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August 15,2016 Vol 7 , Issue VIII
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Averting the basmati rice production decline in Pakistan Pakistani briyani full of flavours How to fight hidden hunger Millions spent, no one served: Who is to blame for failure of #GMO golden rice? Rice taskforce created, again Joint Working Group for Rice I'm in favour of genetically modified food – and so are the scientists who back Golden Rice Review: Antique Bazaar‘s India Independence Day menu Recent research explores the Rice Transplanter Sales Market Rice harvest: Kebbi now haven to millers, buyers Modi vents ire at 'cow vigilantes'
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Admiral (R) Hamid Khalid Javed Islam Agha Ch.Hamid Malhi Dr.Akhtar Hussain Dr.Fayyaz Ahmad Siddiqui Dr.Abdul Rasheed (UAF) Islam Akhtar Khan
Averting the basmati rice production decline in Pakistan
Editorial Advisory Board
By Webmaster August 15, 2016
Assistant Professor, Gomal University DIK
Dr. Riaz A. Mann
Dr.Malik Mohammad Hashim
Dr.Hasina Gul
Assistant Director, Agriculture KPK
BASMATI rice is treasured around the world for its blessed characteristics of long slender grains that elongate twice of their original size with fluffy texture upon cooking, delicious taste, superior aroma (due to predominantly presence of a chemical, 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline) and unique flavor. The distinctive qualities are due to a complex combination of factors including its inherent genetic characteristics, the environmental conditions specific to the soil, climate and the growing practices that farmers developed over the centuries. Consequently, there has been limited success to cultivate basmati rice outside the Sub continent because of varying geographically-specific conditions. Fortunately, the ―Kalar Tract‖-the area between two rivers- Chenab and Sutluj is known as the native area of the basmati rice. Over the last several years, basmati rice acreage and its production has continuously been declining.
Dr.Hidayat Ullah Assistant Professor, University of
Swabi
Dr.Abdul Basir Assistant Professor, University of
Swabi
Zahid Mehmood PSO,NIFA Peshawar
Falak Naz Shah
Head Food Science & Technology 2 ART, Peshawar
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter For instance, during 2008-09, the basmati crop was cultivated on 4.19 million acres (mac). In the following year-2009-10, area was declined to 3.80 mac and again, in the following year 2010-11, the area was reduced to 3.48 mac. Last year, 2015-16, basmati was only cultivated on 3.11 mac-almost 26% decline over the area during 2008-09.
This decline shows a lack of farmers‘ interest and can be attributed to several factors. The growers have to bear a negative return due to low basmati paddy yield; high cost of production and low prices. The Federal government did not fulfill its promise for compensation package of Rs. 5,000 per acre, and the farmers have been left alone to suffer the brunt, both of a reduction in yields and price. Where would this decline stop? With basmati on a decline, would Pakistan be able to sustain its rice export? Most probably it would not.―Super basmati rice variety‖, being the most sought after variety in the Basmati Group, was released about two decades back in 1996 and is still popular among the farmers, consumers, and traders or exporters. Although, two more basmati varieties namely ―Basmati 2000‖ and ―basmati 515‖ were released during 2001 and 2011, respectively but, both the varieties could not beat or completely replace the ―Super Basmati‖ variety in the
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter field. The average paddy yield at farm level is much lower than its potential yield. The key issues are low plant density, labour shortage, water scarcity, and pests and diseases. Conventional method of manually rice transplanting, unbalanced use of fertilizers, Continuous practicing of cereal-cereal cropping system, use of old harvesters designed for wheat, and lack of storage facilities further add up to the problems.
Thus, high cost of basmati production combined with low paddy prices has compelled the growers to shift to other short-duration, high-yielding non-basmati varieties such as Pusa 1121 (Indian variety), and 386. Both the varieties were banned and their cultivation was illegal, few years back. Recently, Pusa 1121 (formerly known as ―Kainaat) and 386 have been approved by the Punjab Agriculture Department with the names of PS-II and 386. Both the varieties provide an opportunity for either growing a third crop (such as green peas) or sufficient turnaround period for land preparation and timely sowing of wheat crop. PS-II variety, due to extra-long kernel, is popularly used as parboil rice. On the other hands, maturity of the basmati varieties coincides with optimum wheat sowing period, hence causing delayed wheat sowing and declined wheat yield. It means farmers have to suffer multiple consequences, if they opt to grow basmati rice varieties.
Furthermore, the basmati varieties are highly susceptible to all insect pests and diseases. For the last six years, the RRI, Kala Shah Kaku in collaboration with other national institutions has been working to develop the BLB (Bacterial Leaf Blight) resistant basmati varieties but no success reported yet.The Provincial research institutions are required to revisit their priorities and focus on basmati varietal improvement and cost-effective technologies on water, labour, fertilizer and pesticides uses. The innovative resource-conserving technologies such as direct seeding of rice and alternative wetting & drying need to be scaled up. Another area requiring intervention is to bring improvement in the harvesting system of basmati rice crop. Use of old wheat-combines, without proper adjustment, results into admixture of green trash and broken grains and losses of grains up to 5-10%. Mechanical harvesting of rice crop at high moisture level, untimely and poor drying and processing of paddy cause development of mycotoxins in the rice grains.
That is why Pakistan‘s rice consignments are rejected or fetched lower prices than those offered to our competitors such as India. The question now arises, what benefit growers receive when the crop is high? The answer is nothing. The Arthies/middlemen start a waiting game for picking up the produce and force the farmers to sell at the price dictated by the market.It is necessary that
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter the government takes crucial steps to regulate the market instead of letting it being manipulated by few players under the visage of free market forces. In 2008, the federal government tried to impose a Minimum Export Price (MEP), but within four months it had bowed to pressure from the exporters and abolished the MEP. The REAP-an official body of the Rice Exporters, blames to the government for continuously neglecting the basmati crop and demand that RRI, Kala Shah Kaku should work on basmati varietal improvement (as its major mandate), increasing the inpututilization efficiencies, and improving paddy yield and quality. But, on its part, REAP has not played its pivotal role in averting the present scenario confronting to basmati production and market system.
Public-private partnership in rice R&D is also required. We have sufficient level of know-how available within our research institutions which can be commercialized, provided a framework to reward innovation exists. The private sector may set up a special fund for capacity building of the young scientists, sending them abroad for short and long-term trainings, granting the best scientist awards, and fixing a certain quota for induction of the retired rice scientists in the rice industry. The Agricultural Extension Department has to play its role for providing technical guidance to the farmers, using modern and innovative tools such as farmers‘ field schools, demo plots, and village-level trainings.—The author is a Principal Scientific Officer (PSO) and ExNational Coordinator for Rice at Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad
Pakistani briyani full of flavours Peshawar Briyani House‘s chicken briyani.ST PHOTO: KENNETH GOH Aug 14, 2016, 5:00 am SGT
I have been craving briyani the past month - partly because the well-loved Bismillah Biryani shop in Dunlop Street and one-north was recognised with the Bib Gourmand award in the Michelin Singapore Guide. The craving increased after I read a recent article by the BBC on the evolution of briyani, from its likely origins in Persia (modern-day Iran) to the different varieties in countries such as India and Bangladesh. Then I stumble on Peshawar Briyani House, a week-old stall in Taman Jurong Food Centre, which serves a Pakistani variant of the moreish rice dish.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter The stall is co-owned by Mr Ahmed Khan, 36, who is taking his Pakistan-born wife's briyani out of their home kitchen. Her family comes from Peshawar, a city in northern Pakistan that the stall is named after.
