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THE National Food Authority (NFA) said it will augment its storage capacity for rice by 200,000 metric tons (MT) within two years to enable more grain purchases from farmers.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - With the government's rice reserves touching 3.8 million tons as of May 18, 2025

Retail rice prices in Japan climbed for the 19th time in 20 weeks, with limited impact from government stockpile releases aimed at easing the surge.

Data from the agriculture ministry show rice prices are up again for the week through May 11, reversing a slight decline the week before.

Japan's Agriculture Minister Taku Etō has issued an apology after remarks he made about never needing to purchase rice due to gifts

THE Philippine government will expand its subsidized rice program to more provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao starting in July

Global market prospects for U.S. long-grain rice for the upcoming marketing year.

New Delhi, May 15 (KNN) India is poised to export approximately 24 million tonnes of rice in the 2025–26 marketing year (October–September)

Average retail prices of rice at the national level decreased in early May while prices of meat increased amid the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) interventions to stabilize retail prices, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

A shocking report has come to the fore as more than 100 different rice brands in the US have been found to contain high levels of arsenic and cadmium

Cuba is experiencing one of the worst food crises in decades, characterized by chronic shortages, a decline in national agricultural production

TOKYO -- The Japanese government and ruling coalition decided May 14 to distribute 100,000 metric tons

Rice prices in North Korea have hit record highs, nearly doubling in recent months

The Japanese government is considering roughly doubling the supply of stockpiled rice to about 600,000 tons

Chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has pledged to further crash the prices of rice and other food items, which he said have already decreased over the past year.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July

A senior official of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ruled out including talks on an expansion of U.S. rice imports in tariff negotiations between Tokyo and Washington, a source close to the matter said.