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Rice exports post 10.78 percent increase in four months

Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:22
Posted by Imaduddin

ISLAMABAD: Rice exports from the country during first four months of current financial year
posted 10.78 percent growth as compared to the exports of corresponding period of last
year.During the period from July-October, 2015 about 898,603 metric tons of rice worth US$
339.92 million exported as against exports of 657,420 metric tons valuing US$ 306.89 million in
same period last year.According the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, rice exports on month
basis also grew by 24 percent during the month of October as compared to same month of last
year.During the month of October about 347,685 metric tons of rice worth US$121.66 million
was exported as compared to 22,948 metric tons valuing US$ 9.493 million of same month last
year.However, the data reveled that exports of basmati rice decreased by 31.22 percent in first
four months of current financial year and reached at 131,160 metric tons from 174,191 metric
tons of same period of last financial year.
During the period under review, country managed to earned US$ 145.43 million by exporting the
basmati rice as against US$ 11.319 million of same period last year, it added.Meanwhile, wheat
exports registered 100 percent increase as about 1,061 metric tons of wheat were exported during
the period from July-October, 2015 and earned US$ 0.220 million.The data revealed that
vegetable exports during last four months has also witnessed an increase of 89 percent as the
country was able to export 195,659 metric tons of fish vegetables of different kind and fetched

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US$56.779 million for the country.The vegetable exports during first four months of last
financial year was recorded at 85,420 metric tons valuing US$ 28.689 million, the data
revealed.During the period from July-October, 2015, meat and meat preparations exports grew
by 36.32 percent about 25,925 metric tons of meat and meat products worth US$ 90.218 million
exported, it added.
Meat and meat preparation exports from country was recorded at 21,433 metric tons valuing US$
66.183 million in first four months of last financial year, the data said.However, overall food
group exports from the country during first four months remained to declining trend as it reduced
by 8.17 percent as compared to same period of last year.During the period under review, food
exports came down from US$ 1.205 billion to US$ 1.107 billion as exports of some items
including rice basmati,fish and fish preparations, fruits and leguminous recorded negative growth
in their exports.It may be recalled here that food group imports in country decreased by 12.89
percent as compared to same period of last year which were recorded at US $1.705 billion as
compared to the imports of $1.954 billion in July-October (2014-15).The food imports on yearon-year basis also decreased by 3.42 percent from $524.363 million in October 2014 to $506.438
million in October 2015.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2015

Asia rice prices high in Vietnam on tight supply

Wednesday, 25 November 2015 17:14
Posted by Imaduddin

HANOI: Asian rice markets saw little movement over the

past week due to thin demand, while tight supply kept prices
high in Vietnam and purchases by China and some Middle
East clients failed to move up Thai prices, traders said on
Wednesday.The rice export markets in Thailand and
Vietnam, the world's second and third biggest exporters of
the grain after India, could stay quiet until early 2016 as most
demand has been met before the holidays, traders
said."Vietnamese prices are high and they won't decrease as
supply is tight," said a trader in Ho Chi Minh City.Vietnam's 5-percent broken grain has been
idle over the past month at $375-$380 a tonne, free-on-board (FOB) Saigon Port, while the 25percent broken grain fell to $360-$365 a tonne from $362-$365 a tonne a week ago.
The next harvest is due to start in late February 2016 in the southern Mekong Delta food
basket.Prices have been firm due to tight supply, especially of the 15-percent broken rice bought
by Indonesia in a deal involving 1 million tonnes, traders said.Rising rice prices following
Vietnam's sales to the Philippines and Indonesia have contributed to a 0.31 percent gain in the
country's November food prices, the first month-on-month rise since February 2015, the
government said.China, the biggest buyer of Vietnamese rice, imported 199,350 tonnes from its
southern neighbour in October, up 81 percent from a year ago, Chinese customs data shows.This

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brought China's total purchases from Vietnam in the first 10 months of 2015 to nearly 1.6 million
tonnes, up 42 percent from a year ago.