PESHAWAR BRIYANI HOUSE • 3 Yung Sheng Road, Taman Jurong Food Centre, 02-114; open: 10am to 2pm (Tuesday to Thursday), 10am to 4pm (Friday), 10am to 2pm (weekend), closed on Monday Rating: 4/5 stars There are at least three other stalls in the hawker centre that serve briyani, but the Pakistani version stands out because the basmati rice has a spicier kick and comes with raita (yogurt sauce) instead of achar. Choose from two types of briyani on the menu - chicken ($5) or mutton ($6). The chicken briyani has a heap of saffron-hued rice that is perfumed by seven spices including cloves, garam masala and chilli powder, and flecked with coriander, tomato skin and onions. The main difference lies in the chicken.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Instead of being clogged with curry, it is infused with briyani spices from being cooked in the rice and served separately from the curry. Though not too juicy, the tender meat is a foil for the aromatic rice to shine through. To douse the heat, I gingerly alternate each spoonful of rice with raita, which has diced onions, cucumber and cumin. The sour tanginess of the yogurt sauce is a good palate cleanser. The rice is also cooked with meltingly soft mutton, like in a dum briyani. Each spoonful is a robust eruption of spices. A hidden gem is the prawn briyani ($7), which is seldom served in hawker stalls. It is available on Fridays and public holidays and is not on the menu.The spice level of the rice is toned down to highlight the sweetness of the three succulent sea prawns.I usually zero in on the addictive papadum crackers first on my plate of briyani, but with such beautifully cooked rice and meat, I almost forget to pop them into my mouth.
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How to fight hidden hunger An effective way to address population-wide nutrient deficiency is to fortify wheat.— Photo: Reuters
Mahatma Gandhi was always advocating us to eat hand pound rice and hand ground wheat rather than eating polished rice. Yet we continue using machine-polished cereals because they can be stored longer. But machine-polishing removes the bran (surrounding the seed) containing the pericarp and the ‗aleurone layer‘ which have small amounts of essential nutrients such as some vitamins, iron, zinc and other inorganic components.This leads to ―hidden hunger.‖ You may eat stomach full every day and yet miss out on micro-nutrients, which are essential for growth. UN agencies estimate that hidden hunger affects one in every three children across the world, leading to deficiency in physical growth and development of the brain. Children missing out on vitamin A suffer from vision problems.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Missing out on iron leads to blood disorders while deficiency in zinc retards growth, causes diarrhoea, hair loss, lack of appetite and other health issues. A programme in India, started in the 1970s by Dr. Ramalingaswami of ICMR, administering large amounts (megadose) of Vitamin A every six months to children, has been found serving in helping them come out of ―night blindness.‖ This is because a derivative of Vitamin A is essential in the retina of the eye in harvesting light and converting it into electrical signals which aid the process of vision.Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan, earlier Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India in New Delhi, has come out with a salt mixture containing some of the micronutrients including zinc and iron, to be given to children suffering from diarrhoea and dehydration. The results are strikingly positive; with micronutrient supplementation, particularly zinc, in young children with acute diarrhoea was found to be useful. Why is zinc so important to the body? This is because over 300 enzymes in our body use zinc as an essential component in their action. Zinc supports our immune system, in synthesising (and degrading) DNA, in wound healing and several other activities. And the amount of zinc we need is not very much. In a human body of, say, 70 kg, there is but 2 to 3 grams of zinc. But if the level falls down to below normal, growth is retarded, diarrhoea sets in, eye and skin lesions appear, and appetite is lost. Thus, addition of zinc in the daily diet becomes essential. While downing tablets containing vitamins and some of these minerals is fine, this is no solution to billions of children, largely in the developing world. But what if, rather than supplementing these micro-nutrients separately, they become part and parcel of the rice, wheat and other cereals we eat daily? Are there rice or wheat plants which are inherently rich in some of these micronutrients? Can they be grown, cross-bred or hybridised with other conventional rice or wheat plants? This has been the dream of agricultural scientists across the country, and the group led by Dr Vemuri Ravindra Babu of the Institute of Rice Research (at Hyderabad has succeeded in doing so. A particular variety, termed DRR Dhan 45 (also termed IET 23832) is a zinc- rich rice plant developed by this group. It contains as much as 22.18 parts per million of zinc (the highest so far in released rice varieties) It is also moderately resistant to pests that kill rice plant by causing the leaf blast disease. D. Balasubramanian dbala@lvpei.org http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech-and-agri/how-to-fight-hiddenhunger/article8987988.ece
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Millions spent, no one served: Who is to blame for failure of #GMO golden rice? Guest contributor | August 15, 2016 |
The recent Nobel laureates’ letter accusing Greenpeace of a “crime against humanity” for opposing genetically modified (GMO) golden rice reveals a deep division not only between civil societies and some science circles but also within the science community – a division in the visions for our common future and which path to take for our joint development. A division we see growing and escalating, write Angelika Hilbeck and Hans Herren. A strong indication of this division is that among the Nobel laureate signatories, there seems to be hardly anybody with a solid scientific track record in agriculture, food production, development, or the socio-ecological and political causes of poverty and hunger. Others with notable competence – at least in the economic and social domains of development, poverty, and hunger – are not among the signatories. Signs of escalation also include the emotional, accusing language in the letter and the ample use of scientifically unsubstantiated claims. What is missing in the letter and among the supporters and developers of GMOs is the recognition and scientific analysis of some tough facts. Fact no. 1: Still no functioning vitamin A rice despite unlimited resources
No functioning vitamin A rice has been produced in over 20 years of research. This is despite full support at every level: financial, institutional, political, and corporate. By ‗functioning‘, we
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter mean farmer‘s rice varieties that reliably and stably express sufficient amounts of beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A, the precursor of Vitamin A) over many generations of seed saving. These seeds must continuously express beta-carotene at a level that has been documented to be efficiently convertible to Vitamin A in mammals and, most importantly, can (statistically) significantly relieve the symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency in hungry people. None of this is scientifically trivial but that‘s what has been promised. Rice farming The first golden rice, GR1, was unsuccessful and is long gone. Golden rice 2 (GR2) is a patented pro-vitamin A GM rice developed from scratch by the multinational biotech firm Syngenta and still in the field trial stage at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at least one decade after its creation.The vast majority of scientists in the world will never see such comprehensively generous support for their research – yet they still deliver, and must deliver if they ever want to renew funding for their research. This is more than can be said for the golden rice project. Fact no. 2: Lack of recognition of real reasons for failure to deliver
