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Muzzling Condi Rice; Could Humans Go Extinct? Remembering Rachel Carson
Blunting rice disease
3,000 rice genome sequences made publicly available on World Hunger Day
Kent company fined after worker's fingers crushed
Unwanted inspection cells affecting rice exports
The 3,000 rice genomes project: new opportunities and challenges for future rice research
Vietnamese rice perceived as cheap
Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-May 28
Liberian Rice Processor Makes Unprecedented Rice Purchase
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Muzzling Condi Rice; Could Humans Go Extinct? Remembering
Rachel Carson
By Carl M. Cannon - May 27, 2014

Good morning. Its Tuesday, May 27. President Obama is back from Afghanistan and at his post. Although he
has a light schedule, his main focus is fitting for todays date: Obama is hosting the annual White House
Science Fair. Exhibits will be shown in the State Dining Room, with presidential remarks offered in the East


Room.Why do I say fitting? Because the emphasis of the 2014 science fair is the achievement of girls and
women in science and technology -- and today is Rachel Carsons 107th birthday.
The technological innovations on display at the White House range from a concussion cushion designed by a
19-year-old whose professional goal is to become the first female college football coach, to a car alarm
designed to protect children and animals when the interior of a vehicle becomes too hot for occupants. Its
designers are three second-graders from Oklahoma.Rachel Carson, who loved animals, would have approved.
Ill have a further word about that remarkable lady in a moment. First, Id direct you to RealClearPolitics front
page, which aggregates stories and columns from across the political spectrum. In addition, we offer a
complement of original material from RCP reporters and contributors today, including the following:
* * *
Condi Rice and the Graduation Gag Order. In a column, I weigh in on this springs trend of silencing
commencement speakers deemed by some graduates to be unacceptable.Online Gambling and Crony
Capitalism. In RealClearPolicy, Jerry Rogers takes issue with Utah Sen. Mike Lee for supporting federal
legislation that would prevent states from legalizing online gambling within their own borders.Eight Ways
Humanity Could Go Extinct Before 2100. RealClearScience compiled this list based on a survey of the world's
brightest futurists and scientists.Robinson Crusoe on Mars. In RealClearBooks, Robert Tracinski reviews The
Martian, a novel that spotlights human ingenuity when pushed to the brink of disaster.
* * *
Like nearly everything else these days, the lifes
work of Rachel Carson is inevitably viewed through
a partisan prism. This is not to say that nothing in
Silent Spring, her famous call to environmental
action regarding pesticides, can be questioned or
reevaluated. The words of that influential book
werent revealed truths from God, but the best
theories of a nature writer with education and
training as a zoologist and aquatic biologist.Carson
was born on this day in 1907 in Springdale, Pa., and
raised on her parents 65-acre farm. In the mid-
1930s, she became one of the first women hired by
the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, where she encountered the deleterious effects of DDT. And from the start, she
combined her government service with a successful writing career, penning columns for the Baltimore Sun and
other publications.


A 1937 piece for The Atlantic Monthly titled Undersea kick-started a three-book ocean trilogy: Under the
Sea-Wind (1941); The Sea Around Us (1950); and The Edge of the Sea (1955). Those books were all well
reviewed, but nothing like the 1962 blockbuster that would make her one of the most famous writers in the
world. Rachel Carson died in 1964, but Silent Spring wasnt her last book. That distinction belongs to The
Sense of Wonder, which was published posthumously.
It is a work of love, that little remembered book -- and in its lyrical pages the author returns to her childhood
farm and the roots of her appreciation for the outdoors. The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world
are not reserved for scientists, she wrote, but are available to anyone who will place himself under the
influence of earth, sea, and sky, and their amazing life.
To Nova Scotia professor Steve King, Rachel Carsons truest legacy is how she encourages this urging of daily
awe in human interaction with nature. Here is another passage, also from The Sense of Wonder, which
reveals that awe:
We lay and looked up at the sky and the millions of stars that blazed in darkness. The night was so still that we
could hear the buoy on the ledges out beyond the mouth of the bay. Once or twice a word spoken by someone
on the far shore was carried across the clear air. A few lights burned in the cottages. Otherwise, there was no
reminder of other human life....
It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century or even once in a human
generation, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in
any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty
overhead; and because they could see it almost any night perhaps they will never see it.
Image:UD researchers Harsh Bais, Carla Spence (left) and Nicole Donofrio examine rice plants. They have identified a naturally
occurring microbe in soil that inhibits the devastating rice blast fungus.
Blunting rice disease
UD researchers aim to disarm a 'cereal killer'

