PETALING JAYA: The chairman of a government committee on food prices has poured cold water on a proposal to allow the sale of mixed-grade rice in the local market as a solution to the shortage of ...

the ministry wishes to clarify that the retail price of local white rice remains at RM2.60 per kg as stated under the Rice (Price and Grade) Order 2008 as well as the Control of Padi and Rice Act ...

He said this when revealing that the ministry was conducting a study on a proposal to allow the sale of mixed-grade rice in the local market.

Of the total rice harvested in Japan by the end of this September, only 59.6 percent met the standards to be classified as first-grade rice. That’s down 16 percentage points compared to rice ...