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India's Rice Bins Are Stuffed And Another Record Crop Coming
India's stash of rice is running at the highest for this time in at least two decades, raising the risk it will run out of room to store it all as another record crop looms.
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Japan's Rice Crisis: Prices Soar, Supplies Dwindle And A Minister Resigns
Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the decades.
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Japan's Farm Minister Quits Over Insensitive Comment On Rice Prices
Japan's farm minister resigned after growing public outrage as he said he never buys rice due to free donations while the country faces soaring prices.
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Japan Is Grappling With Unprecedented Rice Shortage. Here's What Led To This
The threat of a "megaquake", a series of typhoons, and a week-long national holiday have some Japanese scrambling to buy rice -- the nation's cherished staple food -- with the government warning Tuesday against panic buying.
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Rice Shortage Panic Sweeps Across US As India's Export Ban Bites
India's export ban aims to ensure domestic availability and lower prices for consumers at home.
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Sri Lanka's Appeal To Farmers Amid Food Shortage: Plant More Rice
Sri Lanka wants farmers to plant more rice as part of plans to avert a severe food shortage, a top official said on Tuesday, as experts warned of a 50% drop in production that would worsen the impact of its already-severe financial crisis.
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Andhra Moves To Leverage Rice Exports At Time Of Global Shortage
Andhra Pradesh will use a deepwater port to export rice for the first time in decades amid a global shortage of the grain, according to a government order seen by Reuters, which could raise shipments this year by a fifth.
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Don't Grow Rice: Official Solution To Kashmir Rice Farmers' Water Crisis
Rice farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are in a bind over what to plant this season, following a prolonged dry spell in January and February. The state irrigation department has found a 'solution' to the water shortage -- it has asked farmers not to plant paddy this season as this crop needs a lot of water to grow
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Flooding Puts A Damper On US Rice Harvest
Heavy rain that brought record flooding to Louisiana recently has put a damper on the nation's harvest of rice, a food staple that usually likes water as it grows but can't be gathered by machine if fields are inundated.
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Food Handouts Prompt Row In Shortage-Hit Venezuela
Venezuelans facing severe food shortages might have been expected to welcome heavily subsidized bags of rice, milk and other staples -- but the controversy didn't take long to set in.
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In Venezuela election, food is a voting issue
Venezuelans complain that what goes into their Sunday dinner plate comes from abroad: Steak, from Brazil; plantains, the Dominican Republic; rice, South Africa; Parmesan cheese, Uruguay; oats, Chile. Even coffee, in a country famed for it, often is Colombian.
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India's Rice Bins Are Stuffed And Another Record Crop Coming
India's stash of rice is running at the highest for this time in at least two decades, raising the risk it will run out of room to store it all as another record crop looms.
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Japan's Rice Crisis: Prices Soar, Supplies Dwindle And A Minister Resigns
Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the decades.
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Japan's Farm Minister Quits Over Insensitive Comment On Rice Prices
Japan's farm minister resigned after growing public outrage as he said he never buys rice due to free donations while the country faces soaring prices.
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Japan Is Grappling With Unprecedented Rice Shortage. Here's What Led To This
The threat of a "megaquake", a series of typhoons, and a week-long national holiday have some Japanese scrambling to buy rice -- the nation's cherished staple food -- with the government warning Tuesday against panic buying.
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Rice Shortage Panic Sweeps Across US As India's Export Ban Bites
India's export ban aims to ensure domestic availability and lower prices for consumers at home.
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Sri Lanka's Appeal To Farmers Amid Food Shortage: Plant More Rice
Sri Lanka wants farmers to plant more rice as part of plans to avert a severe food shortage, a top official said on Tuesday, as experts warned of a 50% drop in production that would worsen the impact of its already-severe financial crisis.
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Andhra Moves To Leverage Rice Exports At Time Of Global Shortage
Andhra Pradesh will use a deepwater port to export rice for the first time in decades amid a global shortage of the grain, according to a government order seen by Reuters, which could raise shipments this year by a fifth.
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Don't Grow Rice: Official Solution To Kashmir Rice Farmers' Water Crisis
Rice farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are in a bind over what to plant this season, following a prolonged dry spell in January and February. The state irrigation department has found a 'solution' to the water shortage -- it has asked farmers not to plant paddy this season as this crop needs a lot of water to grow
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Flooding Puts A Damper On US Rice Harvest
Heavy rain that brought record flooding to Louisiana recently has put a damper on the nation's harvest of rice, a food staple that usually likes water as it grows but can't be gathered by machine if fields are inundated.
-
Food Handouts Prompt Row In Shortage-Hit Venezuela
Venezuelans facing severe food shortages might have been expected to welcome heavily subsidized bags of rice, milk and other staples -- but the controversy didn't take long to set in.
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In Venezuela election, food is a voting issue
Venezuelans complain that what goes into their Sunday dinner plate comes from abroad: Steak, from Brazil; plantains, the Dominican Republic; rice, South Africa; Parmesan cheese, Uruguay; oats, Chile. Even coffee, in a country famed for it, often is Colombian.
