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With Geographical Indication rules Pakistan can secure export
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Kalbe AliPublished January 13, 2021Updated a day ago
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Pakistan has finally notified the Geographical Indication (GI) Rules

strengthening its case against India over safeguarding its claims of basmati
rice and Himalayan pink salt.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has finally notified the Geographical
Indication (GI) Rules strengthening its case against India over
safeguarding its claims of basmati rice and Himalayan pink salt.
The rules, prerequisite for any GI claims, will allow Pakistan to fight India in
the European Union as the latter asserts that basmati rice is an Indian
product. Meanwhile, Pakistan has already challenged India’s claims over the
rice.
“Now as the GI Rules have been notified, Pakistan will be able to secure its
export markets with legal backing,” a senior official of the Intellectual
Property Organisation of Pakistan (IPO-Pakistan) told Dawn.
The formulation of GI rules have been pending in the county for almost 18
years, but the move picked pace after India submitted an application with the
EU, claiming sole ownership of basmati rice.
Though the Indian claim was challenged in December 2020, there was a
serious lacuna in the Pakistan argument, as the country did not have GI
protection of Basmati rice inside its boundary due to its failure to notify GI
rules.
“The international laws call for local protection of the product before filing for
international protection of any product, but that could not be achieved
because there were no rules to register basmati rice in Pakistan,” the official
added.
After the formulation of the rules, the Commerce Division will now establish a
GI Registry under the management and control of IPO Pakistan.
Apart from the registration of domestic products, the rules also define laws
about registering foreign GI. As per the rule, a GI of a foreign country shall be
registered in Pakistan as long as it is registered in accordance with the local
legislation in its country of origin. The registry shall not allow the registration
of a foreign GI which is not or has ceased to be protected in its country of
origin or which has fallen into disuse in that country.
The rules also state that the application for registration of foreign GI will be
made at the registry by its legal representative in the country and during the
registration procedure, the registry may require the applicant or its legal
representative to submit any information related to registration in the country
of origin which may affect its registration in Pakistan.
Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2021
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Food fortification ‘a powerful tool’ to

improve health and power economies
With nearly 400 million people in Asia suffering from undernourishment, fortifying
staple foods such as rice with micronutrients can be a powerful and sustainable way to
improve public health.
Food fortification and better farming methods are among the ways to improve public health and
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Jan. 13, 2021
About 381 million people in Asia are undernourished, making up

about 8 per cent of the population, and the Covid-19 pandemic is likely
to worsen the situation, according to the United Nations (UN). In
recent years, more countries in the region have turned to food
fortification, which is the process of adding micronutrients to food, to
arrest this and other malnutrition problems and improve citizens’
health.
In India, for example, the government plans to make fortification of
rice, a staple food of over 70 per cent of residents, compulsory by
2023, to improve their nutrition and reduce the rising rate of anaemia.
In 2020, Bangladesh partnered with the UN’s World Food Programme
(WFP) to start selling subsidised fortified rice to poor households in
Dhaka.
Sarwar Mahmud, director general of the Bangladesh government’s

food directorate, said that food fortification has become especially
important in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. “By fortifying rice,
we can provide essential vitamins and minerals to households
compelled to compromise their food diversity due to limited access to
markets and income opportunities during the Covid-19 crisis,” he said.
“It is also a cost-effective way to address nutrient deficiencies in food

for disadvantaged urban poor populations,” he added.
Global nutrition, health and sustainable living company DSM was part
of the rice fortification effort in Bangladesh. It has collaborated with
the WFP, UN Children’s Fund and other humanitarian organisations,
governments and firms to develop and distribute cost-efficient and
affordable nutritious food in developing countries.
DSM’s alliance with WFP alone has benefited tens of millions of

people worldwide since 2007. An ongoing initiative is Project Mandi,
short for Making A Nutritional Difference to India, which helps to
increase access to nutritious foods in the country in partnership with
other non-government groups. DSM also launched Nu-Shakti, a range
of fortified food staples including rice, flour and beverage powder, in
Tamil Nadu.
From 2013 to 2017, DSM worked with government agencies and
ministries in Germany, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and the
Philippines, as well as other firms, on the Better Rice Initiative Asia
(BRIA), which trained 28,500 farmers across the four Asian nations
on the latest farming methods and crop solutions, and encouraged
cooking oil producers and rice millers to fortify their products with
micronutrients, including zinc, iron and vitamins.
Anand Sundaresan, DSM’s regional vice-president for human

nutrition and health for Asia Pacific, said that food fortification will
help the region’s growing middle class too. “As people become more
affluent, they often have less time to cook and start eating more
processed foods, so it’s critical to raise awareness and availability of
fortified, healthy foods that give them more micronutrients per
serving,” he said.
Food fortification can have a tremendous impact, not just on people’s

health but countries’ economies, because healthy children learn better,
and healthy adults lead more productive lives.
Anand Sundaresan, regional vice-president for human nutrition and health, Asia
Pacific, DSM
‘Easiest way’ to boost nutrition
Fortifying staple foods is the easiest way to boost nutrition because

people eat such foods daily, said Sundaresan. To boost acceptance of
the healthier versions, the fortification process must not alter the
familiar look, taste and texture of the foods.
It must also take into account local cooking practices, added Paul
Nicholson, vice-president and head of rice research and sustainability
at agribusiness firm Olam International, which has teamed up with
DSM on several projects, including BRIA. In 2020, Olam launched
Ghana’s first and only fortified rice brand, called Royal Aroma
Fortified Rice.
“Rice is often rinsed or washed prior to cooking, so nutrients that are

simply sprayed on can be washed off. We used DSM’s innovative
fortified rice kernels, where rice dough, made up of rice powder and
water, is infused with micronutrients and shaped to form noodles,
which are then cut very short to resemble rice grains,” said Nicholson.
“These fortified kernels are mixed with natural, traditional rice grains,
and are imperceptible in look, taste and cooking quality, so that
consumers can seamlessly introduce better nutrition into their
favourite dishes,” he said.
Food businesses must also consider affordability, especially if the

fortified foods are intended for low-income families. While Olam’s
fortified rice is slightly more expensive than its non-fortified rice, it
offers different pack sizes to cater to a broad range of customers at
different income levels.
“We believe that we can best grow our business by meeting consumer
needs through more innovation, and rice fortification is an obvious
opportunity with enormous public health benefits,” said Nicholson.
“Our cooperation with DSM synergises our respective expertise. DSM
knows what forms of fortification are available and appropriate, and
we know what defines good quality in consumers’ experience of food
products.”
Sundaresan added that governments have a crucial role to play in

spurring food fortification. “By setting out detailed and transparent
policies on fortified foods, including the types and minimum levels of
fortification that are required, they will provide clarity to the private
sector and motivate more companies to innovate and join the market,”
he explained.
“Food fortification can have a tremendous impact, not just on people’s

and healthy adults lead more productive lives,” he said.
Nicholson said food fortification is a proven solution to malnutrition

and the persistent challenge of hidden hunger, where people consume
enough calories but not enough vitamins and minerals.
“It isn’t a silver bullet, because other factors such as diet diversity are
essential too, but it doesn’t require major shifts in food habits, which
can sometimes take years or even generations,” he said. “Food
fortification can be a powerful tool in transforming the global food
system to provide affordable, healthy and balanced diets for all.”
LSU AGCENTER TO HOLD VIRTUAL

RICE MEETINGS
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:38am
CROWLEY
The LSU AgCenter is planning to shift most of the rice meetings it holds each winter to a
virtual format this year.
Topics will include rice economics, pest control, fertilization, variety development,
soybeans and crawfish.
Presentations for Evangeline, Acadia, Jefferson Davis and the rest of southwest
Louisiana will be online. Videos can be accessed via the internet at an address to be
provided soon.
The Vermilion Parish meeting was held Monday, Jan. 11, at the LSU AgCenter
Vermilion Parish office, 1105 W. Port St., Abbeville.
The meeting for northeast Louisiana will be held Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 9 a.m. at the
Thomas Jason Lingo Community Center, 10284 Louisiana Hwy. 17 South, Oak Grove.
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Almanac offers information of New Year’s Day,
home remedies
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01.08.2021
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Fort Polk Public Affairs Office
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FORT POLK, La. — For many — much to the chagrin of area pet owners and those with small
children — New Year’s Eve is marked by various beverages, a midnight kiss and many fireworks.
However, those aren’t the only New Year traditions. Check out these activities from around the
world:
• In ancient Thailand, guns were fired to frighten off demons.
• In China, firecrackers routed the forces of darkness.
• Today, Italians let their church bells peal and the Swiss beat drums.
Eat something special
Many New Year traditions concern food.
Here are a few:
• In the southern United States, black-eyed peas and pork foretell good fortune.
• Eating any ring-shaped treat, such as a donut, symbolizes “coming full circle” and leads to good
fortune. In Dutch homes, fritters called “olie bollen” are served.
• The Irish enjoy pastries called bannocks.
• In India and Pakistan, rice promises prosperity.
• Apples dipped in honey are a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
• In Swiss homes, dollops of whipped cream, symbolizing the richness of the year to come, are
dropped on floors and allowed to remain there.
Drink a beverage
Although the pop of a champagne cork signals the arrival of the New Year around the world, some
countries have their own traditions:
• “Wassail,” the Gaelic term for “good health,” is served in some parts of England.
• Spiced “hot pint” is the Scottish version of wassail. Traditionally, the Scots drank to each other’s
prosperity and offered this warm drink to neighbors along with a small gift.
• In Holland, toasts are made with hot, spiced wine.
Give a gift
New Year’s Day was once the time to swap presents. Check out these gifts from around the globe:
• Gifts of gilded nuts or coins marked the start of the new year in Rome.
• Eggs, the symbol of fertility, were exchanged by the Persians.
• Early Egyptians traded earthenware flasks.
• In Scotland, coal, shortbread and silverware were traditionally exchanged for good luck.
In addition to the above trivia, each month Guardian staff will peruse the Old Farmer’s 2021 Almanac
and bring Guardian readers other interesting tidbits of information.
Natural remedies for beating a cold
What’s the best way to beat a cold?
Here are a few natural remedies for the body and mind
• Rose hip tea is full of vitamin C and can help prevent colds.
• Lemons, oranges and apple cider are considered cold remedies.
• For chills, take fresh ginger root.
• Historically, the layers of the onion were believed to draw contagious diseases from patients;
onions were often hung in sick rooms.
• Boil a whole onion, and afterward, drink the water. You can add a little butter and salt if the taste is
unbearable.
• Cut up fresh garlic cloves and add them to chicken soup or other foods, or swallow small chunks of
raw garlic like pills.
• Horseradish generates lots of heat to help offset colds.
• Eat hot and spicy foods like chili to clear the sinuses.
• Prunes are rich in fiber, vitamins A and B, iron, calcium and phosphorus.
•To treat sore lips, go to bed with honey on them.
• For cracked lips, massage them with a dab of earwax — preferably your own.
Home remedies for dry skin
The low humidity and harsh conditions in winter can lead to flaky, itchy, dry skin.
Here are a few precautions you can take:
• As soon as you get out of the shower or tub, while your skin is still damp, slather on the
moisturizing lotion.
• Choose a lotion that has petroleum jelly or lanolin high on the ingredients list.
• Don’t go outside in any season without using SPF of at least 30 on your face and hands.
• Add lemon juice or vinegar to bathwater. Soap, which is highly alkaline, may make your skin feel
itchy.
• To soften dry skin, add one cup of powdered milk to your bath. (It apparently worked for Cleopatra.)
• Avoid hot water or lengthy immersions, which will strip your skin of its natural oils.
That’s it for January. Check back in February for more trivia from the Old Farmer’s 2021 Almanac.
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The breeding of resistant plants is the only alternative to using pesticides, yet this way
of fighting crop disease is only moderately successful. If the plants are resistant to one
pathogen thanks to their breeding, they are usually more susceptible to other pathogens
or are less robust under adverse environmental conditions.
For this reason, an international research group, which includes the Institute of
Environmental Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology, has been studying the
microbiome of rice plant seeds for some time now in order to establish correlations
between plant health and the existence of certain microorganisms. The group has now
achieved a major breakthrough.
They identified a bacterium inside the seed that can lead to complete resistance to a
particular pathogen and is naturally transmitted from one plant generation to another.
According to the research team, the findings published in the scientific journal Nature
Plants provide a completely new basis for designing biological plant protection products
and additionally reducing harmful biotoxins produced by plant pathogens.
The breakthrough
In conventional rice cultivation in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, it was observed that
one genotype of rice plant (cultivar Zhongzao 39) sometimes develops resistance to the
plant pathogen Burkholderia plantarii. This pathogen leads to crop failures and also
produces a biotoxin that can cause organ damage and tumours in persistently exposed
humans and animals.
“Up to now, the sporadic resistance of rice plants to this pathogen could not be
explained,” said Tomislav Cernava from the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at
Graz University of Technology.
Together with the head of the institute Gabriele Berg and his colleague Peter
Kusstatscher, Cernava has been investigating the microbiome of rice seeds from
different cultivation regions in detail in the context of a collaboration with Zhejiang
University (Hangzhou) and Nanjing Agricultural University in China, as well as the
Japanese Hokkaido University in Sapporo.
The scientists found that the resistant plants have a different bacterial composition
inside the seeds than the disease-susceptible plants. In particular, the bacterial
genus Sphingomonas was found significantly more often in resistant seeds.
The researchers therefore isolated bacteria of this genus from the seeds and identified
the bacterium Sphingomonas melonis as the responsible agent for disease resistance.
This bacterium produces an organic acid (anthranilic acid), which inhibits the pathogen
and thereby renders it harmless.
“This also works when the isolated Sphingomonas melonis is applied to non-resistant
rice plants. This automatically makes them resistant to the plant pathogen Burkholderia
plantarii,” explained Tomislav Cernava.
In addition, the bacterium establishes itself in certain rice genotypes and is then passed
on naturally from one plant generation to the next. “The potential of this finding is
enormous. In the future, we will be able to use this strategy to reduce pesticides in
agriculture and at the same time achieve good crop yields,” added Cernava.
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Pakistan’s upcoming maize challenge

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If Pakistan’s farming sector can boast of one success over the past two
decades, it would be its maize (corn) crop, which has gained massive
popularity with little to no governmental intervention. Between 2000 and
2020, national output has grown by 4.5 times, backed by better profits for
growers.
Where staple crops such as cotton and wheat have lost acres, corn has gained
some, but much of the gains in output have been powered by improved
productivity. Consider that while long-term average yield of crops such as
cotton have been on a secular decline (and, wheat’s has stagnated) since
2000s, national average yield for corn has multiplied over three times during
the same period. But national averages masks corn’s still unexploited
potential. Among major cereals and staple crops, corn is the only crop planted
in both kharif (autumn) and rabi (spring) season, although more than two-
thirds of the national output is produced during kharif. In fact, Pakistan’s
spring crop is a quite recent innovation, which warrants a quick detour
through its short history.
Until mid-eighties, over half of national corn output was sourced from Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province. At that time, corn was grown in the northern parts of
the country (including Rawalpindi belt of Punjab) mainly as a cereal for
(direct) human consumption. Since the crop lagged in popularity as the
preferred cereal of subcontinent, it managed to avoid policy/regulatory focus,
resulting in its poor yield.
Come nineties, and the increasing popularity of poultry as an affordable

source of protein meant that the farmers needed a cheap carb source to feed
an increasing number of broiler birds. Serious efforts were made by private
sector seed companies to commercialize corn as feedstock. This was also the
first time when corn crop made in-roads into Punjab as a competitor to other
major kharif crops such as rice and cotton.
But private sector seed companies also marketed an innovative farming

practice, quite common globally but not experienced by Pakistani growers till
that time: corn crop grown twice a year. Spring corn was introduced and
enjoyed substantial commercial success.
Then why has spring corn not become a talk of town and two-season cropping
intensity has not spread to other competing crops? This becomes even more
interesting when corn crop yields are compared across region and weathers
(see illustrations). While KP’s kharif yield is stuck under 2 tons per hectares
for several years, Punjab’s rabi (spring) corn has achieved seasonal average
yield of up to 8 tons per hectares, at par with global corn producing giants
such as Argentina and Brazil.
Consider also that despite corn’s success as a major spring season crop in
Punjab, over half of the output is instead planted during kharif season,
competing with other commercial crops such as cotton and rice for precious
acres. Why is spring corn not planted more commonly?
Because of a ‘till death do us part’ relationship between wheat and Punjab’s

farmers. Because wheat is an off-season (rabi/winter) crop that enjoys major
governmental support in the form of support price policy, guaranteed returns,
and procurement operations, most growers continue to prefer wheat crop.
Consider that out of the 9 million hectares sown in the rabi season nationally,
over 92 percent are devoted to wheat crop, with all others crops such as lentils,
pulses, oilseeds, and fodder competing for the precious remainder seven
hundred thousand hectares.
The recent price spiral in prices of poultry products across country during last
two years have shown that Pakistan is on its way to face a corn crop price
spiral in coming years. Increasing white meat consumption means that
demand for corn (grown as feedstock/fodder) for poultry is fast increasing, as
improvement in its yield has plateaued due to law of diminishing returns
(spring yield is already at par with rest of the world using hybrid seeds).
If the last year’s wheat crisis brought any lessons home, it is that Pakistan’s
fast-growing population with ever more mouths to feed means that the
farming community will face trade-offs between crop choices more frequently.
Even as regulatory interventions are made to protect acreage under one crop
(such as wheat), it will only lead to shortfall of acres under other crops such as
maize, alternating between two price spirals. If Pakistan is to resolve the
structural challenge of food inflation, it needs to address the poor farming
yield quagmire on war footing.
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Pakistan’s value-added export

industries will be prioritized, say PM
Khan
Prime Minister said due to positive and business-friendly policies of
the incumbent government, the industrial wheel was moving at a fast
pace, yielding tangible improvement as indicated from the economic
indicators.
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On Monday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the government was
taking steps on a priority basis to promote those industries which have
been the main source of value-added export items.
Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Tanners Association, the Prime

Minister said due to positive and business-friendly policies of the
incumbent government, the industrial wheel was moving at a fast pace,
yielding tangible improvement as indicated from the economic
indicators.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Industries Hammad Azhar,

