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Muzzling Condi Rice; Could Humans Go Extinct? Remembering Rachel Carson Blunting rice disease 3,000 rice genome sequences made publicly available on World Hunger Day Kent company fined after worker's fingers crushed Unwanted inspection cells affecting rice exports The 3,000 rice genomes project: new opportunities and challenges for future rice research Vietnamese rice perceived as ‘cheap’ Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-May 28 Liberian Rice Processor Makes Unprecedented Rice Purchase USA RICE JOINS WHEAT, PORK AND DAIRY PROCESSORS IN EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT JAPAN AND TPP Notice of Open Tender CCC Announces Prevailing World Market Prices CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures
News Detail… Muzzling Condi Rice; Could Humans Go Extinct? Remembering Rachel Carson By Carl M. Cannon - May 27, 2014 Good morning. It‟s Tuesday, May 27. President Obama is back from Afghanistan and at his post. Although he has a light schedule, his main focus is fitting for today‟s date: Obama is hosting the annual White House Science Fair. Exhibits will be shown in the State Dining Room, with presidential remarks offered in the East Room.Why do I say fitting? Because the emphasis of the 2014 science fair is the achievement of girls and women in science and technology -- and today is Rachel Carson‟s 107th birthday.
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The technological innovations on display at the White House range from a “concussion cushion” designed by a 19-year-old whose professional goal is to become the first female college football coach, to a car alarm designed to protect children and animals when the interior of a vehicle becomes too hot for occupants. Its designers are three second-graders from Oklahoma.Rachel Carson, who loved animals, would have approved.
I‟ll have a further word about that remarkable lady in a moment. First, I‟d direct you to RealClearPolitics‟ front page, which aggregates stories and columns from across the political spectrum. In addition, we offer a complement of original material from RCP reporters and contributors today, including the following: *** Condi Rice and the Graduation Gag Order. In a column, I weigh in on this spring‟s trend of silencing commencement speakers deemed by some graduates to be unacceptable.Online Gambling and Crony Capitalism. In RealClearPolicy, Jerry Rogers takes issue with Utah Sen. Mike Lee for supporting federal legislation that would prevent states from legalizing online gambling within their own borders.Eight Ways Humanity Could Go Extinct Before 2100. RealClearScience compiled this list based on a survey of the world's brightest futurists and scientists.Robinson Crusoe on Mars. In RealClearBooks, Robert Tracinski reviews “The Martian,” a novel that spotlights human ingenuity when pushed to the brink of disaster. *** Like nearly everything else these days, the life‟s work of Rachel Carson is inevitably viewed through a partisan prism. This is not to say that nothing in “Silent Spring,” her famous call to environmental action regarding pesticides, can be questioned or reevaluated. The words of that influential book weren‟t revealed truths from God, but the best theories of a nature writer with education and training as a zoologist and aquatic biologist.Carson was born on this day in 1907 in Springdale, Pa., and raised on her parents‟ 65-acre farm. In the mid1930s, she became one of the first women hired by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, where she encountered the deleterious effects of DDT. And from the start, she combined her government service with a successful writing career, penning columns for the Baltimore Sun and other publications.
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A 1937 piece for The Atlantic Monthly titled “Undersea” kick-started a three-book ocean trilogy: “Under the Sea-Wind” (1941); “The Sea Around Us” (1950); and “The Edge of the Sea” (1955). Those books were all well reviewed, but nothing like the 1962 blockbuster that would make her one of the most famous writers in the world. Rachel Carson died in 1964, but “Silent Spring” wasn‟t her last book. That distinction belongs to “The Sense of Wonder,” which was published posthumously. It is a work of love, that little remembered book -- and in its lyrical pages the author returns to her childhood farm and the roots of her appreciation for the outdoors. “The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists,” she wrote, “but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea, and sky, and their amazing life.” To Nova Scotia professor Steve King, Rachel Carson‟s truest legacy is how she encourages “this urging of daily awe” in human interaction with nature. Here is another passage, also from “The Sense of Wonder,” which reveals that awe: We lay and looked up at the sky and the millions of stars that blazed in darkness. The night was so still that we could hear the buoy on the ledges out beyond the mouth of the bay. Once or twice a word spoken by someone on the far shore was carried across the clear air. A few lights burned in the cottages. Otherwise, there was no reminder of other human life.... It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century or even once in a human generation, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night perhaps they will never see it. Image:UD researchers Harsh Bais, Carla Spence (left) and Nicole Donofrio examine rice plants. They have identified a naturally occurring microbe in soil that inhibits the devastating rice blast fungus.
