Rawalpindi administration raises price of naan,

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Aamir YasinPublished November 11, 2021 - Updated about 12 hours ago

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RAWALPINDI: The district administration on Wednesday

increased the rate of roti (flatbread) from Rs7 to Rs10 and naan
from Rs10 to Rs13.

In the open market, bakers are selling roti at Rs12 and naan for Rs15.

The new prices were mentioned in a notification issued by Deputy

Commissioner Mohammad Ali. The price of daal (lentil) channa was fixed at
Rs145 to Rs150 per kg, daal channa (small) Rs130 to Rs136 per kg, chickpeas
at Rs190 to Rs200 per kg, daal moong at Rs140 per kg, daal masoor at Rs170-
Rs180, daal mash at Rs220, daal mash (small) at Rs270 per kg, rice (super
basmati) at Rs135-Rs140 per kg and broken rice at Rs65-Rs70 per kg.

Furthermore, the price of milk was fixed at Rs110 to Rs130 per litre and curd
at Rs140 per kg. The price of mutton was fixed at Rs1,000 per kg and beef at
Rs500 per kg whereas wheat flour from private mills (chaki) at Rs58 per kg.

Both items being sold at higher rates in open market; prices of milk, curd,
lentils also increased

However, mutton in the market is available at Rs1,400 per kg and beef at

Rs650 per kg. “We cannot sell meat at a low price as the district
administration fixed the price without consulting main stakeholders,” said
Mohammad Malik, a butcher whose shop is located on Jamia Masjid Road.

He said the price of goat and cow meat had increased manifold, adding that
mutton and beef could not be sold at a price fixed by the administration.
When contacted, Rawalpindi Merchant Association President Saleem Pervaiz,
who is also member of District Price Committee, said the prices of edibles
were fixed by the committee according to the retail price.

He said prices of good quality food items were different in the market as the
committee had only fixed the prices of low quality food items. He added that
people have an option to buy low quality food on fixed prices and they can buy
better quality on market rates.

Meanwhile, according to a naanbai, the price of wheat flour increased in the

open market and it would be difficult to sell roti at old rates so it was increased
to Rs12 while the price of naan is still at Rs15.

Furthermore, the district administration launched an operation against the

price hike in Naseerabad and Satellite Town. The Special Price Control
Magistrate Abdul Qadoos Toor lodged a complaint with Naseerabad and New
Town Police Stations against bakers who were selling roti at Rs12 and naan at
Rs15.

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2021

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World shouldn’t ignore poor

economic situation in
Afghanistan: minister
ByMonitoring Report
The world should not leave Afghanistan alone in the current economic situation where people are
living in extreme poverty, a minister said.

Addressing a briefing Tuesday, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said
people in Afghanistan are undergoing very tough economic challenges.

“The primary reason for Afghanistan’s present situation is that the assets of the country have
been seized. Afghanistan was dependent on foreign aid and right now there is no aid,” the
minister said.

Talking about Pakistan’s efforts to support the people of Afghanistan in the hour of need, he said
that Pakistan will send rice and wheat to the neighboring country to help it handle the food crisis.

He said a special fund is also being set up by the Pakistani government to help Afghanistan
tackle the hunger issue.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that Acting Foreign Minister of
Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi will lead a high-level delegation to Pakistan from Wednesday
to Friday.
“The exchanges will center on Pakistan-Afghanistan relations with a particular focus inter alia on
enhanced trade, facilitation of transit trade, cross-border movement, land and aviation links,
people-to-people contacts, and regional connectivity,” the statement said.

In view of the prevalent situation, Pakistan has been urging the international community to
urgently provide humanitarian assistance and economic support to alleviate the sufferings of the
Afghan people, the foreign ministry said, adding Pakistan is extending humanitarian and
economic assistance to the people of Afghanistan.

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Standardization to boost Pakistan's export to China

Last Updated: 2021-11-11 10:59 | CE.cn
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Chengdu, Nov 11 (China Economic Net) - "When Pakistan exporters have a clearer standard of product
quality and production process to follow, it will be easier for them to get the export approval," said Zhuang
Yuanyuan, director of National South Asian Standardization Research Center in Chengdu China. They
are working on establishing standards for Pakistan products, which can facilitate them to export to China.
 
“We are setting some pilot demonstration sites in Pakistan. There are three areas that we now focus on,
namely agricultural products, anti-epidemic products and mechanical products. We aim to realize two
countries' mutual recognition of product quality with one test under one standard. If it works in the pilot
demonstration sites, we can promote the standards to a nationwide range, improve the products’ quality
and boost mutual trust in Pak-China trades.
 
Zhuang Yuanyuan told us that they have already started the demonstration sites of agricultural products.
“Our center is in Chengdu, China. Therefore, based on the demands and trade situations of Chengdu and
Pakistan, we have selected several products, such as chili and rice. 
 
“Take the chili project as an example. We are cooperating with a food enterprise in Chengdu, China, who
has a pilot Chilli farm project cooperating with Pakistani farmers with a yield of around 3 times Pakistani
varieties. The company can provide chili seeds and planting techniques, and they have already done
some training for the local staff, while the project is certainly far from becoming a national standard. So
we got involved and helped them set quality standards of chili products as well as the standards of
production process and management.” Zhuang Yuanyuan added.
“For the rice project, we are cooperating with the Chengdu Institute of Biology of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences. We plan to set a demonstration site of rice breeding, cultivation, and planting in Pakistan. We
have started contacting related companies and organizations.” Zhuang Yuanyuan also mentioned the
related seminars that the center is about to hold, which have drawn much attention and interest.” 
 
In July, the center held a seminar named Training on China Market Access Requirements of Food, and
around 20 Pakistani companies participated. “The courses were delivered in English by experts from
customs and food safety departments.”She said. 
 
The center is also expecting cooperation with Pakistan companies specializing in electromechanical
products or epidemic prevention products. 
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England's Rice Out Of World
Cup Qualifiers With Illness
 Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88)  14 hours ago  Thu 11th November 2021 | 12:00 AM

London, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Nov, 2021 ) :West Ham midfielder
Declan Rice has withdrawn from the England squad for their crucial World Cup
qualifiers due to an illness.
Rice will miss England's matches against Albania and San Marino as they look to seal
qualification for next year's World Cup in Qatar.
"Declan Rice has withdrawn from the England squad. Having been unable to train due
to illness since reporting to St. George's Park, the midfielder has returned to West
Ham United and will play no part in the forthcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers,"
an FA statement said.
"No additions to the squad are planned at this moment in time. Mason Mount and
Luke Shaw are still yet to link up with the group and continue to be assessed
following dental surgery and concussion respectively.

" England boss Gareth Southgate had already been hit by the withdrawals
of Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford and Southampton midfielder James
Ward-Prowse due to fitness issues.
Arsenal midfielder Emile Smith Rowe was added to the squad for his first senior call-
up after Rashford and Ward-Prowse bowed out.
The Euro 2020 runners-up sit top of Group I and need four points from their last two
qualifiers to be certain of reaching the World Cup.
They host Albania at Wembley on Friday before travelling to face San Marino on
Monday.
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/miscellaneous/englands-rice-out-of-world-cup-qualifiers-wi-1397984.html

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Asia’s languages developed and spread alongside rice,

millet agriculture
This would make them much older than previously assumed.
byAlexandru Micu

November 10, 2021

New research is peering into the shared past of the Transeurasic (or ‘Altaic’) family of
languages. According to the findings, the hundreds of millions of people who speak
one such language today can trace their shared legacy back to a single group of millet
farmers that lived 9,000 years ago in what today is northeast China.
 Integration of linguistic, agricultural, and genetic expansions in Northeast Asia.
Red arrows show the eastward migrations of
millet farmers in the Neolithic, alongside Koreanic and Tungusic languages. Green
arrows mark the integration of rice
agriculture in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age, alongside the Japonic language.
Image credits Martine Robbeets at al, (2021), Nature.
This family of languages includes peoples and countries all across Eurasia, with
notable members including Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. As
such, it is definitely a very populous language family. Exactly how Transeurasic
languages came to be, however, is still a matter of heated debate. This history is rife
with expansions, population dispersals, and linguistic dispersals, making it
exceedingly difficult to trace back and determine its origin.

New research, however, aims to shed light on this topic. The study combined three
disciplines — historical linguistics, ancient DNA research, and archaeology — to
determine where Transeurasic languages first originated. According to the findings, its
roots formed around 9,000 years ago in modern China and then spread alongside the
development and adoption of agriculture throughout Eurasia.

Hard to pinpoint
“We developed a method of ‘triangulation’, bringing linguistics,
archaeology, and genetics together in equal proportions in a single
approach,” Prof. Dr. habil Martine Robbeets, the corresponding
author of the paper, said for ZME Science. “Taken by itself,
linguistics alone will not conclusively resolve the big issues in the
science of human history but taken together with genetics and
archaeology it can increase the credibility and validity of certain
scenarios.”

“Aligning the evidence offered by the three disciplines, we gained a

more balanced and richer understanding of Transeurasian
prehistory than each of the three disciplines could provide us with
individually.”
The origin of Transeurasian languages can be traced back to a group of millet farmers
— the “Amur ” people — in the Liao valley, according to the team’s findings.
These languages spread throughout Eurasia in two major phases. The first one took
place during the Early–Middle Neolithic (Stone Age), when sub-groups of the Amur
spread throughout the areas around the West Liao River. During this time, the five
major branches of the Transeurasian linguistic family started to develop among the
different groups, as the distance between them allowed for the creation of dialects.

The second phase involved contact between these five daughter branches during the
Late Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This phase was characterized by these
intergroup interactions as well as genetic inflows (and possible linguistic imports
from) populations in the Yellow River area, western Eurasian peoples, and Jomon
populations. Agriculturally speaking, this period also saw the adoption of rice farming
(from the Yellow River area), the farming of crops native to west Eurasia, and
pastoralism.

Although the spread of Transeurasian languages was largely driven by the expansion
of a single ethnic group, it was not limited to a single one. Several peoples mixed
together with the descendants of those millet farmers from the Liao River over time to
create the rich tapestry of language, customs, and heritages seen in Eurasia today.

“Our [results] show that prehistoric hunter-gatherers from

Northeast Asia as well as Neolithic farmers from the West Liao and
Amur all project within the cluster of present-day Tungusic
speakers. We call this shared genetic profile Amur-like ancestry,”
explains Dr. Robbeets for ZME Science. “Turkic and Mongolic
speakers and their ancestors preserve some of this Amur ancestry
but with increasing gene flow from western Eurasia from the
Bronze Age onwards.”

“As Amur-related ancestry can also be traced back to speakers of

Japanese and Korean, it appears to be the original genetic
component common to all speakers of Transeurasian languages.
So the languages spread with a certain ethnic group, but this
ethnic group got admixed with other ethnic groups as it spread
across North and East Asia.”
Although we can trace these interactions in the genomes of individuals from across
Eurasia, there are still a lot of unknowns. For example, we can’t estimate the degree or
direction of linguistic and cultural exchanges between different groups. We can tell
that there was an increasing degree of Yellow River genetic legacy woven into the
peoples of the West Liao River, but there is no record after which we can gauge
whether there was an exchange of words or cultural practices between these groups.
Similarly, we can’t estimate the magnitude of the influence this exchange had on the
two groups.

