THE country's rice imports surged to 2.3 million metric tons (MT) in the first six months of this year, marking a 24-percent increase compared to the previous year, data from the Department of Agriculture (DA) showed.
THE country's rice imports surged to 2.3 million metric tons in the first six months of this year, marking a 24-percent increase compared to the previous year, data from the Department of Agriculture showed.In its latest report, DA's Bureau of Plant Industry said that rice shipments for the January-to-June period were higher than the 1.8 million MT recorded in the same period last year.
The report also showed that Vietnam remained the country's top source of the staple during the period, shipping 1.71 million MT of rice or 74 percent of the total imports.Thailand delivered some 349,731 MT of rice, Pakistan followed with 151,318 MT, and some 66,120 MT came from Myanmar.The remaining volume, meanwhile, came from India, China, Japan, Cambodia, Italy and Spain.Last year, inbound shipments of the staple totaled 3.6 million MT, down 5.9 percent from the record high of 3.
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