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Daily Global, Regional & Local
Rice E-Newsletter
October 07,2016
Vol 7 , Issue 9

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 Pakistan: Grain and Feed Update
 India offers to fill gap in Egypt‘s rice stocks
 Global wheat and rice harvests poised to set new record
 Customs Allege Plot To Massively Smuggle Rice Into Nigeria
 Gov't to purchase all surplus rice to stabilize market prices
 Global wheat and rice harvests poised to set new record
 Asia Rice: Prices Mixed in Lean Trade as Rain Disrupts Harvests
 DA eyes 1M ectares as rice expansion area
 Philippine traders to import 750,150 metric tonnes rice
 NFA has enough funds for palay procurement
 Lifting rice ban unfortunate – Importers
 Customs Reacts to Ingenious Ways of Smuggling Rice into Nigeria
 10/06/2016 Farm Bureau Market Report
 Rice import costs Ghana US$500m annually
 Xi‘s Visit to Boost Farm Exports
 NOAA finds cows, rice farms driving methane rise, not fossil fuels
 Traders bid for share to import 750,150 metric tons of rice
 Violations in imports, pesticide given
 USA Rice Networks at Food & Beverage Trade Show
 October Means Festivals and Fall Fun in the Arkansas Delta
 NARI takes u-turn in agricultural dispensation: Director Jarju
 PH can be rice self-sufficient thru hybrid seeds, farm mechanization
 Grim's Grub: Gain a new appreciation for wild rice
News Detail...
Pakistan: Grain and Feed Update
October 5, 2016
Attaché Reports (GAIN)
Planting of the Rabi (winter) wheat crop is expected to get underway in a few
weeks. The Government has not announced a revised procurement price, but
Pakistani wheat is already among the most expensive in the world and farmers are
expected to match the year-ago area that led to a near-record crop. Despite an export
subsidy of $120 per ton for up to 900,000 metric tons of wheat, Pakistan‘s high
domestic wheat price is expected to limit exports to neighboring Afghanistan.
Today Rice News Headlines... Editorial Board
Chief Editor
 Hamlik
Managing Editor
 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
 Zahid Mehmood
PSO,NIFA Peshawar
 Falak Naz Shah
Head Food Science & Technology
ART, Peshawar

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Pakistan‘s wheat market is currently shielded by a 60 percent import tariff. Rice exports have
faded after the robust monthly volumes that started the marketing year, but, with two months to
go in the marketing year, appear to be on pace to reach 4.2 million metric tons in 2015/16, down
slightly from the previous estimate.
Pakistan: Grain and Feed Update
http://www.fas.usda.gov/data/pakistan-grain-and-feed-update-4
India offers to fill gap in Egypt‘s rice stocks
Thu, 06/10/2016 - 14:10
The charge d‘affairs of India‘s embassy to Cairo A. B. B. Babu said on Wednesday that his
country is ready to provide Egypt with any amount of high-quality Indian rice at competitive
prices.Babu met on Wednesday with Supply Minister Mohamed Ali Mesilhi and discussed ways
to strengthen ties between the two countries, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA)
said.

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The state television website reported that Babu and Mesilhi discussed activating bilateral
agreements regarding supplying Indian rice to Egypt, as with recent shipments received by
Egypt.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Egyptian government said it will look to import 500,000 tons
of rice in order to boost strategic stocks and keep prices down, Reuters reported.
Egypt plans to build a six-month reserve of essential food items, adding to other recent purchases
of commodities such as oil and wheat, in what traders said was a move to build up stocks ahead
of a currency devaluation.
But prices of rice have been climbing on Egypt's local market in the past few weeks, partly due
to shortages.
Egypt is traditionally a rice exporter, with its local crop exceeding annual consumption, but local
producers hoarding stocks have pushed up domestic prices and created shortages, traders sai
http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/india-offers-fill-gap-egypt-s-rice-stocks
Global wheat and rice harvests poised to set new record
FAO Thursday 6th October, 2016
6 October 2016, Rome -- Global food markets will likely remain "generally well balanced" in the
year ahead, as prices for most internationally-traded agricultural commodities are relatively low
and stable, FAO said today.
The benign outlook, especially for staple grains, is poised to lower the world food import bill to a
six-year low, according to the Food Outlook.
Record global production forecasts for this year's wheat and rice harvests, along with rebounding
maize output, are helping keep inventories ample and prices low. Worldwide cereal production
in 2016 should rise 2 569 million tonnes, up 1.5 percent from the previous year and enough to
further boost existing inventories.
The value of total food imports is expected to fall 11 percent in U.S. dollar terms in 2016 to
1.168 trillion, as lower bills for livestock products and cereal-based foodstuffs more than offset
higher bills for fish, fruit and vegetables, oils and particularly sugar. However, the decline is
expected to be slower for economically more vulnerable nations, many of which have
depreciating local currencies.
Bumper crops

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FAO raised its forecast for global wheat production to 742.4 million tonnes, led by increases in
India, the U.S. and the Russian Federation - which is poised to overtake the European Union as
the grain's largest exporter. Total wheat utilization is projected to reach 730.5 million tonnes,
including a big jump in use of lower-quality wheat for animal rations.
Global rice production is predicted to expand for the first time in three years, increasing 1.3
percent to an all-time high of 497.8 million tonnes, buoyed by abundant monsoon rains over Asia
and sizable increases in Africa. Coarse grain output is seen rising 1.8 percent on the year, buoyed
by record crops in the U.S., Argentina and India.
Cereal prices are drifting lower on the backs of the expected hefty supply. Wheat and maize
futures on the Chicago Board of Trade have both dropped more than 16 percent since the start of
the year, while quoted rice prices are at their lowest level since early 2008.
Production of cassava, a dietary mainstay in Africa where per capita consumption is above 100
kilograms annually, is also projected to grow 2.6% this year to 288 million tonnes. However,
China's shift to drawing down its maize stockpile for domestic industry and feed has curbed
international prices and trade flows for cassava.
Soybeans and other oilcrops could reach an all-time production high this year, thanks to record
US yields, although demand is expected to grow even faster. In the livestock sector, dairy
markets are also expected to return to general balance in 2016 after a long period of excess

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supply, but tightening milk availabilities in the EU triggered the largest monthly rise in dairy
prices in many years.
Stagnant world meat output in 2016, twinned with rising international demand for pigmeat and
poultry, especially from East Asian markets, continues to lend support to meat prices.
Global fish production, meanwhile, is forecast to expand by a below-trend 1.8 percent this year
to 174 million tonnes, as aquaculture output is expected to expand by 5 percent and wild-caught
fish output to decline by 0.9 percent, due in part to El Nino's impact on Pacific sardines,
anchovetas and squid.
Food Price Index
The FAO Food Price Index, also released today, averaged 170.9 points in September, up 2.9
percent from August and 10 percent from a year earlier.
The increase was driven by a 13.8 percent monthly jump in the FAO Dairy Price Index, partly as
a result of a sharp jump in butter prices benefiting exporters in the EU, where dairy output is
declining.
The FAO Sugar Price Index rose 6.7 percent from August on the back of unfavorable weather in
the Centre South main producing region in Brazil.
Palm oil prices also rose, helped by low stock levels in both exporting and importing countries,
as did those of soy and rapeseed oil, lifting the FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index by 2.9 percent for
the month.
The FAO Meat Price Index was unchanged from August.
The FAO Cereal Price Index, meanwhile, slipped 1.9 percent from the previous month and is 8.9
percent below its year-earlier level.
The FAO Food Price Index is a trade-weighted index tracking international market prices for the
five key commodity groups. Its current level is the highest since March 2015. The sub-index for
cereals is now at its lowest in a decade in deflated terms.
http://www.vancouverstar.com/index.php/sid/248290547
Customs Allege Plot To Massively Smuggle Rice Into Nigeria
Channels Television.
Updated October 5, 2016