Still, one of the topics that Dr. Robbeets wants to underline with these findings is that,
in order to truly understand the history of languages in Northeast Asia, a different
approach is needed compared to what is being performed today.

“Archaeology and linguistics in Northeast Asia have tended to be

conducted within the framework of modern nation-states,” she
explained in an email for ZME Science. “Accepting that the roots of
one’s language, culture, or people lie beyond the present national
boundaries is a kind of surrender of identity, which some people
are not yet prepared to make. Powerful nations such as Japan,
Korea, and China are often pictured as representing one language,
one culture, and one genetic profile but a truth that makes people
with nationalist agendas uncomfortable is that all languages,
cultures, and humans, including those in Asia, are mixed.”

“Our results show that a much more flexible and international

framework is needed.”
Another more direct implication of these findings is that it implies that sedentarism
and agriculture took root in the area much earlier than assumed up to now. Previously,
the emergence of the Transeurasian family of languages was believed to have
coincided with the adoption of livestock herding in Asia’s Eastern Steppes. Tying it to
agricultural practices in the Liao River area, however, pushes the timeline of its
emergence back roughly 4,000 years.

The paper “Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian

languages” has been published in the journal Nature.

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E3 ubiquitin ligase plays essential role during

rice meiosis
by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sup
er-resolution structured illumination microscopy analysis of SC assembly. Credit: IGDB

Synaptonemal complex (SC) assembly between paired homologous chromosomes plays a vital
role in ensuring correct homologous recombination during meiosis. However, the mechanisms
underlying the genetic regulation of SC assembly remain unclear.
In a study published in Cell Reports, a research group led by Prof. Cheng Zhukuan from the
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified
a novel RING finger E3 ubiquitin ligase encoding gene DESYNAPSIS1 (DSNP1) participating
in synapsis and homologous recombination using a map-based cloning strategy.

In the dsnp1 mutant, aberrant SC-like polycomplexes with ZEP1 as skeleton resembling those in
wild-type late leptotene meiocytes formed independent of homologous chromosomes at prophase
I. And MG132 treated wild-type meiocytes showed aggregation of ZEP1 proteins similar to that
observed in dsnp1, suggesting a significant role of DSNPI-mediated proteasome pathway in
degrading aberrant SC-like polycomplexes.

Moreover, recombination factors including HEI10, MER3, and ZIP43 were trapped in ZEP1

polycomplexes, leading to the decreased foci of these recombination factors on
meiotic chromosomes and a dramatic reduction in the number of crossovers (COs) in dsnp1.

Interestingly, the introduction of ZEP1 mutation in dsnp1 background could restore the
localization of ZMM proteins on meiotic chromosomes and the formation of COs to a great
extent.
An E3 ubiquitin ligase DSNP1 plays an essential role during rice meiosis. Credit: IGDB

These findings indicate that the stabilization of canonical tripartite SC structure along paired
homologous chromosomes and further formation of COs are regulated by the component of the
Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, DSNP1. This study provides new insights into the accurate
guarantee mechanisms of meiotic process.

Explore further

Regulation of the MLH1-MLH3 endonuclease in meiosis

More information: Lijun Ren et al, The E3 ubiquitin ligase DESYNAPSIS1 regulates synapsis and
recombination in rice meiosis, Cell Reports (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109941
Journal information: Cell Reports 

Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences 

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Rice: The little world traveller

November 10, 2021
© Oksix

Sarah Moran, Vice President, International from USA Rice,

walks us through what we need to know about rice, the little
world traveller

As the United States just finished harvesting the rice crop in August 2021, millers and exporters
are looking to other countries to purchase about half of the production. While much of the rice
grown in the U.S. is consumed in local favourite dishes such as jambalaya (1) in Louisiana,
broiled catfish (2) in Arkansas, Tex-Mex (3) dishes in Texas or sushi (4) in California, more than
130 countries purchase 3.5 million metric tonnes of U.S. rice each year.
“In 2020, China imported twice as much rice as the second-largest rice importer, the Philippines.
Given the immense opportunities there, the U.S. has spent considerable efforts to enter the
market and then introduce importers and consumers to U.S. rice.”

Rice in the United States

The U.S. is geographically suited to be able to grow all types of rice, including long-grain
(indica) rice, short- or medium-grain (japonica), fragrant varieties such as jasmine or basmati,
white, brown, parboiled, and organic varieties. Wild rice is also grown in the U.S. and is one of
the only grains native to North America. Wild rice, however, is not truly a rice plant – it is a
semi- aquatic grass, but since it looks and cooks similar to rice, it is often mixed with rice and
served in similar formats. (5) All these rice types and more are grown and exported each year.
Rice production is the third-largest among cereals in the U.S.

Given that half of the crop is destined for overseas markets, the rice industry is finely attuned to
the needs and requirements of these customers. In fact, many shipments are grown specifically
for the needs of consumers abroad. Japan, a country where they eat rice daily and is typically the
third-largest export market for U.S. rice, largely imports medium-grain rice from the United
States, which can be found in Costco supermarkets throughout the country. Some Japanese
customers prefer short-grain varieties called Koshihikari (which has a rich taste and is very
sticky) and Akitakomachi (chewy texture, less sticky than Koshihikari and often used for rice
balls). Farmers in California will devote an agreed number of acres to grow those specific
varieties and fill those needs. Similarly, there are customers in Nicaragua who prefer certain
types of long grain rice and will sign contracts with farmers in Arkansas or Louisiana to grow
quality- specific varieties.

The search for new markets

While many loyal customers purchase U.S. rice each year, USA Rice continues to look for new
markets or market segments to increase sales opportunities. A country that offers immense
potential because it is the largest rice producer, largest rice consuming country, and the largest
rice importing country in the world…is China. It consumes the equivalent of the entire U.S. rice
crop every 13 days. (6) In 2020, China imported twice as much rice as the second-largest rice
importer, the Philippines. Given the immense opportunities there, the U.S. has spent considerable
efforts to enter the market and then introduce importers and consumers to U.S. rice. Based on
several consumer studies USA Rice has conducted in the country, many Chinese consumers
value U.S. rice for its strong food safety standards and high-quality characteristics. There have
been some shipments of U.S. rice to China, and additional shipments are expected as awareness
of U.S. rice increases, and broader U.S.-China relations improve.

U.S. shipments to Taiwan and Hong Kong, both located near China, but with fewer restrictive
importing regulations, have remained strong for many years. Taiwan is typically a top 15 export
market for U.S. rice, bringing in 64,000 metric tonnes of medium grain rice from Arkansas and
California annually. Hong Kong is a much smaller market, but services a vibrant expat
community and foodservice sector with nearly 8,000 metric tonnes of U.S. rice each year. Using
specific, targeted activities to increase rice consumption, USA Rice has worked with food
processing companies in Taiwan to develop traditional Chinese cakes made from U.S. rice and
targeted hotel chefs in Hong Kong to include U.S. rice in their hotel’s menu.

As American farmers begin preparing their land for the upcoming planting season starting in
March, U.S. rice will continue to be exported around the world, travelling to a plate near you.

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Organic pesticides ptotect paddy crops from hopper
infestation
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 10 2021: Organic pesticides can protect paddy crops from plant hopper, locally known as
Wahik, infestation, which dries up the paddy plant, resulting in crop failure.

As part of its organic rice production campaign, Green Foundation Manipur along with agricultural scientists
took up Hopper Management Programme in Rice.

Under the programme, the Foundation and its team of scientists saved several farms in Kumbi area from plant
hopper infestation after it got report of the infestation in September this year.

Khangembam Gojendro, a farmer from Kumbi Laishang Leikai, Ward No 7, told a media team during an
inspection visit by Green Foundation on Tuesday that his farmland in Saitonmang Loukol was infested by
hopper in September.

He tried using chemical pesticides but without any result and his crops were on the verge of failure.

He then consulted national awardee Khangembam Samusaba of Kumbi, who then contacted Green
Foundation.

As per advice of the scientists of the Foundation, he applied Neemand Herbal extract Orum along with Agrovita
and Pseudomonas Fluorescens, which cured the plant hopper infestation, he said.

Stating that he has decided to opt for organic farming from now on, Gojendro called upon fellow farmers to
adopt organic farming and contribute in producing healthy foods.

Khumanthem Surchand, another farmer from Kumbi Awang Leikai, said that he also used organic pesticides to
treat plant hopper infestation in his farm located in Salang Langjin area.

He is now confident that he will have a good harvest.

Green Foundation's chief executive officer Uritkhinbam Himmat said that scientists have been researching on
organic ways of pest control in order to promote organic farming among the farmers.

In 2020, organic pesticides successfully controlled mass scale plant hopper infestation in Sabungkhok area in
Imphal East district.

This year too, the scientist team visited Kumbi on getting report of plant hopper infestation and they advised the
farmers to use the organic pesticides.

As per findings of the Foundation, there are four types of plant hoppers prevalent in the state.

Considering the destruction it causes to crops, the Foundation took up the specialised.Hopper Management
Programme in Rice, he added.

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APEDA organises 75 awareness and

training programmes on growing high-
quality Basmati rice
BEDF is also involved as technical partner for different FPOs, exporter
associations, etc in Basmati rice growing states.

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For boosting exports of quality production of aromatic and long

grain Basmati rice, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority (APEDA)' arm Basmati Export Development
Foundation (BEDF) has taken innovative steps to sensitize farmers
involved in the cultivation of Basmati rice in the key growing regions
about the adoption of good agricultural practices.

As part of the initiatives, BEDF in collaboration with the rice exporters

associations of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal
Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Delhi, state agriculture universities and
state agriculture departments, organised 75 awareness and training
programmes to encourage farmers for growing high-quality Basmati rice
in the seven states. BEDF is also involved as a technical partner for
different FPOs, exporter associations, etc in Basmati rice-growing states.

The BEDF launched awareness-cum-training workshop on July 16,

2021, from Jahangirpur village, Gautam Budh Nagar district in Uttar
Pradesh as a part of the 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav', which is an
initiative of the Government of India to celebrate and commemorate 75
years of India's Independence. The awareness campaigns were organised
for farmers focussing on the themes of 'judicious use of pesticides and
adoption of good agricultural practices'.

Another objective of the awareness drives was to train the farmers for
seed production to resolve the issues of non-availability of seeds of
better quality.

At the workshop, farmers were trained about different methods to

identify insect pests and diseases of basmati rice and their management.
The issues like problems in basmati export and expectations of the rice
industry were also brought to the notice of growers and exporters during
the awareness drive during the entire basmati growing season of 2021.

APEDA is given the Geographical Indication (GI) tag as the sole

custodian of basmati rice grown in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Under the
GI certification issued in February 2016, 77 districts of seven states-
Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Jammu
and Kashmir are referred to as basmati rice-growing regions.

During the awareness drive by BEDF, scientists explained to farmers

and exporters about the pesticide residue problem in the export of
basmati rice and transfer of production technology including nursery
raising, integrated nutrient and water management in local languages.

A huge number of farmers, exporters, FPOs, etc turned out to learn

about the judicious use of pesticides and adoption of good agricultural
practices at the workshops that were organised at 75 different locations
in seven states.
In Punjab, 25 awareness and training programmes were organised,
followed by 21 in Uttar Pradesh, 17 in Haryana, 05 in Uttarakhand, 03 in
Jammu & Kashmir and 02 each in Himachal Pradesh and Delhi.

