Prey dry season rice production sees increase
The Prey Veng Provincial Department of Agriculture reported that the production of dry season rice crops has seen an increase compared to the same period of last year. The Department reported that the as of February 22, the production of this year’s dry season rice covers a total area of 118,582 hectares, which is equivalent to 158.11 percent of the initial goal of 75,000 hectares to be cultivated. Farmers have so far harvested a total of 51,751 hectares of the rice fields, which is equivalent to 43.64 percent of the total rice fields cultivated. The total yield of the harvest is 250,545 tons with an average of 4.84 tons of yield per hectare.
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Natural gas production rises 12pc
Natural gas production in India rose by 12.17 percent to 2,861.09 million metric standard cubic meters (mmscm) in January 2022 over the corresponding period of last year, according to petroleum ministry data. At the same time though, natural gas output is 16.47 percent lower than the official target for the month. Cumulative natural gas production during April-January 2021-22 was 28,535 mmscm, which is 20.50 percent higher than production during the corresponding period of last year but 9.59 percent lower when compared with the target for the period, according to official data.
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Sri Lanka tea exports drop 6.9 pc in Jan 2022
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Tea exports fell 6.91 percent in January 2022 to 19.38 million kilograms from 20.82 million kilograms from a year ago, with Russia and Iraq being the top buyers, industry data showed. Purchases by China dropped from 1.5 million kilograms last year to 738,000 kilograms in January 2022. The island’s tea production has dropped 0.36 percent in January 2022 to 22.82 million kilograms from 23.18 million kilograms in 2021. “Elevation wise analysis shows that for the month of January 2022 Low Growns had recorded a decrease of 1.53 million kilograms whilst High & Medium Growns recorded an increase of 0.59 million kilograms and 0.58 million kilogram increase respectively when compared to the same period in 2021,” Ceylon Tea Brokers, a Colombo-based brokerage said in a report.
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China says wheat crop may be worst in history
A Chinese agricultural official said on March 5 that this year’s China winter wheat crop could be the “worst in history,” Reuters reported. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian told reporters at the country’s annual parliament meeting that a survey taken of the crop prior to the start of winter showed a 20percent reduction in first- and second-grade winter wheat, due mainly to heavy rainfall during planting that reduced acreage by one-third. The negative forecast comes at a time when the world’s wheat supply is being impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two countries account for nearly 30percent of wheat exports and the shutdown of Ukrainian ports for the last 12 days due to the war has caused wheat prices to surge to 14-year highs. China President Xi Jinping has made grain self-sufficiency a priority as part of the country’s most recent five-year plan.
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Centre directs coal sector to increase production
The domestic coal sector has been directed to increase production to reduce the country’s dependence on imports. Raosaheb Patil Danve, Minister of State for Coal, Mines and Railways, while speaking at Coal Ministry’s Iconic Week Celebrations of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav said, “Sustainable mining needs to be ensured to protect the environment and people living around coal mines.” MoS Raosaheb Patil Danve called upon the coal sector to further enhance production so that import can be reduced and the energy security of the nation can be enhanced. Currently, Coal India’s total supplies were at 608.15 million tonnes (MT) as of March 4 this fiscal, and the state-owned miner is concentrating to augment its supplies further to touch the 670-million-tonnes offtake mark in the current financial year.
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Most new milk came from the top 7 states
The 2021 milk production data is out. It tells a story of two dairy worlds. With more cows and more milk per cow, U.S. milk production climbed by 1.3 percent to reach a record 226.3 billion pounds in 2021. Most of that new milk came from just a small group of states. The nation’s top seven dairy states, when measured by total milk production, grew milk output by 1.7 percent or 6.3 billion pounds. On the flip side, the remaining 43 states slid by 0.44 percent and fell 369 million pounds. California is in first place on the leaderboard as the nation’s top milk production state. In 2021, the Golden State matched the national average and grew milk production by 1.3 percent to reach 41.9 billion pounds of total milk output. The Badgers in America’s Dairyland led all 50 states in “new milk production” by growing 3.1 percent to reach 31.7 billion pounds. Last year, Wisconsin produced 953 million pounds of new milk.
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U.S. oil industry prepares to boost production
Executives at some of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers said on Monday they are ramping up their crude production as U.S. gasoline prices surge to $4 a gallon amid expectations that President Joe Biden and Congress would ban imports of Russian petroleum — but the companies warned not to expect new supplies overnight.
Exxon Mobil and Chevron are both boosting oil production at the mammoth Permian Basin field in West Texas and New Mexico, strategies that both oil majors laid out last year but that have taken on new urgency because of the surge in oil prices to their highest level in 14 years. U.S. crude oil prices jumped more than $10 overnight to $130 a barrel on news that the U.S. was considering prohibiting Russian oil imports, though prices backed off later during Monday trading. That rally has driven retail gasoline prices up more than 46 cents in the past week, reaching a national average of $4.06 a gallon, according to fuel price service GasBuddy.