Daily Rice E-Newsletter by Rice Plus Magazine www.ricepluss.

com
News and R&D Section mujajhid.riceplus@gmail.com Cell # 92 321 369 2874



15
th
September, 2014





TOP Contents - Tailored for YOU
Latest News Headlines

NEWS DETAILS:
Commerce Ministry to sell more rice via
roadshow in China

Date : 14 2557
BANGKOK, 14 Sep 2014, (NNT) - The Commerce Ministry is planning to
sell more of the pledged rice in the Government warehouse via roadshows in
China.According to Director General of the Department of Foreign Trade,
Duangphon Rodphaya, next week Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradee
Tantraphon is leading a delegation to take part in China-ASEAN Expo in the
city of Nanning in Guangxi, China.
The ministry will showcase Thailands famous jasmine rice at the event, in its
bid to penetrate the Chinese rice market and reclaim the number one rice exporting nation spot.High
grain prices and contamination issues have knocked Thailand back to third place, behind Vietnam and Pakistan, as
Chinas top rice exporter.China is the one of the worlds top importers of rice. It imports an average of 2.95 million tons
of rice a year; two-thirds of the amount ,or 66%, from Vietnam, 22% from Pakistan, and only 10% from Thailand.




Daily Rice E-Newsletter by Rice Plus Magazine www.ricepluss.com
News and R&D Section mujajhid.riceplus@gmail.com Cell # 92 321 369 2874



Reducing moisture content in paddy will hit millers
Press Trust of India | Fatehgarh Sahib (Pb)
September 13, 2014 Last Updated at 20:40 IST
Add to My Page
Punjab Rice Millers Association today said the Centre's move of reducing moisture content in paddy will hit
rice millers, saying it will be 'impossible' for them to convert paddy into rice with lower moisture content. "The
Centre has reduced moisture content from 15 per cent to 14 per cent. This move will hit the rice milling industry
as it will be difficult for us to convert paddy into rice with lesser moisture content," Punjab Rice Millers
Association president Tarsem Saini said today. Rice millers said the Centre had recently reduced the moisture
content in rice from 15 per cent to 14 per cent.
Because of untimely rains in Punjab, moisture content in the paddy crop would remain high, a rice miller
pointed out. The industry has also protested the Centre's move of shortening the rice delivery period from June
30 to April 15. "This move is also unjustified as FCI does not have time for taking delivery of rice as its whole
staff remains busy in wheat procurement at that point of time. Then how and to whom we will be delivering rice
within stipulated time," Saini added. Peeved at the Centre's decision, rice millers have approached Punjab Food
Minister Adesh Partap Kairon, seeking his help in taking up the matter with the Centre.
Customs generates P393.13-M from rice auction
September 12, 2014 5:06pm
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Friday said it generated P393.13 million in revenues its highest earnings generated via
public auction from the sale of rice seized late last year.The sale of the seized rice totaling 315 container vans stored
inside the Manila International Container Port (MICP) yard will also help reduce congestion inside the countrys largest
port.
The BOC-MICP Collection District sold about 163,775 sacks of rice through a public auction on Thursday, the agency
said in an e-mailed statement Friday.BOC-MICP District Collector Elmir Dela Cruz said the sale was 31 percent higher
than the minimum floor price of P299.69 million initially set.We are pleased with the outcome of the auction which we
conducted with utmost care and consideration for transparency, accountability and compliance with policies and
procedures," Glutinous (malagkit) rice was sold at an average price of P56.93 per kilogram, while white rice was sold as
an average of P36.10 per kilogram.From a total of 16 bidders, three won the bidding for 4,679 metric tons (MT) of
glutinous rice and 3,510 MT of white rice in eight lots.
Four lots were won by Sta. Rosa Farm, three by Victor Del Rosario and one by LOM Marketing. The winning bidders
paid 50 percent of the bid price at the close of the auction and were required to pay the remaining balance Friday.The rice
was seized from Bold Bidder Marketing and San Carlos Multi Purpose Cooperative from October to November 2013 for



Daily Rice E-Newsletter by Rice Plus Magazine www.ricepluss.com
News and R&D Section mujajhid.riceplus@gmail.com Cell # 92 321 369 2874



lack of required import permits from the National Food Authority (NFA), which was subsequently forfeited in favor of the
government. Under the law, all importations of rice require import permits from the NFA, which regulates quotas to
ensure fair competition and the viability of the local rice industry.But lawyers representing Bold Bidder and Jade Bros.
Farm and Livestock, who were accompanied by Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) representatives, served a 20-day temporary
restraining order against the sale of the seized rice during the auction.In a two-page resolution signed by Associate
Justices Lovell Bautista and Esperanza Fabon-Victorino dated September 11, the CTAs Third Division barred BOC from
auctioning the rice shipment of Jade Bros. to prevent irreparable injury on the petitioner while the case is still being
heard.But the basis invoked by the rice traders is now moot and academic, Customs Commissioner John P. Sevilla said in
the same statement.
"We have always maintained that all imported rice without valid NFA permits is illegal and now that the World Trade
Organization has allowed the Philippines to keep imposing quotas on rice imports, this policy should be very clear by now
to all rice importers, he said.
Proceeds from the auction will be held in trust by the BOC since the rice is still subject of on-going cases in the CTA.
Danessa O. Rivera/VS, GMA News

Rice bids better than floor prices
Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 02.42 | Viewed: 800 | Comments: 0
Newspaper section: Business
Writer: Post Reporters
The second rice auction, held yesterday by the military regime, attracted 38 bidders.Through the Foreign Trade
Department, the government auctioned 139,000 tonnes of mainly Hom Mali, white glutinous and broken Hom
Mali rice.White rice was not included, as quality inspections by authorities are still pending.Department
director-general Duangporn Rodphaya said 90,000 tonnes of rice fetched offers higher than the floor prices set
by the panel handling rice sales.Offers by bidders averaged 26,500 to 29,500 baht a tonne for Hom Mali rice
and 14,000 to 18,500 baht a tonne for 10% glutinous rice.
"This shows demand for Hom Mali fragrant rice remains strong," Ms Duangporn said.The bids will be assessed
by the rice panel before approval can be granted. Thailand's military regime, which halted rice sales to carry out
nationwide stock inspections, last month resumed sales of rice the previous government stockpiled over the past
two years during the costly pledging scheme.The National Council for Peace and Order allowed the first lot of
167,000 tonnes to go under the hammer on Aug 7, drawing 46 exporters, millers and rice packers.



