Rice News - Full Archive
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- The Cabin Net: "Landowners encouraged to enroll rice fields in new habitat/public access program"
- Inquirer: "Vietnam assures PH of rice supply amid COVID-19 pandemic"
- Manila Bulletin: "Vietnam pledges long-term supply of rice to PH"
- Inquirer: "Gov’t to import 300,000 MT of rice"
- Manila Bulletin: "NFA to boost rice stocks in preparation for ‘lean months’"
- Khmer Times: "Reservoir expected to increase agro-production"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Burma - Rice Export Policy Updates during COVID-19"
- The Hindu: "Paddy crop suffers rice leaf mite attack "
- The Hindu: "Rice cultivation: Revoke ban or face agitation, Congress tells Haryana govt. "
- Financial Tribune: "500K Tons of Imported Rice Stranded at Customs Terminals"
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
- Korea Herald: "S. Korea to send 50,000 tons of rice aid to Mideast, Africa"
- Manila Times: "Rice imports to hit 1.8 million MT this year"
- Manila Bulletin: "PH buying 300,000 MT rice on gov’t-to-gov’t deal"
- PNA: "Crisis aid to farmers to add 76K MT rice yield in Region 8"
- Economic Times: "Revenue growth for Indian basmati rice industry weakens amid the Covid-19 lockdown"
- NTV: "RICE IMPORTATION: Govt duty remission ends in June"
- Business Ghana: "Nigeria has 'no money' to import food"
- ReliefWeb: "GIEWS Country Brief: Costa Rica 26-May-2020"
Monday, May 25, 2020
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- University of Arkansas: Arkansas Rice Update
- Arkansas Democrat Gazette: "Arkansas farmers struggling to regain footholds"
- Texas A&M University: Texas Rice Crop Survey Update (98% planted)
- PhilStar: "Government urged to ensure food security "
- Sun Star: "4,770 rice farmers in Negros Occidental get P23.86M in cash subsidy "
- Saigon Times: "Philippine pivot does not impact on Vietnamese rice export"
- Vietnam+: "Ca Mau faces severe shortage of irrigation water"
- Eleven: "Mandalay to beef up 5,000 tons of national reserve rice"
- Colombo Page: "CAA inspects eight major and medium scale rice mills in Polonnaruwa district"
- Economy Next: "Sri Lanka trade controls extended, license regime in import substitution drive"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
Friday, May 22, 2020
- University of Arkansas: Row Crops Radio: Fertilizing & Flooding Early Rice
- Reuters: "China to draft food security plan amid global coronavirus epidemic"
- Asean Today: "Fertile ground for failure: Indonesia hopes 2 million acres of rice paddies will help it weather COVID-19 "
- Antara: "Rice plantation sooner as precaution against food crisis amid pandemic"
- Reuters: "Thailand sees slightly bigger main rice crop in 2020/21 on better rain"
- Vietnam+: "Thailand expects to harvest 24mn tonnes of rice in 2020"
- The Nation: "Irrigation dept bets on big rice harvest this year"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Thailand Drought Update"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Thailand rice price weekly"
- Colombo Page: "* No need to import rice - former MP"
- Reuters: "Asia Rice: India prices scale one-year peak, cyclone hits Bangladesh crop"
- Reuters: "Indian rice exports in 2020-21 may surge 15% as buyers stockpile grain"
- The Hindu: "Setting the stage for kharif sowing "
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Asharq Al-Awsat: Saudis Buy 90,000 Tons of Rice for Zakat al-Fitr "
- Reuters: "Egypt's strategic rice reserves sufficient until october -supply ministry"
Thursday, May 21, 2020
- KCCO Tender Awards
- Khmer Times: "Cambodia and IRRI partner to modernize, accelerate rice sector"
- Nepali Sansar: "Nepal Stocks ‘92000 Tons of Rice’ to Address COVID-19 Crisis "
- The Hindu: "Farmers in Punjab and Haryana opt for more cotton acreage over labour-intensive rice "
- The Hindu: "Cyclone Amphan kills 72 in West Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee announces compensation"
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- TB&P: "Arkansas Game and Fish touts Waterfowl Rice Incentive Conservation Enhancement program"
- CNBC: "China stocks up food and oil supplies as coronavirus spurs fears about shortages"
- Inquirer: "Rice, palay prices continue to rise"
- Viet Nam News: "Đồng Tháp improves irrigation works to water summer – autumn rice"
- Bangkok Post: "Organic rice gets trade boost "
- Pak Tribune: "Malaysia agrees to import 100,000 tonnes of rice from India"
- The Tribune: "Release dues, demand Rice millers"
- CNBC: "Cyclone Amphan tears into India, Bangladesh, destroys homes, whips up storm surge"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- ReliefWeb: "Pakistan Weekly Market Monitor Report - 19 May 2020"
- Modern Ghana: "JAKF, GRIB And Alluvial Sign MOU To Support 50,000 Rice Farmers"
