop. In addition, businesses should also try to expand the export market for sticky rice to other countries, especially those in the Middle East and other Southeast Asian nations, to avoid overdependence on the Chinese market. — VNS

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/205732/vietnam-rice-farmers-in-a-sticky-situation.html

Prices for bran and broke rice hit record high Submitted by Eleven on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 13:54 Writer: Theingi Win Tin

Prices for bran and broken rice used for the production of animal feed have reached a record high, according to the information at the regular meeting held at Myanmar Fishery Federation on July 24. Dr Thet Hmu, chair of Myanmar Fish and Prawn Feed Manufacturers Association said: ―Bran is mainly used as raw material for the production of animal feed. In the last week of July, price for bran hit a record high during five years. Bran price is similar to price for broken rice. Now there are poor road transportation and climate changes. Bran price reached a record high of Ks-480 per viss in 2016. It stood at Ks-335 in 2017 and Ks-522 in 2018. Bran price is expected to continue to increase due to climate conditions. It is difficult to store bran. The government allows exports of rice, broken rice and bran. Anyway, bran price will not decline. It will continue to rise in August, September and October.‖ Price for broken rice hit Ks-506 per viss in 2016 and Ks-517 in 2017. Now price for broken rice hits a record high of Ks-640 per viss. But the quality of broken rice is low, Dr Thet Hmu added.

Hsan Htike, a CEC member of Fish Breeders Association said: ―Fish market is down after Saudi Arabia has suspended imports of fish from Myanmar. Breeders are facing difficulties due to rising animal feed prices.‖

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DBS to open new branches across in India. FILE PHOTO - REUTERS MUMBAI, JULY 24 A report from DBS Bank economist Radhika Rao says that they are optimistic about the improvement in farm production this year on the back of a good monsoon. The report said that India‘s South-West monsoon has recovered in the past week. The monsoon deficit is now down to just 2 per cent against about 9 per cent a fortnight earlier. The spatial distribution is also good and three-fourths of the economy has received normal to excess rainfall, crucially in the North-West and Central India. Crop sowing activity is catching up, along with an improvement in the reservoir levels. Reservoir levels are at 32 per cent of live capacity, the report said.

Good rains will support agricultural growth amid signs of lingering distress, the report noted. Inflationary expectations are also likely to be anchored, though a material respite to inflation will also hinge on other variables falling into place. Putting in a caveat, Radhika said: â&#x20AC;&#x2022;The impact of a good monsoon on headline inflation is, however, less direct as past episodes of a strong monsoon did not necessarily mean low inflation as other offsetting factors played a bigger hand. High core inflation and a need to maintain financial stability is expected to keep the central bank on a tightening bias in 2H FY19.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;

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China clears 14 Indian rice companies for export amid trade war with US China allows import of only basmati rice from India, but with this clearance, even non-basmati rice can be exported. Sanjeeb Mukherjee & Jyoti Mukul | New Delhi Last Updated at July 25, 2018 01:00 IST

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China has agreed to import rice from 14 of the 19 registered rice exporters from India, while the remaining five— mostly of basmati rice sellers — have been asked to improve storage and isolation facilities before applying afresh. China allows import of only basmati rice from India, but with this clearance, even non-basmati rice can be exported. The clearance comes amid rising tension between the United States and China over trade tariff.China

is looking for newer markets to boost its inventories. Export from India has been caught under wraps since it failed to clear Chinese food safety and quality norms. China alleged India‘s rice consignments contained ‗khapra‘ (cabinet) beetle and were unfit for consumption, which Indian authorities and traders denied. In an agreement signed on June 9, China agreed to import from India non-basmati rice as well. The shipments had to comply with the Chinese plant quarantine laws and regulations. India has to ensure that processing and storage houses of the rice to be exported to China is free from pests — Trogoderma granarium and Prostephanus truncatus — and live insects. The exported rice will have to be free of soil, seeds of weeds, paddy hull, loose bran and any of plant debris of rice. Non-basmati rice exports from the country during April-February 2018 stood at $3.26 billion as against $2.53 billion in 2016-17. India wants to increase exports to China with a view to bridging the ballooning trade deficit, which has increased to $63.12 billion in 2017-18 from $51.08 billion in the previous fiscal.

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The cabinet on Tuesday approved rice aid measures worth a combined 97.95 billion baht for the 2018-19 crop year. The measures include a loan scheme worth 35.06 billion baht to be offered by the state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives (BAAC) and 62.89 billion baht of one-off payments that the government will hand out directly to farmers via the BAAC. According to Nathporn Chatusripitak, an adviser to the Prime Minister's Office Minister, the measures will cover three projects: a loan scheme for farmers who agree to delay their paddy sales and a grant for harvesting and price-quality improvement costs; a loan scheme for agriculture co-operatives to gather rice and created added value; and the 3% interest rate subsidy programme for rice traders who agree to store stocks. These programmes will run from September this year to September 2019, in all provinces, except for the South. The programmes for the South will run from June to October 2019. The loan scheme for farmers who agree to delay their paddy sales and the grant for harvesting and price-quality improvement costs will cost an estimated 22.56 billion baht, and the loan scheme for farming institutes to gather rice and add value to rice will cost 12.5 billion. The 3% interest rate subsidy programme for rice traders who agree to hold stocks for 60-180 days is estimated to cost the government 572 million baht. According to Mr Nathporn, under the loan scheme for farmers who agree to delay their paddy sales and the grant for harvesting and price-quality improvement costs, the government will grant 1,500 baht per rai for harvesting and price-quality improvement costs, capped at 18,000 per family and not more than 12 rai. That is up from 1,200 baht per rai, capped at 15,000 baht per family on not more than 10 rai per family in the previous season. Eligible farmers are small-scale ones who have registered with the Agriculture Extension Department. Farmers are also entitled to earn 17,050 baht per tonne for hom mali fragrant rice, 15,450 baht per tonne for glutinous rice, 12,000 baht per tonne of white rice and 12,900 baht per tonne of Pathum Thani fragrant rice, if they agree to hold their paddy under the barn-pledging scheme. In a related development, the cabinet yesterday endorsed the Commerce Ministry's ministerial regulation to allow the use of 58 varieties of high-value trees such as teak and Siamese and Burmese rosewood, to be used as collateral under the Secured Transactions Act. The new regulation could encourage people to grow more high-value trees on their land for income.