Sentences with phrase «rice imports»

That year, the USA Rice Federation reported Guatemala as a «net importer of U.S. rice, averaging some 70,000 metric tons of rice imports annually — about 80 percent of the country's total demand.»
«They are applying for permission to include it in the Code to prevent any trade issues, in the event small amounts of the rice inadvertently end up in shipments of other rice imported into Australia.»
Rice farmers across Asia work hard to produce rice for Singapore and other countries that depend on rice imports to meet national demand for the grain.
Rice imports for example, rose by 52 % from 395,400 metric tonnes in 2008 to over 600,000 metric tonnes in 2015.
«The next PNC government will boost agriculture to reduce the nation's rice import bill by 50 %.
Mahatma Jasmine Rice is a long grain exotic rice imported directly from Thailand.
Speaking of diabetes, didn't Taubes in Good Calories, Bad Calories mention that diabetes came to India when Indians started eating rice imported from Thailand etc..
By switching to brown rice, the Philippines could eliminate rice imports and enhance food sovereignty.
Rice imported from Asian countries, especially India and Thailand, also tends to show arsenic levels well below anything considered significant or worrisome.
When news broke about the contamination, all rice imports from Hunan were banned in Guangdong Province, formerly the largest domestic consumer of Hunan - grown rice.
The result is that our rice import from Thailand alone has dropped from 644 metric tonnes to 22,000 MT in just two years.
What is worse is they failed to mention that rice imports rose from 425,390 metric tonnes in 2008, to 630,200 in 2015,» Dr. Afriyie Akoto added.
Towns and cities are highly dependent on wheat and rice imports, but cereals represent less than a third of what urban households consume.
For example, by our calculations, with a switch to brown rice, the Philippines (one of the world's top rice importers) could eliminate rice imports and enhance food sovereignty.
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