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 Cambodia to host rice event
 US rice could see potential market in China
 How is U.S. rice faring in current trade agreement
negotiations?
 Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- Aug 28
 Opportunity: Post-doctoral Fellow -- Computational
Genetics (#13-RP10082) @ International Rice Research
Institute -- Laguna, Philippines
 Climate change may disrupt global food system
within a decade, World Bank says
 Braggadocio Rice Mill included on U.S. Congressman
Smith's Annual Farm Tour
 Vietnam Rice exports up 9% Y/Y to 4.4 mn tons in
Jan-Aug
 China inspects Burma’s rice in advance of trade agreement
 Vietnam's Rice Exports Reach Over 4.4 Mln Tonnes In 8 Months
 Philippines eyes re-tender, govt-to-govt deal for 500,000 T rice imports
 California drought could impact bird habitats, rice prices
 RPT- UPDATE 2-India's monsoon forecast to be better for crops next week
 Climate change may disrupt global food system within a decade, World Bank says
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 Changing climate could eat up 27pc paddy output by 2050, says study
NEWS DETAILS:
Cambodia to host rice event
Thu, 28 August 2014
Chan Muyhong
After winning the World‟s Best Rice Award for two years running at the World Rice Conference, Cambodia has
been selected to host this year‟s annual event.The World Rice Conference is a networking event that brings
together rice industry professionals from all over the world. Initiated by industry trade publication The Rice
Trader, past events have been held in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
“Cambodia was chosen for its enthusiasm and efforts to
develop export trade and raise its potential in high-quality rice
markets, as well as for its excellent facilities in hosting the
event,” said V. Subramanian, vice president of The Rice
Trader.The sixth World Rice Conference, to be held from 18th
to 21st November this year, will increase the country‟s
reputation as one of the emerging growers and exporters in the
world, said Sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice
Federation.“We expect all relevant stakeholders in rice industry
from around the world to join this event.
It will be a good chance to showcase Cambodia rice to the world,” he said.Puthyvuth said the event will be held
in Phnom Penh, but an exact location is still yet to be confirmed.The three-day event, that covers the World
Best Rice competition, the Cambodia Rice Festival and the Cambodia Rice Networking Forum, will be co-organized
by The Rice Trader, the Cambodia Rice Federation, the International Finance Corporation and the
Federation for Association of SMEs of Cambodia.Kim Savuth, president of local rice exporter Khmer Food Co,
who has attended the past two conferences, said that hosting the event shows that Cambodia‟s is becoming a
serious player in the rice industry.
“If our rice sector is not moving as fast as expected, no one would be interested to hold the rice event in
Cambodia,” he said.Savuth added that rice industry insiders are again working hard this for Cambodia to win
the World Best Rice Award for the third year in a row.

Image:Last year Cambodia held its first rice festival in Siem Reap. This year, Cambodia has been selected to host the World Rice
Conference in mid-November. Hong Menea
US rice could see potential market in China
Updated: 2014-08-28 09:24
By JACK FREIFELDER in New York (China Daily USA)
A few years ago no one would have even considered exporting rice to China, but growers, exporters and
international trade organizations in the US are starting to come around to the idea."US rice producers and
exporters are continually looking for new sources of demand," Bob Cummings, COO of the USA Rice
Federation, wrote in an email to China Daily. "The US consistently exports 45 percent to 50 percent of its rice
crop each year, so access to China's consumers and the ability to develop a market there are important.
"Though China is already the world's largest producer and consumer of the grain, US rice products are
completely locked out of the Chinese market until a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) protocol agreement
between the two countries is reached.An SPS agreement is a set of agreed-upon terms for agricultural trade that
"concerns food safety and animal and plant health regulations", according to the World Trade Organization
(WTO).Cummings said negotiations between the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and China's General Administration of Quality, Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine (AQSIQ) have been ongoing for some time.
The USA Rice Federation, based in Arlington, Virginia, is the leading advocacy group for the US rice industry.
The group is comprised of growers, merchants, millers and other allied businesses, and represents 90 percent of
the US rice industry.Data from an Aug 14 Rice Outlook report by the USDA shows that China is now on pace
to import nearly 3.5 million tons of rice this year, more than six times the amount it imported 2011.Though
American producers account for less than 2 percent of the world's rice, USDA data shows that US trade totals
make up more than 10 percent of the annual global rice trade. The other leading countries in the global ride
trade include: India, Vietnam, Thailand and Pakistan.
The main export markets for US rice are Canada, Mexico and a number of other countries in Central America.A
Sunday story in the Los Angeles Times said China started importing sizeable quantities of rice from other
countries in the Asia-Pacific region in 2012, including, India, Pakistan and Vietnam.China may look elsewhere
for its rice imports, but the country is still the largest global destination for US food and agricultural products.
And in 2013 China accounted for nearly 20 percent of US agricultural products, or a total equal to more than
$26 billion in trade.Greg Yielding, the head of emerging markets for the Houston-based US Rice Producers
Association, said rice producers in the US are always looking for new markets to increase the potential returns
on their product.
"Farmers here can grow very good quality rice and they see China as another market for high quality US rice,"
Yielding said. "Every market in the world is different, but to be able to go into China and have our product

