“Rice prices keep rising while market activity stays sluggish, and many people are struggling to put food on the table,” a source in Ryanggang province told Daily NK By Seulkee Jang North Korean rice prices have settled around 12,000 won per kilogram after breaking the 10,000 won barrier for the first time on record. Meanwhile, […]
By Carah Hart Jarrod Hardke with the University of Arkansas tells Brownfield “when it starts raining April 15 and the lucky ones got a day here and there to plant the following eight weeks. That was the train we were on for two solid months.” Hardke says some of the rice acres went to prevent […]
Over 5.544 million metric tons of rice valued at $3.203 billion were exported during the 11 months of the current financial year, as compared to the exports of 5.5.593 million metric tons worth of $3.628 billion of the corresponding period of the last year. During the period from July-May, 2024-25, the rice exports decreased by […]
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN CNN — President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims is the country’s unwillingness to buy American-grown rice. “They won’t take our RICE, and yet they have a massive rice shortage. In other words, we’ll just be sending them […]
Japan All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost of the staple in the country is threatening to deal the government a blow at the ballot box. Shortages of the grain caused by a supply chain snarl-up have seen prices almost […]
