Countries with tropical climates, like Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone, should be exporting, not importing, rice.
At times, Japan has even exported subsidized rice at lower, world market prices.
The new state derives its income by trade: importing spices and exporting rice to Malacca and the Maluku Islands.
The military regime says nothing about the rice crisis, but continues to export rice at the same rate.
Sri Lanka sometimes exports rice to its neighboring countries.
For the first time, Vietnam has begun to export rice instead of importing it.
Kindu's farmers used to export bananas, wood, rice and peanuts.
There are few exporters mainly exporting fish and fish products, rice, scrap metal and timber to various countries.
Here he built a thriving commercial enterprise, exporting rice, spices and beef, and importing weapons and textiles.
That high a level of imports should open the door for California to export rice to Japan for the first time since the early 1970's.