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Putrajaya: Malaysia has sufficient rice stock to last two and a half months.
— BFM News (@NewsBFM) March 27, 2020
This comes after Vietnam, the third-largest rice exporter, said it will not sign new rice export contracts until March 28 to ensure sufficient domestic supplies pic.twitter.com/LjNJ5xDDuD
The Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry told Reuters: "Bernas acted early to secure rice export contracts until May 2020 from Vietnam even though it was at a high price. Our next step is to also purchase rice from other countries including Pakistan, India, Myanmar & Thailand."
— BFM News (@NewsBFM) March 27, 2020
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Food security fears are starting to threaten Asian rice exports – Bloomberg https://t.co/dWUtXYR9cX
— The Edge Malaysia (@theedgemalaysia) April 1, 2020
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Despite Vietnam’s rice export ban, Malaysia rice stock is stable at 523,000 tonnes on top of incoming imports from Thailand, Pakistan, Myanmar, India, and Cambodia.- @moaMalaysia pic.twitter.com/MfYDt0IMkx
— Mei Mei Chu (@meixchu) March 28, 2020
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