Through the awareness creation programme, farmers were informed

that Basmati rice cultivation is an Indian tradition and it is a collective
responsibility to maintain this tradition as there is a huge demand
for Basmati rice in the global market. The farmers have been requested
to get themselves registered on basmati.net through the State Agriculture
Department.

APEDA through BEDF has been assisting the state governments in the

promotion of basmati rice cultivation.

APEDA has also suggested the usage of certified seeds to maintain the
quality of the products by farmers along with scientific use of chemical
fertilizer for ensuring quality production of basmati rice which would
further give a boost to Basmati rice exports from the country.

India exported 4.63 million tons of Basmati rice valued at Rs 29,849

crore ($ US 4019 million) in 2020-21. The key destinations for India's
basmati rice include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen Republic, United
Arab Emirates and European Union countries.

APEDA has been promoting rice exports through collaborations with

various stakeholders in the value chains. The government had set up the
Rice Export Promotion Forum (REPF), under the aegis of the APEDA.
REPF has representatives from the rice industry, exporters, officials
from APEDA, ministry of commerce and directors of agriculture from
major rice-producing states, including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh,
Punjab, Haryana, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh and
Odisha.

(With Inputs from PIB)

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Scientists use genomic sequencing

to pinpoint cause of rare diseases
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Hundreds of seriously ill patients in the UK suffering from undiagnosed conditions have a root genetic
cause identified by a groundbreaking project. Scientists believe it will reduce the cost of the NHS in
treating rare diseases and improving patient care.
The first scientific results from the 100,000 Genome Project, a £ 300 million five-year initiative funded
primarily by the British Government, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on
Wednesday.
Whole-genome sequencing (reading all 3 billion biochemical characters in each individual’s genetic code)
was able to diagnose the root cause of rare diseases in 535 patients in 2,183 families who participated in
the early stages of the project. rice field.
Scientists said three-fifths of patients would have missed a diagnosis with more conventional tests,
including less advanced forms of genomic testing.
The UK is a world leader in genomic sequencing, and researchers say it could unleash new treatments for
3 million UK people suffering from rare diseases, leading to significant cost savings for NHS. rice field. The
pilot study analyzed the genes of more than 4,600 patients and their families in total.
The study found that those diagnosed from this study could benefit from “more focused clinical care,”
including further family screening, dietary changes, and other treatments.
Mark Caulfield, a former chief scientist at Genomics England, who launched the project in 2013, said the
earlier, more accurate diagnosis made possible by whole-genome sequencing would speed up the path to
patient treatment.
He added that this would save money on medical services by reducing the need for regular
hospitalization.
“This is part of repetitive and ongoing care, and these people are constantly in and out of the system, so
they use a lot of resources,” says Caulfield. “If you can focus it on getting diagnostics and that’s what you
expect from this program, you can use less resources to monitor them and in some cases move them.
What.”
Patients in this study visited more than 180,000 hospitals with a total cost of about £ 87 million to the
NHS.
Damian Smedley, a professor of computational genomics at Queen Mary University of London, one of the
principal investigators, said most of the diagnoses were “not detected by existing approaches.”
The use of whole-genome sequences helped solve the “needle in the haystack” challenge of finding the
cause of rare disorders, Smedley said. He called on healthcare systems around the world to adopt whole-
genome sequencing.
In certain disease categories, such as rare hearing loss, eye damage, and intellectual disability, genetic
testing has successfully diagnosed more than 40% of patients.
Dr. Richard Scott, Chief Medical Officer at Genomics England, said that previous diagnoses often included
“multiple different targeted tests-an approach that could delay access to diagnosis and more coordinated
care.” Showed how the outcomes of patients with rare diseases could be improved. .. “
Since its inception, the project has analyzed 100,000 genomes from people affected by rare diseases and
various cancers and their close relatives, but has not yet analyzed all the results. After the project was
completed in 2018, the NHS adopted this technology as part of its genomic medicine service and
promised to use them to sequence at least 300,000 genomes by 2025.
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E3 ubiquitin ligase plays essential role

during rice meiosis
by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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per-resolution structured illumination microscopy analysis of SC assembly. Credit: IGDB

Synaptonemal complex (SC) assembly between paired homologous chromosomes

plays a vital role in ensuring correct homologous recombination during meiosis.
However, the mechanisms underlying the genetic regulation of SC assembly remain
unclear.

In a study published in Cell Reports, a research group led by Prof. Cheng Zhukuan from
the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences identified a novel RING finger E3 ubiquitin ligase encoding gene
DESYNAPSIS1 (DSNP1) participating in synapsis and homologous
recombination using a map-based cloning strategy.

In the dsnp1 mutant, aberrant SC-like polycomplexes with ZEP1 as skeleton resembling
those in wild-type late leptotene meiocytes formed independent of homologous
chromosomes at prophase I. And MG132 treated wild-type meiocytes showed
aggregation of ZEP1 proteins similar to that observed in dsnp1, suggesting a significant
role of DSNPI-mediated proteasome pathway in degrading aberrant SC-like
polycomplexes.

Moreover, recombination factors including HEI10, MER3, and ZIP43 were trapped in

ZEP1 polycomplexes, leading to the decreased foci of these recombination factors on
meiotic chromosomes and a dramatic reduction in the number of crossovers (COs) in
dsnp1.

Interestingly, the introduction of ZEP1 mutation in dsnp1 background could restore the
localization of ZMM proteins on meiotic chromosomes and the formation of COs to a
great extent.
An E3 ubiquitin ligase DSNP1 plays an essential role during rice meiosis. Credit: IGDB

These findings indicate that the stabilization of canonical tripartite SC structure along
paired homologous chromosomes and further formation of COs are regulated by the
component of the Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, DSNP1. This study provides new
insights into the accurate guarantee mechanisms of meiotic process.

Explore further

Regulation of the MLH1-MLH3 endonuclease in meiosis

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Researchers use hard candies in
their research
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Call all candy lovers!

Researchers at Ohio State University are looking for volunteers to support “sweet” new research.
Researchers are looking for about 3,000 participants who sniff and consume hard candy daily for
90 days to screen for COVID-19 symptoms.
Participants log in to the app and report on the flavor and strength of the taste. If the person
reports a decline in either sense, they will receive a message that they should be quarantined and
undergo a COVID-19 test.
According to a news release from The Ohio State University, the study was designed to help
detect potentially positive cases in otherwise asymptomatic people.
Christopher Simons, co-leader of the project and associate professor of food science and
technology, said people over the age of eight could participate. Other qualifications include a
positive COVID diagnosis in the last 3 months, no loss of smell unrelated to COVID-19, and the
need for internet and smartphone access.
“Candies are a really great vehicle because they are cheap to make,” Simons said.
“It’s easy to ship and it serves to monitor someone’s smell and taste.”
Simmons said he and two others on his team have recruited about 500 Ohio State University
students, staff, and faculty members and are currently publishing the survey to the community.
Relationship between candy and COVID-19
In January, a research team at The Ohio State University received a $ 305,000 grant from the
National Institutes of Health to develop a simple strategy to help identify people who may be
infected with the virus. rice field.
The team also includes taste biologist Susan Traverse and a professor of biological science at the
Faculty of Dentistry. Kai Jao is an associate professor of otolaryngology at the Faculty of
Medicine and specializes in the sense of smell or smell.
According to Simmons, the three researchers conducted the first part of the study in April,
including candies, olfactory scratch and sniff cards, and a one-time assessment of drugs, with or
without COVID. Participants were tested using the method of. Quinine for taste.
Candy activates both intranasal (from the nose) and posterior nasal passages (from the back of
the throat), allowing people to know what they are tasting. These two pathways give a more
subtle sense of what people are actually consuming than the taste buds of someone’s tongue.
Butterfields, a North Carolina-based hard candy maker, has produced eight types of hard candy
that have been in business since 1924. According to Simons, the candy part has no color, so it
looks the same.
He didn’t want to say which flavors were part of his research, but what he would taste if he
bought a bag of Pennsylvania-based Hershey, a multi-flavored Jolly Launcher made from
multinational chocolates and candies. The company that said it was similar.
According to Simmons, participants not only identify flavors and assess their strength, but also
assess the sweetness and sourness of their candy with the mobile app MyCap.
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SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE JUST

UNCOVERED THE ORIGIN OF AN
ANCIENT LANGUAGE
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store is part of a historic and mysterious legacy: the creation of language.

The kind of languages we speak — from Arabic to Mandarin and English — feel like
immovable constants in our lives, but in reality, these languages are shifting and
transforming at every moment.

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While the spread of slang through apps like TikTok or WeChat may seem like a
modern phenomenon, new research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday
uses genetic, archaeological, and linguistic data to demonstrate that this
transformation can be traced back much further — all the way to 2000 B.C.E.

The Transeurasian language family the researchers focused on has connections to

modern-day Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic.

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By tracking the transformation of ancient Transeurasian language, this research can

help scientists not only better understand how language changes, but how its speakers
change along with it.
Martine Robbeets is a linguist from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of
Human History and the first author of the new paper. She explains that the
significance of this study is that it shows how powerful linguistics can be when used
in collaboration with other disciplines including genetics and archaeology.

“I think that the novelty of the research is not so much in applying one single method,
but in bringing different methods and different disciplines together,” Robbeets
tells Inverse. “[These questions] cannot be answered with linguistics alone.”

WHAT’S NEW — The spread of Transeurasian languages — jointly known as

“Altaic” — and their linguistic ties to one another has been a topic of hot debate
among linguists who study prehistoric languages for years. Primarily, Robbeets
explains, the debate can be boiled down to whether or not these languages under the
Altaic umbrella are similar because they share a common, ancient ancestor or simply
because these cultures interacted and borrowed words from one another.

Based on this latest work as well as 20-years of research on the topic, Robbeets says
it’s likely a bit of both.

Prior to this latest research, linguists studying the spread of these historic
Transeurasian languages had believed in something called the “pastoralist
hypothesis,” Robbeets and colleagues explain their paper.

Researchers used to believe that the Transeurasian languages spread through the
riding of horses across the steppe, but that’s only part of the picture a new study
finds.Anastasiia Shavshyna/E+/Getty Images

Essentially, this hypothesis proposes that Transeurasian languages spread from west
to east via horses and the movement of nomadic peoples across the region. However,
together with information collected in this new study, Robbeets and colleagues
suggest that this view of history doesn’t quite at up.

This discrepancy comes in part because the migration of these ancient peoples began
long before the tradition of horse riding, Robbeets explains.

Instead, Robbeets and colleagues suggest that the language dispersed through the
spread of agriculture and farmings some 9,000 years ago — long before
nomads began riding horses.

“Before 3,200 years ago, there was no horse pastoralism whatsoever,” she says.
WHY IT MATTERS — There are no clear-cut answers in this field of work,
Robbeets says. For every answer researchers find, twice as many new questions
appear in their place — but that’s all part of the fun of it.

One of the biggest takeaways from their work, says Robbeets, is the idea that
Transeurasian languages can be represented as a genealogical group with a common
ancestor. This classification will help future researchers better search for this lost
ancestor and discover how their lives have led to the explosion of language and
diversity we know today.