A quick evidence check is sufficient to reveal the simple reason why golden rice is not in farmer‘s fields: it is still not ready because it is not performing agronomically. Furthermore, it is far from being medically documented to relieve symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency. Neither Greenpeace nor the destruction of a test plot in the Philippines by local activists can be held responsible for this lack of scientific achievement. Fact no. 3: Questionable conceptual underpinning
Leaving aside its scientific aspects, the very concept of golden rice – and all other similar conceptual approaches as solutions to malnourishment – remain doomed from the start as similar approaches have failed repeatedly. The problem lies in the underlying reductionist (disembedded) approach. Combating hunger and malnutrition one vitamin and mineral at a time is a failed ideology, no matter which vitamin or mineral one starts with and which kind of delivery system one chooses. Malnourished people do not suffer from single-vitamindeficiencies added up. They suffer from hunger, as in ‗lack of food‘. This is compounded by
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter poverty and a myriad of contributing factors working simultaneously together. That means they lack regular access to real foods containing the necessary variety of ALL essential nutrients, which, in conjunction, make up a healthy diet. These contributing factors differ according to culture, place and time. There exists a huge amount of research and analyses to read for anybody who cares about the real causes of hunger and the real solutions (we list some old and new references at the end – or just check out the United Nations World Food Programme website. For the golden rice project, we recommend for starters, the recent analysis by Stone and Glover who locate its failure in its ‗disembeddedness‘ and ‗placelessness‘. Consequently, hunger and malnutrition with its complex, ‗place-based‘ causes cannot be battled by a uniform, de-contextualized and placeless one-vitamin-at-a-time approach which is what GMO golden rice has to offer. This reductionistic approach to hunger is matched by similar reductionism in the genetic engineering world where organisms are viewed as the sum of their genes and proteins. Genes are added one at a time as blueprint construction instructions for lego-like products and many more projects of this kind are underway, e.g. vitamin A banana and cassava, or iron-fortified cassava, or whatever lies within their technical reach. Stone and Glover describe this as ―a preoccupation with the molecular scale” that “favors a form of reductionist thinking that conceives of traits of interest as being governed primarily by genetics rather than through interactions with the environment or management‖ (Stone and Glover 2016). Supplying vitamin A or any other nutrient in isolation only works for a transitional period of time, curing a symptom at best, while work progresses on the underlying place-based causes of hunger – lack of access to food, money, education and secure living conditions. Under those circumstances, as in parts of the Philippines, cheap vitamin A pills do the job much better, in a more targeted, controlled, and effective way than any patented GM crop could ever do. Fact no. 4: A missing roll-out plan
But even if the golden rice researchers do eventually manage to get some GM pro-Vitamin A rice varieties to perform agronomically, there seems to be no roll-out plan to ensure that it gets to those who need it. Those reasons have nothing to do with regulations and everything to do with logistics, institutions and finances. Will the golden rice developers truck their harvest into the urban slums and remote rural areas of Asia or Africa, or at least the Philippines, every day? Will they bring with them also the fat that malnourished people need to eat along with the rice to ensure they absorb the beta-carotene and convert it to vitamin A? And if they can do that, why aren‘t they bringing existing foods into those areas already? Why wait until a patented GM food is ready for delivery? There is no
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter shortage of vitamin-rich foods on this planet and beta-carotene is one of the commonest molecules in nature. Frequently, vitamin A-rich food exists in abundance and rots in storage or under trees not that far away from the places where people suffer from malnutrition. An alternative already in the field is, for example, a non-GMO orange sweet potato, a root crop compatible with improved crop rotations whose developers have been awarded the 2016 World Food Prize. Without a massive and expensive roll-out plan, golden rice will not even leave the field station of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), which is overseeing the golden rice project. Epic endeavour
If their plan is to cross the pro-vitamin A trait into the rice varieties that farmers grow in hungerstricken areas, they face an uphill logistic, financial, scientific and institutional battle. How will they get the transgenic trait reliably expressed in all of these varieties at the necessary concentrations over many generations of rice plantings and seed recycling? Who will pay for this epic endeavour? If they decide instead to only put the pro-vitamin A trait into a handful of, say, IRRI rice varieties (which we believe is the most likely plan – if there is a plan in the first place), many will fail because they will not perform in different local conditions and they typically require fertilizers and pesticides. If the plan is to switch farmers to growing a handful of patented biofortified varieties all over Asia and Africa, how will this be implemented? Who will deliver the seeds and accompanying chemicals to farmers – year after year, everywhere where it‘s needed, for free? And is this a sustainable solution? And what will happen to the thousands of existing ecologically and culturally well adapted varieties? The genetic diversity of crops and animals is our life-support system. Furthermore, have they asked the rice producers and consumers of Asia and Africa if they want many of their rice varieties to be yellow forever – even in times when the food shortages and nutrition deficiencies are over? Unresolved patent and ownership issues
According to the website www.goldenrice.org., a resource-poor farmer will be allowed to grow golden rice without license fees as long as his/her income is less than $10,000 per year. But, in practice, who decides which farmers are eligible? Who decides which income limit is appropriate in what country or region, and who enforces it on what authority and criteria? What about those farmers whose incomes exceed $10,000 per year? Who will decide when to collect fees, from whom, and for how long? How will the finances be arranged between Syngenta, which owns GR2, the seed multipliers and distributors, and the government? And if all this can be settled
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter with Syngenta – how about the next-in-line patented, biofortified GM crops? In case of dispute, will there be free access to lawyers for the resource-poor farmers? In their weekly column Schaffer and Ray (2016) reported about a meeting with an employee of the US State Department and discussing the benefits of GM crops for farmers and consumers in the Global South and whether or not farmers would have to pay a technology fee and purchase, for example, the golden rice seed each year. The State Department representative stated that the companies that own the patents would be willing to make the golden rice (or virus-resistant cassava) available at no cost provided that the countries adopted US patent regimes to protect other GM crops. From a policy perspective, such a ‗humanitarian‘ license agreement would thereby present a highly profitable transaction, a means to ‗encourage‘ developing countries that often do not even have patent laws of their own to accept the US patent regime and so ensure the profits of US companies and patent holders in perpetuity. In corporate agriculture it seems, nothing is really for free. These are just a few of the tough questions that have never been addressed or even acknowledged by promoters of golden rice or any other such projects. Shooting genes into nuclei and getting a few varieties to express a transgene is the easy part – although even that has proved elusive so far for GR2. Fact 5: Colonial mindset
