Peter Storey

While the delicate networks which make up the global food supply chain have been rocked by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, most notably lockdowns and freight shortages, rice prices have lar

With harvesting due to commence later in the first quarter of 2022, Australia is poised to make a comeback as a major Japonica rice exporter this year.

The EU Commission s Directorate General for Trade has confirmed to S&P Global Platts expectations that the EU s import tariffs on Myanmar and Cambodian long grain white rice will revert to zero from J

An influx of both domestic and international feed demand in the Asian rice market has curbed broken rice availability, narrowing the spread between head and broken rice grades considerably.

Sources in the California rice market are reacting with increasing concern to the prospect of a historically small crop this year, on the back of an already disappointing 2021 harvest.

The US rice industry is looking on with increasing apprehension as the crisis in Haiti continues to worsen, threatening US market share in this key destination.

Flash floods in Cambodia have inundated much of the country s rice fields in recent days, according to market sources.