WHAT THEY DID — To come to this conclusion, Robbeets and colleagues first had
to collect and analyze a lot of data, including:

 254 basic vocabulary concepts for 98 Transeurasian languages

 172 archaeological features for 255 Neolithic and Bronze Age sites, including
ancient grains
 23 authenticated ancient individuals genomic data

The researchers then compared their findings to discover overlapping similarities that
pointed toward shared experiences of these ancient peoples. Through this work, the
team found that Amur ancestry (i.e. ancient people who lived by the Amur River in
northeastern China) had connections to a shared core language (including similar
words for things like ‘tea’) and archaeological artifacts of cultivated millet.

Based on this overlap, Robbeets says the ancestral home of the Transeurasian
languages can be traced back to millet farmers in the Liao valley of northeast China.

Transeurasian languages spread through the development of agriculture, such as rice

farming, researchers find.Kiatanan Sugsompian/Moment/Getty Images

“It turns out that exactly where our linguistic data suggested the root in the west Liao
river region is exactly the place of millet domestication, exactly 30,00 years ago,”
Robbeets says. “So there the linguistics and the archaeology kind of map very nicely
onto each other.”

After this, the researchers say the language spread through Eurasia and transformed
through the spread of agriculture, such as rice farming.

WHAT’S NEXT — One of the next big challenges for this research will be to learn
more about who these Amur people were and what their lives were like, Robbeets
says.
But for her part, she’s also interested in taking a break from searching for similarities
to instead learn more about how these more modern languages are different and where
they might’ve broken apart from a single, mother tongue.

Abstract: The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—

that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most
disputed issues of Eurasian population history. A key problem is the relationship
between linguistic dispersals, agricultural expansions and population movements.
Here we address this question by ‘triangulating’ genetics, archaeology and linguistics
in a unified perspective. We report wide-ranging datasets from these disciplines,
including a comprehensive Transeurasian agropastoral and basic vocabulary; an
archaeological database of 255 Neolithic–Bronze Age sites from Northeast Asia; and
a collection of ancient genomes from Korea, the Ryukyu islands and early cereal
farmers in Japan, complementing previously published genomes from East Asia.
Challenging the traditional ‘pastoralist hypothesis’, we show that the common
ancestry and primary dispersals of Transeurasian languages can be traced back to the
first farmers moving across Northeast Asia from the Early Neolithic onwards, but that
this shared heritage has been masked by extensive cultural interaction since the
Bronze Age. As well as marking considerable progress in the three individual
disciplines, by combining their converging evidence we show that the early spread of
Transeurasian speakers was driven by agriculture.
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Promote production of ricebran oil, fortified

rice: Centre to Telangana
KV Kurmanath  Hyderabad | Updated on November 10, 2021

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The Union government has asked Telangana to promote establishment of
ricebran oil industry to tide over the crisis, as the recent controversy over
parboiled rice procurement is set to trigger a political storm in the State.

The Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Food has asked the State to
develop capacities for manufacture of fortified rice kernels (FRK), besides
setting up facilities to blend the FRKs with the regular rice.

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“The State government must facilitate availability of fortified rice to cater to

the requirements of the State and the Food Corporation of India (FCI),” the
Ministry said. As it allowed a one-time purchase of parboiled rice from last
year’s output, the Ministry insisted that the State give it in writing that it
wouldn’t offer to sell the parboiled rice to the FCI again. “If they go for
fortification, it will ease up the situation and facilitate procurement,” a FCI
executive said.

Rice millers, however, said that creating capacities for making fortified rice
wouldn’t happen overnight and that it would require additional investments
and skill sets to do that. With the FCI refusing to procure rabi paddy from the
State, farmers and Opposition parties are asking the State government to buy
the produce.
Cautioning the farmers not to grow paddy in the rabi season as there won’t be
any takers, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao demanded the
CentreUnion Government to purchase the produce.
Solutions
The Federation of South India Rice Millers’ Associations wants both
governments to allow farmers to send the produce directly to the mills to help
them save on costs and time.

“The government can continue the procurement process through the regular
channels of Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies and self-help groups. If
they allow us to directly take the paddy from farmers, it will encourage
competition,” Thudi Devender Reddy, President of the Federation, said, He
also wanted the government to implement the direct benefit system in the
public distribution system and deposit money directly to the accounts of the
beneficiaries. “If it is done, it will ensure a better demand-supply situation in
the market,” he said.

The Federation also wanted the government to encourage export of rice to

tide over the crisis. “There is a mismatch in the procurement price and export
price. While the cost of procurement has gone up by ₹400 a quintal in the last
seven years, the export price has come down by ₹200 to about ₹2,400,”
Satyanarayana, a rice miller said.

“The Government should offset this difference to encourage the millers to

export rice. Instead of storing the produce for years in the godowns and then
selling it at a loss, the government should look at exporting rice,” another miller
said.

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The Federation of South India Rice Millers’ Associations has urged the State
and Central governments to come up with an amicable resolution to the
stalemate over procurement of paddy in Telangana.
 The Federation lamented that farmers and millers are being thrown into
problems as the Central and State governments have not convened a meeting
to discuss the issue of procurement of boiled rice and raw rice. The State
government on its part did not make arrangements for procurement of paddy
in spite of assuring farmers that it is committed to purchase the entire produce
from them.

Federation president T. Devender Reddy said that the government’s ‘inaction’

into the issue was throwing farmers into a crisis. While there were problems
relating to availability of gunny bags, hamalis, transportation of the produce
and other logistics, millers were facing problems as the government did not
expedite procurement of paddy.

He wanted the Centre and State not to delay procurement of paddy as it could
lead to severe hardship to farmers. Recalling that the Centre declined to
procure the paddy as there was no demand from other States, he said the
government could consider exporting the commodity to other countries.
Millers were prepared to take the responsibility of the export provided the
government gave relevant permits to them.

He stressed the need for putting in place a mechanism where farmers could
directly sell their produce to millers. Promoting export of paddy, the
government could simultaneously operate the ITP and PACS institutions for
procurement of the commodity. He urged the Centre to examine the issue
positively in the interests of farmers and consumers and requested the State
and Central governments to find an acceptable solution to end the impasse.

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Decentralise paddy procurement, say rice

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The State government bills the FCI the charges paid to the rice mills.

       

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HYDERABAD: Rice millers in Telangana have urged the Centre to either restore the
system of levy for rice mills which was in existence till 2012, or to let them procure
paddy directly from the farmers and give milled rice to the Food Corporation of India
(FCI). 
Under the system of levy, the rice millers would be permitted to sell the rice made
from paddy purchased from farmers after giving a commitment that they would give a
part of the rice to the government for use in PDS. At present, the State government
procures paddy from farmers at Indira Kranthi Padham (IKP) centres and Primary
Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS) and then gives it to the rice mills. After it
is converted into rice, the stock is given to the FCI by the State government, after
paying applicable charges to the rice mills. The State government bills the FCI the
charges paid to the rice mills.

T Devender Reddy, president, Federation of South India Rice Millers Association said
that farmers were incurring an unnecessary expenditure of Rs 200 per quintal of
paddy at the procurement centres (IKPs and PACS) due to various operational issues
in the existing process. 

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In addition to IKP and PACS, if farmers were also allowed to sell their produce
directly to rice mills, he felt the farmers could be given a better price by the millers
and this could ease the process of procurement.
He said also suggested that instead of following the laborious process of procuring
PDS rice and distributing it to the 17 lakh families in Telangana, the State and Central
governments could distribute the Rs 6,000 crore that they spend on the elaborate
exercise to the beneficiaries so that they could buy whatever rice they want to, in the
open market.

Parboiled rice issue

Referring to parboiled rice imbroglio, he said since there is no demand in India for
this type of rice, it could be exported but the catch is that if they have to buy it at the
MSP of Rs 1,850, it is not viable for them as the export price at the port is Rs 2,500
per quintal.  If the millers are allowed to procure at Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,550, then it
becomes viable to export out of India. Though one could procure rice from FCI
through tenders, he said it was still Rs 2,100 a quintal, which is not viable.

Money instead  of PDS rice

Instead of procuring PDS rice and distributing it to 17 lakh families in Telangana, the
State and Central governments could distribute the Rs 6,000 crore that they spend on
the elaborate exercise to beneficiaries so that they can buy whatever rice they want to,
in the market, said Devender Reddy
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The Union government has asked Telangana to promote establishment of
ricebran oil industry to tide over the crisis, as the recent controversy over
parboiled rice procurement is set to trigger a political storm in the State.

The Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Food has asked the State to
develop capacities for manufacture of fortified rice kernels (FRK), besides
setting up facilities to blend the FRKs with the regular rice.

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“The State government must facilitate availability of fortified rice to cater to

the requirements of the State and the Food Corporation of India (FCI),” the
Ministry said. As it allowed a one-time purchase of parboiled rice from last
year’s output, the Ministry insisted that the State give it in writing that it
wouldn’t offer to sell the parboiled rice to the FCI again. “If they go for
fortification, it will ease up the situation and facilitate procurement,” a FCI
executive said.

Rice millers, however, said that creating capacities for making fortified rice
wouldn’t happen overnight and that it would require additional investments
and skill sets to do that. With the FCI refusing to procure rabi paddy from the
State, farmers and Opposition parties are asking the State government to buy
the produce.

Cautioning the farmers not to grow paddy in the rabi season as there won’t be
any takers, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao demanded the
CentreUnion Government to purchase the produce.
Solutions
The Federation of South India Rice Millers’ Associations wants both
governments to allow farmers to send the produce directly to the mills to help
them save on costs and time.
“The government can continue the procurement process through the regular
channels of Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies and self-help groups. If
they allow us to directly take the paddy from farmers, it will encourage
competition,” Thudi Devender Reddy, President of the Federation, said, He
also wanted the government to implement the direct benefit system in the
public distribution system and deposit money directly to the accounts of the
beneficiaries. “If it is done, it will ensure a better demand-supply situation in
the market,” he said.

The Federation also wanted the government to encourage export of rice to

tide over the crisis. “There is a mismatch in the procurement price and export
price. While the cost of procurement has gone up by ₹400 a quintal in the last
seven years, the export price has come down by ₹200 to about ₹2,400,”
Satyanarayana, a rice miller said.

“The Government should offset this difference to encourage the millers to

export rice. Instead of storing the produce for years in the godowns and then
selling it at a loss, the government should look at exporting rice,” another miller
said.

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Farmers to Receive Rs. 10 Lakh Award

for Cultivation of Red Rice

Shivam Dwivedi Updated 9 November, 2021 10:04 AM IST Published on 9 November, 2021 9:04 AM

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Red Rice
According to Prof HK Chaudhary, Vice-Chancellor of CSK Himachal
Pradesh Agriculture University, farmers from the Rohru subdivision in
Shimla district will receive the prestigious Plant Genome Saviour
Award, carrying a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh, for their contribution in
developing red rice, a rare variety of paddy grown in Himachal Pradesh.

According to the VC, university scientists collected all of the data and assisted red
rice farmers in registering the traditional variety 'Chhohartu' with
the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority
(PPVFRA) eight years ago.

In the last year, the researchers have aided the farmers in resuming their efforts
to conserve, improve, popularise, and disseminate the rice variety, giving honor
to the state. Because the honor is exclusively granted to societies, the university
even assisted the farmers in forming one.

The award, which includes a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh, a citation, and a souvenir,
will be awarded to the farmers' association by the Union Minister of Agriculture
and Farmers' Welfare on November 11. It is the country's highest honor for
 farmers, given in recognition of their contributions to plant variety conservation
and development.