4:16 p.m., May 27, 2014--A fungus that kills an estimated 30 percent of the worlds rice crop may finally have met
its match, thanks to a research discovery made by scientists at the University of Delaware and the University of
California at Davis.The research team, led by Harsh Bais, associate professor of plant and soil sciences in
UDsCollege of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has identified a naturally occurring microbe living right in the
soil around rice plants Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 that inhibits the devastating fungus known as rice
blast. Whats more, the beneficial soil microbe also induces a system-wide defense response in rice plants to battle
the fungus.


The research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, is published in BMC Plant Biology and includes,
along with Bais, authors Carla Spence, a doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences, Emily Alff, who
recently earned her masters degree in plant and soil sciences, and Nicole Donofrio, associate professor of plant and
soil sciences, all from UD; and Sundaresan Venkatesan, professor, Cameron Johnson, assistant scientist, and
graduate student Cassandra Ramos, all from UC Davis. We truly are working to disarm a cereal killer and to do so
using a natural, organic control, says Bais, in his laboratory at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. In addition to
rice, a distinct population of the rice blast fungus also now threatens wheat production worldwide.

Rice blast is a relentless killer, a force to be reckoned with, especially as rice is a staple in the daily diet of more
than half the worlds population thats over 3 billion people, Bais notes. As global population continues to
grow, biocontrol bacteria may be an important key for farmers to overcome crop losses due to plant disease and to
produce more food from the same acre of land.According to Bais, the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe
oryzae) attacks rice plants through spores resembling pressure plugs that penetrate the plant tissue. Once these spores
infiltrate the cell wall, the fungus eats the plant alive, as Bais says. Common symptoms of rice blast are telltale
diamond shaped-lesions on the plant leaves.In order to do its work, the spore must produce a structure called the
appressorium, a filament that adheres to the plant surface like an anchor. Without it, the fungus cant invade the
plant.In a research study published in the journal Planta this past October, Bais and colleagues Spence, Donofrio and
Vidhyavathi Raman showed that Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 strongly inhibited the formation of the
appressorium and that priming rice plants with EA105 prior to infection by rice blast decreased lesion size.

For her work, Spence, the lead author, recently received the Carson Best Paper Award for the best scientific paper
published by a Ph.D. student in biological sciences at UD. The next step in the research was to sample the
rhizosphere, the soil in the region around the roots of rice plants growing in the field, to reveal the microbial
community living there and to attempt to elucidate their roles.Thanks to DNA sequencing techniques, Bais says that
identifying the various microorganisms in soil is easy. But understanding the role of each of those microorganisms is
a continuing story.
A natural control for a deadly fungus

Everyone knows whats there, but we dont know what they are doing, Bais says of the microbes. To home in on
the source of the antifungal impact, Bais and his colleagues are relying on what he refers to as old school culturing
to find out if a single bacterium or a group of different bacteria are at work.In their study reported in BMC Plant
Biology, the researchers used gene sequencing techniques to identify 11 naturally occurring bacteria isolated from
rice plants grown in the field in California. These bacteria were then tested in the laboratory,
withPseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 demonstrating the strongest impact on rice blast.

