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Sindh Government and Rice Exporters Association of
Pakistan agree to undertake joint efforts to promote rice
cultivation, enhance capacity building of rice growers and
increase rice export
NA offers solace on farm inputs, remains divided on crop
prices
Rice promotion event in Paris
China, Pakistan likely to revise FTA
Nuffield study investigates rice straw by-products for
Australian growers
Rice industry scholarships open
Study: States drought most severe in at least 1,200 years
Thai suspension of rice sales to bring benefits to Vietnam
Commerce Ministry to step up measures to boost prices of
agricultural products
USA Rice Family Grows
USA Rice Congratulates Winners of "Healthy Brown Rice
on the Menu Contest"
CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures
2014 USA Rice Outlook Conference
CM assures all support to increase rice export
Lesser paddy purchase in Punjab, Haryana as basmati
acreage rises
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News Detail.
Sindh Government and Rice
Exporters Association of
Pakistan agree to undertake
joint efforts to promote rice
cultivation, enhance capacity
building of rice growers and
called on him under the leadership of Mr.

Rafique Suleman Chairman (REAP) at CM
House Karachi today, said that farmers /
millers/ exporters were the main organs for
increasing the volume of rice export and
earn foreign exchange and the create the
more demand of rice production, which
ultimately will be more beneficial for the
growers.
Dec
4,
2014 Posted By MediaLine
Pakistan In Government
Institutions
Tagged Chief Minister House
The Chief Minister Sindh said that though

export was the Federal subject but he will
talk to concerned ministries of Federal Govt
to get the rice exporters of Sindh facilitated
accordingly he assured. However, the Chief
Minister Sindh directed the members of
REAP also to attend the interests of the rice
growers while determining the price of
rice.He said that Sindh was Agro based
province and more than 70% its population
depend on Agro Products. He said Sindh
was rich in rice quality and added that the
rice verities Basmati and non
Karachi, December 04, 2014 (PPI-OT): The

Sindh Govt and Management of Rice
Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP)
agreed to undertake joint efforts to promote
rice cultivation, enhance capacity building
of rice growers and increase the volume of
rice export for their bilateral benefits.The
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah
formed committee headed by Sindh Minister
for Agriculture Ali Nawaz Khan Mahar with
Secretary Agriculture and representatives for
reap as members and assigned them to work
out schedule, starting from educating the
rice growers through seminars, literature and
mechanical exhibitions for their capacity
building to increase par acre production,
avoid harvesting losses and introduce new
but qualitative specially late varieties which
are suppose to be sown in the time when
water is available in rice canal.
The Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali
Shah presiding over meeting with the 13
members delegation of Rice Export
Association of Pakistan (REAP) which
Basmati were very much popular in the

world as such there is need of opening new
windows of exports in the other
countries.He said that whatever facilities
fallen in the competency of Sindh Govt
would be provided to the exporters, to
encourage rice exporters and growers.
However he stressed upon the exporters to
try their best to project and export
competitive rice varies to grip the
International market.While talking about the
Law and Order situation the Chief Minister
Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that after
targeted operation against the heinous
crimes and terrorism, more than 65% crime
rate has been decreased in Karachi and some

crime like kidnapping for ransom was in
respite.
He said that now the volume of trade and
Business and investment was being
increased in Karachi and rest of province,
where situation was peaceful. The Chief
Minister welcomed the gesture demonstrated
by REAP delegation for undertaking joint
efforts for capacity building of rice
growers.The Sindh Minister for Agriculture
Ali Nawaz Khan Mahar asked the reap
management to have separate meeting with
him along with his administration to sort out
all problems of REAP on the spot. He also
assured that Sindh Agriculture Department
was ready for arranging joint seminars,
workshops for the education of rice growers
and also to implement the recommendations
passed by experts in the Seminars.
The Chairman REAP Rafiq Suleman while
talking in the meeting said that they became
exporters because of rice growers as such
they intend to enhance the volume of export
with Govt facilities, create awareness and
skill development of rice growers to
encourage and enabling them to meet the
future demand of rice production and earn
more.He said that from July 2013 to Nov
2013 reap has exported 228.171 MT ton of
Basmati rice and earns $ 224.674,164
million, whereas its export volume from
July 2014 to Nov 2014 remained 5% more
with 238,450 MT ton against the foreign
exchange of $280.789,966 million.Similarly
export volume of non
Basmati rice remained 877.817 MT ton
against foreign exchange of $ 355.769,988
million from July 2013 to Nov 2013 and
1.019,537 MT ton against $411.911,517
million from July 2014 to Nov 2014 which
according to him remained 16% higher than

