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...In Thailand, the world’s number two exporter of rice and sugar, temperatures in April reached the highest on record for the country at 43C....
...With rice farmers furious at massive food imports, Marcos Jr has cited his father’s Masagana 99 state-backed credit programme, which helped rice farmers increase their harvests but eventually burdened many...
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...Traditional crops such as sugar or rice, which are water-intensive, no longer make much economic sense. The water shortages are a nationwide problem....
...After the war, he co-founded Kuok Brothers with his older brothers and a cousin, trading in rice, wheat and sugar. He went on to gain control of Malaysia’s sugar industry....
...Mr Kuok established himself as a commodities trader after World War II, trading in essential foods including rice, sugar and wheat flour....
...Alongside the River Krishna sits Amaravati, an ancient Buddhist pilgrimage site that until recently was home to thousands of acres of fertile farms growing bananas, sugar cane, cotton, rice, spices and vegetables...
...When they feel peckish, the products on offer now are far more diverse than the traditional biscuit — rice cakes, cereal bars, fruit bars.”...
...It was also a time of bitter trade fights between countries over everything from cars and rice to sugar and semiconductors. “What was the result of that?” asked the official. “The WTO....
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...Fed with sugar, the micro-organisms grow to produce proteins that are turned into fibres through a special spinning process....
...One big potential change from TPP would be a reduction in Japan’s tax on imported rice (778 per cent) and sugar (328 per cent), levies that have forced foodmakers to make sake, rice cakes and other snacks...
...Dreyfus, the world’s largest rice and raw cotton trader, has changed its business model so that it more closely resembles a publicly listed company....
...These would be wheat, milk, coffee, orange juice, sugar and pork, with beans and eggs on the side, perhaps....
...Operating profits at the division, which buys and sells commodities including cotton, sugar, coffee and rice, fell 13 per cent last year because of weaker prices and high inventories....
...Japan wants to retain tariffs on rice, wheat, beef and pork, sugar, and dairy products, amid strong concern from the domestic agricultural industry....
...Once the onions are caramelised, add the rice, pepper, butter and the additional half-teaspoon of salt to the frying pan and stir to coat the rice all over....
...Sugar is a second area of focus, after grains, given Cofco’s roster of processed food brands. In 2011 it bought Tully Sugar, an export sugar mill operator in Australia....
...The US is not alone in protecting sugar. Economists dub sugar, rice and milk the “rice pudding commodities” for their heavy government support....
...Wilmar, a Singapore-listed group and the world’s largest processor of palm oil by volume, told beyondbrics it planned to make “significant investments” focusing on rice, fertilisers, sugar and vegetable...
...More importantly, it has also led to a sharp rise in soft commodity prices such as rice and sugar....
...However, a general buoyancy in commodities meant that it made money in each of its six main segments, spanning logistics to “living essentials” such as sugar, rice and cement....
...Nonetheless, traders continue to believe the price of foods such as corn, beef or rice could rise to new records as production falls short....
...It expects demand in other Asian markets to continue rising as farmers seek to capitalise on high prices for crops such as palm oil, sugar, rice and rubber....
...Traders said that Jakarta, which usually buys rice in 200,000-tonne allotments, tendered for more than 800,000 tonnes. Bangladesh said it would double rice purchases this year....
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