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The Nigeria Customs Service has raised alarm over a plot to illegally import 1.5 million metric
tonnes of rice.
The Comptroller General of Customs, Colonel
Hameed Ali (rtd), made the allegation during a
media briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, Nigeria‘s
capital.He revealed that at least 117,000 bags of
illegally imported rice have been seized by the
Customs since January 2016.
Impounded bags of rice
The Acting Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, Mrs
Yetunde Oni, also corroborated the claims.She said that the activities of smugglers were affecting
Nigeria‘s revenue generation, despite its economic recession.Prior to the development, Customs authority
in Ogun State Command decried the increase in the activities of smugglers.
Addressing reporters after vehicles loaded with bags of rice were seized at Idiroko border, the Ogun State
Area Comptroller of Customs, Mr Multafu Waindu, paraded 18 vehicles loaded with bags of rice which
were being smuggled into Nigeria from the Republic of Benin.According to him, the vehicles and the
grains were impounded around 3:00am at the porous Alari and Ifoyintedo bush paths, in Ipokia Local

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Government Area of the state where the smuggled bags of rice and the vehicles were abandoned by the
smugglers.
Economy In Recession
Meanwhile, Nigerians have lamented the upsurge in the cost of rice from 12,000 Naira to over 20,000
Naira in some parts of the country, a fall out of the economic recession.Economic analysts have said that
more persons could go into smuggling of rice due to the increase in price, with most of them opting for
Benin Republic where they could get rice for as low as 12,000 Naira.While the government is making
effort to address the economic challenges, a World Economic Outlook report released by the International
Monetary Fund had predicted that the Nigerian economy would grow by 0.6% in 2017.
The report revealed that Nigeria‘s real Gross Domestic Product was expected to increase marginally by
0.6% with Consumer Prices rising by 17.1%, effectively lifting the country out of an officially declared
recession.
Attacks On Oil Facilities
The recession was a result of the drop in the price of crude oil and the attacks on the nation‘s oil facilities
by some militant groups in the Niger Delta region.Some militants under the umbrella of the Niger Delta
Avengers have claimed responsibility for most of the attacks which have drawn the attention of the
Nigerian Government and some other foreign governments.

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Disturbed by the spate of the militants‘ activities, the Nigerian Army launched a special team code named
―Operation Crocodile Smile‖, as the government agreed to dialogue with the militants after a ceasefire
agreement from both sides.In spite of the development, both military and militants have continued to
point accusing fingers, alleging a breach of agreements as the military said it would not hesitate to repel
militants‘ attack in the region.https://www.channelstv.com/2016/10/05/customs-allege-plot-to-massively-
smuggle-rice-into-nigeria/
Gov't to purchase all surplus rice to stabilize market prices
2016/10/06 11:31
SEJONG, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government said Thursday that it will purchase
all of this year's rice surplus as part of efforts to deal with a chronic supply glut of the staple
crop. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs projected that some 300,000 tons of
rice will be in excess this year, as the estimated 4.2 million ton supply will outnumber the 3.9
million ton demand.
South Korean farmers hold a press conference near the Hannam Grand Bridge in
southern Seoul on Oct. 6, 2016, after their attempt to march towards the Seoul

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Government Complex in downtown in protest of rice price plunge was thwarted by police.
(Yonhap)
"The government will pull the total rice oversupply out of the market before the end of this
year," said the ministry. "The exact amount of the government purchase will be fixed in
November."
In addition to the plan to purchase the excess, the government will buy some 390,000 tons of
rice for public stockpiling.
The annual rice consumption of the South Korean population has been on a sharp decline for
decades due mainly to changes in diet and eating habits.Per capita rice consumption reached 62.9
kilograms per year in 2015, sharply down from the 128.1 kg tallied in 1985, according to the data
compiled by Statistics Korea.
South Korean farmers block main roads leading to the Hannam Grand Bridge in southern
Seoul on Oct. 6, 2016, after their attempt to march towards the Seoul Government
Complex in downtown in protest of rice price plunge was thwarted by police. (Yonhap)
The sharp decrease in rice consumption and a bumper harvest year in 2015 led to a surge in the
total stock of the country's staple grain, with rice production reaching a six-year high of 4.33
million tons. The rice production is expected to hit a fresh record for 2016 on another rich

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year.The rice inventory reached 1.75 million tons as of August, far beyond the recommended
level of 800,000 tons by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
The government spent more than 3 trillion won (US$2.7 billion) to support the rice price,
which has been hovering around 135,000 won for nearly 20 years, through giving out subsidies
to rice farmers and purchasing oversupplied rice.
brk@yna.co.kr
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/10/06/28/0200000000AEN20161006005600320F.ht
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ii_Gov't to purchase all surplus rice to stabilize market
prices
Published : 2016-10-06 13:33
Updated : 2016-10-06 13:33
The South Korean government said Thursday that it will purchase all of this year's rice surplus as part of
efforts to deal with a chronic supply glut of the staple crop.The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs projected that some 300,000 tons of rice will be in excess this year, as the estimated 4.2 million

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ton supply will outnumber the 3.9 million ton demand.
"The government will pull the total rice oversupply out of the market before the end of this year," said the
ministry. "The exact amount of the government purchase will be fixed in November."
In addition to the plan to purchase the excess, the government will buy some 390,000 tons of rice for
public stockpiling.
The annual rice consumption of the South Korean population has been on a sharp decline for decades due
mainly to changes in diet and eating habits.
Per capita rice consumption reached 62.9 kilograms per year in 2015, sharply down from the 128.1 kg
tallied in 1985, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.
The sharp decrease in rice consumption and a bumper harvest year in 2015 led to a surge in the total stock
of the country's staple grain, with rice production reaching a six-year high of 4.33 million tons. The rice
production is expected to hit a fresh record for 2016 on another rich year.
The rice inventory reached 1.75 million tons as of August, far beyond the recommended level of 800,000
tons by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
The government spent more than 3 trillion won ($2.7 billion) to support the rice price, which has been
hovering around 135,000 won for nearly 20 years, through giving out subsidies to rice farmers and
purchasing oversupplied rice. (Yonhap)
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20161006000647
Global wheat and rice harvests poised to set new record
Lower prices for staple grains more than offset by rising sugar and dairy prices in FAO Food Price
Index