- ReliefWeb: "GIEWS Country Brief: Uruguay 19-May-2020"
- Nature: "Fragrant rice performances in response to continuous zero-tillage in machine-transplanted double-cropped rice system"
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
- KCCO Tender AMENDED to buy 10,100mt of rice MAY 19
- Mongabay: "In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture"
- China Daily: "Concern mounts over food supplies"
- Mongabay: "In Indonesia’s new rice plan, experts see the blueprint of an epic past failure"
- Vietnam Net: "China changes policy, buys Vietnam’s rice"
- ReliefWeb: "Food donation from the U.S. helps children stay in school and learning: in times of COVID-19, school lunches more important than ever"
- Reuters: "Exclusive: India resumes purchases of Malaysian palm oil - traders"
- Dhaka Tribune: "Rice Procurement: Govt favours millers over farmers in Rangpur"
- The Hindu: "India resumes purchases of Malaysian palm oil"
- The Hindu: "Telangana’s prescription for farmers: Grow cotton on 70 lakh acres, paddy on 40 lakh acres"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Pakistan Observer: "PARC vows to increase productivity of rice"
- Iran News Update: "The Relent Pressure on Iran’s People’s Livelihood"
- ReliefWeb: "GIEWS Country Brief: Dominican Republic 19-May-2020"
Monday, May 18, 2020
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- Texas A&M University: Texas Rice Crop Survey Update
- University of Arkansas: Arkansas Rice Update
- KAIT: "Rice mill resumes operation after taking direct hit by tornado"
- Korea Herald: "N. Korean paper highlights provincial efforts to increase rice production"
- SunStar: "Rice supply adequate for 2020 "
- PNA: "Local rice supply fills NFA warehouses in NorMin"
- Reuters: "Indonesia doubles volume of rice released to market to blunt price spike"
- Cambodia Daily: "Cambodia to remove ban on fish, white rice, paddy rice exports"
- Phnom Penh Post: "Exports of paddy, white rice and fish are back on the table "
- USDA Ag Attache: "Thailand rice price weekly"
- Bangkok Post: "Rice cuts 'won't hurt exports' "
- The Star: "Exporters: Malaysia signs record rice import deal with India "
- Dhaka Tribune: "Govt allocates 23,497 tons of rice for fishermen"
- Dhaka Tribune: "Rice crops are being destroyed by blast disease in Nilphamari and Feni"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Dawn: "Malaysia signs record rice import deal with India "
- The Hindu: "Punjab farmers’ to go for direct seeding of rice "
- ReliefWeb: "Pakistan Market Monitor Report - May 2020"
- The Nation: "Focusing on Trade"
- Ghana Web: "Concerned Farmers Association commends government interventions in the rice industry"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Senegal Grain and Feed Annual"
- The Sentinel: "Assam scientists develop high-protein, climate-smart rice varieties"
Friday, May 15, 2020
- PNA: "Solon wants suspension of rice imports until harvest ends"
- Jakarta Globe: "The Price of Rice Will Stabilize as Idul Fitri Approaches: Food Task Force"
- Antara: "Rice stocks to reach 1.8 million tons by June: Bulog"
- ABC News: "Southern NSW irrigators hopeful for summer rice crop after receiving first water allocation for two years"
- Vietnam+: "Ministry to strictly manage rice exports via international border gates "
- Cambodia Daily: "Cambodia works to enhance competitiveness of rice export"
- Khmer Times: "Australian firm keen to invest in Cambodia’s rice production chain"
- Bangkok Post: "Malaysia signs record rice deal with India "
- Malay Mail: "Malaysia signs record rice import deal with India, say exporters"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Burma - Rice Export Policy Updates"
- Reuters: "Indian farmers to harvest record rice, wheat crops this year"
- The Hindu: "More areas likely to come under basmati this year "
- Bloomberg: "Crucial Monsoon Rains in India May Come Later Than Usual"
- Mint: "Monsoon to hit Kerala coast on 5 June, says IMD"
- The Hindu: "Bumper harvest: Foodgrains output to touch 296 mt in 2019-20"
- Reuters: "Pakistan readies for second battle against crop-devouring locusts"
Thursday, May 14, 2020
- Inquirer: "PH to remain world’s top rice importer"
- Manila Bulletin: "266,000 hectares of rice, corn farms at risk as Typhoon Ambo hits PH"
- Manila Times: "Farmers’ group warns of supply glut, low palay prices"
- The Weather Channel: "Typhoon Vongfong Raking Through the Philippines Bringing Damaging Winds, Storm Surge, Flooding Rain"
- Cambodia Daily: "Cambodia to lift partial ban on rice exports on May 20"
- Khmer Times: "Rice exports to resume"
- Reuters: "Asia Rice-Thai prices dip as demand flows to India, Vietnam"
- Eleven: "Ministry to buy rice, palm oil for emergency rations "
- Myanmar Now: "Private sector profits as government struggles to stockpile rice for pandemic"
