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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter 29 December, 2014

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Vol 4, Issue XII

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Brown rice more nutritious Wheat up on rising demand, tight supply Rice-economics' in a drought NACC to question two more in rice case Illegal’ Shipments to China Dominate Burma’s $340m in Rice Exports Jokowi aims for food self-sufficiency in three years DA includes climate smart crops in its program Noodle factory opening new market for rice Gov’t should not be bailing out rice millers

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Brown rice more nutritious Let me express my appreciation of and gratitude for the excellent article titled ―Redeeming the lost glory of brown rice‖ (Across the Nation, 12/3/14).I have noticed that brown rice is more expensive although it needs less processing. I have also noticed that there are many rice hybrids and GMO varieties being promoted.As someone who worked to make rice-growing less polluting to our environment, I am concerned that hybrids often require a heavy chemical input, much of which runs off into our streams, rivers, lakes and ocean.

When growing rice with integrated rice duck methods, we use azolla and/or duckweed to provide extra nitrogen for the rice via the ducks. Small fish can also be integrated if the water level is sufficient, and then both the ducks and the fish will eat the azolla and excrete the nitrogen and other nutrients into the water. Aside from consuming insects and adding to the nutrients in the water, the fish provide additional food and product for the farmer. In the past I was told that this will not provide sufficient nutrients for hybrid varieties and that we should plant old varieties that do well with the natural fertilizers provided by the ducks (recycled snails, weeds and insects).Before I began my integrated rice duck project I visited both the International Rice Research Institute (Irri) and the Department of Agriculture.

Scientists at Irri told me that too much rice is wasted through improper postproduction methods (such as drying palay on highways).

A scientist at the DA told me that more rice is wasted by consumers. The wasted rice, all in all, is more than what is needed for the

countryís self-sufficiency in rice.Also, importing rice from abroad is detrimental to Filipino farmers as it inevitably lowers the price they get for their produce. Why not focus on eliminating waste rather than going to hybrid varieties that are likely to contaminate our water with chemical runoff?

One last point, the GMO ―golden rice‖ mentioned in the article lacks some of the nutrients that are present in the rice bran— the bran is removed when rice is milled into the white rice that Filipinos prefer. I urge people to cook and enjoy brown rice, which still has the bran intact and is more filling and nutritious than the polished white rice.

In fact, before I heard of the GMO golden rice, I was calling unpolished brown rice golden rice.

I was surprised that all things brown are considered inferior here in the Philippines.

In my homeland of California, tanning salons, lotions and ointments turn the white into golden brown, a most desirable color… and with rice a most delicious and nutritious one!

—ROWLAND LANE ANDERSON, permaculturist at Tagpopongan Natural Farm, Veterans For Peace Mission to the Philippines, Davao City andersonlane47@yahoo.com Source with thanks: http://opinion.inquirer.net/81305/brown-rice-morenutritious#ixzz3NKSBevHb

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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter by Riceplus Magazine Wheat up on rising demand, tight supply Saturday, 27 December 2014 New Delhi , December 27: Wheat prices rose by Rs 20 per quintal at the wholesale market today on increased demand by flour mills against tight supplies from producing belts.However, other grains continued to trade in a tight range in limited deals and settled around previous levels.Traders said tight supplies from producing regions mainly led to rise in wheat prices.

In the national capital, wheat dara (for mills) advanced by Rs 20 to Rs 1,695-1,700 per quintal. Wheat deshi followed suit and traded higher by a similar margin at Rs 2,270-2,670 per quintal. Atta chakki delivery enquired higher by RS 20 to Rs 1,700-1,705 per 90 kg.

Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal):

Wheat MP (deshi) 2,270-2,670, Wheat dara (for mills) 1,695-1,700, Chakki atta (delivery) 1,700-1,705, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) 220, Shakti bhog (10 kg) 220, Roller flour mill Rs 890-900 (50 kg), Maida 960965 (50 kg) and Sooji 1000-1010 (50 kg).