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Farmers produce cassava flour in Sierra Leone.6
October 2016, Rome-Global food markets will
likely remain "generally well balanced" in the year
ahead, as prices for most internationally-traded
agricultural commodities are relatively low and
stable, FAO said today. The benign outlook,
especially for staple grains, is poised to lower the
world food import bill to a six-year low, according
to the Food Outlook. Record global production
forecasts for this year's wheat and rice harvests,
along with rebounding maize output, are helping
keep inventories ample and prices low. Worldwide cereal production in 2016 should rise 2 569 million
tonnes, up 1.5 percent from the previous year and enough to further boost existing inventories.
The value of total food imports is expected to fall 11 percent in U.S. dollar terms in 2016 to
1.168 trillion, as lower bills for livestock products and cereal-based foodstuffs more than offset
higher bills for fish, fruit and vegetables, oils and particularly sugar. However, the decline is
expected to be slower for economically more vulnerable nations, many of which have
depreciating local currencies.
Bumper crops
FAO raised its forecast for global wheat production to 742.4 million tonnes, led by increases in
India, the U.S. and the Russian Federation - which is poised to overtake the European Union as
the grain's largest exporter. Total wheat utilization is projected to reach 730.5 million tonnes,
including a big jump in use of lower-quality wheat for animal rations.
Global rice production is predicted to expand for the first time in three years, increasing 1.3
percent to an all-time high of 497.8 million tonnes, buoyed by abundant monsoon rains over Asia
and sizable increases in Africa. Coarse grain output is seen rising 1.8 percent on the year, buoyed
by record crops in the U.S., Argentina and India.
Cereal prices are drifting lower on the backs of the expected hefty supply. Wheat and maize
futures on the Chicago Board of Trade have both dropped more than 16 percent since the start of
the year, while quoted rice prices are at their lowest level since early 2008.
Production of cassava, a dietary mainstay in Africa where per capita consumption is above 100
kilograms annually, is also projected to grow 2.6% this year to 288 million tonnes. However,
China's shift to drawing down its maize stockpile for domestic industry and feed has curbed
international prices and trade flows for cassava.

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Soybeans and other oilcrops could reach an all-time production high this year, thanks to record
US yields, although demand is expected to grow even faster. In the livestock sector, dairy
markets are also expected to return to general balance in 2016 after a long period of excess
supply, but tightening milk availabilities in the EU triggered the largest monthly rise in dairy
prices in many years.
Stagnant world meat output in 2016, twinned with rising international demand for pigmeat and
poultry, especially from East Asian markets, continues to lend support to meat prices.
Global fish production, meanwhile, is forecast to expand by a below-trend 1.8 percent this year
to 174 million tonnes, as aquaculture output is expected to expand by 5 percent and wild-caught
fish output to decline by 0.9 percent, due in part to El Nino's impact on Pacific sardines,
anchovetas and squid.
Food Price Index
The FAO Food Price Index, also released today, averaged 170.9 points in September, up 2.9
percent from August and 10 percent from a year earlier.
The increase was driven by a 13.8 percent monthly jump in the FAO Dairy Price Index, partly
as a result of a sharp jump in butter prices benefiting exporters in the EU, where dairy output is
declining.
The FAO Sugar Price Index rose 6.7 percent from August on the back of unfavorable weather
in the Centre South main producing region in Brazil.
Palm oil prices also rose, helped by low stock levels in both exporting and importing countries,
as did those of soy and rapeseed oil, lifting the FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index by 2.9 percent
for the month.
The FAO Meat Price Index was unchanged from August.
The FAO Cereal Price Index, meanwhile, slipped 1.9 percent from the previous month and is
8.9 percent below its year-earlier level.
The FAO Food Price Index is a trade-weighted index tracking international market prices for the
five key commodity groups. Its current level is the highest since March 2015. The sub-index for
cereals is now at its lowest in a decade in deflated terms.
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/445300/icode/

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Asia Rice: Prices Mixed in Lean Trade as Rain Disrupts
Harvests
Hanoi. Asian rice prices were mixed this week as scattered buying demand and rising supplies
kept quotations down in India and unchanged in Thailand, while prices edged up in Vietnam as
bad weather disrupted harvesting, traders said on Wednesday (05/10).
India's five-percent broken parboiled rice prices eased by $3/tonne this week to $365-$375, free-
on-board (FOB) basis, amid thin demand and an expected rise in supplies.
"Export demand is still weak. African buyers are not active in the market," said an exporter at
Kakinada in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, adding that rain has delayed the harvest in
some areas while output was expected to be bumper.
The summer-sown output in India, the world's top exporter of the grain, could hit a record 93.88
million tonnes in the crop year to June 2017, as plentiful monsoon rains help boost yields after
back-to-back drought years.

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The country's non-basmati rice exports in April-August, the first five months of its fiscal year,
edged up 0.8 percent from a year ago to 3 million tonnes.
In Thailand, the benchmark five-percent broken rice stood unchanged in the past week at $365-
$370/tonne as on Wednesday, FOB basis, while thin demand has raised concern among traders,
they said.
"There is no buyer," a trader in Bangkok said. "I'm worried about prices dropping further as new
rice comes in."
Harvesting of the main crop in Thailand, the world's second-biggest exporter after India, will
peak this month, with paddy output projected to rise 4.8 percent from last year to 25.02 million
tonnes.
In Vietnam, rain in recent days has disrupted harvesting of a minor crop in the Mekong Delta
food basket and prevented drying, boosting rice prices slightly, traders said.
Quotations of the five-percent broken rice narrowed to $335-$340 a tonne, FOB basis, against
$330-$340 last Wednesday, while the 25-percent broken rice rose to $325 a tonne, from $310-
$315 a week ago.
"Prices are rising as rain has slowed the harvest in the Mekong Delta," a trader at a European
firm in Ho Chi Minh City said.
Chinese firms are buying sticky rice from Vietnam, and Philippine private traders have also been
seeking quotations of Vietnamese rice but have signed no deals yet, traders said.
Vietnam's January-September rice exports dropped 16.4 percent from a year ago to an estimated
3.76 million tonnes, the agriculture ministry has said
http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/international/asia-rice-prices-mixed-lean-trade-rain-disrupts-harvests/
DA eyes 1M ectares as rice expansion area
Thursday, October 06, 2016
By Lydia C. Pendon
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is eyeing a doable expansion of rice areas by one million
hectares throughout the country, rehabilitation of existing irrigation facilities, and the provision
of appropriate irrigation system to rice rainfed areas.