The soil microbe reduced the formation of the anchor-like appressoria by nearly 90 percent while also inhibiting
fungal growth by 76 percent. Bais points out that although hydrogen cyanide is commonly produced by
pseudomonad bacteria, the antifungal impact of Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 appears to be independent of
cyanide production. Applying a natural soil microbe as an antifungal treatment versus chemical pesticides offers
multiple benefits to farmers and the environment, Bais says. Rice blast quickly learns how to get around synthetics
most manmade pesticides are effective only for about three years, Bais says. So its really cool to find a
biological that can attenuate this thing.


Bais, who also has conducted multiple studies with beneficial microbes in the Bacillusfamily, envisions a day
when farmers will treat plants with a magic cocktail of microbes naturally found in soil to help boost their
immunity and growth. This summer, he and his colleagues will conduct field trials
using Pseudomonaschlororaphis EA105 on rice plants grown on the UD farm. He also will work with farmers in the
central states in India.The research is supported by a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundations
Plant Genome Research Project.
Article by Tracey Bryant
Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson
3,000 rice genome sequences made publicly available on World
Hunger Day

Grains of rice reveal just a tiny proportion
of the variation of traits in the over 40,000
different varieties of rice in the world.
Credit: This image is part of the image
collection of the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI).The open-access,
open-data journal GigaScience (published
by BGI and Biomed Central), announces
today the publication of an article on the
genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains
along with the release of this entire dataset
in a citable format in journal's affiliated
open-access database, GigaDB.
The publication and release of this enormous data set (which quadruples the current amount of publicly
available rice sequence data) coincides with World Hunger Day to highlight one of the primary goals of this
project to develop resources that will aid in improving global food security, especially in the poorest areas of
the world. This work is the completion of stage one of the 3000 Rice Genomes Project, a collaborative effort
made up of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI), and BGI, and is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Science
and Technology.With more than 1/8th of the world's population living in extreme hunger and poverty, and an
every-increasing world population (estimated to reach 9.6 billion by 2050), there is a huge need to create new
resources to improve crop yield, reduce the impact of agricultural practices on the environment, and develop


food crops that are of high yield and nutrition and can grow successfully in environments stressed by drought,
pests, diseases, or poor soil quality.
While rice research has greatly advanced since the completion of the first high-quality rice genome sequence in
2005, there has been limited change in breeding practices that are important for producing improved and better
adapted rice strains.The 3000 Rice Genomes Project provides a major step forward for addressing these
challenges by creating and releasing an extensive amount of genetic information that can ultimately be applied
to intelligent breeding practices, which take advantage of the natural variation between different plant strains
and information on the genetic mechanisms that underlie these traits to select strains for breeding that will be
more successful in producing hybrid strains with characteristics that are highly suited for growing successfully
in different environments.Dr. Zhikang Li, the Project Director at CAAS, stated that the 3000 Rice Genomes
Project is part of an ongoing effort to provide resources specifically for poverty-stricken farmers in Africa and
Asia, aiming to reach at least 20 million rice farmers in 16 target countries (8 African and 8 Asian countries).
"Rice is the staple food for most Asian people, and has increasing consumption in Africa," said Dr. Li. "With
decreasing resources (water and land), food security is and will be the most challenging issue in these
countries, both currently and in the future. As a scientist in rice genetics, breeding and genomics, it would be a
dream to help to solve this problem."Dr. Jun Wang, Director of BGI, added to this, saying that, "the population
boom and worsening climate crisis have presented big challenges on global food shortage and safety. BGI is
dedicated to applying genomics technologies to make a fast, controllable and highly efficient molecular
breeding model possible. This opens a new way to carry out agricultural breeding. With the joined forces with
CAAS, IRRI and Gates Foundation, we have made a step forward in big-data-based crop research and
digitalized breeding.
We believe every step will get us closer to the ultimate goal of improving the wellbeing of human
race."According to IRRI director general Dr. Robert Zeigler, "access to 3,000 genomes of rice sequence data
will tremendously accelerate the ability of breeding programs to overcome key hurdles mankind faces in the
near future." This collaborative project, added Zeigler, "will add an immense amount of knowledge to rice
genetics, and enable detailed analysis by the global research community to ultimately benefit the poorest
farmers who grow rice under the most difficult conditions."Drs, Wang and Zeigler, and Dr. Jia-Yang Li,
President of CAAS, provide further information on the goals of this project in an accompanying commentary
inGigaScience.To reach their goals, the three-institute collaboration has not only released 13.4 terabytes of data,
they have also collected seeds from each strain (available in the International Rice Genebank Collection housed
at IRRI).
Having banked seeds is essential to make full use of these now genetically defined strains to develop and
sustain the most appropriate hybrid strains for different environments. There remains, however, one additional
component to achieve this goal: this is information that allows researchers and breeders to directly link the