Basmati rice (Lal Quila) 10,400, Shri Lal Mahal 10,000, Super Basmati Rice 9,500,

Basmati common new 5,400-6,000, Rice Pusa (1121) 4,750-5,800, Permal raw 1,7501,800, Permal wand 1,875-1,900, Sela 2,450-2,500 and Rice IR-8 1,575-1,625, Bajra 1,170-1,175, Jowar yellow 1,4001,425,white 2,400-2,525, Maize 1,360-1,365, Barley 1,650-1,660.

Rice-economics' in a drought

By Brad Hooker UC Davis News Service CREATED: 12/26/2014 03:45:09 PM PST Courtesy Water management practices for rice have taken on a new urgency as the California...

When herbicides swept from farms into rivers, George Tibbitts adopted better watermanagement strategies.With field burning phased out, the Colusa County farmer, like many rice growers, flooded his fields to dissolve the straw remaining after harvest.

When water was scarce, he fallowed. But now that a possible fourth year of drought threatens his crucial water allocations, Tibbitts is at a loss.His deep ties to UC Davis have led him to harvest some of the highest yields in the state.

They will also help Tibbitts take on what will likely be his most challenging year.Tibbitts gained an early curiosity about agriculture from weekends with his grandparents at the Lodi Ranch, the farm started in 1930 by a legend in California rice, George Lodi. At UCD, he studied plant

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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter by Riceplus Magazine science and as a graduate student he worked in agronomy with Jim Hill, a Cooperative Extension specialist and today an associate dean.Together they researched water management practices, including the impacts of water depth and how to balance the quality of water released from rice fields — crucial work to an industry that would eventually reduce herbicide contaminants by nearly 100 percent."We were doing research on other people's farms and I saw how important it was that growers cooperate with researchers," says Tibbitts.

After college, he married Nancy Rupp, a UCD career counselor, and he applied his master's courses in agricultural economics to a job at the California Farm Bureau. He saved and planned, and finally, at 35, he and his siblings took out a loan to buy back the old family farm."I did what I could, begging and borrowing and stealing those first few years to get my foot in the door," says Tibbitts.

"The experience I got working with Jim doing research really helped me understand the science that goes behind the breeding and the agronomics of planting and growing rice."The mixed clay soil at the Lodi Ranch allows for ponding up water for rice, while in other years rotating to crops like safflower and sunflowers, which mine the clay for deeper moisture and nutrients.

Tomato growers come in before Tibbitts

returns a field to rice. It cuts down on weeds and diseases.

With modern practices and decades of scientific innovation, particularly at the UCsupported Rice Experiment Station, Tibbitts now sees twice the yield his grandfather once harvested.

"It's the same amount of water, same amount of land," he says, "just new varieties and better equipment, better science and technology behind it — all constantly evolving trying to shift that curve."When the Tibbitts family bought the farm, Hill was introducing a new era to rice growing. The Cooperative Extension specialist was helping farmers with new ways of fighting weeds and diseases, from flooding fields in winter to suffocate the weeds, to rotating herbicides before aquatic weeds can adapt.

More than 20 years later, the practices are a mainstay in the region and, long before the current drought, they have led farmers to think more carefully about conserving water."A lot of people think rice is a heavy water user," says Jim Hill. "But it's not much more than other crops and actually less so than some."Hill points out that much of the water that floods the fields is used over and over as it cascades through the rice-growing areas — one farmer's tailwater is the next person's irrigation water.

Little water seeps into the high-clay soils where rice is grown. The flooded fields, meanwhile, simulate the wetlands that once dominated the Central and Sacramento valleys. The habitat supports millions of waterfowl and shorebirds annually."The way we farm is sustainable," says Tibbitts, "but it

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"He is reminded of this often by Bruce Linquist, the UCD CE specialist who replaced Jim Hill and has studied fertility on Tibbitts' fields for several years.Today breaking down rice straw through flooding is becoming a luxury. With climatologists predicting a fourth year of drought, every drop of Tibbitts' allocation grows more sacred."Our greatest fear right now is that we have another winter like we had last winter," he says.

