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Today Rice News Headlines...
3D Modeling Brings Concurrent Benefits to Machinery Builder

Stop bashing GMOs, say 107 scientists and economists
Watch out for a fresh low as monsoon eyes Punjab, Haryana, Delhi
Rice farmers call on govt to ban rice importation
Rice Prices
Rice Research Center hosts annual field day
Rice farmers hope Cuban trade could spur local boost
NFA supply enough to cover lean months ahead
Local agriculture survives heavy rains
2016 Acreage Preview: Rice Acres on the Rise as Drought Recedes
Monsoon rains 1 percent above average in past week - IMD
Shortage of power supply troubles paddy farmers
NFA rice inventory good for 32 days
Bank bad debts a challenge but not a time bomb
Rice Foundation accepting applications for 2017 leadership program
APEDA AgriExchange Newsletter - Volume 1507
06/30/2016 Farm Bureau Market Report
Fantastic Weather, Technical Developments, Cuba, and the Rice
Leadership Development Program Mark Louisiana Field Days
Acreage Report: 2016 Crop Planted Acres Up More Than 22 Percent
from 2015
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3D Modeling Brings Concurrent Benefits to Machinery
Builder
July 1, 2016
Jim Camillo
Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships are risky endeavors for managers, as well as workers.
Sometimes these transactions favor one group over another, or end up being disastrous for both
groups. Other times, however, the deal turns out great for everyone.
A good example of the latter is the October 2015 agreement between Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
Group and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M) that gives M&M a one-third ownership share of
Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co. Ltd. (MMAM). Founded in 1980, the company
designs and manufactures a wide range of agricultural machinery, such as tractors, combine
harvesters and rice transplanters.
Before the agreement, the company focused primarily on serving Japan. Today, MMAM has the
resources to compete in the global agricultural machinery marketplace. Along with the
technology and brand power of majority-owner Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Group (one of the
worlds leading heavy machinery manufacturers), the company has access to M&Ms extensive
sales network in India, China and the United States.
Equally beneficial is the companys concurrent engineering approach to product development,
which was implemented at MMAMs main plant in Matsue, Japan, in 2013. Concurrent
engineering requires products to be designed and developed simultaneously, rather than
consecutively, to shorten time to market and cut production costs.
XVL Studio software has enabled the company to effectively implement this methodology.
Made by Lattice Technology Inc., the software turns 3D design data into interactive 3D
manufacturing data.
Prior to using XVL Studio, an MMAM engineer would check the part geometry from blue prints
and simulate the order of the assembly process based on his experience. He would then
specifically define the assembly process and develop work instructions.
With XVL Studio, an engineer directly creates digital mock-ups and technical illustrations of
parts from 3D data. He then digitally creates the assembly process with these parts, including
verifying the tooling and jigs needed for assembly based on actual part geometry. If a problem
arises during the process, he can easily highlight any change to ensure that downstream
documentation has the proper updates.
The software lets MMAM engineers easily attach assembly instructions to part geometry models
and animations. Instructions can be created in Excel, an interactive Web page or a browser-based
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Windows application. When an engineer selects a listed part name in Excel-based instructions,
the part is automatically highlighted in the accompanying 3D model.
Plant managers especially like the XVLs small file size, which is typically only 0.5 percent of
the native CAD model size but still maintains part accuracy. This format allows engineers to
design large assemblies with thousands of parts on standard desktop and laptop PCs, or mobile
devices like the Apple iPad. It also lets users create enhanced models that include animations and
annotations.
Another feature MMAM engineers like is called Snapshot. It lets users save view parameters
(orientation, layout and camera angle) of a 3D model or restore the models position with a
single click.
Lattice recently released Lattice3D Studio version 13.1, which lets engineers also create
electrical routing representations in 3D of wires, cables, harnesses and connectors. For more
information on 3D modeling software, call 415-274-1670 or visit www.lattice3d.com.
http://www.assemblymag.com/articles/93464-d-modeling-brings-concurrent-benefits-tomachinery-builder

Nobel prize laureates call on Greenpeace to back off on opposition to Golden Rice and
GMOs, saying genetic modification holds the key to modern solutions to world hunger and
malnutrition
By Simone McCarthy, Staff June 30, 2016
One-hundred-and-seven Nobel laureates have stepped together into the decades-old debate
surrounding genetically modified food (GMOs). The laureates, all from the science and
economic fields, signed a letter released this week that both voices support for GMOs in food
and challenges the opposition of Greenpeace and other groups to GMOs.
The debate about GMOs, their safety and place in our food and agriculture, has been ongoing on
the world and domestic stages. The implantation and consumption of GMO seeds and foods is
strictly regulated by agencies such as the European Commission and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Genetic modifications entered into new territory with the 2012 invention and subsequent
advancement of CRISPR technology, which allows scientists to zero in on specific genes to
modify in an organisms DNA with much more precision than previous gene technology.
Recommended: What do you know about GMOs? Take the GMO quiz
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However, this cutting edge technology was not at the heart of the Nobel laureates letter
yesterday, nor was it mentioned at all. Instead the scientists focused on Golden Rice, a 1999
invention of biologists Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer, who aimed to alleviate Vitamin A
The rice, it seems, has become a symbol of the beleaguered movement to make impactful
humanitarian advances in GMOs amid government regulation and anti-GMO activism.
"We urge Greenpeace and its supporters to re-examine the experience of farmers and consumers
worldwide with crops and foods improved through biotechnology, recognize the findings of
authoritative scientific bodies and regulatory agencies, and abandon their campaign against
'GMOs' in general and Golden Rice in particular," said the letter, signed by laureates across the
fields of medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics.
The statement comes a little over a month after the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine released a report saying that they found no evidence that genetically
modified crops led to widespread health problems or had negative environmental impact.
The letter, addressed to leaders of Greenpeace, the United Nations and governments around the
world, calls for the end of both the campaign against "the tools of modern biology" and the
genetically modified Golden Rice.
Greenpeace responded on Thursday with a statement issued from Manila, saying that "the only
guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse healthy diet" and denying the capabilities of
Golden Rice.
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"This costly experiment has failed to produce results for the past 20 years and diverted attention
from methods that already work," wrote Wilhelmina Pelegrina of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
"Rather than invest in this overpriced public relations exercise, we need to address malnutrition
through a more diverse diet, equitable access to food and eco-agriculture."
What may be behind the scientists' decision to focus their letter on Golden Rice is the parallel
between the product, which is still in trials and testing, and the potentially unexplored solutions
in today's labs.
Richard Roberts, a chief scientific officer at New England Biolabs, who organized the letter
campaign along with geneticist Phillip Sharp, the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology
or medicine, says that he was reacting to reports from fellow scientists that their genetic research
was being restricted by anti-GMO activism.
"We're scientists. We understand the logic of science. It's easy to see what Greenpeace is doing is
damaging and is anti-science," he told The Washington Post.
Golden Rice is a specific example of the hope of the signatories that genetic modification can
help to alleviate world hunger and malnutrition. The rice, named for its hue, is genetically
infused with beta carotene, which the human body turns to Vitamin A. The World Health
Organization reports that 250 million preschool children worldwide are still affected by Vitamin
A deficiency, which can cause blindness and death because of poor immune system
development.
But since it was first produced in 1999, Golden Rice, whose research and development is now
being funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has yet to fulfill its goals. Instead, the
rice remains in field testing in Bangladesh and the Philippines. It "will only be made available
broadly if it is approved by national regulators and shown to reduce vitamin A deficiency for the
world's poorest populations," says the Gates Foundation website.
"There's so much misinformation floating around about GMOs that is taken as fact by people,"
Michael D. Purugganan, a professor of genomics and biology and the dean for science at New
York University, told The New York Times after a 2013 protest in the Philippines against the
rice. Dr. Purugganan's research is not on genetically engineered modified crops, however having
grown up in the Philippines he became involved in the conversation about Golden Rice.
"A lot of the criticism of GMOs in the Western world suffers from a lack of understanding of
how really dire the situation is in developing countries," he said.
The opening line the laureates' letter references a United Nations finding that global production
of "food, feed, and fiber" will need to approximately double by 2050 "to meet the demands of a
growing global population."
As the world's available arable land stays static or decreases and populations (and world
temperatures) continue to rise, sustainable and high-yield crops will be a challenge. Parts of that
challenge could be faced with genetic modification, the scientists say.
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That's not to say that the technology is not already in use: There are roughly 100 genetically
modified plants in American agriculture, most of the cotton grown in India and China is
genetically modified, as well as much of the world's soybeans and corn, reports Newsweek.
Given the presence of GMOs in American agriculture, recent domestic debates have been over
labeling genetically modified food the controversy was recently centered in Vermont, where
legislators and advocates are working on a law requiring companies to label foods with GMOs.
But the issue, as it's framed in the letter, is not about whether or not people know what they are
consuming, rather it's a question about whether the scientific community will be able use
technology to try and address food insecurity.
Nobel laureate Randy Schekman, a cell biologist at the University of California at Berkeley, told
The Washington Post that the opposition to scientific advance in GMOs affects "the world's
agricultural future."
While Greenpeace does not appear to have changed its stance, it remains to be seen how
governments may react to the endorsement.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0630/Stop-bashing-GMOs-say-107-scientists-andeconomists
Watch out for a fresh low as monsoon eyes Punjab,

