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Pakistan produces 1.2bln broiler chickens
Hamlik
Managing Editor
annually
KARACHI: Pakistan has become the worlds 11th biggest producer of
broilers, producing 1.2 billion meat-type chickens annually on a critically
balanced diet, an industry official said on Friday.
A spokesman of the Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA), in a statement, said
the broilers available in local markets are fed on the same genetic nutrients as
of US, Europe, India, Brazil, Argentina and China and denied that they were
fed on hormones.
The spokesman, however, said a broiler chick gains more than 2.2- kilogram
in weight in five weeks in US, Brazil and Argentine because of the
availability of low priced-edible oils and feed grains with higher energy
content. It takes around six weeks for a broiler chick to gain the same
weight, he added.
Since the chicken gains weight faster in US, it should be questioned
whether they too give hormones and steroids, he said. A knowledgeable
producer avoids using animal by-products as feed for they are a source of
Salmonella and other bacterial contaminants, which would cause a greater
loss to the producer than any benefit.
Mostly, chicken diet constitutes of corn, broken rice, wheat bran, rice
polishing, corn by-products, oil seed meals and vegetable oil. Giving a
reason behind the rapid output, he elaborated that a tremendous progress has
been made in the fields of poultry genetics, nutrition, housing, management
practices and disease control and eradication.
Abdul Sattar Shah

Rahmat Ullah
Rozeen Shaukat
English Editor
Maryam Editor
Legal Advisor
Advocate Zaheer Minhas
Editorial Associates
Admiral (R) Hamid Khalid

Javed Islam Agha
Ch.Hamid Malhi
Dr.Akhtar Hussain
Dr.Fayyaz Ahmad Siddiqui
Dr.Abdul Rasheed (UAF)
Islam Akhtar Khan
Editorial Advisory Board
Dr.Malik Mohammad Hashim
Assistant Professor, Gomal

University DIK
Dr.Hasina Gul
Assistant Director, Agriculture KPK
Dr.Hidayat Ullah
Assistant Professor, University of
Swabi
Dr.Abdul Basir
Assistant Professor, University of
Swabi
He said there are three major poultry genetic companies operating in the
world, conducting research on disease-resistance breeds, improving digestive
system for better absorption of nutrients to reduce feed cost.
Zahid Mehmood
PSO,NIFA Peshawar
Falak Naz Shah
Head Food Science & Technology

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ART, Peshawar

The PPA official, citing a research study, said broiler weight has been gaining between two and
three percent per annum since 2005. In 1957, a day old chick weighed 34 grams; in 1978 it
weighed 42 grams and in 2005 it weighed 44 grams, he said. A 28-day broiler weighed 316
grams in 1957, 623 grams in 1,978 and 1,396 grams in 2005.
The official said modern poultry houses in Pakistan have controlled environment with fans,
lighting and heating to tap the optimum genetic potential. He said a critically balanced diet is fed
and formulated on a computer to give a balance between energy, protein and essential amino
acids. A deficiency or an imbalance of any one of the nutrients would affect the optimum
genetic potential, he added.
The spokesman said egg laying strain chicken or desi chicken, which have a different genetic
material than the meat type, are fed with nutrition far superior than the one given to the meat
type
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/162382-Pakistan-produces-12bln-broiler-chickensannually
Farmers risk lives to harvest basmati rice along IB

Bein-Glard (Samba), Nov 7, 2016 (PTI)
Harvesting the paddy crop particularly the aromatic basmati rice cultivated near the
International Border in R S Pura border belt amid relentless shelling by Pakistani Rangers
has made farmers sitting ducks of the firing from across the border.
Most areas in and around the R S Pura belt are extremely fertile and
best suited for basmati cultivation. A total of 17,742 hectares having
standing paddy crop has been affected due to the shelling and firing
by the Pakistani Rangers.The paddy crop grown in the area is worth
Rs 130 crore. "The basmati rice grown in Jammu and Kashmir is now
under threat from Pakistan", an official of the Agriculture department
said, adding, farmers are anxious that "if there is no one to harvest, the crop will die in fortnight".
With the crop ripe, farmers have been risking their lives to harvest the paddy.
54-year-old Sham Lal has rushed to his fields along with few family members to cut the paddy
growing close to the International Border in R S Pura border belt of Jammu district.
"We are helpless. We cannot afford to lose our crops. Our family is dependent on these crops.
We are risking our lives to harvest these standing crops", Lal said.Like Lal, several marginal
farmers living along the borderline are working overtime to speedily complete harvesting of the
crops.Bein Gallar Sarpanch Ram Paul, whose hamlet was shelled by Pakistani Rangers few days
ago, says farmers in border areas are forced to risk their lives to harvest their ripe crops as they

depend on them for livelihood.
"In the absence of labourers and machines, they are reluctant to come with their families and
undertake harvesting.The border farmers have taken it on themselves to harvest their standing
crops and in the process have become sitting ducks for the Pak Rangers", Paul said.However,
like them the farmers owning big agriculture land are not so lucky as they await paddy cutting
machines and labourers, who have fled the farmlands following Pakistani shelling and firing and
are reluctant to return to commence farming in the border belt of Jammu, Samba and Kathua
districts.
Jabowal Sarpanch Avtar Singh said farmers owning bigger farmlands are helpless in this
situation as on one side the Pak troops resorted to shelling and firing and on other side labourers
and machine operators have refused to join them in harvesting."We await labourers and
machines. Security forces say the sound of the tractor instantly invites the sounds of the gun
from across the other side of the International Border", he added.Singh said that in case of
manual harvesting, it will take weeks but if machines for harvesting comes to their fields along
with labourers, it will take few days. "There is a threat to the ready-to-harvest paddy from
shelling as it can result in fire which may perish the whole fields", he said.
Kali Dass, sarpanch of Bhudwal hamlet along the LoC in Pallwanwala sector, feels it is a curse
for him to live in the area as they are targeted every time during the harvesting time."We are
unfortunate people. We were uprooted during three wars, Kargil war, Operation Parakaram and
every time when Indo-Pak relations", he said.
"People particularly youth go to villages in the morning from their camps and carry out harvest
work till evening. Situation is bad for us.We don't known when we will become victims of Pak
shelling and firing during farming", he said, adding but "We have no choice but to risk our lives
if we have save our only resource-- paddy".Officials said most areas in and around the R S Pura
belt are extremely fertile and best suited for basmati cultivation.
As per estimates each hectare of this fertile land produces not less than 18 quintals of Basmati.A
total of 17,742 hectares of area having standing paddy crop has been affected due to shelling and
firing by the Pakistani Rangers, official said. The majority of the affected area falls in Jammu
district followed by Samba and Kathua districts.
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Vietnamese rice prices rise on low stocks

November 06, 2016

Vietnamese rice prices rose on Wednesday due to low stocks while prices eased in India and Thailand on
thin demand and rising supplies, traders said. Indicative prices of Vietnam's 25-percent broken rice
advanced to $340 a tonne, free-on-board (FOB) basis, from $335 a week ago, and the 5-percent broken
rice rose to $350-$355 a tonne, against $350 last Wednesday."There is not enough broken rice to make
the 25-percent broken grade," a trader at a foreign firm in Ho Chi Minh City said. However, lower price
of Thai rice has made Vietnamese rice look less attractive, a trader in Bangkok said. "If buyers decide to
buy rice now, it will be Thai rice," he said.
China, Vietnam's top rice buyer, resumed cross-border purchases last month, but has not yet imported
much, traders said. "There are some supplies from a minor crop coming, and given Thai prices have
fallen, Vietnam is in a very difficult position," the first trader said. African buyers have switched to
cheaper grain offered by Pakistan and Thailand, traders added.Thai benchmark 5-percent broken rice
dropped to $345-$350 a tonne on Wednesday, FOB basis, from $350-$354 last week, as supplies
mounted. At $345, the price is in the zone of the lowest in 13 months hit on Monday. "There is little
demand coming from foreign markets," a trader in Bangkok said, adding that buyers could start taking
Thai rice when prices dipped further.
Thailand's annual harvest is currently underway, with 80 percent of output expected to be reaped in
November, the commerce ministry has said. The average price of Pakistan's 25-percent broken rice stood
at $331 a tonne during January-September, below Vietnam's price of $335 of the same grade, according
to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. In India, the world's biggest exporter of the grain, prices of
5-percent broken parboiled rice dropped $6 this week to $358-$368 a tonne on sluggish demand and
rising supplies from new season crop."Supplies have started from the new season crop in most key
producing states, but export demand is still weak," said an exporter in Kakinada in India's southern state
of Andhra Pradesh. "Prices could fall further in coming weeks as supplies are expected to build up," he
added.
http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183/100435/
The right price of rice

MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN KHAN
With the peak harvest season underway, supply of rice and paddy prices are showing a
decline.Barring the initial harvest stage, when farmers could get a somewhat attractive price for
an early lower Sindh crop, rates in upper Sindhs paddy market varied between Rs750-850/40kg
by the third week of October.This year paddy was grown on 745,000ha in the province
against the target of 750,000ha this year and 719,000ha last year.Harvesting of the crop is in full
swing in paddy growing upper Sindh, where it is the only crop of the kharif season. By and large,

apart from old varieties of basmati-9, subdasi, Shahkar, Shandar, KSK282, irri-6 etc, Chinas
hybrid seed is used for getting better yields.
Paddy grower, Gada Hussain Mahesar says hybrid seed has been preferred for domestic
consumption by many growers ever-since it was introduced. Mahesar points out that the hybrid
variety lacks aroma and taste and thats why it is not exported to the Gulf region. The seed can
also not be stored by farmers for the next seasons sowing.
Dr Syed Nadeem Qamar maintains that the provincial government doesnt control exports nor
does it fix the price for the paddy crop. Gone are the days when the federal government used to
interveneby lifting the crop
Whereas, he says, irri-6 tastes better, has a long grain size and can be stored. It was most sought
after in Dubai and Saudi Arabia for these reasons, he added.Farmers say that upper Sindhs
landowners, Ameer Bux Pahore and Ishaq Mughairi, estimate that for producers to earn and save
something the price should be Rs1,200/40kg for super basmati and Rs1,000/40kg for irri-6. They
say the cost of production for coarse variety is Rs29,000 per acre with an average of 50-55
maunds per acre yields.While the hybrid seed gives more yield, its seed is costly (Rs1,000/1kg)
when compared to Rs1,200/40kg of indigenous varieties.
While Mughairi blames cartels for making millers matters worse, a rice miller, from Mughairis
home district, Qamaruddin Sheikh says millers are incurring losses too. I sold a100kg bag for
Rs3,700 to an exporter from Karachi on Oct 30, he says, while anticipating that the rate would
drop even further in next few days.
With the peak seasons supply from upper Sindh, super basmati still managed to get a rate of
Rs1,500/40kg and the aromatic variety grown in Kirthar range Rs1,100/40kg, till mid
October.
Farmers say the miller-exporter nexus ultimately hits the growers income. Rice millers buy
41kg of crop for a price set for 40kg. Millers also make growers pay offloading charges at
Rs10/bag; and with no mechanism defined to determine moisture in the crop, growers have to
accept the millers price.
In a meeting held in Karachi on Oct 17, which was chaired by the provincial agriculture minister
with rice millers attending, it was decided that no deduction would be made on any crop that
undergoes mechanised thrashing. Moisture has been allowed in acceptable limits and unloading
charges are paid jointly by farmers and millers Rs5 each. However, this is not being followed.

Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) president Dr Syed Nadeem Qamar maintains that the
provincial government doesnt control exports nor does it fix the price for the paddy crop. Gone
are the days when the federal government used to intervene by lifting paddy through the Trading
Corporation of Pakistan and Pakistan Agriculture Storages and Supplies Corporation, he says.
Paddy has almost been completely harvested in the lower Sindh region.
Price for the crop that is stocked by rice millers usually increases in the winter season when
exporters place new orders. The rates go up to Rs1,100/40kg. Until July this year paddy was
bought at Rs1,250/40kg, while the February rate was Rs950.
SCAs Bux Sathio claims he sold his paddy in lower Sindh for Rs1,060 in early September.
Published in Dawn, Business & Finance weekly, November 7th, 2016
http://www.dawn.com/news/1294641/the-right-price-of-rice
CBN pledges more support for rice farming