Blaming Greenpeace for the failure of not only golden rice but other patented products of genetic engineering has been an irrational (or maybe calculated) obsession of some proponents and developers since the discussion began decades ago. Yet, it also reveals more subtle issues. Farmers and indigenous people are outraged when gene technology proponents accuse them of being instructed or manipulated by big Western NGOs like Greenpeace. They say that promoters of golden rice and other techno-solutions offered by developed countries rarely ask for or listen to their views and, thereby, reveal their lack of respect and comprehension. This attitude towards peasant farmers and indigenous peoples is typical of the still prevailing colonial, Western mindset – hidden or open. It assumes that the peasant farmers are ignorant people without the relevant knowledge entitling them to make informed decisions based on their own values and visions for their future. Sadly, the letter signed by Nobel laureates appears to be a continuation of this way of thinking. It reveals an attitude of supremacy over, and disrespect for, traditional and indigenous knowledge and peoples who want to have a say in their lives and communities and which path to take to ‗development‘ https://www.eureporter.co/frontpage/2016/08/15/millions-spent-no-one-served-who-is-to-blame-forfailure-of-gmo-golden-rice/
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Rice taskforce created, again Mon, 15 August 2016 Cheng Sokhorng
The Ministry of Commerce Rice is harvested from a field using a small harvest machine in Tbong Khmum province earlier this year. Heng Chivoan
set up a new taskforce on Friday to address challenges faced by the Kingdom‘s struggling rice industry and assess demands made by members of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), who have decried the ineffectiveness of an earlier taskforce set up by the ministry. Moul Sarith, CRF secretary, said the new taskforce will comprise 13 members from the Ministry of Commerce and 11 members from the CRF. The ad hoc working group will seek to address six separate points brought forward by CRF President Sok Puthyvuth during a meeting with Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak on Friday. One of the key demands by the CRF is to obtain shared responsibility with the Minister of Commerce to attribute Certificate of Origin status to rice exporters. ―We want the right to check and approve the certificate of origin of any rice exporter in order to strengthen and control rice quality and prevent false product labelling,‖ Sarith said. ―And as we are working to promote the rice sector, we wish to have a substantial role in the interactions that take place between the Chinese rice association and Cambodia.‖
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Former minister of commerce Sun Chantol created the first taskforce last March to study threats to the sustainability of the country‘s rice industry. Its goals at the time were to formulate urgent measures aimed at stemming the flood of illegal rice imports and facilitating the offer of $20-$30 million in soft loans to struggling rice millers. However, the new taskforce will not replace the previous one, but rather address separate issues, according to Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Soeng Sophary. ―The work of the new taskforce is to address the six points raised by the CRF and it will only exist temporarily to resolve these new emergencies,‖ she said. ―The previous taskforce was created to solve the issues faced by the sector as a whole and will continue working as normal.‖ Tang Chhong Ngy, marketing manager of rice miller LBN Angkor (Kampuchea), said the first taskforce had been highly ineffective and the second working group was created after the same issues were raised again by the CRF. ―We saw many procedures at the national level but none that actually went into operation,‖ he said http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-taskforce-created-again
Joint Working Group for Rice The Ministry of Commerce and the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) on Friday set up a joint working group to provide immediate relief to the Kingdom‘s beleaguered rice sector, where rice millers are currently struggling to stay afloat in a market flooded by cheap imports from Vietnam.According to a Ministry of Commerce press release on Friday, the joint working group will comprise experts from the ministry and CRF with a mandate to seek ―immediate solutions‖ and work with the Kingdom‘s development partners, to help Cambodia‘s ailing rice sector. ―Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak agreed to the formation of this joint working group and from this week, the group will begin its important work,‖ said Soeng Sophary, the Commerce Ministry‘s spokesperson. The specter of insolvency looms large over the businesses of rice millers in Cambodia as they struggle to recover from the aftereffects of a severe drought. To make matters worse, they are also facing stiff competition from low-grade rice flowing into the country from Vietnam.In March, rice millers and exporters wrote to the government urging intervention due to stiff competition in export markets as well as domestic ones. In the letter, they said they were facing a cash crunch due to a flood of low-grade rice from Vietnam while stressing that bankruptcy was widespread among farmers, millers and exporters alike.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter The letter said Vietnamese companies were snapping up high-quality Cambodian paddy for export from Vietnam and flooding the Cambodian market with low-grade rice. This, the letter said, was driving domestic millers out of the market.The working group will discuss all issues troubling the rice sector,‖ said Sok Puthy Vuth, the president of CRF.―The issues would also include an independent monitoring of milled rice exports, the trademark registration of Malis [fragrant] rice and the use of the word ‗Tonle Sap‘ to geographically indicate Cambodia‘s milled rice,‖ said Mr. Vuth.
Mr. Vuth said the working group would also follow up on the application for a $300 million loan from the Chinese government, to build large silos to store rice for milling.The CRF has been urging the government to build silos for storing paddy rice in order to boost rice exports and the $300 million loan was to build 10 large silos, which could store a total of 1.2 million tons of paddy rice to ensure both millers and exporters had a continuous supply of the commodity.Aun Pornmoniroth, Economy and Finance Minister, said in a meeting with CRF in late June that Cambodia would not totally stop importing rice from neighboring countries, including Vietnam. However, he said the government planned to reduce the export duty of milled rice.According data from Ministry of Agriculture, Cambodia‘s rice exports fell about six percent from 283,825 tons in the first six months of last year to about 268,190 tons in same period this year http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28455/joint-working-group-for-rice/
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter More than 100 Nobel-winning scientists have hit back at campaigners like Greenpeace, claiming the new advances will help fight world hunger
Getty Golden Rice could help fight vitamin A deficiency and related diseases
Genetically modified food is back under the spotlight and I have to admit, I‘ve never been against it. Nature itself changes the genes in plants to produce ―natural‖ GM foods. Plus, explosive increases in the world‘s population means such advances are needed to fight famine.Now 109 eminent Nobel laureates have told us to stop GMO-bashing too.They have posted a letter online saying: ― Greenpeace has spearheaded opposition to Golden Rice, which has the potential to reduce or eliminate much of the death and disease caused by a vitamin A deficiency, which has the greatest impact on the poorest people in Africa and southeast Asia.‖ How can anyone fly in the face of preventing starvation? Not me.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter I agree with the proponents of genetically modified foods such as Golden Rice, which contains genes from corn and a bacterium, when they argue they‘re a source of essential nutrients.
Greenpeace has accused corporations of over-hyping Golden Rice
Greenpeace counter that argument by saying that corporations are over-hyping Golden Rice to pave the way for global approval of other more profitable genetically engineered crops.
