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Efforts to improve the yields of staple cereal crops like maize and rice at scale in Africa remain seriously hampered by the effects of poor soil fertility. The lack of adequate information to base an effective fertilizer recommendation upon often results in inefficient nutrient use by crops and low crop yields.

The rice probem is raisng eyebrows yet once again because the price of a 25kg long grain parboiled rice has gone up from USD14 to USD20.

I eat all types of rice but the brand I prefer most is Al-Wabel long grain from Kebbi state and Ebonyi Gold from Abakaliki. Apart from their lovely rich taste, texture, and colour after cooking, you are sure not to encounter any stone or sand while eating these two brands of locally cultivated rice.

Ohiamadwen Rice Growers Association in the Shama District of the Western Region has appealed to matrons to use locally produced rice in the feeding students as it will boost growth of the industry to create jobs for the youth.

Delta Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Godfrey Enita, on Thursday expressed concern over the extent of damage wrought by flood on rice farm in the state.

The food grain production under the kharif crop this year is expected to be 4 per cent less than last year and 8 per cent below the target production.

There is an emerging scarcity of rice again, Liberia's staple on the market with consumers across Monrovia complaining that they are being coerced by distributors to purchase other assorted items before buying a 25kg bag of rice, despite previous assurance from President George Weah that there would no shortage under his administration.

The government of Ukraine has resolved to ship free grain to African countries facing starvation as a result of prolonged drought.

The contry’s economy has seen an impressive growth in the second quarter of ther year, as figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service show it grew by 4,8%.

OVERNMENT government says it will distribute grain to nearly 2,5 million people in the last quarter to December as hunger stokes Zimbabweans, with a further 560 000 people set to get assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP).

The NHVR has advised of new changes it says operators who transport grain in NSW and Victoria should be aware of.

Grain growers in Western Australia are eyeing off another bumper harvest that could rival last year's record-breaking crop.

CBH Group’s recent equipment upgrade at its Esperance Terminal has resulted in grain throughput increases of about 10%, the company said. The upgrade involved installing a new pre-cleaner, a key component in the ship loading process.

The newly created Grains Australia Oat Council is accepting applications for oat industry representatives to join the Council.

Rice Breeding Australia is established with a focus on water use improvements

A third consecutive bumper grain crop is expected in Australia in the 2022-23 marketing year, according to the latest projections from IKON Commodities.

Rice production in farming communities on the outskirts of Labasa is now surpassing production in the traditional rice growing areas of Vanua Levu.

Perhaps more than anywhere on earth, Australia is having to face up to the realities of climate change.

Two Australian companies, including a brash young agtech upstart, are among the many working to change rice cultivation in this region and shift to new crops. From our upcoming August issue.

It is dark purple in colour, high in protein and antioxidants, and you may have tasted it in a takeaway burrito or sushi roll.

Beginning on September 8, the EU now imposes an import duty of €65 ($64) per tonne on white milled rice with the CN 1006 20 code.

A €10m tillage scheme for 2023 has been announced by the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue.

The EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes and the UN-led Black Sea Grain Initiative have helped partially alleviate the severity of the global food crisis and deliver Ukrainian grain to countries most in need - in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

On Wednesday, September 21, as part of the implementation of the grain agreement, 8 more vessels left the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Yuzhny. 170,300 tons of agricultural products were sent to Asian and European countries. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure.

The Türkiye-U.N. brokered landmark grain deal has freed up Ukraine's Black Sea ports and paved the way for millions of tons of much-needed Ukrainian and Russian grain exports while also empowering President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the world stage as a leader making progress in resolving the grain crisis

COCERAL, in its latest grain crop forecast for the EU-27+UK in 2022, projects a significant decline from its previous forecast in May, dropping from 309.5 million tonnes to 287.9 million tonnes. The projection also would be a 7% decrease from last year’s harvested total of 309.8 million tonnes.

The landmark agreement to export grain out of war-torn Ukraine is among the UN’s greatest accomplishments in recent decades, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told the General Assembly on Tuesday.

Ukrainian grain exports should reach pre-war levels in the coming months as its strategically important seaports are functioning again, despite security issues and threats from Russia.

The Russian Grain Union proposes to abandon the current floating tariff on grain export and to restrict shipments with a seasonal quota. This is stated in the letter of the RGU sent to the country's government, Interfax reports.

Since the approval of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in Istanbul, 159 vessels have already left the Ukrainian sea ports with a cargo of grain and other agricultural products.

Persistent drought conditions in Argentina, described by weather and agricultural experts as the driest in three decades, have farmers starting to abandon some lots of wheat, Reuters reported, citing the major Buenos Aires grains exchange.