last year.However he said that they are
experiencing some problems in the way of
their smooth business including shortage of
power especially at the Hawksbay area of
Karachi which has badly affected their
business. He demanded that industrial areas
must be exempted from load shading.
He said that the REAP was in the way to
explore and increase export opportunities
specially in China Malaysia, Indonesia,
Kenya , Iran , Iraq and other countries for
which Govt support is needed. The
Secretary Agriculture Saqib Soomro briefed
the meeting and said that over all total 4
million tons rice has been exported till date
during 2014-2015 and added that against
this export $ 2 billion have been earned.
For more information, contact:
Mr. Allah Bachayo Memon
Press Secretary
Chief Minister House
Tel: +92-21-99202019
Cell: +92-300-3524057 (Ext: 336)
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NA offers solace on farm
inputs, remains divided on
crop prices
Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharifs view seemed to have prevailed in
the National Assembly on Thursday as
the house demanded that the government
abolish general sales tax (GST) on
agricultural machinery and other inputs,
but sidestepped demands for increasing
support prices of crops because of a
stated division in a standing committee.
The house demand came in its adoption of a
report of its standing committee on national
food security and research after persistent
demands by the farm lobby in the house for
increases in the support prices of crops amid
a glut and price fall in the domestic
market.The
20-member
committee,
dominated by the ruling PML-N,
recommended that GST levied on
agricultural machinery, fertilisers, pesticides
and other agricultural input items should be
waived off in the best interest of
farms.Landowning lawmakers from both
sides of aisle have been demanding increase
in support price of wheat, rice, cotton and
sugarcane.
Neither the committees report nor its
unanimous adoption by the house, without
any debate, is binding on the government.
But it reflected the governments viewpoint

which came six days after National Food
Security and Research Minister Sikandar
Hayat Bosan told the house that the prime
minister had set up a committee to
recommend ways to lower the cost of
agricultural production, instead of raising
support prices every now and then.It also
followed a government notification last
month fixing lower electricity rates for
agricultural tubewells.
It was PML-N member Raza Hayat Harrajs
strong advocacy in the house on Oct 28 of
the farming communitys demand for higher
support prices that had prompted Speaker
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to refer the question to
the committee.Its report said Mr Harraj and
a few other members of the committee
were strongly of the view that the support
price of wheat be increased to Rs1,500 from
Rs1,300 per 40 kg or the GST imposed on
agricultural machinery and other agricultural
inputs should be waived off.But it said that
after an intensive discussion, the committee
could not develop a consensus to fix the
support price of wheat and other crops.
TRANSIT TRADE: The report said the
committee was informed that the
government was taking serious steps
regarding Afghan transit trade through
Pakistan and that the food security ministry
assured the committee that Indian wheat
would not be allowed to enter into Pakistani
territory for its export to Afghanistan.Yet,
as a sign of its own emphasis, the committee
too recommended that Indian wheat may
not be allowed to enter into Pakistani
territory for its export to Afghanistan
through Afghan transit trade.
The committee also recommended that the
National Accountability Bureau and the
Federal Investigation Agency probe the
private sectors import of what it called substandard wheat from Ukraine in spite of the

fact that huge quantity of our own wheat is
available in the stock to meet local
requirements.Earlier,
Jamaat-i-Islami
members staged a walkout to protest against
Wednesdays police baton-charge on a
demonstration of visually impaired people in
Lahore. They did not return to the house
before it was adjourned until 10.30am on
Friday.
quality, aroma and taste of rice. The import

of rice from Pakistan to France was worth $
31.72 million during the period JanuarySeptember 2014, most of which was utilized
by ethnic market. The purpose of the
exhibition was to increase the volume of rice
export from Pakistan to French market apart
from ethnic one. It is expected that the
exhibition will help increase the export.
Published in Dawn, December 5th, 2014
China, Pakistan likely to

revise FTA
Rice promotion event in

Paris
December 05, 2014

MUSHTAQ GHUMMAN
Dated: 2014-12-05
Paris: The Embassy of Pakistan in Paris

organized an exhibition of rice. The purpose of
organizing the exhibition was to promote
Pakistani rice in French market. The exhibition
which was held in the premises of the Embassy
had colorful and interesting features. A
renowned French chef Alian STRIL presented
three different French dishes made of
BASMATI rice. Traditional Pakistani rice dishes
like Biryani, Zarda and Kheer prepared by
Pakistani cooks were also presented.
Different varieties of BASMATI and other

rice were also put on exhibition. A signer
presented classical and folk songs for the
invitees. A number of French and Pakistani
importers were invited to participate and
meet some Pakistani rice exporters who
were invited to Paris especially for this
event. Earlier, the Embassy coordinated
individual meetings between the importers
and exporters of rice to discuss business
proposals.
The guests took keen interest in the
exhibition and were impressed by the
Pakistan and China are unlikely to revise