ON NOVEMBER 6, 20169:57 AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS By Babajide Komolafe The Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) has pledged to increase its support for rice farming across the country. CBN Governor,
Mr. Godwin Emefiele made this promise while inspecting rice farms in Itane, Ketar Fulani and Gwadan
Gwaji villages in Kebbi State. Mr. Emefiele, who expressed satisfaction with the yield of farmers that
hearkened to the clarion call to embrace farming as a business venture rather than mere subsistence, stated
that major objectives of the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) had been largely achieved.
According to him, the objectives of the ABP include assisting rural small holder farmers to grow from
subsistence to commercial production level, increase capacity utilization, creating jobs, reduce poverty,
and increase banks finance to agricultural sector among others. Accompanied by the Governor of Kebbi
State, Senator Atiku Abubakar Bagudu and the representative of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Emefiele said that the ABP was yielding result due to farmers access
to the correct seedlings, pesticides and fertilizer as well as the support from the State government.
He also expressed confidence that the target of ensuring that Nigeria feeds herself would be achieved. He
therefore called on the farmers in the state to always forward their challenges to the Bank and other
authorities for quick solution, even as he assured them of the continued support of the CBN. He thereafter
enjoined members of the media to inspect the rice farms and report objectively. While noting that the
refusal of some farmers to register for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) had militated against their

getting access to the ABP facility, the CBN Governor urged all farmers in the country to register for their
BVN.
He also assured that the ABP facility would be spread to many people as far as they got registered for the
BVN, which he noted was on-going. Also speaking, the Governor of the State, Senator Bagudu, who
doubles as the Chairman of the National Task Force on Rice and Wheat, said the objective of the tour was
to see how farmers and processors in the country were responding to the call by President Muhammadu
Buhari as well as the impact of funds provided under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP).
While attributing the bumper harvest being recorded in all the 31 rice-producing states across the country
to the political motivation by President Buhari as well as intervention efforts of the CBN and the Federal
Ministry of Agriculture, he said the goal of making Nigeria self-sufficient was on course. Gov. Bagudu
hinted that the state government was ready to provide paddies to millers on credit but urged the Federal
Government to provide more silos in the state as many farmers were still holding paddies at their homes.
He commended the CBN for its intervention and assured the Bank that his government would continue to
collaborate with the CBN to ensure the objectives of ABP are met. Equally speaking, the Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, represented by the Director in the Ministry,
Alhaji Azeez Musibau Olumuyiwa, assured of the Ministrys commitment to work with the CBN to
ensure the success of the agricultural intervention programmes, in line with the aspirations of the Federal
Government.
Responding, the Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Kalgo Local
Government chapter, Alhaji Aliyu Itane, denied the allegations that politicians were the ones
benefitting from the programme. He clarified that only genuine farmers, who were screened and
met all the necessary requirements of accessing the ABP facility, were benefitting from the
programme. While fielding questions from journalists, other farmers expressed their appreciation
to the CBN Governor, and said that the ABP had increased their output and created jobs in the
area. They also called on the state government to construct roads to the farms that would enable
them repatriate the farm produce to the markets easily. The Itane farm has a coverage land area
of 89 kilometres and to rice farmers in the area there is no economic recession.
What is recession? Alhaji Aliyu, one of the farmers, queried. Meanwhile, farmers in the Zuru
Emirate council have embraced soya bean production at commercial level as a way of
diversifying agricultural activity in the state. The soya production, which is presently being
anchored by a private firm, ICMG, in partnership with Kebbi State Government, has leveraged
on the Anchor Borrowers Programme and BVN platform to register and capture over 5,000
farmers across three districts. The ICM group, which will also serve as the off-taker, provides the
farmers with improved seedlings, fertilizer and extension services.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/cbn-pledges-support-rice-farming/

Traders, millers mop up rice in Kebbi
By Ismail Adebayo, Birnin Kebbi | Publish Date: Nov 6 2016 2:30AM
Given the bountiful harvest that has been recorded by farmers this year in Kebbi, the state has become
haven for local, conventional millers and grain traders from Sokoto, Kano, Zamfara, Ebony, Lagos,
Maiduguri, Niger and other parts of the country, Daily Trust on Sunday gathered. Our correspondent
reports that the state has continued to witness the influx of rice, wheat and millet buyers from Niger and
Benin Republic since April this year.
Following this, a bag of paddy rice now sells for N15,000, against the initial price of N10,000. 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, the farmers now prefer to sell their paddy rice directly
to the millers and traders who continue to besiege farm locations in local government areas of the state.
It would be recalled that some weeks back the state government raised alarm on how some individuals
within and outside the state were going directly to the farms to buy up rice. This practice, it said
contravened its agreement with the farmers. While briefing journalists after the State Executive Council
meeting in Birnin Kebbi, the Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Alhaji Abubakar Chika Ladan, said
government would take appropriate measures to ensure that the farmers did not default on the loan they
were given to produce rice, wheat and soya beans.
Some of the farmers who spoke to Daily Trust on Sunday said buyers from different parts of the country
had been coming in large numbers to buy up their grains, particularly rice. A rice farmer who is also the
secretary of the rice and wheat farmers association, Alhaji Muhammed Bello Barade said, what these
buyers do now to bye-pass government is that they follow the farmers to their farms. They give them
large sum of money to buy up everything as they are being harvested. Some are even buying up the rice
before they are harvested. They come here from Kaduna, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, Maiduguri and even
from the South-East and other parts of the country.
The chairman of the rice farmers association in Kebbi State, Alhaji Sahabi Augie, also told our
correspondent that since April, the state has been witnessing influx of grain buyers from different parts of
the country and neighbouring countries such as Niger Republic and Benin Republic.
He added that the initial agreement between government and the farmers under the Anchor Borrowers
scheme was that after giving them loan, fertilizer, generator and pumping machine, they would pay back
by selling their produce to government.
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However, with the influx of buyers and conventional millers from different areas of the country, farmers
now prefer to sell to the third party rather than to government. We feel we would be short-changed if we
sell to government at the agreed price. This made us to change our agreement with government. Now
farmers have the option of either paying back to government in cash or with paddy rice. This is to
safeguard them from being short-changed, he said.To actualize its one million metric tons of rice
projection by the end of this year, the state government in collaboration with the federal government has
stepped up measures to achieve its target.
Last week, the Secretary to the Federal Government, Engineer David Lawal Babachir, paid a two day
visit to Kebbi to ascertain the level of its rice production. The following week, the Central Bank
Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was also in the state. During their visits they were taken round some
rice and wheat farms in Bunza, Bagudo, Argungu,Yauri and Zuru local government areas of the state. On
Saturday, last week, Governor Atiku Bagudu also toured some rice farms in the state to ensure the
actualization of the one million metric tons projection by December of this year
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/traders-millers-mop-up-rice-inkebbi/170317.html#rolTHHJQ7LErTiMJ.99
Rice prices fall to 3500 KPW per kilo due to harvest season
and import spike
Seol Song Ah | 2016-11-07 16:56
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North Korean residents preparing the harvest at a collective farm in
Namchon, Chongdan County, South Hwanghae Province.
Image: Rodong Sinmun
Rice prices in some regions of North Korea have reportedly fallen by approximately 1000 KPW over
the last few days. The price of rice has generally hovered around 5000 KPW per kilo since Kim Jong
Un took power, but recently dropped to 3500 KPW due to an increase in supply from the harvest
season and rice imports.
A Daily NK source in North Hwanghae Province reported on November 3 that the price of one kilo
of rice was about 4800 KPW in the middle of last month, but has now fallen to 3500 KPW over the
last few days.
"People are happy about the price drop," she said."Although rice prices in the markets around the
northern regions (North Hamgyong Province, Ryanggang Province) are continuing to average 5000
KPW per kilo, its being sold at 3500 KPW per kilo in the rural areas of North and South Hwanghae
Provinces. Its believed that this was caused by a fairly good harvest in the agricultural zones of the
provinces of North and South Pyongan and North and South Hwanghae, which was better than last
year."
In North Korea, rice prices fluctuate in accordance with grain production. During the harvest season,
prices tend to drop when increasing volumes of rice enter the market, most of which occurs via
embezzlement channels set up by officials.
"During the harvest season, officials in charge of the farms embezzle a proportion of the rice for
themselves and sell it at the market, which seems to be the reason for the recent decline in rice
prices," the source said.
In addition, public sentiment towards the change in prices also has an impact on prices. Rumors have
been spreading among the residents that large volumes of rice will be donated by UN agencies,
prompting vendors to try and sell their own product more quickly.
There has also reportedly been an influx of imported rice into the market, further driving up
competition.
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Addressing this phenomenon, VOA (Voice of America) reported that since the Kim Jong regime
came to power, North Korea imported the largest volume of rice from China on record (on monthly
basis) in September. According to an analysis of recordings from the Chinese General
Administration of Customs by Kwon Tae Jin (director of the Center for Studies on North Korea and
Northeast Asia at the GS&J Institute), the volume of Chinese grain imported into North Korea in
September reached a total of 18,877 tons.
"Upon seeing the imported rice being sold in the market, local merchants have dropped their prices to
try and sell all of their product. The wholesale dealers and vendors in the rice trade all seem a bit
confused by the rapid fluctuations in price," added a source in South Hwanghae Province.
However, this phenomenon may only be a temporary occurrence, as rice prices in other regions
remain relatively stable. As the rice influx circulates among the other regions, it is thought that prices
will stabilize.
Cho Bong Hyun, the deputy director of IBK Economic Research Institute further commented that,
"the regime seems to be distributing large amounts of imported rice to placate the population, but
there are issues with the sustainability of this practice. Unless the total volume of incoming rice
remains steady, the price declines seen will not be sustained for long."
VN should sell rice to Africa: experts

Food processing and export enterprise Sn Thun in Kin Giang Province frequently exports rice to
markets in Ghana, as well as to Timor Leste and other countries in Southeast Asia. The enterprise owns
four modern rice polishing lines with total capacity of 48,000 tonnes per year. - VNA/VNS Photo Trng
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H NI Vit Nam and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) hope to boost
cooperation in developing genetic resources and choosing technology to improve rice quality,
experts have said.
The IRRI genebanks, wild rice introgression population, structured genetic population and
breeding lines represent a critical resource for generating the critical traits and climate-smart
varieties that Vit Nam needs to fulfill its vision, said Matthew Morell, IRRI director general.
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He was speaking at a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development on rice production development held in H Ni on Friday.
IRRI can assist partners in Viet Nam to minimise yield gap and decrease over-use of pesticide,
fertiliser, water, labour and seeds, Morell said, adding that IRRI studies could help the country
reduce loss during rice harvesting, drying and processing and optimise the supply and quality of
the product.
IRRI would work with farmers to facilitate their market access and higher returns through
farmers cooperatives, branding strategies and providing market and trade information, Morell
said.
L Quc Doanh, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, thanked the IRRI for its
assistance to Vit Nam since 1963, saying it had provided thousand of varieties to the country
every year. In addition, thousands of researchers and scientists from Vit Nam have been trained
or received support by the institute.
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At the meeting, experts from domestic research institutes expressed hope of continued
cooperation with IRRI in using genetic resources, personnel training and studies on post-harvest
and intensive processing technologies as well as studies on rice markets, including China.

According to L Huy Hm, Director of the Vit Nam Agriculture Genetic Institute, as one of five
countries likely to be most affected by climate change, Vit Nam has a great demand for drought
and salinity-resistant rice varieties.
Samarendu Mohanty, an economist from IRRI, said Vit Nam was facing stiff competition from
Thailand and Cambodia in the world rice market. Thus, he said, the country should focus on
establishing a base in the African market and increase market share in the American and
European markets to deal with the competition.
Nguyn Xun nh, deputy head of Crop Production Department under the MARD, said the
ministry had set forth a plan to restructure rice production by 2020, with a vision to 2030, in
order to improve production effectiveness and raise the stake of Vietnamese rice on the global
market. Specifically, the ministry would focus on setting up rice research programmes, renewing
policies and enhancing capacity for rice trading enterprises and associations. VNS
Read more at http://vietnamnews.vn/society/345730/vn-should-sell-rice-to-africaexperts.html#UG6qzRBojiVYUsrq.99
Thailand unveils $514 million in rice loans as political

tensions bubble
A farmer loads paddy onto a truck as he harvests his rice field in Suphan Buri province, north of
Bangkok, Thailand November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
Thailand's rice committee announced new loan schemes worth $514 million on Monday to help
rice growers struggling with falling prices as farmers of the grain become the new battleground
between the junta and the opposition ahead of 2017 elections.
Tumbling rice prices have sent the ruling junta scrambling to roll out rescue packages as both the
military government and the opposition try to woo politically powerful rice farmers ahead of the
vote expected by late next year.
Farmers will receive 10,500 baht ($299) for every tonne of white paddy stored, Thailand's
Minister of Commerce Apiradee Tantraporn told reporters.
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Farmers who store Thai Pathum Thani fragrant rice will receive 11,300 baht ($322) per tonne.
"The overall budget is set at 18 billion baht ($514 million)," said Apiradee.

