Now that I thought about it, maybe she was an innocent victim just some old woman selling rice to the wrong side.
One day rich countries may finally allow poor farmers to sell them beef, sugar or rice.
We buy all those Toyotas from Japan, and then try to sell them rice, and come up short, no?
"I'd rather not vote," said Rolando Pataggalan, who sells rice in the central marketplace.
Under the program, the Government said it would allow farmers to sell American rice and cotton at world market prices.
In the past, the law generally allowed only rice shops to sell rice.
To raise money, the daimyo used forward contracts to sell rice that was not even harvested yet.
Uneducated herself, she said she had put three children through school on her earnings selling rice.
And in China, it is illegal to sell genetically modified rice on the open market.
The town had a surplus but the local leader refused to sell rice to Andriamasinavalona, claiming none was available.