To set the record straight, Richard J Roberts, one of two winners of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, spearheaded the letter writing.He said: ―There‘s been a tremendous amount of misinformation put out by Greenpeace.‖And he added that some plant scientists had been attacked so fiercely over their views that they have gone silent.In the letter, the laureates – all but 10 of who earned their prizes for physics, chemistry or medicine – contend that genetically modified organisms have consistently been found to be safe.They wrote: ―Scientific
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter and regulatory agencies around the world have consistently found crops and foods improved through biotechnology to be as safe as, if not safer than those derived from any other method of production. World hunger is still a tragic problem
―There has never been a single confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their consumption. Their environmental impacts have been shown repeatedly to be less damaging to the environment, and a boon to global biodiversity.‖In 2014, the Pew Research Center, in Washington, D.C, US, found a huge gap in understanding and viewpoints between the public and scientists on this issue.One in four people in the US said GM foods were safe to eat, while nine out of 10 scientists connected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science said the same.Science convinces me, not opinion nor emotional arguments. http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/im-favour-genetically-modified-food-8631016
Review: Antique Bazaar’s India Independence Day menu The Dubai stalwart takes a colour-based interpretation of the flag, and it works
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Antique Bazaar's India Independence Day menu is served August 14-16Image Credit: Supplied
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The restaurant is a mainstay on Dubai‘s Indian culinary sceneImage Credit: Supplied Published: 16:00 August 14, 2016 Eduan R. Maggo | Editor — Country Guides
How much of the Tricolour is too much? This was the question growing in our minds at a preview of the Independence Day set menu at Antique Bazaar. In a showing of nationalist pride, even the menu shouts rather than whispers what‘s to be expected. The Tricolour takes centre stage, and everyone from Gandhi to Nehru are namechecked.It all starts with a combination of cucumber, white radish and carrot in the Tiranga Salad, a visual representation of India‘s flag finished off with green chili and lemon standing in for the navy blue Ashoka Chakra. The emphasis is clearly on the visual, although the veggies make for refreshing, crunchy nibbles. No attempt is made to enhance an interplay between the different ingredients, to — in a way — aid the way they relate to each other. Normally, this would be a critical point. Not today, though. Because it is National Day, after all. And if you can‘t make allowances on a day like this, then when can you?
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter And an acceptance of this realisation increases the fun quotient exponentially. Because ultimately the team don‘t take themselves too seriously with what‘s a more relaxed take on a special menu — and the first time Manager Ravinder Singh Manhas and his team have attempted to create one. First there‘s seeing how the Tricolour is interpreted in every course laid before you — yes, some work better than others — and then you also get to experience the different dishes for their individual — and sometimes collective — merit. The team in the kitchen set themselves another challenge on top of this — they‘ve created two complete menus — one vegetarian and the other non-veg — playing with the same interpretation. In some cases using the same basis of spices work, others call for a wholly different take. In Inqallabi Tikke, the starter course, the white component won us over: chatpatti tandoori gobhi, an amazing cauliflower dish that‘s creamy and perfectly seasoned with a chunkier version of the chicken‘s marinade. My companion was quite surprised by the relish with which I tucked into the veg, and my reasoning still stands: I would turn vegetarian today if all vegetable dished were this engaging. The florets hit that sweet spot between undercooked crunchy and overcooked limp and are complemented by the marinade, which also highlights the difference between the veg and the non-veg courses: I found the chicken version bland. The course also features broccoli with a mint-based tang and fish with a predominant ajwain flavour in the green band, and lamb that could be more tender and paneer tikka we just didn‘t care for in the orange. The mains come with a colourful bread basket in — you guessed it — the colours of the flag. Again, the emphasis is more on colour than flavour, but Jalliaanwala Baagh Se add to the fun spread. There‘s a regular kulcha, for the middle stripe, and tandoori breads made with fresh spinach for the green, and a carrot-red chili powder combination for the saffron one. In this course, called Gandhi Giri, the meat versions are absolutely stellar. Chicken gets the creamy treatment once again in a white korma curry that‘s way better than the starter; the textbook batter-fried, still flaky fish gets a slightly more spicy tomato-based curry; and the mutton, soft as you want, gets a gorgeous spinach curry. A rich dal makhani (Bhagat Ki Pasand) and long-grain basmati rice perfumed with cloves (Bose Ka Khazaana) round it off. This course is an example of perfect execution — each works well individually, while the different styles also play well off each other in terms of flavour and texture. The restaurant, rather empty when we started around 8pm, by this stage is a hive of activity and the buzz is infectious. The ghazal singers and classical dancers mix in some Bollywood item numbers diners singing along to while gesticulating wildly.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Dessert, Nehru Ki Pasand, is slightly more subtle than the preceding courses. A simple halwa of grated carrot is sprinkled with crushed pistachio, which also makes its way onto ras malai, the sponge exactly right and just sweet enough without going overboard. The featured drink, Azadi Ke Naam, is a refreshingly tangy mango lassi. Elevated with a hint of lime and mint, it holds its own throughout the meal. Antique Bazaar is a mainstay on Dubai‘s Indian culinary scene for a reason. It might not be one of the flashy new joints everyone raves about on social media, but theirs is a tried-and-trusted kitchen — you always know you won‘t leave unsatisfied. Even with the National Day trial run, we enjoyed the element of fun introduced by the colourbased interpretation of the Tricolour. What sells us, though, is that taste and flavour remain the most important considerations. So, how much of the Tricolour is too much? No amount — if you feed my palate along with my heart. Antique Bazaar’s India Independence Day menu is served August 14-16. It costs Dh130 for the vegetarian menu, and Dh150 for non-veg. Find the restaurant in Four Points by Sheraton Bur Dubai, Khalid Bin Al Waleed Road; 04 397 7444; antiquebazaar-dubai.com http://gulfnews.com/gn-focus/country-guides/reports/india/review-antique-bazaar-s-indiaindependence-day-menu-1.1878820
Recent research explores the Rice Transplanter Sales Market Saturday, August 13th, 2016 - WiseGuyReports
This report studies sales (consumption) of Rice Transplanter in Global market, especially in Nort h America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and India, focuses on top players in these regio ns/countries, with sales, price, revenue and market share for each player in these regions, coverin g John Deere Mahindra TAFE International Tractors AGCO Beri Udyog CLAAS
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter CNH Industrial Daedong Industrial Escorts Group Fotol Lovol Kubota Tractors KUHN Group LEMKEN India McCormick Pottinger SDF Group Market Segment by Regions, this report splits Global into several key Regions, with sales (consu mption), revenue, market share and growth rate of Rice Transplanter in these regions, from 2011 to 2021 (forecast), like North America China Europe Japan Southeast Asia India Split by product types, with sales, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, can be divided into Type I Type II Type III Split by applications, this report focuses on sales, market share and growth rate of Rice Transpla nter in each application, can be divided into Agricultural Application 2 Application 3 GET SAMPLE REPORT @ Rice Transplanter Sales Market 2021 Market Research Repor t COMPANIES PROFILED : 9 Global Rice Transplanter Manufacturers Analysis 9.1 John Deere 9.1.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.1.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.1.2.1 Type I 9.1.2.2 Type II 9.1.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2016)
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter 9.2 Mahindra 9.2.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.2.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.2.2.1 Type I 9.2.2.2 Type II 9.2.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2016) 9.3 TAFE 9.3.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.3.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.3.2.1 Type I 9.3.2.2 Type II 9.3.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2016) 9.4 International Tractors 9.4.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.4.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.4.2.1 Type I 9.4.2.2 Type II 9.4.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2016) 9.5 AGCO 9.5.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.5.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.5.2.1 Type I 9.5.2.2 Type II 9.5.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2016) 9.6 Beri Udyog 9.6.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.6.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.6.2.1 Type I 9.6.2.2 Type II 9.6.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2016) 9.7 CLAAS 9.7.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.7.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.7.2.1 Type I 9.7.2.2 Type II 9.7.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2017) 9.8 CNH Industrial 9.8.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.8.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.8.2.1 Type I 9.8.2.2 Type II 9.8.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2018)