"I hope we don't have to find out the hard way what happens when things get as bad as they can get."One weapon Tibbitts may wield years from now could be crafted from the genes of rice. UC Davis scientists have already worked for several years to develop rice varieties tolerant of flooding. By flipping that genetic switch, they could potentially equip rice to handle more drought stress."But in this particular area you could probably do more with water management than you can with breeding," stresses David Mackill, a rice geneticist and adjunct professor in the Department of Plant Sciences. "In the longer term we should be thinking about breeding crops for better sustainability traits.

"Mackill and Bruce Linquist have seen potential in using alternate wetting and drying, which could have other benefits, like fewer traces of arsenic in the grains and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. But this could come at the cost of reduced yields. Yet advanced technologies like this won't be ready for the current drought.Another drought year for Tibbitts means he may leave more fields fallow, hire fewer farmhands and switch to other crops. Rice growers with the heavy clay soil further north, meanwhile, won't have that option.With all the changes, one goal hasn't been lost: sustainability,

as in maintaining a farm Tibbitts hopes the next generation of his family will one day inherit."In my lifetime," he says, "I hope I'm still farming when we reach our 100-year anniversary."

Source with thanks:http://www.dailydemocrat.com/breaking news/ci_27211780/rice-economics-drought

NACC to question two more in rice case The Nation December 26, 2014 1:00 am Watchdog responds to prosecutors' demand for more proof of govt deals The National Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday agreed to question two more witnesses to shore up its case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for dereliction of duty in overseeing the government's ricepledging scheme. Surasak Srirattrakul, a senior public prosecutor, said the fourth conference of the NACC and the Office of the AttorneyGeneral at the NACC's headquarters to find a common ground on the case came to the conclusion that more substantiation, particularly of the previous government's claim of the existence of a government-to-government rice deal, was needed.

The NACC acceded to the state attorneys' request to summon the two witnesses - an accuser over the government-to-government rice sale and a researcher from the Thailand Development Research Institute - and to observe the questioning.The NACC would also seek more evidence against Yingluck.The NACC and the Office still had minor differences over the completeness of the NACC's investigative report submitted to the public prosecutors, particularly involving the government-to-government issue, Surasak added.

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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter by Riceplus Magazine Sansern Poljieak, secretary-general of the NACC, said he expects the state attorneys to proceed with Yingluck's prosecution at the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Offices after interviewing the witnesses.The prosecutors have been suggesting that the NACC needs to flesh out its case by interrogating more witnesses, but the anti-graft agency has insisted it had already built a strong case against Yingluck. The NACC also had threatened to take the case to court itself if the Office refused to pursue it.Sansern, who heads the NACC team in the working group with the Office, said the two witnesses had provided conflicting information and further grilling was needed to "sort things out".

He did not think the statements from the witnesses were directly related to the case against Yingluck, saying the NACC already had initiated a separate investigation for the government-to-government rice sale. "Further questioning of the witnesses should complete the investigative report," he said.There were some good signs in the meeting. "We agreed on all issues and I don't think we will be in conflict again," he said.The questioning of the two witnesses would take only a short time. "It will be completed in January and the other evidence should be ready by the end of February," he said.

Source with thanks: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/NAC C-to-question-two-more-in-rice-case30250689.html

Illegal’ Shipments to China Dominate Burma’s $340m in Rice Exports 26.12.2014 Rice shipments across the Sino-Burmese border, considered illegal in China, accounted for more than two-thirds of total rice exports over the last nine months, the Ministry of Commerce announced this week.Though total rice exports reached nearly 915,000 tons from April 1 through the second week of December, overseas exports totaled only 198,698 tons (US$70.1 million), while border exports to China and Thailand reached 716,272 tons ($272.6 million).Chit Khine, chairman of the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF), said Burma’s rice exports across the SinoBurmese border constituted the highest bilateral trade total, despite a Chinese ban on Burmese rice imports. ―Rice exports, from our side, are legal, but on the China side these exports are illegal, that’s why we’re discussing with the Chinese government to legalize rice exports.