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This was said by DA Regional Director Emelyn Recoter during the celebration of World Food
Day on October 5 in Iloilo City through a poster making contest participated by selected 15
elementary grades pupils in the city and province of Iloilo.
Recoter reiterated the thrust of President Rodrigo Duterte to attain food security and self-
sufficiency, and the need for consideration the climate change phenomenon.
The ―Munlad na Agrikultura sa Nayon (Mana)‖ is a special project of the DA that would espouse
and enhanced provision of agricultural investments and services to empower greater number of
farmers and fisherfolks.
Aside from expansion of rice areas, the project is eyeing the rehabilitation of El Niño damaged
areas and mitigation plan for La Niña.
The El Niño recovery program is aimed at providing immediate assistance to damaged
agricultural areas, identify the gaps, and provide interventions to attain full recovery.
On the mitigation plan, DA would indentify vulnerable areas prone to damage brought by El
Niña as well as associated risks and mitigations.
DA is pushing for brown rice or the unpolished rice consumption in Western Visayas as an
effective way to solve four major problems of the Filipinos: undernourishment, farmer‘s low
income, rice self-sufficiency and hunger.
Recoter said that brown rice, locally known as ―pinawa,‖ is the whole grain form of rice since
only the outer hull is removed in milling. The intact brand is rich in protein, fiber, vitamins,
minerals, and antioxidants than white milled rice.
Its nutritional content helps in the prevention of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
Any rice variety can be made into brown rice but DA recommends the varieties which are soft
and with good eating quality.
Recoter said the consumption of brown rice will help the country attain rice sufficiency since the
milling recovery is 10 percent higher compared to white rice. This will also help increase the
farmers‘ income.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/iloilo/local-news/2016/10/06/da-eyes-1m-hectares-rice-expansion-area-
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Philippine traders to import 750,150 metric tonnes rice
Reported by: `CT Report October 6, 2016
MANILA: More than a hundred rice traders in the Philippines have applied for permits to import
a total of 750,150 tons of the staple grain, mainly from Thailand and Vietnam, based on the latest
list of applicants from the state grains procurement agency.
The figure is below the maximum volume of 805,200 tons that private traders are allowed to
bring in under an annual country-specific quota scheme covered by a 2014 agreement with the
World Trade Organization (WTO).
Traders can continue to apply for import permits, but all cargoes must be shipped in by Feb. 28
next year. Traders are seeking to import as much as 326,325 tons from Thailand and 280,375
tons from Vietnam, the world‘s second-and third-largest rice suppliers, respectively, the National
Food Authority (NFA) list showed.
The Philippines‘ rice import requirements are closely being monitored by traders, particularly in
Thailand and Vietnam, its main suppliers, where stocks are rising amid thin demand.
Under the NFA‘s import guidelines, traders can only ship in up to 293,100 tons each from
Thailand and Vietnam, which means some of the applications for Thai rice will be pared back.
Applicants are also seeking to import up to 143,450 tons or rice from Pakistan, nearly triple the
maximum volume of 50,000 tons allowed by the NFA.
Traders can also buy up to 50,000 tons each from China, top supplier India and Pakistan, up to
15,000 tons from Australia, up to 4,000 tons from El Salvador, and 50,000 tons from any other
country. But the NFA‘s list showed no applications yet to import from those countries.
The Philippines, one of the world‘s biggest rice buyers, has kept restrictions on the size of
imports of the grain in place since 1995, when it joined the WTO, to protect local farmers. The
2014 deal with WTO, which expires next year, provides for minimum market access for rice
imports into the Southeast Asian nation by private traders, which are levied with a 35 percent
tariff.
http://www.customstoday.com.pk/philippine-traders-to-import-750150-metric-tonnes-rice/

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NFA has enough funds for palay procurement
 October 06, 2016
 Jemin B. Guillermo
ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Oct. 6 (PIA) – The government has sufficient funds to buy palay from the
farmers.This was the assurance of the National Food Authority amid harvest season.Information
Officer Mary Christie Hari-on of NFA Capiz said that 5,000 bags of palay were targeted to be
procured by their agency in September.
The intensive palay procurement is a government measure to ensure and establish manageable
buffer stock, minimize importation, stabilize price levels and assure adequate and continuous rice
supply.
Hari-on said that NFA buys clean and dry palay at P17.00 per kilogram, aside from additional
incentives such as delivery fee, drying incentive fee and cooperative development incentive fee.
She said that their warehouses in Bolo, Roxas City and in Dumalag and Sigma towns are open to
buy the farmer‘s palay produce.
―To give ease on the requirement of farmers for palay delivery, they can directly go to the NFA
Provincial Office for the issuance of a Farmer‘s passbook for free by submitting his photo and
that of his representative,‖ she said.
For an individual farmer, he can submit a certification either from the barangay captain,
Municipal Agriculture Office, National Irrigation Administration or Department of Agrarian
Reform indicating the area planted to palay and yield per hectare and whether the same is
irrigated or not.
She said that farmer‘s cooperatives or organizations only need to submit their registration
certificates either from the Cooperative Development Authority, Securities and Exchange
Commission or any registration certificate from concerned government agencies for the issuance
of Master‘s Passbook, and the list of their farmer-members.
On the other hand, walk-in farmers are allowed to deliver their palay harvest up to 200 bags.
(JCM/JBG/PIA6)
http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/991475734801/nfa-has-enough-funds-for-palay-
procurement#sthash.dhSla8Co.dpuf

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Lifting rice ban unfortunate - Importers
Rice importers have described as unfortunate government‘s decision to lift the ban placed on inland
importation of rice.They are now urging inspection agencies to be extra-vigilant to ensure that all rice
imported into the country conformed to standards.The Vice President, Ghana-Vietnam Chamber of
Commerce, Mr Michael Ntim-Addo and Mr John Owusu told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS on the sidelines
of the Ghana-Vietnam business forum in Accra.
The forum was held as part of a trade and investment visit by a Vietnamese delegation to explore
opportunities in rice farming, processing, storage, marketing and distribution.
The trip was organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture, in
collaboration with the Ghana-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Treat ban with caution
Mr Ntim-Addo said inspection agencies must treat the lifting of the ban with caution to prevent
unscrupulous importers from importing substandard rice onto the Ghanaian market.
―The ban was put in place basically to check the quality of rice that comes into the system because of
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other agencies must collaborate to ensure rice imported conformed to standard,‖ he said.
The vice president indicated that on average, Ghana imported about 400,000 metric tonnes of rice yearly
which is equivalent of US$300 million.
He said government policy was to increase local production of rice and reduce importation so as to
improve the country‘s balance of trade.
Mr Ntim-Addo said the Ghana-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce would continue to work as the referee for
businesses that would want to come together to move the rice trade and investment forward and create
more jobs.
Disappointment
For his part, Mr Owusu also expressed disappointment in the Ministry of Trade and Industry for lifting
the ban on the inland importation of rice into the country.
He said the decision by government was very surprising since persons who did inland importation did so
illegally.
According to him, those into the inland importation of rice usually used the Elubo, Sampa and
Nkrankwanta borders and as such did not pay tax unlike those who used the ports and paid taxes to the
government.
He said the Food and Drugs Authority would not be able to check whether the rice was of good quality
and healthy for consumption since they had no personnel at the borders to do the inspection.
The importer explained further that the move would also escalate smuggling into the country since the
Ivorian taxes were lower than taxes collected in Ghana.
He said although some importers preferred bringing in goods through the Tema and Takoradi ports, such
moves would influence such importers to use the borders.
Lifting of ban
The disagreement follows the lifting of a ban placed on inland importation of rice by the Ministry of
Trade and Industry and the Parliamentary Select Committee on Trade, Industry and Tourism that
importers of rice into Ghana can now do so through the land borders from August this year.
The ban, which has been in force for about three years now, prevented the importation of rice into the