Blunting rice disease UD researchers aim to disarm a 'cereal killer' 4:16 p.m., May 27, 2014--A fungus that kills an estimated 30 percent of the world‟s rice crop may finally have met its match, thanks to a research discovery made by scientists at the University of Delaware and the University of California at Davis.The research team, led by Harsh Bais, associate professor of plant and soil sciences in UD‟sCollege of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has identified a naturally occurring microbe living right in the soil around rice plants — Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 — that inhibits the devastating fungus known as rice blast. What‟s more, the beneficial soil microbe also induces a system-wide defense response in rice plants to battle the fungus.
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The research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, is published in BMC Plant Biology and includes, along with Bais, authors Carla Spence, a doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences, Emily Alff, who recently earned her master‟s degree in plant and soil sciences, and Nicole Donofrio, associate professor of plant and soil sciences, all from UD; and Sundaresan Venkatesan, professor, Cameron Johnson, assistant scientist, and graduate student Cassandra Ramos, all from UC Davis. “We truly are working to disarm a „cereal killer‟ and to do so using a natural, organic control,” says Bais, in his laboratory at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. In addition to rice, a distinct population of the rice blast fungus also now threatens wheat production worldwide. “Rice blast is a relentless killer, a force to be reckoned with, especially as rice is a staple in the daily diet of more than half the world‟s population — that‟s over 3 billion people,” Bais notes. “As global population continues to grow, biocontrol bacteria may be an important key for farmers to overcome crop losses due to plant disease and to produce more food from the same acre of land.”According to Bais, the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae) attacks rice plants through spores resembling pressure plugs that penetrate the plant tissue. Once these spores infiltrate the cell wall, the fungus “eats the plant alive,” as Bais says. Common symptoms of rice blast are telltale diamond shaped-lesions on the plant leaves.In order to do its work, the spore must produce a structure called the appressorium, a filament that adheres to the plant surface like an anchor. Without it, the fungus can‟t invade the plant.In a research study published in the journal Planta this past October, Bais and colleagues Spence, Donofrio and Vidhyavathi Raman showed that Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 strongly inhibited the formation of the appressorium and that priming rice plants with EA105 prior to infection by rice blast decreased lesion size. For her work, Spence, the lead author, recently received the Carson Best Paper Award for the best scientific paper published by a Ph.D. student in biological sciences at UD. The next step in the research was to sample the rhizosphere, the soil in the region around the roots of rice plants growing in the field, to reveal the microbial community living there and to attempt to elucidate their roles.Thanks to DNA sequencing techniques, Bais says that identifying the various microorganisms in soil is easy. But understanding the role of each of those microorganisms is a continuing story. A natural control for a deadly fungus “Everyone knows what‟s there, but we don‟t know what they are doing,” Bais says of the microbes. To home in on the source of the antifungal impact, Bais and his colleagues are relying on what he refers to as “old school culturing” to find out if a single bacterium or a group of different bacteria are at work.In their study reported in BMC Plant Biology, the researchers used gene sequencing techniques to identify 11 naturally occurring bacteria isolated from rice plants grown in the field in California. These bacteria were then tested in the laboratory, withPseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 demonstrating the strongest impact on rice blast. The soil microbe reduced the formation of the anchor-like appressoria by nearly 90 percent while also inhibiting fungal growth by 76 percent. Bais points out that although hydrogen cyanide is commonly produced by pseudomonad bacteria, the antifungal impact of Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 appears to be independent of cyanide production. Applying a natural soil microbe as an antifungal treatment versus chemical pesticides offers multiple benefits to farmers and the environment, Bais says. “Rice blast quickly learns how to get around synthetics — most manmade pesticides are effective only for about three years,” Bais says. “So it‟s really cool to find a biological that can attenuate this thing.
