Nickerie.Net, dinsdag 21 december 2010

Mahawatkhan: Dure pelmolen geen optie ontwikkeling rijstsector
Geplaatst: 21/12/2010

Paramaribo -  ‘Een dure investering in een extra pelmolen is beslist geen optie om ontwikkeling te brengen in de rijstsector’, zegt rijstproducent Leakat Mahawatkhan. ‘Wat we moeten doen is meer produceren. Dit is wel haalbaar indien de beleidsmakers hun mentaliteit ombuigen en de rijstsector een warm hart toedragen.’ De Amerikaanse Capital Corp. Merchant Banking zal samen met Caniin Suriname NV US$ 10 miljoen investeren in een modern parboiled rijstbedrijf in Nickerie. Dit meldt de bank op haar website. Vooralsnog produceert men in Suriname alleen cargo- en witte rijst. De fabriek zal helemaal geautomatiseerd zijn. Het productieproces zal ISO- en HACCP-gecertificeerd zijn.

Het is Mahawatkhan geheel onbekend wie de investeerder is. De rijstproducent is zich er goed van doordrongen dat het internationaal een vaststaand gegeven is dat de wereld de komende jaren meer rijst nodig zal hebben. Dit houdt in dat er meer geproduceerd moet worden. ‘En wat doe je met een pelmolen die nota bene bestemd is voor parboiled rijst?’, vraagt hij zich af.

Mahawatkhan beschikt zelf over twee pelmolens. In Suriname wordt tot nog toe slechts de cargo en witte rijst geproduceerd. ‘Er zijn al veel spelers in het Caraibisch gebied die de parboiled rijst beheren. Ja, naar welke markten gaat de export dan plaatsvinden?’ De rijstproducent vermeldt dat het opzetten van een parboiled rijstfabriek wel haalbaar is. Maar voldoende productie is bepalend voor het voortbestaan of faillissement van het bedrijf. ‘We kunnen aan 100 mensen de ruimte geven om dat te doen. Maar het punt is, ga je het wel kunnen overleven?’

Asha Bhagwat

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Capital Corp Merchant Banking Signs $10 Million Funding Agreement with Caniin Suriname NV

Capital Corp Merchant Banking is pleased to announce that it has entered into a $10 million funding agreement with Caniin Suriname NV to build a state-of-the-art parboiling plant in Nickerie, Suriname. Rice consumption is expected to expand to a fresh record in 2010/2011 at 445m tonnes. This will become the country of Suriname’s only actively producing parboiled rice plant.

Capital Corp Merchant Banking signs $10M funding agreement for parboiled rice manufacture Quote startParboiled rice fetches a premium price compared to cargo and white rice due to its attraction to the upper and middle-income brackets.Quote end

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) December 10, 2010

Capital Corp Merchant Banking (http://www.capitalcorpmerchantbanking.com) is pleased to announce that is has entered into a $10 million funding agreement with Caniin Suriname NV to build a state-of-the-art parboiling plant in the district of Nickerie, Suriname. The design and workflow are based on ISO and HACCP norms and will be certified soon after production starts. With this investment, Caniin Suriname will be the only active, producing parboiled rice plant in the country.

The rice plant will be fully automated and the investment includes infrastructural land works, buildings, machinery, transport equipment, spare parts, and pre-production costs. The total investment amount is project to be a little over USD $10 million and has a calculated IRR of 27%. The supplier and construction supervision of the production facilities will be in the hands of Super Brix, an experienced Columbian Rice processing equipment manufacturer.

Caniin Suriname plans to export its rice to the Caricom countries (Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, Guyana) and also non-traditional markets, namely Haiti and Brazil. From a market standpoint parboiled rice fetches a premium price compared to cargo and white rice, due to its attraction to the upper and middle-income brackets; it is also consumed the most in the Caribbean countries. The general superior quality of parboiled rice is likely to result in increased demand in substitution of white rice.

Suriname is a country in northern South America. Its geographical size is just under 64,000 sq.mi. and has an estimated population of less than 500,000 people. It is the smallest sovereign state of South America. Over the past few years, Suriname has had a relatively low inflation rate and a stable macro-economic situation due to the government’s sound economic-monetary policies.

World rice consumption in 2010/2011 is expected to be at around 445m tonnes. Assuming similar growth rates in subsequent years, world rice consumption is forecast to rise to almost 457m tonnes by 2012/13. Consistent with increased rice uptake, experts expect that global traded volumes will continue expanding over the coming years (source).

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