Haryana, Delhi
Vinson Kurian
Thiruvananthapuram, June 29:
The India Met Department has put out a watch for a fresh low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal
in what is a clear pointer to a productive session of the monsoon through the first week of July.
This is the second in a row to materialise in the Bay, even as a predecessor parked over South
Chhattisgarh blinked in tandem, since both cannot exist at the same time.
In view of this development, the Met has assessed that conditions are favourable for the rains to
march into most parts of North-West India, including west Rajasthan, the last outpost, over the
next three days.
Forecast
Accordingly, over the next three days, the monsoon will enter more parts of Gujarat and West
Rajasthan, the remaining parts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, west Madhya Pradesh, and
Uttar Pradesh, most parts of Punjab and Haryana and the whole of Chandigarh and Delhi.
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Seasonal rains would have mostly made good the eight-day delay that had hindered the
monsoons spread and advance from Kerala on the south-west coast.
During the 24 hours that ended on Wednesday morning, the West Coast continued to witness
heavy to very heavy rain with Honnavar recording 20 cm; Harnai-18 cm; Mormugao and
Karwar-15 cm each; Ratnagiri-14 cm; Vengurla-13 cm; Panjim and Alibagh-11 cm each; and
Mumbai Santa Cruz- 10 cm.
Monsoon activity towards the East of the country was not that pronounced, principally because
an existing low-pressure area over South Chhattisgarh had weakened overnight. Still it was
enough to bring heavy rainfall of 11 cm of rain to Kothagudem in Telangana.
Reading from the preparedness at the ground level and distribution of helpful atmospheric
features, it is more or less clear that the monsoon is readying for an expansion over North India
in the first week of July.
On Thursday, heavy to very heavy rain has been forecast at isolated places over Konkan-Goa;
heavy rain in most places over west Madhya Pradesh, the hills of West Bengal and Sikkim,
Arunachal Pradesh, south Odisha, south Chhattisgarh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, coastal Karnataka
and Kerala.
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On Friday, July 1, the rains are seen breaking heavy over parts of North-West India, especially
over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh, and east
Rajasthan
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/watch-out-for-a-fresh-low-asmonsoon-eyes-punjab-haryana-delhi/article8788710.ece
Rice farmers call on govt to ban rice importation

By Ruth Abla Adjorlolo, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Jun 30, 2016 at 11:12am
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Thousands of tons of local rice are presently sitting the northern part of Ghana without market.
The situation, the rice farmers explained will have a negative impact on their fortunes and also prevent
them from farming during the next farming season.
This is due to the fact that the farmers will have to generate additional revenue from other sources to
settle their indebtedness to the financial institutions from whom they received credit from during the
previous farming year.
An acre of rice farm requires between GH1,500 and GH2,000 to cultivate, hence the situation has put
thousands of farmers out of business, although the government on a number of occasions have vowed to
revamp the industry.
According to the farmers bad road network, delayed harvesting, improper harvesting, threshing, drying
and storage handling issues are some major challenges they face.
This came to light when the leadership of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute, SARI, and the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, toured their eighteen Rice Seed Scaling project
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demonstration sites in the Navrongo municipality.
The CSIR-SARI Technician at the Seed scaling project sponsored by USAID and implemented by
AfricaRice and SARI in the Navrongo Municipality,
Alfred Acquah has expressed satisfaction about the performance of farmers at the demonstration sites of
the Rice Seed Scaling project.
The move is expected to improve their livelihoods by increasing the competitiveness of domestic rice to
meet the increasing regional demand.
The investment will also see to the increment of productivity and quality of paddy rice, increase the
efficiency of local rice sourcing, processing and marketing. The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute,
SARI, is one of the 13 Research Institutes under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR).
The Council, founded in 1957 involves more than 600 scientists in the fields of agriculture, fishery,
forestry, industry, environment and health.
SARIs mandate is to provide small scale farmers in the Northern, upper East and Upper West regions
with appropriate innovation/option/technology to increase their food production base on a sustainable
production system, which maintains and/or increasing soil fertility.
The research mandate also includes the development of appropriate cropping systems, varieties of crops
such as maize, groundnut, Bambara, cotton and vegetables crops which are adapted to the needs of
farmers in the different ecologies of northern Ghana.
SARI is well endowed with highly trained research scientists.
Their contribution to the advancement of scientific knowledge in their specialized fields has been
acclaimed at the international level through special awards and citations from world-renowned scientific
bodies and association.
Ghana is generally regarded as one of the more successful examples of an economic turnaround in subSaharan Africa.
From an over bureaucratic centralised state which led to a currency collapse in the late 1970s, Ghana has
become a relative island of political stability and is thus encouraging inward investment. According to
Mr. Acquah, small holder rice yields are quite low at 1 to 1.5 metric tonnes per hectare, which further
affects incomes.
Key bottlenecks in the rice value chain include lack of irrigated land, poor access to quality seed material,
farmers inability to pay for necessary inputs, sub-standard agricultural practices and cropping techniques,
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poor post-harvest handling, and lack of mechanisation, which will decrease unit costs.
The objective of CSIR-SARI is to significantly improve the livelihoods of rice farming small holder
households in selected countries in the sub-region by increasing competitiveness of domestic rice supply
to meet increasing regional demand.
The SARI program is confident that by the end of 2017, the program can be scaled up with the right
systems and strong collaborations with its partners, leading to an improvement in the incomes and
livelihoods of rice farmers and building sustainable solutions for the rice industry as a whole.
A farmer at the Korania demonstration site, George Adongo, commended CSIR-SARI for their support.
He said the rice seed scaling project has improve their livelihoods and call on government and benevolent
organizations to provide them with combined harvesters.
He advised his fellow farmers to plant Agra to enable them increase their production
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Rice Prices
as on : 30-06-2016 08:10:22 PM
Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market.
Arrivals
Current
Price
%
Season
Prev. Prev.Yr
Modal
change cumulative
Modal %change
Rice
Gadarpur(Utr)
660.00
13.79 115846.00
2181
2070
9.32
Gorakhpur(UP)
270.00
6522.00
2135
2145
5.17
Bazpur(Utr)
200.00 -54.55
45547.21
1900
1750
-11.63
Mathabhanga(WB)
100.00 -23.08
5020.00
2150
2150
10.26
Aligarh(UP)
90.00
12.5
4265.00
2300
2300
21.05
Karanjia(Ori)
66.50
1230
360.30
2600
2600
4.00
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Jangipur(WB)
62.00
-0.8
880.00
2180
2175
0.69
Hapur(UP)
60.00
100
266.00
2280
2140
6.54
Barasat(WB)
55.00
NC
2830.00
2200
2200
-8.33
Saharanpur(UP)
50.00 -16.67
5770.00
2390
2400
10.39
Indus(Bankura Sadar)(WB)
50.00 -16.67
502.00
2550
2550
15.91
Cachar(ASM)
40.00
NC
2400.00
2500
2500
-7.41
Lanka(ASM)
35.00
16.67
2900.00
1750
1750
-1.41
Dhekiajuli(ASM)
32.00
33.33
1154.60
1900
2000
-13.64
Purulia(WB)
30.00
25
2196.00
2380
2340
NC
North Lakhimpur(ASM)
23.00 238.24
1593.30
1900
1900
Jasra(UP)
12.50
-37.5
615.00
2225
2150
4.71
Bankura Sadar(WB)
12.00
NC
100.00
2150
2150
Nilagiri(Ori)
11.00
37.5
523.00
2400
2400
4.35
Alappuzha(Ker)
10.00
NC
100.00
3975
3975
6.00
Dibrugarh(ASM)
8.10
1.25
1295.80
2450
2450
Mirzapur(UP)
7.00
7.69
1377.10
1975
1975
0.25
Kasipur(WB)
1.20
9.09
41.00
2280
2300
3.64
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/article8791734.ece
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Rice Research Center hosts annual field day

By Breanna Molloy
Field Day 2016
Today hundreds of rice producers gathered at the Rice Research

