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Although Vietnam’s rice exports have traditionally focused on Asian markets, experts have advised businesses to pay more attention to Africa which has emerged as a key potential market.

Nearly five months after President Marcos signed Executive Order No. 62 to reduce tariffs on imported rice, prices have dropped by less than ₱1 per kilogram, farmers’ group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said on Monday, Nov.  11.

Agriculture expert Yamashita Kazuhito argues that the summer 2024 rice shortages in Japan were the result of government efforts to keep rice prices high by reducing the acreage of crops cultivated.

Majhi issued this direction after he reviewed rice distribution under the Public Distribution System, the chief minister's office (CMO) said in a statement on Tuesday.

Amid the persistent high prices of rice, frustration is growing among people. 

In an effort to curb rising prices, the Union government has launched the second phase of retail sales for Bharat Atta and Bharat Rice.

Farmers bringing their produce to purchasing centers are encountering difficulties, with many forced to sell to rice millers at distress prices due to concerns about impending rains.

Its rice! Rice is one of the world's most important staple foods, nourishing billions of people across diverse cultures and cuisines. 

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Hyderabad:BJP legislature party leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy said the categorisation of the millers has been made with an eye on cutting deals. He further asked as to why paddy was being allocated to default millers. 

With the gentle advent of the Cold Dew solar term, heavy rice ears have drooped throughout vast lands with 1.22 million mu (81,333.33 hectares) of rice in Tianchang city, Chuzhou, Anhui province, officially entering the full harvesting period.

(SGI) - Some people have expressed surprise at Vietnam’s near $1 billion expenditure on rice imports in the early months of this year, especially considering the country is one of the world’s top rice exporters. Does this represent a paradox in Vietnam's rice import-export dynamics, or is the nation entering a new phase in its rice strategy?

EGAZPI CITY — The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday urged farmers to harvest their rice and corn crops as Tropical Depression Kristine approaches the Philippines.

The short-duration paddy variety, PR126, which is projected as the solution to Punjab’s falling water table, is not finding favour with rice millers of the state who are apprehensive about its out-turn ratio, stating that these may have been mixed with hybrid varieties.

The government machinery has initiated measures to auction properties of rice mills that defaulted on delivering custom milled rice (CMR) in the Khammam.

MANILA, Philippines — Retail prices of rice can go down to P43 per kilo if the government cuts the layers of middlemen before the commodity reaches the markets, farmers’ group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) said over the weekend.