PM’s advisor on Commerce Abdul Razaq Dawood, PM’s special assistant
Waqar Masood and chairman Pakistan Tanners Association Anjum
Zafar, PM office media wing said in a press release.
The Prime Minister was apprised of the increasing demand for Pakistani
leather products across the world. The local leather had been in high
demand across the globe due to its high quality and affordable cost.
Read more: Pakistan’s exports growing faster than India, Bangladesh

post-COVID-19 first wave: Bloomberg
With 300 percent value addition on Pakistani leather and by exporting it

to globally renowned brands, it could add billions of rupees in the
country’s foreign exchange, it was further added.
It was further told that Pakistan had been producing high-quality leather
in huge amounts but due to the current coronavirus pandemic and some
other reasons, the tanning industry had been facing problems.
The prime minister assured the delegation of the government’s complete

cooperation in enhancing the capacity of leather related industry to its
full scale.
Pakistan’s exports have risen the fastest in the region since March 2020,
Bloomberg had reported. Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf’s government eased
the lockdown restrictions earliest in the region and hence the recovery of
the economy began sooner than regional neighbors.
Read more: Pakistan’s mango exports stalled by coronavirus pandemic
Bangladesh and India both suffered worse lockdowns. India has suffered
many times the COVID-19 cases that Pakistan has. Since working
conditions were restored significantly quicker in Pakistan, outbound
shipments have grown at a faster pace than Bangladesh and India as
textiles, which account for half of the total export, led the recovery, data
show. Islamabad saw total shipments grow 7% in September, compared
with New Delhi’s 6% and Dhaka’s 3.5%.
Back in July 2020, Advisor for Commerce, Textile, Industry, and

Production, and Investment of Pakistan, Abdul Razak Dawood had
appreciated exporters for showing good performance during the Fiscal
Year 2019-2020 as compared to the regional counterparts, on his
Twitter.
Taking to his Twitter handle, he had written that: “I want to congratulate

all our exporters on the good performance in 2019-20, in spite of the
very challenging situation caused by COVID-19. Our exporters were only
6% less than 2019-20, while our regional countries Bangladesh was
down 17% and India down by 14%.”
Pakistan’s exports for the month of December 2020 grew by 18.3% to

USD 2.357 billion as compared to USD 1.993 billion in December 2019.
“This is the Hightest export ever in the month of December. For the
period July-December 2020, our exports increased by 4.9% to USD
12.104 billion as compared to USD 11.533 billion in the corresponding
period last year,” Abdul Razak Dawood expressed.
Read more: “Remarkable turnaround” in economy despite Covid-19: PM

Khan
“This shows the resilience of the economy of Pakistan and it is a

vindication of the government’s policy to keep the wheels of economy
running during COVID-19 pandemic. I commend our exporters for
achieving this feat during these testing times & urge them to aggressively
focus on capturing a larger share of international trade,” he added.
In another extraordinary achievement, for the first time ever, Pakistan’s

exports to the United Kingdom crossed one billion for first six months of
any financial year. “For July-December 2020, the exports to UK grew by
21% to USD 1,029 million as compared to USD 852 million in Jul-Dec
2019,” informed Razak Dawood.
Pakistan’s top import and exports partners include the United States,
China, United Kingdom, Afghanistan and Germany. Its major exports
include textile at around 23 percent, followed by cotton and rice. The
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UN Comtrade) shows that
Pakistan’s most efficient exports includes cotton, rice, fruits, fish, leather
apparel, linen, cotton fabrics, antiques and suits and ensembles.
However, these products are not in the high value-added categories.
Thus, government’s decision to focus on high value-added export
industries would prove beneficial for Pakistan’s exports and economy.
Read more: A look back at Pakistan’s exports in 2020
Courtesy: APP with additional input from GVS news desk
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Nepal foreign minister Gyawali in New Delhi to discuss Covid-19 cooperation,

boundary issue
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Day
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Man fined over ₹1 lakh for bike ride violations in Odisha

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Dr. Adam Famoso
The Art & Science of Rice
Breeding and More Award
Winners on The Rice
Stuff Podcast
By Deborah Willenborg
ARLINGTON, VA – The latest episode of The Rice

Stuff podcast is available now and features a behind
the scenes look at how rice breeders bring new
varieties to farmers without the use of GMOs.
Louisiana State Univeristy AgCenter Rice Breeder Dr. Adam Famoso joins the podcast for a
conversation with Dr. Steve Linscombe, who held the post for more than 35 years and is
himself credited with introducing 34 rice varieties to the industry.
“Many people are familiar with the traits of the end product breeders are working toward:
disease resistance, milling quality, cooking characteristics, aroma, to name a few,” said
Linscombe. “But few realize these researchers are starting the process with tens of thousands
of candidates to get down to that one good seed. It’s a long and arduous process and Adam
is really good at walking listeners through it.”
The previous episode of the podcast dropped just before Christmas so many may have missed
it. That episode, number 12, featured Dr. Michelle Reba, winner of the USA Rice Sustainability
Award; the winner of the National Rice Month Video Scholarship, Texas high school senior
Molly Ellis; and Chris Crutchfield, president, CEO, and partner at American Commodity
Company, the sponsor of the scholarship.
“Episode 12 came together really nicely because not only is ACC the sponsor of the
scholarship, but they also won the Sustainability Award themselves a few years ago,” said
Lesley Dixon, cohost of the podcast. “It was also really energizing to talk to Molly and Dr.
Reba, both of whom have great passion that comes across clearly. Folks should give both
episodes a listen.”
New episodes of The Rice Stuff are published on the second and fourth Tuesday of every
month and can be found on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. All
episodes and additional information can be found on the podcast’s dedicated website
at thericestuffpodcast.com. The site includes a “Podcast 101” section on the “About” page for
people new to the medium and a means to reach out to the show hosts and guests via the
“Talk to Us” button.
WASDE Report Released
WASHINGTON, DC -- The outlook for 2020/21 U.S. rice this month is for larger supplies, higher domestic
use, decreased exports, and lower ending stocks. Supplies are raised as increased production more than
offsets decreased imports. All rice 2020/21 production is 227.6 cwt, up 1.5 million from the previous
estimate. The all rice average yield is estimated at 7,619 pounds per acre, up 59 pounds from the prior
estimate. Imports are 300,000 cwt to 36.2 million with all the reduction in medium and short grain.
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All rice domestic and residual use is raised 14.5 million cwt to 160 million on higher-than-expected usage
for August-November as implied by the NASS Rice Stocks report. Exports are lowered by 1 million cwt to
94 million, all for long-grain on the continued weak pace of sales and shipments for long-grain milled
rice. Projected 2020/21 all rice ending stocks are lowered 12.4 million cwt to 38.4 million, primarily on
higher projected domestic use. The projected 2020/21 all rice season-average farm price is raised $0.10
per cwt to $13.20 with increases in both the long-grain and medium-and short grain prices.
The 2020/21 global outlook is for larger supplies, higher consumption, increased trade, and reduced
stocks. Rice supplies are raised 2.1 million tons to 681.5 million, primarily on higher rice production for
China and the Philippines. China’s 2020/21 production is increased 1.3 million tons to 148.3 million on
the National Bureau of Statistics estimate released in WASDE-608-3 December 2020. The Philippines is
raised 300,000 tons to 12 million on record July-December 2020 production as indicated by the
Philippines Statistical Authority. Global 2020/21 consumption is increased 1.5 million tons to a record
502 million, led by higher consumption by China and the United States. World trade is raised fractionally
to 45.4 million tons as higher exports by India more than offset reductions for China, Peru, and the
United States. Most of the increase in India’s exports this month are expected to be destined for
Bangladesh, whose imports are raised further because of its flood-reduced output. Projected 2020/21
world ending stocks are 500,000 tons to a record 179.5 million, primarily on the China production
increase with China accounting for 65 percent of total stocks.
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Govt must not let rice market be

volatile
Published: 00:00, Jan 13,2021

A LOW government stock of food grains, especially rice, and a syndicate of millers and wholesalers appear to
have caused a worrying increase in rice prices for more than eight months. The food grain stock, as New Age
reported on Monday, came down to five lakh tonnes when 10 lakh tonnes is considered optimal. The
government has so far procured a fourth of the targeted amount of 6.5 lakh tonnes of aman while it failed to
procure the targeted amount of boro. The government procured about nine lakh tonnes of boro against the
target 2.1 million tonnes. Such a procurement shortage is caused largely by errant millers who breached rice
supply contracts for both boro and aman. During the boro harvest, about 5,502 of the 19,230 rice millers that
signed deals with the government failed to supply the stipulated amount despite a surplus production. In the
wake of millers’ failure to supply the targeted amount of boro, the government took punitive action by way of
forfeiting the security deposit, which, however, proved little effective as millers appear to be little helpful in
the current aman procurement.
The government needs, as agricultural economists say, to have a stock of at least 1.3 million tonnes of rice to
prevent millers and wholesalers from manipulating prices. When the country has produced about 20 million
tonnes of boro and about 14 million tonnes of aman, rice price increases are not because of a shortage of rice,
but because of the market manipulation by profit-mongering millers and traders. Such a manipulation has
caused a price increase of about 41 per cent for the coarse variety of rice and about 17 per cent of the fine
variety in a year. The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies says that the top 50 rice millers with 20 per
cent of the national milling capacity can influence the supply and prices of rice. A kilogram of coarse rice now
sells for up to Tk 50 which sold for Tk 38 in 2019 while a kilogram of fine rice now sells for Tk 65 which sold
for Tk 52 in 2019, Trading Corporation of Bangladesh records show. The increase has been a double burden
for people, especially for the poor and low- and fixed-income people, whose purchasing capacity has already
waned substantially because of the COVID-19 fallout.
The government must, therefore, raise its stock, bring errant millers to book and attend to the issues of market
manipulation by any syndicate. The establishment of an agricultural price commission to set seasonal prices of
agriculture produces to ensure fair price for growers and consumers also appears urgent. The government must
also be cautious about rice import so as not to deprive local growers of fair prices.
https://www.newagebd.net/article/127017/govt-must-not-let-rice-market-be-volatile
Unmanned farms the focus of next 5
years

Tian Shengjie
20:56 UTC+8, 2021-01-12
The city’s agricultural commission said on Tuesday it will focus on the

development of unmanned farms over the next five years.
It was responding to the digital transformation ambitions released by the

Shanghai government last week.
Around 100,000 mu (66.7 square kilometers) of unmanned farms for growing

grain and vegetables are to be established in the city.
“It is effective to ensure the supply of the food because machines can work day
and night,” said Zhang Guokun, director of the Shanghai Agriculture and
Rural Affairs Commission.
“Daily agricultural data, such as cultivated area and the amount of pesticide
spraying, can be collected through the unmanned machines for better
management.”
Ti Gong
A five-year plan for local agricultural development is released during a news conference on
Tuesday.
The city’s first such farm has been in operation since November last year in
Jiading District. Over 200 mu of rice fields have been managed by unmanned
machines, including cultivating and harvest.
How the agricultural products are, as well as the quality of pig, cattle and
poultry, will be based on the data, instead of a certification mark, Zhang said.
A group of highly educated farmers and farm managers will be formed to cope
with the high-tech development of agriculture.
The number of managers to analyze agricultural data, manage farmers and

enhance customer relationships will increase from 200 to 500, with over 70
percent owning college degrees or above, said Lu Zhengrong, deputy director
of the commission.
Some 5,000 more farmers will be trained to operate advanced agricultural

machinery and standardized cultivation, rising from 20,000 to 25,000.
The plan also says 13 distinctive agricultural areas for sustainable

development will be developed in local districts according to their strong
points. For example, an industrial area for high-class rice will be established in
Songjiang District because the rice there is famous, listed in the China
Agricultural Brand Catalog in 2019 with other 299 products from other places
in China.
Other industrial areas include a vegetable area in the Pudong New Area, a
domestic animal area in Chongming District and a peach area in Fengxian
District.
To satisfy the demand for rural tourism, 10 tourist routes will be issued soon
and related standards of customer services worked out.
“More people, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, are willing to enjoy
their rest time in local suburban areas, rather than in some other places
outside the city,” Zhang said.
https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2101123101/
Does Rice Go Bad? Shelf
Life, Expiration Dates,
and More
 Dry rice
 Cooked rice
 Dangers
 Bottom line
Given its incredible versatility when it comes to cooking, rice is a staple
ingredient in many cuisines.
Many types of rice exist, including white, brown, basmati, wild, or jasmine, to
mention a few.
Still, regardless of which type you prefer, you may wonder how long rice
keeps.
This article explains whether dry and cooked rice goes bad and the dangers of
eating expired rice.
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Shelf life of dry rice
The shelf life of dry or uncooked rice varies depending on the type of rice.
Although there are many types of rice, the main difference when it comes to
shelf life is between white and brown rice.
Because brown rice is not milled or polished, it has a higher oil or fat content.
Therefore, it may become rancid more quickly than white rice.
Still, both types of rice are considered shelf-stable when dry, which means
that they can be safely stored at room temperature (1).
Below are the shelf lives of each type of rice (1, 2):
 White rice: up to 2 years

 Brown rice: 3–6 months from the date of manufacture
Keep in mind that refrigerating and freezing may significantly extend both their
shelf lives.
How to tell whether dry rice has expired
Shelf-stable foods usually have an expiration date — often called best-by or

use-by date. Still, they may be safely consumed after that date if there are no
signs of deterioration on the product’s package (1).
Determining whether dry rice has gone bad is relatively easy.
Just check the package for spoilage signs, including holes, bugs, dampness,
or water, which may lead to mold growth.
When it comes to brown rice specifically, you may also look for discolorations,
a rancid or funny smell, or an oily texture.
If you wish to prolong your rice’s quality for as long as possible, make sure to
store it in a dry place, such as your pantry or kitchen cupboard.
You may also store it in an air-tight container after opening it. This way, you’ll
also protect it from bugs and moisture.
SUMMARY
Dry white rice has a shelf life of up to 2 years, while brown rice keeps up to 6
months. Signs of expired rice include holes in the packaging, bugs, water, and
mold. Brown rice may become rancid, oily, or discolored.
How long cooked rice lasts

Contrary to dry rice, cooked rice’s shelf life is virtually the same for all types of
rice.
Once cooked, rice may keep its flavor, texture, and quality for 3–4 days in the
refrigerator — although some claim it may last a whole week (1).
You may also freeze cooked rice for up to 8 months.
How to tell whether cooked rice has expired
There are a couple of ways to tell whether your cooked rice has gone bad.
First, smell it. Unlike freshly cooked rice, which has almost no odor, expired
rice will have an unpleasant or strange smell.
Second, take a closer look at its texture. Instead of being airy and fluffy,
expired rice may become slimy or gooey.
Lastly, check the rice for mold, which often appears as green, blue, or black
spots.
If you notice any of those signs of spoilage, make sure to discard your rice.
SUMMARY
Cooked rice lasts for about 4 days in the fridge or 8 months in the freezer.
Expired rice may have an unpleasant smell, gooey texture, or mold.
Dangers of eating expired rice

Expired rice is mostly contaminated by fungi or mold, which produce
mycotoxins that may cause food poisoning (3).
Mycotoxin intake is linked to symptoms that range from vomiting, nausea, and
abdominal pain to convulsions, coma, an increased risk of cancer, and a weak
immune system (4, 5).
Moreover, mold contamination in dry rice may also reduce its nutritional
quality (3).
Additionally, keep in mind that regardless of whether rice has expired, the
improper food handling of cooked rice may increase the risk of food poisoning
from Bacillus cereus, which often leads to abdominal pain, diarrhea, and
vomiting (6, 7).
Bacillus cereus is a bacteria typically found in rice that may survive cooking
(8).
Thus, if rice is not refrigerated or frozen within 2 hours of cooking, the bacteria
may produce the toxins that make you sick (9).
SUMMARY
Mold contamination in expired rice may lead to mycotoxin intake, which may
be detrimental to your health. Also, non-expired rice that’s poorly handled may
lead to food poisoning from Bacillus cereus.
The bottom line