Free Trade Agreement (FTA) at least for
another two years because both sides have
not finalised any mechanism for a tariff
reduction in the second phase, well informed
sources told Business Recorder. China
proposes that tariff on 70 percent items be
reduced to zero, on 10 percent items to be
phased out, on another 10 percent on margin
preference and 10 percent sensitive whereas
Pakistan wants 35 percent at zero rate, 35
percent margin of preference and 30 percent
on sensitive. Margin preference implies a
concession of 10 to 50 percent on the
existing tariff. For example, if tariff is 10
percent and margin is 50 percent then
applied tariff would be 5 percent.
"Nothing has been done on the revision of
FTA so far because tariff reduction formula
acceptable to both the countries has yet to be
worked out," the sources added. Both
countries have an agreement to reduce tariffs
to zero on up to 90 percent of tariff lines in
the second phase of FTA. The sources said,
Ministry of Industries and Production
initiated a consultative process and on the
feedback of domestic industry it proposed to

Commerce Ministry to maintain the status
quo for the next two to three years.
The plea is that the energy crisis has already
marred the competitiveness of the local
industry and a further tariff facilitation to
Chinese imports would ruin local
industry. According to sources, Pakistan
could not fully avail the opportunities under
the Pak-China FTA and its exports restricted
to only 350 tariff lines which implies that
FTA utilisation on the part of Pakistan was
only five percent whereas China utilised
FTA up to 57 percent. "One of the main
reasons for below target utilisation of FTA
is that duties levied on Pakistani products
are still higher than those allowed to other
trading partners, making Pakistani products
in China uncompetitive," the sources
added. Commerce Ministry, which is
responsible to ensure a level-playing field
for Pakistani exporters, maintains that
Pakistani exporters could utilise only 5
percent of tariff lines due to a narrow export
base and a lack of export surplus.
"There have been some success stories that
immensely benefited from the FTA which
include two locally assembled mobile phone
brands like Q-Mobile and Voice," sources
revealed. These are not only successfully in
catering to the needs of local market but
they have also captured a sizable market
share in the mobile telephony generated
after the introduction of 3G regime.
Likewise,
motorcycle
industry
also
benefited by providing low cost motorcycles
to
the
consumers.
Deep
freezers/refrigerators/air
conditioners
segment has also been a success story which
benefited from liberalisation of trade with
China. According to Economic Survey
2012-13, FTA was signed on November 24,
2006 and operationalized on July 1, 2007.
China has given tariff preferences on 7550

tariff lines at 8-digit H.S. Code to items of
Pakistan's export interest. Market access
granted by China enabled Pakistan to
maintain an overall growth trend in export
performance in the first five years of
implementation of FTA. Pakistan-China
volume of trade, which stood at $4.1 billion
in the year 2006-07, recorded an increase of
116% as it exceeded $8.9 billion in 2011-12.
Pakistan's exports registered a 279 percent
increase in 2011-12 as compared to 200607. Similarly, China's exports to Pakistan
also increased by 90 percent during this
period. Pakistan's exports of rice, raw
cotton, all crude mineral, petroleum,
chemical elements, chemical material and
product, leather, cotton yarn, cotton fabric,
article of apparel and medical and surgical
instruments increased substantially from
2007-08 to 2011-12.
Source with thanks :
http://www.brecorder.com/topstories/0/1248406/
Nuffield study investigates

rice straw by-products for
Australian growers
NSW Country Hour
By Laurissa Smith
Updated Thu at 3:29pmThu 4 Dec 2014,
3:29pm
PHOTO: Bunaloo rice grower Antony
Vagg has been looking at alternative uses
for rice stubble through his Nuffield
study.(Laurissa Smith)
MAP: Caldwell 2710
Is rice stubble just waste or is it worth
saving ?

