Rice News - Full Archive
Monday, May 04, 2020
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- University of Arkansas: Arkansas Rice Update
- Texas A&M University: Texas Rice Crop Survey Update
- Manila Bulletin: "Implementation of ₱8.5-B rice resiliency project starts"
- VN Express: "Mekong Delta residents flee as nature turns hostile"
- Vietnam Net: "Problems plaguing rice export controls"
- Phnom Penh Post: "Rice exports at decade high "
- The Star: "Cambodia's rice exports to China up 28% in first four months "
- USDA Ag Attache: "Thailand rice price weekly"
- Myanmar Times: "Myanmar rice traders anticipate losses despite higher imports allowed from China"
- Times of India: "FCI’s grains stock crosses over 60 million tonnes"
- The Telegraph: "Labour troubles to the brim in rice bowl"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- Cogencis: "COVID-19, Iran woes may hit India’s rice exports further"
- The Grocer: "Basmati rice shortages loom as prices continue to rise"
- New Dawn Liberia: "National Rice Federation clarifies report"
- GhanaWeb: "Ghana will have 29,000 metric tonnes of surplus rice to spare in 2023 – Afriyie Akoto"
- GhanaWeb: "Ghana will be self-sufficient in rice production by 2023 – Agric Minister"
- Trinidad News: "No rice shortage in TT"
- Phys.org: "Study discovers proteins in rice vital for pollination"
Friday, May 01, 2020
- RICEONLINE.COM HOT TOPICS - PAKISTAN: NO EXPORT BAN
- Korea Bizwire: "Researchers Succeed in Growing Rice in the Desert"
- VN Express: "Soldiers help farmers harvest rice in flood-ravaged central Vietnam"
- Khmer Times: "CRF: Cancel rice ban"
- New Straits Times: "Myanmar to resume maritime and border rice exports "
- Eleven: "Over 130,000 rice bags stranded in Kyaigaung and Muse "
- New Age: "Government to procure 19.5 lakh tonnes of boro paddy, rice this season "
- USDA Ag Attache: "India - Production Update for Rabi Crops"
Thursday, April 30, 2020
- USDA Export Sales Highlights
- USDA Rice Export Sales Report
- Manila Bulletin: "Pampanga allocates P90M for rice procurement"
- PIA: "Rice farmers to receive free seeds, fertilizers for May 2020 main season"
- VN Express: "Mekong Delta's reservoir of abundance runs dry"
- Xinhua: "Myanmar sets 150,000-ton rice export quota for next month"
- United News of Bangladesh: "Govt to procure 19.5 lakh mts Boro paddy, rice "
- The Daily Star: "Boro yield to offer some respite"
- Kuensel: "Import of rice increase by 18 percent "
- The Hindu: "Rice millers issue appeal to Centre, Punjab govt. "
- Reuters: "India rice export prices hit 9-month peak as demand recovers"
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- The Express Tribune: "Industry asks PTI govt to withdraw rice export ban"
- Iran Focus: "Rising Prices in Iran’s Cities in the Face of the Coronavirus"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Kenya grain and feed annual"
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
- USDA Rice World Market Price and LDP Announcement
- RICEONLINE.COM HOT TOPICS - GREAT NEWS!
- RICEONLINE.COM HOT TOPICS - KAKINADA PORT UPDATE
- Korea Times: "Korea succeeds in cultivating rice in UAE desert"
- China Economic Net: "Major rice producer promotes double-cropping rice to ensure food security "
- PNA: "GenSan buys rice from Vietnam to augment relief drive"
- Jakarta Globe: "Gov't Provides Incentives to Nearly 2.5 Million Farmers to Maintain Rice Production"
- Bloomberg: "Vietnam’s Rice Exports Ready to Flow Again as Premier Ends Curbs"
- VN Express: "Vietnam scraps rice export limit"
- Viet Nam News: "PM allows rice export resumption from May 1"
- Ajot: "Vietnam’s rice exports ready to flow again as Premier ends curbs"
- Dhaka Tribune: "Government procurement of rice through app delayed, limited"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Sri Lanka - Temporary Suspension of Imports"
- The Hindu: "All rice cardholders in Tamil Nadu to get double their free rice quota for three months "
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Pakistan grain and feed annual"
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
- USDA Crop Progress
- RICEONLINE.COM TENDERS - TAIWAN TENDER APRIL 24 RESULTS
- Xinhua: "China Focus: Major rice producer promotes double-cropping rice to ensure food security "
- Jakarta Post: "Rice stock in check despite lower production, higher demand: Ministry"
- Reuters: "Vietnam PM says to fully resume rice exports from May"
- Reuters: "Vietnam trade ministry proposes fully resuming rice exports from May"
- VN Express: "Trade ministry wants rice export limits scrapped"
- Inquirer: "Rice price in Thailand shoots up as demand spikes during pandemic"
- Eleven: "Rice price shoots up as demand spikes during pandemic"
- Economic Times: "Lockdown impact: Bangladesh rice exports stop; Gulf nations' demand up"
- Financial Express: "Rice purchase for central pool to hit record 50 MT"
- The Hindu: "Rice distribution to BPL sector to be completed this week, says Civil Supplies department "
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Tanzania grain and feed annual"
Monday, April 27, 2020
- USRPA: THE RICE ADVOCATE
- University of Arkansas: Arkansas Rice Update
- Texas A&M University: Texas Rice Crop Survey Update
- Pine Bluff Commercial: "New Arkansas long-grain rice variety offers high yields, UA says"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Japan - MAFF Supplementary Budget for COVID-19 response"
- Manila Standard: "PH rice inventory to hit 94 days by end of 2020 "
- Business World: "Gov’t rice buffer stock projected at 94 days by end of 2020"
- Business World: "NFA distributes 2.2 million bags of rice for COVID-19 relief efforts"
- Jakarta Post: "Rice stock in check despite lower production, higher demand: Ministry"
- Tempo: "Govt Assures Plenty of Rice Stocked for May "
- Saigon Times: "Customs department allows exports of over 38,640 tons of rice"
- SGGP: "Export for 17,000 tons of rice jammed at ports resumed"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Thailand rice price weekly"
- Bernama: "Additional 38,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice to be exported"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Sri Lanka - Update of Lock down"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Bangladesh Grain and Feed Annual"
- Times of India: "Telangana hopes to procure 1.05 crore metric tonne paddy by May-end"
- MoneyControl: "Area sown to kharif rice up 37.70% so far: Agriculture Ministry"
- The Hindu: "Weather: Kalbaisakhi brings lightning, high winds, rain to East India "
- The Hindu: "Rice Prices"
- UrduPoint: "Rice Worth $1.95 Billion Exported In Nine Months "
- The News Intl: "Rice growers to get subsidy "
- USDA Ag Attache: "Dubai Grain and Feed Annual"
- USDA Ag Attache: "Cote d'Ivoire Grain and Feed Annual"
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"