compete would be good because they have a lot of very good rice too."The US Rice Producers Association,
which is the only national organization composed entirely of producers, represents growers in all six of the
major US rice-producing states — Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas.
"Rice consumption in China is so high that the country could eat through America's annual production in 17
days," he said. "But the Chinese supermarkets and importers are willing to take all they can get. As long as it's
the high quality rice that they've seen, people in China are willing to buy and farmers are going to make more
money by expanding the market."Cummings, with the USA Rice Federation, said: "US rice has an unparalleled
reputation for the highest food safety standards … and that will be a real plus for our rice in the minds of
Chinese consumers. China has recently been a 2 million-plus metric ton import market, so achieving even a
small share of this market would be significant for the United States."
jackfreifelder@chinadailyusa.com
How is U.S. rice faring in current trade agreement negotiations?
Report from the 2014 Arkansas Rice Expo
Aug 27, 2014David Bennett | Delta Farm Press
CARL BROTHERS, LEFT, visits with Zach Taylor, Arkansas Department of Agriculture, prior to speaking on
U.S. trade agreements at the 2014 Rice Expo in Stuttgart.
U.S. trade officials are in the thick of negotiating
two major trade agreements. Both, according to
Carl Brothers, Riceland Foods senior vice
president of marketing and risk management,
“are difficult.”Brothers, spoke about the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic
Investment and Trade Partnership (TTIP) at the
recent University of Arkansas‟ 2014 Rice Expo
in Stuttgart.“Already, we‟re having trouble with
countries wanting to … have special privilege
with rice. The (U.S. rice) industry is standing
hard and tall saying, „we can‟t let this happen
again. We were left out of the (trade deal with)
Korea.‟ So the industry is putting lots of political pressure on to keep that from happening.
”A related issue has been the inability of President Obama to get authority for trade agreements to be voted up
or down. “If you bring an agreement back and don‟t have that authority, you know Congress will begin to say,
„We‟ll accept this but never that.‟ And we‟ll never get a trade agreement. “So, trade promotion authority will
come up at some point. The President will have to have it if we‟re to have any agreements worth

consideration.”There are 11 countries involved in the TPP: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia,
Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.
Hamilton: rice the ‘cement’ of Asia
“The only one that really holds promise for rice at the moment, above and beyond what we‟re doing today, is
Japan. We did get to ship rice to Japan in 1995. … What we‟re wishing for, really demanding, in the new round
is greater access which means more tonnage. We‟re not saying how much tonnage because no one has shown
their hand just yet.“The other issue with Japan is improved quality of access. Currently, the Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries stays in between U.S. trade in Japan and (consumers). In fact, most of the
U.S. rice that goes into Japan -- all of it currently being shipped out of California -- never reaches the table. It‟s
either going to food aid programs or for industrial purposes.”
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- Aug 28
Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:08pm IST
Nagpur, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Gram and tuar prices in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and
Marketing Committee (APMC) declined sharply on poor buying support from local millers amid
increased supply from producing belts. Fresh fall on NCDEX, downward trend in Madhya Pradesh
pulses and poor quality arrival also affected prices, according to sources.
* * * *
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Desi gram recovered further in open market on good festival season demand from local
traders. Reported demand from South-based traders also jacked up prices.

TUAR
* Tuar varieties ruled steady here but demand was poor in thin trading activity.
* Lakhodi dal and watana dal firmed up in open market on increased festival season
demand from local traders amid tight supply from producing regions.
* In Akola, Tuar - 5,000-5,200, Tuar dal - 6,900-7,100, Udid at 7,200-7,300,
Udid Mogar (clean) - 8,000-8,500, Moong - 7,200-7,600, Moong Mogar
(clean) 8,700-9,400, Gram - 2,700-2,900, Gram Super best bold - 3,800-4,000
for 100 kg.
* Wheat, rice and other commodities remained steady in open market in thin trading
activity, according to sources.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 2,200-2,800 2,240-2,920
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 4,300-4,430 4,360-4,570
Moong Auction n.a. 5,200-5,500
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold 4,000-4,200 4,000-4,200