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country through the Elubo, Sampa and Nkrankwanta borders in the Wesrwen.
The move was to curb the numerous unfair trade practices such as evasion of import duties and other
taxes, under-invoicing, infringement of trademarks and smuggling.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Lifting-rice-ban-unfortunate-Importers-474840
Customs Reacts to Ingenious Ways of Smuggling Rice into
Nigeria
Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali has confirmed
that the service recorded seizures of 117034 (50kg) bags of rice at a duty paid value of
N774,282,300 in the first three quarters of 2016, saying the figures of seizure do not explain the
full desperation of rice importer through rice borders, as it revealed several ingenious but
devilish ways of smuggling into Nigeria what is consumed as rice.
Speaking at a joint press conference with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration
and Control (NAFDAC) in Abuja on Tuesday, Ali said that ―we have seen rice conveyed in open
wooden canoes across our creeks and water ways with generous amount of dirty water splash on
them. We have seen some mixed with other grain bags to deceived eve Customs.
―Some are stuffed inside any available crevice and compartments of vehicles, including the
engine area. The concealed rice is there faster re- bagged half cooked or otherwise and presented
in our marketers for sale as imported rice.
The Customs boss recalled that in April 2016, the service reintroduced the ban on the
importation of rice through the land borders.
He noted that as a country, the citizens were duty bound to reawaken national pride and
collectively reject the insults of what importers are feeding Nigerians with.
He raised the questions of whether the country should continue to waste its foreign exchange on
items that it could produce locally at this time of recession.
He also raised the question whether Nigeria should continue to tolerate its neighbours being used
as staging post to sabotage her economy, insisting that the nation‘s economic revival will revolve
around the ongoing effort to support local production of rice to enhance food security.
―But the information reaching government suggests increasing preference for the local rice over
smuggled one because at this harvesting period, the best Nigeria can do is to support the local
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―In the recent past, our collective intelligence was assaulted with dubious claims of Rice
Sufficiency Gaps. Arbitrary quotas were used, more for political patronage to dump rice import
on us, without payment of correct charges.
―Our credible intelligence indicates that the promoters of this economic subterfuge are at work
again. Their plan is to seek a re- introduction of the quota system to import 1.5 million metric
tons through the entry points.
―We are aware of their plans, and we shall be awaiting for them. This year, many states
governments have injected massive investment in local production. The Federal Government
through interventions by Central Bank of Nigeria and Bank of Industry are also investing to give
momentum to a rice revolution that is progressing smoothly. Kebbi State for example in 2016
harvested over 700,000 MT of rice from irrigation farming, while a further 800,000MT is
projected from rain-fed rice farming.
―With similar projections from other states across the country, this planting season, bumper
harvest of rice is expected to debunk the so-called sufficiency gap being trumped up to justify
rice quotas. With the support of patriotic Nigerians, we will not only achieve national sufficiency
of rice in 2017, but be in a position to clamp a total ban on its importation in the years ahead.
―This therefore is our call to action. To remind ourselves about the dangers of part patronizing
smuggled . To rally all the supports we can muster for our local producers, and to support this
campaign against smuggling of rice into our dear country.‖
The Customs boss recalled that in April 2016, the service reintroduced the ban on the
importation of rice through the land borders.
But he noted that the reversal of the policy introduced in October was informed by high level of
non compliance by rice importers who resorted to large scale smuggling of the product.
He said, ―Five months down the line, it has become imperative to raise this alarm that importers
through the borders are still up in arms against the economy. We are inundated with periodic
intelligence about ship loads of parboiled rice that offloads regularly in the neighbouring Port of
Cotonou.
―As a matter of fact, our neighbours in Benin Republic do not eat parboiled rice. These importers
are ultimately destined for Nigeria by smuggling through the land borders. Since we have
declared total war on these economic saboteurs, those who have invested their fortunes in this
business are finding it increasingly difficult perpetuate their acts. The result of this is that several
thousand metric tons of rice are now trapped in warehouses across our borders.‖
http://naija247news.com/2016/10/customs-reacts-ingenious-ways-smuggling-rice-nigeria/

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10/06/2016 Farm Bureau Market Report
Rice
High Low
Long Grain Cash Bids - - - - - -
Long Grain New Crop - - - - - -
Futures:
ROUGH RICE
High Low Last Change
Nov '16 1013.0 1000.5 1011.0 +7.0
Jan '17 1034.0 1025.0 1035.0 +7.5
Mar '17 1058.5 +7.0
May '17 1078.5 +6.5
Jul '17 1097.0 +6.5
Sep '17 1102.0 +6.5
Nov '17 1102.0 +6.5
Rice Comment
Rice futures were higher across the board, but the trade continued to be confined to a relatively
narrow range within Monday‘s huge range. 82% of the crop has been harvested nation-wide,
well ahead of the 5 year average of 69%. In Arkansas, 91% of the crop was in the bins as