Station in Crowley for their annual Field Day.The Research
Station, part of the LSU AgCenter, shared their latest project with
the farmers and took them on a tour of their testing fields.A
handful of speakers shared their expertise about new developments
in the industry.Topics included rice breeding, insect management
and weed control. Economists projected the most opportune markets to be Cuba, China and Iraq.
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Rice farmers hope Cuban trade could spur local boost

June 29, 2016 6:38 PM in News
Source: WBRZ
By: Natalia Verdina
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BATON ROUGE Rice is a big part of Louisianas culture, and the state grows more than
almost every other state in the country.
Now, state leaders are hoping to expand the industry even more, by trading with Cuba.
Just west of Baton Rouge, rice farms are working diligently providing the food we all know and
love. This year, rice industry leaders have their eye on Cuba, a nation that imports about the
same amount of rice that Louisiana grows.
But exporting that rice to Cuba has been impossible for the last fifty years.
The US is not allowed to sell rice to Cuba, Jim Guinn said. If we were able to, its one of the
largest markets in the western hemisphere for rice.
Now that diplomatic relations are slowly starting to thaw, local products may soon leave our
ports headed straight to the island.
Louisiana exports about half of the rice it produces, and because of its location, experts say
trading to Cuba is a no brainer. It could also provide a much needed economic boost to local
farmers.
Farmers like Kevin Berkin are struggling to make ends meet. Thats why he supports the states
efforts to branch out and explore new markets.
State leaders, local farmers and businessmen are planning to take a trip to Cuba in July to discuss
new moves for trade, tourism and economic developmen
http://www.wbrz.com/news/rice-farmers-hope-cuban-trade-could-spur-local-boost/
NFA supply enough to cover lean months ahead

By: Angel Palpal-latoc
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:16 AM June 30th, 2016
The National Food Authority (NFA) said there was no need yet to import milled rice since the countrys
supply was still enough to meet domestic needs.
NFA officer-in-charge Tomas R. Escarez in a statement assured the public the agency has more
than the required 30-day buffer stock before the lean months in grain production begin. He said
current inventories were enough to last for 32 days.
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We have more than enough stocks of the good quality, low-priced NFA rice for the lean
months, Escarez said.
He said the national rice inventory currently stood at 3.54 metric tons (MT), good to last for 110
days based on the national daily requirement of 32,560 MT.
Of the inventory, 1.02 million MT is with the NFA, 1.04 million MT is in commercial
warehouses, and 1.47 million MT is kept in households.
These stocks are now strategically prepositioned across the country, especially in calamityvulnerable areas, Escarez said.
The NFA chief said he has ordered all the agencys field offices to closely monitor the rice
supply and price situation in all markets nationwide.
He also instructed the offices to accredit more rice outlets to assure low-income residents could
have access to the NFA supplies.
Closer price monitoring and the opening of more rice outlets will ensure that our people will
always have access to NFA rice, Escarez said.
Despite sufficient rice supply, the Philippine government has expressed interest in Thailands
efforts to sell stockpiled rice, the World Trade Organization said earlier this month.
In the fourth quarter of 2015, the NFA purchased 750,000 tons of rice from state-run suppliers in
Vietnam and Thailand.
http://business.inquirer.net/211489/nfa-supply-enough-to-cover-lean-months-ahead#ixzz4D9Lc7Uzz
Local agriculture survives heavy rains

Casey Stinnett
Except for work delays, rain and high water over the past year have not greatly hurt local
agriculture. Shown here in a photo taken in February is the American Rice Growers facility in
Raywood.
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By Casey Stinnett
Despite all the many floods Liberty County has experienced over the past year, excessive rainfall
and high waters have had minimal effects on local field crops. The negative consequences in
most cases being only to have delayed work.American Rice Growers Dayton General Manager
Aaron Holbrook says the percentage of this years rice crop hurt by the extra rain was mighty
small, and that only a few acres didnt get planted.
Rice being a water crop anyway, brief periods of high water will not usually hurt production.
Thats the one crop that it didnt effect much, Holbrook said.
The little harm done by the rain was to prevent herbicides and fertilizers from being applied as
planned, Holbrook said.
Roy Flora, Liberty County Ag Extension Agent, mentioned that the first cutting of hay was
significantly delayed. Normally cut in early to mid May, the first cut was not made until the
week of June 20.
He explained that the second and third cutting usually produces better hay, so that delay in work
will effect the quality of this seasons hay. Even after the first cutting is made, more delay is
expected because the ground is saturated so the hay will take longer to cure. Curing that would
take only 3 or 4 days in dry weather will take 6 or 7 days when the soil is wet.
Based on what local farmers have told him, Flora said soybean crops in the west and south of the
county have done pretty well so far.
Not much corn is grown locally, but some farmers did not get 100 percent of their crops in, Flora
said.
Ornamental and horticultural plants have suffered from the weather, mostly from fungus and
mold growing on their leaves.
Calves normally ship in November. The number of calves in Liberty County had been going
down but have picked up in the last couple of weeks.
While Liberty County is developing toward becoming more industrial and as a residential area
for people working in Harris County, it remains a largely agricultural community.
According to a 2013 Texas A&M University State of the Community report, a little more than
seven out of every 1,000 employed persons living in Liberty County work in agriculture,
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forestry, fishing and hunting. That report calls agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting still an
economical threat of Liberty County.
As of 2012, according to the USDA Census of Agriculture, Liberty County held 1,470 farms
covering 286,793 total acres and averaging 195 acres each. Although the number of farms and
the acreage given to farming in 2012 was down from the 1,589 farms counted in 2007 that
covered 297,855 acres, the value of agricultural products sold increased over those five years by
39 percent.
The total market value of Liberty County agricultural products sold in 2012 was $34,939,000, of
which 42 percent was from crops and 58 percent was from livestock.
The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service says that as of Jan. 1, 2016 Liberty County
had 52,000 head of cattle, 34,000 beef cows, and 1,300 goats.
In 2012, Liberty County ranked second among Texas 254 counties in the number of honey bee
colonies with 13,808 colonies here. Liberty County was 11 in the value of rice sold; 12 in
soybeans for beans; 25 in forage-land used for all hay and haylage, grass silage and greenchop;
and 42 in its number of horses and ponies with 2,793. Liberty County then had 49,217 cattle and
calves, putting it at 71 out of 254 Texas counties
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/dayton/news/local-agriculture-survives-heavy-rains/article_a1a6d6447bf2-5449-a132-e23cb5691041.html
2016 Acreage Preview: Rice Acres on the Rise as Drought

Recedes
June 29, 2016 05:02 PM
By Alison Rice
The end of Texass punishing drought could mean a resurgence in rice acres
in Thursdays USDA report.Theres no doubt well have an increase in
planted (rice) acreage in Arkansas this year, but well really see it in Texas,
predicted Jack Scoville, vice president of the PRICE Futures Group in
Chicago, who thinks Texas rice acres could jump significantly. All those
farmers who were planting sorghum (due to the drought) are now planting rice.
Overall, he predicts farmers will plant 2.98 million acres of rice, which is just below the average
trade guess of 3 million acres.
Thats actually fairly close to USDAs March estimates. In 2016, rice growers intended to plant
3.064 million acres of rice, an increase of 17% from 2015, according to USDAs Prospective
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Planting report. The top state for the grain has been Arkansas, where producers expected to plant
1.581
million
acres
of
rice
this
spring.
The potential uptick is making some in the rice industry a little anxious.. In all likelihood, it can
reasonably be expected that the total acreage number will decrease but the big question will be
the actual magnitude. Even small adjustments to this number will have large impacts downbalance sheet and ultimately in the market, said the U.S. Rice Producers Association. Until
then, the trade can do little except speculate and hope that the USDA does not become even more
over-zealous later in the month.
If rice acreage continues its rise from 2015 and the weather cooperates, growers could have a big
harvest this year. Luckily, export sales of rice have been pretty good, Scoville said. Were
going to need that good demand to increase to keep ending stocks down at reasonable levels
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/dayton/news/local-agriculture-survives-heavyrains/article_a1a6d644-7bf2-5449-a132-e23cb5691041.html
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Monsoon rains 1 percent above average in past week - IMD
People shelter from the rain under umbrellas on a beach along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India June 27,
2016.
Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
Monsoon rains in India were 1 percent above average in the week ending June 29, the India
Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.The June-September monsoon has
remained 12 percent lower than average so far, but rains have covered almost the entire country,
and helped quicken the planting process of summer crops such as rice, soybeans, cotton and
pulses.Though the monsoon arrived in India on June 8, a week later than usual, IMD expects
rains to pick up pace in July.
(Reporting by Sankalp Phartiyal; Editing by Malini Menon
http://in.reuters.com/article/india-monsoon-rains-average-idINKCN0ZG143
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Shortage of power supply troubles paddy farmers

