According to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, the largest rice production in the world is dominated by Asian countries. With factors such as climate and geography, these countries are favored to ...
The recovery of Latin America’s production, particularly in the Mercosur block gave the world harvest a significant boost. The world rice production reached a new record in 2010, at 464 million ...
World rice production is projected at a record 421.2 million tons (milled basis) in 2007/08, up less than 1% from a year ago, while global rice trading is forecasted to reach 29.6 million tons ...
Floods have hit Bangladesh, the world's third-largest rice producer ... the significant loss of rice production has prompted the Bangladesh government to import 500,000 tons of rice.
PHILIPPINE rice imports amounted to 4.35 million metric tons (MMT) as of early December, the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) said. According to the BPI, rice imports as of Dec. 5 had surpassed the 3.61 ...
The NEPC has ramped up efforts to promote local rice production and eliminate the annual $480 million expenditure on importing millions of tonnes of rice.
THE Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI) said that the government needs to fund more crops beyond rice, citing food sufficiency concerns. In a briefing on Monday, PCAFI President ...