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of Sunday, compared with a 5 year average of 74%. Export sales were 46,800 tons for the week.
November quickly moved back above the key $10 level after testing the waters below that
level on Wednesday
Rice import costs Ghana US$500m annually
Ghana is said to lose over 500million
dollars every year through the
importation of foreign rice. This action
has posed serious challenges to local rice
production, making it uncompetitive in
the local markets.This was revealed by
the Director of Finance and
Administration at the John Agyekum
Kufuor Foundation, Victor Kufuor at the
launch of the Africa Rice Advocacy
Platform (ARAP) in Accra. According to him, the taste for foreign goods by Ghanaians have
grown in recent times, affecting the balance of trade of the country. ―We are importing over
500million dollars worth of foreign rice.
Why should we do that? Even some of the countries we are mentioning we probably are even
better than them,‖ he said. The statistics comes at a time when the Trade Ministry is campaigning
for Ghanaians to embrace and promote ‗Made in Ghana Goods‘.
Providing some measures, Mr. Kufuor in an interview with Citi Business News stated that
government should rather increase productivity by helping farmers to increase export of rice to
improve the country‘s foreign income. He maintained that Ghana has all the resources to
improve its rice production for export. ―It is just the focus.
We can overcome some of the issues and produce good quality rice then all these things can be
wiped off. The local industries usually are the ones that move the countries forward because the
moment you can produce and start exporting, then the foreign exchange that you are sending to
Asia we get to keep. So that is the general idea and I think it will help us all if we can support the
agenda.‖ he said. The African Rice Advocacy Platform is a sub-regional platform aimed at
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Meanwhile, the Ghana rice festival is scheduled for the 7th and 8th of October at the Efua
Sutherland Park in Accra. It is been organized by the Ghana Rice Interprofessional Body (GRIB)
and the Ghana Rice Advocacy Council (GRAC).
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Rice-import-costs-Ghana-US-500m-
annually-475332
Xi‘s Visit to Boost Farm Exports
Prime Minister Hun Sen with China's President Xi Jinping. President Xi‘s visit to Cambodia comes at a
time of huge pressures on Cambodia‘s rice sector. Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s visit to Cambodia next week will likely lead to an increase in agriculture
exports to China, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday.Speaking at a graduation ceremony for law and
economics students in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, Mr. Hun Sen said that 28 bilateral cooperation
agreements are due to be signed by Mr. Xi during his two-day state visit, the first for a standing Chinese
leader.―[The agreements] are an endeavor to open markets in China, which is a huge market for
Cambodia‘s agriculture sector,‖ Mr. Hun Sen told the students.―Besides milled rice and cassava and other
agricultural products, which are existing exports to China, we are trying to boost exports of other
agricultural products, including bananas.‖He did not go into detail about what these agreements were.
Mr. Xi‘s second visit to Cambodia – he first visited the Kingdom in 2009 as a vice-president – comes at a
time of huge pressure on Cambodia‘s rice sector.The government recently requested a $300 million loan
to address issues in the industry, which include falling prices, cash-flow challenges and a lack of suitable
storage facilities.During Mr. Hun Sen‘s visit to Quangxi province‘s Nanning City last month, he
announced that the Chinese government had agreed to double its imports of milled rice from Cambodia,
to 200,000 tons per year.Hun Lak, the vice-president of the Cambodia Rice Federation, yesterday
expressed his hopes for Chinese assistance in the country‘s rice sector following President Xi‘s visit.
―I think that Chinese President Xi Jinping will announce [the loan],‖ Mr. Lak said.―The special loan of
about $300 million will ensure that rice millers will have a regular supply of paddy rice from
farmers.―Farmers, in turn, will be able to sell their paddy rice at government-approved prices. The $300
million loan is also related to China importing 200,000 tons of milled rice annually from Cambodia.‖Last
week, during a meeting with newly-appointed Chinese ambassador to Cambodia, Deputy Prime Minister
Hor Namhong asked the Chinese side to accelerate purchases of milled rice from Cambodia, as the two
countries agreed on the 200,000-ton rice quota.Mr. Namhong also said that the $300 million loan that
Cambodia requested from China will be used to install paddy rice dryers and warehouses to upgrade the
rice sector.Mey Kalyan, a senior advisor to Cambodia‘s Supreme Economic Council, told Khmer Times
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―It is good for Cambodia to have a visit from the giant country‘s president, and we hope that if the
requested $300 million loan is not disbursed now, it will be in the near future.‖However, Mr. Kalyan said
he was worried about Cambodia‘s ability to increase export quotas to meet Chinese demands.―China is
one of Cambodia‘s big markets. If we have [potential] markets, we must have products available to sell to
them.―If we don‘t have the products to sell, and our prices are high, they will not buy from us,‖ he
warned.The World Bank‘s International Finance Corporation (IFC), in a recent report, said Cambodian
rice millers should also work hard to develop quality and lower costs.―Mills should have farmers under
contract to provide consistent rice quality and aim for near 100 percent capacity utilization at the mill. It
is clear that ensuring high quality and a reliable supply form the basis for increased trade,‖ said the IFC
report.
―As Cambodia is essentially a price-taker in the global marketplace, it will also be important to ensure
processing costs are minimized and exporters are able to provide quality business services to their
customers,‖ it added.According to government figures, Cambodia exported about 64,000 tons of milled
rice to China in the first nine months of the year as part of its existing 100,000-ton annual export quota.
This is a small decline of 2.1 percent over the same period last year.
NOAA finds cows, rice farms driving methane rise, not fossil
fuels
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) pets a cow as he tours the dairy complex and
barns of Penn State University in University Park, Pa., on March 30, 2008. (Associated Press)
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Environmental Protection Agency may have overlooked the real culprits in its recent
crackdown on methane emissions from fossil fuels: rice farmers and cows.A newly released
study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration attributed the increase in
global atmospheric methane since 2007 to microbial sources, including rice paddies, livestock,
decaying vegetation in wetlands, even termites, not fossil fuels.That finding comes even though
scientists also concluded that methane emissions from oil, coal and natural gas are 20 to 60
percent higher than previously estimated.
―We recognize the findings might seem counterintuitive — methane emissions from fossil fuel
development have been dramatically underestimated — but they‘re not directly responsible for
the increase in total methane emissions observed since 2007,‖ said lead author Stefan Schwietzke
of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences [CIRES] at the University
of Colorado Boulder, working in NOAA‘s Earth System Research Laboratory.The report,
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the EPA‘s methane rule, released in May, which seeks to cut methane emissions from fossil-fuel
sources by 40 to 45 percent by 2025 from 2012 levels in order to combat climate change
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/noaa-cows-rice-farms-driving-methane-rise/
Traders bid for share to import 750,150 metric tons of rice
by Reuters
October 6, 2016
More than a hundred rice traders in the Philippines have applied for permits to import a total of
750,150 tons of the staple grain, mainly from Thailand and Vietnam, based on the latest list of
applicants from the state grains procurement agency.The figure is below the maximum volume
of 805,200 tons that private traders are allowed to bring in under an annual country-specific
quota scheme covered by a 2014 agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Traders can continue to apply for import permits, but all cargoes must be shipped in by Feb. 28
next year.Traders are seeking to import as much as 326,325 tons from Thailand and 280,375 tons
from Vietnam, the world‘s second-and third-largest rice suppliers, respectively, the National
Food Authority (NFA) list showed.The Philippines‘ rice import requirements are closely being
monitored by traders, particularly in Thailand and Vietnam, its main suppliers, where stocks are
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Under the NFA‘s import guidelines, traders can only ship in up to 293,100 tons each from
Thailand and Vietnam, which means some of the applications for Thai rice will be pared
back.Applicants are also seeking to import up to 143,450 tons or rice from Pakistan, nearly triple
the maximum volume of 50,000 tons allowed by the NFA.
Traders can also buy up to 50,000 tons each from China, top supplier India and Pakistan, up to
15,000 tons from Australia, up to 4,000 tons from El Salvador, and 50,000 tons from any other
country. But the NFA‘s list showed no applications yet to import from those countries.The
Philippines, one of the world‘s biggest rice buyers, has kept restrictions on the size of imports of
the grain in place since 1995, when it joined the WTO, to protect local farmers.
The 2014 deal with WTO, which expires next year, provides for minimum market access for rice
imports into the Southeast Asian nation by private traders, which are levied with a 35 percent
tariff.
http://www.mb.com.ph/traders-bid-for-share-to-import-750150-metric-tons-of-rice/#dtZC3PCQCUQaLSIZ.99
Violations in imports, pesticide given
Thursday,Oct 6, 2016 at 2:32 PM
"Having a safe and abundant food supply is something Americans expect, but can also take for
granted, so hats off to the FDA for testing these imports and rejecting this adulterated rice," USA
Rice President and CEO Betsy Ward said. "The good news for U.S. consumers is twofold. First,
this dangerous rice has been turned away, and second, U.S. rice farmers sustainably grow
jasmine rice right here."
By Michael Klein / USA Rice Federation
Viet Nam, one of the largest producers and exporters of rice in the world, and one that comes
under frequent suspicion of violating World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations, is under
new scrutiny for violating U.S. food safety regulations. Between January and August of this year,
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected 95 shipping containers of jasmine rice
and rice products from Viet Nam citing illegal pesticide residue in all but one of the cases.
"Having a safe and abundant food supply is something Americans expect, but can also take for
granted, so hats off to the FDA for testing these imports and rejecting this adulterated rice," USA
Rice President and CEO Betsy Ward said. "The good news for U.S. consumers is twofold. First,