Tribune News Service
Bathinda, June 29
Even as the government claims of making the state power surplus, farmers are not even getting power
supply for the promised eight hours ahead of the paddy sowing season.
Farmers in various blocks of Mansa district are complaining about the poor supply of power.
The government had promised eight-hour power supply to the farmers as the sowing of paddy is on its
peak.
The farmers in the cotton belt, especially in Bareta block of Mansa district have been complaining about
the shortage of power supply.
The farmers, who have opted to sow paddy instead of cotton due to the fear of whitefly attack, are still
facing a precarious situation.
Whitefly fear has also led to increase in area under paddy cultivation.
The cotton crop needs irrigation seven to eight times during its growth whereas the paddy crop needs to
be irrigated 14-15 times.
Even at the time of sowing, the paddy farmers need to irrigate their field.
The government this year has released many motor connections but there are of no use if there is
no power supply. Most of the farmers, other than small or marginal, are even willing to pay the bills for
power usage but they demand that the supply should be regular and round-the-clock. The farmers in
Bareta and other areas are getting about six hours supply instead of promised eight hours. However, in
some blocks of Mansa district, the supply of power is for eight hours. It has been our demand that the
government should supply power for irrigation during the day instead of night, said Ram Singh
Bhenibagha, BKU Ugraha Mansa president.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/bathinda/shortage-of-power-supply-troubles-paddyfarmers/258855.html
NFA rice inventory good for 32 days

by Mary Grace Padin - June 29, 2016
The National Food Authority (NFA) on Tuesday assured the public the country has enough rice
stocks to last throughout the lean season, or from July to September.
NFA Officer in Charge Tomas R. Escarez said the agency, as of June 15, has a rice inventory of
1.02 million metric tons (MMT), which is sufficient for 32 days.
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This volume exceeded the mandatory 30-day buffer stock the food agency is required to maintain
during the lean season.
We have more than enough stocks of the good quality, low-priced NFA rice for the lean
months. These stocks are now strategically prepositioned across the country, especially in
calamity-vulnerable areas, Escarez said
The official said he has directed the NFAs field offices to closely monitor the rice-supply and price
situation in all markets nationwide in preparation for the lean months.
He also instructed the field offices to accredit more rice outlets to sell NFA rice to make sure the supply
will be more accessible to low-income buyers anywhere in the country. Closer price monitoring and the
opening of more rice outlets will ensure that our people will always have access to NFA rice, Escarez
said.
According to data from the NFA, the countrys rice inventory is currently at 3.54 MMT, which is good to
last
for 110 days, based on the national daily requirement of 32,560 MT. Of this volume, 1.02 MMT are
stored in NFA warehouses, 1.04 MMT in commercial warehouses and 1.47 MMT in the households.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/nfa-rice-inventory-good-for-32-days/
Bank bad debts a challenge but not a time bomb

Arvind Subramanian
The Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are working together to
ensure bad debts do not become a time-bomb and impact the economy,
according to the Chief Economic Advisor.It cant be a time bomb, said
Arvind Subramanian on Wednesday drawing a parallel with China.
Corporate loan exposure of banks in China corresponds to 165 per cent of
that countrys GDP. In contrast, the exposure at Indian banks to such
loans works out to 35 per cent of the GDP. Various steps are being
taken, he said, without elaborating. Mr. Subramanian was speaking to
the media at the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics
and Computer Science here. On consolidation of public sector banks, he
said the aim was to increase the efficiency and get fewer but more
efficient banks.
Brexit ripples
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Describing the referendum in which Britain voted to exit the European Union (EU) as a
landmark development that might slow down the global economy, he said: We are really well
cushioned to bear the impact.
India remains a safe haven for investments, he said.
The Centre would be carefully watching the Brexit impact on growth in the U.S. and Europe, and
resultant implications for Indian exports.
However, given the offset that a good monsoon would provide, he said the Centre would stick to
the growth forecast made in the Economic Survey. The current account deficit will be within one
per cent of GDP helped by low crude oil prices, Mr. Subramanian said.
A good monsoon would also help cool prices of pulses, currently contributing to much of the
food inflation.
Keywords: bad debts, banking sector, RBI, bad loans
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/bank-bad-debts-a-challenge-but-not-a-time-bombchief-economic-advisor-arvind-subramanian/article8788845.ece
Rice Foundation accepting applications for 2017 leadership

program
Jun 30, 2016 USA Rice
The Rice Foundation is accepting applications for the 2017 Rice Leadership Development
Program. Rice producers or industry-related professionals between the ages of 25 and 45 are
eligible to apply for the program. The application deadline is October 1.
The Rice Leadership Development Program provides a
comprehensive understanding of the rice industry, with an
emphasis on personal development and communication skills.
During a two-year period, class members attend four one-week
sessions designed to strengthen leadership skills through
studies of all aspects of the rice industry.
The class is comprised of five rice producers and two industryrelated professionals chosen by a committee of agribusiness leaders. The committee evaluates
the applications of all candidates, reviews letters of recommendation, and conducts personal
interviews with the finalists. Interviews will be conducted at the USA Rice Outlook Conference
in Memphis, Tennessee, in December.
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The program is sponsored by John Deere Company, RiceTec, Inc., and American Commodity
Company through The Rice Foundation and managed by USA Rice.
Additional information on the Rice Leadership Development Program and an application form
can be found on the USA Rice website.
http://deltafarmpress.com/rice/rice-foundation-accepting-applications-2017-leadership-program

International Benchmark Price
Price on: 29-06-2016
Product
Benchmark Indicators Name
Price
Chinese first grade granules, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)
3500
Chinese Grade A dehydrated flakes, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)
4500
Chinese powdered, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)
3000
Chinese sliced, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)
2150
Chinese whole, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)
2300
Indian Cochin, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)
2850
Indian 100 mesh 3500 cps, FOB Kandla (USD/t)
3700
Indian 200 mesh 3500 cps basis, FOB Kandla (USD/t)
1100
2220
Garlic
Ginger
Guar Gum Powder
Source: oryza, agra-net
For more info
Market Watch
Commodity-wise, Market-wise Daily Price on 28-06-2016
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Domestic Prices
Product
Unit Price : Rs per Qty
Market Center
Variety
Min Price
Max Price
Haveri (Karnataka)
Local
1690
1750
Dahod (Gujarat)
Yellow
1700
1750
Sangli (Maharashtra)
Other
1850
1900
Sanad (Gujarat)
Other
1450
2860
Kasargod (Kerala)
Other
1500
1600
Attabira (Orissa)
Other
1410
1450
Jagraon (Punjab)
Other
2300
2700
Jalore (Rajasthan)
Other
1500
1700
Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh)
Other
1230
1270
Bargarh (Orissa)
Other
1500
1700
Giridih (Jharkhand)
Other
1200
1500
Siliguri (West Bengal)
Other
1600
1800
Maize
Paddy(Dhan)
Papaya
Onion
Source:agmarknet.nic.in
For more info
Floriculture
Unit Price : US$ per package

Price on 28-06-2016
Product
Market Center
Origin
Variety
Low
High
Rose Flower
1
25
Package: bunched 10s

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Ecuador
Assorted Colors
12
12.50

Orchid Flower
1
Package: bunched 10s

Boston
Thailand
Dendrobium
16
16
Lilies Flower
Package: per bunch
Boston
Canada
Asiatic Type
13.50
13.50
Sunflower
Package: per stem
Boston
California
Large Head
1.50
1.50
Source:USDA
06/30/2016 Farm Bureau Market Report

Soybeans
High Low
Cash Bids 1176 1084
New Crop 1141 1068
Riceland Foods
Cash Bids Stuttgart: - - - Pendleton: - - New Crop Stuttgart: - - - Pendleton:
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SOYBEANS

High
Low
Last Change
Jul '16 1182.00 1122.00 1175.00 +30.50

Aug '16 1181.50 1120.50 1174.25 +33.75
Sep '16 1169.00 1104.75 1162.25 +39.25
Nov '16 1160.75 1092.00 1153.25 +40.75
Jan '17 1155.50 1088.00 1148.25 +39.75
Mar '17 1115.00 1056.75 1104.75 +31.25
May '17 1098.50 1046.50 1088.00 +28.50
Jul '17 1096.50 1048.50 1085.25 +27.00
Aug '17 1034.50 1034.50 1065.25 +23.25
Soybean Comment
Soybeans surprised the market and continued to pull higher today. New crop soybeans traded in a 68-cent
range today after a volatile day. Soybeans started out the day with another strong export sales report after
the USDA reported another week of stronger sales and exports. This was followed by an acreage report
where the USDA forecasted more soybean acres, but they were near the average trade estimate a neutral
number for the market. As far as stocks goes this was about the only real bearish number received by the
soybean market as the USDA forecasted 870 million bushels of soybeans in storage compared to a trade
estimate of 829 million bu with a range from 775 862 million bu. While the estimate was higher than
trade guesses, further increases in the Brazilian Real relative to the dollar today has traders optimistic
about U.S. soybean export prospects. The market will continue to digest these numbers and may need
additional help to push past resistance near contract highs. Look for soybeans to begin to come under
pressure as the gap widens between corn and soybean prices.
Wheat
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High Low
Cash Bids 441 375
New Crop 440 410
Futures:
WHEAT
High Low
Last Change
Jul '16 438.75 423.00 431.25 +1.75