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” Bais, who also has conducted multiple studies with beneficial microbes in the Bacillusfamily, envisions a day when farmers will treat plants with a “magic cocktail of microbes” naturally found in soil to help boost their immunity and growth. This summer, he and his colleagues will conduct field trials using Pseudomonaschlororaphis EA105 on rice plants grown on the UD farm. He also will work with farmers in the central states in India.The research is supported by a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation‟s Plant Genome Research Project. Article by Tracey Bryant Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson
3,000 rice genome sequences made publicly available on World Hunger Day Grains of rice reveal just a tiny proportion of the variation of traits in the over 40,000 different varieties of rice in the world. Credit: This image is part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).The open-access, open-data journal GigaScience (published by BGI and Biomed Central), announces today the publication of an article on the genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains along with the release of this entire dataset in a citable format in journal's affiliated open-access database, GigaDB. The publication and release of this enormous data set (which quadruples the current amount of publicly available rice sequence data) coincides with World Hunger Day to highlight one of the primary goals of this project— to develop resources that will aid in improving global food security, especially in the poorest areas of the world. This work is the completion of stage one of the 3000 Rice Genomes Project, a collaborative effort made up of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and BGI, and is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.With more than 1/8th of the world's population living in extreme hunger and poverty, and an every-increasing world population (estimated to reach 9.6 billion by 2050), there is a huge need to create new resources to improve crop yield, reduce the impact of agricultural practices on the environment, and develop
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food crops that are of high yield and nutrition and can grow successfully in environments stressed by drought, pests, diseases, or poor soil quality. While rice research has greatly advanced since the completion of the first high-quality rice genome sequence in 2005, there has been limited change in breeding practices that are important for producing improved and better adapted rice strains.The 3000 Rice Genomes Project provides a major step forward for addressing these challenges by creating and releasing an extensive amount of genetic information that can ultimately be applied to intelligent breeding practices, which take advantage of the natural variation between different plant strains and information on the genetic mechanisms that underlie these traits to select strains for breeding that will be more successful in producing hybrid strains with characteristics that are highly suited for growing successfully in different environments.Dr. Zhikang Li, the Project Director at CAAS, stated that the 3000 Rice Genomes Project is part of an ongoing effort to provide resources specifically for poverty-stricken farmers in Africa and Asia, aiming to reach at least 20 million rice farmers in 16 target countries (8 African and 8 Asian countries). "Rice is the staple food for most Asian people, and has increasing consumption in Africa," said Dr. Li. "With decreasing resources (water and land), food security is —and will be— the most challenging issue in these countries, both currently and in the future. As a scientist in rice genetics, breeding and genomics, it would be a dream to help to solve this problem."Dr. Jun Wang, Director of BGI, added to this, saying that, "the population boom and worsening climate crisis have presented big challenges on global food shortage and safety. BGI is dedicated to applying genomics technologies to make a fast, controllable and highly efficient molecular breeding model possible. This opens a new way to carry out agricultural breeding. With the joined forces with CAAS, IRRI and Gates Foundation, we have made a step forward in big-data-based crop research and digitalized breeding. We believe every step will get us closer to the ultimate goal of improving the wellbeing of human race."According to IRRI director general Dr. Robert Zeigler, "access to 3,000 genomes of rice sequence data will tremendously accelerate the ability of breeding programs to overcome key hurdles mankind faces in the near future." This collaborative project, added Zeigler, "will add an immense amount of knowledge to rice genetics, and enable detailed analysis by the global research community to ultimately benefit the poorest farmers who grow rice under the most difficult conditions."Drs, Wang and Zeigler, and Dr. Jia-Yang Li, President of CAAS, provide further information on the goals of this project in an accompanying commentary inGigaScience.To reach their goals, the three-institute collaboration has not only released 13.4 terabytes of data, they have also collected seeds from each strain (available in the International Rice Genebank Collection housed at IRRI). Having banked seeds is essential to make full use of these now genetically defined strains to develop and sustain the most appropriate hybrid strains for different environments. There remains, however, one additional component to achieve this goal: this is information that allows researchers and breeders to directly link the
