Indica and Japonica are the two major types of rice traded on global market. Product characteristics, production zones, consumer preferences, government policies influence market structures. Using Rice Economy Climate Change (RECC) model, which covers these markets in 24 countries market, international price is found to be more volatile than that for under possible climate change scenarios. The...

A dynamic econometric model of Nigeria’s rice market was designed to serve as a base for future policy analyses. Using time-series data spanning 38 years, the contains four structural equations representing paddy area harvested, yield, per capita demand, and producer price variables. Estimates these were obtained using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration approach. Results produc...

Rice (Oryza spp.) is one of the most important food crops in the world, being planted on almost 11% of the Earth’s cultivated land area over a wide number of ecosystems (Khush, 2005; Maclean et al., 2002). Two species, Oryza sativa and O. glaberrima, are cultivated while other species are wild. Human selection and environmental factors have contributed to the genetic diversity in rice, particul...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. It is essential to develop an efficient method to build the fingerprinting database of commercial hybrid rice cultivars and their parental lines in seed market for rapid and unambiguous cultivar identification and seed purity analysis as new similar cultivars increasing yearly. The objective of this investigation were to fi...

There are several methods in assessing the traits of rice including destructive and non-destructive method. The objective of this study is to evaluate the amylose content (AC) on seven types of rice grain in Malaysia market by using the Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy. AC is one of the main criteria to determine cooked rice quality. Total of samples are 210, there are including two types of br...

In the negotiations on agriculture in the World Trade Organization, it was asserted that an importing state trading enterprise affects the domestic market but not the international market. This claim is investigated through specifying a model of intermediaries in international trade. There are two kinds of intermediaries: first, a state trading enterprise; and second, an n-firm Cournot oligopso...