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According to Prof Chaudhary, red rice is grown on 1,000 hectares in several

Rohru subdivision villages. It is grown on both banks of the Pabbar River and
maybe grown at elevations ranging from 1,300 to 2,100 meters. It is classified
as Japonica red rice. The crimson pericarp (upper layer) of 'Chhohartu'
commands a premium price in the market, demonstrating the value of 'voice for
local'.

Dr. Ajai Srivastava and his colleagues, including retired breeder Dr. RP

Kaushik, were also recognized by the VC for their consistent efforts to assist
farmers with necessary scientific data and other award formalities.

A few years ago, university scientists assisted farmers in Bhedal panchayat in

Chamba district in receiving the Plant Genome Saviour Community Award-2019
for preserving maize landraces 'Haachi' (white), 'Retti' (red), and 'chitkuri'
(popcorn).

1,000 hectares of Land are under Cultivation:

 About 1,000 hectares of red rice are planted in Rohru subdivision
villages.

 Excess water with a thick viscosity that is decanted after cooking

red rice is said to be beneficial to expectant moms.
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Centre must come clear on actual procurement, say ministers

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has accused the State leaders of Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), including a Union Minister, of creating confusion among
the farming community on the issue of paddy cultivation in the Rabi
(Yasangi) season by not giving clarity on the procurement of rice produced in
the season by the Centre.
When the State government is trying to give clarity by explaining the farmers
about the refusal of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to procure boiled rice
from this Rabi season, the BJP leaders have been hiding facts about the boiled
rice procurement and asking farmers to go for paddy stating that they would
make the State government procure it, ministers S. Niranjan Reddy and G.
Kamalakar have said.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, they sought to know whether

they were not aware of the fact that the FCI had taken in writing from the
State government (Civil Supplies Corporation), on the directions from the
Ministry of Food and Public Distribution, in the middle of the procurement of
rice produced in the last Rabi season that State would not be given boiled rice
quota henceforth.

They also reminded the State BJP leaders of what a few other Union ministers
spoke about the boiled rice stocks in the country — that the country already
has over 280 lakh tonnes of boiled rice stocks and procuring more such rice
would be useless as boiled rice could be used only for two years after milling.

Further, they pointed out that State BJP president Bandi Sanjay spoke of only
procurement of rice produced this Kharif season without mentioning the fact
that the FCI had not specified the quantity it would lift, so far. He also did not
speak about the procurement of rice produced in the Rabi season.

The ministers suggested that the BJP leaders could pursue with the Centre for
bringing down the out-turn, processed paddy (rice), fixed at 68 kg for every
100 kg of paddy to 50-55 kg in the Rabi season so that the State could supply
raw rice in Rabi too. The out-turn would come down due to the weather
conditions in the State, due to which the broken rice percentage would be
much higher than 40%.

They rebutted the BJP leaders’ allegations that the State government was
threatening them and farmers and said people know how BJP was threatening
every one in the country.
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USA Rice Joins National in a California rice field
Council of Farmer (photo by Mary Wurlitzer)
Cooperatives in Discussion of
Pressing Ag Issues
By Josie McLaurin

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, USA Rice Vice

President of Government Affairs Ben Mosely
participated in a panel before the National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC) Government Affairs
Committee to discuss the next farm bill and current
issues being faced by the agriculture industry, including
climate change.

The panel consisted of government affairs professionals from agricultural organizations who
provided an overview of priorities within their respective organizations. NCFC is the trade
association representing regional and national farmer cooperatives.

“Climate smart agricultural initiatives, while well intended but only focused on carbon
sequestration and emissions reduction would limit rice grower participation. We also need to
be incentivizing biodiversity and habitat and those provided environmental co-benefits,” said
Mosely. “It’s important that whatever climate policy comes about is voluntary, does not take a
one-size-fits all approach, and does not inhibit farmers from producing crops like rice.”

Additionally, the panel voiced concerns surrounding current fertilizer and other farm input
prices and supply challenges.

“Rice prices have been flat for the past eight years, and continue to lag behind other
commodity prices,” Mosely added. “Market receipts plus farm safety net benefits have not
kept up with rising costs. Added to the surge in farm input costs and the potential for
shortages of those input supplies and rice farmers aren’t breaking even. We are looking at all
options to assist our farmers.”

Hurricanes Delta and Laura

Final WHIP+ Payments On The did damage in Louisiana
Way (photo by Bruce Schultz)

WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Department of

Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency posted notice last
week that farmers who were eligible for disaster
assistance through the Wildfire and Hurricane
Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) can expect to
receive the remaining 10 percent of their calculated
payment. Up until this point, farmers have received 90
percent of the aid, including the initial tranche of 50
percent and another 40 percent tranche in June 2021.

The Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) provided aid to producers to
offset losses from hurricanes, wildfires, and other qualifying natural disasters that occurred in
2018 and 2019.

It’s expected that farmers will be receiving the remaining assistance this month.
Growing rice in New York isn't easy
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Nfamara Badjie harvests rice on his farm in the Hudson Valley.

Musician Nfamara Badjie came to the United States in 2005 from his native
Gambia to perform and give drumming workshops. He didn't anticipate
staying. He was a famous musician back home, who'd grown up rice farming
and drumming in a small village, as his ancestors had done. Dawn Hoyte
changed his plans.
A dancer, Hoyte attended one of Badji's workshops. By 2013 they'd become a
couple, married, and were looking for a bigger home in the Hudson Valley of
New York where they could house their combined families. They found a
house that seemed large enough and was sited on what's politely called a
wetland. Badjie wanted a place to grow rice, as he'd done back home. Hoyte,
who was born in Queens, N.Y., was skeptical.

Enter agronomist Erika Styger of Cornell University. She'd spent 15 years in

West Africa, specializing in rice. She pointed out that "There's all these
different environments where you can grown rice. You won't find the same
environment here as in Gambia, but...they can adjust."

It's been a challenge. Calling themselves the Ever Growing Family Farm,
Badjie and Hoyte — with Styger's counsel, along with some grant money, and
lots of help from family and friends — have become what's thought to be the
first commercial rice farm in New York. Though commercial is relative. With
just a few acres and a bit more than a dozen paddies, a good year yields
1,000 pounds. To harvest it takes many hands.

Traditionally, it also takes drummers, celebrating and encouraging the

volunteer harvesters. Some have helped before. It's a youngish crowd, some
barefoot, others in knee high rubber boots. All hold scythes with scary sharp
blades.
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Volunteers at work at the Ever Growing Family Farm.

"It's truly one of the most joyous experiences we had last year!" said Rachel
Brotman, who is back for a second time.

Badjie joins them, wearing an outfit printed with red, green and yellow maps of
Africa and meandering gray elephants. His cap is festooned with jutting gray
sheep hair.
This year, Dawn Hoyte figures they're growing at least a dozen different
varieties of rice: from Italy, Chile, Nepal, Japan, West Africa and the United
States. As Hoyte recounts, at least one has quite the circuitous geography.
Pointing to a paddy, rice tassels protruding, she says that it contains "...rice
the supposedly enslaved Africans carried in their hair to South Carolina, then
Trinidad, and then some people brought some seed to Philadelphia." And now
it's growing in New York's Hudson Valley, on a Gambian farm.

Selling for $8 a pound, even the family scarcely eats any of it. Badjie's son
Modou confides that his father sneaks it, however.

The final milling of this year's crop isn't yet done, but it's anticipated that the
yield will be quite small. The torrential rainfall is the suspected culprit. Dawn
Hoyte figures that may not be so terrible, that perhaps they can pioneer viable
varieties for the Northeast.

"The Northeast is getting warmer and wetter, and we have a lot of land that
would be considered marginal land that would be good for rice paddies," she
says.

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Rice: The little world traveller

November 10, 2021
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Sarah Moran, Vice President, International from USA Rice,

walks us through what we need to know about rice, the little
world traveller

As the United States just finished harvesting the rice crop in August 2021, millers and exporters
are looking to other countries to purchase about half of the production. While much of the rice
grown in the U.S. is consumed in local favourite dishes such as jambalaya (1) in Louisiana,
broiled catfish (2) in Arkansas, Tex-Mex (3) dishes in Texas or sushi (4) in California, more than
130 countries purchase 3.5 million metric tonnes of U.S. rice each year.
“In 2020, China imported twice as much rice as the second-largest rice importer, the Philippines.
Given the immense opportunities there, the U.S. has spent considerable efforts to enter the
market and then introduce importers and consumers to U.S. rice.”

Rice in the United States

The U.S. is geographically suited to be able to grow all types of rice, including long-grain
(indica) rice, short- or medium-grain (japonica), fragrant varieties such as jasmine or basmati,
white, brown, parboiled, and organic varieties. Wild rice is also grown in the U.S. and is one of
the only grains native to North America. Wild rice, however, is not truly a rice plant – it is a
semi- aquatic grass, but since it looks and cooks similar to rice, it is often mixed with rice and
served in similar formats. (5) All these rice types and more are grown and exported each year.
Rice production is the third-largest among cereals in the U.S.

Given that half of the crop is destined for overseas markets, the rice industry is finely attuned to
the needs and requirements of these customers. In fact, many shipments are grown specifically
for the needs of consumers abroad. Japan, a country where they eat rice daily and is typically the
third-largest export market for U.S. rice, largely imports medium-grain rice from the United
States, which can be found in Costco supermarkets throughout the country. Some Japanese
customers prefer short-grain varieties called Koshihikari (which has a rich taste and is very
sticky) and Akitakomachi (chewy texture, less sticky than Koshihikari and often used for rice
balls). Farmers in California will devote an agreed number of acres to grow those specific
varieties and fill those needs. Similarly, there are customers in Nicaragua who prefer certain
types of long grain rice and will sign contracts with farmers in Arkansas or Louisiana to grow
quality- specific varieties.

The search for new markets

While many loyal customers purchase U.S. rice each year, USA Rice continues to look for new
markets or market segments to increase sales opportunities. A country that offers immense
potential because it is the largest rice producer, largest rice consuming country, and the largest
rice importing country in the world…is China. It consumes the equivalent of the entire U.S. rice
crop every 13 days. (6) In 2020, China imported twice as much rice as the second-largest rice
importer, the Philippines. Given the immense opportunities there, the U.S. has spent considerable
efforts to enter the market and then introduce importers and consumers to U.S. rice. Based on
several consumer studies USA Rice has conducted in the country, many Chinese consumers
value U.S. rice for its strong food safety standards and high-quality characteristics. There have
been some shipments of U.S. rice to China, and additional shipments are expected as awareness
of U.S. rice increases, and broader U.S.-China relations improve.

U.S. shipments to Taiwan and Hong Kong, both located near China, but with fewer restrictive
importing regulations, have remained strong for many years. Taiwan is typically a top 15 export
market for U.S. rice, bringing in 64,000 metric tonnes of medium grain rice from Arkansas and
California annually. Hong Kong is a much smaller market, but services a vibrant expat
community and foodservice sector with nearly 8,000 metric tonnes of U.S. rice each year. Using
specific, targeted activities to increase rice consumption, USA Rice has worked with food
processing companies in Taiwan to develop traditional Chinese cakes made from U.S. rice and
targeted hotel chefs in Hong Kong to include U.S. rice in their hotel’s menu.