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genetic information (genotype) to thephysical traits (phenotype) of these different strains. This requires careful assessment and curation of each rice strain for agriculturally important traits, which can then be linked to genetic markers in the now available genome sequences.Current breeding practices, which have essentially remained the same since the development of agriculture, typically use apparent physical traits to guide strain selection for crossbreeding with the hope that the offspring will manifest a combination and improvement of the desired traits, such as drought, pest and disease resistance and increased crop productivity and improved nutritional value. However, the underlying genetic makeup can often confound breeder expectations because unknown genetic interactions can block, modify, or alter the development of the selected physical characteristics when two strains are bred. Thus, trial and error and multiple successive breeding stages are often required.Having full knowledge of the genetic makeup of a plant allows researchers to identify genetic markers related to specific physical traits, and better understand how different genetic interactions effect plant phenotypes. This information allows a breeder to make more intelligent choices in strain selection, resulting in more accurate and rapid development of rice strains that are better suited to different agricultural environments in poor and environmentally stressed economies. This is a process that requires a great deal of care and manpower. Thus, the release of these data, and making the genetic information freely available to plant breeders and scientists across the world, will greatly aid in defining genotype/phenotype relationships as well as serve as an extensive resource improving our understanding of plant biology.Publication in GigaScience includes storage of relevant associated data in the journal's affiliated database, GigaDB, where every dataset is provided with a digital object identifier (DOI), making it possible to cite, find and track data in standard scientific literature, which serves as a strong incentive for researchers to more rapidly release expensive and work-intensive datasets for community use. On top of hosting the terabytes of supporting data in GigaDB, to provide the most extensive availability to the community, the sequence reads for this project have also been submitted to the SRA repository at PRJEB6180.
Kent company fined after worker's fingers crushed Last updated Tue 27 May 2014 A Kent-based food manufacturer has been fined ÂŁ30,000 after a worker had three of his fingers crushed. Veetee Rice Ltd of Neptune Close, Rochester, appeared before Maidstone Crown Court today (27 May) following the incident in March 2012.Khalil Ahmed was working on a line where a machine was attaching labels to packets of rice.
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The safety interlock mechanism had been intentionally defeated, and his hand became trapped in one of the machines.This is the second time action has been taken against the company. In November 2009, the company was fined ÂŁ140,000 for similar failings relating to unguarded machinery that led to the death of one of its employees. Both cases were brought by the Health and Safety Executive.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - Karachi—Rice exporters are seriously bothered by what they called unwanted inspection cell carried by Quality Review Committee which they alleged restraining export of their rice brands. The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has again urged the ministry of commerce (MoC) to dissolve the Quality Review Committee (QRC) forthwith in view of the no objection received from the law division and consensus of all stakeholders.UNISAME said that the dissolving of QRC will be for the betterment of the rice industry in Pakistan and will give a free hand to rice exporters to sell their brands and remove hurdles created by the troublesome committee, which is futile in the present circumstances as it is not serving any purpose. Infact it is delaying rice shipments unnecessarily. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver pointed out that the creation of QRC was a big mistake as it gave rise to conflict of interest. It was based on wrong premises and it gave the opportunity to office bearers of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) to subdue their competitors. MoC realized this and madeamendments and separated the office of QRC and REAP and also removed the mandatory condition of membership of REAP for rice exporters. The QRC cannot function as an inspection company under any law and its formation is based on misapplication and twisting of law to suit the big and influential and it is appreciated that the Moc has realized its futility and made serious efforts to curtail it. He said the QRC has no locus standing as it is neither qualified nor eligible and although just a quality review committee it is posing itself like a pre-shipment inspection (PSI) organization. It was basically formed to protect the basmati label but now that rice is sold by the buyers and the exporters own popular brands and other varieties which are not basmati but more costly and more in demand are flooding the markets and the job of the QRC is futile.Secondly most of the buyers have their own nominated PSI agency to carry out PSI. QRC never made efforts to get 386 a very popular variety as basmati although in India 386 is considered and approved as basmati but in Pakistan QRC allowed its export underhand as basmati but did not recommend it to be approved as basmati for reasons best known to itself. QRC is devoid of any substantial work as a protector of basmati and in fact is creating hurdles in its exports due to lack of knowledge on the subject.
