Analysis Reports

Twenty japonica rice varieties were used to evaluate the genetic diversity of rice quality characteristics and compared with 6 SSR markers reported association with the target traits. The results of rice quality analysis showed that most of the rice varieties have short to medium grain length, medium to bold shape. Amylose content is classified into 4 groups as glutinous rice, low, medium and high. Gel consistency mainly arranges from soft to very soft groups, and the gelatinization temperature is only classified into 2 groups of high and low. Genetic diversity analysis of rice quality characteristics showed that, 20 rice varieties were divided into 4 groups at about 95% similarity among each other. The results of the genotypic analysis showed that, the RM164 and RM203 markers could identify rice varieties with soft to very soft gel consistency and high gelatinzation temperature with an accuracy of 87.5% and 92.3%, respectively. RM230 and RM255 markers could accurately identify rice varieties with short-grain length and bold shape grains. Particularly, the RM230 marker also identifies rice varieties with low to very low amylose content.

The data set includes: 1. Data 500 factories are operating in the animal feed industry 2. Production output year .../

       Post estimates Vietnam’s wheat import volume in the MY 2014/2015 at 2.10 million tons, a slightly increase compared to MY 2013/2014 imported volume, with expectations of an increase in the use of feed wheat. Imported volume for MY 2015/2016 is forecast at 2.2 million tons, with the same expectation of increased feed wheat use. Vietnam’s wheat imports for MY 2013/2014 were 2.03 million tons, about 100,000 lower than USDA’s official estimate mainly due to less imported feed wheat. 

           Post estimates corn imported volume in MY 2014/2015 to be at 2.0 million tons, down from the 2.4 million tons of MY 2013/2014 due to the expected increase of local production. The import volume of corn in MY 2015/2016 is forecast at 1.8 million tons, a 200,000-ton decrease compared with MY 2014/2015, due to expected higher local corn production and carry-over stocks from MY 2013/2014. 

         Post estimates total rice production for MY 2014/2015 to reach 44.88 million tons of paddy rice, about 320,000 tons of paddy less than USDA’s official number due mainly to the adjustment of seasonal rice planted/harvested area. Vietnam’s MY 2014/2015 rice exported volume is revised to 6.7 million tons due to expected strong competition from Thailand, India, Pakistan and other new exporters such as Cambodia and Myanmar.  

The original  fisheries  improvement project  (FIP) Action Plan was developed  following a FIP  stakeholder meeting held  in Kien Giang, Vietnam  in  June 2010, and was  finalized  in  July 2010.   The  purpose of  this document is to update the revised 2013 Action Plan, based on results of the FIP review meeting held in Rach Giang, Vietnam on August 29-30, 2014, and to provide background  information on the number of ongoing and new activities that are underway, reconfirm activities which have not yet been implemented, and revise activities based on new  information, which may  include revisions to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Assessment Methodology (FAM). The revisions to the Milestones have been made along with some deleted activities which were deemed to be too costly, or could be developed in a more efficient way.  This revised Action Plan includes information on the proposed milestones for each activity, the scoring guideposts met, the stakeholder organization responsible  for  implementation, the expected timeframe to complete the task and the current status. Work plans for each outcome and activity had been set in 2010, but were later refined into milestones in December 2012. A project logframe was developed which  integrated the milestones set, with the previously defined activities. The milestones and  logframe have been adjusted to reflect the changed agreed in the August, 2014 workshop outputs. The document also includes the use of MSCs new Benchmark Tracking Tool. 

We have developed a rigorous analytical tool that is capable of making projections on the implications of the ongoing shifts on global fish production and reallocation of fish supply through international trade. The model, though with known limitations, is successfully calibrated and employed to evaluate different policies and alternative events and to illustrate likely evolution of the global seafood economy. From the modeling exercise and scenario analyses, it is clear that aquaculture will continue to fill the growing supply-demand gap in the face of rapidly expanding global i sh demand and relatively stable capture i sheries. While total i sh supply will likely be equally split between capture and aquaculture by 2030, the model predicts that 62 percent of food i sh will be produced by aquaculture by 2030.