One of our business missions will go to China in the second week of next month,‖ he said.Early this year, China officially banned rice imports from Burma, demanding that a trade agreement be signed guaranteeing that most rice is milled and meets certain quality standards. China had long been—and continues to be—one of Burma’s biggest customers for rice, much of which is harvested in the Irrawaddy Delta and shipped over land borders in Shan and Kachin states.According to government figures, rice exports to China through the Burmese border town of Muse to Ruili in China accounted for the vast majority of overland exports, at 700,000 tons, while

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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter by Riceplus Magazine overseas rice shipments to China reached 11,000 tons. ―That is why the business delegation from the MRF and the government will talk with the Chinese government next month to buy our rice legally over the borders,‖ Chit Khine said, adding that he expected the legalization of rice exports to China would further accelerate export growth.A bilateral agreement on rice standards would allow the MRF to legally export about one million tons of milled rice to China, starting in January.Dr. Soe Tun, chairman of the Myanmar Farmers Association, said that China would continue to hold its position as the No. 1 buyer of Burma’s rice next year.

He added that a China Certification and Inspection Group would open an office in Rangoon soon, pending its obtaining a company license from the government, and will serve to monitor the quality of Burmese rice before exporting to China.―We expect that the rice export volume will reach 1.5 million tons in this 2014-15 budget year. We expect 2 million tons for next budget year,‖ he said.Burma’s rice exports totaled 1 million tons in the 2013-14 fiscal year.Rice prices are also on the rise, with the grain selling for $400 per ton, up from $350 per ton last month, after a heavy monsoon season lowered yields in Burma.

In October, the MRF reached an agreement with Indian rice traders to supply two states in northeastern India with 240,000 tons of rice per year at $400 per ton, although Burmese traders will incur all costs for transporting the goods to the Indian border.Paddy yields in Burma are among the lowest in Southeast Asia, at 2.5 metric tons per hectare. Most rice mills used outdated machinery that produces rice with a high

portion of broken grains, making it unsuitable for high-value foreign export markets such as the European Union and Japan.

Source with thanks: http://www.blackseagrain.net/novosti/2018illega l2019-shipments-to-china-dominateburma2019s-340m-in-rice-exports

Jokowi aims for food self-sufficiency in three years Ina Parlina, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Sat, December 27 2014, 2:44 PM

Joko ―Jokowi‖ Widodo reiterated on Friday his target for achieving rice self-sufficiency for the country in the next three years and said that his government would give more incentives to farmers to meet the objective.Jokowi said that the assistance would be in the form of agricultural tools, including some that he distributed to farmers in Subang, West Java on Friday.Jokowi visited several areas in Subang on Friday, including the Rice Research Center in Sukamandi, Subang, where he handed over 1,099 hand tractors for farmers groups from 19 regencies in West Java.In total, 7,800 units were given to farmers in 14 provinces.

The government will also provide another 65,931 hand tractors next year for farmers

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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter by Riceplus Magazine across the country.The Agriculture Ministry will also give free seeds for 5 million hectares of farm lands across the country, or around 40 percent of the total farm lands nationwide, as well as free fertilizer.The ministry also plans to revitalize irrigation infrastructure next year, a program it claims could irrigate 1 million hectares of land across the country.Jokowi has recently instructed his ministers to focus on food and agriculture, as well as the infrastructure developments, in drafting and implementing the revision of the 2015 state budget (RAPBN-P).

The President has also unveiled the government’s ambitious medium-term economic agenda, which includes boosting the production of food, particularly rice, to achieve food sovereignty within three years during last week’s National Development Planning Conference (Musrenbangnas) during which governors, regents and mayors from across the country were present ―Tractors, fertilizers, seeds [...] I give you all of those. But, I will make sure that you keep your words. Within the next three years, [we] must be self-sufficient; this is nonnegotiable,‖ Jokowi told an assembly of farmers and local government leaders.In his five years of presidency, Jokowi also expects to build 49 new dams in several areas in the country.Currently, 52 percent of the country’s irrigation system are in disrepair.Farmers also have to deal with problems like the chaotic distribution of fertilizer and seeds as well as the lack of modern agricultural tools, all of which had hampered the way for the world’s fourth

most populous nation to achieve food selfsufficiency.

Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman expects that the government’s assistance could serve as an incentive for local heads to meet the self-sufficiency target.―Because of the assistance, governors have shown their support for the government’s selfsufficiency plan. Already, 10 governors pledged to produce an additional 11 million tons of rice in total,‖ Amran said. ―If we are able to meet such target, we will reach rice self-sufficiency very soon.‖West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan, a Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician, pledged during the event that his province would be able to produce an additional 2 million tons of rice next year. East Java, meanwhile, was predicted to produce an extra 2 million tons of rice, while South Sulawesi and Central Java would add 1 million tons and 1.5 million tons respectively.

Amran said the country was expected to produce 73 million tons of rice next year, or an increase of 3 million tons from this year’s production.The minister has earlier said that the focus on self-sufficiency in the shortterm would be on four key food commodities — rice, corn, soybeans and sugar — all of which are currently being imported.For the food sovereignty program, the Agriculture Ministry would propose that the government earmark an extra Rp 15 trillion in the 2015 revised state budget, while the Public Works Ministry, which oversees dams and water reservoirs, would

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Source with thanks: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/12/27/jokowi-aimsfood-self-sufficiency-three-years.html#sthash.YjOFVBat.dpuf

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DA includes climate smart crops in its program

By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 28, 2014 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Agriculture (DA) is now incorporating climate smart technologies in its programs to enable the local agriculture sector to adapt to extreme weather changes.―In response to the directive of his Excellency, President Benigno S. Aquino, and in line with the Climate Change Act, DA has put in place adaptation strategies to cushion the impact of extreme weather conditions,‖ Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala told stakeholders during the recently-held Gawad Saka Awards.The DA, he said, is in the process of setting up 153 automatic weather stations in key agricultural areas to give timely weather advisories to food producers.―These stations will serve as source of information so they will know when and how to plant at a particular season,‖ said Alcala.The DA, he said, is also developing planting materials

for climate-resistant food crops.The DA is now testing the adaptability of green super rice, a variety jointly developed by Lagunabased International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).

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Alcala said three varieties of the Green Super Rice are being tested for adaptability in various growing stations of the DA nationwide.The National Seed Industry Council has yet to approve though the use of the Super Green Rice for commercial use.

The seed council is mandated to register and accredit new seed varieties of superior quality for commercial use.Represented in the council are the DA, rice research institutes, state colleges and universities, as well as players in the seed industry.According to the IRRI, Green Super Rice combines the superior traits of 250 varieties and hybrids variously adapted to difficult growing conditions such as drought and low inputs, including no pesticide and less fertilizer.

Source with thanks:http://www.philstar.com/business/2014/12/28/14069 84/da-includes-climate-smart-crops-its-program

Noodle factory opening new market for rice Sat, 27 December 2014 Hor Kimsay A new rice noodle venture is filling restaurant spring rolls in the West while pushing the value of Cambodian’s broken rice north In the competitive

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Daily Global Rice E-Newsletter by Riceplus Magazine world of Cambodian rice, Amru Rice is consistently among the leading exporters, ranking second for the first nine months of this year, with more than 34,450 tonnes, or 13 per cent of the Kingdom’s rice exports for that period.This year marks a new venture for Amru, with the opening of Cambodia’s first industrialscale noodle factory. The new facility will add value to Cambodia’s lower graded rice – used to make the noodles – and exports to Europe and the US are already locked in, according to Song Saran, the 33-year-old chief executive officer of Amru Rice Group.―In the past, we sold broken rice at a low price and we always worry about the market demand,‖ he said ―But now, we don’t have worry about it anymore.

