Rice News - Full Archive
Friday, April 24, 2020
- KCCO Tender to buy 1750 mt canceled due to a change in program requirements"
- Ag Net: "Rice Growers Look Forward to ‘Normal’ Planting Season"
- Sacramento Business Journal: "Farmers face new challenges in their ongoing quest for water "
- Inquirer: "Cebu City readies 150K more sacks of rice"
- PNA: "NFA releases 33K bags of rice to Caraga LGUs"
- Vietnam Net: "Mismanagement causes difficulties for Vietnam's rice exporters"
- Khmer Times: "Australia and Cambodia work together to boost agriculture sector"
- Bernama: "BERNAS says rice sales to Sabah up 10 pct in first 3 months"
- The Malaysian Reserve: "Bernas continues to safeguard local rice industry"
- Eleven: "Ks38 bn to be spent to buy 50,000 tons of rice, 12,000 tons of edible oil as emergency food reserves"
- The Hindu: "Price of rice records a sharp increase in Tiruchi "
- Indian Express: "State govt to provide wheat, rice to 66 lakh families"
- Dunya News: "Pak exports to Africa increased by 10 percent in last 10 months: Razak Dawood"
Thursday, April 23, 2020
- KCCO Tender awards
- TB&P: "Report: Rice prices rise slightly, while corn, cotton and soybean farmers face historic lows"
- Reuters: "Indonesia's rice stockpile is secure for up to Nov -official"
- Bloomberg: "Spoiling Rice in Vietnam Show Perils of Food Protectionism"
- Viet Nam News: "Rice growing localities, exporters want export limits scrapped"
- Bangkok Post: "Rice trade to slash prices "
- Bernama: "Bernas assures stability of rice price and supply"
- The Borneo Post: "Bernas urged not to ration rice supply in Sabah "
- Myanmar Times: "Govt to beef up rice and palm oil reserves"
- Financial Express: "Wheat production set to surpass rice output for first time"
- Economic Times: "Fresh export orders for tea, basmati from Iran, China and Russia"
- The Hindu: "Labour shortage likely to hit Bengal rabi paddy harvest "
- The Hindu: "Price of rice records a sharp increase in Tiruchi "
- Reuters: "Indian rice rates ease as rupee flounders, labour woes hit Bangladesh"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Ukraine Grain and Feed Update"
- My Joy Online: "No need to control food prices – Agric Minister "
- ReliefWeb: "GIEWS Country Brief: Benin 23-April-2020"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Uruguay Grain and Feed Annual"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Argentina Grain and Feed Annual"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Paraguay Grain and Feed Annual"
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- Vietnam Net: "VN government cautious about exporting rice despite plentiful supply"
- KUAR: "Arkansas Rice Growers Could See Increased Demand Due To COVID-19"
- RICEONLINE.COM TENDERS - KCCO TENDER TO BUY 1750MT APRIL 22 - AMENDED
- Food Navigator-Asia: "Rice-ing concern: COVID-19 creates supply and price volatility for Asia’s most ‘cost-sensitive’ crop "
- Reuters: "RPT-Asia Rice-Lockdowns and export curbs limit activity in major hubs"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Taiwan Grain and Feed Annual"
- Page One: "NFA-Bicol Has Enough Supply Of Rice Amid Health Crisis"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Australia Grain and Feed Annual"
- Reuters: "Vietnam increases April white rice exports quota to 500,000 tonnes"
- Viet Nam News: "Nearly 57,000 tonnes of rice cleared for customs approval"
- Bernama: "Bernas assures of stability of rice price, supply"
- Eleven: "MoIT proposes to resume rice exports"
- The Hindu: "Step up paddy and maize procurement, AICC tells Telangana CM "
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Saudia Arabia Grain and Feed Annual"
- Pulse: "Ghana risks shortage of rice amid COVID-19 pandemic "
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
- USDA Crop Progress
- KCCO TENDER FOR 6920MT APRIL 21
- USDA Ag Attache: "Philippine Gov't Launches Plant Plant Plant"