genetic information (genotype) to thephysical traits (phenotype) of these different strains. This requires careful
assessment and curation of each rice strain for agriculturally important traits, which can then be linked to
genetic markers in the now available genome sequences.Current breeding practices, which have essentially
remained the same since the development of agriculture, typically use apparent physical traits to guide strain
selection for crossbreeding with the hope that the offspring will manifest a combination and improvement of the
desired traits, such as drought, pest and disease resistance and increased crop productivity and improved
nutritional value.
However, the underlying genetic makeup can often confound breeder expectations because unknown genetic
interactions can block, modify, or alter the development of the selected physical characteristics when two
strains are bred. Thus, trial and error and multiple successive breeding stages are often required.Having full
knowledge of the genetic makeup of a plant allows researchers to identify genetic markers related to specific
physical traits, and better understand how different genetic interactions effect plant phenotypes. This
information allows a breeder to make more intelligent choices in strain selection, resulting in more accurate and
rapid development of rice strains that are better suited to different agricultural environments in poor and
environmentally stressed economies.
This is a process that requires a great deal of care and manpower. Thus, the release of these data, and making
the genetic information freely available to plant breeders and scientists across the world, will greatly aid in
defining genotype/phenotype relationships as well as serve as an extensive resource improving our
understanding of plant biology.Publication in GigaScience includes storage of relevant associated data in the
journal's affiliated database, GigaDB, where every dataset is provided with a digital object identifier (DOI),
making it possible to cite, find and track data in standard scientific literature, which serves as a strong incentive
for researchers to more rapidly release expensive and work-intensive datasets for community use. On top of
hosting the terabytes of supporting data in GigaDB, to provide the most extensive availability to the community,
the sequence reads for this project have also been submitted to the SRA repository at PRJEB6180.

Kent company fined after worker's fingers crushed
Last updated Tue 27 May 2014
A Kent-based food manufacturer has been fined 30,000 after a worker had three of his fingers crushed. Veetee
Rice Ltd of Neptune Close, Rochester, appeared before Maidstone Crown Court today (27 May) following the
incident in March 2012.Khalil Ahmed was working on a line where a machine was attaching labels to packets
of rice.


The safety interlock mechanism had been intentionally defeated, and his hand became trapped in one of the
machines.This is the second time action has been taken against the company. In November 2009, the company
was fined 140,000 for similar failings relating to unguarded machinery that led to the death of one of its
employees. Both cases were brought by the Health and Safety Executive.
Unwanted inspection cells affecting rice exports