Gram Super Best n.a.
Gram Medium Best 3,700-3,850 3,700-3,850
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a.
Gram Mill Quality 3,600-3,650 3,600-3,650
Desi gram Raw 3,100-3,200 3,100-3,200
Gram Filter new 3,600-3,800 3,600-3,800
Gram Kabuli 8,000-9,500 8,000-9,500
Gram Pink 7,200-7,400 7,200-7,400
Tuar Fataka Best 7,500-7,700 7,500-7,700
Tuar Fataka Medium 7,100-7,200 7,100-7,200
Tuar Dal Best Phod 6,700-7,000 6,700-7,000
Tuar Dal Medium phod 6,400-6,700 6,400-6,700
Tuar Gavarani 5,300-5,350 5,300-5,350
Tuar Karnataka 5,500-5,700 5,500-5,700
Tuar Black 8,100-8,400 8,100-8,400
Masoor dal best 6,400-6,500 6,400-6,500
Masoor dal medium 6,100-6,250 6,100-6,250
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold 9,500-10,000 9,500-10,000
Moong Mogar Medium best 8,800-9,200 8,800-9,200
Moong dal super best 7,800-8,000 7,800-8,000
Moong dal Chilka 7,700-7,900 7,700-7,900
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 8,000-9,000 8,000-9,000

Udid Mogar Super best (100 INR/KG) 8,500-8,800 8,500-8,800
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 7,400-7,800 7,400-7,800
Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,600-6,600 5,600-6,600
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 4,000-5,000 4,000-5,000
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,800-3,100 2,800-2,950
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,350-3,500 3,250-3,500
Watana White (100 INR/KG) 3,500-3,600 3,500-3,600
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,300 4,900-5,300
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 1,200-1,500 1,200-1,500
Wheat Mill quality(100 INR/KG) 1,600-1,700 1,600-1,700
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 1,300-1,500 1,300-1,500
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,450 2,100-2,450
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 1,850-2,000 1,850-2,000
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,200 2,800-3,200
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 1,950-2,350 1,950-2,350
Wheat 147 (100 INR/KG) 1,200-1,300 1,200-1,300
Wheat Best (100 INR/KG) 1,500-1,800 1,500-1,800
Rice BPT (100 INR/KG) 2,850-3,350 2,850-3,250
Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 1,650-1,850 1,650-1,850
Rice Swarna old (100 INR/KG) 2,350-2,650 2,350-2,650
Rice HMT (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,000 3,800-4,000
Rice HMT Shriram (100 INR/KG) 4,600-5,450 4,600-5,450
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 10,500-13,500 10,500-13,500
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 7,300-10,000 7,300-10,000
Rice Chinnor (100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 1,400-1,600 1,400-1,600
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,700-1,800 1,700-1,800
WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 33.1 degree Celsius (91.5 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp.
23.6 degree Celsius (74.4 degree Fahrenheit)
Humidity: Highest - nil, lowest - nil.
Rainfall : 10.2 mm
FORECAST: Generally cloudy sky. Maximum and Minimum temperature likely to be around 33 and 23
degree Celsius respectively.
Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but

included in market prices.)
ATTN: Soyabean mandi, wholesale foodgrain market of Nagpur APMC and oil market in all over
Vidarbha will be closed tomorrow, Friday, on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.
Opportunity: Post-doctoral Fellow -- Computational Genetics (#13-
RP10082) @ International Rice Research Institute -- Laguna,
Philippines
Submitted by International Rice Research Inst; posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2014
BACKGROUND:
This position will coordinate across breeding, quantitative genetics, marker applications, breeding
information management, and bioinformatics groups to integrate the latest genome-wide selection strategies
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variety development pipelines.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Lead efforts to apply computational genetics methods and bioinformatics tools on largeNGS and SNP
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(30%).
* Analyze NGS and SNP data to characterize SNP haplotype patterns and define alleles and donor
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* Assist in the effort to validate predicted marker-trait associations from ongoing GWAS projects and quickly
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REQUIREMENTS:
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Deadline of application submission is on 31 August 2014 or until suitable candidate has been found.
Climate change may disrupt global food system within a decade,
World Bank says
The World Bank is pushing for 'climate-smart agriculture' as a means to increase productivity of crops with
lesser climate change impact, such as developing rice varieties that can absorb more carbon from the
atmosphere and more sunlight. .The world is headed “down a dangerous path” with disruption of the food
system possible within a decade as climate change undermines nations‟ ability to feed themselves, according to
a senior World Bank official.
Rising urban populations are contributing to expanded demand for meat, adding to nutrition shortages for the
world‟s poor. Increased greenhouse gas emissions from livestock as well as land clearing will make farming
more marginal in many regions, especially in developing nations, said Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice
President and special envoy for climate change.“The challenges from waste to warming, spurred on by a
growing population with a rising middle-class hunger for meat, are leading us down a dangerous path,”
Professor Kyte told the Crawford Fund 2014 annual conference in Canberra on Wednesday.“Unless we chart a
new course, we will find ourselves staring volatility and disruption in the food system in the face, not in 2050,
not in 2040, but potentially within the next decade,” she said, according to her prepared speech.
Agriculture and land-use change account for about 30 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for
global warming. Feed quality can be so low in arid parts of Africa, where livestock typically graze on marginal
land and crop residues, that every kilo of protein produced can contribute the equivalent of one tonne of carbon
dioxide - or 100 times more than in developed nations, Professor Kyte said.