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The 3,000 rice genomes project: new opportunities and challenges for future rice research Rice is the world's most important staple grown by millions of small-holder farmers. Sustaining rice production relies on the intelligent use of rice diversity.The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project is a giga-dataset of publically available genome sequences (averaging 14×depth of coverage) derived from 3,000 accessions of rice with global representation of genetic and functional diversity. The seed of these accessions is available from the International Rice Genebank Collection. Together, they are an unprecedented resource for advancing rice science and breeding technology. Our immediate challenge now is to comprehensively and systematically mine this dataset to link genotypic variation to functional variation with the ultimate goal of creating new and sustainable rice varieties that can support a future world population that will approach 9.6 billion by 2050. Author: Jia-Yang LiJun WangRobert S Zeigler Credits/Source: GigaScience 2014, 3:8
Vietnamese rice perceived as ‘cheap’ 28.05.2014 Economists have called the low bids offered by Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2 to provide 800,000 tons of rice to the Philippines a “blunder” because it has led to the perception that Vietnamese rice is “cheap”.The low bid helped the two largest rice-export groups win the contract over their rivals. However, many rice- export companies have refused to sign export contracts with Vinafood, fearful of huge losses, Dan Viet reports.Dr. Nguyen Van Nam, former head of the Trade Institute, in an interview given to Dat Viet, said that foreign business people, trying to force prices down, cited Vinafood‟s low bids when negotiating to buy rice from Vietnamese exporters. The director of a rice export company, who declined to be named, warned that exporters, who scramble for clients by offering low selling prices, are positioning Vietnam‟s rice as “cheap rice”, preventing the country from selling at higher prices.According to former Prime Minister Nguyen Cong Tan, rice exports in Vietnam are controlled by the two biggest food corporations. This so-called “dual monopoly” gives them exclusive rights, the right to collect rice from farmers and the right to export rice, he said. The two companies have also created a “state monopoly”, which, in effect, has prevented private enterprises from taking part in the market.“The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) also has too many rights when it comes
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to suggesting policy, and it has been operating like a state-owned enterprise, managing rice exports,” Tan said.“The association does not admit private enterprises and it does not care about farmers. What it cares about is protecting the benefits of rice export companies,” he added.Rice exporters export rice at low prices after paying low prices for rice materials from farmers, who then suffer losses or lower profits.Rice production is a strong part of the economy in Vietnam, but the country continues to sell its rice cheaply. Vietnamese farmers are frustrated about the poor capability of business people and the state‟s rice-production chain mismanagement.Meanwhile, local newspapers have reported that the government is considering removing the floor-price mechanism.If this comes true, rice exporters would be able to determine the export prices themselves, and they would not have to consider reference prices set up by the VFA or any other agency. At present, rice export companies must not sell at below $410 per ton for 5 percent broken rice FOB (free on board, 50 kilo packs, Vietnam quality), and $375 per ton for 25 percent broken rice.If the floor prices are removed as predicted, rice exporters would have the right to determine their selling prices themselves, which would help increase exports.Vietnam‟s rice exports in the first four months of 2014 was not satisfactory, as reported by VFA. The country exported 2.04 million tons of rice, earning $931 million, a 7 percent decrease in quantity and 5 percent decrease in value compared with the same period last year.