As American farmers begin preparing their land for the upcoming planting season starting in
March, U.S. rice will continue to be exported around the world, travelling to a plate near you.

References

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 (3) https://www.usarice.com/thinkrice/recipes/breakfast-sausage-rice-burritos
 (4) https://www.usarice.com/thinkrice/recipes/sushi-poppers
 (5) https://www.usarice.com/thinkrice/find-recipes?
Keywords=&SortOrder=DESC&TypeFacet=&Categories=595ebdfc-90fb-6c0b-
a573-ff0000bd767a
 (6) https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/app/index.html#/app/home

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Recipe of the day: Chicken, jollof rice and

fried plantain
Lerato Maimela

If you are not in the mood for chicken tonight, then you can
replace it with any other protein dish

Jollof rice with chicken and plantain. Picture: iStock

Make your midweek dinner meal exciting and creative by preparing this West African
favourite of chicken, jollof rice and fried plantain for yourself and your loved ones.

If you are not in the mood for chicken tonight, then you can replace it with any other
protein dish
Chicken, jollof rice and fried plantain
Jollof rice with chicken and plantain. Picture: iStock

Roast chicken
Ingredients

 8 pieces of chicken
 3 tablespoons of butter, melted
 3 cloves of garlic, minced
 ¾ teaspoon of salt, or to taste
 1 teaspoon of dried basil
 ½ teaspoon of dried thyme
 ¼ teaspoon of lemon pepper seasoning, or you can also use fresh ground black
pepper
 1 lemon, quartered
 3 fresh rosemary sprigs
 4 cloves garlic, peeled

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 232˚C.

2. Remove giblets from inside of the chicken’s cavity.
3. Thoroughly dry the chicken with paper towels.
4. Place chicken, breast side UP, on a rack set over a shallow roasting pan or jelly
roll pan.
5. Brush chicken with melted butter.
6. Sprinkle or rub minced garlic all over chicken.
7. In a small bowl combine salt, basil, thyme, and lemon pepper; rub onto the
chicken.
8. Add some salt to the inside of the cavity and fill the cavity with lemon slices,
rosemary, and garlic cloves.
9. Tie the legs together with kitchen twine, and tuck the wings under the body of
the chicken.
10.Roast, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
11.Reduce oven temperature to 180˚C and continue to cook until done; about 1
more hour and 10 minutes.
12.Remove from oven and baste the chicken with the juices.
13.Let rest for about 15 to 20 minutes before cutting.

This recipe was found on diethood.com

Jollof rice
Ingredients

 ⅓ cup of oil
 6 medium-sized fresh plum/Roma tomatoes, chopped
 6 fresh, red poblano peppers, seeds discarded
 3 medium-sized red onions (1 sliced thinly, 2 roughly chopped), divided
 ½ to 1 hot pepper, or to taste
 3 tablespoons of tomato paste
 2 teaspoons of curry powder
 1 teaspoon of dried thyme
 2 dried bay leaves
 5 to 6 cups of stock or water, divided
 2 teaspoons of unsalted butter, divided
 4 cups of uncooked converted long-grain rice or golden sella basmati, rinsed
 Salt, to taste
 Black and white pepper, to taste

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Instructions

1. In a blender, combine tomatoes, red poblano (or bell) peppers, chopped onions,
and Scotch bonnets with 2 cups of stock, blend till smooth, about a minute or
two. You should have roughly 6 cups of blended mix. Pour into a large pot/ pan
and bring to the boil then turn down and let simmer, covered for 10-12 minutes
2. In a large pan, heat oil and add the sliced onions. Season with a pinch of salt,
stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes, then add the bay leaves, curry powder and dried
thyme and a pinch of black pepper for 3-4 minutes on medium heat. Then add
the tomato paste – stir for another 2 minutes. Add the reduced tomato-pepper-
Scotch bonnet mixture, stir, and set on medium heat for 10 to 12 minutes till
reduced by half, with the lid on. This is the stew that will define the pot.
3. Add 4 cups of the stock to the cooked tomato sauce and bring it to boil for 1-2
minutes.
4. Add the rinsed rice and butter, stir, cover with a double piece of foil/baking or
parchment paper and put a lid on the pan – this will seal in the steam and lock
in the flavour. Turn down the heat and cook on low for 30 minutes.
5. Stir rice – taste and adjust as required.
6. If you like, add sliced onions, fresh tomatoes and the second teaspoon of butter
and stir through.
This recipe was found on food52.com

Plantain
Ingredients

 2 ripe plantains
 2 to 3 tablespoons of oil, for frying
 Sea salt, optional

Instructions

1. Peel plantains by cutting off both ends, and cutting a slit down the side of each
plantain.
2. Remove the plantain peel by peeling it side to side rather than lengthwise. It
will come off in sections. You may need to use the knife at the edge of each
section to help loosen it from the flesh.
3. Cut the peeled plantains into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Diagonally is preferred
because it provides a larger surface for caramelisation; it can be cut straight
across into rounds.
4. Drizzle just enough oil into a nonstick skillet to coat the bottom of the pan, and
place it on medium heat.
5. When the oil begins to shimmer, but not smoke, add plantains (work in
batches). Fry for 1½ minutes on one side, flip and cook for 1 minute on the
other side.
6. Remove plantains from the pan and drain on paper towels.
7. Continue frying in batches until all the plantains are fried.
8. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt to give a sweet and salty taste to your fried ripe
plantains.
9. Serve and enjoy.

This recipe was found on thespruceeats.com

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Container spot rates are falling – and are unlikely to see any noticeable edge up for the remainder
of what has been a record-breaking 2021, multiple analysts polled by Splash have predicted.
Liner shipping is on course to smash profits in excess of $150bn this year, more than five times
their previous best cumulative effort as rates soared to highs never seen before.

However, as the peak season has passed and carriers focus on getting more clients fixed to long
term contracts, the spot market has entered free-fall.

Last week saw the biggest week-on-week drop of Drewry’s World Composite Index since
November 30, 2017, a global spot rate indicator, which plunged 4.9% in the first week of the
month.
Average spot rates are now past the peak. Until another freak
event occurs, that is
“We think spot rates will probably continue to slide through the rest of the year, but that they
will remain at high levels, feeding into strong contract rates next year,” Drewry’s Simon Heaney
told Splash.
“At Xeneta we clearly see a tendency that average spot rates are now past the peak. Until another
freak event occurs, that is,” commented Peter Sand, who this month joined Xeneta as chief
analyst after 12 years at BIMCO.

Shabsie Levy, founder of digital freight forwarding company Shifl, commented: “With the
holiday shopping rush seemingly over and the already ordered goods sitting inside thousands of
containers on many ships across the USA, the drop-in freight rates on the spot market continues
into November.”

Across the three main long distance high volume trades out of Asia heading towards the US and
EU, spot rates in November have fallen from the end of October. Moreover, some carriers are
now removing or not keeping previous surcharges.

A pre-Lunar New Year rush is likely to turn the spot tide in early January, both Sand and Levy
predicted.

“After Chinese New Year as we head into the traditionally quieter months, I’m confident we will
see the rates on a stable downward trajectory” Shifl’s Levy said.

For long-term rates, Sand said they are holding steady across the main lanes for the time being.

Shippers hoping to bag bargain ocean freight prices anytime soon are likely to face
disappointment. 

Writing on LinkedIn, Lars Jensen, CEO of container advisory Vespucci Maritime, warned: “You
need to expect a new normal where rate levels in general are stronger than 2019, but of course a
lot lower than right now. Not because of the pandemic and bottlenecks. This would have
happened anyway and is a consequence of the consolidation in the industry which has increased
market power with the carriers.”
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magazine and China correspondent for Supply Chain Asia. His work has also appeared in The Economist,
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Basmati exports to gain momentum

asIran lifts seasonal ban on rice
imports
November 9, 2021 by Admin
Basmati shipments to Iran, India’s largest buyer of aromatic rice, are set to pick up
reports that the West Asian country has lifted a seasonal ban on rice imports.

Although there is no official information yet, it has been learned that Iran has lifted
seasonal restrictions on rice imports. “We expect basmati shipments to increase in speed
in the coming months although high sea freight rates and unavailability of containers
remain a challenge,” said Vinod Kaul, CEO of the Rice Exporters Association of India.
Iran has traditionally imposed an annual seasonal ban on rice imports during the local
harvest from July to mid-November to protect its farmers.

logistical problems
However, Cole said what could help Indian exporters this year is the fact that Iran may
have had a lower-than-normal crop.

He said that the payment issues faced by Indian exporters in the recent past have been
largely resolved and trade is now taking place in a third party currency – the UAE
dirham.

Cowell said Indian basmati exports during the April-August period of this year were
affected by the shortage of containers and the sharp increase in freight rates.

The main issue is the availability of containers on time, Cowell said, adding that
shortages still persist, while demand is almost normal.

Exports fluctuate
According to APEDA figures, during the April-August period of this year, basmati
shipments decreased by volume by 16 percent to 1.7 million tons, from 2.03 million tons
last year.

In terms of value, shipments fell 20 percent to $1.44 billion from $1.8 billion in the same
period last year.

Commenting on the local production, Cole said the production is good and the new crop
is entering the market.

New export markets

Cowell said exports should gain momentum between now and March, the peak season for
Indian basmati shipments.

In the current year, some Latin American countries have imported some fair amounts of
Indian Basmati.
“We can say that some new openings have come this year from Latin America. However,
this will remain a limited market while West Asia, which accounts for 72-80 per cent of
total basmati shipments, remains the mainstay.

India exported 4.63 million tons of basmati rice worth $4.02 billion during 2020-21
compared to 4.45 million tons worth $4.37 billion in the same period of the previous
year.

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Rise in paddy MSP prompts West

Bengal to increase bank guarantee
amount for rice mills
By: Indronil Roychowdhury | 
November 10, 2021 3:00 AM

While a section of rice millers says that the increase in BG would put pressure on their
working capital, Bengal Rice Mill Association is of the view that the increase wouldn't
matter since the government gives paddy for milling worth much higher than the BG.
The 10% increase is commensurate with the higher MSP.
 There are also loopholes in the system of supplying paddy to the mills, requiring checks, a district
controller of food on the condition of anonymity said.