"This is to help relieve grievances farmers are facing while the main crop is being harvested,"
she said.
Prices in Thailand hit a 13-month low last week, hurting farmers in the world's second-largest
rice exporter.
With the rice harvest season underway, the military government last week said it would offer
loans worth $1.3 billion to jasmine rice farmers, on the condition that they store the grain for six
months to slow down market supply.
Ousted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was overthrown in a
May 2014 military coup, attacked the military government's recent rescue packages on Friday
and said the measures were no different to her government's rice policy.
The government in turn has warned Yingluck against politicizing the rice issue.
Yingluck currently faces criminal negligence charges in court over her administration's rice
policy, which paid farmers well above market rates for their rice.
The scheme was popular with rice farmers in the agrarian northeast but cost billions of dollars in
losses to state coffers.
Yingluck and her billionaire brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006
coup, are loved by the rural and urban poor. But the Shinawatras are hated by the country's elite
who accuse them of corruption, accusations they deny.
On Saturday Yingluck sold sacks of rice priced at 20 baht ($0.57) per kilogram at a shopping
mall in Bangkok in her latest attempt to reach out to supporters.
"It was a really successful event," Chayika Wongnapachant, Yingluck's niece and aide, told
Reuters.
"Rice prices have plummeted and that's the truth. Yingluck is merely trying to highlight the
issue."
(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Pracha Hariraksapitak and Patpicha Tanakasempipat;
Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Tom Hogue
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-rice-idUSKBN1320C9
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Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- Nov 08, 2016
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC/Open Market-November 9
Nagpur, Nov 9 Gram prices zoomed up again in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and
Marketing Committee auctions here on increased buying support from local millers amid weak
supply from producing region. Healthy rise in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and repeated
enquiries
from South-based millers also helped to push up prices, according to sources.
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Desi gram recovered further in open market on renewed demand from local traders amid
tight supply from producing belt.
TUAR
* Tuar varieties ruled steady in open market here but demand was poor.
* Lakhodi dal and Batri dal moved down in open market here on poor demand from local
traders amid good supply from producing region.
* In Akola, Tuar New - 5,800-6,000, Tuar dal (clean) - 10,600-11,500, Udid 9,700-10,000, Udid Mogar (clean) - 11,400-11,700, Moong 6,100-6,300, Moong Mogar (clean) 6,800-7,200, Gram - 9,500-9,900,
Gram Super best bold - 12,800-13,100 for 100 kg.
* Wheat, rice and other commodities moved in a narrow range in scattered deals,
settled at last levels.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS
Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction
7,400-9,650
7,400-9,400
Gram Pink Auction
n.a.
2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction
n.a.
5,400-6,000
Moong Auction
n.a.
6,400-6,600
Udid Auction
n.a.
4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction
n.a.
2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold
13,000-13,500
13,000-13,500
Gram Super Best
n.a.
n.a.
Gram Medium Best
12,200-12,600
12,200-12,600
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Gram Dal Medium
n.a.
n.a
Gram Mill Quality
10,400-10,600
10,400-10,600
Desi gram Raw
10,050-10,250
10,000-10,200
Gram Yellow
13,400-13,800
13,400-13,800
Gram Kabuli
13,800-15,100
13,800-15,100
Gram Pink
13,100-13,600
13,100-13,600
Tuar Fataka Best-New
11,500-11,800
11,500-11,800
Tuar Fataka Medium-New
10,700-11,000
10,700-11,000
Tuar Dal Best Phod-New
8,800-9,300
8,800-9,300
Tuar Dal Medium phod-New
7,800-8,400
7,800-8,400
Tuar Gavarani New
6,000-6,100
6,000-6,100
Tuar Karnataka
6,200-6,300
6,200-6,300
Tuar Black
11,500-12,200
11,500-12,200
Masoor dal best
6,400-6,500
6,400-6,500
Masoor dal medium
6,000-6,200
6,000-6,200
Masoor
n.a.
n.a.
Moong Mogar bold (New)
6,800-7,200
6,800-7,200
Moong Mogar Medium
6,100-6,500
6,100-6,500
Moong dal Chilka
6,300-6,600
6,300-6,600
Moong Mill quality
n.a.
n.a.
Moong Chamki best
6,200-7,000
6,200-7,000
Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 11,000-12,100
11,000-12,100
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 9,500-10,500
9,500-10,500
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG)
7,300-7,600
7,300-7,600
Batri dal (100 INR/KG)
6,100-6,500
6,300-6,700
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg)
4,600-4,700
4,600-4,800
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG)
2,800-2,900
2,800-2,900
Watana White (100 INR/KG)
3,400-3,600
3,400-3,600
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 4,000-4,500
4,000-4,500
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG)
2,100-2,200
2,100-2,200
Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 1,950-2,150
1,950-2,150
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG)
2,000-2,200
2,000-2,200
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,700
2,500-2,700
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 2,150-2,400
2,150-2,400
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a.
n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,500-4,000
3,500-4,000
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,600-3,100
2,600-3,100
Rice BPT best New(100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,250
2,800-3,250
Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG)
2,300-2,650
2,300-2,650
Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG)
2,200-2,500
2,200-2,500
Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG)
2,100-2,450
2,100-2,450
Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG)
1,800-2,000
1,800-2,000
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Rice HMT best New (100 INR/KG) 3,450-3,800
3,450-3,800
Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG)
2,600-3,000
2,600-3,000
Rice Shriram best New(100 INR/KG) 4,200-4,500
4,200-4,500
Rice Shriram med New(100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,100
3,800-4,100
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 8,700-13,300
9,000-13,500
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 6,300-7,800
6,500-8,000
Rice Chinnor best New(100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600
5,300-5,600
Rice Chinnor med. New (100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,100
4,900-5,100
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG)
1,900-2,200
1,900-2,200
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG)
1,700-1,850
1,700-1,850
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 32.6 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 12.0 degree Celsius
Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest - n.a.
Rainfall : Nil
FORECAST: Mainly clear sky. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 32
and 12 degree
Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, butincluded in market prices
http://in.reuters.com/article/nagpur-foodgrain-idINL4N1D932B
Rice exports earn $193m

Submitted by Eleven on Sun, 11/06/2016 - 15:27
Writer:EMG reporter
Myanmar earned about US$193 million from exporting around 560,000 tonnes of rice and broken rice
until October 21 this fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
It exported 416,160 tonnes of rice earning US$151 million and 143,490 tonnes of broken rice for US$42
million.
Around 6,010 tonnes went overland to China from October 15 to 21, earning US$2.18 million, around
3,900 tonnes less than the previous weeks exports.
And during the same period, the country exported 1,530 tonnes of broken rice overland to China from
October 15 to 21, earning US$480,000, 1,350 tonnes less than the previous weeks export.
The country exported US$1.64 million worth of rice and US$1.9 million worth of broken rice by sea from
October 16 to 22.
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In the previous fiscal year, the country exported about 1.4 million tonnes of rice and broken rice and is
expected to export 1.5 million tonnes of rice during this fiscal year.
Translated by Tun Tun Win
Former agriculture minister honoured

The International Rice Research Institute has honoured former Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development Cao Duc Phat for his ardent support to the Vietnam-IRRI collaboration.
The former minister is now Vice Chair of the Economics Commission of the Party Central Committee.
Under his leadership of the ministry, several milestone initiatives were reached in partnership with IRRI,
most notably a multi-stakeholder effort that helped refine a national strategy to restructure Vietnams rice
industry.
The restructuring aimed to improve the incomes of Vietnamese rice farmers in the face of global rice
market challenges and climate change. The national strategy is now part of the ministrys master plan for
developing the rice industry.
The Vietnam-IRRI partnership started in 1963. The long-standing collaboration has seen the development
of high-yielding and more recently, climate-resilient rice varieties for the country, sustainable farming
practices, conservation of rice diversity, climate-smart agriculture, particularly in the vulnerable Cuu
Long (Mekong) Delta, and the hosting and training of more than 850 Vietnamese scholars and course
participants.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/166517/social-news-7-11.html
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Abakaliki Rice Mill Limited agrees to relocate to new site

POSTED BY NAN ON NOVEMBER 7, 2016
The state government has also acquired the United Nations International Development Organisation modernrice mill located at the new site
The Abakaliki Rice Mill Limited has finally agreed to

relocate from its present site to a new mill as directed by
the state government.The News Agency of Nigeria
recalls that the relocation issue pitched the company
against the immediate past Ebonyi State Government,
which made it seek litigation at the National Industrial
Court.The company withdrew the matter from court and
decided to engage in dialogue with the present
administration.
The state government has also acquired the United Nations International Development Organisation
modern-rice mill located at the new site.The House of Assembly recently passed a law to back the
acquisition but under the condition of relocating to the new mill for optimum efficiency.
Joseph Ununu, the Companys Chairman, told NAN on Sunday that the decision was taken because of the
governments humane approach to the issue.Ununu said: The present governments relocation policy
has a humane face unlike the previous one, which had no sincere plans for the relocation.The present
government dialogued with us and made provisions in addition to creating an environment conducive for
our business to thrive.According to Ununu, the government allowed the millers to acquire the new mill
with powers to manage and make necessary refunds within six years.
He said: The previous government in contrast ordered us to relocate within one month or face demolition
and even failed to provide an operational mill for us.The present mill has abundant land for requisite
ventures, which made the millers happy and ready to cooperate with the government.Ununu noted that
the relocation would not be immediate because structures at the new mill are not completed though
arrangements are in place for the completion.He said: We would relocate as soon as the structures are
ready and it is imperative to note that we have commenced operation at the facility.We are happier
because the government authorised us to retain the present structure, rehabilitate and make it a rice
market, where people across the globe would purchase the produce.
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NANhttp://theeagleonline.com.ng/abakaliki-rice-mill-limited-agrees-to-relocate-to-new-site/
Pakistan Soldiers Targeting rice fields worth Rs 125 crore

in danger across Indo-Pak border
Pakistan Soldiers ceasefire rice fields worth Rs 125 crore in danger across border
As the soldiers of Pakistan rice fields are meant to attack the Indian Farmer which will hurt the
Indias basmati rice crop and will ensures the Pakistan Rice crop with flowers. As a result,
farmers working on the fields have been made to vacate the area. The paddy now stands
neglected. Ashok Malhotra, Director of Agriculture, Jammu and Kashmir, feels that the
government must counter the Pakistani aggression by taking urgent steps to protect the rice
farmer and rice fields, but says the appeals have so far gone unanswered. If the crop remains
uncultivated this year, India would lose approximately Rs 125 crore.
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As the rice fields to be harvested within 10 days otherwise the crops will die soon. Most of the
area in and around the RS Pura region is extremely fertile and best suited for basmati cultivation,
but shelling and firing have destroyed the crop for the last 3 years
http://fitnhit.com/news/pakistan-soldiers-targeting-rice-fields-worth-rs-125-crore-in-danger-across-indopak-border/94963/News >
Rice prices fall to 3500 KPW per kilo due to harvest season
and import spike
Seol Song Ah | 2016-11-07 16:56
North Korean residents preparing the harvest at a collective farm in Namchon, Chongdan County,
South Hwanghae Province.
Rice prices in some regions of North Korea have reportedly fallen by approximately 1000 KPW over
the last few days. The price of rice has generally hovered around 5000 KPW per kilo since Kim Jong
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Un took power, but recently dropped to 3500 KPW due to an increase in supply from the harvest
season and rice imports. A Daily NK source in North Hwanghae Province reported on November 3
that the price of one kilo of rice was about 4800 KPW in the middle of last month, but has now fallen
to 3500 KPW over the last few days. "People are happy about the price drop," she said.
"Although rice prices in the markets around the northern regions (North Hamgyong Province,
Ryanggang Province) are continuing to average 5000 KPW per kilo, its being sold at 3500 KPW per
kilo in the rural areas of North and South Hwanghae Provinces. Its believed that this was caused by
a fairly good harvest in the agricultural zones of the provinces of North and South Pyongan and
North and South Hwanghae, which was better than last year."
In North Korea, rice prices fluctuate in accordance with grain production. During the harvest season,
prices tend to drop when increasing volumes of rice enter the market, most of which occurs via
embezzlement channels set up by officials.
"During the harvest season, officials in charge of the farms embezzle a proportion of the rice for
themselves and sell it at the market, which seems to be the reason for the recent decline in rice
prices," the source said.In addition, public sentiment towards the change in prices also has an impact
on prices. Rumors have been spreading among the residents that large volumes of rice will be
donated by UN agencies, prompting vendors to try and sell their own product more quickly.There has
also reportedly been an influx of imported rice into the market, further driving up competition.
Addressing this phenomenon, VOA (Voice of America) reported that since the Kim Jong regime
came to power, North Korea imported the largest volume of rice from China on record (on monthly
basis) in September. According to an analysis of recordings from the Chinese General
Administration of Customs by Kwon Tae Jin (director of the Center for Studies on North Korea and
Northeast Asia at the GS&J Institute), the volume of Chinese grain imported into North Korea in
September reached a total of 18,877 tons.
"Upon seeing the imported rice being sold in the market, local merchants have dropped their prices to
try and sell all of their product. The wholesale dealers and vendors in the rice trade all seem a bit
confused by the rapid fluctuations in price," added a source in South Hwanghae Province.
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However, this phenomenon may only be a temporary occurrence, as rice prices in other regions
remain relatively stable. As the rice influx circulates among the other regions, it is thought that prices
will stabilize.
Cho Bong Hyun, the deputy director of IBK Economic Research Institute further commented that,
"the regime seems to be distributing large amounts of imported rice to placate the population, but
there are issues with the sustainability of this practice. Unless the total volume of incoming rice
remains steady, the price declines seen will not be sustained for long.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=14169
Rice imports to stabilize food pricesNeda

By Cai Ordinario
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
The timely arrival of rice imports are expected to help keep food prices stable in the October-toDecember period, according to the National Economic and Development Authority
(Neda).Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and Neda Director General Ernesto M. Pernia said the
stable inflation prices in October is expected to continue. While domestic demand is anticipated
to remain robust, Pernia added that supply conditions, particularly of food, are expected to
improve.This should help keep commodity prices steady. Rice prices will be kept stable by the
timely arrival of rice imports under the government-to-government procurement scheme, Pernia
said.
The steady rate was seen despite food inflation slightly increasing to 3.5 percent in October,
from 3.1 percent in the previous month.Pernia said Typhoons Lawin and Karen were partly to
blame for this, as vegetable prices went up. The two typhoons battered Northern Luzon, where
Metro Manila sources its highland vegetables.
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The high vegetable prices caused the vegetable index to post a 12.6 percent growth in October.
But inflation for January to October averaged at 1.6 percent, well below the target range of 2
percent to 4 percent set by the government for this year. We expect inflation for full-year 2016 to
settle below the target range but upside risks remain, Pernia said.Risks include the possible rally
in oil prices, depreciation of the peso against the US dollar, pending petitions for electricity rate
increase and tropical cyclones.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa)
reported a 65-percent chance of La Nia developing in the fourth quarter and last until February
2017.Given the larger possibility of more frequent and stronger rains, the agriculture sector
needs to implement adaptation measures to protect the income of farmers and keep food price
inflation at bay, Pernia said.
We aim to strengthen the agricultural sector though a comprehensive agricultural development
program, a major component of the proposed Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022, he
added.Nonfood inflation in October remained at 1.5 percent as mild price increases were
registered in majority of nonfood indices, such as housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels;
transport; communication; education; and restaurant and miscellaneous goods and services.Core
inflation, which excludes selected volatile food and energy prices, likewise, remained stable at
2.3 percent in October
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/rice-imports-to-stabilize-food-prices-neda/
Hybrid rice could feed 70 million more people a year