The shelf life of dry rice varies from white rice to brown rice, but once cooked,
all types of rice have the same shelf life.
Dry white rice may last for up to 2 years if kept at room temperature, while
brown rice only lasts about 6 months. Refrigerating and freezing them
increases their shelf lives.
Cooked rice must be refrigerated, and it keeps for about 4 days. It may also
be frozen for longer.
If you notice any changes in smell, taste, or texture, or signs of mold growth or
bugs in both dry or cooked rice, make sure to discard it right away.
Last medically reviewed on January 12, 2021
Written by Ariane Lang, BSc, MBA on January 12, 2021 — Medically

reviewed by Miho Hatanaka, RDN, L.D.
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Chipotle’s cauliflower rice is
good on paper—and only on
paper
Dennis Lee
Tuesday 6:23AM
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Chipotle’s Keto Bowl, exactly how it arrived at my doorstepPhoto: Dennis Lee
On January 4 (which feels like a long time ago), Chipotle announced the
release of its new cilantro-lime cauliflower rice, a limited time menu offering.
The timing of this announcement—at the beginning of the year, the time of
New Year’s resolutions and diets galore—wasn’t a coincidence. In fact, the
product is described in the press release as “a new rice option that is
compliant with Keto, Whole30®, Paleo, Vegan, and Vegetarian diets.”
Cauliflower has, in recent years, become a super popular diet tool for anyone
cutting carbs. It can mimic rice, starchy potatoes, and the flour in pizza crust.
A lot of Twitter users were more than delighted by the announcement that
Chipotle will now swap rice with riced cauliflower for an additional fee.
I was particularly interested because I’m not a rice-in-my-burrito or rice-in-

my-burrito-bowl person. It’s just a bunch of starch crowding the other
ingredients. But cauliflower rice offers an extra helping of generally neutral-
tasting vegetables to add fiber and at least a touch of supplemental nutrition,
which sounded good on paper to me. Along with the cauliflower rice, Chipotle
also debuted four new pre-designed burrito bowls featuring the cauliflower
rice: a Whole30 Bowl, a Keto Bowl, a Vegetarian Salad Bowl, and a Vegan
Bowl.
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Out of all of them, for this review, I selected the Keto bowl, because it’s the
diet that I’ve been hearing about the most from friends and family. While the
ketogenic diet began as a way to treat epilepsy in children in the 1920s, its
high fat and low carb practice has come around to be a popular weight loss
diet. It seems like I can’t go a day without hearing about it.
I went with the default version of the Keto bowl: cilantro-lime cauliflower rice,
chicken, tomatillo-red salsa, cheese, and guacamole, no substitutions, no
additions. It’s listed as $11.80, but once I added the meal to the online
shopping cart, it inexplicably shot up to $13.30 with zero modifications.
I’m going to warn you right now, Chipotle’s cauliflower rice is not cheap. At
my location, it’s an additional $2.25 to sub out the brown or white rice options
with the cauliflower in any menu item. When the bowl arrived, as you can see
in the photo above, the contents had shifted to one side (that’ll never stop
being funny to me unless it’s a sad lopsided pizza). No big deal, except that it
revealed just how little the bowl amounted to with the cauliflower rice in it.
This is easily the smallest portion of food I’ve ever received at Chipotle.
Normally a Chipotle bowl or burrito is enough to knock me on my ass.
Photo: Dennis Lee
I dug in and found the little mound of cauliflower rice under the other fillings.
In terms of flavor, the cauliflower is seasoned with a ton of lime juice, and
unfortunately, a lot of salt too, almost too much. Combined with the default
tomatillo-red salsa, each bite screams with acid, so take note, heartburn-
sensitive friends. It gets a little old when your whole bowl is based on an an
acidic slog that never lets up. If you pay close attention, you can taste the
cauliflower, but barely. Maybe that’s the point.
As you can see from the closeup photo, the texture of the cauliflower rice is
also extremely soft—think translucent, finely chopped, sautéed onions. If
you’re someone who mixes your whole bowl together before diving in, you’re
not going to even notice the cauliflower at all, and this isn’t an exaggeration.
It’s that soft, meaning that, in my opinion, it’s really overcooked. It almost
seems like this is by design, based off how uniformly soft it is. But I imagine
there’s just no easy way to cook cauliflower on this scale; it will simply
continue to cook while it’s being held on a steam table for service.
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Bacteria breakthrough
could lead to disease-
resistant rice
A bacterium which makes rice plants more resistant to disease
has been discovered in the seeds of a crop in China.
Scientists from Austria think they have found the key to

breeding more disease-resistant rice plants, a
breakthrough which could improve the security of one
of the world’s most important food sources.
Rice is the staple food of about half the world’s
population. The cultivation of the rice plant is very water
intensive and, according to the German aid
organisation Welthungerhilfe, around 15 percent of rice
is grown in areas with a high risk of drought.
Global warming is therefore becoming increasingly
problematic for rice cultivation, more often leading to
small harvests and hunger crises. Crop failures caused
by plant pathogens only serve to further aggravate the
situation.
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The breeding of resistant plants is the only alternative

to using pesticides, yet this way of fighting crop disease
is only moderately successful. If the plants are resistant
to one pathogen thanks to their breeding, they are
usually more susceptible to other pathogens or are less
robust under adverse environmental conditions.
For this reason, an international research group, which
includes the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at
Graz University of Technology, has been studying the
microbiome of rice plant seeds for some time now in
order to establish correlations between plant health and
the existence of certain microorganisms. The group has
now achieved a major breakthrough.
They identified a bacterium inside the seed that can
lead to complete resistance to a particular pathogen
and is naturally transmitted from one plant generation
to another. According to the research team,
the findings published in the scientific journal Nature
Plants provide a completely new basis for designing
biological plant protection products and additionally
reducing harmful biotoxins produced by plant
pathogens.
The breakthrough
In conventional rice cultivation in the Chinese province
of Zhejiang, it was observed that one genotype of rice
plant (cultivar Zhongzao 39) sometimes develops
resistance to the plant pathogen Burkholderia plantarii.
This pathogen leads to crop failures and also produces
a biotoxin that can cause organ damage and tumours
in persistently exposed humans and animals.
“Up to now, the sporadic resistance of rice plants to this
pathogen could not be explained,” said Tomislav
Cernava from the Institute of Environmental
Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology.
Together with the head of the institute Gabriele Berg
and his colleague Peter Kusstatscher, Cernava has
been investigating the microbiome of rice seeds from
different cultivation regions in detail in the context of a
collaboration with Zhejiang University (Hangzhou)
and Nanjing Agricultural University in China, as well as
the Japanese Hokkaido University in Sapporo.
The scientists found that the resistant plants have a
different bacterial composition inside the seeds than
the disease-susceptible plants. In particular, the
bacterial genus Sphingomonas was found significantly
more often in resistant seeds.
The researchers therefore isolated bacteria of this
genus from the seeds and identified the
bacterium Sphingomonas melonis as the responsible
agent for disease resistance. This bacterium produces
an organic acid (anthranilic acid), which inhibits the
pathogen and thereby renders it harmless.
“This also works when the isolated Sphingomonas
melonis is applied to non-resistant rice plants. This
automatically makes them resistant to the plant
pathogen Burkholderia plantarii,” explained Tomislav
Cernava.
In addition, the bacterium establishes itself in certain
rice genotypes and is then passed on naturally from
one plant generation to the next. “The potential of this
finding is enormous. In the future, we will be able to use
this strategy to reduce pesticides in agriculture and at
the same time achieve good crop yields,” added
Cernava.
If You’ve Failed at Cooking
Rice on the Stove, Try Your
Oven
The hands-off, no-stress route to fluffy grains.
BY KRISTINE WHITE
January 11, 2021
Photo By Chelsie Craig, Food Styling By Pearl Jones
Growing up in a Filipino household, our method for a perfect everyday rice recipe
was simple: Use a rice cooker. But if you don’t have a rice cooker, cooking rice in
the oven, rather than on the stove, may actually be the next best thing.
I was skeptical at first. Rice on the stovetop was one of the first recipes I ever
learned, and there’s no reason to mess with something so tried-and-true. Tender
fluffy rice, however, can be deceptively complicated to achieve if you haven’t had
some practice. Use a heat that’s too high and you can burn the bottom layer. Lift
the lid too soon (or too often) and you may end up with a mushy mess.
The consistent and gentle heat of the oven, however, is similar to the
environment of a rice cooker, removing many of the variables that can lead to
burnt, mushy, or gummy rice. Because the rice is in the oven, there’s no
temptation to lift the lid and release steam, or to (heaven forbid) stir the pot. The
oven method is also ideal for when you need to free up stovetop space or are
looking for a hands-off method. “It’s practically foolproof,” says Ali Slagle, a
recipe developer who’s tested a handful of rice-cooking methods.
Here’s how to cook rice in the oven:

To begin, you’ll need an ovenproof pot with a tight lid such as a Dutch oven or
even a casserole dish tightly fitted with aluminum foil. While the oven heats to
400°, rinse the rice two to three times until the water runs clear. I like to use
jasmine rice as an easy side to any meal, but you can cook any type of medium-
or long-grain rice in the oven. (Short-grain rice varieties such as sushi rice aren’t
suited for the oven.) Then, add the rice to the pot along with water: The ratio is
the same as if you were cooking on the stovetop—for every cup of rice, I use 1¼
cups of water. Other varieties of rice, such as brown rice, may need slightly more
water, but for most kinds of white rice, this is my surefire ratio.
As you become more familiar with the perfect rice-to-water ratio, it’s not always
necessary to measure the water volume exactly. Instead, I use a classic finger
technique. I add enough water to just cover the rice, and then lightly shake the
pot to level the grains. Then here’s the magic part: I dip my fingers straight down
into the pot until they just touch the top of rice. You know you have the right
amount of water when the water reaches the first joint of your middle finger, right
above your fingernail. This trick works whether I’m cooking enough rice for
myself or my entire family.
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On the stovetop, bring the water to a boil over medium heat. Once it’s boiling, put
the lid on and let the rice finish cooking in the oven for 17–20 minutes depending
on the rice variety. Let the rice rest for 5–10 minutes, lift the lid, fluff, and serve.
Unlike with rice cooked on the stovetop, there’s never a pesky layer of rice stuck
on the bottom or sides of the pot.
Of course, making rice in the oven comes with a similar set of challenges as rice
made on the stovetop: To keep the heat consistent and trap as much steam as
possible, you’ll want to avoid frequently checking how much water has been
absorbed. I recommend using a glass casserole dish to eliminate uncertainty—
you can easily see how much water remains without removing the foil and
releasing steam.
While I prefer starting on the stovetop to ensure that the water reaches the right
temperature (and to speed up the process!), you can cook rice entirely in the
oven, like in Yotam Ottolenghi’s Baked Minty Rice with Feta and Pomegranate
Relish. If you’re not starting the rice on the stovetop, you’ll want to increase the
oven temperature to 450° and let it cook for 30–35 minutes. Once you’ve
mastered the basic oven rice recipe, branch out into other dishes like pilafs and
layered casseroles.
Perfect rice requires less work than it seems—actually, the less you bother the
rice during the cooking process, the better it turns out. And with this method,
there’s no excuse for making undercooked (or overcooked) rice again.
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Government’s program to purchase 300,000 metric tons of

paddy of the Maha season begins tomorrow
Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 09:57 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 11, Colombo: The government’s program to purchase 300,000 metric

tons of paddy harvest of the Maha Season through the Paddy Marketing
Board will commence tomorrow (12).
Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage and State Minister of

Paddy and Cereals, Organic Food, Vegetables, Fruits, Chilies, Onions and Potatoes,
Seed Production and High Tech Agriculture, Shasheendra Rajapaksa will inaugurate the
program in Ampara District tomorrow afternoon.
The launch of the new program is aimed at boosting the interest and enthusiasm of the
officials in the state machinery and farmers involved.
The Paddy Marketing Board has taken steps to purchase 1000 kilos of paddy per
hectare from every farmer who receives the fertilizer subsidy.
The program is implemented island wide under the direct supervision of the Assistant
Commissioners of the Department of Agrarian Development and the Regional Managers
of the Paddy Marketing Board.
All steps have been taken to purchase paddy from the farmers through the Agricultural
Research Production Assistants working island wide. At the same time, the government
has taken steps to hand over the paddy packages directly to farmers. It was decided to
implement this program with the aim of defeating the rice and paddy mafia and
maintaining a government reserve of 300,000 metric tons of paddy during the Maha
season.
Harvesting of the Maha season has commenced in the Ampara and Moneragala districts
and the government program in those districts will commence tomorrow. The first
purchase is scheduled to take place at 3.30 pm tomorrow at the Paddy Marketing Board
warehouse complex in Akkaraipattu, Ampara.
This year 2.8 million metric tons of paddy is expected during the Maha season and the
government will purchase 300,000 metric tons with the primary objective of protecting
both the farmer and the consumer. During the Maha season 668,400 hectares have
been cultivated throughout the island.
Storage facilities have been set up island wide for the storage of purchased paddy. All
warehouses are being modernized with the assistance of the Army. In addition, a
program to purchase paddy through District Secretaries is being implemented.
Accordingly, the government is already prepared for a shortage of rice or a price control
by the rice mafia. Steps have been taken to hand over the money usually received by
the middlemen in the purchase of paddy to the Agricultural Research Production
Assistants this time. The Paddy Marketing Board will be able to purchase paddy through
other options only in areas where such officers are not available.
A special feature of this Maha season is the implementation of a paddy procurement

process through a state machinery. The paddy harvest will be available islandwide from
the beginning of next month and all arrangements have been made.
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_21A/Jan11_1610382437CH.php
Tatmadaw personnel accused of looting paddy in
Kyauktaw Twsp village
Monday, January 11, 2021

 Development Media Group
Hnin Nwe — Tatmadaw soldiers have been accused of taking 700 baskets of paddy in Marlar
(Arakan) village, Kyauktaw Township, while residents there were fleeing the Arakan State conflict.
One resident, who declined to be named, told DMG that troops stationed on Myauktaw Hill near the
village loaded the 700 baskets of paddy onto a lorry and ordered locals to grind rice at a mill in
Marlar (Mro) village.
“Five or six soldiers from the Tatmadaw came and told me to grind the rice. We can’t do anything [to
object], so we have to do what they tell us to do. There are two rice mills in the village and when the
soldiers come, the mill owners have to grind the paddy on a rotational basis,” he said.
Since last year’s rainy season, the Tatmadaw has been bringing paddy from Marlar (Arakan) village
to the rice mill to grind, he added.
“The owner of the rice mill phoned me saying the paddy from [our] village was there,” said U Than
Hlaing, a 100-household head in Marlar (Arakan) village. “The owners of the rice mills can do
nothing if they are asked to do something by the Tatmadaw. We want to be able to take only the
small amount of paddy left by Tatmadaw soldiers. We are currently facing livelihood hardship.”
DMG phoned the Arakan State minister for Security and Border Affairs and military spokesman Maj-
Gen Zaw Min Tun for comment on allegations related to paddy in the Marlar villages, but they could
not be reached.
DMG also contacted U Win Myint, a spokesperson for the Arakan State government as well as the
state minister for Municipal Affairs, who said he was unaware of the alleged happenings in Kyauktaw
Township.
Since March 2020 residents of Marlar village have been fleeing, typically to Kyauktaw town, due to
instability, abandoning their homes and possessions including rice, cattle and agricultural machinery.
Marlar villagers have faced food and shelter shortages at IDPs camps in the subsequent nine-plus
months. Many have expressed a desire to recover their abandoned possessions as they struggle to
make ends meet, but the presence of Tatmadaw soldiers near the village has made that difficult.
Marlar villagers and aid workers in Kyauktaw sent an appeal to the Arakan State government on
December 31 asking that the items left behind be extracted from the village safely.
There has been no response thus far, and an aid worker in Kyauktaw criticised the Tatmadaw for
allegedly seizing property during the call for help.
“These are some of the reasons why the villagers want to take their belongings. It is not difficult for
the local government to help. If the local government informs the relevant departments and
cooperates with them, it will be OK. But so far nothing has been done, so we think the local
government is enabling the military to commit more atrocities,” said Ko Zaw Win, the aid worker.
https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/tatmadaw-personnel-accused-looting-paddy-kyauktaw-twsp-
village
Division of Agriculture, Dale Bumpers
faculty, staff recognized at 2021 Agricultural
Awards
January 11, 2021
John W. White Outstanding Research
Award winner — Division of Agriculture rice breeder and interim director of the
Rice Research and Extension Center, Karen Moldenhauer. (Image courtesy
Karen Moldenhauer)
The traditional celebratory gathering may have been replaced by an online

ceremony, but the change didn’t diminish the extension, research and teaching
successes honored Friday during the Arkansas Agriculture Awards.
The annual awards are recognition of the highest levels of performance within
both the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture in its research
and extension functions and the academic and teaching roles in the Dale
Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. The winners are
selected by their peers.
“After the rugged year we’ve all endured, starting this new year on a high note
by recognizing a few of our highly productive faculty and staff is a much-needed
boost for all of us,” said Mark Cochran, vice president-agriculture for the
University of Arkansas System and head of the Division of Agriculture. “Even
though we are having to do without our in-person gathering, there is one silver
lining: being online will enable us to open this celebration to all of our
employees.”
Jean-Francois Meullenet, director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment
Station, the research arm of the Division of Agriculture, emphasized the
importance of taking stock of the achievements of the previous year.
“After an especially difficult 2020, we’re glad to take a moment to celebrate our
successes and recognize the exceptional work of our faculty and staff,” he said.
“This annual awards ceremony gives us a chance to highlight just a few of our
remarkable Experiment Station employees and their efforts to advance food and
agriculture research.”
Bob Scott, director of the Cooperative Extension Service, said, “I love getting
the opportunity to honor two of my extension co-workers at the division level.
Soybean agronomist Dr. Jeremy Ross and Mr. Les Walz of Cleveland County are
very deserving of our recognition this year.”
For Deacue Fields, dean of the Bumpers College, the awards mean gratitude.
“Saying ‘Thank You’ is something we can never do too much for individuals who
go above the call of duty,” he said. “It’s a privilege and honor to be able to
recognize this group of educators for their service to our students. The efforts of
these individuals, and many, many others on campus, are why we continuously
hear our students talk about the family atmosphere we have in Bumpers
College. Congratulations and thank you for your outstanding contributions in
areas of teaching, advising and mentoring, support services and everything else
you do in working with our students and preparing them for their careers.”
This year’s winners are:
 Outstanding Research Award — Karen Moldenhauer, professor and rice

breeder
 Outstanding Teaching Award — Kathi Jogan, instructor and head of the
equine program for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life
Sciences
 Outstanding Extension State Faculty Award — Jeremy Ross, extension
soybean agronomist
 Outstanding County Extension Educator Award — Cleveland County
Extension Staff Chair Les Walz
 Outstanding Team Award — Big Creek Research and Extension Team:
Lawrence Berry, field technician; James Burke, data manager; Timothy Glover,
field technician; Jennifer Purtle, program assistant, Arkansas Water Resources
Center; Andrew Sharpley, distinguished professor; Pearl Webb, program
associate; Brina Smith, Arkansas Water Resources Center; Karl VanDevender,
professor/extension engineer; Adam Willis, Newton County extension staff chair.
 Division of Agriculture Non-Classified Support Personnel Award — Mary
Poling, information technology-extension; Tsung Cheng Tsai, Department of
Animal Science.
 Division of Agriculture Classified Support Personnel Award — David
Reynolds, Department of Poultry Science.
 Bumpers College Excellence in Service Award for Non-Classified Support
Personnel — Jody Davis, dean’s office.
 Bumpers College Excellence in Service Award for Classified Support
Personnel —Rhonda Harton, department of Agricultural Education,
Communications and Technology.
 Jack G. Justus Award for Teaching Excellence — Jacquelyn Wiersma-
Mosley, associate professor of human development and family sciences.
 Bumpers College Alumni Society Outstanding Advising Award — Lauren
Thomas, clinical assistant professor and veterinarian.
Jason Norsworthy, professor and weed scientist, earned the Spitze Land Grant
University Faculty Award for Excellence for significant contributions to the
teaching, research and extension arms of the land grant mission. As an adviser,
he’s graduated 31 master’s degree and six PhD students from the Department
of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, secured more than $16 million in
research funding and has been author or co-author of hundreds of articles,
including more than 80 extension publications.
Also recognized were faculty and staff who were issued patents during 2020:
 Compositions and Methods of Enhancing Immune Responses to Enteric

Pathogens — Lisa Bielke, Olivia B. Faulkner, Billy Hargis, Sherryll Layton and
Neil R. Pumford, Department of Poultry Science
 Trailer, Labeling System, Control System, and Program for Field Implementation
of Computerized Hole Selection for Layflat Irrigation Pipe — Christopher Henry,
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
 Yeast Vaccine Vector Including Immunostimulatory and Antigenic Polypeptides
and Methods of Using the Same — Lisa Bielke, Leona N. Calhoun, Olivia B.
Faulkner and Billy Hargis, Department of Poultry Science
 Rice Diamond — Karen Moldenhauer, Rice Research and Extension Center
 Titan Rice Cultivar — Karen Moldenhauer, Rice Research and Extension
Center and Xueyan Sha, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
 Stalk Cutter Device — Chester Greub and Trenton Roberts,

Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
 Nectarine Tree Named ‘Effie’ — John Clark and Margaret Worthington,

Department of Horticulture
 Grape Plant Named ‘Compassion’ — John Clark, Department of Horticulture

 Blackberry Plant Named ‘APF-205T’ — John Clark, Department of Horticulture
https://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/division-of-agriculture-dale-bumpers-faculty-staff-recognized-at-
2021-agricultural-awards/
The New Green Revolution: A Just Transition to

Climate-Smart Crops
 RIA KASLIWAL
 EMPLOYMENT
 FARMERS’ PROTESTS
 GDP
 GREENHOUSE GAS
 GROWTH
 NEW GREEN REVOLUTION
The agriculture sector’s contribution to India’s GDP and employment makes it crucial to the
country’s growth. At the same time, the sector’s massive greenhouse gas emissions pose a
threat to India’s green transition. The ongoing farmers’ protests also highlight the need for a
climate-smart agriculture strategy that will address fundamental issues like income support.
This brief outlines a framework for India’s “new green revolution” that will not only be
feasible for small and marginal farmers, but will provide them stable incomes. The brief
explores the necessary attributes of such a climate-smart transition.
Attribution: Ria Kasliwal, “The New Green Revolution: A Just Transition to Climate-Smart
Crops,” ORF Issue Brief No. 433, January 2021, Observer Research Foundation.
Introduction
The agriculture sector is an integral part of India’s growth story. It employs 58 percent of the
population and contributes 18 percent of the country’s GDP. [1] It is responsible for both food
and nutritional security and is key to efforts towards alleviating poverty and reducing
inequality. In the first quarter of 2020, agriculture was the only sector that showed some
growth (3.4 percent) when the economy contracted overall by a massive 23.4 percent. [2] At
the same time, agriculture contributes 16 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the
country, second only to the energy sector (See Figure 1). [3]
Figure 1: Distribution of GHG Emissions (Gg CO 2 e) by sector
Source: India: Second Biennial Update Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [4]
If India is aiming to transition to a green economy and achieve its Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), it will have to pay greater attention to the agricultural sector. Agriculture can
yet prove to be a catalyst for India to achieve a standard of inclusive, green growth.
The ongoing farmers’ protests in the capital region have made it clear that among the
imperatives in the country’s agriculture sector is addressing concerns about income support.
Farmers are rejecting the three new farm bills primarily because of fears that their much-
needed income support—in the form of Minimum Support Price (MSP)—would be rendered
obsolete. [5] It is important, therefore, to create a pathway towards climate-smart agriculture
that is not just accessible and feasible to India’s small and marginal farmers, but also creates
a stable income stream. Consequently, a just transition to climate-smart agriculture requires
combining the need for stabilised farmers’ incomes with the shift towards greener and less
climate-exhaustive practises.
This brief outlines the shortfalls of the present system of procurement that have led to
environmentally unsustainable practises in agriculture. It argues that the procurement system
could nevertheless be a powerful tool in achieving sustainability by switching to greener
practises in the short term while ensuring income support. However, in the long run,
switching to a more robust alternative for sustainable agriculture will require building an
enabling environment with better income support for the farmers.
The Price of Rice

Rice is the staple food for more than 65 percent of the Indian population and contributes 40
percent of total food grain production in India. [6] It occupies a central role in Indian
agriculture as it provides food and livelihood security to a large proportion of the rural
population. In 2018-19, India produced 116.42 million tonnes of rice, second in the world
only to China. [7]
However, rice cultivation is a considerable threat to sustainable agriculture as it is a
significant source of GHG emissions (e.g., methane and nitrite oxide) and rice is a significant
sequester of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Furthermore, emission of methane (or
CH4) [a] from flooded paddy fields, combined with the burning of rice residues such as husks
and straws, further add to GHG emissions. [b] , [8] In 2017, India produced 112.78 million
tonnes of rice, [9] which led to large emissions as summarised in Table 1. While rice formed
only 9 percent of total consumption in Indian diets, it contributed 36.9 percent to the total
GHG emissions in Indian diets (See Figures 2 and 3).
Table 1: Emission Content of Rice Cultivation in India
Rice Cultivation Value 2017 Unit
Implied emission factor for CH4 10.556 g CH4/m2
Emissions (CH4) 4622.3668 gigagrams
Emissions (CO2eq) 97069.7036 gigagrams
Source: FAO Stat [10]
Source: S.H. Vetter et al., ‘Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural food production to supply Indian diets: Implications
for climate change mitigation[11]
Figure 4: Total CO2eq emissions from rice cultivation

Source: FAO stat [12]
Indeed, India being the world’s second largest rice cultivator, it contributed 18 percent of the
global CO2eq emissions from rice cultivation (See Figure 4). The creation of greener climate
alternatives for rice cultivation in India is therefore not only important for achieving the
country’s SDGs, but will also have lasting benefits for the world. Rice cultivation is a
disproportionately large threat to climate action in India, simply because a bulk of these
activities take place in environments that are entirely unsuitable.
Much of agricultural GHG emissions in India arise in the primary production stage, through
imprudent deployment of farming inputs, residue management, soil disturbance and
misguided irrigation strategies employed to improve harvests. [13] In India, rice—a water-
intensive crop [c] which ought to be grown in rain-fed areas, is largely cultivated in the semi-
arid regions of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh (See Table 2). [14] However, it was
not a mere coincidence that the farmers in these regions that used to be desert-like, started
producing a water-hefty crop like rice.
Table 2: Rice: Area and Production share to all India in major Rice-Producing States in
2018-19
State Production % to all India Area % to all India
West Bengal 13.79 12.61
Uttar Pradesh 13.34 13.12
Punjab 11.01 7.09
Andhra Pradesh 7.08 5.04
Odisha 6.28 8.47
Telangana 5.76 4.46
Chhattisgarh 5.61 8.23
Tamil Nadu 5.54 3.93
Bihar 5.19 7.26
Assam 4.41 5.62
Haryana 3.88 3.30
Madhya Pradesh 3.86 4.52
Others 14.24 16.34
All India 100.00 100.00
Source: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Farmers

Welfare [15]
Historical Overview
The present unsustainable patterns of rice cultivation in the country are a legacy of the
government’s procurement policy. The foundation of Green Revolution was laid in a food-
scarce India of the early 1960s, which was experiencing an exponential rise in dependence on
the US for wheat seeds. The government established the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to
procure food grains at MSP from farmers and supply them through the Public Distribution
System (PDS) to the consumers while also maintaining a buffer stock. This became India’s
way to gain self-sufficiency and food security. With a primary focus on rice and wheat, the
states of Punjab and Haryana served as home to the green revolution. [16]
To make these dry regions conducive to rice cultivation, extensive investment in irrigation,
assured government procurement, availability of subsidised inputs, [d] and well-functioning
mandis, were installed in these states. These incentivised farmers to cultivate rice, and
eventually India increased its rice production manifold. [17]
One could argue that since government procurement policies are applicable across India, the
issue of unsustainable rice cultivation in Punjab-Haryana might not necessarily be a
consequence of such a system. The truth, however, is that the procurement system is largely
unequal across India. For instance, while the produce of 85 and 89 percent of paddy
cultivators in Haryana and Punjab, respectively, are procured by the government, only a
small proportion of rice farmers in other states benefit from this system (See Figure 5).
Figure 5: Procurement of rice in key Rice-Producing States (2018-19)
Source: Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare [18]
The same system of procurement that allowed farmers to do away with price risk and
provided income support to them, also facilitated the cultivation of rice in unsuitable areas
because of the climate-blind incentives. In time, the production of rice increased many-fold
and helped India gain self-sufficiency. However, the absence of checks on sustainability,
coupled with the continuous adoption of intensive rice cultivation incentivised by the
procurement system, simply added to India’s climate woes. Since rice cultivation requires a
hefty amount of water that is made available in these states without monitoring, along with
free electricity to pump water, India’s biggest rice producers—Punjab, Haryana, and western
Uttar Pradesh—are experiencing extreme levels of groundwater depletion. [19] These areas are
among the world’s top water-risk zones for agricultural production. [20]
Furthermore, given the inherent unsuitability of the regions for the cultivation of rice, soil
health is also depleting. In Punjab, Haryana, and Western UP, the organic matter content in
soil is as low as 0.1 percent. [e] Likewise, the flooding of rice fields has led to waterlogging
and salinity; and uncontrolled use of subsidised fertilisers and pesticides has polluted surface
and ground waters. [21] The unsustainability of rice production in India’s dry regions is
therefore actively contributing to the adverse effects of climate change in India in terms of
water scarcity, soil depletion and GHG emissions. The direct impact of this climate crisis
will seriously hinder rice production.
Rice farming in rain-fed areas faces risks of flooding; in semi-arid regions the production of
rice is threatened by the depleting water table. Furthermore, degraded soil and uncertain
climate also pose a risk to rice cultivation. [22] Increased temperature, according to research by
the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), is already negatively affecting rice yields in
some parts of Asia. [23] Occurrence of a similar pattern in India could negatively impact
farmers’ incomes and push many of them to poverty. The consequential decline in food
productivity—as crop production is hindered due to climate crisis—could threaten the
nation’s food and nutritional security.
In Search of Alternatives
A transition to climate-smart agriculture should encourage a movement away from reliance
on rice and towards more feasible and climate-friendly crops. First of these are millets and
pulses, which formed a larger proportion of agricultural production in India prior to the green
revolution.
The share of pulses production to total food-grain production in India stood at 16.55 percent
in 1950-1951 and continued to increase till 1960-61. This share, however, reversed following
the green revolution and declined to a mere 6.50 percent by 2015-16. [24] Similarly, the share
of millets in total food-grain production of India dropped from 22.17 percent in 1950-51 to
6.94 percent in 2011-12. [25]
As the procurement system incentivised the cultivation of rice and wheat, low remuneration,
lack of input subsidies, processing facilities, and price incentives led to declining proportion
of pulses and millets. Indeed, even the area under production for millets and pulses dwindled
significantly following the green revolution. [26] Today, for every 100-tonne production of
food grain in India, rice and wheat account for 91 tonnes, nutri-cereals (millets and sorghum)
for 5.5 tonnes, and pulses, 3.5 tonnes. [27]
Table 3: Area Share of Crop Categories to Gross Cropped Area (In Percent)
Peak Green Revolution Post Post-
Period
Pre-Green Early Green Reform Recession
Revolution Revolution Period Period
(1975-76
Period Period (1995-96 (2004-05
to 1988- (1988-89 to
(1960-61 to (1968-69 to to 2004- to 2014-
Crops 89) 1995-96)
1968-69) 1975-76) 05) 15)
Paddy &
Wheat 31.34 33.9 36.04 36.12 37.21 37.27
Nutri-
Cereal
(Millets) 25.52 21.24 19.79 15.28 14.00 12.67
Pulses 14.73 13.54 13.28 12.41 11.80 12.18
Source: Hindu BusinessLine [28]

While pulses eventually found their way in the procurement system, its market price has
stayed below the MSP, and the procurement has also not met targets. [29] While India has
started to increase its pulse production, it ends up importing a large proportion of its needs.
Given the surplus of pulses in the market, its price falls below MSP; this hurts the producers,
discouraging them from growing more pulses. [30] Millets, meanwhile, recently found their
way in the procurement system after numerous calls by several agricultural economists and
farmers’ collectives. [31] However, as consumer preferences shifted to rice given the large PDS
in India, demand for millets fell; production declined and so did prices. [32]
Both pulses and millets are climate-smart crops. Millets are extremely suitable for harsh, dry
and hot environments, and require little water. They are drought-resistant, require low
rainfall, and can grow in infertile soil. [33] Pulses also require significantly less water than rice,
and can grow in any season and almost all types of climates. The diversity of pulses makes it
adaptable to climate and temperature changes, which is further complemented by their ability
to grow in infertile soil or under drought-like conditions. [34]
Furthermore, they contribute less GHG emissions as compared to rice. (See Figures 2 and 3)
Moreover, cultivating both millets and pulses helps retain soil health: pulses add the much
needed nitrogen, while millets increase the content of organic matter in the soil. [35] ,
[36]
Additionally, a study conducted in India reported that by replacing rice areas in each
district with climate-smart crops like millets and pulses, it will be possible to reduce
irrigation requirements by 33 percent and improve the production of protein (+1%), iron
(+27%), and zinc (+13%). [37]
The cost of cultivation of pulses and millets is also significantly lower than rice, despite the
availability of subsidised inputs for rice cultivation. (See Figure 6).
Figure 6: Cost of Cultivation of Rice, Gram Pulse and Bajra Millet in selected states in
2017-18. (Rs/hectare)
Source: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare [38]
Pulses and millets not only require minimal inputs, but they also retain soil health, stabilise
water depletion and restrict GHG emissions, making them extremely suitable to grow in the
semi-arid, water-scarce regions of Punjab and Haryana. Furthermore, the yields of pulses and
millets, if not equal, are greater than that of rice. [39] This would ensure that the country’s food
security is maintained as it faces the adverse consequences of climate change. Furthermore,
switching to highly nutritious climate-smart crops will ensure a greater nutritional security
the country [40] – which is presently under threat, as indicated by NFHS-5. [f] , [41]
Aware of these potential benefits, the government has been focusing on promoting the
production of millets and pulses. Initiatives have ranged from renaming millets to nutri-
cereals, to increasing MSPs for these food-grains, and the inclusion of pulses and millets in
the National Food Security Mission. [42] , [43] Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the
promotion of production and consumption of millets; he has declared 2023 as the
‘International Year of Millets’. [g] , [44] However, despite the increased attention towards the
revival of the production of pulses and millets, there has only been a modest improvement
owing to the absence of proper accommodating mechanisms.
The Four Attributes of a Just Transition
Indian farmers are incentivised to produce rice because of an assured demand at a
remunerative price. On the other hand, the lack of such demand for millets and pulses has
forced a decline in their production over the years. Thus, income support and demand are
crucial facilitators for production of any desirable climate-smart crop.
In the absence of an income support system, farmers will be left to the mercy of seasonal
changes—further worsened by climate change, which in turn would result in unstable
incomes. Furthermore, so far, the assured demand for rice had been a motivator towards its
production. But in its absence, farmers would be left without any market signals to indicate
what should be produced. Consequently, over-production of one particular crop could result
in its overflow in the market, leaving farmers who have little access to markets, with low
prices [h] and extra inventory. This problem exists in other food crops (like vegetables) whose
prices and stock fluctuate overwhelmingly at times, harming the smallest farmers most of all.
[45]
Moreover, the absence of feasible and accessible processing and storage facilities implies
that in most situations, either the processing cost disincentivises growth of some food-grains
and/or farmers end up destroying the produce that does not sell. Both these situations end up
hurting farmers. It is also the availability of subsidised inputs for one set of food grains over
the other that further promotes the production of the former.
There are four pillars that will enable a shift to climate-smart agriculture (See Table 4).
It begins with sustainable agriculture planning. As noted in the case of rice, the

availability of free electricity to pump water in Punjab and Haryana incentivised farmers to
cultivate paddy in these dry regions. If, however, the same region, given its suitability to
grow millets, was provided easy and feasible access to processing facilities, subsidised inputs
and enabling machinery for the transition to millet production, it would motivate farmers in
the region to grow millets. Thus, an agriculture policy that integrates sustainable
practises (by providing inputs at subsidised rates) that incentivise the production of the crop
best suitable for the region will help in a more climate-friendly, just transition.
However, climate-appropriate agriculture planning needs to be supplemented with proper
infrastructure to transmit market signals that allow farmers to produce according to market
demand. As mentioned earlier, this will ensure that the market does not overflow with one
particular food grain and prices do not fall drastically.
Furthermore, an enabling environment will need to be created and expanded to cover the
smallest farmers: this includes better market access, and feasible storage and processing
facilities. Some sort of income support will also need to be provided to farmers to ensure that
they get stable incomes even amidst seasonal changes.
Table 4: The Four Attributes of Sustainable Agriculture Planning
Attributes Mechanisms Impacts
Shadow Prices of Incentivises production of climate-suitable

Sustainable Practises Inputs crops.
Support against seasonal changes worsened by

climate crisis. Balanced flow of revenue to
Income Stability Income Support farmers.
Market Signalling Production as per Restrains over-production of certain goods,

Infrastructure demand ensures price and inventory maintained.
Feasible Storage &

Processing Facilities Cost of cultivation goes down.
Accessible Enabling Better Market

Environment Access Easier to sell food-grains.
Source: Author’s Own
Box 1 presents a brief case study on Karnataka, showcasing how the implementation of these
four attributes led to a successful “millet revolution” in the state. [46]
Recommendations
While it is clear that the unsustainable incentivisation towards production of rice was due to
the procurement system and that the procurement system is largely unequal in its reach, it is
nevertheless, a powerful tool to drive the transition towards climate-smart crops. A similar
procurement system to the one that created an enabling environment which multiplied rice
production, could increase the production of pulses and millets. Phasing out procurement of
rice and in its stead, creating assured procurement (demand pull) for pulses and millets, at
remunerative prices (income support) with subsidised inputs (shadow prices) will ensure a
shift to the production of these climate-smart crops, which will aid in India’s green
transition.
The government could then supply the nutritious, climate-smart food-grains to its citizens
utilising its PDS and mid-day meal scheme, thereby ensuring food and nutritional security.
Furthermore, if the large population of the country dependent on the PDS and mid-day meal
scheme are encouraged to switch their food intake, over time, consumer preferences for
pulses and millets could increase, thereby ensuring a continued demand pull in the future as
well.
Therefore, at least in the short term, it would be better to switch to green agriculture
practises with income support and assured demand with the already developed, if uneven,
procurement infrastructure. The mechanism will further ensure that the transition would
require minimal cost for the farmers. Moreover, in the short run, the government might be
able to meet its procurement targets for pulses and millets which in turn, would cause a
reduction in the storage cost for overflowing rice.
However, it is true that the procurement cost can only be retained for so long and there is a
need to switch to a more robust alternative. Therefore, while sustaining the procurement
policy in the short term, deeper networks—which create better market access, infrastructure,
storage, and processing facilities—must be established. These in turn will form the
fundamentals for a more efficient and inclusive contract-farming architecture that would help
farmers in producing as per market demand given climate suitability.
In the long term, as deeper networks are built, the government could switch to contract
farming proposals for their PDS and mid-day meals schemes. This will work in a way that
will be similar to the procurement system but will essentially help in cultivating support for
contract-farming. However, this still leaves the need for income support to farmers to help
stabilise their incomes in the long run. As per Gulati et al., a Direct Income Support/per
hectare (DIS) system currently in place in Telangana and Karnataka, will be best suitable for
stabilising farming incomes in India at a relatively low cost, if tenancy laws were to undergo
a reform. [47]
Conclusion
Given the quantum of the agricultural sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions in
India, any movement towards green growth must incorporate the principles of climate-smart
agriculture. In turn, taking into account the contribution of rice cultivation to agriculture
emissions, any such movement must also incorporate alternatives to improve rice cultivation.
The alternatives suggested in this brief are nutrient rich, drought-resistant, and low GHG-
emitting pulses and millets.
Despite the knowledge about the benefits of these climate-smart crops, government schemes
aiming to promote their production have made little progress owing to the absence of
accommodating policies. In the recent months, the massive farmers’ protests are a wakeup
call that any reforms that do not include substantial income support to farmers will only be
met with resistance.
It is therefore important to initiate a new Green Revolution, wherein a just transition towards
climate-smart agriculture will incorporate sustainable agriculture planning, provide market
signalling and income support, and create an enabling environment through provisioning of
processing and storage facilities and better market access. Even as the procurement system
can be used for expanding on these networks for a green transition, there must be an effort to
shift towards more market-based farming practises with proper income support to farmers
through a Direct Income Support system.
About the Author