“
The challenges from waste to warming, spurred on by a growing population with a rising middle-class
hunger for meat, are leading us down a dangerous path
Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice President and special envoy for climate change
A two-degree warmer world - which may occur by the 2030s on current emissions trajectories - could cut cereal
yields by one-fifth globally and by one-half in Africa, she said.The river deltas of Asia, which provide almost
two-thirds of the world‟s rice, will become more vulnerable to sea-level rise and storm surges. By 2050, each
hectare of paddy will have to feed 43 people, up from about 27 now, according to a report carried by China
Daily.
Braggadocio Rice Mill included on U.S. Congressman Smith's Annual
Farm Tour
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Laura Ford Daily Dunklin Democrat
Photo by Laura Ford, staff Congressman Jason Smith (L) visits with Steve McKaskle ®, of McKaskle Family
Farms, LLC, and the Braggadocio Rice Mill, during his Annual Farm Tour on Friday. The pair stands in front
of the only Yanmar-brand color sorter in use in the U.S.The fourth day of U.S. Congressman Jason Smith's
Annual Farm Tour, took him to Braggadocio, Mo., on Friday, to the McKaskle family farm and the
Braggadocio Rice Mill. For the past week, and over the course of the next week, Smith is visiting with farmers
across Missouri.
Smith said his Eighth Congressional District, a 30-county region, is the most diversified agriculture district
outside of California. "We grow everything in this district except for citrus and sugar," said Smith. "You name
it, we have it, and we raise just about every animal you can imagine. Agriculture is the lifeblood of our
congressional district. It is so diverse," said Smith. He went on to describe the district as just less than 20,000
square miles, larger than the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts, combined.
Smith said that one of the reasons he wanted to include the McKaskle farm and rice mill on his touring list was
because of the ground-breaking new technology being used there, technology secured through assistance from
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the state of Missouri.Steve McKaskle, Senior Owner of
McKaskle Family Farm, LLC., introduced Smith to a large group of area farmers who came to see the
congressman and listen to what he had to say. Smith said this year's tour had been expanded from one week to
two, so that he could visit virtually all the counties in the district, versus the 17 he was able to visit last year.

The congressman said he wanted to hear what farmers have to say, in order to take back to Washington what
they are thinking, both good and bad.Smith is one of the newest members of the U.S. Congress. He was elected
in a special election in June, 2013, replacing long-time congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson, who resigned to take
over the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Smith said he has hit the ground running. "While we
have been in Congress," said Smith, "It has been a constant fight to protect our way of life." Smith said he
considered many of the regulations being created by a lot of federal agencies, including the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) "a war on rural America," including coal power-generated electricity.
Smith said 84 percent of all of the electrical power generated in his district is produced by coal power. He told
the group of farmers that he felt if some of the currently proposed federal rules and regulations go into effect,
they could more than double, perhaps triple, the costs of utility rates. Smith went on to tell the group that,
during his first week in Congress, once he was assigned to the Subcommittee for Regulation Reform, his eyes
were opened to regulatory problems in Washington D.C. In his words, it was the constant drive to create
government jobs with inspectors and analysts, rather than create jobs in the private sector through small
businesses growth. Smith called the process a one-size-fits-all approach that never leaves the Washington D.C.
beltway.
The Braggadocio tour shop included a question-and-answer session with farmers, whose questions reflected the
issues on many of their minds these days, including immigration reform, utility rates, taxes, and the recent
Right-to-Farm bill in Missouri.Concerning immigration, one local farmer noted, "It kinda effects agriculture
here and everywhere else, but no one seems to know what's happening, or where it's going." Smith replied that
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee has already passed four different bills regarding immigration. He listed the
Border Security Bill as the highest priority. It would cover the northern, southern, and coastal U.S. borders. The
second measure deals with expansion of the guest worker program, and additional oversight measures. Smith
said he viewed this measure as particularly important to the huge agricultural industry in the Missouri Bootheel
and Delta region.
The third measure deals with increasing the number of highly skilled visas, so that those who have been
educated in the U.S., with degrees in fields such as medicine and engineering, can stay and work in the country.
Smith explained that the fourth and final initiative, the State Act, would empower local law enforcement to
enforce immigration laws. Smith added that, regarding immigration reform, he felt the U.S. Senate had passed a
more all-encompassing bill, while the House took a more piecemeal approach. "Now, it is (about) getting
everyone together," he said. "Since I've been in Congress, I've tried to get to know other members. The reason
there is so much gridlock is because they don't take the time to know each other, in order to find some common
ground, which is very important.
" Smith said he felt the whole "my way or the highway" approach was not working, and it was (now time) to
find some middle ground.Another farmer's question had to do with the Missouri Public Service Commission's
(MPSC) recent decision to deny Noranda Aluminum's request for lower electricity rates at the company's
aluminum smelter facility in New Madrid, Mo. Smith said the ruling could drastically affect Noranda and every
other manufacturer in the district.