By Deng Xiaoci Source:Global Times Published: 2016/11/7 0:13:40
Hybrid rice techniques could help feed 70 million more people worldwide every year, according to
China's "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping, defying experts who question the quality of hybrid rice
and ask whether quantity should take priority over quality. Hybrid rice can enhance regular crop yields
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by about 20 percent, Yuan told the China-Central and Eastern Europe (CCEE) agriculture ministers'
meeting on Saturday in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
"Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population," Yuan said, adding that rising
populations mean the world will need to produce about 60 percent more rice by 2030 than it did in 1995
to feed them. Yuan said that a one-hectare rice field can currently sustain 27 people, a number which has
to reach 43 by 2050 to meet the world's food needs.
At present, as much as 50 percent of China's total rice fields use Yuan's hybrid rice species, producing 60
percent of China's rice. China's total rice output rose from 5.69 billion tons in 1950 to 19.47 billion tons
last year. This annual yield is enough to feed 60 million people, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
"Hybrid rice will play an important role in the new century in terms of food safety and the furtherance of
world peace," Yuan said on Saturday.
Statistics from the official website of the UN's World Food Program showed that some 795 million, or
about one in nine people globally, do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sent a congratulation letter to the CCEE meeting on Saturday, in which he
said that "China is willing to align its development strategies with the Central and Eastern European
countries and share development experiences to further promote the level of agricultural cooperation and
bring benefits to the people of all these countries."
According to Yuan, more than 4,000 agricultural technicians and officials from over 100 countries have
received training from the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Centre in central Hunan Province, and they
have popularized the knowledge of hybrid rice planting, as well as research and development
technologies.
Experts sow concerns
In spite of developments in hybrid rice techniques and the expansion of hybrid rice's use globally, though,
concerns have been raised by some experts over its quality.
"Increases in crop yield should not come at the expense of a plant's resistance to diseases, adversity or
quality," Na Zhongyuan, a director with the Yunnan Institute for Ecological Agriculture, told the Global
Times.
Na said that Yuan's hybrid rice needs more chemical fertilizers to maintain its high output, which could
have a detrimental effect on the environment. In some regions, planting areas for hybrid rice have shrunk
in recent years due to the high costs of seeds, fertilizer and manpower, Na added.
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"In spite of its high yield, the low quality of hybrid rice limits its usage because of the relatively high
requirements of pesticide and fertilizer," Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Sunday. Li said some consumers
complain that hybrid rice does not taste as good as regular rice and, despite a periodic surplus of rice
yields in recent years, the quality of the product remains low.
To advance a more environmentally friendly development, "we should alter our strategies from only
pursuing quantity to much better quality," Li said.
The combination of "high quality" and "high quantity" is very difficult, but not necessarily contradictory,
Yuan said at the World Life Science Conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1016264.shtml
South Koreans spend less on rice: report

Published : 2016-11-07 15:16
Updated : 2016-11-07 15:16
South Koreans, particularly those living in the capital region, are spending less on rice, marking an
over 15 percent drop in expenses for rice consumption last year, a government report said
Monday.Throughout the year, households in the capital region on average spent around 126,000 won
($110) on plain rice, 19,000 won on brown rice and 11,000 won on glutinous rice, totaling some
165,000 won. It was down 15.6 percent from 2014, according to the report by the Gyeonggido
Agricultural Research & Extension Services.
The decline in spending is largely due to the continued decrease in rice consumption and a drop in
the prices of rice, the organization said.The price of rice per kilogram was 3,204 won last year, 4.9
percent lower than the 3,370 won of 2014. The number of purchases also dropped from 6.4 times in
2010 to 5.6 times last year.Rice oversupply is the main reason for the price decrease, as the countrys
rice production reached a six-year high of 4.33 million tons in 2015 on a bumper harvest, according
to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
More efforts need to be put in to develop rice that suits the diversified tastes of consumers, the
research department of the institute said.Meanwhile, the countrys stock of rice has continued to
increase, with the amount of rice Korea is obligated to import each year -- in return for postponing
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the opening of the rice market upon negotiations with the World Trade Organization -- reaching
409,000 tons as of 2014. The amount has surged by eight times over the past 20 years.
According to the Agriculture Ministry, the countrys total stock of rice reached 1.75 million tons as
of June, which is twice the optimal level of 800,000 tons recommended by the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization. To better manage the oversupply of rice, the government has been taking
measures to foster rice consumption such as by running campaigns that emphasize the healthy
aspects of rice, holding special sales, supporting research and development of food and beverages
that use rice.
Local governments are seeking to handle the oversupply by bolstering exports. Icheon in Gyeonggi
Province, for instance, famous for producing high-quality rice, exported some 100 ton of Icheon Rice
to China in May. Icheon Brand Management, which manages rice harvested in the area, plans to
export a total of 400 tons by the end of this year.
By Kim Bo-gyung (lisakim425@heraldcorp.com)
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20161107000667
Thailand and Vietnam urge farmers to plant less rice

A rice-drying yard at an export rice plant in Thailand's central Chainat province. Thai officials
are trying to ecourage farmers to switch to corn production by offering interest-free loans and
guaranteeing prices for the crop.
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NOV 7, 2016, 5:00 AM SGT
The grain-exporting nations are encouraging growers to switch crops and consolidate production
as prices fall
Falling rice prices have caused an outcry in Thailand - the world's second largest exporter behind
India - prompting the government to rush out soft loans that help farmers withhold sales.But
these falling prices are also making regional exporters consider planting less of the grain.
Thailand last month unveiled plans to plant corn on 320,000ha of rice fields over the next seven
months. This is around a quarter of the land used last year in the second rice planting season of
the crop year. To nudge farmers to switch, the government is dangling interest-free loans and has
guaranteed prices for the corn, its Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives told The Straits
Times.
Vietnam, the world's third largest rice exporter, approved a strategy earlier in May to restructure
its rice industry by integrating production and developing a national brand that can command
higher prices.
It also wants to convert 700,000ha to 800,000ha of its roughly 4 million hectares of rice fields to
mixed or other uses.
The idea is to earn more by dedicating less land to rice, so as to help paddy farmers weather the
vagaries of the global commodity market.
"Rice farming is no longer an economic activity, it's a social safety net for families," said the
World Bank's lead agriculture economist Steven Jaffee, who is familiar with the situation in
Vietnam.
"They make their money by doing something else."
Increasingly, these rice-farming families stay afloat only because some members leave to work
in the city, leaving the grandparents and grandchildren to till the land.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation expects a record harvest of 749.7 million tonnes this
year.Between 2013 and last year, overall prices of higher grade Indica rice, commonly grown in
South-east Asia, dropped 18 per cent despite a contraction in production.Vietnam exported 6.61
million tonnes of rice last year and Thailand 9.78 million tonnes, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture.
While paddy production is a source of food security, recent developments have given pause to
the notion that more is better.Small-scale paddy farmers in Vietnam resort to growing three crops
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throughout the year to maximise their income, but use high levels of fertiliser and pesticides, said
Dr Leocadio Sebastian from the International Rice Research Institute.Dam-building in the upper
reaches of the Mekong River, the lifeblood of the region, is also disturbing the sensitive ecology
that nourishes rice fields downstream.
Earlier this year, a drought caused the loss of 1.29 million tonnes of Vietnam's crop.Rice
specialist Pham Thi Kim Dung from Vietnam's Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture
and Rural Development, the agriculture ministry's think-tank, said: "Rice brings much lower
profitability compared with other agricultural commodities when Vietnamese farmers receive
little support from the government."So the plan to reduce the amount of land for rice-planting
and... keep the most suitable areas for paddy cultivation is expected to help farmers gain more
from less."
More than nine million households - the majority of rural households - are involved in Vietnam's
rice industry, so "the job is very important to keep stability in rural areas", said Ms Dung.In
Thailand, where about one-third of its workforce is employed in agriculture, concerns over
restive farmers in the populous north and north-east pushed the government to pledge an extra 20
billion baht (S$792 million) of aid last week - the latest batch of rice subsidies handed out by
successive governments over three decades.
Economists like Mr Viroj Na Ranong from the Thailand Development Research Institute argue
that it simply keeps an unsustainable number of people in farming.In the long run, say experts,
the solutions lie in higher-value grains and integrated and environmentally sensitive
farming.While rice farmers are not about to give up their trade, the changes being attempted now
could well determine whether the next generation will keep it going
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-and-vietnam-urge-farmers-to-plant-less-rice
FG yet to remit N63.34b pension fund PENCOM

Posted on Nov 8, 2016
From Magnus Eze, Abuja

The Federal Government is still having outstanding accrued rights due its employees that retired
between 2015 and October 2016 amounting to N63.34 billion.Director General of National
Pension Commission (PENCOM), Chinelo Anohu-Amazu who disclosed this at a function
organised by the National Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Abuja also said the total registered
participants in the Contributory Pensions Scheme (CPS) have increased to 7, 240,196 as at
September 2016.The DG further said that a total of 174, 844 persons have retired under the CPS
since inception.Represented by Director of Surveillance at the commission, M.B Umar, she said
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the number comprised 140,532 retirees on monthly programmed withdrawal and 34,312 retirees
on monthly annuity, adding that the monthly pension payment of the retirees were N4.67 billion
and N1.72 billion respectively.According to her, despite the success recorded, the CPS has some
challenges especially in funding of accrued rights of Federal Government employees.
Agric: Rice revolution has begun, says CBN Governor
From Uche Usim, Abuja
Central Bank of Nigeria Governor (CBN), Godwin Emefiele said that rice revolution has begun with
about 13 states latching strongly on the Rice Anchor Borrowers Programme (RABP) launched by
President Muhammadu Buhari last year in Birnin Kebbi.
He expressed the apex banks determination to work with many states farmers to bridge the rice
sufficiency gap, create employment and tackle food shortage in general.
Speaking at the weekend in Ogoja, Cross River State in company of the Governor, Ben Ayade and his
Kebbi State counterpart, Bagudu Atiku, Emefiele hailed the rice and wheat revolution projects, describing
them as one of the most effective vehicles needed to transport Nigeria out of the food shortage debacle.
The CBN Governor disclosed that about N3 billion had been disbursed to Cross River State under the
programme, stressing that thousands of farmers, rice millers and other players in the food chain will
benefit from the scheme.
He added that about N23 billion had so far been disbursed under
the scheme.I thank farmers for joining this lets feed-our-people
train. We are already doing well. We just have to be patient. I was
reading in the papers where someone said it will take us five years
to be self sufficient in rice production.I want to tell you that that
person has a bad news. The rice farmers association has said that
economic saboteurs are there in rice production and we all need to
stand against them. I can tell you that we are going to rise above
this and we will produce rice, tomatoes, wheat and other
agricultural produce to feed our people. We do not have a choice
but to move in that direction., the CBN Governor stated.
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Also speaking at one of the farms, the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade explained that the state
remains focused to ensuring the success of the programme.
He assured that the CBNs N3 billion support will not only be used to produce rice, but also establish
mills for processing it and silos for storage.Well have a mill that will have a provision for vitaminised
rice. Itll come from the broken pieces which can be vitaminised and given to children so that they can
grow tall and healthy.
So in Cross River state, the 78,000 farmers that we will be working with will have the benefit of
processing all the rice they will be harvesting at the mill. Also at the moment 80 per cent of the rice
farmed in Cross River State ends up processed at the Ebonyi mill and processed into Abakiliki rice. But
all of that will stop with the intervention of the CBN loan through the Anchor Borrowers Programme,
Ayade stated.
In his remarks, the Kebbi State Governor and the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Rice and
Wheat Production, Atiku Bagudu expressed joy at many state governors interest in ensuring food
sufficiency in the country.Im happy by the effort of farmers in different states towards making Nigeria
food sufficient especially in rice production.
Its good the President is providing adequate
financing to our agricultural sector so that we will
be self sufficient in some crops and then even begin
to export them. The CBN ha created the RABP
financing effort across states. Governors keyed in
by ensuring that land is made available and farmers
and food processors will be encouraged to go into
rice and wheat production to create income and
employment, he noted.
NUC gives recognition to Borno State University
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From Fred Ezeh, Abuja

National Universities Commission (NUC) yesterday gave recognition to the new Borno State University
located in Maiduguri, with a presentation of letter of approval by the Executive Secretary of NUC,
Professor Rasheed Abubakar.Prior to the presentation of the letter at the NUC headquarters in Abuja,
Prof. Rasheed expressed his appreciation to the state government for its desire and commitment to the
restoration of the educational reputation and credibility of the state that was destroyed by the activities of
Boko Haram.
He said, Boko Haram insurgents were literally

expressing
their
ignorance
and
opposition
to
education but thanks to federal and state governments

resistance
efforts
that
have
yielded
positive
results.For successful establishment and running of

the institution, NUC urged the state government to
eschew
mediocrity,
promote
excellence
and
professionalism in order to continually enjoy the

support of NUC which is the apex Nigerian university
regulatory body.
http://www.nigeriatoday.ng/2016/11/fg-yet-to-remit-n63-34b-pension-fund-pencom/
Thailand's junta and ousted PM Yingluck seek rice farmers'