S t a f f R e p o r t e r

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - KarachiRice exporters are seriously bothered by what they called unwanted
inspection cell carried by Quality Review Committee which they alleged restraining export of their rice brands.
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has again urged the ministry of commerce (MoC) to
dissolve the Quality Review Committee (QRC) forthwith in view of the no objection received from the
law division and consensus of all stakeholders.UNISAME said that the dissolving of QRC will be for the
betterment of the rice industry in Pakistan and will give a free hand to rice exporters to sell their brands and
remove hurdles created by the troublesome committee, which is futile in the present circumstances as it is not
serving any purpose.
Infact it is delaying rice shipments unnecessarily. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver pointed out that the
creation of QRC was a big mistake as it gave rise to conflict of interest. It was based on wrong premises and it
gave the opportunity to office bearers of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) to subdue their
competitors. MoC realized this and madeamendments and separated the office of QRC and REAP and also
removed the mandatory condition of membership of REAP for rice exporters. The QRC cannot function as an
inspection company under any law and its formation is based on misapplication and twisting of law to suit the
big and influential and it is appreciated that the Moc has realized its futility and made serious efforts to curtail
it.
He said the QRC has no locus standing as it is neither qualified nor eligible and although just a quality review
committee it is posing itself like a pre-shipment inspection (PSI) organization. It was basically formed to protect
the basmati label but now that rice is sold by the buyers and the exporters own popular brands and other
varieties which are not basmati but more costly and more in demand are flooding the markets and the job of the
QRC is futile.Secondly most of the buyers have their own nominated PSI agency to carry out PSI. QRC never
made efforts to get 386 a very popular variety as basmati although in India 386 is considered and approved as
basmati but in Pakistan QRC allowed its export underhand as basmati but did not recommend it to be approved
as basmati for reasons best known to itself. QRC is devoid of any substantial work as a protector of basmati and
in fact is creating hurdles in its exports due to lack of knowledge on the subject.


The 3,000 rice genomes project: new opportunities and challenges for future
rice research

Rice is the world's most important staple grown by millions of small-holder farmers. Sustaining rice production
relies on the intelligent use of rice diversity.The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project is a giga-dataset of publically
available genome sequences (averaging 14depth of coverage) derived from 3,000 accessions of rice with
global representation of genetic and functional diversity. The seed of these accessions is available from the
International Rice Genebank Collection.
Together, they are an unprecedented resource for advancing rice science and breeding technology. Our
immediate challenge now is to comprehensively and systematically mine this dataset to link genotypic variation
to functional variation with the ultimate goal of creating new and sustainable rice varieties that can support a
future world population that will approach 9.6 billion by 2050.
Author: Jia-Yang LiJun WangRobert S Zeigler
Credits/Source: GigaScience 2014, 3:8
Vietnamese rice perceived as cheap
28.05.2014
Economists have called the low bids offered by Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2 to provide 800,000 tons of rice to
the Philippines a blunder because it has led to the perception that Vietnamese rice is cheap.The low bid
helped the two largest rice-export groups win the contract over their rivals. However, many rice- export
companies have refused to sign export contracts with Vinafood, fearful of huge losses, Dan Viet reports.Dr.
Nguyen Van Nam, former head of the Trade Institute, in an interview given to Dat Viet, said that foreign
business people, trying to force prices down, cited Vinafoods low bids when negotiating to buy rice from
Vietnamese exporters.

The director of a rice export company, who declined to be named, warned that exporters, who scramble for
clients by offering low selling prices, are positioning Vietnams rice as cheap rice, preventing the country
from selling at higher prices.According to former Prime Minister Nguyen Cong Tan, rice exports in Vietnam
are controlled by the two biggest food corporations. This so-called dual monopoly gives them exclusive
rights, the right to collect rice from farmers and the right to export rice, he said.

The two companies have also created a state monopoly, which, in effect, has prevented private enterprises
from taking part in the market.The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) also has too many rights when it comes


to suggesting policy, and it has been operating like a state-owned enterprise, managing rice exports, Tan
said.The association does not admit private enterprises and it does not care about farmers. What it cares about
is protecting the benefits of rice export companies, he added.Rice exporters export rice at low prices after
paying low prices for rice materials from farmers, who then suffer losses or lower profits.Rice production is a
strong part of the economy in Vietnam, but the country continues to sell its rice cheaply.

Vietnamese farmers are frustrated about the poor capability of business people and the states rice-production
chain mismanagement.Meanwhile, local newspapers have reported that the government is considering removing
the floor-price mechanism.If this comes true, rice exporters would be able to determine the export prices
themselves, and they would not have to consider reference prices set up by the VFA or any other agency.