- Inquirer: "Enough rice for Bicol during COVID-19 lockdown, says NFA"
- PNA: "NFA-Bicol has enough supply of rice amid health crisis"
- fijivillage: "Fiji imported $42.6 million worth of rice last year which is equivalent to around 40,000 metric tonnes of rice"
- Jakarta Globe: "Indonesia Has Enough Rice to Last Pandemic: Bulog "
- Antara: "Ensure national rice stock data is accurate, Jokowi tells officials"
- ASEAN Today: "The COVID-19 rice economy: what a pandemic means for Southeast Asia’s staple "
- Nhan Dan: "Rice export continues despite pandemic and natural disasters"
- Vietnam+: "Rice export still allowed despite pandemic, natural disasters "
- Saigon Times: "100,000 tons of rice for May exports to be advanced to support rice exporters "
- Vietnam Net: "Prime Minister requests inspection over rice exports"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Cambodia Grain and Feed Annual"
- The Daily Star: "Good move amid myriad challenges"
- The Hindu: "Telangana facing a problem of plenty in paddy"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- The New Indian Express: "NBCC approves use of surplus rice for sanitisers"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Haiti Grain and Feed Annual"
- Science Daily: "Cable bacteria can drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rice cultivation"
Monday, April 20, 2020
- RICEONLINE.COM TENDERS - KOREA TENDER RESULTS
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- High Plains Journal: "Arkansas planned rice acreage increases"
- University of Arkansas: "Arkansas Rice Update"
- Texas A&M University: "Texas Rice Crop Survey Update"
- Business Mirror: "PSA: Farm-gate price of rice continues to rise"
- Manila Standard: "Salceda warns of rice price crisis as drought hits Asian nations"
- PhilStar: "NFA resolves milling woes to ensure stable rice supply "
- Inquirer: "DA ramps up food security programs amid health crisis"
- Viet Nam News: "Inspection team set up to check rice volume stuck at ports"
- Saigon Times: "Bidding for rice supplies to be re-organized"
- Talk Vietnam: "Calls for shake-up in rice exporting"
- Talk Vietnam: "PM orders inspection of alleged rice export irregularity"
- Vietnam+: "Farmers in Binh Dinh plant rice early to avoid drought"
- SGGP: "Mekong Delta farmers increase income by switching crops"
- Phnom Penh Post: "Cambodia could export rice to East Timor ‘as soon as May’ "
- Khmer Times: "Rice exports to East Timor agreed in principle"
- Free Malaysia Today: "Rice millers face price squeeze by importers, says council"
- New Age: "Boro harvest a big challenge "
- The Statesman: "‘Surplus rice produced will be used to manufacture sanitisers’: Govt amid lockdown "
- Livemint: "Rare good news amid Covid-19 crisis: Telangana witnesses bumper paddy harvest"
- Latestly: "Surplus Rice Can be Used For Making Ethanol to Keep Up Supply of Hand Sanitizers, Says Government Amid Coronavirus Outbreak"
- Tehran Times: "Rice production stands at 2.9m tons in a year"
- Press TV: "Iran rice output surge by 45% to feed domestic demand "
- MENAFN: "Iranian farmers produce 2.9 million tons of rice in one year"
- Zawya: "Egypt has enough rice stocks to last until November 2021 -state news agency"
Friday, April 17, 2020
- Baker City Herald: "USDA Invests More Than $15.4 Million in Partner-Driven Projects that Protect Natural Resources in California "
- USDA Ag Attache: "Korea Grain and Feed Annual"
- Manila Times: "DA: Rice supply to last 84 days "
- Berita Jakarta: "Rice Stok is Available Until Five Months Ahead"
- Australian Dept of Ag, Water and the Environment: "Analysis of Australia’s food security and the COVID-19 pandemic"
- Bloomberg: "Shoppers Everywhere Hoarding Rice Cost Vietnam Its Stockpile"
- Viet Nam News: "Rice farmers in Mekong Delta told to follow sowing schedules as saline intrusion, drought continues"