support ahead of 2017 election
By Reuters November 7, 2016 / 13:14 ICT
Thailand's politically powerful rice farmers are becoming the new battleground between the
country's junta and ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, with both trying to woo their
support amid concerns of a flashpoint ahead of 2017 elections.
Yingluck on Friday attacked the military government's recent rescue packages worth at least
USD1.70 billion (THB59.92 billion) aimed at stabilizing low rice prices as it tries to maintain
stability ahead of the general election.
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"The military government's latest rice measures are no different from the rice pledging policy (of
my government)," Yingluck told reporters outside a Bangkok court on Friday.
The military overthrew Yingluck in 2014, charging her government with corruption. She is
currently in court fighting charges of criminal negligence over her government's rice subsidy
scheme which paid farmers above-market rates rice.
Critics say the scheme, which helped sweep her to power in 2011, hemorrhaged billions of
dollars. Last month authorities fined Yingluck THB35 billion over her government's rice
scheme.Thailand is the world's second-largest rice exporter.
Yingluck cannot run in the 2017 election because the junta banned her from politics for five
years but that hasn't stopped her from making a series of cross-country trips that her team says
are aimed at keeping her in the public eye.
For more than a decade, Thailand has been rocked by clashes between supporters of Yingluck
and her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, and
those who back the royalist-military establishment.
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On Thursday, Yingluck visited rice farmers in the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani.
Thailand's rice farmers have traditionally supported the Shinawatra family.
"Low rice prices are a truth and a burden for the people which should be a burden for, and the
responsibility of, every government," Chayika Wongnapachant, Yingluck's niece and aide, wrote
on Twitter, along with photographs of a tearful Yingluck next to farmers in Ubon Ratchathani.
Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd warned the former prime minister not to use
farmers for political gain. "I believe people will be uncomfortable with the fact farmers'
problems are being used as a political tool," Sansern said.
Manas Kitprasert, head of the Thai Rice Millers Association, resigned on Thursday after Prime
Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said this week that rice millers and politicians were colluding to
drive down rice prices for political reasons.Manas denied the accusations
http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/11/07/thailands-junta-and-ousted-pm-yingluck-seek-rice-farmerssupport-ahead-2017-election
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Abakaliki rice mill agrees to relocate to new site
The Abakaliki Rice Mill Limited has finally agreed to relocate from its present site to a new mill
as directed by the state government.The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the relocation issue
pitched the company against the immediate past Ebonyi State Government, which made it seek
litigation at the National Industrial Court.
The company withdrew the matter from court and decided to engage in dialogue with the present
administration.
The state government has also acquired the United Nations International Development
Organisation modern-rice mill located at the new site.
The House of Assembly recently passed a law to back the acquisition but under the condition of
relocating to the new mill for optimum efficiency.Joseph Ununu, the Companys Chairman, told
NAN on Sunday that the decision was taken because of the governments humane approach to
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the issue.Ununu said: The present governments relocation policy has a humane face unlike the
previous one, which had no sincere plans for the relocation.
The present government dialogued with us and made provisions in addition to creating an
environment conducive for our business to thrive.According to Ununu, the government allowed
the millers to acquire the new mill with powers to manage and make necessary refunds within six
years.He said: The previous government in contrast ordered us to relocate within one month or
face demolition and even failed to provide an operational mill for us.
The present mill has abundant land for requisite ventures, which made the millers happy and
ready to cooperate with the government.Ununu noted that the relocation would not be
immediate because structures at the new mill are not completed though arrangements are in place
for the completion.He said: We would relocate as soon as the structures are ready and it is
imperative to note that we have commenced operation at the facility.We are happier because the
government authorised us to retain the present structure, rehabilitate and make it a rice market,
where people across the globe would purchase the produce.
https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/211192/abakaliki-rice-mill-agrees-relocate-site
Brown Rice Market Revenue and Value Chain 2016-2026

NOVEMBER 7TH, 2016
Rice is one of the major staple food, consumed across the globe by more than half of the total
worlds population. Rice is produced and milled globally, yet major percentage of total rice
produced is consumed in the countries where it is produced, but growing demand in some areas
is driving the international rice trade between the regions. Most of the rice is consumed and
produced in Asia and Central-Asian countries like India, Pakistan and Thailand accounts for
approximately 90% of world rice production. Due to high export of rice to other countries, the
current share in global rice consumption of these countries is slightly lesser than the total
production.
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Brown rice is the edible whole grain rice, with its outer hull removed. Since, brown rice goes
through less processing, it is high in nutritional values as compared to whole white rice. Due to

increasing preference towards healthy eating habits and increasing health consciousness, brown
rice market is expanding at higher CAGR, compared to overall rice market. Brown rice demand
is picking up in the major importing countries, which is attracting the interest of major producers
to focus on producing brown rice.
Brown Rice Market Segmentation:
Brown Rice market can be segmented on the basis of length, type and regions that constitute the
key markets.Brown Rice on the basis of length can segmented into long-grain brown rice,
medium-grain brown rice and short-grain brown rice. Long-grain brown rice when cooked,
becomes firm and offers fluffy texture remain separate, whereas medium-grain offers more sweet
and nutty flavour and remains more tender when cooked. Short-grain offers sweeter taste than
medium and long grain brown rice and offers chewier and denser texture.
Brown Rice on the basis of type can be segmented into sweet brown rice and brown basmati rice.
Sweet rice is also known as sticky rice or glutinous rice, highly consumed in Southeast Asian
countries.
Geographically, brown rice market can be segmented by regions into North America, Latin
America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, Japan and Middle East & Africa. Asiapacific is the most dominant market in terms of production and consumption. Thailand is the
worlds largest exporter of rice, including brown rice, followed by Vietnam and India. Major
importing countries are dispersed and top 10 importing countries only account for less than 50%
of global rice imports. Major countries consuming brown rice are Indonesia, Philippines, Iran,
Nigeria and few European countries. Latin American countries are expected to exploit the
availability of land and water emerge as the major producer and exporter of rice, during the
forecast period.
Brown Rice Market Drivers:
Brown Rice market is increasing with respect to the growth of rice trade between the countries.
Brown market is projected to expand at a higher pace compared to rice market, due to shifting
preference towards healthy eating habits and nutrients provided by brown rice, such as vitamins
(B), phosphorus, and magnesium, makes it a preferred choice for many health conscious
customers. Due to increasing demand, the manufacturers are focusing on launching new brown
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rice brands and making renewed efforts to attract health-conscious people. Demand for brown
rice is also emerging from various Middle-East and African countries, driving the growth of
brown rice market. Innovation in packaging and changing food preference such as emergence of
ready-to-eat food product will result in introduction of ready-to-cook brown rice, during the
forecast period. In majority of countries where brown rice was earlier preferred by only diabetic
patients, is now getting traction from growing number of fitness conscious consumers. Increasing
per capita consumption of rice in countries where it is not a staple food is also expected to
support the growth of brown rice market
Brown Rice Market Key Players:
Brown Rice market is a part of global rice market and major supplier are concentrated in
Asia-Pacific region which manufactures, market and export brown rice on large scale. Few
of the major players in brown rice market are T.K. Ricemill and Ash, Asia Golden Rice
Co.,Ltd., Daawat, Shiva Shellac And Chemicals, Amira Nature Foods Ltd., Chandrika
Group of Mills, Riviana Foods Inc., Ebro Foods, Agistin Biotech Pvt. Ltd., and SunFoods,
LLC
http://www.medgadget.com/2016/11/brown-rice-market-revenue-and-value-chain-20162026.html
50 Miagao farmers benefit from RCM app

November 07, 2016 Leonard T. Pineda I
ILOILO CITY, November 7 (PIA) --- Over 50 farmers from the municipality of Miagao are expected to
benefit from the Rice Crop Manager (RCM) conducted recently by the Department of Agriculture
(DA).The RCM, a decision-support application that can be accessed via a smartphone or a computer with
Internet connection, was conducted to farmers in barangays Igsoligue, Nam-o Sur, and Nam-o Norte.The
RCM application enables them to provide a one-page actionable recommendation that matches their
respective clienteles, who are rain-fed and irrigated lowland rice farmers, with location-specific cropping
practices and needs.
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The RCM can be used by extension workers, crop advisors, and service providers to interview a farmer
and provide advice to a farmer and aims to increase a farmers income.Through the application,
agricultural extension workers can assist farmers in their rice productions through the provision of
recommendations on nutrient, pest, weed and water management, depending on the variety that they are
going to use, and their area of production.Other factors that would aid in providing recommendation are
through the information that they provide regarding their yield from the previous season and the sitespecific conditions of their field.The RCM app, developed by the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) for the Philippines, aims to contribute to the implementation of modern farming by providing
farmers with personalized crop and nutrient management recommendations that match their locationspecific rice-growing conditions. (LTP/PIA-Iloilo
http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2421478506646/50-miagao-farmers-benefit-from-rcmapp#sthash.7rv2eLSH.dpuf
11/7/2016 Farm Bureau Market Report

Rice
High Low
Long Grain Cash Bids - - - - - Long Grain New Crop - - - - - -
Futures:
ROUGH RICE
High Low
Last Change
Nov '16 960.5 960.5 958.0 -6.0

Jan '17 992.0 979.5 980.5 -8.0
Mar '17 1012.5 1005.5 1006.5 -7.5
May '17 1033.5 1033.5 1030.5 -7.5
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Jul '17
1048.5 -7.5
Sep '17
1058.0 -7.5
Nov '17
1058.0 -7.5
Rice Comment
Rice futures were lower across the board today. January has found support at the contract low of
$9.60 for the time being. USDA announced last week the final marketing year average price of
$11.10/cwt for long grain rice, meaning rice farmers will receive a PLC payment of $2.90/cwt on
their rice. The southern medium/short grain rice marketing year average price was set at
$11.20/cwt, resulting in a $2.80/cwt payment for eligible medium/short grain acreage.
Yellow Rails and Rice Festival Delivers for Birders

By Randy Jemison
THORNWELL, LA -- One hundred and twenty-seven bird enthusiasts from 27 states, and
Australia and Canada gathered here in the Yellow Rail Capital of the World November 1-5 for
the eighth annual Yellow Rails and Rice Festival. The festival brings birders together with rice
growers to highlight the role of Louisiana's working wetlands in bird conservation while
providing participants a unique venue to view the elusive Yellow Rail.On Thursday enthusiasm
quickly turned to frustration when festival organizer and rice farmer Kevin Berken's combine
suffered major mechanical damage during a preliminary pass around the field. Harvest
operations were temporarily suspended until neighboring farmer Paul Johnson, a member of the
2015 Rice Leadership Development program, came to the rescue with a backup
combine. Despite the delay, patience paid off as 30 Yellow Rails were sighted that day.
Although the Yellow Rail is fairly widespread it is rarely seen so bird enthusiasts welcome the
opportunity to catch sight of the migrating Rails as they arrive in southern Louisiana at the same
time the ratoon rice crop is being harvested.Berken said, "What started out as a two-day event in
2009 has grown as folks take advantage of being in the heart of Cajun Country in Louisiana's
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southwest prairie region. It's an area known for rich history and culture, not to mention mouthwatering regional cuisine, and this festival has added great birding to the list of local
attractions."USA Rice is one of 50 organizations that sponsor the festival. The Louisiana Rice Growers
Association provided gift bags of Louisiana-grown rice to festival participants.
PhilRice turns 31
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the countrys lead agency in rice research and
development, will celebrate its 31st anniversary on November 5-8.With the theme Rice science and
innovation for inclusive growth, the Institutes anniversary will kick-off the celebration with the official
opening of the National Rice Awareness Month (#BROWN4good Challenge Accepted: We do four
goodness by eating brown rice) followed by the Santiago R. Obien seminar series on research
management and institution on November 7.PhilRice will also honor more than 100 of its staff members
during the employees recognition or Dangal ng PhilRice on November 8. Key officials of the Institute
and Dr. V. Bruce J. Tolentino, deputy director general for communication and partnerships of the
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), will award plaques and certificates to the recipients of
external, scientific productivity, scholastic, loyalty, and outstanding employee awards.
As a research Institution, PhilRice advances various frontiers of rice science by producing scientific
publications written by its researchers and scientists. These were published in some of the most reputable
journals in the world such as the Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment, International Journal of
Ecology and Conservation, Philippine Journal of Crop Science, and the Philippine Agricultural Scientist.
Since 1985, the Institute with its Central Experiment Station in the Science City of Muoz in Nueva
Ecija, has developed more than 70 rice varieties. It radiates its impacts through its branch stations located
in Batac City, Ilocos Norte; San Mateo, Isabela; Los Baos, Laguna; Ligao City, Albay; Murcia, Negros
Occidental; RTRomualdez, Agusan del Norte; Central Mindanao State University, Bukidnon; and
Midsayap, North Cotabato.
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PhilRice launches book on Bicol indigenous farmers
NAGA CITY Researchers from PhilRice Los Baos (LB) launched a coffee table book in this City
titled Anthropological and socioeconomic characterization of selected indigenous farming communities
in the Bicol Region, Oct. 12.The said publication is a result of a 2012-2014 study Anthropological and
Socioeconomic Characterization of Bicol Agta Indigenous Peoples (IPs) conducted by PhilRice LB in
collaboration with the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office (DA-RFO) and the National
Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in the Bicol region.
The book that comes in four volumes documents farming practices, social conditions, and economic
status in four IP communities in Camarines Sur and Albay. It features the following: 1) Tingog Kan San
Pedro (Voices of San Pedro); An Makabagong Gatbo (A Modern Gatbo), Nagtatalubong Danao
(Growing Danao); and Pagsasabot sa Joroan, Misibis asin Mayong (Understanding Joroan, Misibis, and
Mayong).
PhilRice LB embarked on this initiative as part of the stations project with IPs to better understand the
cultures of local communities before implementing development interventions.
Knowing that the historical development of each IP community is unique, further understanding of their
anthropological and socioeconomic conditions is important so we can create appropriate and effective
recommendations for development projects in these communities, said Mario M. Movillon, project lead
and chief science research specialist of PhilRice LB. Primarily, the researchers identified factors that can
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affect the willingness and ability of indigenous farmers to adopt the Palayamanan, a diversified farming
system being promoted by PhilRice.
The study found that the communities characteristics, locations, influences, and aspirations have
affected their way of living and agricultural practices exhibiting various degrees of transition towards
modernity.The book also presents results of anthropological and socioeconomic analysis across all sites
that demonstrated different geographical conditions, rice and agri-based farming practices, disposals,
market access, traditions, beliefs, and aspirations. These factors will be considered in enhancing the
capabilities of the IP farmers through the Palayamanan approach to increase their farm productivity.This
free publication is written in English, Filipino, and Bicolano to represent international, national, and
regional language that can cater to a wider audience, said Jacqueline O. Canilao, one of the authors.We
presented this in a reader-friendly manner so people can have a better understanding and appreciation of
the ways of living and culture of the IPs in Bicol, she added.The book will be available in selected
libraries of schools, universities, and agencies such as the NCIP and PhilRice central and branch stations.
PM says aid for farmers not limitless
8 Nov 2016 at 05:16 7,372 viewed26 comments
WRITER: CHATRUDEE THEPARAT, WICHIT CHANTANUSORNSIRI AND PHUSADEE