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter 9.9 Daedong Industrial 9.9.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.9.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.9.2.1 Type I 9.9.2.2 Type II 9.9.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2019) 9.10 Escorts Group 9.10.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base and Competitors 9.10.2 Rice Transplanter Product Type and Technology 9.10.2.1 Type I 9.10.2.2 Type II 9.10.3 Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Company One (2015 and 2021) List of Tables and Figures Figure Picture of Rice Transplanter Table Classification of Rice Transplanter Figure Global Sales Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Type in 2015 Table Applications of Rice Transplanter Figure Global Sales Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Applications in 2015 Figure Agricultural Examples Figure North America Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure China Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Europe Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Japan Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure India Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue and Price (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales of Key Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Figure 2015 Rice Transplanter Sales Share by Manufacturers Figure 2016 Rice Transplanter Sales Share by Manufacturers Table Global Rice Transplanter Revenue by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table 2015 Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Share by Manufacturers Table 2016 Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Share by Manufacturers Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales and Market Share by Type (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales Share by Type (2011-2021) Figure Sales Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Type (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Sales Growth Rate by Type (2011-2021)
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Table Global Rice Transplanter Revenue and Market Share by Type (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Share by Type (2011-2021) Figure Revenue Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Type (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Growth Rate by Type (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales and Market Share by Regions (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales Share by Regions (2011-2021) Figure Sales Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Regions (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Sales Growth Rate by Regions (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Share by Regions (2011-2021) Figure Revenue Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Regions (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Revenue Growth Rate by Regions (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales and Market Share by Application (2011-2021) Table Global Rice Transplanter Sales Share by Application (2011-2021) Figure Sales Market Share of Rice Transplanter by Application (2011-2021) Figure Global Rice Transplanter Sales Growth Rate by Application (2011-2021) Figure North America Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure North America Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure North America Rice Transplanter Sales Price Trend (2011-2021) Table North America Rice Transplanter Sales by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table North America Rice Transplanter Market Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table North America Rice Transplanter Sales by Type (2015 and 2016) Table North America Rice Transplanter Market Share by Type (2015 and 2016) Table North America Rice Transplanter Sales by Applications (2015 and 2016) Table North America Rice Transplanter Market Share by Applications (2015 and 2016) Figure Europe Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Europe Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Europe Rice Transplanter Sales Price Trend (2011-2021) Table Europe Rice Transplanter Sales by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Europe Rice Transplanter Market Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Europe Rice Transplanter Sales by Type (2015 and 2016) Table Europe Rice Transplanter Market Share by Type (2015 and 2016) Table Europe Rice Transplanter Sales by Applications (2015 and 2016) Table Europe Rice Transplanter Market Share by Applications (2015 and 2016) Figure China Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure China Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure China Rice Transplanter Sales Price Trend (2011-2021) Table China Rice Transplanter Sales by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table China Rice Transplanter Market Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table China Rice Transplanter Sales by Type (2015 and 2016) Table China Rice Transplanter Market Share by Type (2015 and 2016) Table China Rice Transplanter Sales by Applications (2015 and 2016)
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Table China Rice Transplanter Market Share by Applications (2015 and 2016) Figure Japan Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Japan Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Japan Rice Transplanter Sales Price Trend (2011-2021) Table Japan Rice Transplanter Sales by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Japan Rice Transplanter Market Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Japan Rice Transplanter Sales by Type (2015 and 2016) Table Japan Rice Transplanter Market Share by Type (2015 and 2016) Table Japan Rice Transplanter Sales by Applications (2015 and 2016) Table Japan Rice Transplanter Market Share by Applications (2015 and 2016) Figure India Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure India Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure India Rice Transplanter Sales Price Trend (2011-2021) Table India Rice Transplanter Sales by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table India Rice Transplanter Market Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table India Rice Transplanter Sales by Type (2015 and 2016) Table India Rice Transplanter Market Share by Type (2015 and 2016) Table India Rice Transplanter Sales by Applications (2015 and 2016) Table India Rice Transplanter Market Share by Applications (2015 and 2016) Figure Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Sales and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Revenue and Growth Rate (2011-2021) Figure Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Sales Price Trend (2011-2021) Table Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Sales by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Market Share by Manufacturers (2015 and 2016) Table Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Sales by Type (2015 and 2016) Table Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Market Share by Type (2015 and 2016) Table Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Sales by Applications (2015 and 2016) Table Southeast Asia Rice Transplanter Market Share by Applications (2015 and 2016) Table John Deere Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of John Deere (2015 and 2016) Table Mahindra Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Mahindra (2015 and 2016) Table TAFE Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of TAFE (2015 and 2016) Table International Tractors Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of International Tractors (2015 and 2016) Table AGCO Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of AGCO (2015 and 2016) Table Beri Udyog Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Beri Udyog (2015 and 2016) Table CLAAS Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of CLAAS (2015 and 2016)
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Table CNH Industrial Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of CNH Industrial (2015 and 2016) Table Daedong Industrial Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Daedong Industrial (2015 and 2016) Table Escorts Group Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Escorts Group (2015 and 2016) Table Fotol Lovol Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Fotol Lovol (2015 and 2016) Table Kubota Tractors Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Kubota Tractors (2015 and 2016) Table KUHN Group Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of KUHN Group (2015 and 2016) Table LEMKEN India Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of LEMKEN India (2015 and 2016) Table McCormick Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of McCormick (2015 and 2016) Table Pottinger Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of Pottinger (2015 and 2016) Table SDF Group Basic Information List Table Rice Transplanter Sales, Revenue, Price of SDF Group (2015 and 2016) CONTINUED GET EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT @ Rice Transplanter Sales Market 2021 Market Research Report Contact Norah Trent sales@wiseguyreports.com +1 646 845 9349 / +44 208 133 9349 www.wiseguyreports.com http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/89905/recent-research-explores-the-rice-transplanter-salesmarket#.V7GesKLfVAE
Rice harvest: Kebbi now haven to millers, buyers By Ismail Adebayo, Birnin Kebbi | Publish Date: Aug 15 2016 5:00AM A rice farmer, Hajiya Hauwa being assisted by other farmers to harvest her rice. A major turnaround in the cultivation of rice is occuring in Kebbi State
