Rice: The Primary CommodityRice: The Primary Commodity de-mystifies the trade, outlines its workings and the problems which confront it. |
Contents
RICE AND RICES | 2 |
IRRIGATION AND CULTIVATION | 10 |
MILLS AND MILLING | 20 |
TRADE AND COMMERCE | 27 |
BROKERS AND TRADERS | 35 |
COUNTRIES AND POLICIES | 46 |
Pakistan | 50 |
Bangladesh | 51 |
China | 68 |
North Korea | 78 |
South Korea | 79 |
Japan | 80 |
Australia | 82 |
United States of America | 83 |
Brazil | 89 |
Uruguay | 90 |
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Agriculture America American rice Argentina Asia Bangladesh Barker basmati Bray Brazil BULOG Burma cent brokens cent of world CEROILS China companies consumers continued contract countries crop cultivated Development farmers farms fertiliser flooding foreign grades grain Grist growing grown harvest high quality rice HYVs import rice increased India Indonesia inputs international rice IRRI Japan Japanese land Latham London Rice Brokers long-grain major rice Malaysia medium-grain Mekong delta metric tons metric tons 000 milled rice millers million metric tons million tons Ministry Myanmar paddy Pakistan parboiled rice Philippines programme purchase quota Rice Brokers rice exports rice market rice prices rice production rice trade Roche schemes Second World Second World War seed self-sufficiency sell shortage Siamwalla and Haykin South Korea Sri Lanka subsidised supplies surplus Swaminathan 1984 Thai rice Thailand tonnes Uruguay varieties Vietnam Vinafood wheat world market world rice world trade