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USDA Staffs Up with New Appointments From left: Christian Richard, Chuck Wilson, and Dr. Xueyan Sha Pass rice tariffication now NFA set to import 250,000 MT tons of rice in May Beef grief as Indonesia fails at self-sufficiency ‘RICE PRICES MUST BE FAIR’ Global Rice Bran Oil Market Growth by 2023: Jinwang, Jinrun, Shanxin and Wanyuan Food & Oil Rice Starch Market by Production, Capacity, Consumption Rate, Revenue, Gross Margin Analysis by 2022 Soil metals linked with cancer mortality Organic Rice Market Top Manufacturers by 2023: RiceSelect, Kahang Organic Rice and Sanjeevani Organics Rice Flour Market Top Manufacturers by 2023: Koda Farms, CHO HENG, BIF, Rose Brand and Burapa Prosper Rice Seed Market Top Manufacturers by 2023: Nuziveedu Seeds, Dupont Pioneer, Bayer, Kaveri and Mahyco GST takes the steam out of branded rice Why are workers from Bihar thronging in Nizamabad district of Telangana? basmati growers body opposes GI tag to MP for aromatic rice

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News Detail‌ USDA Staffs Up with New Appointments

By Sarah Moran WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the selection of several senior leaders within U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies. Perdue appointed Ken Isley as Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Administrator, where among many other priorities he will oversee the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) programs that help build and maintain overseas markets for U.S. agriculture. Isley spent nearly three decades at DowDuPont where he most recently served as Special Adviser for Corteva Agriscience, an agriculture division of DowDuPont.

"We welcome Administrator Isley to the team that helps U.S. agriculture expand exports. USA Rice values the partnership we have with FAS and relies on their programs to effectively promote rice worldwide," said Betsy Ward, USA Rice president & CEO. "We thank Jim Higgiston for the great job he's done as acting administrator and look forward to meeting Administrator Isley soon."

Additionally, Joel Baxley was named Rural Housing Service (RHS) Administrator and Martin Barbre as Risk Management Agency (RMA) Administrator. "President Trump has made increasing prosperity in rural America a priority for his administration, and our new USDA team members will be key in advancing us toward that goal," Secretary Perdue said. "Improving economic conditions in rural America involves providing services to farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers, and it also means helping people who live in those communities. In addition, we must continually try to find new markets for the agricultural bounty they produce. Our new leaders in FAS, RHS, and RMA will help us carry out our mission."

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From left: Christian Richard, Chuck Wilson, and Dr. Xueyan Sha 2018 Rice Awards Application Open

By Deborah Willenborg

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ARLINGTON, VA -- USA Rice, in conjunction with Horizon Ag and Rice Farming magazine, is seeking nominations for the 2018 Rice Awards to recognize rice leaders who exemplify dedication, determination, and innovation to the industry.

The Rice Awards honor outstanding industry leaders from three distinct categories: Rice Farmer of the Year, Rice Industry Award, and the Rice Lifetime Achievement Award. To nominate a candidate for one of these prestigious awards, complete the application form by June 15 and follow the submission instructions listed there.

The award recipients will be recognized at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in San Diego, December 5-7, 2018. They also will be featured in a special insert of the December issue of Rice Farming.

The recipients of last year's Rice Awards were Rice Farmer of the Year, Christian Richard, Kaplan, Louisiana; Rice Industry Award, Dr. Xueyan Sha, with the University of Arkansas; and Rice Lifetime Achievement Award, Chuck Wilson, who recently retired after working 40 years

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in the U.S. rice industry and was best known for managing The Rice Foundation's Rice Leadership Development Program.

Go hereGo here for more information on last year's award winners and for a complete list of past

Pass rice tariffication now

BY THE MANILA TIMES ON APRIL 21, 2018 EDITORIAL Issues related to rice are once again making headlines – from the depletion of the National Food Authority‘s stocks to alleged mischief in importing that grain. It‘s déjà vu. And frankly, it‘s frustrating that no one has come up with a better system.The Duterte administration can resolve this recurring problem if it succeeds in pushing for the passage of the rice tariffication bill, now pending in the House of Representatives. The bill, which the President has certified as urgent, seeks to amend Republic Act 8178, otherwise known as the Agricultural Tariffication Act, and Presidential Decree 4, which is the law creating the National Grains Authority.