ARUNMAS
As the bill for rice subsidies rises, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha warns farmers not to get used to
such help.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has called on farmers not to simply rely on the government's financial
aid, saying the state coffers must be used to take care of people nationwide.Gen Prayut was speaking after
chairing the National Rice Policy Committee's (NRPC) meeting, which decided Monday to spend an
additional 18 billion baht on a fresh subsidy scheme for farmers growing rice other than the hom mali
variety.The government last week launched a subsidy scheme worth more than 20 billion baht to help
hom mali farmers suffering from falling rice prices in the North and Northeast, sparking anger among
farmers from other parts of the country who grow different strains, yet who want equal treatment.
Gen Prayut said the government is placing emphasis on helping farmers suffering from tumbling rice
prices without discrimination. However, the government cannot afford to use all the state's money to help
farmers.
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Farmers must cooperate with the government to rethink their methods, such as changing crops or using
more sustainable and self-sufficient methods in a bid to be less reliant on the government.
depend
on many factors'
"In the past, we only solved the problem at the
downstream level, mainly via price subsidies, which
has has made farmers reliant on these programmes.
This has led to difficulty in tackling the real
underlying problems," said Gen Prayut."This
government is focused on upstream, where several
issues must be fine-tuned, including changing rice
cultivation practices and the use of water, downsizing
farmland, farm zoning and reducing farm costs."Gen
Prayut said any help people can offer farmers to sell
their rice at decent prices is welcome.
"If they do this with good intentions, that would be a blessing."An official of the Science and Technology
Ministry demonstrates a rice-milling machine developed for households and small communities. It is
capable of de-husking between 38-70 kilogrammes of rice an hour.His remarks came after former prime
minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday visited the northeastern provinces of Ubon Ratchathani and
Surin, where she bought rice from farmers despairing about falling prices. She resold the grain at a
shopping mall on Saturday.The cabinet will decide today whether to approve the new 18-billion-baht
subsidy scheme to help farmers amid the price slump.
Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn said the
scheme is concerned with the 2016/17 harvest of
white rice paddy and Pathum Thani fragrant
rice.She said farmers would receive a total of
10,500 baht per tonne of white rice paddy for
storing their rice in barns for a designated period.
About 661,885 growers are expected to join the
programme.Of this, 7,000 baht per tonne will be
paid by the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural
Cooperatives (BAAC), plus 1,500 baht for
storage costs and 2,000 baht for harvesting and
quality improvement.
For Pathum Thani fragrant rice farmers, they will each receive a total of 11,300 baht per tonne; 91,208
growers are expected to join the scheme.The BAAC will pay 7,800 baht per tonne to farmers, who will
also receive 1,500 baht for storage costs and 2,000 baht for harvesting quality improvement costs.
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Ms Apiradi said most of the farmers who grow these two kinds of rice are in the Central Plains.As for
those who do not have barns, the government will encourage growers in the Central Plains to contact
agriculture cooperatives in their areas for ways to store rice, said the minister.Unlike farmers in the
Northeast, most of the rice farmers in the Central Plains have no barns for storing rice because they
usually sell their rice immediately after harvest.Also Monday, , the Revenue Department (RD) dismissed
reports it would examine transaction records of rice mills going back three years.
Citing the RD's order announced on Friday, RD director-general Prasong Pontaneat said the agency only
asked its staff to examine quantities and prices of rice bought and sold by millers from Oct 1 this year.
This came after the RD found that the volume of rice sold by millers was lower than the figure published
in the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry's records.The RD will also ask millers to improve their
system of recording rice trades, Mr Prasong added."There will be no tracing back for three years as
reported in some media," he said.
Meanwhile, army and administrative officers inspected rice mills in Muang and Satuk districts of Buri
Ram province in an effort to prevent them from exploiting farmers.President of the Thai Agriculturist
Association, Suthep Kongmak, said that representatives of rice growers will travel to Government House
to express their gratitude to the prime minister and the government for helping farmers.The visit is likely
to take place next week, he said."The paddy prices under the subsidy scheme are at an acceptable level.
The cost of rice cultivation is now at 4,600-4,800 baht per rai," said Mr Suthep.
Sharing farms would be one answer to farming more efficiently, Mr Suthep said, as it would reduce the
cultivation cost from 4,800 baht per rai to 3,200 baht.Meanwhile, the maize policy and management
committee on Monday agreed on a measure to stall imports of wheat, which hinders the domestic
purchase of maize, a Commerce Ministry source said.The move came after maize and cassava growers
expressed concerns over the impact of increasing imports of wheat on the prices of maize and tapioca
chips, which continue to drop.
The meeting also discussed ways to help maize growers who have no documents certify their land rights,
the source said.
Numerous factors dent rice prices
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NEWSPAPER SECTION: BUSINESS | WRITER: PHUSADEE ARUNMAS
While the government and farming industry have blamed each other for the sharp drop in rice
prices, a leading economist says the tumbling prices, particularly for premium fragrant rice, stem
from diverse factors.Somporn Isvilanonda, a senior fellow at the Knowledge Network Institute of
Thailand, believes the tumbling prices, particularly for premium fragrant rice, can be attributed
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to issues at home and abroad."Over the past several months, demand and supply for hom mali
rice and other aromatic varieties have changed, resulting in reduced prices," he said."One of the
key reasons is shrinking consumption by premium rice consumers like the US, Asia, Africa and
the Middle East," Mr Somporn said. "Their weak economies have led them to buy other lowergrade rice and cereals, including Vietnam's aromatic rice, which is much cheaper."
Some 3.5 million tonnes of milled rice (excluding basmati rice from India and Pakistan) is traded
globally. Around 60% of that comes from Thailand, 37% from Vietnam and the rest from
Cambodia, he said.Vietnam's aromatic rice prices are currently quoted at about $570-650 per
tonne.Thai hom mali rice fetched, on average, $1,008 per tonne on the export market in 2015.
Late last year prices dropped to $980 per tonne, further hitting $770 a tonne in September and
then $725 by the end of October.
Mr Somporn said speculation among millers, traders and exporters is also to blame for tumbling
rice prices.Millers in the Northeast and Central regions are the primary holders of hom mali rice
stocks, while exporters normally buy rice once they secure orders," he said."Therefore, holding
large stocks leads millers to face higher risks from price volatility than exporters. Under current
conditions, certain groups of millers are possibly suffering from hefty losses from such
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speculation," said Mr Somporn.He added that many millers who failed to dispose of their
existing rice stocks have suffered as stocks amassed, keeping them from buying rice from this
year's main crop.
More importantly, millers do no have the ability to fix their own selling price, as exporters
normally fix buying prices via rice brokers.The buying prices set by rice brokers fell to only 1517 baht per kilogramme in October, considerably lower than 24-25 baht per kg set earlier this
year.Millers who are the key paddy buyers from farmers hence have to cut their buying prices for
paddy accordingly.On the supply side, the new harvest of hom mali rice, particularly in the
Northeast, has contained up to 30% moisture because of the considerable rainfall during the
harvest season, forcing a shift to using harvesters and threshers instead of labours.
"With high moisture plus drastic changes in the rural paddy trading system caused by the
previous government's rice pledging scheme, which killed central markets and drying grounds to
reduce moisture, farmers have to rely on rice mills after harvest," he said.
There is also the knock-on effect of reduced quality."With relatively high-moisture rice, millers
have to use drying machines to reduce the moisture. The drying process dissolves the aromatic
substances in the hom mali paddy, eliminating once the paddy is milled," he said. "That's why
Thai people themselves complain that hom mali rice is not as aromatic as in the past."More
importantly, Mr Somporn said genuine hom mali rice is becoming scarce and existing state-run
rice seed centres cannot provide enough quality seed supply to farmers.
In addition, the varieties collected by the farmers or sold on the market are mostly substandard,
he said."The future of Thai hom mali rice is being burdened by those factors," said Mr Somporn.
"If the export market lacks confidence in aromatic quality of Thai hom mali rice, it will be
difficult to recover the prices we've enjoyed earlier. We're afraid that non-organic hom mali
growers in the Northeast will be hardest hit from the price slump. It will be difficult to survive in
a long run if the price fall is prolonged."Duangporn Rodphaya , director-general of Foreign
Trade Department, concurred that the falling rice prices were due to the massive supplies, high
moisture and the sluggish global economy
Revenue Dept warns rice millers to update records
7 Nov 2016 at 17:50

WRITER: WICHIT CHANTANUSORNSIRI
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The Revenue Department has advised rice millers and other businesses to ensure their tax data is
updated before the new electronic tax collection system is introduced.Revenue Department
director-general Prasong Poontaneat said reports the department is back-auditing the tax returns
of rice millers over the last three years were incorrect.
The department is in the process of improving its tax collection system. It was policy to advise
the various business groups, including rice mills, to get their data up to date before the new
system begins working, he said. The system was designed to detect incorrect recording of data.
The department had, therefore, sent a letter to rice millers advising them to improve their data
recording because rice sale records of rice mills submitted in the past were often different from
those collected by the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.
In a letter issued on Friday, the department ordered its officials to advise the rice mills to update
their data on the quantities and prices of rice from Oct 1 only, not three years retroactively as
some stories had said.
Speculation blamed for the slump in rice price
6 Nov 2016 at 07:24 3,297

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Grain of truth: The price of rice has fallen to the lowest levels in decades this season.
Researchers say price speculation has caused the slump.Speculation among traders and exporters
is mainly to blame for tumbling rice prices during this harvest season, according to a senior
researcher of Thailand Development Research Institute.
TDRI distinguished fellow Nipon Poapongsakorn said if traders and exporters had access to a
reliable database of the country's actual rice stock and more accurate projections of the seasonal
supply to come, the prices would never have been this volatile.
Mr Nipon made the conclusion in a research article called "Why Hom Mali rice prices have
fallen sharply? Who are scapegoats?"
Mr Nipon said since September, the price of unmilled Hom Mali rice unprecedentedly decreased
by 13% from 12,090 baht per tonne to 10,500 baht in late October, which is the lowest price in
nine years, compared to only 2% decrease of the price between June and September.
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The plunge in paddy rice prices was driven by the future price quoted for milled Hom Mali rice
for December that had dropped to US$548 (about 19,200 baht) per tonne. That figure, quoted on
Oct 28, came as the spot price stood at US$720 per tonne.

As a result of the sharp drop, the price of new-crop milled Hom Mali rice in November, the first
month of the current harvest, had dropped to 1,330 baht per picul (about 22,171 baht per tonne)
compared to 1,750 baht per picul (29,172 baht per tonne) in the same period of last year.
Picul is a unit of weight used in China, Japan and Southeast Asia that is fractionally heavier than
60 kilogrammes.
Mr Nipon said the reason the future price quotes for Hom Mali rice had plunged was that most
traders and exporters had expected the rice supply would increase exponentially after the new
harvest, while the demand would remain the same or even shrink when compared to that of last
year.
He said the traders had expected the rice prices in December to fall well below the future price
quotes for rice in October. The higher than usual supply of Hom Mali rice this year was also to
blame for the low rice prices, he said.
Mr Nipon said the main factor that caused the rice supply to surge this year was the high level of
rain in the Northeast, which had brought a higher yield of per rai.
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The rice from previous harvests remained at a high volume in major rice millers' warehouses as
many traders earlier this year had expected the rice price would surge due to the effect of El
Nino.
Revenue Dept warns rice millers to update records
7 Nov 2016 at 17:50

WRITER: WICHIT CHANTANUSORNSIRI
The Revenue Department has advised rice millers and other businesses to ensure their tax data is
updated before the new electronic tax collection system is introduced.
Revenue Department director-general Prasong Poontaneat said reports the department is backauditing the tax returns of rice millers over the last three years were incorrect.
The department is in the process of improving its tax collection system. It was policy to advise
the various business groups, including rice mills, to get their data up to date before the new
system begins working, he said. The system was designed to detect incorrect recording of data.
The department had, therefore, sent a letter to rice millers advising them to improve their data
recording because rice sale records of rice mills submitted in the past were often different from
those collected by the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.
In a letter issued on Friday, the department ordered its officials to advise the rice mills to update
their data on the quantities and prices of rice from Oct 1 only, not three years retroactively as
some stories had said.
PM speeds up help for rice farmers

6 Nov 2016 at 05:00
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has called an urgent meeting with the National Rice Policy
Committee to draw up relief measures for rice farmers before a new supply of grains hits the
market this month.The meeting was promptly called following a report that a farmer in Phichit
committed suicide by hanging himself due to falling rice prices, a ministry source said.
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Teerapat Prayurasiddhi, Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry permanent secretary, said Gen
Prayut, who chairs the committee, is concerned about rice prices and wants to ensure that aid
measures will be implemented in a comprehensive manner.
HELPING HANDS: A soldier carries rice sold by