AUDIO: Rice grower Antony Vagg speaks
about alternative solutions to burning
stubble (ABC Rural)
Australia is one of the few major rice
growing countries that still burns the straw
left behind after rice harvest.
PHOTO: Rice harvested at Deniliquin in
south-west New South Wales (Laurissa
Smith)
It's burnt because the straw load, at an
average 10.5 tonnes to the hectare, is too
dense for seeders trying to plant a winter
cereal crop back into the moist paddocks.
In India, Japan, most EU countries and the
The farmer from Bunaloo, near the New

South Wales-Victorian border, has spent the
last year visiting farms and research
facilities in the US, UK, France, Egypt,
Turkey, India and the Philippines.In India,
the increase in biomass plants has turned
rice hulls into a highly sought after
product.The industry uses furnaces to burn
the straw at a high temperature, which in
turn boils the water solution to create steam.
He says converting rice hulls and straw into
bio-energy could have broader applications
for Australian rice processor SunRice.
PHOTO: Paddocks of rice stubble being
burnt near Finley in the NSW Murray
Valley. (Laurissa Smith)
"Rice hulls, was a big one.
United States, where the practice is banned,

stubble is converted into a range of
products.It's used for erosion control after
severe bushfires, as an additive for stockfeed
and in biomass plants to create electricity.If
a ban on burning rice stubble was enforced
in Australia, the industry would struggle to
manage the straw load within the winter
cereal sowing window.
"Although it's not directly related to my

topic, it has huge potential here, " he
says."Most places I went to, that grow large
volumes of rice, were using rice hulls as a
bio-enery source, mainly burnt for
electricity."That was a huge eye-opener for
me, but they also had some rice straw-
But with more research, Nuffield Scholar

Antony Vagg says there are opportunities
for growers to develop new markets.
PHOTO: Rice stubble left behind after
harvest
near
Griffith
in
the
Riverina. (Laurissa Smith)
powered plants as well."Mr Vagg says if

RGA awards two scholarships to the
children or grandchildren of RGA members
to assist with their tertiary education costs as
part of their commitment to the industrys
long term future.
growers can find a way to remove silica

from the stubble, it'll provide a better return
on the straw by-product.
The scholarships are named after two past

leaders of the rice industry, Greg Graham
and Peter Connor. Greg Graham was
"I saw it in Egypt.

"They were extracting silica and hydra
cellulose, that they could sell for a high
price, which would then justify having to do
something with the straw to get rid of it."It's
happening and its only very new
technology."But if you can turn what people
perceive as a low value straw into
something, with a bit of extra processing,
into a high-value product then you're more
likely to have people adapt it."
Topics: rice, alternative-energy, caldwell2710
Source with thanks:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-1205/nuffield-research-rice-stubblesolutions/5945808
Rice industry scholarships

open
Dec. 5, 2014, 2:43 p.m.
Rice industry calls on people to apply for

scholarships.PLICATIONS
for
the
Ricegrowers Association of Australias
(RGA) Tertiary Scholarships are now
open.RGA president Les Gordon said the
president of the RGA when he died

suddenly on New Years Day in 1983. He
was actively involved in the irrigation and
rice industry, as well as his local community
of Deniliquin.Peter Connor was a leading
rice grower in the Coleambally area, and
was vice president of the RGA as well as a
board member of the Ricegrowers Cooperative Limited.
The Greg Graham Memorial Scholarship
provides $4000 to assist a student with the
costs of tertiary education. This award is
sponsored by Rice Research Australia Pty
Ltd.The Peter Connor Book Award,
awarded to the runner-up of the Greg
Graham Memorial Scholarship winner,
consists of $1300 to put towards the cost of
books and course materials.

Last years winner of the Greg Graham
Memorial Scholarship was Luke OConnor,
Deniliquin, who is studying a Bachelor of
Agricultural Business Management.Luke
said the scholarship significantly helped
fund his university studies and allowed him
to comfortably afford the costs of living
away from home and achieve good results in
all his subjects.We are grateful for the
generous support of Rice Research Australia
and very pleased to be able to offer the
scholarship in 2015. I would encourage
university students who are studying
agriculture related courses to apply for the
scholarship, Mr Gordon said.Applications
close Friday January 16, 2015. Download
forms from the RGA website or call (02)
6953 0433.
Study: States drought most

severe in at least 1,200
years
FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END
PHOTOS - FILE - Irrigation water runs
along the dried-up ditch between the rice
farms to provide water for the rice fields on
Thursday, May 1, 2014, in Richvale, Calif.
Californias drought-ravaged reservoirs are
running so low that state water deliveries to
some metropolitan areas have all but
stopped, and cutbacks are forcing growers to
fallow fields. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News,

progers@mercurynews.com
POSTED: 12/04/14, 10:50 PM PST

UPDATED: 1 DAY AGO # COMMENTS
The last three years of drought were the

most severe that California has experienced
in at least 1,200 years, according to a new
scientific study published Thursday.The
study provides the state with breathtaking
new historical context for its low reservoirs
and sinking water tables, even as California
celebrated its first good soaking of the
season.
Analyzing tree rings that date back to 800
A.D. a time when Vikings were
marauding Europe and the Chinese were
inventing gunpowder there is no threeyear period when Californias rainfall has
been as low and its temperatures as hot as
they have been from 2012 to 2014, the
researchers
found.We
were
really
surprised. We didnt expect this, said one
of the studys authors, Daniel Griffin, an
assistant professor in the University of
Minnesotas department of geography,
environment and society.
The report, published in the journal of the
American Geophysical Union, was written
by researchers at Massachusetts Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution and the
University of Minnesota.The scientists
measured tree rings from 278 blue oaks in
central and Southern California. Tree rings
show the age of trees, and their width shows
how wet each year was because trees grow
more during wet years.