“No one has eaten it in two days,” laments Luciano, a resident of the San Luis de Sancti Spíritus neighborhood, while showing some neighbors on Friday morning the rationed bread. In the midst of the wheat flour deficit, state bakeries in several areas of this city must add up to 20% of husked rice waste to the dough, a mixture that gives it a sandy texture and sour taste.

Summer is already over in the Northern Hemisphere and what a season it was this year. The greatest worry over dryness was in North America, but it turned out that Europe was driest and lost the most crop yield.

While uncertainty remains over the likelihood of Mexico following through on a ban of genetically modified corn, agriculture officials and trade groups are continuing discussions with Mexican leaders to show the negative impacts of such a ban.

The first forecast by the National Supply Company (Conab) for Brazil’s 2022-23 grain and oilseed harvest projects total production of 308 million tonnes, up from this year’s estimated total of 272 million tonnes. Conab foresees rising output for corn, soybeans and rice. 

Amid worry over pesticide residue in rice, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha says the product is monitored by food seevral bodies locally to ensure safety standards are met.

The Ministry of Trade, Commerce, and Food Security says that there will be NO rice shortage in the country for the next few days.

Corn exports from Brazil have increased by 221% in the first half of 2022 as importers seek to replace Ukrainian corn that isn’t making it to market due to the ongoing war with Russia, according to a report from Reuters.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is conducting a study of paddy bugs to reduce their impact on rice cultivation here. This is being done to secure the country’s rice export, specifically to the European Union market, preserve the ecosystem and aid in food security.

A new report from Mercy Corps, a humanitarian organization based in Portland, Oregon, US, describes how the war in Ukraine has impacted agriculture, food security, energy and transportation in six Middle East countries.

Imports of basmati and parboiled still flow in smoothly from India, UAE traders say

Iraq intends to plant 750,000 hectares of wheat in 2022-23, an increase from the previous season, Reuters reported, citing an agriculture ministry official.

Climate change, a faltering economy and residual security issues have decimated Syria's 2022 grain crop, leaving the majority of its farmers in a precarious position, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

Investors from Israel are eyeing potential business ventures in the Philippines’ (ICT) information and communications technology, agriculture and water sector, citing future opportunities as the Southeast Asian country’s economy bounces back from the pandemic.

The move comes as it is expected to record lower rice production due to rain deficiency in key states

Aman production costs are likely to be up to 39% more this season than the previous years thanks to low rainfall, costlier fertilisers and irrigation and rising labour charges, according to a government report.

The Egyptian Cabinet agreed to set the price of white rice, in accordance with the provision of a Law on Protection of Competition and Prevention of Monopolistic Practices, which states that the Cabinet may determine the selling price of a basic product for a specified period of time, after taking the opinion of the Competition Protection Authority.

The Commerce Ministry has joined hands with a top Saudi supermarket to promote Thai products in Saudi Arabia.

Al Awees, the purchasing entity in Iraq, has just purchased another 44,000 tons of U.S. long grain rice, completing the terms of the USA Rice-Al Awees Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the 2021-2022 year.

A lack of rainfall in parts of India, the world’s largest exporter, could make rice the next challenge to the world’s food supply.

U.S. rice imports for the 2022/23 marketing year (August–July) are projected to rise 16 percent from a year earlier and to reach the highest volume on record at 44 million hundredweight.

Demand for Thai rice pushes export prices higher despite the weakening of the Thai baht.

The Government of Morocco has released its final wheat and barley production numbers for the 2022 crop, including 1.89 MMT of common wheat, 0.81 MMT of durum wheat, and 0.7 MMT of barley.

Corn and wheat production forecasts remain unchanged in marketing year (MY) 2022/23. Due to unfavorable weather conditions and less planted area, the sorghum production estimate is revised downward from USDA/Official estimate for MY 2021/22.

Post forecasts Burmese rice exports higher in September with increasing demand for Burmese rice due to India’s policies restricting rice exports. Despite larger domestic rice supplies from the new rice crop, domestic prices for both Emata and Shwe Bo Pawsan rose significantly

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Shares of Rice Acquisition Corp. II (OTCMKTS:RONIU – Get Rating) traded down 0.4% during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as $10.00 and last traded at $10.00. 11,700 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, The stock had previously closed at $10.04.

FAO and WFP. 2022. Special Report – FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. September 2022.

India, the largest rice exporter, implemented policies on September 9 to restrict its exports. The government imposed a ban on exports of 100 percent broken rice (HS 100640) and also is applying a 20 percent tariff on paddy (100610), brown (100620), and white rice that is neither basmati nor parboiled rice (10063090).