Daily Rice E-Newsletter by Rice Plus Magazine www.ricepluss.com
News and R&D Section mujajhid.riceplus@gmail.com Cell # 92 321 369 2874



Climate Change Forces Moths to Find New Host
By Jenna Iacurci
Sep 13, 2014 12:00 PM EDT

Climate change, it seems, has forced moths in northern Iran to find a new host
plant, posing some problems for its newly acquired target, according to recent
research.A team of Iranian researchers from the Rice Research Institute of Iran
has discovered that Gynnodomorpha permixtana, a well-known moth species
from Europe and Asia, has changed its host preferences in order to adjust to
northern Iran's changing climate.Until now, larvae of this moth species have
munched on the seeds and flowers of plants like water-plantain, eyebright,
lousewort, bitter root and European yellow-rattle, all of which are abundant
across Europe and Asia. But this new study shows that they have now set their sights on arrowheads.
Arrowheads (Sagittaria trifolia) are a group of broadleaf weeds that thrive in rice fields and waterways. And
luckily for these rice crops, problematic arrowheads are being eaten away and losing germination potential
because of hungry G. permixtana."To our surprise, it looks like this moth chose new host plant in Iran," study
lead author Atousa Farahpour Haghani added in a news release.
This new discovery, which suggests that climatic and environmental conditions in northern regions of Iran
prompted the change of host plant, also provides insight into how species such as these moths adapt to a
changing world."Many factors can possibly influence host plant choice including food quality and quantity,
climatic conditions, synchronization, physiological conditions in both insect and food plant, genetic
modifications etc.," Haghani explained."Some of these factors are not stable and change in different
environmental conditions, so an insect can change its choice of food plant on the basis of seeking the most
beneficial complex of factors. It seems that in the northern regions of Iran, and luckily for rice crops, the
problematic arrowheads present the best choice for G. permixtana," he added.The findings were published in
the journal Nota Lepidopterologica.

Photo: Climate change, it seems, has forced moths in northern Iran to find a new host plant, posing some
problems for its newly acquired target, according to recent research. (Photo : Atousa Farahpour Haghani; CC-
BY 4.0)

Customs generates P393.13-M from rice auction
September 12, 2014 5:06pm
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Friday said it generated P393.13 million in revenues its highest earnings
generated via public auction from the sale of rice seized late last year.The sale of the seized rice totaling 315
container vans stored inside the Manila International Container Port (MICP) yard will also help reduce



Daily Rice E-Newsletter by Rice Plus Magazine www.ricepluss.com
News and R&D Section mujajhid.riceplus@gmail.com Cell # 92 321 369 2874



congestion inside the countrys largest port.e BOC-MICP Collection District sold about 163,775 sacks of rice
through a public auction on Thursday, the agency said in an e-mailed statement Friday.OC-MICP District
Collector Elmir Dela Cruz said the sale was 31 percent higher than the minimum floor price of P299.69 million
initially set. We are pleased with the outcome of the auction which we conducted with utmost care and
consideration for transparency, accountability and compliance with policies and procedures,"
Glutinous (malagkit) rice was sold at an average price of P56.93 per kilogram, while white rice was sold as an
average of P36.10 per kilogram.From a total of 16 bidders, three won the bidding for 4,679 metric tons (MT) of
glutinous rice and 3,510 MT of white rice in eight lots.Four lots were won by Sta. Rosa Farm, three by Victor
Del Rosario and one by LOM Marketing.
The winning bidders paid 50 percent of the bid price at the close of the auction and were required to pay the
remaining balance Friday.The rice was seized from Bold Bidder Marketing and San Carlos Multi Purpose
Cooperative from October to November 2013 for lack of required import permits from the National Food
Authority (NFA), which was subsequently forfeited in favor of the government. Under the law, all importations
of rice require import permits from the NFA, which regulates quotas to ensure fair competition and the viability
of the local rice industry.But lawyers representing Bold Bidder and Jade Bros.
Farm and Livestock, who were accompanied by Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) representatives, served a 20-day
temporary restraining order against the sale of the seized rice during the auction.In a two-page resolution signed
by Associate Justices Lovell Bautista and Esperanza Fabon-Victorino dated September 11, the CTAs Third
Division barred BOC from auctioning the rice shipment of Jade Bros. to prevent irreparable injury on the
petitioner while the case is still being heard.But the basis invoked by the rice traders is now moot and academic,
Customs Commissioner John P. Sevilla said in the same statement.
We have always maintained that all imported rice without valid NFA permits is illegal and now that the World
Trade Organization has allowed the Philippines to keep imposing quotas on rice imports, this policy should be
very clear by now to all rice importers, he said.Proceeds from the auction will be held in trust by the BOC
since the rice is still subject of on-going cases in the CTA. Danessa O. Rivera/VS, GMA News
For Advertising SPECS & RATES
Contact: Advertising Department
Mujahid Ali
mujahid.riceplus@gmail.com +92 321 369 2874