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Given the bountiful harvest that is being recorded by farmers during this year‘s dry season rice farming, Kebbi State has become a new haven to conventional, local millers and rice traders from Sokoto, Kano, Zamfara, EbonyI, Lagos, Maiduguri, Niger and other parts of the country. Also it has continued to witness the influx of rice buyers from Niger Republic, Benin and other neighbouring countries. Because of this the price of paddy rice has jumped up. Farmers now charge between N10,000 to N12,000 for a bag of paddy rice in the state. Under the Anchor Borrowers arrangement, government is expected to buy a bag of paddy rice from the registered farmers at the rate of N113,000 per ton. However, they are now selling to the third buyers at the rate of N10,000 to N12,000 per bag. When our correspondent visited some rice farms around Birnin Kebbi, Augie, Bunza, Argungu and Yauri areas of the state, some of the farmers who spoke to us could not hold their excitement while narrating their success story. Alhaji Sahadi Augie is the Chairman of the Rice Farmers Association in the state. In words laden with excitement, he said ―Do you know that from April to this time millers and other rice traders from Sokoto, Kano, Zamfara, Ebony, Lagos, Maiduguri, Niger and others have been coming in trucks and trailers to buy rice here. The good thing is that our farmers are still on the field planting rice, so the harvest will continue till October this year. Given this unprecedented success recorded in this year‘s harvest across the state, Kebbi would not only meet the rice needs of the country, but within a short time that of West Africa.‖ He added ―We are lucky the weather was favourable, the input that was given to the farmers was effective , and it has assisted greatly in raising the yield during this year‘s harvest. I must say that the harvest was very good for us. It has never been like this before. I am very optimistic that we will surpass the 1 million metric tons target very soon. This is because this year we harvested rice in Kebbi in the way we have never harvested it before. It was really a bumper harvest. You realize that under the Anchor Borrowers programme 70,000 farmers were engaged to produce rice in the state. Each of them was given the required inputs to cultivate one hectare of rice farm. Under the scheme there was a programme carved out for rice millers like Labana and Humza from Kano, to engage an additional eight thousand farmers, so in all 78,000 farmers were engaged at small scale level to produce rice for the state. These are not the only rice farmers that we have. Kebbi has over 300,000 rice farmers, even though they are not captured under this programme, they are also producing rice on their own.‖
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter The federal government has invested N15 billion on this year‘s rice/wheat farming in Kebbi State. Apart from the 78,000 small-scale rice producers in the state, there are other 1,700 large scale ones that were not captured under the rice production programme. Speaking in the same vein a rice farmer in Argungu, Muhammed Abdullahi said the huge harvest being recorded by the farmers was expected. ―More than before, everybody is now involved in rice farming. Don‘t forget the entire River Niger valley area in Kebbi North is 11,600 kilometer square of irrigable land. It was estimated to be about 120,000 hectares of irrigable land along the river Niger valley ,and Kebbi has over 500,000 hectares of Fadama land. We have over 250 members of the water user‘s association who are entirely farmers along the flood plain area. The Anchor Borrowers scheme has really improved our rice farming, and it might not be long before we start feeding the other West African countries.‖ Augie explained that the initial agreement between government and farmers was that once they are given the loan, fertilizer, generator and pumping machines, they are to pay back by selling rice to government. ―However, the influx of buyers, local and conventional millers from all over the country, in large numbers and buying in large quantities, has brought about high increase in the price of paddy rice. With this development, farmers felt they would be shortchanged should they sell to government at the initially agreed price. This made us to change our agreement. Now farmers have the option of either paying back to government in cash or by paddy rice. This is to safeguard them from being shortchanged and as well defaulted. Under the Anchor Borrowers arrangement government is buying from farmers at the rate of N113,000 per ton, but farmers could sell to the third buyers at the rate of N9,000 to N10,000 per bag. We cannot give the exact number of tons of rice that we have produced now because harvesting is still going one,but between 1.1 to 1.2 million tons is our possible target.‖ He continued ―I can hardly find a word to commend facilitators of this rice programme. For several years before now we had been importing rice into this country at the rate of one billion naira per day, whereas we could produce it within the states. We were making farmers of other countries to make money while we are poor. Before now there were moves to do something like this, but the policies were inconsistent.But this time we are lucky both the president and our governor are determined to address the issue.We will also go all out to make sure this programme on rice production succeeds. We can‘t quantify the kind of economic advantage it has brought to many farmers and rice traders in the state.‖ 30
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter Alhaji Muhammed Garba Dandiga is the Commissioner for Agriculture and Chairman of the Committee on Agricultural Programme in the state. He said ―Suru area alone is about 40 kilometres in spread. Some farmlands there are over 15,000 hectares. We have locations like that in more than 10 places where we are doing irrigation farming. This has greatly boosted this year‘s rice harvest in the state. It is not our effort but it is that of God and those of the federal government and Central Bank of Nigeria who gave us the opportunity. If we reach our climax, we will not only feed Nigeria but the entire West Africa.‖ While telling her story, Hajiya Hadiza Abdullahi, one of the women farmers in the Argungu area said ―This is my tenth year in rice farming. Before my husband died we were doing this together, I was helping him in the farm, but now the responsibility is mine. Rice farming is now much better than it was in the past. I was able to achieve a lot in this year‘s harvest. The incentives given to me have helped to increase my yield and production capacity. I farm on 5 hectares of land and with this harvest I am expecting over 600 bags of rice. When I was to start, government gave me a generator, fertilizer, pumping machines, faro 44 seeds and money. You can see I am getting old, I am being assisted on the farm by my three children but it has been good. It is a bumper harvest for me this year.‖ Her farmer friend, Halimatu Muhammed said ―I started rice farming about 14 years ago. The farming method has changed now, compared to how we used to do it in the past. What we are witnessing in rice farming now in Kebbi has never happened before. During this year‘s dry season farming I harvested over 200 bags of rice. If I get more money I could produce more than 1,000 bags of rice.‖ Bashiru Hassan is one of the farmers excited by the bumper harvest. ―I just finished harvesting my rice. I am so happy over the yield and I have started preparing for another planting season. The rice I just harvested was on three hectares of land. I am expected to get over 100 bags of rice from it, but I got 60 bags due to the problems I encountered on the varieties of seeds that I planted. Some did well while some did not. But I thank the Almighty it was a good yield after all. I think the little problem I had was because of my inexperience in rice farming. This was my first time of planting rice even though I started farming in 1982. I was planting groundnut, maize and millet before I ventured into rice farming, but I have learnt well now. The next farming season would be different. I planned to give Labana Mills 30 bags, government 20 bags and I will sell the remaining 10 bags to private buyers. I was told the price is now between N9,000 to N10,000.This price may soon go up because there are many buyers and millers from other states and neighbouring countries, and many of them are presently in Kebbi.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter We really thank government for closing the border to rice importation. It will help to boost rice production and everybody will be happy.‖ Hajiya Hauwa Usman is one of the women rice farmers at Harasawa rice farm area in Birnin Kebbi ―This is my first time of venturing into rice farming. I was into Cassava farming. When I was growing up I used to follow my parents to the farm, because that was what they were doing. So when I got married I still feel the urge to farm. When my son decided he wanted to go into rice farming I decided to back him. We were given this farm land to grow rice, and today we are happy. We thank God for making the harvest a success. As you can see we are still harvesting but it is with joy. If we can get another land we would love to do more than this, though we had problem with the seeds we were given initially. While some take four months, others take six months to harvest. I planted on one hectare of land and we are expecting nothing less than 15 to 20 bags of rice in this harvest. I would love to do rice farming again, but my fear now is that the person who leased this land to me might also want to use it for farming, because everybody is now going into rice farming.‖ Another rice farmer, Bashir Muhammed Nasarawa said ―This harvest means a lot of things to me. I ventured into rice farming this year. I did the registration to participate in the Anchor Borrowers programme in 2015 through the Bank of Agriculture. With this harvest I realize I can no longer rely on anybody again. I can rely on myself doing the rice farming. I am more than happy doing it. After this harvest I will continue rice planting immediately. I am expecting over 25 bags of rice in this harvest. I now have the experience .I believe I will do a lot better in the next farming season. I just hope to get a bigger land, at least about five hectares to plant rice http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/feature/rice-harvest-kebbi-now-haven-to-millers-buyers/158968.html.