By allowing imports, the bill aims to increase the supply of rice so that its price goes down.

Supply will increase once the government lifts the quota on imported rice and instead, charges a tariff or tax on imports. From a political perspective, having a tariff system rather than quotas on imports requires a smaller government role. And as they say, the smaller the government, the better.

The National Economic Development Authority or NEDA supports this proposed legislation. In statements posted on its website, NEDA said that the bill would benefit consumers. The new system would not only soften the inflationary impact of the newly imposed TRAIN Law, but could also lift the poorest Filipino families above the poverty line.

NEDA has estimated that headline inflation rate would be reduced by 1 percentage point if the domestic wholesale rice market reduced its price to the level of imported rice. ―Even with just a P1 per kilo reduction in the wholesale price of rice, headline inflation rate would also be reduced by 0.3 percentage points.‖ The statement went on to explain that, ―At 35 percent tariff rate, the landed cost of imported rice, particularly from Thailand and Vietnam, along with its transport cost to the local market, would be around P30.30 per kilogram. This is about P4.31 lower than the domestic wholesale price of regular milled rice. ―The price reduction of P4.31 per kilogram will enable a Filipino household of five to save as much as P2,362 per year.‖ The estimated savings will be about 13 percent of a household‘s average rice expenditure of P17,921 as indicated in the 2015 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), also according

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to a NEDA statement. As much as 93 percent of Filipinos, most of whom consume rice as their staple, would benefit from the shift to a tariffication system.

Safety net for farmers Of course, we should also look after the welfare of our farmers, who could lose out if rice import restrictions are lifted. As a safety net, NEDA Director-General Ernesto Pernia proposes that the funds collected from the rice tariff be earmarked for farmers. We agree.

Like rice farmers in other countries, for instance, the government could introduce programs that train Filipinos to plant high-value crops instead. As we have said in this space before, it is a better policy to strive for food security rather than rice self-sufficiency. It‘s time we came to grips with the fact that the Philippines has no comparative advantage in rice.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) says there are three main reasons why the Philippines imports rice. First, we don‘t have enough land. The country‘s land area is only 300,000 square kilometers, and only 43,000 square kilometers of that are used for rice production. Worse, rapid urbanization is eating into that limited space.

Second, we have too many mouths to feed, and the increase in rice production is outpaced by our population growth. And last, we lack infrastructure, particularly irrigation systems and transportation networks that link farms to markets.

Even with the quota system, the Philippines is already the world‘s largest importer of rice, buying as much as 1.8 million tons annually. Apparently, demand exceeds that number. And the present setup is prone to graft. It‘s time we let the market dictate supply. Clearly in the case of rice, the government is ineffective in managing supply. The best step to take now is to pass the rice tariffication bill. http://www.manilatimes.net/pass-rice-tariffication-now/393920/

NFA set to import 250,000 MT tons of rice in May The National Food Authority reopens government-to-government importation with invitations sent to the embassies of Thailand and Vietnam Rappler.com Published 9:17 PM, April 20, 2018 Updated 9:17 PM, April 20, 2018 RESERVE STOCK. The NFA is supposed to ensure sufficient supply of NFA buffer stock in case of calamities.

File photo by Jay Directo/AFP

MANILA, Philippines— National Food Authority (NFA) said the planned government-to government (G2G) importation of 250,000 metric tons (MT) of cheap rice to serve as buffer stock is expected to stabilize the price of the food staple.

The NFA said in a statement on April 20, Friday, that ―in consultation with the President, and after thorough review and deeper scrutiny of the Terms of Reference (TOR) on G2G importation, the TOR was approved and signed by NFA administrator Jason Aquino last April 17, 2018.‖

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―Letters of invitation had already been sent through courier service to the local embassies of Vietnam and Thailand, the only countries with existing Rice Trade Agreement with the Philippines,‖ it added.