"I'm afraid it is going to be a loss of jobs in this area. As you know, our competitive advantage in this area is our
lower utility rates, and our workforce is very good, with good paying jobs. But, it could drastically affect those
jobs in seven surrounding counties, and maybe more."The Right-to-Farm bill was another subject on farmers'
minds in Braggadocio. "The language (in) Right-to-Farm is much like the language in North Dakota," said
Smith. "The purpose (of it is to provide a basis) to protect and support farmers, both large and small, who want
to invest, so that they can continue to invest, without the fear of extreme regulations coming in to change their
practices." Smith was the original sponsor of the Right-to-Farm bill, while still serving in the Missouri General
Assembly. Proposed Missouri Constitutional Amendment 1 was defeated in the Aug. 5 statewide primary
election, by a margin of 2,490 votes.
However, yesterday, Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander ordered a statewide recount vote, as allowed by
state law, on any measures that fail by less than half of one percent of the total votes cast. Smith told farmers the
Humane Society of the United States spent more than $750,000 to defeat Right-to-Farm. The recount was
requested, however, by the Missouri organization, Food for America.The farmers also asked about a pending
tax bill that would reduce the maximum deduction from $500,000 of purchased property to $25,000 in 2014.
Smith said the measure has cleared the House and is awaiting action in the Senate. Originally, the tax provision
expired at the end of 2013. Smith said he had co-sponsored a bill, trying to make the provision permanent, so it
wouldn't have to be worried about every year. Smith said he felt it will be extremely important to raise the
maximum back up to $500,000 and make it permanent. "It affects every small business in America, including
farmers," said Smith. "It needs to be permanent.
" He told the group that he is trying to get on the House Ways and Means Committee to continue the campaign.
He added Missouri needs to have a seat on the panel, because the state hasn't had one since 2008.Smith closed
the question-and-answer session by inviting area farmers to his office in Washington D.C. "Anytime we can
help you with anything within the bureaucracy, just let me know."McKaskle then gave Congressman Smith, his
aides and visiting farmers an overview of the farm's rice milling process and the Braggadocio Rice Mill,
explaining the operation of the mill's new color sorter. He said the new machine, manufactured by Yanmar in
Japan, is the only one of its type in the U.S.
"This rice mill is a dream come true," said McKaskle. "This is something we started thinking about doing back
in 2010, and I hope this will stir up inspiration in other farmers in the area to diversify, and get involved in other
industries and practices, such as (this one). It is the wave of the future, and there is money out there available to
get you started." McKaskle also discussed the operation of the solar panels that were installed at the farm and
mill. "Basically, we are selling electricity to Ameren," said McKaskle.
"They take it off our light bill." McKaskle said it has saved them considerably in electric bills. Some of those
attending Friday's tour stop included county and state officials who were instrumental in assisting with the
funding to secure the farm and rice mill's new technology, including Assistant Pemiscot County Commissioner,
Steven Watkins; University of Missouri Extension Service Specialist, Dr. Van Ayers; Robert Culler, Senior
Vice President of First State Bank & Trust of Caruthersville; and Phyllis Jenner, of the USDA Office in
Dexter.Braggadocio ended the first week of Smith's Annual Farm Tour. He resumed on Monday, with a stop at

the Dennis Robison Rice Farm in Poplar Bluff, Mo., and the Highland Blueberry Farm in Perryville, Mo., on
Tuesday.
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Vietnam Rice exports up 9% Y/Y to 4.4 mn tons in Jan-Aug
Aug 28, 2014 03:31 PM
Vietnam exported 4.4 million tons of rice worth $2.01 billion during the first eight months of this year, rose 9%
and 5.3% year-on-year in volume and value respectively, latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development showed
China inspects Burma’s rice in advance of trade agreement
28.08.2014
Chinese technicians arrived in Rangoon on Wednesday to kick-start implementation of rice-inspection protocols
as the two countries move closer to reaching a trade agreement.Led by the director-general of China‟s
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), the four-member delegation was
sent to inspect paddy fields, rice mills, sea ports and germ-eradication programmes.
According to the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF), the team will make an additional stop in the capital city of
Naypyidaw to meet with Burma‟s minister of agriculture and irrigation.“We have been trying to make this
happen nearly three years, since the new government took power,” said Dr. Soe Htun, secretary of the
MRF.“This is the first step, and hopefully everything will be all right soon. But it‟s not as simple as people
think; the visit alone will not make everything ready. We have many more steps to take,” he added.An
agreement on quality inspection will be signed following sufficient negotiations, and then the two sides will
begin talks on an export agreement, Dr. Soe Htun said.Discussions will focus on cross-border trade more
generally, and will include an agreement to legalise rice imports via land crossings to China, which is an
important source of revenue for many small- and medium-sized agricultural enterprises.
Roughly 80 percent of Burma‟s rice exports are believed to go to China. While it is legal for Burmese farmers
to export to China, it is illegal for Chinese merchants to import the products.Illicit cross-border trade has had a
devastating effect on value. Frequent large seizures of illegally imported rice have caused prices to nose-dive,
causing hardship among farmers living along China‟s borders with both Burma and Vietnam.