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-May 28 Wed May 28, 2014 3:16pm IST Nagpur, May 28 (Reuters) - Gram and tuar prices in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and Marketing Committee (APMC) firmed up again on renewed demand from local millers amid weak supply from producing regions. Weak overseas arrival, fresh rise in Madhya Pradesh pulses and enquiries from South-based millers also pushed up prices, according to sources. *
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TUAR * Tuar Karnataka declined sharply in open market here in absence of buyers amid profit-taking selling by stockists at higher level. * Moong Mogar bold recovered handsomely in open market on good marriage season demand from local traders amid thin supply from producing belts. * In Akola, Tuar - 4,100-4,300, Tuar dal - 6,300-6,500, Udid at 6,100-6,500, Udid Mogar (clean) - 7,200-7,700, Moong - 8,200-8,400, Moong Mogar (clean) 9,500-10,200, Gram - 2,400-2,600, Gram Super best bold - 3,300-3,600 for 100 kg. * Wheat, rice and other commodities remained steady in open market in thin trading activity, according to sources. Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg FOODGRAINS Gram Auction
Available prices 2,350-2,500
Gram Pink Auction Tuar Auction
n.a.
2,300-2,500 2,100-2,600
3,900-4,424
Moong Auction Udid Auction
n.a. n.a.
Masoor Auction
Gram Medium Best Gram Dal Medium
3,800-4,335 5,200-5,500
4,300-4,500
n.a.
Gram Super Best Bold Gram Super Best
Previous close
2,600-2,800 4,000-4,200
4,000-4,200
n.a. 3,850-3,950 n.a.
3,850-3,950
n.a.
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Gram Mill Quality
3,500-3,600
3,500-3,600
Desi gram Raw
2,800-2,900
2,800-2,900
Gram Filter new
3,200-3,400
Gram Kabuli
3,200-3,400
8,500-10,500
Gram Pink
7,700-8,100
Tuar Fataka Best
8,500-10,500 7,700-8,100
6,500-6,700
Tuar Fataka Medium
6,500-6,700
6,300-6,400
Tuar Dal Best Phod
6,300-6,400
5,800-6,000
Tuar Dal Medium phod
5,800-6,000
5,400-5,700
5,400-5,700
Tuar Gavarani
4,400-4,500
4,400-4,500
Tuar Karnataka
4,350-4,450
4,450-4,550
Tuar Black
7,800-8,000
Masoor dal best
6,200-6,400
Masoor dal medium Masoor
7,800-8,000 6,200-6,400
6,000-6,200 n.a.
n.a.
Moong Mogar bold
9,900-10,500
Moong Mogar Medium best Moong dal super best Moong dal Chilka
6,000-6,200
9,800-10,400
9,200-9,700
9,200-9,600
9,200-9,600
9,000-9,400
9,000-9,400
Moong Mill quality
n.a.
Moong Chamki best
8,000-9,100
n.a.
Udid Mogar Super best (100 INR/KG) Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG)
9,200-9,700
8,000-9,100 8,000-8,200
6,600-7,400
8,000-8,200 6,600-7,400
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Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) Batri dal (100 INR/KG)
5,500-5,800
4,700-6,000
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)
4,700-6,000
3,050-3,150
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
3,050-3,150
3,300-3,400
Watana White (100 INR/KG)
3,300-3,400
3,500-3,600
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)
5,500-5,800
3,500-3,600
4,800-5,300
1,200-1,600
Wheat Mill quality(100 INR/KG) Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)
4,800-5,300
1,200-1,600
1,200-1,500
1,200-1,500
1,300-1,500
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG)
2,000-2,150
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG)
1,300-1,500 2,000-2,150
1,700-1,800
n.a.
n.a.