Ria Kasliwal is a Junior Fellow at ORF.
Endnotes
[a]
CH4 is second in importance to CO2 as a greenhouse gas
[b]
82% of rice residue is burned in the field which contributes to significant air pollution in
North India.
[c]
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report, “Beneath the Surface: The State of the World’s Water 2019 ”.
[d]
Availability of subsidised fertilisers, free electricity, and seeds
[e]
Soil Organic Matter below 1% is usually found in deserts. Soil Organic Matter ranging
between 12-18% is considered organic soil.
[f]
There are increased incidences of nutritional insecurity in the country.
[g]
This has also been endorsed by FAO.
[h]
It should be noted that even in the presence of MSP, farmers often get prices below MSP in
the open market.
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Researchers identify bacterium that

protects rice plants against diseases
by Graz University of Technology
Rice panicle: Rising global warming is problematic for the water-intensive cultivation of rice, the
staple food for about half the world's population. Credit: Mengcen Wang
With their expertise in microbiome research, the researchers at the Institute of

Environmental Biotechnology were able to demonstrate how a specific bacterium inside
the seeds of rice plants effectively and in an eco-friendly way inhibits destructive plant
pathogens.
Rice is the staple food of about half the world's population. The cultivation of
the rice plant is very water-intensive and, according to the German aid organization
Welthungerhilfe, around 15 percent of rice is grown in areas with a high risk of drought.
Global warming is therefore becoming increasingly problematic for rice cultivation,
leading more and more often to small harvests and hunger crises. Crop failures caused
by plant pathogens further aggravate the situation. Here, conventional agriculture is
trying to counteract this with pesticides, which are mostly used as a precautionary
measure in rice cultivation. The breeding of resistant plants is the only alternative to
these environmentally harmful agents—and currently only moderately successful. If the
plants are resistant to one pathogen thanks to their breeding, they are usually more
susceptible to other pathogens or are less robust under adverse environmental
conditions.
Bacterium confers pathogen resistance
For this reason, an international research group which includes the Institute of
Environmental Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology has been studying the
microbiome of rice plant seeds for some time now in order to establish correlations
between plant health and the occurrence of certain microorganisms. The group has now
achieved a major breakthrough. They identified a bacterium inside the seed that can
lead to complete resistance to a particular pathogen and is naturally transmitted from
one plant generation to another. The findings published in the scientific journal Nature
Plants provide a completely new basis for designing biological plant protection products
and additionally reducing harmful biotoxins produced by plant pathogens.
Rice seed: Tomislav Cernava conducts research at the Institute for Environmental
Biotechnology at TU Graz. Credit: Lunghammer - TU Graz
The microbiome of rice
In conventional rice cultivation in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, it was observed that
one genotype of rice plants (cultivar Zhongzao 39) sometimes develops resistance to
the plant pathogen Burkholderia plantarii. This pathogen leads to crop failures and also
produces a biotoxin that can cause organ damage and tumors in persistently exposed
humans and animals. "Up to now, the sporadic resistance of rice plants to this pathogen
could not be explained," says Tomislav Cernava from the Institute of Environmental
Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology. Together with institute head Gabriele
Berg and his institute colleague Peter Kusstatscher, Cernava has been investigating the
microbiome of rice seeds from different cultivation regions in detail in the context of a
collaboration with Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) and Nanjing Agricultural University in
China as well as with the Japanese Hokkaido University in Sapporo.
Bacterial composition as a decisive factor

The scientists found that the resistant plants have a different bacterial composition
inside the seeds than the disease-susceptible plants. The bacterial genus
Sphingomonas in particular was found significantly more often in resistant seeds. The
researchers therefore isolated bacteria of this genus from the seeds and identified the
bacterium Sphingomonas melonis as the responsible agent for disease resistance. This
bacterium produces an organic acid (anthranilic acid), which inhibits the pathogen and
thereby renders it harmless. "This also works when the isolated Sphingomonas melonis
is applied to non-resistant rice plants. This automatically makes them resistant to the
plant pathogen Burkholderia plantarii," explains Tomislav Cernava.
In addition, the bacterium establishes itself in certain rice genotypes and is then passed
on naturally from one plant generation to the next. "The potential of this finding is
enormous. In the future, we will be able to use this strategy to reduce pesticides in
agriculture and at the same time achieve good crop yields," says Cernava.
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-bacterium-rice-diseases.html
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China's 'Father of Hybrid Rice' joins

TikTok, pulls in 15 million followers
in 3 days
Updated 21:22, 11-Jan-2021
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Yuan Longping's Douyin account has attracted more than 15 million followers in just
three days. /Screenshot of Douyin
Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping, famed for developing high-yield rice

varieties, joined the short-video app Douyin, known outside China as TikTok,
over the weekend, attracting more than 15 million followers even before
publishing any post.
The account "Chinese Pioneer Yuan Longping" was set up on Saturday, and has
amassed a massive following of 15.3 million people as of Monday noon.
Despite the instant popularity of the account, Yuan, who is known as China's
"Father of Hybrid Rice," has yet to be active on the app, and his silence has
caused a stir on Douyin. "When will grandpa Yuan Longping post?" became the
hottest topic on the app on Sunday.
Users are thrilled to see the 90-year-old scientist joining the platform.
"I followed him immediately since I've eaten the rice he's developed," said one
user. "He is the real idol that millions of people should pay attention to," said
another.
Yuan Longping inspects a rice field in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province,
October 22, 2019. /CFP
However, the credibility of this account soon came under question as the media
reported Yuan didn't know about opening a Douyin account of his own. Xinhua
said on its official Weibo (China's Twitter-like social media platform) account on
Monday afternoon that Yuan, currently working at the Nanfan Scientific and
Research Breeding Base in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, has no idea
about this account, and it was registered by "some company."
In response to the questions posed by the media, Douyin made an official

statement on Weibo later in the evening, clarifying the reliability of the account.
It said the Qingdao Sea Rice Research and Development Center, which is led by
Yuan Longping, contacted Douyin in August, 2020 about having Yuan join
Douyin, Toutiao and Xigua Video, and provided the platform with necessary
materials for authentication, including Yuan's ID and a letter of authorization.
Douyin said the follow-up processing of this account will fully respect the
opinions of Yuan and his team.
A screenshot of Douyin's statement on Weibo on January 11, 2021 about the credibility
of Yuan Longping's Douyin account. /Douyin
Yuan has devoted himself to breeding strains of rice – a staple in the country –
with prolific growth. China has to feed one-fifth of the world's population with
just seven percent of the world's arable land and six percent of its water. It's a
mammoth task that has benefited from the genius of Yuan, who in the 1970s
developed the world's first hybrid rice. Since then, varieties of the super crop
have repeatedly broken yield records.
In 2020, Yuan and his team managed to produce 1,500 kilograms of rice
per mu (about 22.5 tonnes per hectare) over two growing seasons in central
China's Hunan Province. Local double-cropping rice yields an average of 700-800
kilograms per mu.
Yuan has also been working on breeding seawater rice that can thrive in saline-
alkali soils. In one experiment last year, the average yield of salt-resistant rice
planted in the eastern province of Jiangsu reached 802.9 kg per mu (about 12
tonnes per hectare), a new record.
The celebrity scientist already has a social media presence. On September 20,
2020, Yuan opened an account on Kuaishou, a major rival to Douyin, to mark the
third annual Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, which falls on September 22.
There he shared agricultural knowledge and advanced rice-growing concepts.
Yuan will host his first live broadcast on Douyin in a week, the company told
Shanghai-based newspaper The Paper on Sunday.
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Bacterium protects rice plants from diseases

Date:
January 11, 2021
Source:
Graz University of Technology
Summary:
Researchers were able to demonstrate how a specific bacterium inside the seeds of rice
plants effectively and in an eco-friendly way inhibits destructive plant pathogens.

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Rice is the staple food of about half the world's population. The cultivation of
the rice plant is very water-intensive and, according to the German aid
organization Welthungerhilfe, around 15 per cent of rice is grown in areas with
a high risk of drought. Global warming is therefore becoming increasingly
problematic for rice cultivation, leading more and more often to small harvests
and hunger crises. Crop failures caused by plant pathogens further aggravate
the situation. Here, conventional agriculture is trying to counteract this with
pesticides, which are mostly used as a precautionary measure in rice
cultivation. The breeding of resistant plants is the only alternative to these
environmentally harmful agents -- and currently only moderately successful. If
the plants are resistant to one pathogen thanks to their breeding, they are
usually more susceptible to other pathogens or are less robust under adverse
environmental conditions.
Bacterium confers pathogen resistance

For this reason, an international research group which includes the Institute of Environmental
Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology has been studying the microbiome of rice plant
seeds for some time now in order to establish correlations between plant health and the occurrence
of certain microorganisms. The group has now achieved a major breakthrough. They identified a
bacterium inside the seed that can lead to complete resistance to a particular pathogen and is
naturally transmitted from one plant generation to another. The findings published in the scientific
journal Nature Plants provide a completely new basis for designing biological plant protection
products and additionally reducing harmful biotoxins produced by plant pathogens.
The microbiome of rice
In conventional rice cultivation in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, it was observed that one
genotype of rice plants (cultivar Zhongzao 39) sometimes develops resistance to the plant pathogen
Burkholderia plantarii. This pathogen leads to crop failures and also produces a biotoxin that can
cause organ damage and tumours in persistently exposed humans and animals. "Up to now, the
sporadic resistance of rice plants to this pathogen could not be explained," says Tomislav Cernava
from the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology. Together with
the luminary of microbiome research and Institute head, Gabriele Berg, and his institute colleague
Peter Kusstatscher, Cernava has been investigating the microbiome of rice seeds from different
cultivation regions in detail in the context of a collaboration with Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) and
Nanjing Agricultural University in China as well as with the Japanese Hokkaido University in
Sapporo.
Bacterial composition as a decisive factor
The scientists found that the resistant plants have a different bacterial composition inside the seeds
than the disease-susceptible plants. The bacterial genus Sphingomonas in particular was found
significantly more often in resistant seeds. The researchers therefore isolated bacteria of this genus
from the seeds and identified the bacterium Sphingomonas melonis as the responsible agent for
disease resistance. This bacterium produces an organic acid (anthranilic acid), which inhibits the
pathogen and thereby renders it harmless. "This also works when the isolated Sphingomonas
melonis is applied to non-resistant rice plants. This automatically makes them resistant to the plant
pathogen Burkholderia plantarii," explains Tomislav Cernava. In addition, the bacterium establishes
itself in certain rice genotypes and is then passed on naturally from one plant generation to the next.
"The potential of this finding is enormous. In the future, we will be able to use this strategy to reduce
pesticides in agriculture and at the same time achieve good crop yields," emphasizes Cernava.
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1. Haruna Matsumoto, Xiaoyan Fan, Yue Wang, Peter Kusstatscher, Jie Duan, Sanling Wu, Sunlu Chen,
Kun Qiao, Yiling Wang, Bin Ma, Guonian Zhu, Yasuyuki Hashidoko, Gabriele Berg, Tomislav Cernava,
Mengcen Wang. Bacterial seed endophyte shapes disease resistance in rice. Nature Plants, 2021;
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Pakistan finally notifies GI rules

to protect domestic products in
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Pakistan’s GI initially protects 79 items
ByGhulam Abbas
ISLAMABAD: After a lapse of around 18 years, Pakistan on Monday finally approved and
notified geographical indication (GI) rules to protect its domestic products in the international
market.
The rules were approved in a fast move after the country was caught unaware when India applied
for an exclusive GI tag to Basmati rice in the European Union (EU) in September 2020. Pakistan
was also facing registration issues regarding domestic products in the international market as
local items were not protected through the GI law.
As per the approved rules, a copy of which is available with Profit, at least 79 products,
including Basmati Rice, Khanpur Khwa, Bahawalpur Chunri, Bhakkar Karna Oil, Khewra Pink
Salt, Chitrali Embroidery, Hunza Apricot, Sukkur Dates etc., have been protected through the GI
law.
“GI identifies agricultural, natural and manufactured goods originating, manufactured or

produced in a territory, region or locality as determined by the country, where a given quality,
reputation, characteristics, ingredients or components are essentially attributable to its
geographical origin,” the rules stated. “In the case of manufactured goods, the production,
processing or preparation of the specified product takes place in a certain territory, region or
locality.”
To implement GI rules, the concerned division shall establish a GI Registry under the
management and control of IPO Pakistan. Trademarks Registry and its branches established
under the Trademarks Ordinance, 2001 (XIX of 2001) shall carry out functions of the GI
Registry and its branches till a separate GI Registry is established under the said Act.
The rules include the procedure of application, assessment, conformity of GI with a book of
specification, opposition to the application, duration, renewal, removal and restoration of
registration, infringement of GI, grant of certificate, prohibition on transfer etc.
Apart from the registration of domestic products, the GI rules also define law about registering
foreign GI. As per the rule, a geographical indication of a foreign country shall be registered in
Pakistan as long as it is registered in accordance with the local legislation in its country of origin.
The title and date of the legislative or administrative provisions or of judicial decisions regarding
protection to the geographical indication in the country of origin shall be considered for
accepting foreign GI application.
The registry shall not allow the registration of a foreign GI which is not or has ceased to be
protected in its country of origin, or which has fallen into disuse in that country. The application
for registration of foreign GI shall be made at the registry by its legal representative in Pakistan.
During the registration procedure, the registry may require the applicant or legal representative to
submit information related to registration in the country of origin which may affect its
registration in Pakistan.
It may be mentioned here that a product has to be protected under the GI laws of a country
before applying for registration for the protection of any product’s GI tagging.
Earlier, there were no rules of the GI Registration and Protection Act 2020, enacted in March this
year, which was why Pakistan’s basmati was not a protected product.
India’s claim to Basmati was challenged earlier this month, with Pakistan arguing that basmati
rice was a product of both India and Pakistan.

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Bacteria breakthrough
could lead to disease-
resistant rice
A bacterium which makes rice plants more resistant to disease has
been discovered in the seeds of a crop in China.
Scientists from Austria think they have found the key to

breeding more disease-resistant rice plants, a breakthrough
which could improve the security of one of the world’s most
important food sources.
Rice is the staple food of about half the world’s population.
The cultivation of the rice plant is very water intensive and,
according to the German aid organisation Welthungerhilfe,
around 15 percent of rice is grown in areas with a high risk
of drought.
Global warming is therefore becoming increasingly
problematic for rice cultivation, more often leading to small
harvests and hunger crises. Crop failures caused by plant
pathogens only serve to further aggravate the situation.
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The breeding of resistant plants is the only alternative to

using pesticides, yet this way of fighting crop disease is only
moderately successful. If the plants are resistant to one
pathogen thanks to their breeding, they are usually more
susceptible to other pathogens or are less robust under
adverse environmental conditions.
For this reason, an international research group, which
includes the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at
Graz University of Technology, has been studying the
microbiome of rice plant seeds for some time now in order to
establish correlations between plant health and the existence
of certain microorganisms. The group has now achieved a
major breakthrough.
They identified a bacterium inside the seed that can lead to
complete resistance to a particular pathogen and is naturally
transmitted from one plant generation to another. According
to the research team, the findings published in the scientific
journal Nature Plants provide a completely new basis for
designing biological plant protection products and
additionally reducing harmful biotoxins produced by plant
pathogens.
The breakthrough
In conventional rice cultivation in the Chinese province of
Zhejiang, it was observed that one genotype of rice plant
(cultivar Zhongzao 39) sometimes develops resistance to the
plant pathogen Burkholderia plantarii. This pathogen leads
to crop failures and also produces a biotoxin that can cause
organ damage and tumours in persistently exposed humans
and animals.
“Up to now, the sporadic resistance of rice plants to this
pathogen could not be explained,” said Tomislav Cernava
from the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at Graz
University of Technology.
Together with the head of the institute Gabriele Berg and his
colleague Peter Kusstatscher, Cernava has been investigating
the microbiome of rice seeds from different cultivation
regions in detail in the context of a collaboration
with Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) and Nanjing
Agricultural University in China, as well as the
Japanese Hokkaido University in Sapporo.
The scientists found that the resistant plants have a different
bacterial composition inside the seeds than the disease-
susceptible plants. In particular, the bacterial
genus Sphingomonas was found significantly more often in
resistant seeds.
The researchers therefore isolated bacteria of this genus from
the seeds and identified the bacterium Sphingomonas
melonis as the responsible agent for disease resistance. This
bacterium produces an organic acid (anthranilic acid), which
inhibits the pathogen and thereby renders it harmless.
“This also works when the isolated Sphingomonas melonis is
applied to non-resistant rice plants. This automatically makes
them resistant to the plant pathogen Burkholderia plantarii,”
explained Tomislav Cernava.
In addition, the bacterium establishes itself in certain rice
genotypes and is then passed on naturally from one plant
generation to the next. “The potential of this finding is
enormous. In the future, we will be able to use this strategy
to reduce pesticides in agriculture and at the same time
achieve good crop yields,” added Cernava.
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ion-Year-Old Fossil Assassin Bug Has Unusually Well-Preserved Anatomy