Vietnam's Rice Exports Reach Over 4.4 Mln Tonnes In 8 Months
HANOI, Aug 28 (Bernama) - Vietnam exported more than 4.4 million tonnes of rice in the first eight months of
this year with US$2.01 billion in revenue, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.The figure represented a
year-on-year fall of 9 percent and 5.3 percent in volume and value respectively, said the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.The country earned US$267 million from 584,000 tonnes of rice exports in August
alone.China led Vietnamese rice exports which constituted 36.18 percent of total volume followed by the
Philippines (23 percent), Ghana (5.11 percent), Malaysia (4.39 percent) and Singapore (3.32 percent).The
Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has forecast 6.3 million tonnes rice exports this year.The country exported
6.7 million tonnes of rice last year, 11 percent lower than the target set.-- BERNAMA
Philippines eyes re-tender, govt-to-govt deal for 500,000 T rice imports
By Enrico Dela Cruz, Reuters
Posted at 08/28/2014 9:41 AM | Updated as of 08/28/2014 9:41 AM
MANILA - The Philippines is considering re-issuing a buy tender or doing a government-to-government deal
for its rice import requirement of up to 500,000 tonnes, after rejecting all offers in a tender that closed on
Wednesday because the prices were too high.The imports, originally for arrival between September and
November, were meant to beef up state stockpiles and bring down local retail prices. Expensive domestic rice
has helped push food price inflation to its highest in more than five years.The government had set an
undisclosed budget of $456.60 per tonne and rejected bids that came in ranging from $460 to $496.75 per tonne.
Food security chief, Francis Pangilinan, said he was seeking a special meeting of the government panel that
approves rice imports as early as Thursday to decide between the two options."We either rebid or go to
government-to-government importation," he told reporters after the National Food Authority (NFA), the state
grains procurement agency, announced its rejection of the bids submitted in Wednesday's tender.Four traders
submitted bids, namely Vietnam's Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2 and global commodities traders Louis Dreyfus
and LG International.The budgeted price may have been "unrealistic" because it was set two weeks ago, said
NFA Spokesman Rex Estoperez. The state stockpiles were still at "safe" levels despite the possible delay in
shipment, he said.The Philippines can enter into government-to-government deals with Vietnam and Cambodia,
with which it has emergency supply agreements. A similar agreement with Thailand expired last year.
MORE IMPORTS POSSIBLE
A new supply deal would bring the Philippines' total duty-free shipments this year to around 1.7 million tonnes,
the most in four years. Additionally, the private sector can import 350,000 tonnes this year subject to a 40
percent tariff.The Philippines expects to miss its rice output target of 19.07 million tonnes this year by 2
percent, based on the latest forecast by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

The forecast could be revised down if strong typhoons hit rice-producing provinces in the second half of the
year and damage crops or prevent farmers from planting more.With crop losses possible in the next four
months, the government has also authorized the NFA to import 500,000 tonnes more for emergency needs, on
top of the volumes tendered on Wednesday and in previous months.Major rice exporters such as Vietnam and
Thailand are looking for any signs the Philippines may need to import more, hoping to unload grain from their
huge stockpiles.Vietnamese rice prices are expected to rise over the next few weeks on expectations that the
supplies to fill Philippine demand will come from Vietnam, traders said on Wednesday.
Vietnamese 5 percent broken grade rice was quoted at $450-$455 a tonne, free-on-board Saigon Port, on
Wednesday, compared with $455 a week ago.With Philippine rice imports this year possibly exceeding 2
million tonnes, the country is on track to become the world's No.3 buyer as ranked by the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA), up from the No.8 spot last year.The USDA has forecast that the Philippines
may also need to import as much as 1.6 million tonnes in 2015.The Philippines has agreed to loosen tariff
restrictions on rice imports starting next year under a new deal with the World Trade Organisation.
California drought could impact bird habitats, rice prices
Prices could go up, one farmer says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —Rice is one of California‟s top crops, but the historic drought is forcing
farmers to make tough decisions in the field -- and that likely will have a ripple effect on consumers and
migratory birds."I‟ve never seen one like this," he said.During a visit Wednesday afternoon, he showed KCRA
3 a portion of the field that was barren."We farm about 5,000 acres of rice, and unfortunately, this year, 35
percent of that land is idled because of [a] lack of water," Montna said.
So, what could this mean the next time shoppers buy a bag of rice?"Prices will definitely increase," Montna
said.Wildlife also will pay the price. By winter, millions of migratory birds will make their way into the area, a
time when the fields are flooded in order to decompose the rice straws."We're going to run out of food for these
ducks somewhere in mid-December," said Mark Bittlecomb with Ducks Unlimited , a waterfowl and wetlands
conservation group.The birds get 60 percent of their food from winter-flooded fields, biologists said. This year,
their habitat is down 20 percent in the Sacramento Valley."I don't think that we'll have huge die-offs,"
Bittlecomb said. "We could have some disease outbreaks."He said one solution to the current water crisis would
be to pass the water bond.
RPT- UPDATE 2-India's monsoon forecast to be better for crops next
week
Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:27pm IST
(Repeats late Thursday story with no changes to text)
* Summer crops require less rains at growth stage
* Rain likely in major crop areas next week