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The submission of price offers is scheduled on April 27, 2018.

Should the bidders pass the requirements and the price offers are within or lower than the approved reference price for the imports, a notice to proceed with the importation would be sent to the winning bidder by May 7. ―As soon as the stocks arrive, NFA will focus on immediate distribution. We assure that the rice will be quickly made available to areas in most need of government support, especially highly populated cities where poverty rate is high, in poor provinces, and in island municipalities across the country,‖ said NFA administrator Jason Aquino.

He added that the ―NFA will implement strict market monitoring and enforcement to ensure that rice for the poor goes to the poor. NFA rice will continue to be sold at P27 and P32/ kilogram nationwide‖.

Supply of cheap NFA rice has been depleted in recent weeks. At the beginning of April, it said it only had 2 days worth of reserve stocks of rice left. (READ: NFA rice shortage: Whose fault is it?)

NFA officials said that it was required to maintain a 15-day stock at any given time, and a 30day stock at the onset of the lean months of July to September, to prepare for calamities.

The shortage of NFA rice has sparked a government shake-up with Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr being stripped of his leadership of NFA Council as supervision of the agency returned to the Department of Agriculture. –Rappler.com https://www.rappler.com/business/200712-nfa-g2g-rice-importation-may

Beef grief as Indonesia fails at self-sufficiency Government quest to meet all local beef demand with domestic cattle stocks has stalled as cheaper buffalo meat imports surge

By JOHN MCBETH JAKARTA, APRIL 20, 2018 5:52 PM (UTC+8)

An Indonesian farmer works with a buffalo on rice terraces in Bali, Indonesia. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Its ambitious quest for beef self-sufficiency apparently stalled, Indonesia‘s government is now importing substantial quantities of low-quality Indian buffalo meat to make up for an ongoing shortfall and reduce the country‘s reliance on costlier Australian beef imports.

The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) has approval to import an additional 100,000 tons of buffalo meat this year, with the first shipment due to arrive shortly before the Ramadan and Idul Fitri Muslim holidays in May-June when beef consumption annually peaks.

Whether that import substitution is having the desired impact on prices, however, is another story.

President Joko Widodo has said he wants the price of buffalo meat imports set at 80,000 rupiah per kilogram. In many wet markets, however, it is now selling for up to 110,000 rupiah – only 5,000-10,000 rupiah less than locally slaughtered beef.

That, industry sources say, is due to supply chain irregularities in which there is a 5060,000 rupiah mark-up between import and local retail prices, as well as the influence of

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criminal gangs whose control over the markets is seemingly condoned by local authorities for mutual benefit.

Still, buffalo meat is a cheaper substitute in many Indonesian dishes, such as rendang and semur daging.

A plate of Indonesian rendang beef stew. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

According to Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), a public authority that provides research on the red meat and poultry industries, that makes buffalo meat popular among small manufacturers and food service operators who often blend it with fresh beef.

Rejected in the past because of the threat of foot and mouth disease (FMD), buffalo meat, so-called daging kerbau, was first allowed into Indonesia in mid-2016 with 85,000 tons imported up until last December. That‘s much higher than the 2016 volume of Australian

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imports to Indonesia

The government was forced to suspend buffalo imports briefly early last year after the Constitutional Court ruled that meat from FMD-prone countries could only be imported

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under emergency circumstances and with ―maximum security standards.‖

FMD is a highly infectious and sometimes fatal virus which causes fever, followed by blisters inside the mouth and on the feet of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals. It can spread rapidly among herds and is widely feared in countries that rely on agriculture and primary produce as a main source of export revenues.

It is not clear what precautions are being taken by the main importer, PT Sumber Agro Semesta, a unit of influential tycoon Tomy Winata‘s diversified Artha Graha Group. The company started in rice seed and has since expanded into other agri-business sectors.

