How Potassium helps minimize stress due to waterlogging ?

How Potassium helps minimize stress due to waterlogging ?Some times, heavy rains after prolonged dry spells creates water logging and making crops suffer either due to lodging or due to poor aeration.
K fertilization helps building cellulose thereby giving sturdiness to plant stems. This helps prevent lodging.
Poor drainage under water logged conditions can reduce soil aeration. This situation make roots starved for oxygen. For optimum growth plant roots require a proper balance (ratio) between solid (mineral & organic ), liquid (water) and gaseous (air) phases in the soil. For most plants, this ratio by volume is about 50:20:30, respectively. If oxygen is lacking, root respiration is affected resulting in reduced K uptake. Where there is a risk of lack of oxygen, K fertilization helps improve plant health.

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Thailand
Grain and Feed
Weekly Rice Price Update
2008


Approved by:
Gary Meyer, Agricultural Counselor
U.S. Embassy
Prepared by:
Ponnarong Prasertsri, Agricultural Specialist, Maysa Kunasirirat, Agricultural Assistant


Report Highlights:
Export prices declined by 2-3 percent due to the government stock release and the weakening Thai baht. The retender of 1.4 million tons of the government stocks last week (November 28) attracted more participants than expected. The bidding prices were offered higher than the previous tender but still lower than market prices, particularly for 25% grade white rice. Quotations for the current crop were not offered at that low price due to high intervention prices under the current mortgage program.

african market

Although the rice market is free in West Africa, Burkina Faso and Mali imposed bans on their
exports during the second and third quarter of 2008 in response to the soaring food prices
and in order to maintain stable domestic prices. Senegal also reported smuggling to
Mauritania and other neighboring countries after the GOS decided during the third quarter of
2008 to suspend custom duties and subsidize the prices of various rice grades. These
decisions helped maintain relatively low prices for a short period, but quickly proved to be
very expensive and unsustainable for the GOS. Consequently, they were suspended in
September 2008.

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Rice Market in Africa

Vietnam has by Nov 18 exported over 4 million MT of rice out of 5.1-5.3 million MT planned for 2008. Of the total, over 1 million MT of rice have been shipped to Africa , representing 25.6 % of the country's total exported volume.
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)'s Deputy Chairman Doan Duy Khuong has revealed that Vietnam is focusing strongly on Africa as a potential market for Vietnam's rice as it is the second biggest rice importer representing 16 % of Vietnam's export volume in 2007.

The Hindu Business Line : ‘India may turn big producer of GM rice, vegetables by 2010’

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Dear sir/madame,

We are a romanian private company located in Bucharest- capital of Romania. Our company is a major importer and wholeseller for the romanian market and we are doing this bussines for more the 7 years.
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- dehydrated fruits ;
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"AW Rice Procurement Stood At 24.83 MMT Against 22.51 Last Year
May 29, 2008 14:29 IST

FCI, govt.’s nodal agency for food grains procurement, along with other state agencies have bought around 24.83 million tons of rice so far in the marketing year that started in October, up from 22.51 million tonnes a year earlier."

Mercopress

Mercopress: "World rice production is projected at a record 421.2 million tons (milled basis) in 2007/08, up less than 1% from a year ago, while global rice trading is forecasted to reach 29.6 million tons, up 3%, according to the latest reports from the US Department of Agriculture."