Modi vents ire at 'cow vigilantes' By Mahendra Ved - 13 August 2016 @ 11:01 AM 20 INDIA‘s cow has found a ―savior‖ in Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But, his task places him in conflict with the very people who elected him two years ago. Last week, he vented his ―anger‖ at ―self-styled‖ vigilantes who, in the name of ―protecting the mother‖, have been targeting cowherds and farmers selling off old animals, tanners, transporters and Muslims suspected of consuming beef. Cow protection (gau raksha) has become ―a business‖ of ―anti-socials with criminal records‖, he charged. ―If you want to attack, attack me, not dalits.
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter If you want to shoot, shoot me,‖ he told those behind recent atrocities on dalits, the low-caste Hindus. His rhetoric excluded the Muslims, though. ―India is a country full of diversities, different values and traditions, and protecting its unity and integrity is our prime responsibility,‖ he said, decrying ―a handful of people destroying the social fabric and creating conflict in our society‖. If at all, cows needed protection from dying from ―eating plastic‖, he said, referring to the abandoned hungry animals scouring for food in garbage. A common site, this has troubled conservationists and animal lovers. While welcoming his belated breaking of silence, what he should have said, but did not (or cannot), needs noting. Decrying vigilantism, Modi did not dissociate himself, his government and the party from the ―cause‖ of cow protection. He referred to historical battles between rajas and badshahs, a clear Hindu-versus-Muslim metaphor. The latter, he said, would use cows as shields in a battle. The former would not hit cows, and eventually, lost. He contrasted ―real cow-protectors‖ from ―fake‖ ones and asked the former to ―expose‖ the latter. By terming perpetrators as ―anti-socials‖, Modi sought to insulate his party and its numerous affiliate bodies that come under the umbrella of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). These affiliates have, by their own admission, been engaging in violence across the country. It is a given, anywhere, that anti-socials become part of mob campaigns. The ―cannot‖ caveat inserted above is because Modi, despite his high-profile, even personalised, governance style, heading a government with massive parliamentary majority and his party ruling in most major states, is increasingly seen as being isolated. This isolation comes from opposition to his attempts to carry diverse forces along and push economic development and reforms. It is from within and ―above‖ — the RSS to which he, most of his ministers and a majority of his party‘s lawmakers at the federal and state levels belong. The organisation has supported Modi‘s new stance, but its cadres are reportedly furious. Modi avoided directly naming any person or organisation. Why? A prime minister ―only sends a message‖, explains a party official, which may be so. That message earned a repost from a prominent cow-protection body that reminded him of the support it had lent during the 2014 electoral campaign. Modi himself dismissed his widely perceived failure to speak up earlier as the political opposition‘s gambit to win ―TRPs on TV‖. The action ought to come not from him but from administrations, especially at the state level. Now that he has spoken, bureaucracy may act vigilantes, going by past experience, may pipe down for a while. The issue has long history and numerous paradoxes. The biggest paradox, perhaps, is that the ―Hindu‖ India, widely perceived as a vegetarian‘s paradise, is the world‘s
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Daily Global, Regional and Local Rice E-Newsletter fifth biggest beef consumer. During his 2014 campaign, Modi had accused the Congress-led regimes of promoting a ―pink revolution‖, an euphemism for beef exports. But, the law prohibiting cow slaughter, upheld by the Supreme Court many times, was also enacted during the Congress era. India has the world‘s largest cattle population that is crucial to its economy. It is the fourth largest producer of beef after Brazil, the European Union and China. Beef constitutes the second biggest chunk of meat production in Asia‘s third largest economy. Most of it comes from water buffaloes and the rest, from other cattle, as per data from the department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries. Beef exports give India more foreign revenue than even the aromatic basmati rice, CNN Money reported in August last year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are top importers of Indian beef. The legal trade has even gone online. At the ―informal‖ level, millions of cattle are smuggled out to neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh with connivance on both sides. Analysts see cow protection campaign, meant to rally the Hindus, as more divisive than an earlier one over building of Lord Rama‘s temple in the holy Ayodhya city, during which the 16th century Babri Mosque was demolished in 1992. That was, and remains, a legal dispute. The Hindustan Times newspaper asked: ―Is cow protection the new Ram Mandir?‖ The cow protection campaign targets large sections of low-caste Hindus, besides minority Muslims and Christians, who are estimated to consume beef as a cheap protein source. With forensic laboratories pressed into service to investigate if a said piece of meat was beef or not, the cow protection programme is implicating all meateaters. With his disclaimers, Modi has sought to control the damage being caused by the political fallout, of which could be serious in key states where assembly elections are due. His expression of ―anger‖ came amidst replacing the chief minister of Gujarat that Modi ruled before becoming prime minister. It seemed a direct consequence of the vigilante-led violence. Hindu youths traditionally engaged in skinning and tanning of slaughtered animals were publicly thrashed. Vigilantes themselves posted video clips on the social media ―to set an example‖. Otherwise friendly United States lawmakers and groups elsewhere monitoring religious oppression have expressed concern afresh. Frequent vigilantism is sullying India‘s image abroad that Modi has assiduously sought to build. Reverence for cow, whether genuine or whipped up, cannot override the basic reality that a debtridden farmer, struggling to raise crop and a family amidst daunting uncertainties, cannot afford to feed cattle that can‘t be milked or tied to the yoke. It‘s piety-versus-productivity. The writer, NST‘s New Delhi correspondent, is the president of the Commonwealth Journalists Association and a consultant with ‗Power Politics‘ monthly magazine 182 reads INDIA‘s cow has found a ―savior‖ in Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But, his task places him in conflict with the very people who elected him two years ago. Reuters Photo RECOMMENDED Student electrocuted to death while taking shower Massage parlour staff gets RM9k fine for offering sex to policemen Driver disobeys order, rams into traffic policeman Depressed businessman jumps to his death from Subang J http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/08/165209/modi-vents-ire-cow-vigilantes
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