Overall, Vietnam's rice exports in January-November rose 3.6 percent from a year ago to 6.24
million tonnes, the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday.China and several buyers in the
Middle East have also been buying small lots of Thai rice, traders said.Thai 5-percent broken
grain was unchanged at $360-$365 on Wednesday, FOB basis."All the rice needed for holidays
like Christmas and New Year's Day has already been bought months earlier," said a trader in
Bangkok, adding that the sale slump was expected to last until early January 2016.In another
development, Indonesia was expected to sign a memorandum of understanding soon with
Pakistan on rice imports, the Jakarta Post reported last Thursday without giving any details on
price or volume.
http://www.brecorder.com/markets/commodities/asia/263722-asia-rice-prices-high-in-vietnam-on-tightsupply.html

Kerala scientists develop saltwater-tolerant paddy

t. nandakumargenes tolerant to salinity and iron toxicity were put into another variety

saltol jyothi, the new variety of saltwatertolerant paddy developed by scientists at the
rice research station, vyttila in kochi.cientists at
the rice research station of kerala agricultural
university (kau) at vyttila have developed a new
variety of paddy tolerant to saline intrusion, a
major challenge faced by farmers in the
lowlands.the landmark achievement in rice
research was made possible by the introduction
of genes tolerant to salinity and iron toxicity
into jyothi, keralas most popular rice variety. the project which began in 2008 involved the
incorporation of the saltol gene present in pokkali, the most saline tolerant rice variety in the
world, into jyothi.
thus jyothi, known for its superior grain quality, yet restricted by the lack of saline tolerance, has
become suitable for pokkali fields, kuttanad and kolelands as well, according to the
researchers.the scientists used the introgressive hybridisation technique to move the saltol gene
from pokkali to the gene pool of jyothi. the project was part of a long-term programme initiated
by kau for the development of stress-tolerant rice varieties for less favourable environments. the
saltol gene is the donor for salinity-tolerant rice breeding programmes all over the world.the

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attempt to introduce saltol into jyothi has borne fruit after seven years of research. the
introgressed jyothi lines have recorded a very high yield of 6.2 tonnes per hectare, said p.
rajendran, kau vice-chancellor.v. sreekumar, professor and head, rrs, vyttila, said the introgressed
jyothi variety was suitable for cultivation in the eastern and western coastal areas of the indian
peninsula.
the research team is now working on the introduction of a submergent tolerant gene (sabl) into
jyothi, to make the rice variety resistant to flash floods up to two weeks.the work is in the final
stage, he said. submergence is another major challenge faced by farmers in the lowlands.shylaraj,
who piloted the research work, said that introgressing the saline tolerant gene into jyothi was
achieved through the marker assisted backcross breeding (mabb) technique.
kerala agricultural university scientists used introgressive hybridisation method to achieve this

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/kerala-scientists-develop-saltwatertolerantpaddy/article7920995.ece

Association decries rise in rice smuggling

By Damilola Ajadi on November 26, 2015 5:12 am

Bags Of RiceTHE Association of

Local

Growers

and

Legal

Importers of Rice has raised the

alarm over high level of smuggling
of

the

product

Nigeria.Chairman
association,

into

of

Alhaji

the
Habilu

Maishinkafa, noted that there were

reports of hundreds of trailers
coming into the country with
expired rice, which he said were
dangerous

to

the

health

of

Nigerians.He called on the Nigerian Customs Service and the National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration Control (NAFDAC) to take urgent steps to stem the rising wave of rice smuggling into the
country.

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Maishinkafa noted that with the present tariff of 70 percent, legal importers would not be able to compete
with the smugglers who enjoyed free ride into the nations market and coupled with the negligible tariffs
in the neighbouring countries.Recently, the National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria
(NRMAN) complained that the Nigerian Customs Service erred in its decision to lift the ban on
importation of rice through the land borders.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/11/association-decries-rise-in-rice-smuggling/

Mars' sustainable rice standard more than crop-ticking

exercise

By Ben Cooper | 26 November 2015

Uncle Ben's owner Mars will only source "sustainable" rice by 2020
Recent years have seen the launch of numerous sustainability standards and initiatives across various
agricultural commodities. Ben Cooper assesses the significance of the new standard for sustainable rice,
launched by the Sustainable Rice Platform and Mars Inc.Such is the attention being paid by food
companies to agricultural supply chains, it is tempting to regard the Sustainable Rice Platform's (SRP)
new standard for sustainable rice, given a high-profile launch last month, as one more initiative, another
crop ticked by a major food company and covered by a multi-stakeholder sustainable sourcing
programme.
But it is arguably far more significant than that.There are a host of reasons why this first step to
standardise and notably equalise upwards environmental and social standards under which rice is
cultivated and sourced globally is a landmark event.Rice supports the livelihoods of around 150m farmers
globally and is the staple food source for more than 2bn people. Moreover, unlike some other
commodities that have become subject to multi-stakeholder sustainability initiatives, rice is
predominantly consumed as a staple food crop in the world.
http://www.just-food.com/analysis/mars-sustainable-rice-standard-more-than-crop-tickingexercise_id131789.aspx