With the Centre increasing the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy at Rs 1,940 a
quintal for the current Kharif marketing season (KMS), the West Bengal government’s
move to increase the amount of bank guarantee (BG) by 10% for rice millers have put
many to a quandary.
While a section of rice millers says that the increase in BG would put pressure on their
working capital, Bengal Rice Mill Association is of the view that the increase wouldn’t
matter since the government gives paddy for milling worth much higher than the BG.
The 10% increase is commensurate with the higher MSP.
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Paddy MSP during the last KMS was `1,868 per quintal and the increase in MSP has
been a little over 3%. West Bengal has been giving an additional `20 above the MSP as
transport charges, thus leading to an overall increase in the cost of procurement.
According to a state food department official, while the state forked out Rs 8,460 crore
for procuring 46 lakh tonnes of paddy last KMS, the state is yet to get 39,000 tonnes of
customed milled rice (CMR) out of the total 31.28 lakh tonnes of CMR it is supposed to
get from the 1,100 odd rice mills in the state.
The state’s entire procurement is directed towards benefitting the marginal farmers and
supplying the food grain to the poor people of the state either at free of cost or at a very
low price under various state-sponsored schemes. So, any leakage would hamper the
objective. The government during the last KMS had enrolled 72 lakh farmers bringing
down each farmer procurement from a maximum of 9 tonnes to 4.5 tonnes. This had
allowed more farmers to sell at MSP, which otherwise would have left them to depend
on the volatile open market, Rathin Ghosh, West Bengal’s food and supplies minister
said.
The state produces around 150-160 lakh tonnes of paddy, of which the state procures
between 30% and 34%.
The state during the current KMS (October-September) has targeted procuring 49 lakh
tonnes of paddy, which will result in 33 lakh tonnes of CMR. The procurement would
cost the state Rs 9,604 crore, a food department official said.
“This means a rice mill getting 5000 tonnes of paddy for milling would get paddy worth
Rs 9.8 crore against a bank guarantee of Rs 1.6 crore. So, the 10% increase in BG
shouldn’t affect any mill,” Shishir Kumar Choudhury, president Bengal Rice Mill
Association, said.
A rice mill receiving paddy of up to 500 tonnes requires to pay a BG of Rs 16 lakh this
KMS. Although the average milling capacity of West Bengal rice mills is 40 tonnes a day
only mills doing 5000 tonnes and above are considered to be large rice mills. For large
rice mills, a 10% increase in BG against a 3% increase in MSP won’t matter but for
small mills, it would put a lot of pressure, Sudesh Beriwal, a rice mill owner said adding
there are lapses in supplying CMR from the large rice mill owners but the pressure has
come on the small ones.
There are contentions over the paddy: rice milling ratio of 68%, which the rice millers in
West Bengal have long been demanding at 63%. There are also loopholes in the
system of supplying paddy to the mills, requiring checks, a district controller of food on
the condition of anonymity said.

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importing rice

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Decline in Maha harvest predicted by farmersSJB threatens to surround P’ment with farmers

BY Pamodi Waravita

Against the backdrop of farmers predicting a major decline in the Maha harvest due to
the 100% organic agriculture policy the Government sought to implement earlier this
year, the Trade Ministry and the Co-operative Services, Marketing Development, and
Consumer Protection State Ministry will analyse the Maha season harvest in order to
determine if increased imports of essential goods, especially rice, are needed.

“We will see how the Maha harvest goes and prepare for increased imports in February
2022 accordingly,” Co-operative Services, Marketing Development, and Consumer
Protection State Ministry Secretary K.D.S. Ruwanchandra told The Morning yesterday (9).

Similarly, Trade Ministry Secretary Bhadranie Jayawardhana told The Morning that it is

currently working closely with the Imports and Exports Control Department and the
Agriculture Ministry in order to ensure that consumers will not face a food shortage or
crisis once the Maha season ends.

“Since last month, we have already started keeping a security stock of rice and sugar.
We hope to hold a stock of 100,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice, and we are in discussions
with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar to ensure adequate stocks,” said
Jayawardhana.

Meanwhile, speaking at a press conference held yesterday, Samagi Jana Balawegeya

(SJB) Parliamentarian Nalin Bandara Jayamaha warned that if the ongoing fertiliser issue
is not resolved by 26 November, they will hold a protest outside the Parliament with
farmers. “The Government and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa have still not woken up
from their dream worlds. The Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage is a
stooge who may even have to resign soon due to this crisis. On 26 November, the
Parliament is due to have the budget debate on agriculture. If the fertiliser crisis is not
resolved by then, we will surround the Parliament with farmers and their equipment in
order to send a message to the Government. The Government is still taking this issue
very lightly. We are demanding that the Government immediately give the fertiliser
needed for the Maha cultivation,” said Jayamaha.

A proposal to ban the use and importation of chemical fertilisers and agrochemicals,
such as pesticides and herbicides/weedicides, was submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers
by President Rajapaksa and the same was granted approval, following which the
relevant gazette notification was issued in May 2021. However, the Finance Ministry,
through the gazette notification number 2238/45 of 31 July 2021, has relaxed
regulations on the import of chelated (a type of bonding of ions and molecules to metal
ions) minerals and micronutrients for the purpose of producing fertiliser.

Following this, the Agriculture Ministry stated that it hopes to import a total of 3.1
million litres of nano nitrogen liquid fertiliser to supply the 1.4 million hectares (ha) of
paddy, corn, and vegetable farmland in the country. In September 2021, the
Government also approved for the tea industry to import nitrogen-based fertiliser.

The Government has assured farmers that adequate compensation will be provided if
farmers face a loss of harvest and thus, income, due to this policy. However, farmers,
professionals from a number of industries, and economists fear a looming food security
crisis due to predicted losses of harvest.

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Rice farmers nationwide to receive

aid
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Rice farmers across the country flocked to banks and automated teller
machines (ATMs) to receive aid under the government's price guarantee
scheme, which began yesterday.

Adviser to Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, Mallika

Boonmetrakool Mahasook, said officials from local commerce offices
across the country were sent to monitor the disbursement of the aid,
which were transferred by the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural
Cooperatives (BAAC) directly into the bank accounts of farmers who had
registered and harvested their rice crop before Oct 15.

Noticeable queues were seen at BAAC branches and ATMs nationwide,

especially in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Phitsunalok, Saraburi,
Sukhothai, Nakhon Pathom, Si Sa Ket, Ubon Ratchathani, Kamphaeng
Phet, Pathum Thani and Khon Kaen, which are rice-growing provinces,
she said.
The cabinet last Thursday approved a proposal by the Commerce
Ministry to allow the BAAC to carry out the rice farmers' income-
guarantee programme for the 2021/2022 harvest year, worth more than
13 billion baht.

Under the project, financial aid will be offered to farmers who grow five
varieties of rice, with no more than 15% moisture content.

Under the programme, farmers which grew the Hom Mali variety are
eligible to receive 4,135.77 baht per tonne, capped at 14 tonnes per
household.

Farmers who grow the Hom Mali variety outside the 20 northeastern
provinces and three northern provinces will receive 3,595.25 baht per
tonne, limited to 16 tonnes per household.

While farmers who grow white rice will get 1,934.62 baht per tonne,
capped at 30 tonnes per household.

Those who grow Pathum Thani variety will receive 1,052.13 baht per
tonne, limited to 25 tonnes per household, while farmers who grow
glutinous rice will get 4,337.47 baht per tonne, limited to no more than
16 tonnes.
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Sri Lanka paddy crop slated to

drop after chemical fertiliser ban
By Uditha Jayasinghe

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DEKATANA, Sri Lanka, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Knee deep in mud and sprinkling
rice seeds over two acres of land in Sri Lanka late last month, D.M.
Rupasinghe said he was worried about his crop following a government
decision to ban imports of chemical fertilisers.

The ban on chemical fertilisers, as well as pesticides and herbicides, was

introduced by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government in May for
environmental reasons but it has plunged the sector into crisis.

Rupasinghe, 57, said the government had told farmers to switch to organic
farming but he said that was difficult and expensive. Instead, many farmers
were just planting less rather than risking investing the resources in planting
when they weren't sure of the outcome.

"The government should have talked to farmers before introducing this policy,"
Rupasinghe told Reuters. "Organic is harder, more labour intensive and more
expensive. Everyone is so confused."

"So we decided to plant a small quantity of seed paddy and wait," he said.
That reduced planting is being repeated across the island and could bring
down Sri Lanka's annual paddy yield by about 40%, according to a prominent
agricultural economist and a farmers' association.

Normally some two million Sri Lankan farmers cultivate about 700,000
hectares of paddy between October and March. Nearly two thirds of the
country's 22 million people are dependent on agriculture, which accounts for
7% of its $80 billion gross domestic product (GDP).

Jeevika Weerahewa, an agricultural economist at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya

University, said paddy output could fall by as much as 43% but it was not just
paddy that would be hit by the ban.

"It will affect key exports like rubber, coconut and tea exports, with the latter
expected to reduce 40%," Weerahewa said.

"The worst impact will be on the poor."

The government has said that the ban was part of efforts to promote healthier
agricultural practices and make farming more sustainable.
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A farmer shows paddy seeds at a paddy field in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 19,
2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

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"The challenge facing us now is to use modern scientific techniques and

practices to enhance agricultural production without causing environmental
degradation," Rajapaksa said at COP26 U.N. climate conference this month.

'TOO QUICKLY'

Farmers have staged protest marches and burnt effigies of the agriculture
minister, calling for a resumption of chemical fertiliser imports.

In response, the government has imported limited amounts of potassium

chloride and liquid nano nitrogen bottles - both used during the rice-growing
season - from India since October.

Namal Karunaratne of the All Ceylon Farmers Federation, the country's

largest farmers group that is associated with an opposition party, said the
government had failed to provide an alternative to chemical fertilisers.

"Many farmers have decided not to cultivate paddy fearing financial losses,"
Karunaratne said.

Agriculture Secretary Udith K. Jayasinghe said the government would

compensate farmers for any crop losses, despite a ballooning budget deficit.

"Plans are being made to purchase the harvest at higher prices, thereby
eliminating any negative impact the farmers may face," he said.

In a letter to Rajapakse earlier in the year, the Sri Lanka Agricultural

Economics Association said a reduction in average agricultural productivity by
20% could cause a 3.05% decrease in GDP.

Mohideen Ismail, chairman of the Kadayanthalawa Farmer's Association in

the major paddy-growing district of Ampara, said that farmers were not
against a switch to organic fertilisers.
"But they are worried it is happening too quickly, without inputs and proper
awareness," he told Reuters. "This policy should have been implemented
across multiple seasons."

Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe; Editing by Devjyot Ghoshal, Robert Birsel

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Bandula says ample rice available for Rs. 99

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Minister of Trade Bandula Gunawardena says that ample rice is available in markets for
Rs. 99, and claimed that there is no shortage of rice in Sri Lanka.

He made this statement while speaking to the media today (10).

“How can Sri Lanka have a shortage in rice? We are known as a nation that exports rice.
When President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came to power, he stopped the export of rice. That
means we have ample and more rice for the nation. There is rice in the market that is
sold for just Rs99, if you go to a supermarket and see, there is enough rice which is sold
at that price,” said Gunawardena.

Gunawardena also emphasised that he cannot dismiss claims made by other Ministers,
but reiterated his statement that there is no shortage of rice in the country.
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For boosting exports of quality production of aromatic and long

grain Basmati rice, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority (APEDA)' arm Basmati Export Development
Foundation (BEDF) has taken innovative steps to sensitize farmers
involved in the cultivation of Basmati rice in the key growing regions
about the adoption of good agricultural practices.

As part of the initiatives, BEDF in collaboration with the rice exporters

associations of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal
Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Delhi, state agriculture universities and
state agriculture departments, organised 75 awareness and training
programmes to encourage farmers for growing high-quality Basmati rice
in the seven states. BEDF is also involved as a technical partner for
different FPOs, exporter associations, etc in Basmati rice-growing states.

The BEDF launched awareness-cum-training workshop on July 16,

2021, from Jahangirpur village, Gautam Budh Nagar district in Uttar
Pradesh as a part of the 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav', which is an
initiative of the Government of India to celebrate and commemorate 75
years of India's Independence. The awareness campaigns were organised
for farmers focussing on the themes of 'judicious use of pesticides and
adoption of good agricultural practices'.

