TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...
The covid-19 pandemic created a spike in global rice prices in the second quarter of 2020, according to a new University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture report. Since then, rice prices have ...
Prices of staple grains rice and wheat have gained recently as the coronavirus outbreak is limiting labor availability and prompting countries to stockpile even though overall supplies are ample.