The removal of the duty reflects the government’s confidence in a better harvest this year, said Vijay Setia, former president of the All-India Rice Exporters Association. Dhirendra Kumar New Delhi: The union government has removed the export duty on parboiled rice, according to a notification issued by the finance ministry late on Tuesday. It also […]
The decision has been made effective from October 22. By Shishir Sinha In an effort to further boost exports, the Finance Ministry has lowered Custom Duty to NIL from 10 per cent on parboiled rice, husked (brown) rice and rice in the husk (paddy or roughy). It has been made effective from October 22. The […]
By Our Correspondent KARACHI: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has called on the government to enforce strict zero-tolerance policies within its phytosanitary departments to ensure no quality complaints arise from the European Union (EU) or other global importers regarding any variety of rice, whether basmati or non-basmati. In a statement on Tuesday, […]
By Rajendra Jadhav, Mayank Bhardwaj and Urvi Manoj Dugar NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – India scrapped the export tax on parboiled rice, the government said in an official order on Tuesday, as inventories in the world’s biggest exporter of the grain surged and the country is set to produce a bumper crop after copious […]
In Sept alone, Pakistan exported 374,000 metric tons of rice, generating $257.2m in foreign exchange. Zaheer Ali Khan Pakistan has witnessed a significant rise in the demand for its rice in international markets, earning over $721.8 million in foreign exchange from rice exports during the first quarter of the current fiscal year. According to official […]
Traders said an initial announcement from Bulog said the rice could be sourced only from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam or Pakistan. Indonesian state purchasing agency Bulog has told traders that Indian supplies can be offered in its new international tender to buy 340,000 metric tons of rice and the offer deadline is postponed by one day, […]
By Connie Calipay LEGAZPI CITY – The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) 5 (Bicol) targets to expand the contract farming program with more than 3,000 hectares of rice fields to be planted by next year. During Tuesday’s “Kapihan sa Bagong Pilipinas” forum at the NIA-5 office in Naga City, NIA regional manager Gaudencio John De Vera […]
In a significant move that has sent ripples across India’s organic agriculture sector, the Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has suspended the organic certification body of the state of Sikkim. This comes in the wake of a scandal involving the export of regular white rice being falsely labeled as organic. The […]
By: Sakshi Dayal and Ainnie Arif Summary NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – At least 16 farmers have been arrested in India’s northern state of Haryana for illegally burning paddy stubble to clear fields, a practice that stokes air pollution in the region around New Delhi at the onset of winter, authorities said on Tuesday. […]
Amritsar: To protest no minimum support price (MSP Amritsar: To protest no minimum support price (MSP) being given for basmati rice, farm activists of Kirti Kisan Union protested outside the farmhouse of Punjab minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal in Jadev Kalan village near Amritsar on Monday. Union leader Satbir Singh Sultani informed that the basmati variety […]