* India & UK tie up for monsoon research (Writes throughout with details)
NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - India's monsoon is expected to provide more rain next week that will aid
growth of crops sown in northwest and central areas, weather officials said on Thursday.Once crops such as
rice, corn, sugarcane, soybean and cotton are planted, they need rain at regular intervals for growth.The annual
monsoon rains are vital, because over half of India's farmlands lack irrigation, and the farm sector accounts for
14 percent of the national economy.The monsoon, furthermore, is the leading determinant of rural spending on
consumer goods ranging from lipstick to cars as two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people live in villages.
"The last couple of days' rainfall will nourish the soybean crop, which has entered the flowering stage," S.K.
Srivastava, head of the state-run Directorate of Soybean Research, told Reuters over the phone from Indore, a
soybean hub in central India.India, the world's fifth-biggest producer of soybeans, is a major exporter of
soymeal, derived after extracting the oil, and a leading supplier of soymeal to South East Asian countries, where
it is preferred as an animal feed.Rains were below average last week, giving respite to cane and rice areas of
northern regions, which had recently been affected by floods following heavy rain in the Himalayas.
Weather officials said rainfall was expected to improve in the major crop areas of northwest and central regions
but was likely to ease in the northeast region, which suffered from floods along with neighbouring
Bangladesh.This year's monsoon started on a weak note and had a poor run until late July, when rains revived in
northwest and central India.
The monsoon has been weak for the past couple of weeks, but that is
unlikely to reduce harvest prospects for most of the sown crops as they
have entered the germination stage, when less rain is required."The
overall scene for most of the crops is good except millet and pulses, while
production of rice is expected to be better than initial expectations," J.S.
Sandhu, the country's farm commissioner, said."The delayed monsoon
could reduce millet and pulses output by 2-2.5 million tonnes in the
current crop year," he said.Sandhu added that the main rice crop is
unlikely to be hit heavily, even though floods in some growing areas took many lives and made thousands
homeless.India produced a record rice output of 106.54 million tonnes in 2013/14 following an early spread of
last year's monsoon over the main growing belts. That amounted to 40 percent of India's total grain output for
the year of 264.77 million tonnes.India's crop year starts from June with the onset of the annual monsoon, which
runs until September. Summer crops are harvested from October.
MONSOON RESEARCH
By Ratnajyoti Dutta
CROP PROSPECTS

India's weather office forecast a poor monsoon season in 2014. But it has shied away from predicting that the
four-month season would turn into a drought year, even though the weakest rainfall in five years was recorded
in the first month.India has joined with Britain to create a dedicated research programme to improve forecasting
of the South Asian monsoon.British Energy Secretary Edward Davey, who accompanied Deputy Prime Minister
Nick Clegg earlier this week to India, announced the programme will start from next year.The initiative will
receive funding of around 8 million pounds from Britain's Natural Environment Research Council, India's Earth
Sciences Ministry and the UK Met Office. (Additional reporting by Nita Bhalla; editing by Jane Baird)
Climate change may disrupt global food system within a decade,
World Bank says
August 27, 2014
The world is headed "down a dangerous path" with disruption of the food system possible within a decade as
climate change undermines nations' ability to feed themselves, according to a senior World Bank official.Rising
urban populations are contributing to expanded demand for meat, adding to nutrition shortages for the world's
poor. Increased greenhouse gas emissions from livestock as well as land clearing will make farming more
marginal in many regions, especially in developing nations, said Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice
President and special envoy for climate change."The challenges from waste to warming, spurred on by a
growing population with a rising middle-class hunger for meat, are leading us down a dangerous path,"
Professor Kyte told the Crawford Fund 2014 annual conference in Canberra on Wednesday.
Cereal yields are being hit by a warming climate, IPCC says. Photo: Tanya Lake
"Unless we chart a new course, we will find ourselves staring volatility
and disruption in the food system in the face, not in 2050, not in 2040, but
potentially within the next decade," she said, according to her prepared
speech.Agriculture and land-use change account for about 30 per cent of
the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. Feed quality can
be so low in arid parts of Africa, where livestock typically graze on
marginal land and crop residues, that every kilo of protein produced can
contribute the equivalent of one tonne of carbon dioxide - or 100 times
more than in developed nations, Professor Kyte said.
A two-degree warmer world - which may occur by the 2030s on current emissions trajectories - could cut cereal
yields by one-fifth globally and by one-half in Africa, she said.The river deltas of Asia, which provide almost
two-thirds of the world's rice, will become more vulnerable to sea-level rise and storm surges. By 2050, each
hectare of paddy will have to feed 43 people, up from about 27 now, according to a report carried by China
Daily.Professor Kyte said the focus has to turn to so-called "climate-smart agriculture", which contributes to