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Black buffalos have rest on the streets of Varanasi, India, in a 2013 file photo. Image: iStock/Getty Images

But the ban only lasted seven months in the face of Widodo‘s determination to ensure that Indonesia‘s growing middle class and even poorer segments of its 266 million-strong population have access to cheaper meat, with locally produced beef prices nearly double those on international markets.

Although FMD is considered endemic, India long ago overtook the United States, Australia and Brazil as the world‘s largest exporter of beef and buffalo meat, known as carabeef – all of it supposedly subject to microbiological and other testing.

Most of India‘s 1.95 million tons of carabeef was exported last year to price-sensitive customers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, but Indian traders have adopted voluntary vaccination programs in an effort to penetrate higher-value markets.

Animal health experts say there is a low risk of the virus being transmitted through frozen meat when millions of tons have already been shipped to Vietnam, Malaysia and other destinations across Southeast Asia without serious incident.

It is already having a significant impact on Australia‘s US$1.2 billion-a-year beef trade, with live-cattle exports, mostly from the Northern Territory, falling by 15% to 493,000 head last year and boxed beef exports dropping by 19% over the same period.

That slump is having ripple-on effects. Australian agribusiness firm Elders is selling its 8,400-head South Sumatra feedlot and an abattoir in Bogor, Indonesia, saying both have

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been underperforming in a local market made increasingly chaotic by policy uncertainty and quota difficulties.

Australian stockman mustering cattle in a drought affected landscape. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Another Indonesian-owned company, which requested anonymity, has closed its Australia-based live-cattle operation and also downsized its feedlot by 70%, with one executive complaining that the business climate ―doesn‘t make sense.‖ ―The president‘s policies are confusing,‖ he says. ―He wants food prices low, yet sometimes he favors the consumer and other times the farmer. There are too many interventions. We are asking now whether this is becoming a planned economy.‖ According to the executive, government officials falsely suspect the companies running the 23 feedlots taking Australian cattle have formed a monopoly, instead of seeing the higher prices as a result of a long supply chain that goes through up to nine different stages.

In fact, the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies estimates that locally-slaughtered beef is 37.4% more expensive than imported beef, which has a shorter supply chain but is subject to trade restrictions and cannot be sold in traditional markets.

With pork not an option due to religious restrictions, beef consumption in Indonesia – officially at 2.9 kilograms per capita a year — is still among the lowest in the region, trailing Malaysia (8.7 kgs), Singapore (6.2kgs), the Philippines (5.6 kgs), Vietnam (4.4kgs) and Thailand (3.6 kgs).

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Australia, which relies on Indonesia to take half of its live-cattle exports, infuriated the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono government in 2011 by abruptly stopping shipments due to animal welfare concerns highlighted in an Australian television program.

Cattle on a beach in Indonesia. Image: iStock/Getty Images

Indonesia retaliated by slapping on a temporary live-cattle ban of its own and in the years since the trade has seen ups and downs, now marked by a new system that abolished quotas but stipulates that every five imported feeder cattle should be accompanied by one breeder.

Although that rule was introduced 18 months ago, the 15,000 breeders brought in last year have yet to be moved to government breeding stations and on to farmers, leaving the feedlots to bear the cost of sustaining them and seeing their profits slowly erode in the process.

Widodo had earlier declared beef self-sufficiency as a national goal, along with a basket of other commodities, but imports surged by 40% in 2016 and by a similar percentage last year while the domestic cattle population continued to shrink. ―Nobody knows what is going on,‖ says one veteran cattleman, who is strongly critical of Australia for taking the Indonesian market for granted and not doing enough to understand it. ―It‘s so perverse because everything we talk about is purely supposition.‖ In an effort to reduce logistics costs, the government has built five specialized vessels to bring livestock from outlying islands to Java, including 55,000 head a year from West

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Timor in East Nusa Tenggara where there is larger-scale cattle ranching than elsewhere in the archipelago.

