RP likely to miss export-rise targets
Japan, self-sufficient in rice, may export some of the grain it imported under a WTO agreement, alleviating a global supply shortage. Japan is in talks with the Philippines, the world’s largest importer of the grain, about shipments from Japan’s foreign rice stockpiles of about 1.2 million tonnes, a government official said in an interview in Tokyo. The official declined to be identified as discussions are informal. Rice supplies in the international market declined as exporting countries such as Vietnam and India restricted shipments, boosting prices of the staple for half the world’s...
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