Sep '16 453.50 436.00 445.50 +1.00
Dec '16 473.00 456.50 465.50 +0.25
Mar '17 490.50 474.50 483.25 -1.00
May '17 501.00 486.50 493.75 -1.00
Jul '17 508.25 495.25 502.00 -0.50
Sep '17 516.00 507.00 511.75 0.00
Dec '17 531.25 519.00 526.25 -0.25
Mar '18 539.25 539.25 539.50 -0.50
Wheat Comment
Wheat prices managed modest gains today after a mixed report. Wheat prices started the day with more
positive demand news as both exports and sales were strong again this week. As for the supply side,
USDA forecast for acreage was roughly a million acres above trade expectations at 50.18 million acres.
Wheat stocks on the other hand came in near trade expectations at 981 million bushels compared to a
trade estimate of 982 million bu. The market remains near contract lows but stronger demand is helping
underpin prices at this tim, but if soybeans were to loose momentum wheat could see additional losses.
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Grain Sorghum
High Low
Cash Bids 372 250
New Crop 348 255
Corn
High Low
Cash Bids 395 355
New Crop 395 359
Futures:
CORN
High Low
Last Change
Jul '16 377.50 355.75 358.75 -14.00

Sep '16 382.25 360.25 365.50 -12.25
Dec '16 387.75 365.25 371.25 -11.75
Mar '17 395.25 373.25 379.50 -10.75
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May '17 398.25 378.75 384.50 -9.75
Jul '17 401.25 382.50 389.25 -8.25
Sep '17 386.00 376.50 382.75 +0.50
Dec '17 391.50 380.00 388.75 +2.25
Mar '18 399.00 390.00 397.00 +3.00
Corn Comment
Corn closed sharply lower today after the release of three bearish USDA Report. The day started out with
a new export sales were sales were down 46% from last week and 59% from the 4-week average. While
exports were stronger this week the market continues to worry about demand as sales continued their
multi week slide after strong sales to end the month of May. So after raising concerns about demand the
USDA released the acreage and quarterly stocks report which were both above trade expectations. The
trade expected 92.896 million acres of corn, but were given 94.148 million acres; an increase of 547,000
acres from the March Planting intentions of 93.601 million acres. Additionally, the market expected June
1 stocks to total 4.528 billion bushels with a range from 4.437-4.650 billion bu; instead the USDA
estimated 4.722 billion bu in storage on June 1. All this combined to push corn prices even lower today as
new crop corn ended down 11.5-cents. Sharp losses over the last 11 days has taken 77-cents off of corn
prices, with the increases in acres the market is likely to remain under even more pressure as weather
forecasts improve for major growing regions. Corn needs to see demand begin to pick back up in order to
help support prices. Just for a matter of reference, last year the market expected the USDA to lower
soybean acreage from Prospective Planting Forecast of 84.635 million acres, but was surprised with
higher acreage in this report as the USDA forecasts 85.139 million acres; however, by the end of the
marketing year in January 2016 the USDA had lowered acreage to 82.7 million acres, so the market was
right in June.
Cotton
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COTTON

High Low Last Change
Jul '16 63.08 63.08 62.82 -1.68
Oct '16 67.1 64.72 64.62 -1.6
Dec '16 66.42 64.15 64.17 -1.68
Cotton Comment
Cotton futures charted a bearish reversal today in reaction to the USDA acreage report. US acreage was
reported at 10.023 million acres. That is up from the March 1 Planting Intentions total of 9.562 million
and last year's total of 8.85 million acres. Today's losses give the market a bearish appearance, but the
uptrend drawn off the February low remains intact, with support currently around 63.64 cents. Better
exports last week gave the market a boost Thursday, thanks to some weakness in the dollar. Weekly
export sales were 58,700 bales for 2015-2016 delivery and 138,300 for 2016-2017 delivery.
Rice
High Low
Long Grain Cash Bids - - - - - Long Grain New Crop - - - - - -
Futures:
ROUGH RICE
High Low
Last Change
Jul '16 1072.5 1047.5 1050.5 -14.0

Sep '16 1105.0 1058.5 1064.5 -25.5
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Nov '16 1123.5 1090.0 1093.0 -25.5
Jan '17 1119.0 1113.0 1116.0 -26.0
Mar '17 1160.0 1131.0 1136.5 -26.0
May '17
1155.5 -26.0
Jul '17
1169.5 -26.0
Rice Comment
Rice futures posted sharp losses in reaction to the acreage report. USDA says 3.212 million acres of rice
were planted nationwide. In Arkansas, the total is a whopping 1.581 million acres: 1.43 million acres of
long grain and 150,000 acres of medium grain. Crop conditions remain generally favorable, with 68% of
the crop rated good to excellent for the second week in a row. September violated support at $10.70
today, and there is little technical support above $9.90. Weekly export sales this week totalled 84,100
metric tons for 15-16 delivery.
Cattle
Futures:
Live Cattle:
LIVE CATTLE
High
Low
Last Change
Jun '16 120.000 118.675 120.000 +1.100

Aug '16 115.700 114.275 114.825 +0.700
Oct '16 115.325 113.950 114.650 +0.700
Dec '16 115.400 114.375 114.950 +0.575
Feb '17 114.575 113.625 114.300 +0.500
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Apr '17 113.625 112.800 113.500 +0.500
Jun '17 107.850 106.925 107.725 +0.700
Aug '17 106.700 105.700 106.625 +0.850
Feeders:
FEEDER CATTLE
High
Low
Last Change
Aug '16 145.100 143.300 144.300 +1.250

Sep '16 144.000 142.125 143.500 +1.450
Oct '16 142.300 140.425 141.975 +1.525
Nov '16 139.575 137.775 139.450 +1.650
Jan '17 135.300 133.500 135.175 +1.700
Mar '17 132.000 130.225 132.000 +1.750
Apr '17 131.000 130.100 131.000 +1.200
May '17 129.175 129.175 129.700 +1.200
Cattle Comment
Improving trade volumes and stronger cash prices helped push cattle prices higher on Thursday,
continued weakness in the corn market after multiple USDA reports were bearish today also helped
support cattle prices today. Live cattle continue to try and establish a bottom which is helping propel
feeders higher.
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Hogs
Futures:
LEAN HOGS
High Low
Last Change
Jul '16 83.300 82.625 82.850 -0.250

Aug '16 83.625 82.650 83.275 -0.050
Oct '16 71.800 70.900 71.700 +0.050
Dec '16 64.400 63.450 64.200 +0.175
Feb '17 67.525 66.625 67.350 +0.225
Apr '17 71.325 70.325 71.150 +0.350
May '17
75.625 +0.250
Jun '17 79.350 78.550 79.350 +0.500

Jul '17 78.725 78.575 78.750 -0.050
Fantastic Weather, Technical Developments, Cuba, and the

