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Global Rice Prices Take A Tumble, Except In Bangladesh

Plenty of supply and hesitant buyers are dragging down rice prices across Asia, while Bangladesh faces rising costs at home despite a healthy harvest. Finimize Newsroom What’s going on here? Rice prices have dropped to multi-year lows across most of Asia, but Bangladesh is heading in the opposite direction, with local prices rising even after […]

Vietnamese rice exporters seek alternatives as Philippines considers extending import ban

Vietnamese rice exporters are seeking new export markets after the Philippines signaled the possibility of extending its rice import ban through the end of 2025. The Philippine Department of Agriculture recently announced that it may extend the rice import suspension through the end of 2025, beyond the previously stated period of September and October. This […]

Cuba Increases Rice Cultivation by 200,000 Hectares

By: Radio Angulo Cuba, on its path toward food sovereignty, will expand its rice-growing areas with the planting of 200,000 hectares of the crop next year. The agricultural sources in the archipelago reported today. The president of the Agricultural Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, Orlando Linares, reported in Mayari, a municipality in the eastern […]

Govt yet to decide on proposal to raise local white rice price to RM3.60/kg

By Iylia Marsya Iskandar, Nor Ain Mohamed Radhi KUALA LUMPUR: The government has yet to decide on the proposed increase in the price of local white rice from RM2.60 to RM3.60 per kilogramme. Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu said they are currently conducting an impact assessment on the proposal, including on […]

Sluggish textile sector, rice exports plunge: Q1 trade deficit balloons to USD9.4bn

Hamza Habib ISLAMABAD: Sluggish performance of the textile sector and a sharp decline in the rice exports are seen as factors mainly responsible for ballooning the trade deficit to USD 9.4 billion in the first quarter of 2025-26. According to detailed external trade figures issued by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the exports in the […]

How much is a bowl of rice? Why the challenges facing the world’s most popular foodstuff are coming to the boil

Elizabeth Mills, Writer, Forum Stories Who doesn’t eat rice? And that’s fundamentally the challenge. A staple foodstuff for more than half of the world’s population and an important one for much of the rest, rice is facing a tough outlook. Climate change both threatens existing production and creates wider issues for cultivation, including water conservation […]

Indonesia achieves rice self-sufficiency with 5 million-ton surplus

Tangerang, Banten (ANTARA) – Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan stated on Wednesday that Indonesia has successfully achieved rice self-sufficiency, with a projected surplus of 4 to 5 million tons this year. Based on data from the Statistics Indonesia (BPS), rice production in Indonesia is estimated to reach 33.19 million tons between January and […]

Jilin farmers use agricultural machines to harvest rice in golden autumn fields

By Han Junhong in Changchun and Zhou Huiying Farmers at Hongguang village in Jiutai district of Changchun, Jilin province, were looking forward to a bumper harvest when large harvesting machines recently started working their farmland. They harvested, sorted, dried, and stored the rice, creating a delightful scene in the golden autumn days. This year, rice […]

Pakistan’s rice growers complain of ‘unjustified deductions’ by millers

Source: Asia News Network Paddy harvesting started only last month in the lower Sindh region, and farmers — mostly small landholders — are already complaining about “unjustified deductions” by rice millers. While the Lower Sindh region has been growing restless for quite some time, the Sindh agriculture department has not yet offered any relief via […]

Việt Nam rice exports face pressure from Philippines ban

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture has signaled that the government will extend the ban on rice importation, originally set for September and October, until the end of this year in a surprise move that could pressure key suppliers including Việt Nam. HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam’s rice exports are expected to come under significant pressure […]