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GN — The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice.
, scientists say, because the bug’s physical characteristics – from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal fea
are clearly visible and well-preserved. Recovered from the Green River Formation in present-day Colorado, the fossil
s and species of predatory insects known as assassin bugs.
reported in the journal Papers in Palaeontology.
in 2006 by breaking open a slab of rock, the fossilized bug split almost perfectly from head to abdomen. The fracture
pygophore in two. A fossil dealer later sold each half to a different collector, and the researchers tracked them down a
em for this study.
to see a bug’s genitalia is very helpful when trying to determine a fossil insect’s place in its family tree, said Sam Head
gist at the Illinois Natural History Survey and self-described fossil insect-genitalia expert who led the research with Da
graduate student in entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
often defined by their ability to successfully mate with one another, and small differences in genitalia can lead to sexu
ilities that, over time, may result in the rise of new species, Swanson said. This makes the genitalia a good place to foc
an insect species.
ructures are often obscured in compression fossils like those from the Green River Formation.
se fine structures in the internal genitalia is a rare treat,” Swanson said. “Normally, we only get this level of detail in sp
oday.”
res visible within the pygophore include the basal plate, a hardened, stirrup-shaped structure that supports the phallus,
also preserved the contours of the phallotheca, a pouch into which the phallus can be withdrawn.
ggests that the banded assassin bugs, a group to which the new specimen is thought to belong, are about 25 million yea
usly thought, Swanson said.
about 7,000 species of assassin bug described, but only about 50 fossils of these bugs are known,” he said. “This just s
ability of even having a fossil, let alone one of this age, that offers this much information.”
the oldest fossil bug genitalia ever discovered, however.
t known arthropod genitalia are from a type of bug known as a harvestman that is 400-412 million years old, from the R
otland,” Heads said. “And there are also numerous fossil insects in amber as old as the Cretaceous Period with genitali
it is almost unheard of for internal male genitalia to be preserved in carbonaceous compressions like ours,” he said.
chers named the new assassin bug Aphelicophontes danjuddi. The species name comes from one of the fossil collectors
donated his half of the specimen to the INHS for study.
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Viewpoint: Are GMOs a corporate plot to colonize
developing countries? Here are the facts
Cameron English | January 14, 2021
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Anti-GMO activists portray Monsanto and other biotech firms as greedy corporations
This article or excerpt is included in the GLP’s daily curated selection of ideologically diverse news, opinion and
analysis of biotechnology innovation.
W estern scientists who introduce biotech crops into developing nations are
paternalistic colonizers. While they claim of helping farmers in poorer countries
produce more nutritious food to feed the impoverished, the reality is that “GMO
technology has not helped and has led to some objectionable consequences.”
Golden Rice, which was engineered to combat vitamin A deficiency in southeast
Asia, “comes in exchange for reliance on and control by Western entities …. When
it comes to golden rice, questioning its impact and the motives behind it is not
‘anti-science,’ and it’s not up to GMO proponents to decide what’s best.”
This wasn’t the view of Greenpeace, which is known to promote anti-GMO conspiracies, but science
writer Kavin Senapathy. Once a staunch advocate for crop

biotechnology — “I refuted piles of misinformation on GMOs in my writing,” she boasts — she has
had a change of conscience about agricultural genetic engineering and the people who defend it. She
outlined this transition in a recent piece in Slate titled Why I Stopped Defending GMOs.
While she acknowledges there is no scientific evidence showing that biotech crops are harmful,
Senapathy approaches the issue from an ideological perspective, framing Golden Rice — a project
started more than two decades ago to reduce hunger and poverty in Asia using biotechnology, which
scientists consider apolitical — as a partisan issue. This perspective misses the mark, as we’ll see,
and will only fuel unjustified skepticism of science at a time when we badly need evidence-based
thinking.
Examining the allegations
So why did Senapathy flip her views so dramatically? Her core argument is as follows:
 GE crops are promoted by “paternalistic” Western interests who “suppose that less
developed countries simply need a little technological help from a society that knows more
than they do.”
 GE crops aren’t as beneficial as their advocates claim.
 The political views of some key people in the “pro-GMO” camp are intolerable.
Senapathy traces her awakening to the 2016 presidential election, when she first realized that some
supporters of crop biotechnology are conservatives or supporters of President Trump, the implication
being that only ideological liberals can support positive social change:
The 2016 general election is what began to make me question belonging to the
pro-GMO community …. We had never really talked about politics, so it had been
easy to assume that I’d been holding a picket sign next to people who’d oppose the
presidential candidate refusing to make basic statements about believing in
science and supporting social justice ….
But after the election it was clear from social media that some not only supported
Trump—a blatantly racist, misogynistic candidate who flouts facts—but also
taunted those of us who were upset about the victory in posts on social media ….
As I stepped back from the movement a bit, I began to see its tactics as
domineering, more eager to outargue the other side than have a dialogue that
weighs all of the facts …. Little by little, I and others …. began to question being
“pro-GMO.”
Monsanto’s decision to invite Canadian psychologist and self-help guru Jordan Peterson to the 2018
American Farm Bureau conference was “the last straw” for Senapathy. He spoke about how “farmers
can prepare their children to go to college with the skills needed to push back effectively on bad
ideologies,” Vance Crowe, the company’s former director of millennial engagement wrote at the
time. But Senapathy saw an ulterior motive. “Monsanto’s objective seemed to be to equate an
opposition to GMOs with a belief in Bigfoot,” she claimed.
Crop biotech advocacy: Compromised right wingers?
Whatever one may think of Jordan Peterson (many on the right actually dismiss him as an unstable
cult leader), his appearance at an American Farm Bureau Federation conference doesn’t support the
contention that biotech advocacy has been compromised by right wingers. There are of course
conservatives who defend genetic engineering. But most working scientists have leaned to the left for
years, according to PEW, and they overwhelmingly support biotechnology. In 2015, when anti-GMO
activism was at its height, a PEW poll of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) found that 88% of all AAAS members believed that genetically engineered foods are safe
— a higher percentage than the 87% who endorsed the belief that global warming is driven by
humans. Moreover, most biotech companies are politically agnostic. Even Monsanto (now owned by
Bayer) has expressed its “commitment to diversity and LGBT rights,” as GLP contributor Marc
Brazeau noted recently.
There are two major nonprofit organizations in the
US dedicated to educating the public about crop biotechnology. Cornell University’s Alliance for
Science, with its commitment “to achieving social justice, improving rural livelihoods and
eliminating hunger,” is funded by the Gates Foundation and focuses on helping the developing world
achieve food self-sufficiency.
The GLP, where I am managing editor, is committed to “science without ideology.” It promotes
biotech literacy and debunks disinformation, including the anti-GMO variety. Notably, GLP doesn’t
hesitate to run articles calling out Republican politicians and media personalities when they stray
from evidence-based policy making and advocacy
(see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). It’s also given a platform to many left-leaning
writers — including Kavin Senapathy, whose first articles on crop biotechnology were published on
this site, and whose founder, Jon Entine, helped edit her book on ag bioetechnology at her request.
While Senapathy found it “gut-wrenching” to discover that some of her pro-GMO compatriots were
Republicans, diversity of opinion in the science community is important. The public approaches
scientific issues with a wide variety of presuppositions. For example, anti-vaccine conservatives
generally see campaigns to promote immunization as a government plot to eradicate our
Constitutional rights, while liberal vaccine deniers, led by Hollywood celebrities and age-worn
activists such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have long linked vaccines to conspiracy theories about
corporations deliberately harming people to line their pocketbooks. And anti-biotech liberals often
view GMOs as a corporate conspiracy to take over the global food supply.
Credit: Zazzle
Perhaps the best way to convince all these skeptics that science doesn’t threaten their worldview is to
have both conservative and liberal science communicators who can promote evidence-based thinking
among their ideological allies. Senapathy’s frustration with this diversity of thought is precisely why
the scientific community has had trouble convincing the public that crop biotechnology, when used
appropriately, is a revolutionary force for positive change. For science advocates to build trust with
the public, they need to do more than just cite facts and figures or raise an ideological flag. Political
diversity in the science community should be seen as a feature, not a bug.
“Colonialism in science is still alive and well”?
While most scientists see crop biotechnology as a useful tool that can help improve food production
and thus living standards in the developing world, Senapathy now views GE crops as a tool of
Western colonialism, a perspective long espoused by the most marginal biotechnology deniers, such
as the Organic Consumers Association. She writes,
Western entities that distribute GMOs abroad, like the Gates Foundation–funded
African Agricultural Technology Foundation, have become embedded within
governmental agencies throughout the continent. That gives these groups outsize
influence in public policy.
Never mind that farmers all over the world have expressed their desire to cultivate biotech crops, and
some growers will even break the law to acquire them. Also ignore the fact that scientists in the
developing world have engineered biotech crops to help farmers in their native countries — such as
in Bangladesh where insect-resistant Bt brinjal (eggplant) was distributed at little or no cost to poor
farmers. Despite her claimed commitment to nuance, Senapathy portrays the biotechnology world in
black and white, with the the Gates Foundation as the icon of evil.
Related article: Viewpoint: USDA's bioengineered food rules will confuse consumers and could cost
$200 million per year
It’s certainly true that Gates and other wealthy foundations fund biotech crop research. But what
nefarious “outsize influence” do they wield? Gates financed a polio vaccine program in Nigeria and
a new anti-malaria drug so it could be sold to Africans at subsidized prices. The foundation also
champions the use of birth control, “enabling women to make informed decisions about whether and
when to have children.” Perhaps Senapathy believes the Gates Foundation is up to something, but
whatever it is, she doesn’t elaborate.
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For the record, many wealthy benefactors also finance a variety of farming practices in the
developing world, including organic farming and agroecology, which (ironically) some African
farmers and scientists have panned as “Green neo-colonialism” that puts poor people at greater risk
of starvation.
The real story about Golden Rice
Perhaps the most egregious turn in Senapathy’s polemic is her attack on Golden Rice, which was
engineered to fight vitamin A deficiency (VAD). Senapathy argued that it is a perfect example of the
biotech industry bulldozing its way into the developing world, so let’s examine the facts. VAD
afflicts roughly 250 million people, mostly preschool children in southeast Asia. There have been
attempts by numerous agencies over the past few decades, including the United Nations, to address
the problem, but it persists. In 2016, despite existing interventions like vitamin supplementation,
VAD killed 1.3–1.9 million people. Given those shocking statistics, Golden Rice, which will be
offered at no increased cost to farmers once approved, is a monumental innovation. Senapathy isn’t
impressed:
Suggesting that golden rice is a “gift,” ostensibly because it would be given free of
charge to the poorest farmers, seems benevolent. But no one is putting out a pile of
GMO seeds free for the taking and then just leaving the content alone. Farmers get
the rice under a humanitarian license, which means there are strings attached.
But there are no strings. As retired Syngenta biologist Adrian Dubock, who was instrumental in
ensuring that Golden Rice wasn’t held up by patent disputes, has explained:
Golden Rice seed, and regulatory data packages, are available – without cost – to
public-sector rice-breeding institutions in less developed countries where rice is
the staple and vitamin A deficiency endemic. Supply is subject only to national and
inter – national regulations, and simple and free agreements. The licenses ensure
that …. only publicly owned rice varieties can be used, and the nutritional trait
cannot be ‘stacked’ with any other gmo-trait, unless the latter is also under the
control of the public sector.
There will be no charge to growers or consumers for the nutritional trait: Golden
Rice will cost the same as white rice …. All small-holder family farmers –
responsible for 80% of global rice production – will eventually have access to it,
with …. no limitations on planting or replanting, harvest, or sale of seed or grain.
These easy-to-verify details aside, what should be done to address VAD if Golden Rice is
unnecessary, as Senapathy now believes? Citing anthropologist and well-known GMO skeptic Glenn
Davis Stone, she argued “that the prevalence of VAD has dropped from 39 percent to 29
percent globally between 1991 and 2013, and from 40 percent to 15 percent between 2003 and 2008
in the Philippines. Quoting Stone she wrote:
‘GM crops played no role in this,’ he said. Studies suggest that these gains were
achieved with vitamin supplementation, fortification of foods, nutritional
education, and increasing the diversity of diets—and increasing access to those
could help even more people. Too many proponents invested in GMOs like golden
rice, either monetarily or emotionally, are ‘using the world’s poorest sickest little
kids to sell it,’ he says. ‘Talk about crimes against humanity.’
But with more than one million deaths caused by VAD in 2016 alone, one wonders why GM crops
shouldn’t play a role going forward. Why must anti-GMO activists — and despite her carefully
worded piece, Senapathy has emboldened them — see biotechnology as an all-or-nothing choice?
It’s one more tool, and a powerful one, with which to achieve sustainable farming goals and help
developing countries reach food security. And since Golden Rice is a fortified food, which Stone
generally approves of, Senapathy offers no compelling reason to exclude it from this list of
interventions. In fact, Golden Rice would likely be superior to some of these alternatives.
“Supplement programs have been tried, and of course they do some good,” science writer Ed Regis,
author of Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood, told the GLP in 2019,
…. but the problem is that such programs require a substantial and permanent
infrastructure. They require a supply chain, personnel to distribute the stuff,
record keeping, and the like, plus sufficient and continuous funding to keep it all
going across time. Also, there is no way to guarantee that supplements will reach
every last person who needs them. Golden Rice, by contrast, requires none of that.
She’s wrong
Senapathy is mistaken about her former allies, and her assertions and insinuations about Golden Rice
are incorrect, grossly so. There is no corporate plot to lure poor countries into dependence on
Western technology. There are, however, billions of people who want access to cutting-edge tools
that can improve their quality of life, genetically engineered crops being one of them. Responding to
the claim that crop biotechnology is just more “neocolonialism” perpetrated by white Europeans,
Ugandan science writer and GLP contributor Uchechi Moses recently made this point in what has
become one of the most-read GLP articles of the past year:
The truth is that African farmers need biotech crops to feed themselves and their
neighbors, as climate change makes farming an increasingly difficult profession.
Consumers desire GMO-derived products for their superior quality and greater
nutritional content. The continent’s population is skyrocketing and incomes are
rising, which fuels demand for a greater variety of foods. It is science, not
conspiracy theories, that will allow Africa to meet these challenges.
Cameron J. English is the GLP’s managing editor. Follow him on
Twitter @camjenglish. Executive Director Jon Entine collaborated in editing this report.
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The GLP featured this article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The
viewpoint is the author’s own. The GLP’s goal is to stimulate constructive discourse on
challenging science issues.
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Which dinner is better for you?

Dietitian shares photos of almost
identical meals - but one has almost
300 CALORIES more than the other
 Dietitian reveals how simple swaps can make a huge difference to calorie intake
 Savina Rego shared a picture of nearly identical chicken stir fries with rice
 She said making changes to ingredients can cut dish from 750 to 460 calories
By CINDY TRAN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 23:23 GMT, 11 January 2021 | UPDATED: 23:31 GMT, 11 January 2021
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A dietitian has explained why tweaking your diet with simple food swaps can make a
huge difference to your calorie intake.
Savina Rego - known as The Savvy Dietitian - shared a picture of her similar chicken stir
fries with rice and vegetables - but one contains 290 more calories.
The health expert, from Perth, said reducing the portion size of chicken and basmati rice,
doubling the amount of vegetables and making your own sauce can cut a dish from 750
to 460 calories.
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Can you spot the difference? A dietitian has explained why tweaking your diet with simple food
swaps can make a huge difference to your calorie intake (pictured: Two different versions of a
chicken stir fries)
What does the meal on the left contain?

1½ cups cooked basmati rice
350g stir-fry chicken (bottle sauce mix)
1/2 cup stir-fry veg
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What does the meal on the right contain?