By having this new production [of noodles], we can add a value of about $100 per tonne to our broken rice,‖ Saran added.Located in Kampong Speu province, the 3,000 square metre factory cost $700,000 to build and fit out with equipment imported from Japan. Employing 50 people, production of Cambodian noodles began this month, and the first shipment is destined for France in January.Saran said that recent test samples of his noodles sent to France and the US, via existing relationships he has with rice buyers, proved a hit among a small group of restaurateurs looking to add Cambodian noodles to their menu. ―Our product is intended to meet the demand for restaurant appetisers,‖ he said. ―There is an increasing trend of eating spring rolls or wontons as a starter.‖ CEO Song Saran. Heng Chivoan According to Saran, about 10 per cent of rice that comes from his mills is broken rice, which fetches about $440 per tonne. Amru will use the broken rice to produce its noodles, which Saran says will be exported for about $500 to $540 per tonne.Amru will ship its first container to France

next month, with another half-container scheduled for the US shortly thereafter.Mey Kalyan, senior adviser for the Supreme National Economy Council, said the new facility was an important example of the enhanced production that is needed in Cambodia’s rice industry. ―Whenever we invest to produce more from our raw materials for higher value-add, it’s a great move,‖ Kalyan said.Although small-scale, the new factory should be a reminder to others in the industry of the need to diversify, said independent economist Srey Chanthy.The opportunities to vary rice-based products will become available if efforts to strengthen the image are enhanced, the independent economist added.―There will be more Cambodian products processed from rice available on the international market in the near future,‖ he said.For now, Amru’s noodle factory produces between 200 to 300 tonnes per month, but Saran expects to ramp that up to about 700 tonnes.―Then I believe that my enterprise can buy broken rice from other rice millers who don’t have the ability to export,‖ he said.

Image: A worker at Cambodia’s first noodle factory. Heng Chivoan Source with thanks:http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-

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Today, we are witnessing another replay of these

Gov’t should not be bailing out rice millers

operations.

millers playing dead so they can continue to receive bailouts while they are extending their

DECEMBER 27, 2014 · BY STAFF WRITER ·

These millers get away with much. They offer

Dear Editor,

crummy prices on farmers’ paddy and then have the gall to add interest whenever they buy

It amazes me to see how government is bailing out rice millers with rice farmers’ paddy

fertilizers from them.The debt write-offs began nearly decades ago and the government and the

payments, this is an ongoing feature since the Jagdeo administration in 2006. I can remember

ministry of agriculture still think that the chief weapon in quelling this slow-motion panic and loss of confidence is to continue bailing them out with farmers’ money. Yet it is this very

when Cheddi was alive and being the Executive President of Guyana, he never bailed out any rice millers. At one time a rice miller at Vilvoorden on the Essequibo Coast had owed farmers large sums of money for years and Cheddi sent the late Fazal Ali to meet with the owner so they could be paid.

I was on that team with the late Fazal Ali, the General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA). We were able to negotiate payments for some 200 rice farmers who were owed. However, the miller was unable to pay the farmers and his mills were sold. In the agreement of sale the owner agreed that from the sale, the outstanding payment to farmers would be honoured before the mills were transferred to the new owner.I also remember under the Jagdeo administration, rice millers received debt write-offs in billions of dollars for owing the government-owned banks which had caused the collapse of GNCB, the only farmers’ bank.

policy –that is perpetuating the crisis and undermining our economy.

Lest I be misunderstood, let me say clearly that I am not against rice farmers being paid for their produce but I do not believe that is the government’s duty to bail out millers.I personally think the rice farmers need more subsidies on fertilizers, fuel, spare parts, dutyfree concessions on agriculture machinery, mechanical pumps to pump water in their fields, combines, tractors etc. etc. rather than bailing out rice millers. Farmers are toiling night and day under the hot sun to produce paddy which has reach a record breaking figure of 633,000 tonnes of rice, surpassing last year’s target. Another thing is to pay the farmers production bonuses for their hard work so they can produce more.

Yours faithfully, Mohamed Khan Source with thanks: http://www.stabroeknews.com/2014/opinion/lett ers/12/27/govt-not-bailing-rice-mil

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