At present, rice export companies must not sell at below $410 per ton for 5 percent broken rice FOB (free on
board, 50 kilo packs, Vietnam quality), and $375 per ton for 25 percent broken rice.If the floor prices are
removed as predicted, rice exporters would have the right to determine their selling prices themselves, which
would help increase exports.Vietnams rice exports in the first four months of 2014 was not satisfactory, as
reported by VFA. The country exported 2.04 million tons of rice, earning $931 million, a 7 percent decrease in
quantity and 5 percent decrease in value compared with the same period last year.

Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-May 28
Wed May 28, 2014 3:16pm IST
Nagpur, May 28 (Reuters) - Gram and tuar prices in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and Marketing
Committee (APMC) firmed up again on renewed demand from local millers amid weak supply from producing
regions. Weak overseas arrival, fresh rise in Madhya Pradesh pulses and enquiries from South-based millers
also pushed up prices, according to sources.
* * * *
FOODGRAINS & PULSES
GRAM
* Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here on subdued demand from local traders
amid ample supply position in ready position.


TUAR
* Tuar Karnataka declined sharply in open market here in absence of buyers amid
profit-taking selling by stockists at higher level.
* Moong Mogar bold recovered handsomely in open market on good marriage season demand
from local traders amid thin supply from producing belts.
* In Akola, Tuar - 4,100-4,300, Tuar dal - 6,300-6,500, Udid at 6,100-6,500,
Udid Mogar (clean) - 7,200-7,700, Moong - 8,200-8,400, Moong Mogar
(clean) 9,500-10,200, Gram - 2,400-2,600, Gram Super best bold - 3,300-3,600
for 100 kg.
* Wheat, rice and other commodities remained steady in open market in thin trading
activity, according to sources.
Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg
FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close
Gram Auction 2,350-2,500 2,300-2,500
Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600
Tuar Auction 3,900-4,424 3,800-4,335
Moong Auction n.a. 5,200-5,500
Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500
Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800
Gram Super Best Bold 4,000-4,200 4,000-4,200
Gram Super Best n.a.
Gram Medium Best 3,850-3,950 3,850-3,950
Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a.


Gram Mill Quality 3,500-3,600 3,500-3,600
Desi gram Raw 2,800-2,900 2,800-2,900
Gram Filter new 3,200-3,400 3,200-3,400
Gram Kabuli 8,500-10,500 8,500-10,500
Gram Pink 7,700-8,100 7,700-8,100
Tuar Fataka Best 6,500-6,700 6,500-6,700
Tuar Fataka Medium 6,300-6,400 6,300-6,400
Tuar Dal Best Phod 5,800-6,000 5,800-6,000
Tuar Dal Medium phod 5,400-5,700 5,400-5,700
Tuar Gavarani 4,400-4,500 4,400-4,500
Tuar Karnataka 4,350-4,450 4,450-4,550
Tuar Black 7,800-8,000 7,800-8,000
Masoor dal best 6,200-6,400 6,200-6,400
Masoor dal medium 6,000-6,200 6,000-6,200
Masoor n.a. n.a.
Moong Mogar bold 9,900-10,500 9,800-10,400
Moong Mogar Medium best 9,200-9,700 9,200-9,700
Moong dal super best 9,200-9,600 9,200-9,600
Moong dal Chilka 9,000-9,400 9,000-9,400
Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a.
Moong Chamki best 8,000-9,100 8,000-9,100
Udid Mogar Super best (100 INR/KG) 8,000-8,200 8,000-8,200
Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 6,600-7,400 6,600-7,400


Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,500-5,800 5,500-5,800
Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 4,700-6,000 4,700-6,000
Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 3,050-3,150 3,050-3,150
Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,300-3,400 3,300-3,400
Watana White (100 INR/KG) 3,500-3,600 3,500-3,600
Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 4,800-5,300 4,800-5,300
Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 1,200-1,600 1,200-1,600
Wheat Mill quality(100 INR/KG) 1,200-1,500 1,200-1,500
Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 1,300-1,500 1,300-1,500
Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,150 2,000-2,150
Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 1,700-1,800 1,700-1,800
Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a.
MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000
MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,700 2,200-2,700
Wheat 147 (100 INR/KG) 1,100-1,400 1,100-1,400
Wheat Best (100 INR/KG) 1,700-2,000 1,700-2,000
Rice BPT (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000
Rice Parmal (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,100 1,900-2,100
Rice Swarna old (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,200 3,000-3,200
Rice HMT (100 INR/KG) 3,700-4,000 3,700-4,000
Rice HMT Shriram (100 INR/KG) 4,500-5,300 4,500-5,300
Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 10,400-13,900 10,400-13,900
Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 7,300-10,000 7,300-10,500


Rice Chinnor (100 INR/KG) 5,500-5,800 5,500-5,800
Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 1,300-1,500 1,300-1,500
Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,600-1,700 1,600-1,700

WEATHER (NAGPUR)
Maximum temp. 41.6 degree Celsius (106.9 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp.
25.5 degree Celsius (77.9 degree Fahrenheit)
Humidity: Highest - n.a., lowest - n.a.
Rainfall : 0.0 mm
FORECAST: Mainly clear sky. Maximum and Minimum temperature likely to be around 43 and 26 degree
Celsius respectively.

Note: n.a.--not available
(For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices.)
Liberian Rice Processor Makes Unprecedented Rice Purchase
28 MAY 2014
PRESS RELEASE
For some farmers in Lofa county, the local market is as far as their rice will go. For others, their rice may go the
extra distance and make it across the border into Guinea. For the majority, however, the annual rice harvest
does not leave the farm. The farmers family, neighbors and farm hands consume all of it.Typically, around July
and August, the local rice stores are low, and Liberians rely on imported rice for the next three or four months,
which costs less than locally grown rice. During the hunger monthsas they are knownmany Liberians
desperately depend on rice from abroad. The days when Lofa was the bread basket of Liberia seem lost in
another time.Farmers cant produce enough rice to feed everybody, says James Darbor, lead farmer of the
Bagagizia Farmers Association near Voinjama.


But if we expand our farms, we can make more rice and sell more rice.Bagagizia is one of several rice
farming cooperatives working with the USAID Food and Enterprise Development (FED) Program to increase
lowland rice production. By expanding lowland swamps, using mechanization, creating irrigation structures and
planting improved rice seeds, rice farmers have improved their yields to between 4 and 6 metric tons per hectare
(MT/ha), a significant increase over 1 MT/ha from before.Most farmers start out doing upland rice farming, but
the swamp is better than upland. We produce more and can make two or even three harvests per year, explains
Kabeh Zayzay of the Kabuke Farmers Association in Voinjama.
The year 2014 may go down in history for these farmers. The Bagagizia farmers sold over 70 bags of surplus
paddy rice to local processor Fabrar Liberia, who traveled through Lofa county in the month of May to purchase
rice. The Kabuke farmers sold 55 bags to Fabrar.Now we have a surplus and farmers dont want to wait for the
government or the NGOs to come and buy our rice. If we dont sell, it spoils, says James Darbor.To increase
the options for Liberian rice farmers, USAID FED began supporting Fabrar Liberia in 2014 with bigger
warehousing and increased processing facilities in Kakata, Margibi. Poised to become Liberias largest rice
processor, Fabrar Liberia is cozying up to farmers.

USA RICE JOINS WHEAT, PORK AND DAIRY PROCESSORS IN
EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT JAPAN AND TPP
Japan's Trade Minister Amari
Minister Amari
WASHINGTON, DC -- Minister Amari's statement in Singapore that none of Japan's sensitive agricultural items will be
fully liberalized may signal the end of hopes for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to become a truly comprehensive and
forward-looking 21st century agreement. A country cannot shield its primary agricultural products from competition and
still claim to be committed to a high-standard agreement liberalizing essentially all goods.
When Japan joined the TPP negotiations, it agreed to "to pursue an agreement that is comprehensive and ambitious in all
areas, eliminating tariffs and other barriers to trade and investment," as stated in the earlier (November 12, 2011) TPP
Trade Ministers' Report to Leaders. Yet according to several reports from the TPP Ministerial meeting just completed in
Singapore, Japanese Minister of the Economy Akira Amari has now flatly told the other negotiating countries that Japan
will not abolish tariffs in the five agricultural sectors it considers "sacred." Those five sectors include seven basic
agricultural products, covering most of agricultural production: dairy, sugar, rice, beef, pork, wheat and barley. They also
include many downstream products made from those seven items, such as flour and flour mixes made from wheat and
rice.