½ cup cooked basmati rice
200g Stir-fry chicken (soy sauce, oyster sauce, ginger and garlic)
1 heaped cup of stir-fry veg (carrot, snow peas, red onion and capsicum)
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The meal on the left with 750 calories contains one-and-a-half cups of basmati rice, 350
grams of stir fry chicken and half a cup of vegetables - all cooked with a pre-made bottle
sauce.
While the meal on the right with 460 calories contains half a cup of basmati rice, 200
grams of chicken, one heaped cup of vegetables such as carrots, snow peas, red onion
and capsicum.
The stir fry was cooked in a homemade sauce containing soy sauce, oyster sauce, ginger
and garlic.
'Sure there are some ingredients swaps you can throw into the mix with some
understanding around label reading and nutrition but really it comes down to your
portions,' Savina wrote on Instagram.
'There is no such thing as a one size fits all approach to health and nutrition. The portion
that is right for you will be dependent on a number of different factors (age, gender,
physical activity, medical conditions etc).
'The image highlights the importance of portion control for everyday meals, especially if
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Savina Rego (pictured) said making just a few changes to the ingredients such as reducing the
portion size of chicken and basmati rice, doubling the amount of vegetables and making your
own sauce can cut the dish from 750 to 460 calories
Savina said one of the common requests she gets from her followers is to share 'healthy
recipes'.
'The reality is "healthy" means something different to everyone for many different
reasons. Healthy is subjective,' she said.
'The truth is, you don't need a "healthy" recipe. You can eat absolutely anything you like.
What matters most is actually consuming it in the portion that works for you.'
Many praised her for sharing her comparisons, with one woman saying she now feels
'fuller and less bloated' after cutting down on her rice, pasta and potato portions while
increasing her vegetable intake.
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 Josephine Skriver's bikini portfolio: The Victoria's Secret Angel spoils fans with
pinup snaps from the tropics including two topless shots
 Jennifer Lopez reveals her impeccable abs as she dances NAKED in a forest with
angel wings in ethereal new video for In The MorningRacy
 Shocking videos show 'out of it' Armie Hammer drinking beer behind the wheel,
as sources tell of his downward spiral into drugs and depravity
 Anne Hathaway wants to be referred to as 'Annie' moving forward as she reveals
her mom is the only person who calls her Anne: 'Just feel free!'
 George Clooney's reaction to Felicity Huffman's surprise pregnancy before

filming The Midnight Sky: 'Holy s***'Surprised
 Mandalorian star Gina Carano addresses backlash over her anti-mask tweets:
'What's wrong with having a different opinion?'Speaking out
 The Crown's Emma Corrin reveals her brother told her she was perfect for the role
of Princess Diana in the show TWO YEARS before she was cast
 Gossip Girl's Jessica Szohr welcomes baby girl Bowie Ella with boyfriend Brad
Richardson... as she shares intimate snap on Instagram
 Kyra Sedgwick reveals Kevin Bacon gave her a quarantine bikini wax and says it
was a 'miracle' she didn't end up in an 'emergency room'
 Kim Kardashian 'is over' Kanye West's 'chaos' and marriage is 'beyond repair'
while 'final straw' was his presidential run: 'It created havoc at home'
 Maya Jama sizzles as she flaunts her sensational curves in leather trousers and a
plunging printed shirt during glamorous photoshoot
 'I felt really pressured': Love Island's Chloe Crowhurst says 'producers turned up
at her work and BEGGED her to go into the villa after she refused'
 Cody Simpson wears a face mask as he does swim training in Los Angeles - as
the singer makes a bid for the 2024 Paris OlympicsFit and healthy
 Sarah Jessica Parker confirms there will NOT be a fourth character in Sex And
The City revival... after Kim Cattrall took a swipe at former castmates
 Kevin Costner suing former business partner who helped propel him to stardom
for $15 millionThey set up a production company in 1992
 Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock and footballer fiancé Andre Gray put their six-
bedroom Surrey mansion on the market for £4.95 millionLook inside
 Pregnant Emily Ratajkowski bundles up her burgeoning baby belly for a stroll in
New York City Well wrapped for her latest public appearance
 Lily Collins sports a white sweater and jeans to run errands with fiance Charlie
McDowell in Santa BarbaraOut and about in California
 NO caffeine or alcohol, 1400 calories a day, 'starving' lunches and vegan detoxes:
HOW is Jennifer Lopez stopping time and looking this fabulous at 51?
 Nicky Hilton bundles up in an animal print coat as she braves the chilly big city
with her mini fashionista daughter Lily-James Engaging sight
 Actress Mena Suvari reveals the name she and husband Michael Hope have
picked out for their son ahead of her due dateSpecial meaning
 Ray Fisher reveals his Cyborg character is being REMOVED from The Flash as his
clash with DC and Warner Bros. continuesOngoing battle
 Pop princess Shakira is the latest star to offload her music catalogue to London
firm Hipgnosis riskHas sold more than 80 million records
 'Three boys in lockdown, it's absolute chaos!' Emmerdale star Charley Webb
reveals she's struggling to homeschool her 'feral' children amid pandemic
 Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith set to make a small fortune from the sale
of a UK pasta company as it's snapped up for £40mWindfall
 Allison Janney is in the spotlight in first trailer for crime caper Breaking News in
Yuba CountyThe actress reunites with director Tate Taylor
 'I'm so embarrassed!' Body Coach star Joe Wicks hilariously admits he DID break
wind during PE With Joe as he didn't realise he was live on-air
 Hillary 'Hilaria' Baldwin is seen driving in Hamptons as husband Alec is staying in
'separate house from family over COVID concerns'
 Shirtless Simon Cowell, 61, works up a sweat during a weights session as he

joins bikini-clad Lauren Silverman, 43, aboard a boat on Barbados break
 'Imagine if he'd called on a threesome!': Danny Dyer says he and wife Joanne Mas
both 'fancied' the 'handsome' male midwife who delivered their daughter
 Amelia Hamlin, 19, looks stunning in the same skintight lace dress her mother
Lisa Rinna, 57, wore in both 2005 and 2015Lookalikes
 More Than Miyagi documentary trailer remembers The Karate Kid's Pat Morita and
his iconic character that is also honored in Cobra Kai
 'I know this hand!' Adele fans uncover her secret wrist inking after figuring out a
tattoo artist's cryptic snap was of the singerNew inking
 'It was the most horrendous thing!' Chloe Goodman slams claims she got Covid in
Dubai and says two family members have been hospitalised
 'Enough is enough': Strictly's James Jordan reveals he's put on 3st in two years
and now weighs over 15st as he vows to get healthyGetting fit
 Frank Stallone reveals he never felt 'jealous' or 'overshadowed' by his brother

Sylvester StalloneSylvester is an A-list star and a household name
 Reese Witherspoon is 'heart broken' over death of Election co-star Jessica

Campbell at age 38 as the actor turned physician passed out in a bathroom
 'I don't want to encourage any hurtful behaviour!' Olivia Attwood tells people to
stop trolling influencers after her rant slamming those 'working' abroad
 Billie Faiers' husband Greg Shepherd reveals work is FINALLY underway on

family's £1.4m Essex home after months of setbacks over planning rows
 Brad Pitt basks in the sunshine in new Miraval Rosé ad... after 'butting heads' with
ex Angelina Jolie over ownership of their French vineyard Fun in the sun
 Hugh Grant reveals he'd love to reunite with his The Undoing co-star Nicole
Kidman in Paddington 3 after both played villains to the lovable bear
 Amazon's Lord Of The Rings series unveils its EPIC synopsis... as the show plans
to tackle events thousands of years before the original tales
 Issa Rae announces end of Insecure with fifth and final season as she
acknowledges the 'tremendous support of our audience'Big news
 Mark Wright and his brother Josh pose shirtless as they announce the return of
their free workouts to help keep people fit during third lockdown
 TOWIE's Demi Sims slips into a skimpy nude bikini teamed with a 90s-style
bucket hat - and dubs herself 'Kevin and Perry's lovechild' Funny
 'People don't like that you licked a black man': Strictly's Caroline Quentin
discusses THAT controversial dance with Johannes Radebe
 'This is very un-black lives matter of you all': Azealia Banks calls critics of
shocking dead cat video 'racist' in new rant after filming herself digging the feline up
 'If you run along the beach, your breasts won't be exposed!' Montana Brown
models the latest addition to her swimwear range in a black one-piece
 Ashley James shares a glimpse of her newborn son as she reveals her dog Snoop
is 'in love' with the baby... four days after giving birth
 Real Housewives Of Miami 'could RETURN eight years after axe... with Phil
Collins' ex-wife leading the line-up' amid battle over singer's $40M mansion
 The Undoing's Matilda De Angelis channels 1940s style as she joins Liev
Schreiber on set of Across The River And Into The Trees in VeniceHard at work
 Teresa Giudice rediscovers life as a single woman following split from Joe as
allegations of cheating rock RHONJ in explosive new trailer
 'I prefer people to be happy in Dubai than suffering at home': Holly Hagan
DEFENDS her reality star pals' UAE pandemic takeoverDuring an Instagram Q&A
 Jason Sudeikis is 'desperate' to win back Olivia Wilde and hopes her budding
romance with Harry Styles is 'just a phase'Determined
 'It's given me a moment to reflect': Lena Dunham reveals quarantining in London

is a 'special gift' as she works on her 'most ambitious project'
 Golden Girls actress Betty White says she is 'blessed with good health' as she
prepares for her 99th birthday this weekendFull of energy
 Tommy 'Tiny' Lister's death certificate reveals the actor legally changed his
middle name to 'Debo' in homage to his famous Friday character
 Mary-Kate Olsen and estranged husband Olivier Sarkozy reach a divorce deal
after five years of marriage Their lawyers told a court today
 YouTube star Jake Paul puts his Calabasas mansion on the market for $7
million... as he plans to 'move to Miami' to focus on boxingAll yours
 'I've lost nearly 2st!' Francesca Allen reveals epic weight loss after becoming
'unrecognisable' and being accused of editing her pictures
 Chrissy Metz DENIES she is engaged to beau Bradley Collins after she wears the
honeycomb ring he bought her for Christmas
 Katy Perry is teaming with Pokemon for a new music program because it has
'good messages': 'Having a child, I understand it's important to play'
 Country music icons Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard release the song Undivided
that urges unity after Capitol riots leave five deadNew music
 Kara Tointon welcomes a baby boy! Actress gives birth to second son with
Marius Jensen and thanks hospital for bringing him into the world
 Duchess of Cornwall stuns in a new portrait as she marks the upcoming release
of her book club's first four titlesRadiant
 'My kids hear "your mum's a coke head,"': Kerry Katona reveals difficult
conversations she's had with her five children
 Dame Joan Bakewell says decision to delay second Covid jabs until 12 weeks
'should be backed up by data and it isn't'Speaking out
 'Already cuddling': DWTS pros Witney Carson and Lindsay Arnold reveal their
newborns' first playdate togetherLovely
 'He was off his nut': Danny Dyer reveals his real name is DANIAL because his
'bladdered' dad misspelled the moniker on his birth certificate
 Nick Carter and wife expecting third child: Couple admit 'surprise' at discovering
Lauren five months pregnant after miscarriages - and feared her bump was a tumour
 Myleene Klass gets stuck into Dancing On Ice rehearsals after revealing she
wants to leave the ITV skating show with a 'bum like Jennifer Lopez'
 'It's so amazing': Adele's close friend Alan Carr reveals he has heard the singer's
upcoming fourth album and says her voice is 'like an old friend'
 Rebel Wilson's dog grooming show Pooch Perfect is coming to America from
Australia... with Lisa Vanderpump as a celebrity judge
 'I do wonder why Bill Gates wants to chip old Doris!' Jason Manford pokes fun at
anti-vaxxers after revealing he's been driving locals to get vaccinated
 Disgraced Love Island star Zara Holland is seen back in the UK for the first time
since being fined for breaching Covid rules in Barbados
 Tamara Ecclestone shows off her incredible figure in a chic blue swimsuit as she
cuddles up to baby daughter Serena during another day in Dubai
 Scott Disick joins unlikely pal Eyal Booker for 'private' dinner... after messaging
the Love Island star's ex Megan Barton Hanson to demand an apology
 Inside Zayn Malik's 28th birthday bash: Gigi Hadid surprises her beau with a
vintage arcade room as they celebrate with classic sweets and cocktails
 Tom Hanks set to host TV special for inauguration of Joe Biden featuring virtual
performances by Demi Lovato and Justin Timberlake
 Bearded Jude Law, 48, opts for all black work out gear as he steps out for run in
rainy north LondonThe actor, 48, opted for a sporty all black ensemble
 Busy Philipps is on the prowl in leopard pants and long green down coat while
out in New YorkOut in the Big Apple on Monday
 Karren Brady's daughter Sophia Peschisolido showcases her incredible figure in
a tiny neon bikini as she frolics on a boat
 'Every time I see a baby my ovaries skip!': Emma Bunton, 44, says her fiancé Jade
Jones is 'DESPERATE' for her to have another child
 Faryal Makhdoom brands husband Amir Khan's music taste 'gay' and declares
that she wants people to 'see the lion in me, not a wuss' during 'homophobic' vid
 Alec Baldwin seen amid claims he's staying in 'separate house from Hilaria over
COVID concerns' following her Spanish scandal
 Dancing on Ice pro Yebin Mok PULLS OUT of first live show after lacerating her
leg in a 'freak accident' during training with Graham Bell
 'Items new, old and worn': Bankrupt Katie Price makes over £10K by selling her
old shoes and used bikinis for £15 on DepopWow
 'When they were empty sacks, those pics were fine': Lucy Spraggan poses
topless as she hits out at Insta for deleting her post-boob job images
 Amanda Holden waves winter goodbye in a stunning floral dress and coat as she
leaves the Heart radio studiosAmanda looked incredible
 Grange Hill cast reunite 43 years on to discuss the importance of teaching kids
about drugs in a pre-internet world and meeting First Lady Nancy Reagan
 Another pint with the lads! Prince William 'binned off his next appointment' to
enjoy beer and curry with Peter Crouch while recording his podcast
 NBC announces their 2021-2022 shows are La Brea with Natalie Zea, American
Auto with Ana Gasteyer and Grand Crew with Nicole Byer
 Eminem's daughter Hailie Mathers, 25, showcases her incredible figure as she
wishes for 2021 to be a good year after the 'worst' week
 TOWIE's Yazmin Oukhellou sizzles as she flaunts her toned abs in a striped bikini
and matching sarong while enjoying her Dubai business trip
 I couldn't help but wonder, how DID Carrie become a fashion icon? As Sex And
The City fans recreate the show's looks FEMAIL reveals its questionable outfits
 Love Island's Georgia Steel showcases her jaw-dropping figure in sizzling red
lingerie with suspenders before slipping into sexy white underwear
 Jennifer Lopez, 51, basks in the sunshine working a TINY bikini during Turks and
Caicos getaway with fiance Alex Rodriguez
 'It was fun torturing them every week with whether I got kicked out': Great British
Bake Off 2020 champ Peter Sawkins reveals how he kept his win a secret
 'She a courageous rebel': Fergie opens up about the flame-haired heroine of her
Mills & Boon novel in a new video (and doesn't she sound familiar!)
 Lily Allen cuts a low-key figure as she steps out on her mobile in London after
vowing to cut down on her 'addictive phone usage'Out and about
 'It's changed my life!' Ex Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner QUITS showbiz to
become an eco-friendly farmer in PortugalNew direction
 'He appears to be a monster.' Armie Hammer's estranged wife is 'sickened' by his

'kinks of rape fantasies, BDSM and cannibalism'
 'Dad has been fighting for his life': Gemma Collins details her parents' 'relentless'
battle with Covid as her father, 72, remains in hospital
 Azealia Banks creates bizarre altar with her cat's skull, champagne and Chanel
perfume after shocking video showed her digging up and BOILING the feline
 Nick Jonas 'in talks' to portray Frankie Valli in a streaming version of the hit
musical Jersey BoysThe Four Seasons frontman
 Queen's wild child cousin who is facing jail for sex attack: Flashy aristocrat, 34,
boasts of friendships with Made In Chelsea stars and was banned from the road
 'She's good at using a lot of words to fail to answer a question!' Susanna Reid
SLAMS Priti Patel after Home Secretary's 'confusing' press conference
 'I want to win an Oscar and an Olympic gold': Wonder Woman 1984 star Lilly
Aspell, 13, reveals big ambitions and how she got into acting
 Ashley Roberts looks effortlessly chic in a shearling biker jacket and knee-high
suede boots as she makes a stylish exit from her Heart Radio show
 'I felt really homesick and I missed my mum': Emma Bunton spent her first night
in the Spice Girls 'crying in bed' because it was her first time away from home
 Chloe Lewis turns up the heat in a chic mint green swimsuit and glam gold
headscarf as she poses for sizzling snap in her new home city of Dubai
 Georgia Kousoulou admits she felt 'constantly hungover' during her first trimester
and says pandemic has left her too scared to leave the house
 Izabel Goulart puts on a jaw-dropping display in rainbow cut-out swimsuit as she

shows off her runway walk in sizzling Instagram video from St Barts
 Kardashian family 'splash out $300k on 30 ROLEX watches to thank the KUWTK
crew' after filming the final episode following 20 seasons
 Rapper YFN Lucci is wanted for MURDER over Atlanta shooting that left one man
dead and another seriously injured Shocking
 Christopher Biggins brands Russell T Davies' call to stop casting straight actors
in gay roles 'ridiculous' - and GMB viewers agree
 'I'm very fortunate and feeling okay now': Ellen DeGeneres details covid
experience as she returns to her show for first time since testing positive
 Chuck Norris is forced to deny being at the Capitol riot after photo of man bearing
a striking resemblance to film legend began trending online
 'Are we even bothering to get dressed?' Love Island's Olivia Bowen poses in red
semi-sheer lingerie after tucking into pizza Wow
 Emma Roberts gives first look at newborn son just two weeks after giving birth:
'Our bright light Rhodes Robert Hedlund'Gave birth in December
 'I would have to be f***ing the writer': Gwyneth Paltrow would only return to acting
if her husband Brad Falchuk wrote the script

MORE DON'T MISS
 'I was embarrassed about contracting the virus': Millie Mackintosh reveals she
secretly battled Covid - and feared she would be hospitalised
 Molly-Mae Hague splashes out on a £1,600 Dior vanity case just a DAY after
dividing fans by calling £1,950 Gucci jacket 'chav chic'
 Rebel Wilson reveals she was kidnapped at gunpoint in Africa - as she describes
the 'petrifying' ordeal of being imprisoned overnight
 'So glad my moon found its sun!' Katy Perry shares romantic unseen snaps with
fiancé Orlando Bloom as she celebrates his 44th birthday
 Kylie Jenner puts on an eye-popping display in revealing brown bikini as she

plugs skincare lineDisplayed her fab figure in a revealing bikini snap
 Michelle Keegan sets pulses soaring as she shows off her toned abs in a blue
crop top and silver leggings in behind-the-scenes snaps from photoshoot
 'He loved what they had': Alli Simpson spills on her brother Cody's romance with
Miley Cyrus... as she's swarmed with questions on the exes
 'Rest easy': Naya Rivera remembered by ex Ryan Dorsey in sweet tribute on what
would have been her 34th birthdayHeartbreaking
 Charlotte Dawson cradles her bump in a glittering silver dress as she celebrates
her 'lockdown baby shower' less than two weeks before her due date
 Victoria's Secret model Georgia Fowler flaunts her sizzling physique and pert
derrière in a VERY tiny string bikini... as she soaks up rays at Sydney's Bondi Beach
 WandaVision's Teyonah Parris shares her 'excitement' over being first Black

