date:Jul 21, 2014
he United States also exports Japonica, although market participants in South Korea said Chinese rice is closer in flavor to locally grown grain.
South Korea aims to produce 4.15 million tonnes of rice in the crop year that ends in October 2015, down 2 percent from a year earlier as the number of rice fields shrinks, a government official said in April. Its appetite for the grain is estimate at 4.07 million tonnes during the crop year.