2,800-3,000
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG)
1,700-1,800
2,800-3,000
2,200-2,700
2,200-2,700
Wheat 147 (100 INR/KG)
1,100-1,400
1,100-1,400
Wheat Best (100 INR/KG)
1,700-2,000
1,700-2,000
Rice BPT (100 INR/KG) Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG)
3,600-4,000 1,900-2,100
3,600-4,000 1,900-2,100
Rice Swarna old (100 INR/KG)
3,000-3,200
3,000-3,200
Rice HMT (100 INR/KG)
3,700-4,000
3,700-4,000
Rice HMT Shriram (100 INR/KG)
4,500-5,300
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG)
10,400-13,900
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG)
7,300-10,000
4,500-5,300 10,400-13,900 7,300-10,500
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Rice Chinnor (100 INR/KG)
5,500-5,800
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
1,300-1,500 1,600-1,700
5,500-5,800 1,300-1,500 1,600-1,700
WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 41.6 degree Celsius (106.9 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp. 25.5 degree Celsius (77.9 degree Fahrenheit) Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest - n.a. Rainfall : 0.0 mm FORECAST: Mainly clear sky. Maximum and Minimum temperature likely to be around 43 and 26 degree Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices.)
Liberian Rice Processor Makes Unprecedented Rice Purchase 28 MAY 2014 PRESS RELEASE For some farmers in Lofa county, the local market is as far as their rice will go. For others, their rice may go the extra distance and make it across the border into Guinea. For the majority, however, the annual rice harvest does not leave the farm. The farmers‟ family, neighbors and farm hands consume all of it.Typically, around July and August, the local rice stores are low, and Liberians rely on imported rice for the next three or four months, which costs less than locally grown rice. During the hunger months—as they are known—many Liberians desperately depend on rice from abroad. The days when Lofa was the “bread basket” of Liberia seem lost in another time.“Farmers can‟t produce enough rice to feed everybody,” says James Darbor, lead farmer of the Bagagizia Farmers Association near Voinjama.
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“But if we expand our farms, we can make more rice and sell more rice.”Bagagizia is one of several rice farming cooperatives working with the USAID Food and Enterprise Development (FED) Program to increase lowland rice production. By expanding lowland swamps, using mechanization, creating irrigation structures and planting improved rice seeds, rice farmers have improved their yields to between 4 and 6 metric tons per hectare (MT/ha), a significant increase over 1 MT/ha from before.Most farmers start out doing upland rice farming, but the swamp is better than upland. We produce more and can make two or even three harvests per year,” explains Kabeh Zayzay of the Kabuke Farmers Association in Voinjama. The year 2014 may go down in history for these farmers. The Bagagizia farmers sold over 70 bags of surplus paddy rice to local processor Fabrar Liberia, who traveled through Lofa county in the month of May to purchase rice. The Kabuke farmers sold 55 bags to Fabrar.“Now we have a surplus and farmers don‟t want to wait for the government or the NGOs to come and buy our rice. If we don‟t sell, it spoils,” says James Darbor.To increase the options for Liberian rice farmers, USAID FED began supporting Fabrar Liberia in 2014 with bigger warehousing and increased processing facilities in Kakata, Margibi. Poised to become Liberia‟s largest rice processor, Fabrar Liberia is cozying up to farmers.