Rice Leadership Development Program Mark Louisiana
Field Days
By: Michael Klein
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KAPLAN and CROWLEY, LA - As growers
Linscombe points the way forward
know all too well, sometimes the weather just
cooperates. Such was the case this week when torrential and dangerous rains in some areas during the
day suddenly gave way to cool evenings and one of the mildest LSU Field Days most can remember.
On Wednesday, the LSU H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in Crowley hosted the 107th annual rice
field day to large crowds and insightful presentations led by Dr. Steve Linscombe with other researchers
from LSU, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, and private industry.
New varieties - including a Clearfield hybrid; fungicide timing; the impact of Provisia, a new herbicidetolerant technology, on weed control; and pests - including a new threat from Central America now being
tracked in Texas; were covered during the field tours. Researchers also shared the latest information on
promising new techniques to maximize ratoon crops.
The sun came out just as the tours were concluding, chasing the hundreds of attendees inside for
additional presentations and remarks from Jackie Loewer, Chairman of the Louisiana Rice Research
Board, Jim Guinn, USA Rice Vice President of International Promotion, Ronnie Anderson, President of
the Louisiana Farm Bureau, and others.
While the crowd appreciated the fine work the LSU Ag Center staff are completing on behalf of the rice
industry, talk of the potential opening of Cuba as a new market for U.S. rice dominated many discussions.
"Cuba has great potential for us - at one time our top export destination," said Guinn. "While USA Rice
has an excellent relationship with the government and trade in Cuba, it's going to take some more action
by Congress before we can begin to realize the full potential of this market."
The evening before the LSU Field Day, more than 100 growers gathered at Christian Richard's farm in
Kaplan for the HorizonAg Field Day that featured exciting presentations, including varieties that
Horizon's General Manager Dr. Tim Walker is confident will satisfy the demanding expectations of
Central American customers who are highly focused on quality.
USA Rice staff attended the field days and gave presentations at meetings of the Louisiana Rice
Promotion Board and the Central Louisiana Rice Growers Association (CenLARGA).
"What struck me most perhaps about all of the activities was the number of graduates and current
students in the Rice Leadership Development Program who were presenting," Guinn added. "From the
HorizonAg host, Christian Richard, to the HorizonAg presenters in Dr. Walker, Michael Fruge, and
Sunny Bottoms, to the LSU Field Day, led by Dr. Linscombe and Dr. Dustin Harrell, and John Earles Jr.
in the CenLARGA organization. It shows the success and reach of the program and that the graduates are
doing exactly what is expected of them - leading the industry."
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Leadership grads abound, from the left: Fruge, Bottoms, and Walker
Acreage Report: 2016 Crop Planted Acres Up More Than

22 Percent from 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Statistics Service Acreage report was released
today. The annual report presents acreage by planted and/or harvested areas by state