The researchers compared the information to
a database of other tree ring records from
longer-living trees like giant sequoias and
bristlecone pines, dating back 1,200
years.Meanwhile, the rain that California
received this week provided a promising
start to a winter that water managers say
needs to be relentless and drenching to break
the drought cycle.Its a good beginning,
said Art Hinojosa, chief of hydrology at the
state Department of Water Resources. But
we need storm after storm after storm if we
have any hope of getting out of the drought
this year.
By April, he said, California needs at least
eight more major storm systems like the one
this week as well as many smaller
systems to fill its dangerously low
reservoirs and break the drought. Rain and
snow this winter needs to be at least 150
percent of average for the reservoirs to fill,
Hinojosa said.This weeks storm was the
biggest to hit California in roughly two
years. Many parts of the state received
between 2 and 4 inches of rain, doubling or
tripling their totals since July.
More important, several of the states large
reservoirs began to receive moderate
amounts of runoff, as the parched ground
became saturated. Lake Shasta gained about
6,000
acre-feet
through
midnight
Wednesday, and Oroville Reservoir in Butte
County added 17,000 acre-feet. But that new
water boosted Shastas storage by less than
1 percent, leaving it at only 23 percent full.
It added 3 percent at Oroville, which is now
26 percent full, the lowest level in its history
for this time of year.
The Sierra snowpack told a similar story. A

week ago, it was at 24 percent of the average
for this time of year. Thursday, after a week
of snow, it was at 39 percent still far
below normal.
But more rain and snow is on the way.The
Weather Service issued a report late
Thursday saying that because of storms
brewing as far away as Hawaii, projections
out to Dec. 18 show that wetter than
normal conditions are favored.Experts
emphasize that a three-year drought cannot
be erased in a few days. Not only are
reservoirs low, but there are huge rainfall
deficits built up from the past three years.
Overall, 94 percent of California remains in
severe drought, according to Thursdays
edition of the Federal Drought Monitor, a
weekly report from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and other agencies.It was the
tree-ring study showing California suffering
its worst drought in 1,200 years, however,
that
received
the
most
attention
Thursday.The researchers took core
samples, which dont harm the living trees,
of oaks as old as 500 years and oak logs
dating back more than 700 years, the
University of Minnesotas Griffin said. And
they sanded down the wood with extremely
fine-grain sandpaper, magnifying the rings
40 times under a microscope and measuring
them to within one one-thousandth of a
millimeter.
They then compared the findings to the
North American Drought Atlas, a detailed
collection of other tree-ring data that goes
back 1,200 years and includes measurements
from ancient trees such as giant sequoias
and bristlecone pines. The atlas calculates

temperature and rainfall for those years by
comparing the tree rings with tree rings from
the past 100 years, when modern records
were kept.
Thai suspension of rice

sales to bring benefits to
Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge Vietnam hopes the
rice price in the world market will increase
as Thailand has asked its farmers to stop
selling rice in anticipation of a price hike.
Although there are 37 times over the past

1,200 years when there were three-year dry
periods in California, no period had as little
rainfall and as hot of temperatures as 201214, the scientists concluded.With climate
change already warming the earth, the last
three years in California could become a
more recurring event, they said.This kind
of drought is what we expect to see more of
in the future, said Griffin. Maybe the
future is now.Mercury News staff writer
David E. Early contributed to this report.
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PHOTOS - FILE - Irrigation water runs
along the dried-up ditch between the rice
farms to provide water for the rice fields on
Thursday, May 1, 2014, in Richvale, Calif.
Californias drought-ravaged reservoirs are
running so low that state water deliveries to
some metropolitan areas have all but
stopped, and cutbacks are forcing growers to
fallow fields. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
http://www.timesstandard.com/science/20141204/studystates-drought-most-severe-in-at-least-1200years
The Thai government has reported major