But the operation still has to be subsidized, and at 30,000 rupiah a kilogram farmers are hardly benefiting from the trade. Nor are traders plagued by poor handling and inspection delays that result in massive weight losses among cattle on the week-long voyage from outer islands to Jakarta. http://www.atimes.com/article/beef-grief-indonesia-fails-self-sufficiency/

‘RICE PRICES MUST BE FAIR’

By Panay News Saturday, April 21, 2018

MANILA – The Agriculture and Trade departments mull setting suggested retail prices (SRPs) on commercial rice varieties sold nationwide.

The move aims to help promote fair and uniform pricing of rice in the market, Agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol said in a joint media conference of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). ―One of the things we‘re discussing is setting an SRP according to rice variety so consumers can be guided when buying, say, the dinorado variety,‖ he said.

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Piñol said the two departments decided to study the matter after discovering disparity in the prices of commercial rice during their joint market inspection in Metro Manila early in the week.

Some of the prices DA and DTI saw during the inspection were no longer apt for the rice varieties the retailers are selling, he said. ―The pricing is ridiculous. There‘s simply no reason for this,‖ he noted.

The agencies noted some rice varieties sell as much as P60 per kilogram.

Piñol said since the government does not impose SRPs on rice, this allows retailers to set their own prices on the staple.

Prices of commercial rice have shot up since the stock of state agency National Food Authority (NFA) plummeted.

Meanwhile, DTI secretary Ramon Lopez said feasibility studies and data regarding historical success and failure of setting SRPs would determine whether or not to come up with price guides. ―There will be a lot of consultations with stakeholders,‖ Lopez told the media in the briefing, ensuring transparency in the process of determining if the government would set the rice SRPs. If SRP-setting pushes through, he said DTI would be monitoring retailers to guard against overpricing.

Last week, private rice traders began delivering to Metro Manila commercial rice for sale to the public at P39 per kilogram.

The delivery is in line with their commitment to help supply Metro Manila markets with lower-priced rice while NFA awaits the arrival of its imported rice.

NFA expects its imports to arrive next month.

NFA rice sells at lower prices than commercial rice in the market.

Regular milled and well-milled NFA rice in markets nationwide sell at P27 per kilogram and P32 per kilogram, respectively. (PNA) https://www.panaynews.net/rice-prices-must-be-fair/

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Soil metals linked with cancer mortality Date:April 20, 2018 Source:FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Summary: Epidemiologists and geologists have found associations between esophageal cancer and soils where lead is abundant, lung cancer and terrains with increased copper content, brain tumor with areas rich in arsenic, and bladder cancer with high cadmium levels. These statistical links do not indicate that there is a cause-effect relationship between soil type and cancer, but they suggest that the influence of metals from the earth's surface on the geographical distribution of tumors should be analyzed.

Spanish epidemiologists and geologists have found associations between esophageal cancer and soils where lead is abundant, lung cancer and terrains with increased copper content, brain tumor with areas rich in arsenic, and bladder cancer with high cadmium levels. These statistical links do not indicate that there is a cause-effect relationship between soil type and cancer, but they suggest that the influence of metals from the earth's surface on the geographical distribution of tumors should be analyzed.

The risk of dying from cancer is not the same in all geographic regions. There are many factors that influence, including the type of soil, since it can harbor heavy metals and semimetals that are carcinogenic for humans. The chronic exposure of a population to these toxic elements, which enter the body through the food chain and food, could increase the frequency of certain tumors in some territories.

In this context, researchers from the National Epidemiology Center of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) and the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) have jointly assessed the possible statistical association between the concentrations of heavy metals in the soil and mortality by different cancer types. The results have been published in the open access journals Environmental Geochemistry and Health and Environmental Science and Pollution Research International.

The data has been extracted from the Spain´s Geochemical Atlas, published by the IGME in 2012, as well as from a database with 861,440 deaths from 27 cancer types that occurred in almost 8,000 Spanish municipalities between 1999 and 2008. The data can be extrapolated to the present because the geochemical composition of the soil is stable and the mortality patterns for this disease usually do not vary.