Another objective of the awareness drives was to train the farmers for
seed production to resolve the issues of non-availability of seeds of
better quality.
At the workshop, farmers were trained about different methods to
identify insect pests and diseases of basmati rice and their management.
The issues like problems in basmati export and expectations of the rice
industry were also brought to the notice of growers and exporters during
the awareness drive during the entire basmati growing season of 2021.

APEDA is given the Geographical Indication (GI) tag as the sole

custodian of basmati rice grown in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Under the
GI certification issued in February 2016, 77 districts of seven states-
Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Jammu
and Kashmir are referred to as basmati rice-growing regions.

During the awareness drive by BEDF, scientists explained to farmers

and exporters about the pesticide residue problem in the export of
basmati rice and transfer of production technology including nursery
raising, integrated nutrient and water management in local languages.

A huge number of farmers, exporters, FPOs, etc turned out to learn

about the judicious use of pesticides and adoption of good agricultural
practices at the workshops that were organised at 75 different locations
in seven states.

In Punjab, 25 awareness and training programmes were organised,

followed by 21 in Uttar Pradesh, 17 in Haryana, 05 in Uttarakhand, 03 in
Jammu & Kashmir and 02 each in Himachal Pradesh and Delhi.

Through the awareness creation programme, farmers were informed

that Basmati rice cultivation is an Indian tradition and it is a collective
responsibility to maintain this tradition as there is a huge demand
for Basmati rice in the global market. The farmers have been requested
to get themselves registered on basmati.net through the State Agriculture
Department.

APEDA through BEDF has been assisting the state governments in the

promotion of basmati rice cultivation.
 APEDA has also suggested the usage of certified seeds to maintain the
quality of the products by farmers along with scientific use of chemical
fertilizer for ensuring quality production of basmati rice which would
further give a boost to Basmati rice exports from the country.

India exported 4.63 million tons of Basmati rice valued at Rs 29,849

crore ($ US 4019 million) in 2020-21. The key destinations for India's
basmati rice include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen Republic, United
Arab Emirates and European Union countries.

APEDA has been promoting rice exports through collaborations with

various stakeholders in the value chains. The government had set up the
Rice Export Promotion Forum (REPF), under the aegis of the APEDA.
REPF has representatives from the rice industry, exporters, officials
from APEDA, ministry of commerce and directors of agriculture from
major rice-producing states, including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh,
Punjab, Haryana, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh and
Odisha.

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farmers. The ministry is working with the Budget Bureau to create a scheme that ensures a
guaranteed income for the farmers, which would offer some cushion against the unpredictable
issues that plague farming such as floods, droughts and pestilence. There is already a scheme in
place to offer financial aid to farmers, reports Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith. For
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November 9, 2021 By John Perkins Filed

Under: Arkansas, Crops, Kansas, Missouri, News, Tennessee, USDA

The USDA has increased its outlooks for U.S. cotton and rice production.

The upland cotton crop is pegged at 17.852 million bales, up 201,000 from October
following an upward revision for average yield to 874 pounds per acre, and 27%
above 2020 due to an increase in planted area. Rice production is projected at 193.818
million hundredweight, 3.272 million more than a month ago, also following a higher
average yield guess, now at 7,756 pounds per acre, but 33.765 million less than last
year due to a decline in acreage.

There were no harvested area adjustments. The U.S. cotton harvest is 55% complete
as of Sunday, while the rice harvest is officially over for the year.

In 2020, upland cotton totaled 14.061 million bales with an average yield of 835
pounds per acre and harvested area of 8.081 million acres, while rice production was
227.583 million hundredweight with an average yield of 7,619 pounds per acre and
harvested area of 2.987 million acres.
The USDA also increased U.S. ending stocks estimates for both crops, while lowering
the world supply guess for cotton due to consumption expectations and raising the
world rice projection due to lower consumption.

The 2021/22 average farm price for rice is estimated at $14.80 per hundredweight,
compared to $14.80 last month and $14 last marketing year, with the average farm
price for cotton seen at $.90 per pound, compared to $.90 a month ago and $.663 for
2020/21.

The USDA’s next set of supply, demand, and production estimates is out December
9th.

Comparisons for Brownfield states:

Arkansas: Cotton: 1.2 million bales, compared to 1.277 million in 2020; record
average yield of 1,226 pounds per acre, compared to 1,226 a month ago and 1,179 a
year ago; harvested area of 470,000 acres, compared to 520,000 last year; Rice:
91.048 million hundredweight, compared to 108.107 million in 2020; record average
yield of 7,600 pounds per acre, compared to 7,500 both a month ago and a year ago

Kansas: Cotton: 215,000 bales, compared to 300,000 in 2020; average yield of 1,022
pounds per acre, compared to 998 a month ago and 783 a year ago; harvested area of
101,000 acres, compared to 184,000 last year

Missouri: Cotton: 830,000 bales, compared to 684,000 in 2020; average yield of 1,285
pounds per acre, compared to 1,285 a month ago and 1,144 a year ago; harvested area
of 310,000 acres, compared to 287,000 last year; Rice: 15.714 million hundredweight,
compared to 15.522 million in 2020; record average yield of 8,100 pounds per acre,
compared to 8,000 a month ago and 7,250 a year ago; harvested area of 194,000 acres,
compared to 214,000 last year

Tennessee: Cotton: 600,000 bales, compared to 611,000 in 2020; average yield of

1,067 pounds per acre, compared to 1,067 a month ago and 1,066 a year ago;
harvested area of 270,000 acres, compared to 275,000 last year

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T Devender Reddy, president, Federation of South India Rice Millers Association addressed a media conference on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD: While the farmers are a worried lot with TRS and BJP playing a blame game over procurement of paddy in Telangana, the rice millers
have said the state and Central governments should amicably end the impasse by coming out with a comprehensive policy for procurement of paddy, raw
rice, boiled rice and MSP to alternate crops.
Referring to the Central government’s stand that it will not procure boiled rice from Telangana as it already has enough stocks of it, the rice millers
suggested that the central government can empty its go-downs by exporting the boiled rice or give them relevant permissions to export it.
Federation of South India Rice Millers’ Association president T Devender Reddy on Wednesday said the farmers and millers are being pushed into
problems due to the stand-off between the central and state governments over procurement of boiled rice.
“We are not here to blame anyone. Both the central and state governments are partly right in their respective stands. But there are solutions and the two
governments should look into it keeping in view the welfare of the farmers," said Devender Reddy.

In addition to allowing the millers to export the rice, the state government can look into the possibility of allowing the millers to directly procure the paddy
from the farmers.
“This will result in saving transportation costs incurred on bringing the paddy from the agriculture field to procurement centres, and transporting it again to
rice mills. Also, the farmers have to pay hamali charges and commission at procurement centres. Millers can offer better prices to farmers for their paddy If
the government can guarantee that it will procure entire rice (milled out of paddy procured from farmers) from the millers. Both the farmers and the
government will benefit,” said N Satyanarayana, federation’s Suryapet district secretary.
The rice millers made it clear that there are certain categories of lands in which paddy is more suitable for cultivation. If the state and central governments
do not want a large section of farmers not to grow paddy in Yasangi season, they should announce MSP for alternate crops.

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Glasgow, Nov 8: Rice is a staple crop in India as well as in many parts of Asia and
Africa, but climatic extremes including rising sea levels -- which causes inland
salinisation -- can seriously affect its production.
The adoption of 'climate-smart' rice has led to significant increases in yield in climate change stress-
affected areas, including those inhabited by the most impoverished farming communities. The drought-
tolerant Sahbhagi Dhan variety is specifically deployed in India.

At the ongoing 26th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26)
in this Scottish city, CGIAR Managing Director (Research, Delivery and Impact) Claudia Sadoff talked
exclusively to IANS in the context of how to help farmers to become "climate smart", improving
productivity and resilience while reducing emissions.

She said large-scale flooding is occurring with greater frequency in South Asia with many of the region's
most vulnerable people, who live in vast agrarian belts within the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra-
Meghna river basins, being the worst affected.

Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) designed by CGIAR researchers combines satellite imagery with
mathematical modeling to calculate flood damage and verify claims, avoiding the need for costly field
visits and thus keeping premiums affordable and giving smallholders a valuable lifeline.

As another example, she said that a CGIAR project in Gujarat led to 3,500 farmers gaining access to solar
irrigation offering excellent mitigation potential where the majority of irrigation pumps are diesel.

"Farmers also have a 25-year agreement with the local power utility to buy back surplus power, thus
increasing energy access and alternative income while incentivising smart groundwater use and
reducing carbon footprints.

"The success of the pilot inspired a multi-billion-dollar government of India initiative to promote solar
irrigation," she said.

CGIAR is the largest global research partnership working towards sustainable and resilient agriculture
and technology it has developed has helped yields triple in Europe and North America.

At COP26, CGIAR on Monday urged global leaders to ensure the 500 million smallholder farmers
responsible for up to a third of global food production can adapt to climate change-induced loss and
damage while curbing their greenhouse gas emissions.

Innovations are needed that can both reduce the contribution of global agriculture to climate change,
and adapt to its increasingly evident consequences while also supporting livelihoods, nutrition and
equality.

The call comes as the UK pledged $55 million over two years to boost commitments to CGIAR research
from a steadily growing global coalition to surpass $1 billion.

The new pledges will contribute to an accelerating of research and innovation to confront rapidly
intensifying climate challenges that could upend the global fight against hunger and poverty.

The first week at COP26 delivered significant support for climate innovation for farmers across the
developing world. Pledges to CGIAR came from the Bill iamp; Melinda Gates Foundation and countries
including the US, Canada, Sweden and Belgium, and now the UK.

Sadoff told IANS that Indian rice farmers face a heavy toll from flooding just after crop sowing.

Recurring impacts of floods in India necessitate improving farmers' knowledge of adaptation and coping
methods along with improving flood-resilient infrastructure to reduce the damaging impacts on farming
communities.

Swarna-Sub1, a submergence-tolerant rice variety developed within CGIAR, could play an important role
in minimising the effect of flood on rice production. A recent study shows that the variety could be most
beneficial for flood adaptation in districts of Bihar, West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh, she said.

On the rice stubble burning in northern India that has long been a major cause of air pollution, she said
CGIAR research has made a significant difference toward efforts to stop the harmful practice of rice
straw burning, by providing a more ecologically friendly alternative.

"Zero tillage provides farmers with a mechanised alternative to burning and tilling land between the rice
harvest and wheat planting season.

"The approach instead offers a way to sow wheat directly into unplowed paddies and rice straw, using
innovative machinery and attachments that can chop the leftover rice stalks, spread the residue evenly
as mulch, and plant seeds into the soil -- all without the need for clearing."

According to her, the climate crisis is exacerbating the degradation of food, land, and water systems,
impacting productivity, viability and resilience.

"Business as usual will mean that zero hunger will be an unattainable goal. Food value chains that
exploit natural resources beyond planetary boundaries, resulting in waste generation, deforestation,
water pollution, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity loss are a global problem.

"Combined, these impacts increase the vulnerability of the people whose lives and livelihoods depend
on them -- to extreme events and other shocks such as Covid-19."

A key objective of CGIAR is to increase the resilience of smallholders who are on the frontline of climate
change and there are many examples of climate smart innovations that have already been developed
and many more in the pipeline.

(Vishal Gulati can be contacted at vishal.g@ians.in)

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