02.11.2012 - China’s stealthy shake-up of rice market
China’s growing influence in the grain and oilseed market has been well covered in recent years, with the country’s increasing share of global corn, soybeans and (recently) wheat trade exhaustively scrutinized by market trackers. But less well publicized has been China’s emerging dominance in the rice market, brought about by soaring domestic prices which sparked a wave of import buying lately that has catapulted China from seventh to second in the world rice import rankings and altered the trade flow across Asia of one of the world’s most popular dietary staples...............................................Full Article: Source
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