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The authors have crossed the information of the type of soil and the geographic distribution of the tumors, applying statistical analyzes and taking into account the presence of local polluting foci or socio-demographic variables that could interfere in the results.

They have found various associations, such as increased mortality in both genders from esophageal cancer in areas with higher concentrations of lead, and lung cancer in areas with high copper levels.

"We have also detected that the highest of cadmium, lead, zinc, manganese and copper concentrations in the soil are statistically associated with a higher mortality due to cancers of the digestive system in men," explains Pablo Fernández, ISCIII researcher and co-author of the paper, "and in the case of women, a higher mortality from brain cancer in those areas with more cadmium content."

The results also show a relationship between soils with more cadmium and higher mortality from bladder cancer; as well as lands with high concentrations of arsenic and more cases of death from brain tumors.

"This research suggests that the geochemical composition of the soil, especially its metals, could be influencing the spatial distribution and mortality patterns of cancer in Spain, regardless of the socio-demographic context," says Fernández, who highlights "the great contribution of this work to environmental epidemiology and public health in general."

"However," he adds, "although it is plausible that the contents of toxic elements in the soil, even if they are very small, may be a component in the cancer etiology, the results must be interpreted with great caution, since the relationships found do not allow to conclude that there is a causeeffect relationship. Our study does not have individual exposure data or information about other very important factors in the origin of cancer, such as tobacco, alcohol consumption or obesity."

Gonzalo López-Abente, another of the co-authors and also researcher at ISCIII, agrees: "The conclusions move in the field of hypotheses and statistical associations, which will have to be confirmed with future analyzes to check whether the composition of the soil itself has its counterpart in the biological markers of humans. In any case, the results are plausible and we could be facing one more component of the cancer etiology."

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Journal Reference: 1. Gonzalo López-Abente, Juan Locutura-Rupérez, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Iván Martín-Méndez, Alejandro Bel-Lan, Olivier Núñez. Compositional analysis of topsoil metals and its associations with cancer mortality using spatial misaligned data. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2017; 40 (1): 283 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-016-9904-3 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180420122857.htm

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Rice Flour Market Top Manufacturers by 2023: Koda Farms, CHO HENG, BIF, Rose Brand and Burapa Prosper April 20, 2018 - by Stefen Marwa

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Rice Seed Market Top Manufacturers by 2023: Nuziveedu Seeds, Dupont Pioneer, Bayer, Kaveri and Mahyco April 20, 2018 - by Stefen Marwa

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GST takes the steam out of branded rice R BALAJIT+

Kabani rice, a pesticide-free rice brand, being packed at the Wayanad Agriculture and Spices Producer Company CHENNAI, APRIL 20 Millers are rueing that branding of non-basmati rice in the southern States has been effectively wiped out by the levy of GST on branded rice. Unregistered brands stay outside GST with a clear disclaimer on the packaging, but this means brands lose their individuality. Any rice mill can use any trade name or brand and it has become quite common for a number of rice mills to use the same brand if it was popular in a local market.

Effectively, branding has lost its meaning in the non-basmati rice segment, say industry representatives.

Prior to the levy of GST, rice was largely not taxed under VAT in the South — the major rice consuming centre. Milling technology had been upgraded and mills were moving towards branding over the last decade.

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Unlike in major processed food segments where brands span large geographical areas, in the nonbasmati rice segment innumerable brands came up with each being a dominant player in regional markets.

Each district in the State will have a number of brands, said AC Mohan, Secretary, Federation of Tamil Nadu Rice Millers and Paddy, Rice Dealers Association.

Of the large number of brands, possibly 1-2 per cent were trademark or Agmark registered. But with the levy of GST, rice traders are reluctant to stock registered brands because of GST implication.

They deal in branded and unbranded varieties and this was the complication.

Mohan says millers have stopped using registered brands and market rice with the mill name or a generic name. For instance, there are over a dozen mills marketing rice under the ‗Apple‘ brand in Chennai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu, he remarked.

However, there are still a couple of popular brands in southern districts that are now restricted only to organised chains of retailers or large department stores.

