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The campaign promise of President Marcos to lower the price of rice to as low as ₱20 will soon be a reality with a planned trial run in the Visayas region, according to Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel.

For the first time in many years Uruguayan rice farmers are not complaining about the cereal's price or asking for some form of government support.

The Japanese government is considering the possibility of proposing increasing rice imports from the United States within the existing "minimum access" system in bilateral tariff talks.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman disclosed Malaysia's interest in importing rice from Indonesia due to elevated rice prices in the neighboring nation.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia’s Minister of Public Works, Dody Hanggodo

India’s wheat stocks rose 57% to a three-year high of 11.8 million tonnes at the start of the new agricultural year

Pakistan’s food exports rose by 1.62 percent to reach $5.75 billion during the first nine months of fiscal year 2024–25 (July–March)

Dhaka is importing the cereal at cheaper rates and exporting aroma rice to undercut New Delhi’s specialty rice, they argue

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) -Thai farmer Daeng Donsingha was already worried for her family of nine when rice prices in the world's second-largest exporter of the staple crashed this year after India resumed exports. 

Five kilograms of rice went for an average of ¥4,217 at supermarkets from April 7-13, up by ¥3 from the previous week, the agriculture ministry said Monday.

Rice exports dropped by 30% year-on-year in the first quarter to 2.1 million tonnes, an industry association said.

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's rice exports fell 30% annually in the first quarter of this year to 2.1 million metric tons, an industry association said on Monday.

A Japan-based company affiliated with South Korean agricultural cooperatives says it has imported rice from South Korea to Japan.

S Korea-Japan-rice exports

The Japanese government on April 9 announced that it would release another 100,000 tons of stockpiled rice onto the market

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is considering increasing its soybean and rice imports as a concession in trade negotiations with the U.S. over President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs

India, Pakistan, Thailand and China all have heavy concentrations of cadmium in arable soil, raising the risk of cancer and other diseases