Nobel prize laureates call on Greenpeace to back off on opposition to Golden Rice and GMOs,
saying genetic modification holds the key to modern solutions to world hunger and malnutrition
By Simone McCarthy, Staff June 30, 2016
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One-hundred-and-seven Nobel laureates have stepped together into the decades-old debate
surrounding genetically modified food (GMOs). The laureates, all from the science and
economic fields, signed a letter released this week that both voices support for GMOs in food
and challenges the opposition of Greenpeace and other groups to GMOs.
The debate about GMOs, their safety and place in our food and agriculture, has been ongoing on
the world and domestic stages. The implantation and consumption of GMO seeds and foods is
strictly regulated by agencies such as the European Commission and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Genetic modifications entered into new territory with the 2012 invention and subsequent
advancement of CRISPR technology, which allows scientists to zero in on specific genes to
modify in an organisms DNA with much more precision than previous gene technology.
Recommended: What do you know about GMOs? Take the GMO quiz
However, this cutting edge technology was not at the heart of the Nobel laureates letter
yesterday, nor was it mentioned at all. Instead the scientists focused on Golden Rice, a 1999
invention of biologists Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer, who aimed to alleviate Vitamin A
deficiency among millions of malnourished children with a genetically modified rice plant.
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The rice, it seems, has become a symbol of the beleaguered movement to make impactful
humanitarian advances in GMOs amid government regulation and anti-GMO activism.
"We urge Greenpeace and its supporters to re-examine the experience of farmers and consumers
worldwide with crops and foods improved through biotechnology, recognize the findings of
authoritative scientific bodies and regulatory agencies, and abandon their campaign against
'GMOs' in general and Golden Rice in particular," said the letter, signed by laureates across the
fields of medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics.
The statement comes a little over a month after the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine released a report saying that they found no evidence that genetically
modified crops led to widespread health problems or had negative environmental impact.
The letter, addressed to leaders of Greenpeace, the United Nations and governments around the
world, calls for the end of both the campaign against "the tools of modern biology" and the
genetically modified Golden Rice.
Greenpeace responded on Thursday with a statement issued from Manila, saying that "the only
guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse healthy diet" and denying the capabilities of
Golden Rice.
"This costly experiment has failed to produce results for the past 20 years and diverted attention
from methods that already work," wrote Wilhelmina Pelegrina of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
"Rather than invest in this overpriced public relations exercise, we need to address malnutrition
through a more diverse diet, equitable access to food and eco-agriculture."
What may be behind the scientists' decision to focus their letter on Golden Rice is the parallel
between the product, which is still in trials and testing, and the potentially unexplored solutions
in today's labs.
Richard Roberts, a chief scientific officer at New England Biolabs, who organized the letter
campaign along with geneticist Phillip Sharp, the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology
or medicine, says that he was reacting to reports from fellow scientists that their genetic research
was being restricted by anti-GMO activism.
"We're scientists. We understand the logic of science. It's easy to see what Greenpeace is doing is
damaging and is anti-science," he told The Washington Post.
Golden Rice is a specific example of the hope of the signatories that genetic modification can
help to alleviate world hunger and malnutrition. The rice, named for its hue, is genetically
infused with beta carotene, which the human body turns to Vitamin A. The World Health
Organization reports that 250 million preschool children worldwide are still affected by Vitamin
A deficiency, which can cause blindness and death because of poor immune system
development.
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But since it was first produced in 1999, Golden Rice, whose research and development is now
being funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has yet to fulfill its goals. Instead, the
rice remains in field testing in Bangladesh and the Philippines. It "will only be made available
broadly if it is approved by national regulators and shown to reduce vitamin A deficiency for the
world's poorest populations," says the Gates Foundation website.
"There's so much misinformation floating around about GMOs that is taken as fact by people,"
Michael D. Purugganan, a professor of genomics and biology and the dean for science at New
York University, told The New York Times after a 2013 protest in the Philippines against the
rice. Dr. Purugganan's research is not on genetically engineered modified crops, however having
grown up in the Philippines he became involved in the conversation about Golden Rice.
"A lot of the criticism of GMOs in the Western world suffers from a lack of understanding of
how really dire the situation is in developing countries," he said.
The opening line the laureates' letter references a United Nations finding that global production
of "food, feed, and fiber" will need to approximately double by 2050 "to meet the demands of a
growing global population."
As the world's available arable land stays static or decreases and populations (and world
temperatures) continue to rise, sustainable and high-yield crops will be a challenge. Parts of that
challenge could be faced with genetic modification, the scientists say.
That's not to say that the technology is not already in use: There are roughly 100 genetically
modified plants in American agriculture, most of the cotton grown in India and China is
genetically modified, as well as much of the world's soybeans and corn, reports Newsweek.
Given the presence of GMOs in American agriculture, recent domestic debates have been over
labeling genetically modified food the controversy was recently centered in Vermont, where
legislators and advocates are working on a law requiring companies to label foods with GMOs.
But the issue, as it's framed in the letter, is not about whether or not people know what they are
consuming, rather it's a question about whether the scientific community will be able use
technology to try and address food insecurity.
Nobel laureate Randy Schekman, a cell biologist at the University of California at Berkeley, told
The Washington Post that the opposition to scientific advance in GMOs affects "the world's
agricultural future."
While Greenpeace does not appear to have changed its stance, it remains to be seen how
governments may react to the endorsement
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Greenpeace was targeted Wednesday by more than 100 Nobel laureates who have signed a letter
calling on the environmental group to end its campaign against genetically modified organisms
(GMOs).
In the letter, Greenpeace is accused of leading the fact-challenged propaganda campaign against
innovations in agricultural biotechnology. The NGOs opposition on a particularly controversial
GMO crop, golden rice, was put on blast.
Golden Rice, compared to conventional rice, has been genetically engineered to produce and accumulate
provitamin A (-carotene) in the grain. Photo credit: Golden Rice Project
In a separate post Why Greenpeace is Wrong about GMOs and Golden Rice, the campaign
accuses Greenpeace of spearheading opposition to golden rice, which has the potential to reduce
or eliminate much of the death and disease caused by a vitamin A deficiency (VAD), which has
the greatest impact on the poorest people in Africa and Southeast Asia.
The laureates letter argues that scientific and regulatory agencies around the world have
repeatedly and consistently found GMO crops as safe for humans and animals for consumption
as well as for the safety of the environment.
Organizers of the campaign held a press conference this morning at the National Press
Conference in Washington to defend the letter.
Were scientists. We understand the logic of science. Its easy to see what Greenpeace is doing
is damaging and is anti-science, Richard Roberts, campaign organizer and the 1993 winner of
the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Phillip Sharp, told The Washington Post.
Greenpeace initially, and then some of their allies, deliberately went out of their way to scare
people. It was a way for them to raise money for their cause.
The golden rice project started roughly 20 years ago by German researchers. The GMO crop is
developed to produce pro-vitamin A (beta-carotene) and is touted by proponents as a solution to
vitamin A deficiencies prevalent in developing countries. The deficiency increases risk for
infection, diseases and blindness.
Greenpeace, however, has deemed the golden rice project as environmentally irresponsible,
poses risks to human health, and could compromise food, nutrition and financial security.
Because of this stance, proponents of golden rice have long attacked the organization for being
anti-science and prolonging the suffering of children with VAD.
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In response to the letter, Wilhelmina Pelegrina, a campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia told
The Post that the organization was not blocking golden rice, as the initiative has failed as a
solution and isnt currently available for sale, even after more than 20 years of research.
As admitted by the International Rice Research Institute, it has not been proven to actually
address vitamin A deficiency. So to be clear, we are talking about something that doesnt even
exist, she continued. Corporations are overhyping golden rice to pave the way for global
approval of other more profitable genetically engineered crops. Rather than invest in this
overpriced public relations exercise, we need to address malnutrition through a more diverse
diet, equitable access to food and eco-agriculture.
She argues that the only guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse, healthy
diet: Providing people with real food based on ecological agriculture not only addresses
malnutrition, but is also a scaleable solution to adapt to climate change.
Pelegrina said that Greenpeace has documented communities across the Philippines that continue
to express concerns about using golden rice as a solution. In the video below produced by the
organization in 2014, Filipino community members speak about solutions to nutrient deficiencies
that are already available in their country.
The use of genetically modified technology is highly contentious in the Philippines. In 2013, a
group of about 400 protesters, which included local farmers and members of two anti-GMO
groupsthe Kilusang Magbubukid ng Bikol (KMB) and the Sararong Inisyatiba nin
Kahinwanmaan sa Wasakon ang Agrokemikals na Lasong-GMO (Sikwal-GMO)destroyed an
800 square meter trial plot of golden rice that was weeks away from being sent to the authorities
for a safety evaluation. The protesters said they uprooted and trampled the rice plants because
they wanted to protect the health of the people and their environment.
Greenpeace Philippines is already working with NGO partners and farmers in the Philippines to
boost climate resiliency, Pelegrina said. Theres a real chance here for governments and the
philanthropic community to support these endeavours by investing in climate-resilient ecological
agriculture and empowering farmers to access a balanced and nutritious diet, rather than pouring
money down the drain for GE golden rice.
Incidentally, a Washington University study published last month in the journal Agriculture &
Human Values argues that the benefits of biotechnology, particularly golden rice, may be
overhyped.
Washington University anthropologist Glenn Stone and Dominic Glover, a rice researcher at the
Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, argue in their paper that GMO
activists should not be blamed for the slow introduction of golden rice.
The rice simply has not been successful in test plots of the rice breeding institutes in the
Philippines, where the leading research is being done, Stone told the university publication. It
has not even been submitted for approval to the regulatory agency, the Philippine Bureau of
Plant Industry (BPI).
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Stone argues that the golden rice 2013 protest did not have any significant impact on the
approval of the crop.
Destroying test plots is a dubious way to express opposition, but this was only one small plot
out of many plots in multiple locations over many years, he said. Moreover, they have been
calling golden rice critics murderers for over a decade.
Although the Philippine Supreme Court recently issued a temporary suspension of GMO crop
trials, which could definitely impact GMO crop development, Stone pointed out that its hard to
blame the lack of success with golden rice on this recent action.
Golden rice was a promising idea backed by good intentions, Stone said. In contrast to antiGMO activists, I argued that it deserved a chance to succeed. But if we are actually interested in
the welfare of poor childreninstead of just fighting over GMOsthen we have to make
unbiased assessments of possible solutions. The simple fact is that after 24 years of research and
breeding, Golden Rice is still years away from being ready for release.
Stone also said the Philippines has managed to slash the incidence of vitamin A deficiency by
non-GMO methods.
Ken Roseboro, the editor and publisher of The Organic & Non-GMO Report and The Non-GMO
Sourcebook, agrees that the failure of golden rice is not due to anti-GMO campaigns and that
conventional agriculture presents viable solutions to VAD.
As Glenn Davis Stone of Washington University recently documented, golden rice is failing,
not because of activists attempts to block it, but to poor performance in field trials, Roseboro
explained to EcoWatch via email. Meanwhile, corn varieties with higher levels of vitamin A
developed using non-GMO breeding methods are being grown in Africa and helping to address
vitamin A deficiency there. But the press ignores this solution in favor of the failed techno-fix of
golden rice.
He continued, to say that GM crops are extensively tested is also not true since the FDA doesnt
require safety testing of new GM crops and allows crop developers to voluntarily submit such
safety data.
Ronnie Cummins, founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association, has
spoken out against the Nobel laureates letter as well.
What this letter shows is that even Nobel Prize scientists dont know, or dont want to know,
since they take money from Monsanto and their minions, anything about the obvious human
health, environmental and climate damage inflicted by GMOs, and the toxic pesticides and
chemical fertilizers that always accompany them, Cummins told EcoWatch via email. This is a
perfect example of why the global grassroots have lost all faith in the bought and sold scientific,
corporate and political establishment
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Rice science for farmers: Successful technologies
Published: June 30, 2016 4:11 am
Bhola Man Singh Basnet
The government should immediately form a high-level National Food Security Mission to cope
with the burning problem of scarcity of food grain in the country. Food self-sufficiency is the
urgent demand of the present time The theme of this years Thirteenth National Rice Day is
Basis of commercial rice farming Extension of community nurseries .
Rice is the predominant cereal crop in South Asia. As per the preliminary estimate of Fiscal Year
2016/2017, the rice crop was grown in 13,62,908 hectares with the production of 42,99,078
metric tons and the productivity was 3.154 ton/ha.
There is less possibility of bringing more lands into production. Therefore, we have to increase
the productivity per hectare per day by knowledge- and science-based farming. The promising
rice varieties plus successful technologies generated by agriculture research play a pivotal role.
Nepal so far has released and registered more than one hundred rice varieties with full package
of practices within the span of about fifty (50) years. The coverage by improved rice varieties in
Nepal is 93%.
Some of the popular rice varieties among farmers are Radha-4, Radha-12, Sabitri, Bindeswori,
Hardinath-1 in Tarai, Khumal-4, Khumal-11, Chainung-242 in mid-hills and Chandannath-3,
Kekali 1, Lekali 3 in high-hills.
Nepal has also the highest altitude (9,000-10,000 ft) in the world, Chhumchaur, Jumla where rice
is cultivated. The modern varieties can express their yield potentiality only when recommended
packages are practiced.
Quality seeds alone can contribute 15-20% in yield. Seed selection can be done by following the
specific gravity principle. Early paddy and boro (winter) rice can be used for increasing rice
yield by utilizing the higher intensity of solar radiation, i.e using sun to end hunger.
The system of rice intensification (SRI) is the other agronomic manipulation which can increase
rice yield. The plant growth regulators (PGRs) can also be used for increasing rice productivity.
In 2073 B.S., Nepal celebrated the Thirteenth National Rice Day on Asar 15 (29th June, 2012)
by eating curd/yoghurt with beaten rice.
Because of the good performance of Nepal during the International Year of Rice 2004, the
Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in its Rice Today (Vol.3, No.3,
2004) had written one article mentioning Year Achieves High-Profile in Nepal.
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Rice is number one cereal crop in Nepal. Not only is rice a key source of food, it is also a major
employer and source of income for the poor.
The world food problem is created because of urbanization, crop diversification, fallow land, low
investment in agricultural research and development, climate change, conversion of food crops
like maize into bio-fuels.
China has banned the conversion of maize into bio-fuels. Rice is also the staple food for more
than 50% of the worlds population (3.5 billion). Moreover, more than 90% rice is produced as
well as consumed in Asian countries. So, rice trade is only about 6-7%. China and India produce
about 50% of the Asias rice.
So, rice brings the Asians together. The present rice production is 481 million tons. In 20072008, there was a global food crisis but a few months later global financial crisis emerged and it
eclipsed the food crisis.
Our constitution says people have right to food too. The United Nations Organization (UNO) had
also declared 2004 as the International Year of Rice with the theme Rice is Life. The United
Nations also had declared rice as the Crop of the Year in 1966 with the theme Freedom from
Hunger because at that time hunger was a big story in Asia.
There is less possibility of bringing more lands into production. Therefore, we have to increase
the productivity per hectare per day by successful technological interventions.
The internal rate of return (IRR) in agriculture research is very high. It is said that to get success,
there should be research push and market pull. Rice seeds can be selected based on the
principle of specific gravity.
Early paddy and boro (winter) rice can be used for increasing rice yield by utilizing higher
intensity of solar radiation especially after flowering. The system of rice intensification (SRI) is
the other way of agronomic manipulation which can increase rice yield.
Had the yield of rice remained at its pre-green revolution level of 1.9 t/ha, current production
would have required more than double the current rice land area and 50% of the forest areas
would have been reduced.
A few years back Newsweek magazine had reported that since the last 30 years, the global water
supply has been halved. What will happen 30 years from now? So water-saving technologies or
wise use of water is a must.
In theory, three to five thousand litres of water is needed to produce one kilogram of paddy.
Drought tolerant rice varieties with less water consuming agronomical manipulations are needed
to combat global warming.
Food security, nutrition security, profitability and sustainability are the major issues at present
and in the future.
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Last but not the least, because of global food issues plus increased food prices, Government of
Nepal should immediately form a high-level National Food Security Mission, involving fieldhardened experts with proven track records including concrete plan of action with fixed priorities
and assured budgetary allocation.
Food self-sufficiency is the ur gent demand of the present time. If Nepal is not self-reliant in
food grain, a situation may come when we cannot buy food grain even if we have money in our
pockets.
Basnet is a retired senior rice expert with Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

