Malaysias Rice Imports
Malaysias rice
improts will increase slightly in 2000, aided by the countrys economic growth and
flat local production, industry sources said. Imports were expected to rise up to 700,000
tonnes this year compared with 650,000 in 1999. Imports stood at 593,000 tonnes in 1998 at
the height of the economic slowdown in the country of 22 million people, the sources said.
This years imports should increase to between 680,000 and 700,000. |
Market Update
(Foodgrains)
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