NR Vishwaradhya, Executive President, Karnataka State Rice Millers Association, said efforts by some modern mills to add value to non-basmati rice had been stifled by this levy. With the loss of trade protection more than one mill can offer a brand in the market.

Uniform tax slab Millers had even suggested that the government levy a low rate of tax uniformly rather than distinguish between branded and non-branded varieties.

Amara Visweswararao, President, Tamil Nadu Food Grain Merchants Association, and a leading wholesaler, said millers with registered branded rice had attempted to add value by purchasing adequate stocks for ageing the rice, processing with new machinery. They did get a couple of rupees margin over unbranded. But the gap is now ₹7-8 a kg and that sort of a price gap cannot be managed in rice. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/gst-takes-the-steam-out-of-brandedrice/article23620552.ece

Why are workers from Bihar thronging in Nizamabad district of Telangana?

By M V K Sastry | Express News Service | Published: 21st April 2018 04:15 AM | Last Updated: 21st April 2018 04:15 AM | NIZAMABAD: THE rice bowl of Telangana, Nizamabad, has become a provider of livelihood for hundreds of migrant workers from Bihar. Well known for its bumper paddy cultivation, the district has a good number of rice mills which provide employment to several people. With the local labourers turning towards agriculture given the good prospects, migrant workers from other states are making a beeline to the district to get employed at the rice mills here.

Until recently, the rice mill industry in the district depended on work force from Maharashtra.

However, in the past two years, the Maharastra natives have not been coming for hamali work. ―Maharashtra workers have purchased lands and become farmers with money earned from rice mills in the district,‖ the manager of a rice mill said. He said that as of now, several Bihari migrants have been employed as hamalis in the rice mills of the district. 65 rice mills around dist Nizamabad district has 65 rice mills situated close to Nizamabad and Bodhan towns.

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All the rice mills employ at least ten persons throughout the year. During the seasonal days, these numbers go over 40. Loading and unloading activities in and outside the mills are mostly carried out by these workers. The mills also provide accommodation facility on their premises for them.

When contacted, Nizamabad Rice Millers Association president M Dayanand Gupta has said that the entire State depends on workers from Bihar. ―In recent years, labour force coming from Bihar has increased. Since they are hard workers, rice mills, ginning mills etc prefer employing them,‖ he explained. http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/2018/apr/21/why-are-workers-from-bihar-throngingin-nizamabad-district-of-telangana-1804403.html

Basmati growers body opposes GI tag to MP for aromatic rice PTIT NEW DELHI, APR 20 The Centre should protect the global reputation of basmati rice and not give Geographical Indication (GI) tag to other states, including Madhya Pradesh, for the premium grain as it would negatively impact the industry and millions of farmers, a basmati rice growers and exporters‘ body demanded today.The basmati Rice Farmers & Exporters Development Forum (BRFEDF) said that the government should protect basmati the way France has done for Champagne.―Madhya Pradesh is attempting to piggy back on the reputation built. The inclusion of Madhya Pradesh as growing area will lead basmati to become generic. The loss of protection is not only for traditional growing area but also to Madhya Pradesh. The result is national loss,‖ Priyanka Mittal, a member of the BRFEDF, said in a statement.Although Madhya Pradesh has lost its claim to sell premium quality of rice under the basmati brand, the state is trying again to get the GI tag.

Currently, the GI tag was given to basmati rice of seven states -- Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Delhi, Western Uttar Pradesh and two districts of Jammu and Kashmir.A GI is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. Such a name conveys an assurance of quality and distinctiveness which is essentially attributable to its origin in that defined geographical locality.

Mittal said that Madhya Pradesh has no tradition of cultivating basmati rice and legal protection under the GI Act is important to tact the rights of farmers in seven states so that they continue to receive good price for their produce.basmati is a Rs 35,000-crore industry in the country. India‘s total basmati rice output is roughly 60 lakh tonnes , of which 40 lakh tonnes is exported. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/basmati-growers-body-opposes-gi-tag-tomp-for-aromatic-rice/article23617643.ece

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