Rice stocks with FCI have surged to over 53 MT four times the buffer despite record open market sales, ethanol supply, and welfare allocations. Robust procurement and high output raise storage concerns as fresh paddy arrivals begin from October under the 2025-26 season. Written by Sandip Das The government’s central-pool rice stocks continue to surge […]
Tim Kim aT spend $17 million to import rice from Asian countries. South Korea’s state-run Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. (aT) has purchased more than 45,000 tons of rice through an international tender, foreign media reported on Aug. 25. According to the reports, aT agreed earlier this month to import a total of 45,200 […]
By TED CORDERO, GMA Integrated News The Department of Agriculture (DA) is proposing to require rice importers to share the responsibility of maintaining the country’s rice buffer stock through an amendment to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL). The DA, citing a recent Senate Committee on Agriculture hearing, said on Tuesday that Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu […]
Global rice markets are bracing for turbulence after reports that India, the world’s largest rice exporter, is preparing to release around 20 million tonnes of stockpiled rice in September. The move is aimed at clearing storage space for the new harvest season, with the government planning to purchase fresh crops from local farmers. According to […]
Khmer Times The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has outlined urgent measures to address challenges in the rice market during Cambodia’s early harvest season, pledging that no farmer will be left without buyers for their paddy. In a statement released on social media, Secretary of State Yang Saing Koma said the problems faced by […]
Subhro Niyogi & Krishnendu Bandyopadhyay / TNN Following India’s lift on the rice export ban to Bangladesh on August 12, and Dhaka’s subsequent duty-free import announcement, rice prices in Bengal and other Indian regions have surged. The Bangladesh government’s decision to ease inflation by removing import duties triggered a rapid increase in exports from India, […]
Thai rice prices set to plunge as India plans to unload 20m tonnes from stockpiles, undercutting global market rates and hurting Thai farmers, warns exporter. The Thai Rice Exporters Association has warned that Thai rice prices are likely to plunge further next month after the Indian government moves to unload 20 million tonnes of rice […]
SYED FATTAHUL ALIM Inflation rate in Bangladesh, which was 8.55 per cent in July, marked a 0.07 percentage point increase from that of June. However, the government in its budget for FY2025-26 expressed the hope that the inflation rate could be brought down to 6.5 per cent sometime in FY26. Whatever the future expectations, considering […]
Central agency has procured just 15.18 lakh tonne rice against 26 lakh tonne. Bijoy Pradhan BHUBANESWAR: Sitting over a surplus stockpile of 23 lakh tonne custom-milled rice (CMR), and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) not lifting its quota from the millers, the state government is left in a spot of bother. Faced with storage […]
By Emma Joyce F. Guillermo LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte (PIA) – Farmers in Ilocos Norte can now buy rice for only P20 per kilo under the government’s “Benteng Bigas Meron Na” program, marking the first time in the Ilocos Region that farmers became its direct beneficiaries. The program, jointly implemented by the National Food Authority […]