losses from the rice subsidy program
initiated by the previous government. The
country has continued to help farmers store
rice, hoping the price will increase in the
world market.Thai 5 percent broken rice is
trading at $405-415 per ton, a slight
decrease of $10-15 per ton from early
November. The current price is $100 per ton
lower than that of five years ago.
The Thai government recently issued $1.5
billion worth of bonds to raise money to pay
debts related to the rice price subsidy
programs. It had reportedly incurred a loss
of 680 billion baht, or $21 billion from the
rice subsidy program which has been
implemented since 2004.In an effort to raise
the rice price, the government has called on
Thai farmers to store 2 million tons of rice,
promising to pay 1,000 baht per ton, or $77,
to farmers to ensure the good quality of rice
in stock.The policymakers hope that the
absence of Thai rice in the world market will
increase the price in the world market by
8,500 baht per ton, or $263.An official of
the Vietnam Food Association (VFA)
commented that the support from the Thai

government to its farmers would benefits
other rice exporters, including Vietnam,
India and Pakistan, as well.
The official said there would be two
scenarios to occur when Thailand stores
rice. First, the move would not only help
push up Thai rice prices, but also make other
exporters rice more valuable.Second, once
Thailand keeps its rice in stocks, this would
encourage other rice production countries
like Vietnam, India and Pakistan to increase
rice production as rice exports can sell at
good prices.
This scenario has been happening over the
last few years. When Thailand did not
market its rice, Vietnam successfully raised
its export price. If this occurs in 2015,
Vietnam would continue benefiting from the
Thai policy.However, VFA still can see
risks, saying that the situation would be
worse if the Thai government stops
subsidizing farmers and launches stored rice
into the market.The official also noted that
Vietnams rice price will also be determined
by many other factors in 2015, including
demand from China and the Philippines.
According to Oryza.com, the Filipino

government plans to import 600,000 tons of
rice in 2015 to satisfy domestic demand. The
country is negotiating with Bangladesh
about next years contracts.According to the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development (MARD), Vietnam exported
over 6 million tons of rice in the first 11
months of the year, with turnover of $2.8
billion. The figures represented a 3 percent
decrease in the export amount, but a 2
percent increase in value if compared with
the same period in 2013.
TBKTSG
Tags:Thai suspension of rice sales,Thai rice,Vietnamese
rice,
Source with thanks:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/11805
5/thai-suspension-of-rice-sales-to-bringbenefits-to-vietnam.html
Commerce Ministry to step

up measures to boost prices
of agricultural products
Date : 5 2557
BANGKOK, 5 Dec 2014 (NNT) - The
Commerce Ministry is drafting a plan to ensure
stable and better prices of rice in the next 3
months when new output comes into the market.
It is also drawing up the 2015 roadmap to
improve prices of agricultural products, promote
exports and look after the cost of living.
Minister of Commerce General Chatchai
Sarikalya has ordered an advance plan be drawn
up in preparation for the new rice harvest to
enter the market in March 2015. He said a
working group has been established to work
closely with the Agriculture and Cooperatives
Ministry and the Bank for Agriculture and
Agricultural Cooperatives, to make sure new
grains will fetch the highest price possible when
they enter the market in the next three months.
The Minister indicated that his ministry is also
in the process of drafting a roadmap for next
year which would focus on improving prices of
agricultural products, promoting exports and
taking care of the living expenses. He expected
that the roadmap would be finished this month.
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USA Rice Family Grows

ARLINGTON, VA -- The
USA Rice Federation has
confirmed
that
Sarah
Moran,
manager
of
international
promotion,
and her husband, John,
have welcomed a future
rice consumer into the
world.On Saturday, November 22, at 2:04pm,
Jack Eamon Moran made his debut. He weighed
in at nine pounds even and 20 inches long.
Mom and baby are doing well and resting at
home. Sarah will be on maternity leave until
mid-February 2015.
Contact: Sarah Moran (703) 236-1457

Source: US Rice Federation
USA Rice Congratulates

Winners of "Healthy
Brown Rice on the Menu
Contest"
ARLINGT
ON, VA -The USA
Healthy U.S. brown rice is a Rice
winner
Federation
has
announced the winners of its annual
"Healthy Brown Rice on the Menu Contest"
for K-12 school menu planners. Participants
in the contest were asked to prepare a
healthy, flavorful brown rice dish from three
recipe categories-rice bowl, breakfast, and
lunch.
This week, a press release announcing the