Nong Chok farmers to a military unit in Prachin Buri,
while ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra sells her rice at a
store on Ram Intra Road.He said the meeting,
scheduled for tomorrow, will focus on white rice
prices and the annual rice harvest that begins this
month. The meeting will also follow up on the
implementation of the fresh subsidy programme. The
move comes a week after the cabinet resolved to
launch a subsidy programme to help farmers suffering
a slump in rice prices.Under the scheme, farmers will
receive 13,000 baht per tonne for Hom Mali paddy.Of
the 13,000 baht, 9,500 baht will be paid to farmers to
store their paddy for a certain period of time, while the
rest of the subsidy covers other costs including quality
maintenance and storage.
A source at the Agriculture and Agricultural
Cooperatives Ministry said the meeting was prompted
by the death of a Phichit rice farmer who allegedly
committed suicide due to stress over heavy debts.Supakit
Punplaek, 43, a resident of tambon Wang Samrong in
Bang Mun Nak district, was found hanged in his rice
field on Friday morning.According to the source, the
prime minister is very concerned about the situation
because rice from the most recent harvest will be
released soon. Without good preparation, a new supply
could further drive down prices.Government spokesman
Sansern Kaewkamnerd yesterday sympathised with
Supakit's family but played down a connection between the death and rice prices.
He said provincial authorities paid a visit to Supakit's family and offered condolences and were
ready to provide assistance. However, Lt Gen Sansern said Supakit made a living fixing air
conditioners and grew rice as a second job.The spokesman declined to respond to Pheu Thai
politicians' criticism of the government's handling of the rice price fall, saying Gen Prayut urged
restraint to avoid friction and told concerned authorities to focus on addressing the problems.
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Agriculture Minister Chatchai Sarikulya has ordered authorities to inspect rice production in 28
key provinces and come up with estimates on the supply of the current harvest, the source
said.Meanwhile, former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday helped sell 10 tonnes of
milled rice in just one hour.Ms Yingluck, accompanied by key Pheu Thai members, brought 10
tonnes of rice she had purchased from farmers during her visit to a northeastern province for
distribution at a shopping mall in Bangkok.Ms Yingluck had brought 10 tonnes of grain and sold
them at 20 baht a kilogramme, the same price at which she bought them from the growers.
Direct-selling rice markets booming
6 Nov 2016
WRITER: PRASIT TANGPRASERT, ASSAWIN WONGNOR-KAEW
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A happy customer shows her purchases at the rice market in Nakhon Ratchasima on Sunday. (Photo by
Prasit Tangprasert)
NAKHON RATCHASIMA/LAMPANG - People have responded warmly to the farmer-to-consumer rice
markets popping up all over the country, with at least two provinces reporting brisk sales on the first day.
In Nakhon Ratchasima, farmers from 17 districts brought seven tonnes for sale at the Thao Suranaree
Monument in Muang district on Sunday, the second day of the market.On Saturday, they sold 4.5 tonnes
for almost 140,000 baht.The types of rice sold were hom mali, brown rice and rice berry and the prices
were in a range between 22-30 baht a kilogramme.
Since there was no middleman involved, the prices are lower than market prices and people flocked to the
market.Thong-in Khunnara, 57, a Korat buyer, said after she learned about the government's plan to open
markets for farmers to directly sell the produce to buyers, she rushed to buy the grain.She bought 50 kg of
hom mali rice and five kg of brown nice for 1,550 baht in total on Sunday. "I'm so proud to do my part in
helping farmers. Besides, I could buy rice quite cheaply. What I bought today will last us two months."
The provincial agriculture office said on Saturday, the first day of the market, 4.59 tonnes were bought for
140,030 baht.The popular varieties were hom mali and brown rice (3.69 tonnes) and rice berry (280 kg).
In the northern province of Lampang, a rice market was opened at Kaad Thung Kwian, a large folk
products market in Hang Chat district.The management of the privately owned market even held a
promotion campaign offering a draw for free electric appliances -- two refrigerators, 12 fans and 12 rice
cookers -- to those who buy three bags or more.Chuchai Chansakao, manager of Kaad Thung Kwian,
said he used his own money to buy the prizes because he wanted to help farmers.
Band-aid solutions hide real rice problems

Ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinwatra jumped on the Good Samaritan bandwagon - irking
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in the process. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)
It is quite heartening to see the government and private sectors come up with ways and
means to help rice farmers, the so-called impoverished backbone of the country who
are now in hot water as the price of rice has dropped to its lowest level in a decade.
The price of Hom Mali paddy, Thailand's premium grade rice, averages 10,550 baht/tonne based
on the government's credit extension scheme which helps rice farmers by setting the pledging
price at 90% of the market price of Hom Mali varieties.Well-intentioned though they may be, the
projects initiated by several private entities to help the farmers appear to be of a charitable nature
and short-term.
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Take for example Rangsit University's initiative to allow farmers' children studying at the
university to use rice to pay their tuition fees and open a market on campus on Friday and
Saturday to allow farmers to meet potential buyers so they can settle rice deals without going
through middlemen. I wonder how many farmers can afford to send their sons and daughters to
the private university.Then there is the case of Namsin Insurance Company which has come up
with an idea to allow farmers to sell rice packs at its 29 branch offices and encourage its staff to
buy the packed rice for their own consumption and as New Year's gifts.
PTT public company, meanwhile, will spare space at its 500-plus petrol stations throughout the
country to allow farmers or farmer groups to sellpacked rice. Some have suggested this should be
done on a long-term basis so farmer groups can have a channel to sell their rice, milled and
packed by themselves, without going through rice millers.
Even former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra jumped on the Good Samaritan bandwagon to
give moral support to farmers in Ubon Ratchathani -- or for whatever real purpose. She is a
politician and you know the nature of politicians. As a free citizen, Ms Yingluck has every right
to visit farmers.During the visit, she told the welcoming farmers that if she is once again in
government, she would help all farmers, conveniently ignoring the fact she is banned from
politics for five years for alleged dereliction of duty by failing to stop massive losses from her
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rice-pledging scheme. She also bought several packs of rice, each contains 5 kilogrammes of
grain, for members of her entourage.
It came as no surprise that this stunt irked Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who later told
politicians -- without specifically naming Ms Yingluck -- to stop exploiting farmers' plight for
political motives. Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd also needled her, suggesting
she should not just buy five or six packs of rice for a photo opportunity, but buy rice from all
farmers if she really wants to help.The prime minister appears to have jumped the gun with his
quick tongue accusing some rice millers of colluding with local politicians to suppress Hom Mali
prices even before most of the paddy is harvested. His accusation pressured the Thai Rice Millers
Association president and the group's entire board to resign. The prime minister apologised later
and asked him to stay. But it was too late.
So, the next time he accuses anyone of doing something nasty, he should get the facts right for a
start.Let us hear from an eminent rice expert, Nipon Poapongsakorn of the Thailand
Development Research Institute, about the actual cause of the Hom Mali price slump.Mr Nipon
admits there might be collusion going on to suppress the rice price, but it was not the real cause.
He also criticised the way the government sent military personnel and officials to check
warehouses of rice millers suspected of involvement in price collusion as unreasonable.He
blamed panic price speculation by exporters as the actual cause of the price slump. He said some
exporters had clinched forward rice deals with overseas customers by setting the future price at
US$548 (19,190 baht) per tonne for the first lot of rice to be delivered in December from the
November crop, while the spot price then was $720.
Although the future price is not public knowledge, it is known among exporters, who then
panicked and started making forward rice deals with their customers, further suppressing the
domestic price.Mr Nipon said price speculation among exporters and millers is a normal part of
the market mechanism. But he noted any suggestion of speculation could be blown out of the
water if there is a lack of reliable information. He suggested the creation of a rice futures market
and a reliable system of forecasting rice production.Mr Nipon's explanation about the actual
cause of the rice price slump is further evidence that farmers have absolutely no say in dictating
the price of rice. That is why they have always been at the wrong end of the rice trade and why
they are always poor, while most millers and exporters just get richer and richer. Yes, there are
some rich farmers, but they are landlords who lease their farmland to the landless.
The government's credit extension scheme for farmers to delay the sale of their crop, the
Yingluck government's rice-pledging scheme or the Democrats' rice price guarantee scheme are
or were all short-term solutions, like a pain killer to ease the aches but which does not cure the
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illness.These schemes can go on year after year, but most farmers remain poor. They must think
out of the box and one of the approaches is mixed farming or sufficiency farming.As a wise man
once said, do not give fish to a poor man because he will beg for more. Instead, give him a rod
and teach him how to use it so that he can fish for himself and won't beg again.
Self-sufficiency by 2017: Farmers, experts speak

By Vincent A. Yusuf (Abuja) & Ismail Adebayo (Brinin-Kebbi) | Publish Date: Nov 6 2016 2:54AM
Daily Trust on Sunday examines why there are so many talks about domestic rice production by
politicians and the factors which might halt the nations journey to self-sufficiency in 2017.
Women working on harvested paddy
Last year, the global production of paddy rice was estimated at 749.8 million tonnes, translating
to about 499.9 million tonnes of milled rice, according to the United Nations Food and
Agricultural Organisation (FAO). This volume was produced mostly in the Asian countries.
Nigeria is the largest consumer and producer of rice in Africa, one of the worlds leading rice
importers. According to Rice Authority, a Philippine online platform for global rice importers
and exporters, Nigeria imports about 1.4 million tonnes (4.8% of global rice imports).
Statistics from FAO shows that Nigeria produced approximately 2 million metric tons of milled
rice and imported roughly 3 million metric tonnes, in 2008.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) puts the figure of Nigerias spending on rice importation
between 2012 and 2015 at over N474 billion.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the press conference on forex ban on rice import in
Abuja last year, said the country spends about N3.1 trillion annually importing rice and other
crops.
Speaking in a round table forum in Abuja recently, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh stressed that by 2017, Nigeria will be self-sufficient in rice
production. We are getting close as there is improvement on what we have been getting; and this
will boost our economy.
Ogbeh again assured Nigerians of self-sufficiency in rice by 2017 during a visit to Coscharis
Rice Farm in Anaku, Ayemelum Local Government of Anambra state.
Will Nigeria achieve self-sufficiency in rice in 2017? Daily Trust on Sunday puts that question to
a number of rice farmers and experts for their thoughts.
Rotimi Williams is a 35-year-old rice farmer and owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm based in Tunga,
Nasarawa state. He told Daily Trust on Sunday that Nigeria would not achieve self -sufficiency
in rice in the near future unless government steps up huge investment in key areas of the rice
value chain.
The farmer advised government to prioritise the value chain and place more emphasis on quality
seed and actual production than milling because the big millers are more concerned with imports
than backward integration.
According to the him, the quality of rice produce by smallholder farmers in the country, still falls
below the standard and must be strengthened with quality inputs if government is serious about
achieving the target of closing the import gap and begin export.
Similarly, Mahesh Nimje, the General Manager, Project Coordination, Olam Rice Farm Rukubi,
Nasarawa State stressed that 2017 is certainly too close to realize that targets. For him, five years
with more complimentary programmes like the CBNs Anchor Borrowers Programmes will be
realistic.
2017 is too far RIFAN
But Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, the National President Rice Farmers Association (RIFAN) in an
exclusive interview with Daily Trust on Sunday reiterated that if the paddy produced this year is
milled properly, there is no need to even import rice, adding that in fact, the 2017 is too far.
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By 2017, we will have produced more than enough and start exporting. We have already signed
MoU with the Rice Millers Association to mill 3 million metric tonnes of what we produced this
year, Goronyo said.
What government needs to do now is to build the capacity of small and medium scale mills in the
country to be able to mill quality rice in the country, he advised.
Segun Atho is the National Vice President (South-west) of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria
(RIFAN). He said the 2017 dateline can be met if government matches words with serious
action.
He believes the 12 million registered rice farmers alone can meet that target if they are supported
massively.
Our challenges at the moment have to do with lack of tractors, good seeds, affordable fertiliser
and other farm machines. The last time we got seed and fertiliser was in 2014 and we dont want
to get these inputs in the open market because of quality and price issues, he pointed.
Good news from Kebbi, Niger
Alhaji Sahadi Augie a rice farmer in Kebbi told Daily Trust on Sunday recently that
unprecedented success recorded in this years harvest across Kebbi State would not only meet
the rice needs of the country, but will also meet, within a short time, that of West Africa.
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 tones target very soon. This is because this
year we harvested rice in Kebbi in the way we have never harvested it before, he said. Governor
Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi last week assured the Federal Government of his commitment to
achieving the one million tonnes of rice targeted by the end of 2016.The Governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, during a recent assessment tour of Anchor
Borrowers Programme, said that Kebbi and Niger states may generate two million metric tonnes
of rice at the end of the season and reduce level of rice importation.
Emefiele who visited the Zone A rice plantation of Baddegi, Bida local council of Niger State,
said the Anchor Borrowers Programme (APB) of the bank, will soon help Nigeria to achieve rice
self-sufficiency, adding that other states working under the ABP to take Nigerias rice production
in excess three million metric tonnes by 2017.
The Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, during the launch of this years rice
harvest programme at Samawa and Kadawa in Garun Mallam, said farmers in the state are
expected to produce an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of rice this year as harvest has begun.He
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targets 2 million metric tonnes of paddy rice in 2017 with more commitment from farmers and
the administrations support.
Issues affecting farmers
For Ibrahim Jatua, a rice farmer, access to fertiliser remains a huge challenge. My farm is
weak he said, you can hardly reap anything significant if you do not apply fertiliser but the
cost this year was something many of us could not handle, so I couldnt do much.But Audu
Danjuma. who gets between 19 to 25 bags annually, has little challenge with fertiliser as his farm
is still fertile. His problem is how to get good seeds and deal with weeds.
The seed I used last year did not do much. The rice grew so tall but could produce much seeds.
Im yet to harvest my rice-maybe it will do better, Danjuma said.
Besides seed and fertiliser, he wants government to end the conflict between herdsmen and
farmers because it is taking toll on farming activities.Audu stated that his uncle could not
cultivate rice this year because of the experience he had last year when the crisis broke out in one
of the villages where he cultivated rice. Fear couldnt let him, he said.Mr. Atho also wants
government to intervene in bank lending issues, stressing that most commercial banks in the
country dont want to fund agriculture and when they do, the interest rates are killing. He opines
that if banks can fund the sector at a single digit interest rates, many will scale up production
leading to food security
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/business/self-sufficiency-by-2017-farmers-expertsspeak/170346.html#aMMTLSVgQyXXDotk.99
Theresa May enjoys sumptuous curry and gold leaf rice

pudding on India visit
Michael Wilkinson, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
7 NOVEMBER 2016 12:33PM
Theresa May was served a multi-course Indian banquet for her working lunch with prime
minister Narendra Modi.Mrs May is visiting India to pave the way for the UK's first post-Brexit
trade deal.The two prime ministers took a break out of their busy schedule to enjoy lunch.Among
the delicacies on offer for the sumptuous feast at Hyderabad House in New Delhi was
a pudding course garnished with gold leaf.
Theresa May and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi CREDIT: REUTERS
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The full menu
Appetiser
Kumbh Galouti Nazakat with Burhani Jhag and Chutney Soil