- Vietnam Net: "Vietnam Food Association demands priority clearance for rice stuck at ports"
- The Jakarta Post: "Another Rp 1.8 trillion allocated to secure food supplies, help farmhands"
- Daily Express: "Can't afford any further delay on rice production, govt told"
- Financial Express: "Making rice affordable"
- Reuters: "Indian rice prices at eight-month peak; Thai rates ease after rains"
- Times of India: "1.34 LMT rice allocated to Andhra Pradesh"
- Reuters: "Indian traders signing rice export deals again after three-week pause"
- USDA Ag Attache: " Possible Trade Interruptions for South Africa's Rice Supply Chain due to COVID-19 Impact "
Thursday, April 16, 2020
- KCRA: "Rice farmers change how they approach planting, harvesting amid virus outbreak"
- Financial Post: "Asia Rice-Indian prices at 8-month peak; Thai rates ease after rains"
- PhilStar: "COVID-19 farm intervention to boost rice supply to 84 days adequacy "
- Inquirer: "Solon wants PH to relax rice importation rules to ensure adequate supply"
- PTV News: "NFA: Rice supply in PH is enough amid ECQ"
- PhilStar: "Private traders urged to import more rice "
- Jakarta Post: "Bulog asks for additional Rp 10 trillion to buy rice"
- Tempo: "Minister Says Farmers Ready to Harvest 19.8mn Tons of Rice "
- Antara: "Makassar city government ensures sufficient rice stocks until Oct 2020"
- UCA News: "Covid-19 anxiety grips Bangladeshi farmers "
- Daily Sun: "Rice price increases gradually"
- Reuters: "Indian traders signing rice export deals again after three-week pause"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- The Hindu: "Spurred by handsome wheat yield, rabi output to be close to 150 million tonnes "
- The Hindu: "Govt sets foodgrain production target at 298 million tonnes for 2020-21 crop year "
- The Hindu: "NGOs sourcing rice from FCI for free distribution "
- The Nation: "11pc increase in rice export during first 8 months of current FY"
- USDA Ag Attache: " Brazilian Commodity Prices Hit Record Levels "
- Stabroek News: "Rice production so far unaffected by COVID-19 – GRDB"
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- KCCO TENDER TO BUY 6920MT OF RICE
- DTN: "World Wheat & Rice Situation Not Anywhere Near 2006-08"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Japan Rice Straw Market"
- FX Daily Report: "Rice Retreats From Seven-Year High as Vietnam Plans to Restart Exports"
- Nikkei Asian Review: "Coronavirus exposes ASEAN divisions on rice security"
- Manila Bulletin: "DA, DTI urged to ensure adequate supply of rice, other basic goods"
- PhilStar: "NFA reports delivery failure "
- Business World: "NFA says rice stocks sufficient despite quarantine extension "
- Brinkwire: "Australia could RUN OUT of rice as countries refuse to export their supplies in coronavirus crisis"
- Vietnam Net: "Vietnamese rice exporters surprised with the quick end of export quota"
- The Saigon Times: "Rice for national reserves yet to meet target: official"
- The Saigon Times: "40 traders successfully register for export of 400,000 tons of rice"
- Khmer Times: "Price of exported rice doubles"
- Times of India: "FCI’s ‘excess stock’ comes in handy for govt in Covid battle"
- Economic Times: "Record basmati exports from India as Ramadan and pandemic surges demand"
- The News Intl: "Traders challenge likely rice export ban with stock stats "
- IOL: "'No risk yet’ to SA’s rice and wheat imports"
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
- Ag Net: "California Rice Salmon Pilot Project Making Steady Progress"
- CORRECTION: RICEONLINE.COM TENDERS - KOREA TENDERS to buy CHINESE SHORT GRAIN BROWN rice April 14
- RICEONLINE.COM TENDERS - TAIWAN TENDER April 14
- Business Mirror: "Group urges govt to freeze ₧8-billion rice import plan"
- VN Express: "Businesses cry foul after missing rice export chance in April"
- Vietnam Net: "Who is allowed to export rice during the COVID-19 crisis?"