The broad exemption that Japan is demanding will encourage other partner countries to withhold their sensitive sectors as
well. The result would fall far short of a truly comprehensive agreement that would set a new standard for future trade
agreements. In fact the TPP envisioned by Japan, if it stands, would be the least comprehensive agreement the U.S. has
negotiated since the 21st century began.
U.S. negotiators still have a chance to push Japan to provide meaningful agricultural market access in the agreement.
Failing that, the alternative is suspending negotiations with Japan for now and concluding a truly comprehensive
agreement with those TPP partners that are willing to meet the originally contemplated level of ambition. It is a big step
but one that will be justified if Japan continues to refuse to open its agricultural sector to meaningful competition.
CONTACT: BOB CUMMINGS (703) 236-1473

Notice of Open Tender
AARQ Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc.

Independent bids are invited for rights to ship U.S.-origin milled rice to the European Union under a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) granted
by the EU to the United States.

Bids must be submitted on May 29, 2014 for the July 2014 TRQ Tranche, in which the following quantity is available:

Volume (metric tons)
EU Duty
Semi-Milled or Milled Rice 9,680 zero
(HTS item 1006.30)

TRQ Certificates will be awarded to the highest bidder(s). Any person or entity incorporated or domiciled in the United States is
eligible to bid. The minimum bid quantity is 18 metric tons. Performance security (the lesser of $50,000 or the total value of the bid)
must be submitted with each bid. Potential bidders may obtain the required bid forms and bid instructions from:

AARQ Administrator
Economic Consulting Services, LLC
2001 L Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: (202) 466-1150 Fax: (202) 785-3330

Note: Potential bidders should consult regulations in the Official Journal of the European Union to determine the applicable tariff rate
on semi-milled/milled rice. AARQ disclaims any responsibility for advising potential bidders on applicable tariff rates. Potential
bidders should also consult EC regulations relating to testing for unauthorized GMOs.


CCC Announces Prevailing World Market Prices
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation todayannounced the following prevailing world
market prices of milled and rough rice, adjusted for U.S. milling yields and location, and the resulting marketing loan-gain (MLG) and
loan deficiency payment (LDP) rates applicable to the 2013 crop, which became effective today at 7:00 a.m., Eastern Time
(ET). Prices are unchanged from the previous announcement.
World Price
MLG/LDP
Rate

Milled Value
($/cwt)
Rough
($/cwt)
Rough ($/cwt)
Long-Grain 17.52 11.50 0.00
Medium-/Short-Grain 17.18 11.76 0.00
Brokens 12.00 ---- ----

This week's prevailing world market prices and MLG/LDP rates are based on the following U.S. milling yields and the corresponding
loan rates:

U.S. Milling Yields
Whole/Broken
(lbs/cwt)
Loan Rate
($/cwt)
Long-Grain 57.94/11.23 6.65
Medium-/Short-Grain 63.26/7.45 6.58

The next program announcement is scheduled for June 4.


CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures
CME Group (Preliminary): Closing Rough Rice Futures for May 28

Month Price Net Change
July 2014 $15.050 - $0.040
September 2014 $14.385 - $0.050
November 2014 $14.505 - $0.030
January 2015 $14.665 - $0.015
March 2015 $14.820 + $0.035
May 2015 $14.820 + $0.035
July 2015 $14.820 + $0.035

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+92 321 369 2874

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