Starters
Mahi Dariya (fish marinated in buttermilk)

Silbatte Ke Shammi Kebab (pan grilled lamb)
Paneer Angaar (cheese kebab)
Hara Kebab (spinach)
Soup
Pista Shorba (pistachio soup)

Mains
Jhinga Dum Nisha (prawns in spiced cream)

Murgh Handi Qorma (chicken in onion gravy)
Guncha wa Kheema (cauliflower florets)
Dal Maash Qaliya (moong lentils with spinach)
Dumpukht Gosht Biryani (lamb with basmati rice)
Paneer Dum Anari (cottage cheese with pomegranate)
Dum Ki Bharwan Gucchi (mushrooms)
Kathal Dum Biryani (jackfruit with rice)
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Desserts
Shahi Tukra (fried bread with java berry, saffron and pistachio)
Kulfi Badshah Pasand (cardomon ice cream)
Phirnee (rice pudding with gold leaf).
Theresa May has offered a deal with India which could see more visas for the country's nationals
to come to the UK in return for an increase in the number of illegal migrants sent back.
The Prime Minister's offer came during extended discussions with Indian counterpart
Narendra Modi, who has been putting pressure on Mrs May to open the door for more Indian
students and skilled workers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/07/theresa-may-enjoys-sumptuous-curry-and-gold-leaf-ricepudding-on/
Market expands for Cordillera heirloom rice

posted November 06, 2016 at 12:01 am by Dexter A. See
BAGUIO CITYConsumers, buyers and farmers alike contribute in expanding the market of
one of Cordillerans pridethe traditional or heirloom rice.As healthy foods become preferred
dietary options worldwide and as people become more health-conscious, the market for such
organic products continues to broaden. According to International Rice Research Institutes Dr.
Bob Zeigler, consumers are even ready to pay extra money for high-quality foods that are rich
in specialized nutrients.
Based on the baseline nutrition analysis of selected heirloom rice varieties done in 2014 at IRRI,
heirloom rice is rich in iron, sodium, calcium, niacin, potassium, niacin, folic acid, proteins,
carbohydrates, and antioxidants, which are being sought after by health practitioners. According
to heirloom rice farmers, the demand for heirloom rice is growing, resulting in shortage of
supply.
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Rowena Sawil, an heirloom rice farmer from Kalinga, said that there are times that they cannot
meet the demand of buyers due to lack of supply. On the other hand, the situation may also mean
the sprouting of opportunities for other farmers.Sonia Pengosro of Benguet Heirloom Rice
Terraces Farmers Agriculture Cooperative said that the return to the traditional practice of
planting heirloom rice will contribute to the preservation of culture and tradition. It also helps in
the rejuvenation of the environment.The Department of Agriculture Cordillera, IRRI and
PhilRice and the farmers are currently working together to conduct studies regarding the
nutritional value, genetic diversity, grain quality and development process toward Geographical
Indication (GI) Registration of the different varieties of heirloom rice.
The GI registration will command a 100 percent increase in the value of heirloom rice in the
Cordillera due to its ethnodiversity. It is also a way of promoting traceability of the product; the
farmers and locale, said Dr. Digna Manzanilla, co-project leader of the Heirloom Rice
Project.Meantime, the DA continues to promote heirloom rice in the local and international
markets.
Maraming salamat at naisali itong heirloom rice sa HVCDP. Dito ma-recognize uli in the whole
world ang heirloom rice ng Cordillera, said Wasig Sacla, an organic farmer, as he and his
fellow organic farmers thanked the DA-CAR, IRRI, PhilRice and DA Secretary Emmanuel Piol
for their unceasing efforts to promote and preserve the regions heirloom rice.During the
Regional Heirloom Rice Market Encounter and Organic Agricultural Investment Forum cum
Exhibit led by the Agri-business and Market Assistance Division of DA last October 26 and 27,
organic farmers, heirloom rice farmers, buyers, local officials, and heirloom rice key
spokespersons from DA-CAR, IRRI, PhilRice addressed the issues regarding the conservation,
preservation and market of the regions heirloom rice for its sustainable development.
http://thestandard.com.ph/news/-provinces/220713/market-expands-for-cordillera-heirloomrice.html
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Beware of Wonder Banks, NDIC Warns Nigerians
November 8, 2016
Managing Director of the NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim

As promoters of wonder banks and other ponzi schemes in the country continue to lure members of the
public to mouthwatering offers, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has warned members
of the public not to patronise such investment schemes.
The MMM investment scheme is one of the Ponzi
schemes in the country.Also, in line with the
National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS)
which is aimed at reducing the percentage of adult
Nigerians lacking access to formal banking
services from 46.3 percent in 2010 to 20 percent in
2020; the NDIC has expressed its desire to play a
crucial role in ensuring that small savers are
protected.Speaking at the special day event of
NDIC at the ongoing Lagos International Trade
Fair with the theme: Positioning the Nigeria
Economy for Diversification and Sustainable
Growth, the Managing Director of the NDIC,
Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim said: I wish to sound a word of advice caution to members of the public on the
activities of illegal funds managers, otherwise known as wonder banks.
It is worrisome to note that despite repeated advice, many unsuspecting members of the public are still
falling victims to the mouth watering interest being offered by these illegal fund managers. For the
avoidance of doubt, these illegal funds managers or wonders banks are neither licensed by the CBN nor
under the NDIC deposit insurance coverage. Members of the public are therefore advised to patronise
only banking institutions that display the NDIC sticker: Insured by NDIC in their banking halls or
entrances.Commenting further on its financial inclusion initiatives, the NDIC boss noted that the
corporation has also partnered the National Universities of Commission (NUC) to introduce a pilot
scheme on two courses on the Deposit Insurance (DIS) in seven selected universities in the country.
Ibrahim explained that in furtherance of the aforementioned public awareness strategies, the corporation
recognises the importance of participating in the Lagos international trade fair, adding that the fair
provides a platform for the corporation to interact with depositors and other stakeholders.The
corporation has published various books which include, the financial literacy in Nigeria: A study Report,
Perspectives on the Nigeria Financial Safety-net under the NDICs catch them young initiative, the
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corporation initiated the publication of two books titled: This little piggy for primary schools and The
Money Tree for secondary schools.Ibrahim who was represented by the Deputy Director Claims
Resolution, Mr. Asumo Bello, stated that following the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) licensing of noninterest banking institution (NIBIs) and the 21 mobile money operators (MMOs), the corporation equally
extended deposit insurance coverage to subscribers of these banking products to the maximum limit of
N500,00 per depositor.
He added that the corporation has developed frameworks of Pass-Through Deposit Insurance Scheme
(PTDIS) and Non Interest Deposit Insurance Scheme (NIDIS) to the MMOs and non interest bank
subscribers respectively with a maximum insured limit of N500.000 per subscriber.Ibrahim further
stated: The maximum deposit insurance coverage (MDIC) per depositor per bank has progressively
increased from N50,000 in 1989 to its current N500,000 per depositor per DMB. Similarly, the insured
limit for the Microfinance Banks (MFBs) and primary Mortgage Banks (PMBs) in 2009 was increased
from N100,000 to N200,000 per depositor per MFB/PMB in 2010.However, on August 4, the Hon.
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, approved an upward review of the deposit to ensure insured
limit for depositors of PMBs to N500, 000 in order to ensure coverage of over 90 percent of depositors in
the banking sub sector
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Rice pledging scheme deja vu
6 Nov 2016 at 05:00

NEWSPAPER SECTION: NEWS | WRITER: ALAN DAWSON
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha eyes packaged rice at a farmers' stand. The premier has
become an instant expert on rice pricing. (Photo by Thiti Wannamontha)
In the early 1980s, as a post-Vietnam war peace took shape in Southeast Asia, Thailand made an
important decision. To be more correct, Thailand decided not to decide about rice.
In purely logical terms, a la Mr Spock, it was time to shift the back-breaking burden of rice
growing to poorer neighbours in order to move the economy along to modern development
including advanced agriculture.
In purely cultural terms, rice was -- well, rice is -- the sustenance of the nation, grown by men
and women who are the backbone of the nation, and the nation in turn is the first of the three
institutions: nation, religion, king.
In the end, the idea that dirt-poor neighbours Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia could grow rice
while Thai farms developed into modern, first world-worthy centres of innovation and
technology never was put up for serious discussion.
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Ergo: Dirt-poor farmers, subsidised food, political venality and problems both predictable and
unforeseen.
In the "predictable" category are political crises. This is not the first time there have been two,
parallel rice brouhahas entertaining the nation simultaneously, but it is arguably the most serious,
and it could get much testier and angrier before it's settled.
The root cause is worldwide overproduction of rice. This is especially true and especially
important in Thailand, the world's leading rice salesman.
But the government for completely understandable political and populist reasons wants to ignore
the "worldwide" part. If there is a world glut of rice, there's no way to blame profiteering rice
millers and merchants.
And it couldn't be the fault of politicians (English translation: Lord Voldemort na Dubai)
because while Voldemort can control Thai dastards, not even he can control rice harvests and
markets around the world.
For the second time since the coup that sought to extinguish populism forever, Prime Minister
Prayut Chan-o-cha had to reach into the government's money bags to address serious poverty
among farmers.
Like the problem with rubber growers, the premier really has no choice but a populist
programme with two so-familiar aims: bail out the farmers in the short term and try to control the
market in the long.
The female ex-premier was confident that paying farmers large amounts for their rice would
eventually raise world prices. Wishing doesn't make it so.
Gen Prayut now is equally confident that if he locks up rice stocks -- new rice, at that -- the
artificial shortage will raise prices. His contradiction, arguably even bigger than the Pheu Thai
dichotomy, is that consumer prices are already high and aren't going lower. Ever. And if he
thinks his soldiers can run rice mills and rice marketing, he's going to be disappointed, to say the
least.
There is an election due next year. When the emerging pro-military party claims credit for saving
the rice farmers, it will just be a factual statement, right? It won't be politics or power greed at
all. Bonus: claim credit for saving the rubber farmers, too.
The new constitution which will soon come into force bars populism. So the political party
dedicated to making Gen Prayut the unelected prime minister in 2018 will have to try to argue
that throwing hundreds of billions of baht (currently 127 billion but rising faster than a
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Phetchaburi flood) into a scheme to boost farmers' income and trying to control the price of a
vital commodity don't add up to populism.Meanwhile (heavy emphasis on "mean"), newspaper
columnists and other cynics note the parallel tracks. On one rail, the government has set up a
programme to help and pay rice farmers. On the other, the government is strongly pursuing
scores of people from the previous government for setting up a programme to help and pay rice
farmers.
"It's not the same thing" is the stock reply of both the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of
Truth. Comparisons are never exact. And it is a fact that no one in the red shirt government ever
said "Let them eat cake" or anything similar, while someone in the green shirt government
did.Gen Prayut's rice problem has barely started. The ability of the state-owned Bank of
Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives to finance another gigantic handout -- the scheme's
estimated cost went from 35 billion to 127 billion baht in three days -- is debatable.
But it gets worse. The initial programme is all about fragrant rice -- khao hom mali aka jasmine
rice -- because it is harvested first. Close on its heels are the harvests of ordinary rice, and then
the glutinous, or sticky rice, khao niao.Those farmers' rice also is currently worth peanuts and
those farmers also will need -- no, will noisily demand -- subsidies.The prime minister
acerbically criticised the female ex-premier last week and told her to take her complaints to
court. That was an unintended gaffe because the dual rice issues now are in court, but not the
judicial one.The court of public opinion counts for a lot and has brought down governments of
all stripes, democrats and dictators included, without any regard to their self-awarded amnesty.
Asbah to soon launch fortified rice, invest over Rs 50 cr

Press Trust of India | New Delhi November 7, 2016 Last Updated at 15:42 IST
Asbah, a brand owned by DCP India Pvt Ltd, today said it will invest over Rs 50 crore to launch
new product 'fortified rice' in the domestic market. A relatively new brand launched in India in
August 2016 sells basmati rice, dalia, poha, suji and maida here. It also exports basmati rice.
"We have really progressed and our products are being sold in major cities. As part of our expansion, we
are focusing on fortification of rice. We are investing more than Rs 50 crore," DCP India Pvt Ltd Director
Gaurav Jain told PTI. The funds will be sourced through equity and debt. A separate unit will be set up at
Sasiabad, Haryana, he said, adding that the new product be ready in the next six months.
The company has already done research and development with the government's Indian Council of
Agricultural Research (ICAR). Now, food safefy regulator FSSAI has also come up with fortification
norms. "Earlier, fortified products were not allowed to sell in the absence of fortification norms. FSSAI's
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has notified fortification norms. We are going to be the first to take benefit of it and deliver a fortified rice
product in the market," Jain said. Jain explained that the company would use broken rice and grind it to
make powder and add protien, iron and zinc to it as per FSSAI norms. The powder would be converted
into rice grain form using a separate machine.
"This will be ready within six months. It will be blended with original rice and will cater to poor section
of society to ensure nutrition," he said. A separate unit with machine with 5 tonnes per hour capacity
would be set up Sasiabad, Haryana for this purpose. To boost export of dalia, poha, suji and maida under
Asbah brand, Jain said that the company has invested Rs 2 crore to improve shelf life of these items for
export purpose.
"We have ordered a machine, which will help in reducing the moisture level and get the shelf life up to
one year. Then we will start export of these products," he said. Haryana-based DCP India Pvt Ltd, which
has been trading of commodities for last 45 years, has recently entered into processing of agricommodities under the brand Asbah.
It has a processing unit for basmati rice at Sonipat with a capacity to handle 42,000 tonnes a year. It has
similar capacity for dalia, poha, suji and maida at same place.
(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a
syndicated feed.)
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