USDA estimates marketing year (MY) 2022/23 Pakistan cotton production at 5.5 million 480-pound bales, down 0.7 million bales (11 percent) from last month, and down 0.5 million bales (8 percent) from last year.

Rice is the primary staple food for more than half the world's population—with Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South America the largest consuming regions.

“There could be some wheat that has to be used as a substitute for rice,” said MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett.

After Don Quattlebaum bought White House Farms in 2011, he started growing rice to attract ducks for hunting.

Wheat futures recovered losses from Monday’s session and ended sharply higher Tuesday, with some contracts reaching two-month highs. The reversal came after news that war-pressured Russia was planning to annex occupied areas of Ukraine, which may jeopardize the United Nations agreement to allow Ukrainian grain exports through an established Black Sea humanitarian corridor.

A $52,884 federal grant will fund a much broader vision to inspire future farming generations in an upcoming program spearheaded by the Alaska Division of Agriculture and the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District.

As farmers across the U.S. look for ways to improve productivity amid a changing climate, the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has received a $30 million grant to help grassland farmers enter the emerging carbon economy while enhancing productivity and ecological benefits.

US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack unveiled a $2.8 billion investment in 70 chosen projects under the first round of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding program. A second funding pool will come later this year.

The common practice in Arkansas of burning crop residue comes at the cost of soil nutrient levels and lost potential to build soil health with carbon.

Wild rice is sacred to Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region. "That manoomin is our brother," Said Ojibwe band member, Dave Bismarck, as he and his family unloaded roughly 200 hundred pounds of wild rice from their canoes.

Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.

Food supply, already squeezed by shortages in wheat, corn and cooking oils, is at risk of even more disruption, this time from the rice market.

India, the world’s biggest rice shipper, levied a tax on some exports to secure domestic supplies after planting shrank, a move that could further rattle global food markets and worsen the hunger situation.

The United Nations food agency’s world price index dell for a fifth month in a row in  August, further from all-time highs hit earlier this year, as a resumption of grain exports from Ukrainian ports contributed to improved supply pospects.

Climate change could have more of a negative impact on low-latitude countries than on high-altitude countries, further widening the gap between the fortunes of wheat farmers in developed countries and wheat farmers in developing countries, according to research from China published Aug. 19 in the journal One Earth.

Global total grains production and consumption in the 2022-23 marketing year were revised downward by the International Grains Council (IGC) in its latest monthly grain market report released on Aug. 18.

LP INFORMATION recently released a research report on the Rice Climate Chamber analysis, which studies the Rice Climate Chamber industry coverage, current market competitive status, and market outlook and forecast by 2026.

A recovery in global business travel spending to pre-pandemic levels is likely to be delayed by 18 months to 2026 because of factors like persistent inflation, high energy prices, labour shortages and lockdowns in China, a new industry forecast shows.

Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world's most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs.

Big rate hike by the Fed raises risks for a possible recession in the United States, and brings negative effects to the world economy, according to analysts from various countries.

Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world's most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs.

The duplication of a transporter gene reduces toxic cadmium accumulation in rice without harming quality or yield, according to the researchers.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha will be one of Olam Agri’s key markets as it expands into the basmati rice retail segment by introducing its longstanding Heaven’s Harvest and True Earth brands in consumer-friendly packaging.

I had the great opportunity to host the Philippine economic briefing in New York with President Marcos as keynote speaker, and moderate the panel with economic managers Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno, Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Felipe Medalla, plus Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala for the private sector.

People in California are not noticeably dirtier than other Americans, and yet residents of the country’s most populous state use less water than many of their fellow citizens to bathe, wash their hands, and flush their toilets.

Riverside County's water officials appeared before the Board of Supervisors to present updates amid the drought.

It’s human nature to mark big-number anniversaries, but there’s a centennial looming just ahead that Californians — and other Westerners — might not want to celebrate.

5G networks provide high speeds and bandwidth that allow for many new use cases across many industries that have been lacking reliable connectivity.

In this research service, the analyst examines the core capabilities of AI technology in the agriculture industry. The study examines the growth environment that drives new use-cases and greater adoption as AI-based solutions are adding new value to ??farming operations.

Sollio Agriculture, the majority shareholder in the Ontario Grain partnership, said the company will wind down Ontario Grain operations, which include six operating elevators in the province, including one in Princeton.

The annual Restaurant “Week” allows diners to try out places they might otherwise miss, and one of our favorite discoveries this year was Bulla Gastrobar in Plano, which originated in Coral Gables, Florida.