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The Department of Agriculture chief stated in a briefing that despite the effects of El Niño, rice production in the Philippines will increase for the first quarter. He also assured the continuous procurement of rice buffer stock.

Beer typically uses malted barley as its primary ingredient but a study conducted by a graduate student in the University of Arkansas, along with the aid of a Food Science chemist, displayed that rice malt can also play a part in beer brewing.

Academics at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food found that many low and middle-income countries are at risk of serious health issues from using the outdated World Health Organization limit for inorganic arsenic water to cook rice.

The Indonesian government is running temporary bazaars to offer subsidized rice to the country’s less fortunate communities.

Both branches of the Philippine Congress has approved the budget allocation for the rice discount vouchers program for the indigent population. DSWD will be the key implementing agency.

A team of researchers from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cornell University has come up with a program that helps New York state farmers learn how to grow rice. With climate change intensifying year by year, CCE hopes that the rice growing program can help not only NYS farmers but the environment as well.

Cebuanos can now buy rice from the National Food Authority for only 20 pesos per kilo thanks to the Sugbo Merkadong Barato pop-up market program by the Cebu Provincial Government.

A lecturer from the Department of Finance and Economics at the Manchester Metropolitan University wrote a letter addressing the groundwater situation in Punjab, India. In the letter, he urges the world leaders to take action in order to ensure food security.

Global rice prices are still on the rise, and with export bans in India, rice-consuming countries are being pushed to seek self-sufficiency by investing in agricultural research and increasing support for domestic farmers.

India’s ban on rice exports has impacted the global rice market. With food security threatened, the world is preparing for the most significant shortage of rice in 20 years, but many believe the shortage to be ‘artificial.’