Sentence examples for rice price from inspiring English sources
Only a tiny amount goes in food aid abroad.As the soaring rice price prompts a vicious circle of food shortages and export bans, that looks embarrassingly untenable.
The current ruling coalition in Thailand received the backbone of its support from rural areas, and Mr. Samak appears eager to capitalize on the rice price increase.
Our estimates show that for each degree (C) change in the August SSTA, there is a 1,318 thousand metric ton effect on paddy production in Indonesia and a $23/metric ton change in the world rice price.
The presentations were made by Norman Uphoff on SRI: An Available Response to Rice Price Hikes, Water Shortages, Climate Change and Rising Fuel Costs; by Shuichi Sato on Six Years of Experience of SRI Practice in Eastern Indonesia and Iswandi Anas on Some Highlights of SRI Research in Indonesia.
This ban, which has driven the domestic rice price higher than the global one, has actually pushed 1.5m people into poverty, according to the World Bank.Nor is that the only way in which Mr Yudhoyono could improve ordinary Indonesians' lives at no cost to the government.
So far rice prices remain subdued.
So, this increase in rice prices matters a lot.
Consider the 2008 Rice Crisis, when rice prices doubled in six months in developing countries.
Rice prices are listed by variety and by state, with historical trend data for select varieties.
But attempts to keep food prices below world levels have failed and rice prices have risen.