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this dangerous rice has been turned away, and second, U.S. rice farmers sustainably grow
jasmine rice right here."
For the three marketing years from 2013-2015, rice imports from Viet Nam have averaged more
than 63,500 metric tons with annual value of more than $33 million. Rice imports from Viet
Nam for the 2016 marketing year, which concluded in July and include this most recent period of
rice shipment rejections, were just over 35,600 metric tons with a value of almost $21 million.
"We are, frankly, happy with the disruption," Ward said. "There is no need to import jasmine rice
from more than 11,000 miles away when we grow it in the United States. Especially if the
imported rice is not up to U.S. safety standards."
http://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/news/20161006/violations-in-imports-pesticide-given
USA Rice Networks at Food & Beverage Trade Show
By Sarah Moran
MIAMI, FL -- Last week, USA Rice participated in the 20th Annual Americas Food and
Beverage Show and Conference here - Florida's most important international food and beverage
show - that boasted 500 exhibitors and attracted 10,000 attendees and buyers from more than 63
countries. Buyers, suppliers, and industry experts came together at this high-energy event,
focusing on the commercial exchange between the Americas and the Caribbean.
Two renowned chefs from Colombia, Chef Bernardo Gómez and Chef Mauricio Londoñ, worked
the USA Rice booth. In addition, four chefs who were winners of the USA Rice sponsored
cooking competition, "Cocina Viva" held last July in Colombia, attended the trade show and
prepared recipes using U.S. rice.
"This event was an opportunity to promote U.S. rice to potential buyers and key decision-makers
from all over the world, particularly from Latin America and the Caribbean," said Ernesto Baron,
USA Rice's representative in Central America and the Andean. "Last year was the first time
USA Rice exhibited here and, based on discussions we had at this year's show, I think it was
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Sales results from the conference are expected to top last year's figures where deals were closed
for $179.2 million of current and projected sales, and 40 percent of exhibitors reached
agreements with companies and suppliers from Latin America and the Caribbean.
October Means Festivals and Fall Fun in the Arkansas Delta
The Arkansas Delta will host four family-friendly festivals during the
month of October.
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One of the world's most iconic blues events, the Kind Biscuit Blues Festival, takes place in
historic Helena-West Helena on October 5-8. The festival routinely draws visitors from around the
globe and spans five city blocks. Visitors can choose from six stages featuring more than 80 acts. In
addition, there's vendors, activities for the kids, great food and fun for the entire family. This year's
headliners include Sonny Landreth with special guest Roy Rogers, John Mayall and Charlie
Musselwrhite. For more information, log on towww.KingBiscuitFestival.com or call 870-572-5223.