increased productivity of crops, less wastage and a smaller climate change impact.She cited the example of
Ugandan farmers inter-cropping two key cash crops, bananas and coffee.
The taller banana trees contributed shade to cool the coffee bushes while securing land from erosion
and building soil carbon levels.Likewise, work by the CSIRO and the International Rice Research Institute was
developing new strains of rice that can absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and more sunlight."If
researchers succeed in turbo-charging the plant's engine, the new rice variety would need less water and
fertiliser but yield 50 per cent more grain than the best current varieties," Professor Kyte said.The World Bank
envoy's speech comes as governments start to receive the final report of the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment series.The so-called synthesis report finds global warming is
already cutting grain production by several percentage points, according to a draft of the report obtained by The
New York Times.
The IPCC report also finds that runaway emissions of greenhouse gases are swamping all political efforts to
deal with the threat of climate change, raising the risk of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" in coming
decades, the Times reported."From 1970 to 2000, global emissions of greenhouse gases grew at 1.3 per cent a
year. But from 2000 to 2010, that rate jumped to 2.2 per cent a year ... and the pace seems to be accelerating
further in this decade," the Times report said.While technically possible to limit global warming to an
internationally agreed upper limit of two degrees above pre-industrial levels, continued political delays for
another decade or two would make that unachievable without "severe economic disruption", according to
the Times report on the IPCC draft.
Changing climate could eat up 27pc paddy output by 2050, says study
FE Report
The climate change effect might eat up more than 27 per cent of the paddy yield in Bangladesh by 2050, experts
said Wednesday.Besides, the rising natural calamities like salinity, flash flood, stagnant flood, tidal flood,
drought, cold, heat could also reduce paddy yield by nearly 64 per cent within 2070, they said.Director General
of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) Dr Jiban Krishna Biswas said that due to the multilateral
consequences of climate changes, per hectare yield of paddy can decline to 4 tonnes in 2030 from 5.5 tonnes
now.He was speaking at the concluding ceremony of the two day long workshop styled "'Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Emissions from Rice Field: Finding Mitigation through Urea Deep Placement (UDP) and Alternative
Wetting and Drying (AWD) Technology'" as the chief guest.
The ceremony of the workshop held at the BRRI Auditorium in Gazipur, organised jointly by the International
Fertiliser Development Centre (IFDC) under the Accelerating Agriculture Productivity Improvement (AAPI)
project of the USAID, BRRI and Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU).Dr Jiban Krishna presented a
paper which showed that due to increasing trend of natural calamities like salinity, flash flood, stagnant flood,

tidal flood, drought, cold, heat caused by climatic changes paddy production at per hectare will fall to just 2
tonnes within 2070 from the present output.The study is prepared considering the pattern of minimum and
maximum temperature of last 30 years---from 1975 to 2008.It showed the minimum temperature, in last 30
years, has increased in all months except in January and November.
While maximum temperature also increased in all months except January during the period.The study also takes
in account the rainfall pattern of the country from 1975 to 2005, the paper said. However, the research revealed
that 2.0 million hectares of total rice areas have been affected by flash flood submergence."Flash floods can
result in yield loss up to 100 per cent depending on different climatic and agronomic factors," it showed.It also
showed 2.0 million hectares areas have been affected by drought both in dry and wet season.Natural calamity is
causing 5 per cent average yield decline annually worth US $23.9 million, the paper said.Dr Jiban Krishna said
that to cope with the changing climatic condition, we will have to adapt time befitting technologies.
Developing new seed varieties suitable to different climatic condition based on various agronomic zones of the
country, adapting technologies like UDP, AWD, IPM (integrated pest management) can combat any
catastrophe, he said.However, Dr Biswas informed the newsmen that the BRRI is going to release some new
stress tolerant rice varieties within few weeks.Meanwhile, the IFDC (under AAPI) with the collaboration of
BRRI and BAU has taken a project to measure and mitigate green house gases (GHG) from rice fields.
Ms Ishrat Jahan, Resident Representative, IFDC Bangladesh and Project Coordinator and Chief of Party of the
AAPI provided an over view of some salient research findings on reducing nitrogen losses in Bangladesh
through UDP and AWD technologies.She said UDP can reduce urea use by one-third while increase rice yield
up to 15 per cent.Dr Md Shahjahan Kabir, Director, BRRI, Dr Reiner Wassmann, Senior Scientist and
Coordinator of Rice and Climate Change Consortium, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), AAPI
Deputy Chief of Party Dr Yam Kanta Gaihre among others also spoke.
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