The largest rice exporter in the world is India, followed by Vietnam and Thailand. According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam’s 5% broken rice has been the most expensive in the world since August of the previous year, surpassing competitors Thailand and India.
Export bans had been imposed on select agricultural commodities in the previous year by Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry (MinAF) in a bid to control skyrocketing food inflation, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)’s 14th March report said.
On 22nd March 2023, Ahmed Samir, the Minister of Trade and Industry in Egypt, announced a three-month ban on all forms of sugar exports, with the exception of amounts that exceed local market requirements.
Located in Asia, Thailand, the third largest rice exporter in the world after India and Vietnam, has raised its rice export target for the current year from 7.5 million tonnes to 8 million tonnes, reflecting an approximate increase of 7 percent, a senior government official familiar with the subject matter cited on 22nd of March, 2023.
The largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia is the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (also referred to as Burma until 1989). Laos and Thailand border it to the east and southeast, China to the northeast, Bangladesh and India to the northwest, the Andaman Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest.
The Union Minister for Road and Transport, Mr. Nitin Gadkari, is scheduled to launch a number of road projects totaling INR 13,299 crore in Jharkhand on March 23. According to information provided by the regional office of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the projects will cover a total of 752 km.
In accordance with the government’s “Waste to Wealth” mission, the state-owned National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) announced on 15th March that it has begun using steel slag in road construction on a trial basis. When molten steel is separated from impurities in steel-making furnaces, steel slag, a by-product of the process, is formed. Copper, steel, and aluminum are just a few of the refined metals found in slag. Slag keeps highways from breaking or changing shape over time because of its durability. Additionally, slag hinders corrosion.
After ducking anxiety caused by rising temperatures and heatwaves, estimations of India’s bumper wheat harvest on grounds of increased acreage and cold winter have again got clouded by concerns over unexpected showers and hailstorms.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, there is a significant opportunity for Vietnamese businesses to increase exports due to the Middle East and Africa’s high demand for fruits and vegetables.
There are about 6,000 different varieties of millets available worldwide. Millets can be grown in arid and semi-arid regions, unlike wheat, rice, and corn because they don’t require good soil or a lot of water to grow. More than a billion people around the world also rely on millet as a great source of protein and energy. Worldwide, Indonesia, Belgium, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Italy, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the Netherlands are the top importers of millets.