female character to join the Avengers as she wows in Harper's Bazaar
 Khloe Kardashian shows off her incredible physique in sporty crop top and
leggings during intense work out at her home gymTop of the crops
 Chris Hemsworth celebrates brother Liam's 31st birthday with a throwback photo
from their childhood... where the Thor actor rocked a VERY cringeworthy haircut
 Fergie Shades of Grey: Duchess makes Mills & Boon debut - and the heroine's a
flame-haired aristocrat! It will be published on 3rd August 2021
 Meg Ryan opts for a laid back look in a black top and blue jeans as she stops off
at a gas station during outing in LALow-key
 The Pembrokeshire Murders viewers are left reeling after 'chilling' cliffhanger as
the serial killer's lies to the police are exposed by an appearance on Bullseye
 Arnold Schwarzenegger's son Joseph Baena shows off progress in the gym after
father's powerful statement following riots in U.S. Capitol
 Bridgerton heartthrob Rege-Jean Page had a cameo in Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows - Part 1At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding
 Lana Del Rey was 'taken out of context' as she defends saying Trump 'needed to
happen' and that he 'didn't know' he was inciting a riot
 Jennifer Lopez discusses 'symbolism' in her new track In The Morning as she
teases the music video wearing NOTHING but a pair of angel wings
 Kate Hudson displays her taut midriff and enviable frame as she works out in a
crop-top and leggingsKate looked incredible as she showed off her abs
 Anne Hathaway shares how climax of upcoming quarantine heist film Locked
Down was filmed at HarrodsThe 39-year-old Oscar-winner spoke out
 Gabriel Byrne reveals he contacted a priest who he claims molested him... in his
new book Walking with GhostsThe Miller's Crossing star, 70, spoke candidly
 Drake flashes his bulging biceps as he shows off his lean physique during a
workout... 10 weeks after surgery to repair blown knee
 Sacha Baron Cohen takes one of his children to the pool in Byron Bay as his wife
Isla Fisher enjoys a solo outing in the popular beachside town
 Owen Wilson discovers a whole new virtual world with Salma Hayek in the trailer
for their sci-fi love story BlissOne to watch
 Ashley Tisdale lists Los Angeles home for $5.8 million after buying five-bedroom,
five bathroom property in Los Feliz area in 2019 for $4.1 million
 Hailey Bieber and gal pal Kendall Jenner mask up and sport althleisure attire to
shop at Earthbar in LAThe longtime friends seemed in good spirits
 Gimme Gimme Gimme star James Dreyfus says straight actors CAN play gay
characters as he blasts calls from Russell T Davies
 Netflix reveals first look at Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Don't
Look UpNetflix will released 70 original movies in 2021
 Mark Wright says he 'misses' whisking wife Michelle Keegan on holiday and
enjoying 'parties and pub visits' as he urges public to follow COVID-19 rules
 Kerry Washington marks the 20th anniversary of Save The Last Dance and says it
was 'an opportunity to transform some stereotyped thinking'
 Bruce Willis releases a statement after REFUSING to wear a face mask in an LA

pharmacy and defying strict virus rules: 'It was an error in judgment'
 Rebel Wilson reveals 20 years of self-loathing sparked her 40-pound weight loss
in Ant Middleton's Straight Talking series
 Liam Hemsworth celebrates his 31st birthday with Gabriella Brooks amid reports
that the actor's family love his 'laid-back' new girlfriend
 Justin Bieber has a case of baby fever as pop superstar and wife Hailey shower
infant 'nephew' with love in series of photos from Hawaiian holiday
 GOT star Lena Headey keeps it casual in t-shirt and sweats as she runs errands in
LA with new beau Marc MenchacaThey confirmed their relationship in November
 Henry Golding and wife Liv Lo run errands in LA after announcing they're
expecting their first childThe Crazy Rich Asians star, 33, looked great
 Zoe Saldana goes retro as she joins Christian Bale and John David Washington
on set of an undisclosed David O. Russell film in Santa Clarita, CA
 Louise Redknapp cuts an edgy figure in a grey jumper and glossy leggings as she
poses for a shoot at home to promote her Lou Loves blog
 Judas and the Black Messiah trailer follows the rise and fall of Black Panther
leader Fred Hampton before his deadly betrayalOne to watch
 Elizabeth Hurley, 55, exudes glamour in a bright pink dress while drinking out of a
disco ball-shaped cup after postponing work trip amid the pandemic
 Eva Longoria and Mario Lopez hang out in West Hollywood before catching up
during a business meeting togetherThey are longtime friends
 ABC vehemently denies 'supporting' Bachelor Nation star James McCoy Taylor's

recent participation in the Capitol Riots
 Betty White reveals plans for celebrating her 99th birthday next week includes
feeding two ducksAmerican treasure turns 99 years old next week
 Mad Men's Jon Hamm reveals he auditioned for role on The O.C. made famous by
Peter GallagherGallagher went on to play Sandy Cohen
 Saved By The Bell's Dustin Diamond, 44, 'hospitalized in Florida after suffering
full body pain... as doctors suspect cancer'Concern
 SARAH VINE: Without Kim Cattrall's sass, this great TV comeback will be all City
and no SexThe show is set for a return, albeit with a new title
 Gigi Hadid thanks her beau Zayn Malik for 'makin me a mamma' as she marks his
28th birthday with silly couples photo: 'Love you long time'
 Celebrities, they're just like us! Sacha Baron Cohen proves he's a bargain hunter
as his child hits the beach wearing a popular $15 Kmart towel
 Gordon Ramsay laments England's lockdown with snap of son Oscar... despite
being miles away in COSTA RICA
 Naya Rivera trends on Twitter as fans and co-stars pay tribute to Glee star on
what would have been her 34th birthdayFans paid their respects to the actress
 Netflix reveals Cobra Kai is on track to have 41M households watch Season 3 as it
becomes one of the streaming service's top original programs
 James Bond film No Time To Die's release is 'set to be delayed AGAIN' after
Daniel Craig's final outing was pushed back multiple times amid pandemic
 Dancing On Ice bosses 'are set to introduce tighter restrictions after FIVE crew
members test positive for coronavirus ahead of opening night'
 'Check out that scar!': Saira Khan bravely shows off her painful-looking stitches
after getting surgery on her broken ankleNasty
 Brielle Biermann effortlessly poses with a boa constrictor while rocking a blush
bikini by her mother Kim Zolciak's swimwear line Salty K
 'She was lucky to only receive a £4,417 fine!' Dr Emily Andre SLAMS Zara Holland
for trying to flee Barbados with her Covid positive boyfriend
 'He couldn't be more excited': Jake Quickenden 'will document his life in a new
MTV reality series' as he welcomes his first child
 'I'm at breaking point': Pregnant Paloma Faith 'vows not to step outside until the
baby is born' as she voices concern over Covid and giving birth in hospital
 Megan Thee Stallion predicted she'd be a 'household name' in never-before-seen
Love & Hip Hop audition tapeLove & Hip Hop also launched Cardi B
 Britney Spears in pink bikini and face mask locks legs with Sam Ashgari in beach
snap on InstagramPosted the new shot on Tuesday
 Chrissy Teigen doesn't let quarantine stop her from running errands in style as
she heads to the store in rustic orange sweater and thigh-high boots
 Delilah Belle Hamlin and her Love Island boyfriend Eyal Booker remove their face
masks to steal a kiss while waiting for food in Bel-Air
 'I learnt lots about myself': Rebel Wilson says she agreed to every date for a year
in a bid to find love before romance with billionaire Jacob Busch
 Gemma Collins 'earns a staggering £55,000' by selling her size 16 clothes

following dramatic three stone weight lossCashing in
 SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Queen's hunky great-nephew muscles in on TV's
Joe Wicks with online workout Getting involved
 Toyah Willcox, 62, goes braless under a white top as she delivers kooky
performance on an exercise bike with husband Robert Fripp
 Prince Harry's neighbor Rob Lowe claims Duke now 'has a PONYTAIL' after
spotting 'reclusive' royal driving around with 'long hair'
 CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Stars, intrigue and the real-life
tragedy of a Bollywood beautyTune in
 John David Washigton addresses controversy over 12-year age gap between him
and co-star Zendaya in Netflix's Malcolm & MarieClearing the air
 Azealia Banks posts disturbing video 'digging up her dead cat Lucifer' and boiling
the pet's bones to 'bring it back to life' as horrified fans watch
 Sarah Jessica Parker personally attends to customers at NYC shoe store... amid
$10M paycheck for HBO Max SATC spin-offHelping out
 Jennifer Lopez flashes midriff in cropped hoodie and baggy sweatpants as she
heads to lunch in MiamiWore a face mask for the outing
 Emmerdale SPOILER: Faith Dingle makes a dramatic RETURN to the village and
seeks forgiveness from embittered son CainWelcome back
 Christine Lampard looks radiant as she cradles her baby bump in a red striped
jumper after revealing struggles of being pregnant during pandemic
 'People are losing their families and you're on the beach telling us we don't know
how hard it is': Olivia Attwood slams influencers for saying they're 'working' abroad
 Katie Holmes and beau Emilio Vitolo Jr. mask up and bundle up for a breezy
afternoon walk in New York CityHappy couple ventured out
 Bruce Willis, 65, 'asked to leave pharmacy for REFUSING to wear face mask' as he
completely ignores coronavirus guidelines in LA
 Zayn Malik's sister Waliyha asks if one of her followers can do her eyebrows as an
'emergency' (despite the UK being in national lockdown)
 Amir Khan's wife Faryal Makhdoom calls UK government a 'dictatorship' over new
rules for those travelling in Dubai... after going with COVID symptoms!
 Montana Brown displays her washboard abs in a stunning one-shoulder bikini as

she poses on a Barbados beach at sunsetLooking good
 Hailey Bieber poses with NO panties as she uses a purse to protect her modesty
for a Versace campaign with best friend Kendall Jenner
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Economic Reporter :
The Ministry of Food has allowed private traders to import 487,000 tonnes of rice to boost supply and
cool prices in local markets.
The government has opened the opportunity for the private sector to import rice to bridle the escalating
prices in the country. In a notice on Monday, 72 companies were authorised to import 141,000 tonnes of
rice. The government previously allowed 64 companies to import 171,500 tonnes of rice. Also, the
Ministry of Food approved 49 companies to import 174,500 tonnes of rice on Jan 6. In total, the private
sector will import 487,000 tonnes of rice, says a report on bdnews24.com.
On Dec 27, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumdar announced a plan to slash the import duty on rice
from 62.5 per cent to 25 per cent.
Interested companies should submit demand notes to the ministry seeking approval by Jan 10, said Food
Secretary Nazmanara Khanum.
Besides the private sector, the government is importing 400,000 tonnes of rice to run food programmes
amid the pandemic. Government warehouses have 531,000 tonnes of rice and 189,000 tonnes of wheat
in stock, according to the Ministry of Food. The stock of rice has dropped to half, compared to the last
year.
The retail prices of coarse grain rice crossed Tk 50 per kg, while the thin grain rice is sold for Tk 60-65
per kg. Big traders are blamed for the skyrocketing prices of rice.
http://thedailynewnation.com/news/274919/govt-allows-private-traders-to-import-rice-to-curb-
escalating-prices.html/
DA eyes bigger rice production in 2021
By DAPublished on January 12, 2021
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QUEZON CITY, Jan. 12 -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) aims to further improve
the country’s rice productivity and adequacy levels this year, boosted by the combined
outcomes of government interventions and continued strong partnerships with farmers’
groups, rice industry stakeholders, and local government units (LGUs).
“We target to produce 20.4 million metric tons (MMT) of palay, surpassing last year’s
record harvest of 19.4 MMT, and factoring in challenges of the lingering pandemic and
adverse weather conditions,” said Agriculture Secretary William Dar.
“Coupled with this, we also aim to stabilize the farmgate prices of palay and retail price
of rice to benefit millions of farmers and consumers alike,” the DA chief added.
“With tightening global food supply due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will strongly
implement interventions to attain a higher rice adequacy level from last year’s 90
percent to about 95 percent this year,” Secretary Dar said.
For 2021, the Duterte administration targets to produce 20.47 MMT of palay from 4.74
million hectares (ha), where farmers will be provided with free seeds of inbred and
hybrid rice varieties through major interventions, particularly the Rice Competitiveness
Enhancement Fund (RCEF), expanded RCEF, rice resiliency project (RRP), and regular
national rice program (NRP).
Last year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) projected that the country’s palay
production would total 19.44 MMT, comprising of the actual harvest of 11.9 MMT, from
January to September 2020, and a projected yield of 7.54 MMT in the fourth quarter,
based on standing crop on November 1, 2020.
The 2020 palay harvest is 3.3% more than the 18.81-MMT output in 2019, and surpasses
the previous high of 19.27 MMT in 2017.
Secretary Dar attributes the feat to the timely and sustained interventions under the
Duterte administration’s Plant, Plant, Plant program — particularly provision of free
certified inbred seeds under the RCEF, and hybrid seeds and fertilizers under the RRP
and NRP— as well as the strong support of governors of top rice-producing provinces,
and of farmers’ groups and federations.
In particular, the 2020 record palay harvest was due to the increase in average yield
(59% of growth), to 4.11 MT from 4.04 MT per hectare (ha) in 2019, and expansion of
area planted and harvested in rainfed areas by 80,000 ha (41%) from 4.65 million ha in
2019, according to Deputy Director Flordeliza Bordey of the DA’s Philippine Rice
Research Institute (PhilRice) in a report to Secretary Dar.
She said that the average yield in both irrigated and rainfed ecosystems improved in
both dry and wet cropping seasons.
Under RCEF, about 1.38 million bags (20 kg/bag) of certified inbred seeds were
distributed to 500,000 farmers, who planted more than 698,000 ha, during the 2020 dry
season.
In the same season, the DA under the NRP also distributed more than 76,000 bags of
hybrid seeds to thousands of farmers who planted 76,000 ha.
The country’s rice farmers continued to benefit during the wet season (WS), as the
Duterte administration poured more resources with the enactment of the Bayanihan Act
I and II, Bordey said.
A total of 867,000 farmers, received free 2.29 million bags of certified inbred seeds
under RCEF during the 2020 wet season, covering over 1 million ha.
In addition, the DA distributed 758,000 bags of inbred and hybrid rice seeds under the
NRP, and RRP expanded hybrid and inbred projects.
“The timely distribution of seeds early in the 2020 WS was able to optimize the
availability of rainfall and irrigation water, which encouraged farmers to plant early,”
Bordey said.
“Because of this, there were more areas harvested on the 2020 third quarter compared
to 2019. There could have been bigger typhoon damages if these were harvested in the
fourth quarter of 2020,” she added.
In fact, the country could have produced more, were it not for the several typhoons,
pest infestation, drought, and flashflood in 2020 that damaged more than 400,000 MT,
Secretary Dar said.
Through its RRP expanded hybrid and inbred, and enhanced RCEF projects, the DA
delivered 2.65 million bags of urea fertilizers, good for nearly 820,000 ha, benefiting
close to one million farmers.
Hundreds of farm machinery and equipment, provided through the RCEF mechanization
program, have also contributed to farm operations’ timeliness and minimizing
postharvest losses, including typhoon damages, Bordey said.
This year, the DA will also focus on providing farmers’ cooperatives and associations
(FCAs) with more drying equipment and facilities to increase palay quality and farmgate
prices.
The extension services provided under RCEF and NRP, which include farmers’ training
and provision of IEC materials, also helped improve the skills of farmers and optimize
the use of production inputs that they received, Bordey said.
Provision of credit services also helped farmers source other farm inputs, especially
during the pandemic when their cash resources were limited.
“In all, the above interventions will be further enhanced to attain our committed targets,
thus setting the stage for a brighter rice supply and demand outlook for 2021,”
concluded Secretary Dar. (DA StratComms)
https://pia.gov.ph/press-releases/releases/1063582
DA seeks to raise PH rice

self-sufficiency level to 95%
to stabilize rice, palay
prices
By: Karl R. Ocampo - Reporter / @kocampoINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:05 AM January 12, 2021
The Department of Agriculture (DA) hopes to stabilize prices of palay and

rice this year by raising the country’s rice self-sufficiency level to 95
percent.
DA spokesperson Noel Reyes said in a phone interview that the goal was
to increase the buying price of palay to P19 a kilogram to shore up the
income of rice farmers and then bring down the price of a kilo of regular
milled rice to P34 to ease the burden on consumers.
To do this, the Duterte administration targets to produce 20.47 million

metric tons (MT) of palay with the help of at least P25 billion worth of
interventions under the rice competitiveness enhancement fund, rice
resiliency project, and the regular national rice program.
“With tightening global food supply due to the coronavirus pandemic, we

will strongly implement interventions to attain a higher rice adequacy
level from last year’s 90 percent to about 95 percent this year,”
Agriculture Secretary William Dar said.
As of December, the farmgate price of palay was at P16.43 a kilogram—

the highest in 12 weeks, but still short of the agency’s targeted buying
price of P19 a kilo.
Similarly, the average price of a kilo of regular milled rice was pegged at
P36.17 a kilo or 6 percent higher than the agency’s target.
The low price of palay remains a weak point in the industry’s value chain
as farmers continue to earn less. This has been a major disincentive for
Filipino producers, noted in the shrinking hectarage for producing palay.
INQ
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Rice exports to be stepped up from Anchorage port: EG

Joint Collector
Kakinada, Jan 12 (UNI) East Godavari (EG) Joint Collector G Lakshmisha has asked the rice
exporters to take steps for increasing the rice exports from the Anchorage port from the
existing 20 lakh metric tonnes to a minimum of forty lakh tonnes annually.
Addressing the representatives of the rice exporters association at a meeting held at the
collectorate here on Tuesday, he said the rice exporters should aim at increasing the rice
exports to a maximum of 50 lakh tonnes annually.
He wanted them to utilize the Deep water port also for achieving the target and submit a
concrete action plan for approval.
Pointing out that the loading of cargo was done only in the morning in anchorage port, the
Joint Collector has suggested them to ensure night loading also pressing in to service more
number of workers and assured them of securing the required approvals from the
government.
Assistant commissioner of Labour N. Bulli Rani, Cocanada chamber of commerce chairman
V V Raghavulu, Rice exporters association president B V Krishnarao, members
D .Virabhadrareddy, Vinod Agarwal and Dantu Bhaskararao were among those attended.
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Rice prices fall in city markets, consumers

relieved
Author : Lokmat English Desk | January 12, 2021 08:25 PM
Aurangabad, Jan 12: China's reduction in imports of rice has affected the Indian market and in the last
two ...
Rice prices fall in city markets, consumers relieved
Aurangabad, Jan 12:
China's reduction in imports of rice has affected the Indian market and in the last two days,
prices of rice have fallen by Rs 200 to Rs 300 per quintal in city markets. The citizens were
relieved as rice was sold at higher prices in the past few months.
The arrival of new rice starts after Diwali. Initially, higher inflow leads to a drop in prices.
Therefore, those who buy grains annually buy rice from December to February. However, this
year, rising prices of rice had worried the citizens. But last week the price of rice fell by Rs 200
to Rs 300 per quintal. Rice is being sold at Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,300 per quintal, while basmati rice is
being sold at Rs 3,200 to Rs 7,800 per quintal in the city.
As compared to last year, the prices of normal rice were up by Rs 400 to Rs 800 per quintal and
basmati rice at Rs 300 to Rs 1,000 per quintal. Giving more information, rice wholesaler Nilesh
Somani said that India exports non-basmati rice mainly to Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Senegal, while it exports basmati rice to Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Rice production in
Thailand, a major rice-producing country, had declined last year due to drought.
Production declined in Vietnam. As a result, China started buying rice from India, pushing up rice prices
in the country. As a result, compared to the export of 99 lakh tonnes of rice in the country in the
financial year 2019, it is expected to reach 104 crores in the financial year 2020 to 2021. Now China has
stopped the import, hence the prices have fallen by Rs 200- 300

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