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In Truman, it's the 34th Annual Wild Duck Festival on October 7-8. The community festival features
a carnival, midway vendors, a sanctioned barbecue contest, live music and more. For the youngsters,
there's a petting zoo, hayrides, and a scavenger hunt. The festival promises fun for the entire family.
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The 40th Annual Arkansas Rice Festival takes place on October 8 in Weiner. The
festival celebrates the harvest and the rich heritage of rice farming in Arkansas. This year's
activities include a mini-tractor pull, lawnmower races, carnival rides, games, car and tractor
shows, a rice cook-off, and the rice tasting lunch. To learn more, log on
towww.ArkansasRiceFestival.com.
In McGehee, it's the 10th Annal Owlfest on October 14-15. The weekend is filled withfun and
includes live music, crafts and food vendors, children's carnival and fireworks. Don't miss the
Razorback tailgate party! Saturday night wraps up with a concert by Arkansas's own Barrett
Baber. Visit www.McGeheeOwlfest.weebly.com or call 870-222-4451 to learn more.
Take some times this October to explore the Arkansas Delta!
This story provided by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. For more information, visit
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http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/october-means-festivals-and-fall-fun-in-the-arkansas-
delta/Content?oid=4605931
NARI takes u-turn in agricultural dispensation: Director
Jarju
Thursday, October 06, 2016
The Director General of the National Agricultural Research
Institute (NARI), who doubles as acting Director General of ITC,
Ansumana Jarjue, has disclosed that NARI had shifted to a new
paradigm dispensation in agricultural research, to focus on
delivering on a multi stakeholder‘s platform on technology
generation and partnership strengthening as part of its
mandate. Mr Jarju made this statement during the NARI multi-
sectoral field visit to their farm site in Banjulinding.The three-hour visit was organised by the
management of NARI and its board members and was attended by various multi-sectoral
stakeholders, including the Office of the President, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of
Environment, representative from NYSS, Department of Agriculture, among others.
The visit was meant for knowledge-sharing experiences, and delegates were taken to various trial
farms such as the NERICA farm, the Maize farm, the Findi among other farm
varieties.According to the NARI DG, the innovation platform food system approach looks at the
commodity value chain by employing inclusive multi-stakeholder‘s partnership approach to
dialogue problems and design solutions that convert knowledge into a socioeconomic outcome.
DG Jarjue further stated that the interaction of the factors - economic, social, political,
organizational and institutional - is influencing the development, diffusion, and use of
innovation.He said their context was to bring researchers into partnership with extension agents,
farmers, inputs dealers, policymakers, private sector members and end users to catalyze the
innovation process.
According to him, ―the inclusive arrangement expands the input base‖ for the design of
agricultural researcher development agenda, thereby promoting chances of adoption.Hence, the
approach shortens the lag phase between the development of technologies and their adoption
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Mr Jarjue further indicated that change in paradigm might move from the ineffective
conventional approach emphasizing a linear relationship between stakeholders, research-
extension farmer model into a knowledge-based multi-stakeholders agricultural system, such as
integrated agricultural research for development, as an innovation system.He said despite the
considerable progress made by the new management, ―there is still a great deal to be done‖.
―NARI has generated several technologies with high potentials, but the impacts of the
technologies on farmers‘ productivity, livelihood and quality of life have to be consolidated,‖ he
stated.He said among the key achievements of NARI, is the proposed releasing and adoption of
important varieties of major crops including rice, maize, millet and sorghum.These have proven
to be scientifically high yielding, early maturing, tolerance to biotic and biotic stresses pest,
disease, salinity, and iron toxicity, he added.
He said NARI, in collaboration with the Africa Rice Research Center, has developed ASI (Rice)
thresher to reduce the post-harvest loss and ensure the quality of rice paddy after threshing.Ten
local artisans have been trained to scale out the knowledge gained to young Gambian
entrepreneurs for self-development.
DG Jarjue also said that in its efforts to ensure food safety in the country, NARI conducted series
of tests on quality assurance for imported and exported agricultural products in the area of
aflatoxin and other chemical analyses such as free fatty acid, oil content, moisture content, and
soluble and insoluble impurities
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/nari-takes-u-turn-in-agricultural-dispensation-director-jarju
PH can be rice self-sufficient thru hybrid seeds, farm
mechanization
by MB Online
October 6, 2016
The country‘s rice industry faces a bright future, and in the next two to three years it could be
self-sufficient and ably compete with its Asian counterparts.
This is the sentiment of more than 3,000 farmers, private seed producers and government
officials who attended the 3rd national rice technology forum from September 27 to 29, 2016, in
Polangui, Albay.
The key is planting quality inbred and hybrid rice varieties, adopting the recommended package
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Bicol farmers at a contiguous, commercial-scale 20-hectare technology demonstration farm in
Barangay Balangibang, Polangi, Albay.
To date, it is the largest techno-demo area planted to various wet season hybrid and inbred rice
varieties, said Recher Ondap, president of the Rice Productivity Advocacy, Inc. (Rice Board).
The farmer-cooperators, led by farmer-technician Edgar Pesebre, are expected to harvest at least
eight metric tons per hectare (mt/ha), double than the country‘s national average yield of only 3.9
mt/ha, said Dr. Santiago Obien, former executive director of the Philippine Rice Research
Institute (PhiRice) and Rice Board member.The three-day event is a joint undertaking of the Rice
Board, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Bicol Region, DA national rice program, municipal
government of Polangui and provincial government of Albay.
The rice board member companies are Bayer, Dupont, Pioneer SL Agritech, Bioseed,
Seedworks, Syngenta, PhilRice, PhilSCAT, Prasad Seeds, US Agriseeds, and Longpin Seeds,
Inc., said Dr. Frisco Malabanan of SL Agritech and Rice Board member.
The 20-hectare techno-demo farm in Polangui is different from the previous ones, at the rice
seedlings were planted during the wet season, and Barangay Balangibang is a flood-prone, said
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hectare area was flooded during the booting stage, on August 20-23, 2016, and the inbred and
hybrid rice varieties recovered quickly,‖ Obien said.
―Also, the farmers themselves planted and took care of the rice plants, following the prescribed
technologies for each variety, with the guidance of respective private seed company and DA
experts. In spite of the harsh weather condition, the crop stand is good to excellent, an indication
of the resilience of the planted inbred and hybrid varieties,‖ he noted.
The first rice techno-forum was held in Digos City and Hagonoy, Davao del Sur on March 18 to
20, 2015, while the second was held in Barangay Dapitan, Pototan, Iloilo, on March 16 to 18,
2016, said Obien.For her part, DA Bicol region OIC-Director Elena de los Santos said ―while the
Bicol has achieved rice self-sufficiency at 115.75 per cent over the past four years, we cannot
afford to be complacent because we are faced with more challenges like climate change and
rapidly increasing population.‖
―The driving force of this private-public partnership is our shared vision to increase rice
production in our region through traditional as well as modern or science and technology-based
approaches with the active participation of our farmers,‖ De los Santos added.She said the 20-
hectare techno demo farm in Balangibang, Polagui, is the most effective way to show farmers
how to translate modern rice seeds and package of technology into tangible benefits.
For his part, Rice Board president Ondap said ―we must work together to help empower our
farmers to become more competitive. In June 2017, the biggest challenge for us would be the
lifting of the quantitative restrictions on rice, when imports from Thailand, Vietnam and other
countries would have zero tariff.‖―Let us prepare and soften the impact of this eventuality by
increasing rice production through hybrid rice technology,‖ he urged farmers
http://www.mb.com.ph/ph-can-be-rice-self-sufficient-thru-hybrid-seeds-farm-
mechanization/#20KfaLGyBJCq0tHA.99
Grim's Grub: Gain a new appreciation for wild rice
By Travis Grimler, Staff Writer on Oct 6, 2016 at 10:49 a.m.
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Giant clothes dryers.
That's the best description I can give for the awesome machines I recently saw when invited to
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They were four cylinders, turned on their sides, the size of shipping containers and each holding
over 1,000 pounds of wild rice tumbling endlessly. The machines were designed and built by
Stimson himself, and the tinkerer in me couldn't help but be envious of the talent they showed.
They have hardly a visible seam and they were obviously built with the exacting standards of a
professional. Stimson has welding and engineering experience.
The drums have little, precisely spaced ledges that the rice gets caught on as they spin. The
ledges pick up rice and carry it upward until gravity causes it to cascade down again in a grainy
waterfall. Underneath, gas fire burns and heats the rice to over 200 degrees.
Outside the smell of the water being evaporated out of the parched rice is slightly sweet/sour, a
smell familiar to anyone who works around grain. Inside, the smell is more dusty with a
delicious, toasted odor that grows the longer the grains are tumbling.
I couldn't help but think of the bread and other items someone could make with the wild rice
when I smelled that smell. I bet a brewer would think "beer."
The way the parchers turn out the rice is ingenious as well. When the cylinders are spinning one
way, the rice tumbles and tumbles over heat. When the spin is reversed, the aforementioned
ledges no longer pick up the grain, but instead drive the grain toward the opening on one end
where it dispenses it into wheeled carts. That's because the back of the ledges is shaped like a
spiraling thread.
I thought my idea to turn a restaurant fryer into a maple syrup evaporator was good. These
parchers are just brilliant. Though they may be the biggest machines, they aren't the only
machines Stimson invented and built himself.
Next in line is the thresher, which rubs the chaff off the rice with rubber-tipped spokes, followed
by the scarifier that removes some of the dark cell wall that keeps moisture out of most
commercial wild rice. Stimson created both of those machines.

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Then there are several other machines dedicated to removing the chaff and impurities before the
rice is finally bagged. Of probably nine different machines, only two are not of Stimson's own
design.
I would like, some day, to have my own small batch wild rice processing machinery. In the
meantime, I think I know whose rice I will be buying, just out of sheer respect. Unfortunately, I
already gave you my favorite wild rice soup recipe, so I will provide a couple of other delicious
treats. Dig in!
Wild Rice Waldorf Salad
Modified recipe courtesy of http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/wild-rice-waldorf
8 ounces grapes, cut in half
½ cup sour cream
½ cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoon lemon juice
2 cups cooked wild rice
2 medium green apples, diced
2 medium red apples, diced
1 celery rib, thinly sliced
½ cup chopped walnuts

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In a small bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, sugar and lemon juice. In a large bowl,
combine rice, apples, celery and grapes. Add the dressing and toss to coat. Refrigerate 2 hours
then stir in walnuts.
Spicy Wild Rice Hotdish
Modified recipe courtesy
of agoodappetite.blogspot.com/2009/03/wild-rice-hot-
dish.html
3 cups mushrooms, chopped fine
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons flour
½ teaspoon thyme leaves
Salt and peppercorns
¾ cup half and half
1 cup chicken broth
½ pound mild Italian sausage (or ground beef)
1 small onion, chopped
1 cup cooked wild rice
3 tablespoons soy sauce
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Sauté mushrooms, beef and onion in butter until onions are
softened, beef is browned and butter is melted. Stir in flour,
thyme and salt and pepper. Cook one minute while stirring. Stir
in chicken broth and bring to a simmer.
Mix in remaining ingredients in a medium casserole dish with a
cover. Bake 30 minutes
http://www.pineandlakes.com/lifestyles/recipes/4130620-
grims-grub-gain-new-appreciation-wild-rice

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