winners was distributed to top media outlets
consistently read by more than 130,000 K12 operations. These award-winning entries
showcase the versatility of brown rice and
demonstrate how schools are using brown
rice to create meals that meet nutrition
standards.
Each winner will receive a 50 pound
donation of whole grain rice thanks to USA
Rice sponsors: InHarvest, Producers Rice
Mill, Riceland Foods, Mahatma Rice,
SunWest Foods, and Uncle Ben's. Grand
prize winners receive paid 2015 School
Nutrition Association Annual Conference
registration, a commercial size rice cooker
for their school, and a consumer size rice
cooker for their home kitchen donated by
Aroma Housewares.
These grand prize dishes combined nutrition
with sensational flavors:
Breakfast:
Roxanne Szalejko, Food
Service Director for Northwood Academy
Charter School in Philadelphia, PA; Coconut
Cream Breakfast Brown Rice includes U.S.
brown rice, coconut, ginger, cinnamon,
cloves, and raisins.
Lunch: Kay Briles, Head Cook/Manager
for Greenfield Elementary School in
Baldwin,
WI; Turkey
Brown
Rice
Casserole features U.S. brown rice, ground
turkey, red onion, red peppers, frozen peas,
cream of chicken soup, and slivered
almonds.
Rice Bowl: Angie Gaszak, Nutrition
Coordinator for Saint Paul Public Schools in
St. Paul, MN; Chicken Sofrito Rice
Bowl combines U.S. brown rice, chicken
stock, diced tomatoes, thyme, garlic
jalapeo peppers, onion, and chili powder,
finished with red pepper strips and lime

CME Group/Closing Rough
Rice Futures
CME Group (Prelim): Closing Rough Rice Futures
for December 5
Month
Price
Net Change
January 2015
$12.065
- $0.055
March 2015
$12.325
- $0.050
May 2015
$12.575
- $0.050
July 2015
$12.775
- $0.050
September
2015
$12.050
- $0.050
November
2015
$11.950
- $0.050
January 2016
$11.950
- $0.050
juice.
"Brown rice is such a versatile, whole grain
menu item that we can use it in a wide
variety of dishes while appealing to our
diverse district palates, meeting our
nutritional goals, and keeping the food costs
in line," said Gaszak. "Our students love
our brown rice and it has been one of the
most widely accepted whole grain menu
items."
"Healthy brown rice meals can now be
found in every part of the country, as more
schools see how easy it is to help students
achieve their whole grain servings," said
Katie Maher, USA Rice domestic promotion
manager. "There are so many innovative
ways to use U.S. brown rice to create menu
items that deliver nutrition and flavor as
well as happy kids and empty plates."
For more information and recipe ideas
featuring
U.S.-grown
rice,
visitwww.MenuRice.com.
Contact: Colleen Klemczewski (703) 2361446
2014 USA Rice Outlook

Conference
December 7 - 9, 2014
VENUE
Statehouse
Convention
Center

One
Statehouse
Little Rock, AR 722201
Plaza
HOTEL
Little Rock Marriott
Three Statehouse Plaza
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-906-4000
Contact: Jeanette
Davis, jdavis@usarice.com, Phone: 703236-1447
CM assures all support to

Thursday, 04 December 2014 21:47
Posted by Imaduddin
KARACHI: Sindh Government and Rice

Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP)
on Thursday agreed to undertake joint
efforts for promoting rice cultivation,

capacity building of rice growers and
increase the volume of rice export for their
bilateral benefits.
Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah
formed committee headed by Sindh Minister
for Agriculture Sardar Ali Nawaz Khan
Mahar with Secretary Agriculture and
representatives of REAP as members, said
an official statement.The committee was
assigned to work out schedule starting from
educating the rice growers through seminars,
literature and mechanical exhibitions for
their capacity building to increase per acre
production, avoid harvesting losses and
introduce new but qualitative specially late
varieties which are supposed to be sown in
the time when water is available in rice
canal.
The Chief Minister presided over a meeting
with the 13- member REAP delegation,
which called on him under the leadership of
Chairman REAP, Rafique Suleman here at
the Chief Minister House. Syed Qaim Ali
Shah said the farmers, millers and exporters
were the main organs for increasing the
volume of rice export and earn foreign
exchange and the create the more demand of
rice production, which ultimately will be
more beneficial for the growers.He said
though export was the federal subject but he
will talk to concerned ministries of the
Federal Government to extend maximum
facilities to the rice exporters of Sindh.
However, he urged REAP members to also
take care of the interests of the rice growers
while fixing the price of rice.He said that
Sindh was agro-based province and more
than 70 per cent of its population depends on
agro products. He said Sindh was rich in rice
quality. The rice verities basmati and nonbasmati were very much popular in the
world. There is need for opening new