- New Age: "IRRI for keeping eyes on rice supply chain "
- Financial Express: "Rice price rise raises concern"
- New Europe: "Global rice exports severely disrupted following India lockdown"
- Grain Mart News: "Rice Prices Surge Globally Amid Panic Buying and Low Supply Due to Coronavirus Lockdown"
- The Hindu: "FCI moving rice to needy States, creating godown space"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Dawn: "Sindh CM advises Centre to ban export of food crops "
Monday, April 13, 2020
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- USDA Crop Progress ( for release 4:00pm EDT)
- Texas A&M University: Texas Rice Crop Survey Update
- University of Arkansas: Arkansas Rice Update
- MercoPress: "Food Prices declines sharply in March except rice as countries stockpile"
- Business Mirror: "PHL pursuing P8-billion G2G rice imports for stable supply"
- PhilStar: "Philippines expects record palay output this year "
- USDA Ag Attache: "Indonesia Grain and Feed Annual"
- Jakarta Post: "Bulog struggles to import staple food as producing countries cap exports"
- Sydney Morning Herald: "Water expert predicts rice shortage after door shut on imports"
- Vietnam+: "Ministry issues rice export quotas for April"
- Phnom Penh Post: "Rice export quotas issued in VN under PM’s permission "
- The Star: "Vietnam to resume rice exports "
- bdnews24: "Govt suspends special Tk 10 rice sale due to risks of contagion"
- Dhaka Tribune: "PM: Govt to procure more rice this year"
- USDA Ag Attache: "India Weekly Post Situation Update"
- The Hindu: "Despite lockdown hurdles, sowing of summer crops up "
- The Hindu: "FCI moving rice to needy States, creating godown space "
- The Hindu: "Rice mills face labour shortage"
Friday, April 10, 2020
- Brownfield Ag News: "USDA gives producers more time to repay Marketing Assistance Loans"
- USDA Ag Attache: "China Grain and Feed Annual"
- Xinhua: "China increases state rice purchasing to strengthen grain reserve "
- Reuters: "Asia Rice: Lockdowns and export curbs limit activity in major hubs"
- Manila Bulletin: "NFA sells 4 million bags of rice in Q1"
- Manila Times: "Sato seeks higher palay buying price"
- VN Express: "Stop export of regular rice: Finance Ministry"
- Vietnam+: "Mekong Delta enjoys bumper rice crop"
- Reuters: "Vietnam PM approves export of 400,000 tonnes of rice for April"
- News First: "Rice Mill operations declared as an essential service"
- Ceylon Daily News: "Maximum retail price for rice"
- Frontline: "COVID-19 fear ahead of boro rice harvesting in Bengal "
- Hellenic Shipping News: "Ukraine asks parliament to remove some grain import duties"
- Xinhua: "Brazil expects record 2020 grains harvest despite pandemic ""
Thursday, April 09, 2020
- USDA Supply Demand report (12:00pmt EDT)
- USDA GRAINS: WORLD MARKETS AND TRADE (12:15 EST)
- USDA WORLD AG PRODUCTION (12:00EST)
- USDA CROP PRODUCTION (12:00 EST)
- Xinhua: "China increases state rice purchasing to strengthen grain reserve"
- RT: "Rice & wheat prices surge amid fears Covid-19 lockdown may threaten global food security "
- Inquirer: "Rice imports to help PH, not hurt local farmers"
- News.com.au: "Australia facing rice shortage amid pandemic "
- Vietnam Net: "Rice price escalates, Vietnamese exporters eager to resume exports"
- Vietnam Net: "Winter-spring rice crop at high risk of disease"
- USDA Ag Attahce: "Vietnam Grain and Feed Annual"
- Releifweb: "Special Report - 2019 FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Burma Grain and Feed Annual"
- Daily FT: "Govt. keeps rice mills open, assures no shortage "
- ZAWYA: "Despite Indian rice export fears, UAE traders confirm stocks for 3 months"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Turkey Grain and Feed Annual"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Venezuela Grain and Feed Annual"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Costa Rice Rice Situation update"
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- TB&P: "Projected rice acres up; farmers expected to grow more soybeans and corn in 2019"
- Business World: "Rice inventories decline 1.9% in March"
- Manila Standard: "NEDA warns of higher rice prices amid tightening supply"
- The Tribune: "Vietnam to export 8L tonnes of rice"
- Viet Nam News: "Winter-spring rice crop at high risk of disease: Agriculture minister"
- Daily Express: "Rice sales shoot up due to Covid-19"
- Dhaka Tribune: "Tackling coronavirus: Govt to procure 1.75 million tons of paddy, rice"
- New Age: "Coronavirus hits agriculture hard "
- Economic Times: "States told to ensure no hurdles to agri exports"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Financial Express: "Icra highlights exports uncertainty in Basmati business due to Covid-19"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Costa Rica Grain and Feed Update"
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
- Inquirer: "South Korea donates 950 metric tons of rice for PH quake, flood victims"
- Reuters: "Vietnam trade ministry plans to export 800,000 tonnes of rice in April, May"
- SGGP: "Mekong Delta provinces expect good summer-autumn rice crop"
- Vietnam+: "Trade ministry proposes resuming rice exports"
- Republic World: "Cambodia Bans Exports Of Rice And Fish In Anti-virus Move"
- Cambodia Daily: "Cambodia calls on rice millers, exporters to buy paddy"
- Free Malaysia Today: "People eating more, rice wholesaler expects 50% more in sales "
- UNB: "Govt to procure 17.5 lakh mts Boro paddy, rice"
- Daily Star: "Govt to buy 28.25 lakh metric tonnes of rice, wheat"
- The Hindu: "Covid pandemic may pull the plug on basmati exports"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- ReliefWeb: "GIEWS Country Brief: Madagascar"