Keen to end its reliance on rice imports, Indonesia wants to plant vast tracts of the crop, along with sugar cane for biofuel, in the restive eastern region.
Thailand’s rice industry is facing a double blow as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats loom and India resumes rice exports, driving prices down.
The Japanese government is considering expanding tariff-free imports of U.S.-grown rice as part of negotiations over higher levies imposed by Washington, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has raised serious concerns about how climate change may significantly increase arsenic levels in rice by 2050
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