International Benchmark Price
Price on: 29-06-2016
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Price
Chinese first grade granules, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)
3500
Chinese Grade A dehydrated flakes, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)
4500
Chinese powdered, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)
3000
Chinese sliced, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)
2150
Chinese whole, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)
2300
Indian Cochin, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)
2850
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Indian 200 mesh 3500 cps basis, FOB Kandla (USD/t)
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Commodity-wise, Market-wise Daily Price on 28-06-2016
Domestic Prices
Product
Unit Price : Rs per Qty
Market Center
Variety
Min Price
Max Price
Haveri (Karnataka)
Local
1690
1750
Dahod (Gujarat)
Yellow
1700
1750
Sangli (Maharashtra)
Other
1850
1900
Sanad (Gujarat)
Other
1450
2860
Kasargod (Kerala)
Other
1500
1600
Attabira (Orissa)
Other
1410
1450
Jagraon (Punjab)
Other
2300
2700
Jalore (Rajasthan)
Other
1500
1700
Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh)
Other
1230
1270
Bargarh (Orissa)
Other
1500
1700
Giridih (Jharkhand)
Other
1200
1500
Siliguri (West Bengal)
Other
1600
1800
Maize
Paddy(Dhan)
Papaya
Onion
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Manipur state records an increasing rice production

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Correspondent IMPHAL, JUN 30
Published on 30 Jun. 2016 10:14 PM IST
There has been a steep rise in rice production in Manipur even as the farm lands reduced by 10.48% in
the past several years.The total production of paddy was increased to 5,97,670 MT from 4,39,000 MT
during the last 15 years with a productivity of 2680 kg/hectare against the national average of 2177
kg/hectare.The state bagged Krishi Karman Award conferred by the government of India in 2011-12 and
2012-13 for increasing the rice production, an official statement said Thursday.
Agriculture in the state is confined to 10.48% of the total geographical area (the geographical area being
22.327-lakh hectare). The net agricultural area has increased from the 222.51 lakh hectare to 234.12 lakh
hectare and increased the gross agricultural area of the state by 24.22 %.
The state has increased the cropping intensity from 121.61% (2001-02) to 151.90% in 2015-16.
Of the total agricultural land, 50 hectare i.e. 21.32 % of the net agricultural land were under irrigation.
Pre- kharif paddy were brought under cultivation of 18,110 hectare (2001-02) to 42,000 ha (2015-16).
The production of pre- kharif paddy was increasing from 43,460 MT to 1,68,190 MT in clean rice with a
productivity of 2400 Kg/ha and 4000 Kg/ha respectively.
The total area under pulses is increasing from 22,180 to 30,920 ha with a production of 16,450 MT and
29,440 MT during the last 15 year. The per hectare yield of pulses is also increased from 750 Kg to 950
Kg/ha against the National average of 537 Kg/ha. (2010-11)
The total area under maize is increasing from 16500 to 26720 ha with a production from 33160 MT to
61560 MT during the last 15 year. The per hectare yield of maize is also increased from 2010 Kg to 2300
Kg/ha against the National average of 1959 Kg/ha (2010-11). The total area under oilseeds is increasing
from 22750 to 37480 ha with a production of 15210 MT and 31780 MT during the last 15 year.
The per hectare yield of pulses is also increased from 670 Kg to 850 Kg/ha against the National average
of 1159 Kg/ha. (2010-11). The area and production of potato is increasing from 7520 to 15250 ha and
production from 62,040 to 1,29,170 MT/ha.System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Paddy and Zero
Tillage in Mustard have also been successfully introduced in the State. The Department had also
introduced 2 (two) High Yielding Variety of Rice namely Gin- Phou and Pari-Phou at Rice Research
Station, Wangbal, Thoubal District for increasing the production and productivity in the State.
The Department has implemented Rashtrya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY), National Food Security
Mission (NFSM), Crop Insurance Scheme, National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) and
National Mission for Oilseed and Oil Palm, etc. for the welfare of the farmers to increase the production
& productivity in the State. The department has implemented Agriculture Technology Management
Agency (ATMA) for strengthening the extension reform in each District of the State. Under this scheme,
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56 Block Technology Manager (BTM), 82 Assistant Technology Manager (ATM), seven computer
programmers and 10 accountants were also employed.
The department had established a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Wangbal in Thoubal district. This
organization has organized a number of training at farmers level and taken up front line demonstration
programme for the welfare of the farmers for increasing the production and productivity.Agriculture and
allied activities is the mainstay of the states economy where about 70% of the population depends on it.
Agriculture in the state is confined to 10.48% of the total geographical area. The state is marginally
deficit in cereals and highly deficit in the production of oilseeds and pulses. Inspite of the rapid
advancement in the crop productivity, the high rate of population growth poses a challenge of self
sufficiency in agriculture within the state.
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Rice for free scheme will be procured from local millers

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Press Trust of India | Puducherry June 30, 2016 Last Updated at 12:42 IST
Narayanasamy to become new Chief Minister of Puducherry Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy meets
MoS PMO ROB will be ready in 9 months: Narayanasamy Protests against Narayanasamy's selection as
CM Narayanasamy criticises move to dismantle NDC
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The Puducherry government would procure rice needed for the free rice scheme only from local millers,
Welfare and Cooperation Minister M Kandasamy said here today. He said that the government would
ensure that 20 kg rice was available free of cost through ration shops to all families covered under the
Public Distribution System. "We will supply single boiled rice as this is the unanimous choice of all the
families here.The 20 kg rice will be available every month from August", he said. While 2.5 lakh families
would be given the rice in Puducherry region, 57,000 families would benefit in Karaikal and 8000 and
16,000 in Mahe and Yanam regions respectively. He said the V Narayanasamy government had come out
with the first announcement after assuming charge on June 6 that each family would be given 20 kg rice
free of cost every month and this promise was being implemented in letter and spirit. The Rice was being
procured by the government owned Civil Supplies Corporation (PAPSCO) here.
He said the rice would be purchased from local mills as that would encourage local farmers and also
millers, instead of outsourcing it from outside Puducherry. Kandasamy said government would also
encourage women's organisations to cultivate vegetables and promote horticulture and would procure the
produce so that rural women's economic empowerment would be expeditiously
encouragedhttp://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/rice-for-free-scheme-will-be-procuredfrom-local-millers-only-116063000303_1.html
Field crop price swings have small impacts on food prices

Jun 29, 2016 USDA/ERS | Delta Farm Press
U.S. commodity prices are much more volatile than

restaurant and grocery-store prices, suggesting that
fluctuations in prices of major field crops corn,
wheat, and soybeans have a relatively small
impact on food prices, says a report by USDAs
Economic Research Service.From 1992 to 2015, the
average farm price of these crops, weighted by total
production, has fluctuated widely year to year
falling as much as 26.2 percent in 2013 and rising as
much as 38 percent in 1995 and 2007.
All-food price inflation, on the other hand, averaged 2.5 percent per year over the same time
period.
One reason for the relative stability in food prices, as compared to field crop prices, is that food
prices reflect the costs of processing, marketing, and retailing the food products in addition to the
cost of the commodity inputs.
ERS's 2014 Food Dollar Series reports that the farmgate price of all food commodities (crops
and livestock) was 14.5 cents of every consumer dollar spent on food and beverages.
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Benchmark Indicators Name

Chinese first grade granules, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)

Chinese Grade A dehydrated flakes, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)

Chinese powdered, CFR NW Europe (USD/t)

Chinese sliced, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)

Chinese whole, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)

Indian Cochin, CIF NW Europe (USD/t)

Indian 100 mesh 3500 cps, FOB Kandla (USD/t)

Indian 200 mesh 3500 cps basis, FOB Kandla (USD/t)

Indian 200 mesh 5000 cps, FOB Kandla (USD/t)

Guar Gum Powder

Source: oryza, agra-net