- Eleven: "Ministry lends a helping hand to farmers "
- USDA Ag Attache: "Sri Lanka Grain and Feed Annual"
- bdnews24: "Government orders new lists after review for rice at Tk 10 per kg scheme"
- Indian Express: "Explained: Labour short, can direct seeding be alternative to paddy transplanting?"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Ghana Grain and Feed Annual"
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- The Hindu: "Centre sets up new body to promote rice exports "
- Ag Alert: "Logistics, water supplies affect rice planting "
- RICEONLINE.COM TENDERS - KOREA TENDERS MAY 13
- Reuters: "China hands out more grain import quotas to increase purchases - sources"
- UNTV: "PH has enough rice supply for entire year – DA"
- Reppler: "Philippines to remain world's top rice importer until 2021"
- Daily Mail: "Australia could RUN OUT of local rice in just months after droughts and panic-buying during the COVID-19 pandemic sparked dramatic shortages"
- The Star: "Cambodia allows resumption of white rice exports "
- Market Screener: "Cambodia to lift partial ban on rice exports on May 20"
- Khmer Times: "Cambodian rice exports burdened by power and transport costs"
- Eleven: "Govt buys about 6,300 tons of rice in reserve from 40 companies "
- New Age: "Rice theft continues "
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Kakinada Port Positions report
- ReliefWeb: "Pakistan Weekly Market Monitor Report - 12 May 2020"
- VOA: "Ghana's Rice Farmers Might Benefit From COVID Pandemic "
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
- USDA SUPPLY DEMAND REPORT (12:00PM ET)
- USDA GRAINS: WORLD MARKETS AND TRADE (12:15 EST)
- USDA WORLD AG PRODUCTION (12:00EST)
- USDA CROP PRODUCTION (12:00 EST)
- USDA Crop Progress
- TB&P: "Furrow-irrigated rice acres grow in Arkansas"
- Financial Express: "World cereal utilisation reduced by 24.7 MT: FAO"
- PNA: "Gov’t allots P313.5-M to boost rice output in E. Visayas"
- Big News Network: "Rice farmers in parts of Philippines get cash subsidies"
- Inquirer: "PH to import 300,000 MT of rice"
- Manila Bulletin: "PhilRice warns farmers vs. rice plant viruses"
- Reuters: "Philippines sees end-2020 rice stocks at 3.3 mln T, highest in 10 years"
- PIA: "Vietnam resumes rice exports to Phl, ASEAN countries"
- Journal Online: "Vietnam reaffirms pledge to resume rice exports to PH "
- Economic Times: "Basmati export down due to shortage of cargo containers"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Samma: "Italian rice puts pasta in the shade during pandemic"
Monday, May 11, 2020
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- University of Arkansas: Arkansas Rice Update
- Texas A&M Univeristy: Texas Rice Crop Survey - 93% planted
- KCCO TENDER TO BUY 270MT MAY 5 - AWARDS
- Yonhap: "N.K. paper urges all-out efforts to maximize rice production"
- The Star: "Expensive Thai rice offers lose out as India gain nine-month high, Vietnam two-year's best "
- Reuters: "UPDATE 2-Philippines seeks extra 300,000 T rice imports amid pandemic"
- Bloomberg: "Philippines Awaits 400,000 Tons Rice as Vietnam Resumes Export"
- Inquirer: "Ample supply of rice, fish until yearend; pork enough until Q3–Duterte report"
- PhilStar: "Rice prices going up, traders say "
- ABC News: "Why isn't more rice being grown in Queensland, where the water is?"
- Vietnam+: "Joint rice farming model brings farmers sustainable income"
- South China Morning Post: "Mekong nations face growing threat to food security amid claims China’s dams exacerbate effects of drought"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Thailand rice price weekly"
- Dhaka Tribune: "Buy paddy from farmers, not rice from millers"
- Sike Siyasat News: "Diversification Plans Dumped?: Punjab Govt Prepones Paddy Plantation by 10 Days"
- Times of India: "FCI procures highest quantity rice from T"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
Friday, May 08, 2020
- LSU Rice Research Newsleter
- KTVE: "Louisiana rice crop off to good start, prices up"
- AgNet West: "Rice Weeds Growers Need to Look For in 2020"
- ReliefWeb: "Crop Monitor for AMIS"
- ANBA: "World food prices fall in April "
- ABC News: "Rice company calls for government intervention to guarantee Australian rice harvest"
- VN Express: "Central Vietnam province hit by severe drought"
- Economic Times: "Rice exports to Bangladesh via West Bengal likely to commence soon"
- The Hindu: "Non-basmati exports may rebound as India attracts new customers"
- The Hindu: "Boro paddy estimated to be down 10-15% as unfavourable climate, labour shortage weigh "
- Pakistan Today: "India lockdown lifts Pakistani rice export to Middle East "
- Dominican Today: "Dominican Republic to set a rice harvest record"
- Financial Times: "StanChart and HSBC face losses on loans to rice trader "

