Rice losing place on Asian plate as diets improve

                   
thestar.com.my     May 18, 2008            

By Niu Shuping and Mayank Bhardwaj BEIJING/NEW DEHLI (Reuters) - Rice prices have surged this year for many reasons, but unlike most other commodities, fast-growing Chinese and Indian demand isn't one of them. If Chinese rice demand follows the trend seen in wealthy Japan it could fall by half in... [read full story]                

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Rice losing place on Asian plate as diets improve (Reuters)

yahoo.com     May 18, 2008          

By Niu Shuping and Mayank Bhardwaj 1 minute ago BEIJING/NEW DEHLI (Reuters) - Rice prices have surged this year for many reasons, but unlike most other commodities, fast-growing Chinese and Indian demand isn't one of them. If Chinese rice demand follows the trend seen in wealthy Japan it could...                

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Release the Rice

washingtonpost.com     May 19, 2008          

AS PRICES rise on global commodity markets, U.S. agriculture policies that contribute to higher food costs are coming under fire -- especially subsidies for ethanol production. That criticism is warranted. But this country does not have a monopoly on irrational food policy. Consider Japan's rice...                

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Rice fast losing place on Asian plates

livemint.com     May 19, 2008          

Water shortages, shrinking arable land, climate change and population growth still pose major challenges Niu Shuping and Mayank Bhardwaj/ Reuters Beijing/New Delhi” Rice prices have surged this year for many reasons, but unlike most other commodities, fast growing Chinese and Indian demand isn’t...                

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Japan to send rice to Philippines in emergency relief

ibtimes.com     May 19, 2008          

TOKYO (AP) - Japan plans to send 200,000 tons of rice from its stockpile of imported rice as emergency exports to the Philippines, Kyodo News agency reported Monday. The Philippines -the world's top rice importer -has been struggling to secure sufficient rice supplies in the face of soaring...                

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Rice losing place on Asian plate as diets improve

independent-bangladesh.com     May 19, 2008          

Beijing/New Delhi, May 18 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Rice prices have surged this year for many reasons, but unlike most other commodities, fast-growing Chinese and Indian demand isn't one of them. With incomes rising in two countries where a third of the world's population consumes about half of...                

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Kudos to Tokyo and Washington on Rice Sales -- Et Tu, Thailand and India?

cgdev.org     May 19, 2008          

This post is joint with Tom Slayton, a rice trade expert and former editor of The Rice Trader Today in Tokyo, Japan's Vice Minister for Agriculture, Toshirou Shirasu, told reporters that Japan plans to export 200,000 tons of rice to the Philippines "as fast as possible." This confirmed sale comes...                

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Vietnam may limit future rice exports

vietnamnews.net     May 19, 2008          

HANOI -- Vietnam may permanently reduce rice exports by 2010 and beyond to ensure food security for its growing population, state media reports and government officials said on Monday. Outward shipments from the world's second largest rice exporter could be capped at 4.3 million tons a year by...                

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Pakistan Plans to Export 1 Million Tons of Rice

airamerica.com     May 20, 2008          

Rice prices eased after a record high in April because Pakistan, confident of meeting local demand, will export 1 million tons and it looks like other countries will follow suit. Pakistan, the fifth-biggest exporter, will permit shipments of 1 million metric tons because local needs have been...                

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Irrational policies feed world food crisis

ljworld.com     May 20, 2008          

We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. A new paper from the Center for Global Development describes how Japan’s government imports rice in order to comply with its global trade commitments but...                

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Wealthy Nations Aggravate Food Crisis

courant.com     May 20, 2008          

We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. Food prices have almost doubled in three years, threatening to push 100 million people into absolute poverty, undoing much of the development progress of the...                

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