USA RICE JOINS WHEAT, PORK AND DAIRY PROCESSORS IN EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT JAPAN AND TPP Japan's Trade Minister Amari Minister Amari WASHINGTON, DC -- Minister Amari's statement in Singapore that none of Japan's sensitive agricultural items will be fully liberalized may signal the end of hopes for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to become a truly comprehensive and forward-looking 21st century agreement. A country cannot shield its primary agricultural products from competition and still claim to be committed to a high-standard agreement liberalizing essentially all goods. When Japan joined the TPP negotiations, it agreed to "to pursue an agreement that is comprehensive and ambitious in all areas, eliminating tariffs and other barriers to trade and investment," as stated in the earlier (November 12, 2011) TPP Trade Ministers' Report to Leaders. Yet according to several reports from the TPP Ministerial meeting just completed in Singapore, Japanese Minister of the Economy Akira Amari has now flatly told the other negotiating countries that Japan will not abolish tariffs in the five agricultural sectors it considers "sacred." Those five sectors include seven basic agricultural products, covering most of agricultural production: dairy, sugar, rice, beef, pork, wheat and barley. They also include many downstream products made from those seven items, such as flour and flour mixes made from wheat and rice.
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The broad exemption that Japan is demanding will encourage other partner countries to withhold their sensitive sectors as well. The result would fall far short of a truly comprehensive agreement that would set a new standard for future trade agreements. In fact the TPP envisioned by Japan, if it stands, would be the least comprehensive agreement the U.S. has negotiated since the 21st century began. U.S. negotiators still have a chance to push Japan to provide meaningful agricultural market access in the agreement. Failing that, the alternative is suspending negotiations with Japan for now and concluding a truly comprehensive agreement with those TPP partners that are willing to meet the originally contemplated level of ambition. It is a big step but one that will be justified if Japan continues to refuse to open its agricultural sector to meaningful competition. CONTACT: BOB CUMMINGS (703) 236-1473
Notice of Open Tender AARQ Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. Independent bids are invited for rights to ship U.S.-origin milled rice to the European Union under a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) granted by the EU to the United States. Bids must be submitted on May 29, 2014 for the July 2014 TRQ Tranche, in which the following quantity is available: Volume (metric tons) EU Duty Semi-Milled or Milled Rice (HTS item 1006.30)
9,680
zero
TRQ Certificates will be awarded to the highest bidder(s). Any person or entity incorporated or domiciled in the United States is eligible to bid. The minimum bid quantity is 18 metric tons. Performance security (the lesser of $50,000 or the total value of the bid) must be submitted with each bid. Potential bidders may obtain the required bid forms and bid instructions from: AARQ Administrator Economic Consulting Services, LLC 2001 L Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel: (202) 466-1150 Fax: (202) 785-3330 Note: Potential bidders should consult regulations in the Official Journal of the European Union to determine the applicable tariff rate on semi-milled/milled rice. AARQ disclaims any responsibility for advising potential bidders on applicable tariff rates. Potential bidders should also consult EC regulations relating to testing for unauthorized GMOs.
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CCC Announces Prevailing World Market Prices WASHINGTON -- The Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation todayannounced the following prevailing world market prices of milled and rough rice, adjusted for U.S. milling yields and location, and the resulting marketing loan-gain (MLG) and loan deficiency payment (LDP) rates applicable to the 2013 crop, which became effective today at 7:00 a.m., Eastern Time (ET). Prices are unchanged from the previous announcement. MLG/LDP Rate
World Price
Milled Value ($/cwt)
Rough ($/cwt)
Rough ($/cwt)
Long-Grain
17.52
11.50
0.00
Medium-/Short-Grain
17.18
11.76
0.00
Brokens
12.00
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This week's prevailing world market prices and MLG/LDP rates are based on the following U.S. milling yields and the corresponding loan rates: U.S. Milling Yields Whole/Broken (lbs/cwt)
Loan Rate ($/cwt)
Long-Grain
57.94/11.23
6.65
Medium-/Short-Grain
63.26/7.45
6.58
The next program announcement is scheduled for June 4.
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CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures CME Group (Preliminary): Closing Rough Rice Futures for May 28
Month
Price
Net Change
July 2014
$15.050
- $0.040
September 2014
$14.385
- $0.050
November 2014
$14.505
- $0.030
January 2015
$14.665
- $0.015
March 2015
$14.820
+ $0.035
May 2015
$14.820
+ $0.035
July 2015
$14.820
+ $0.035
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