windows of exports in the other
countries.He assured Sindh Government
would support to the rice exporters to its
capacity to encourage rice exporters and
growers.He emphasized on the exporters to
try their best to project and export
competitive rice varieties to grip the
international market.
About the law and order situation, the Chief
Minister said that after targeted operation
against the heinous crimes and terrorism,
crime rate has decreased by more than 65
per cent decreased in Karachi. Sindh
Minister for Agriculture, Sardar Ali Nawaz
Khan Mahar advised the REAP members to
have a separate meeting with him along with
his administration to sort out all problems of
REAP on the spot.He also assured that
Sindh Agriculture Department was ready for
arranging joint seminars, workshops for the
education of rice growers and also to
implement the recommendations passed by
experts in the seminars.The Chairman REAP
Rafiq Suleman said that they became
exporters because of rice growers as such
they intend to enhance the volume of export
with Government facilities, create awareness
and skill development of rice growers to
encourage and enabling them to meet the
future demand of rice production and earn
more.
He said that from July 2013 to Nov. 2013
REAP exported 228.171 metric tones of
basmati rice and earned $ 224.674,164
million. Whereas, its export volume from
July 2014 to Nov.2014 remained 5 percent
more with 238,450 million tones against the
foreign exchange of $ 280.789,966 million.
from July 2014 to Nov. 2014 which

according to him remained 16 percent higher
than last year.He said the rice exporters are
facing some problems to do their business
smoothly including shortage of power
especially at the Hawksbay area of Karachi
which has badly affected their business.
He demanded that industrial areas must be
exempted from load shading.He said that the
REAP was in the way to explore and
increase export opportunities specially in
China, Malaysia , Indonesia, Kenya, Iran ,
Iraq and other countries for which
Government support is needed. Sindh
Secretary Agriculture Saqib Soomro briefed
the meeting and said that over all total 4
million tons rice has been exported till date
during 2014-2015 and earned $ 2 billion.
Source with thanks:
http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/business-aeconomy/208844-cm-assures-all-support-toincrease-rice-export.html
Lesser paddy purchase in

Punjab, Haryana as
basmati acreage rises
By PTI | 5 Dec, 2014, 08.10PM IST
"Paddy procurement in Punjab is likely to
Similarly, export volume of non-basmati

rice remained 877.817 million tones against
foreign exchange of $ 355.769,988 million
from July 2013 to Nov.2013 and 1.019,537
million tones against $411.911,517 million

remain more or less what has been
purchased so far as crop arrivals have now
been negligible in grain markets," official
said.ET SPECIAL:
CHANDIGARH: With paddy crop arrival

almost coming to an end, crop procurement
in Punjab and Haryana is likely to remain at
about 147 lakh tonnes, almost 16 per cent
lesser than what was targeted before the start
of purchase during Kharif marketing season
2014-15. Punjab and Haryana had targeted
to procure 175 lakh tonnes of paddy for the
central pool. "Paddy procurement will be
lesser than the target because of rise in
basmati acreage," an official of Food
Corporation of India (FCI) told here. So far,
paddy procurement in Punjab has reached
117.62 lakh tonnes as against initial target of
140 lakh tonnes.
"Paddy procurement in Punjab is likely to
remain more or less what has been
purchased so far as crop arrivals have now
been negligible in grain markets," official
said. In Haryana also, paddy purchase is
unlikely to touch the targeted figure of 35
lakh tonnes with crop lifting reaching 29.72
lakh tonnes so far.
"Farmers are now bringing lesser quantity of
paddy crop in grain markets," said an
official of Haryana Food and Supplies
department. Lesser paddy procurement
means lesser contribution of rice from

Punjab and Haryana to the central pool.
Punjab and Haryana had seen paddy
procurement at 127 lakh tonnes and 35.87
lakh tonnes respectively during the last
season. Area under basmati crop this season
in Punjab went up by 55 per cent to 8.62
lakh hectares this year, with around 30 per
cent of total paddy being under basmati. The
output was expected to reach 34 lakh tonne
as against 22.65 lakh tonne recorded last
season, creating a "glut like" situation.
In neighbouring Haryana, 40 per cent of

total area under paddy which is 11.38 lakh
hectares is under basmati crop Total area
under paddy in Punjab and Haryana was
pegged at 28.20 lakh hectares and 11.50
lakh hectares respectively in kharif season.
Notably, because of "deficient" rains this
year, farmers of both Punjab and Haryana
had to spend Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000 per acre
extra money on diesel and deepening of
tubewells for irrigating paddy. Governments
of Punjab and Haryana had sought financial
assistance of over Rs 2,300 crore and Rs 850
crore, respectively, from the Centre to deal
with delayed monsoon and prolonged dry
spell conditions.
Source with thanks: The Economic Times India

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