{"id":1120,"date":"2008-05-07T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T16:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2008-05-07T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T16:26:43","slug":"rice-and-cyclones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/05\/rice-and-cyclones\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice and cyclones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just after I do my post on the rice situation, a new twist. Myanmar was hit by that nasty weather, and that affects the rice trade.<\/p>\n

Here is what today’s WSJ <\/a>had to say about it:<\/p>\n

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The cyclone hit during a season when the country’s farmers are usually completing the smaller of two annual rice <\/p>\n

harvests. Earlier this year, state-run media said that Myanmar’s leaders were confident it could produce enough <\/p>\n

rice to feed the 53 million people of the country. Grain traders were expecting the country’s farmers to reap a <\/p>\n

bumper crop. In April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted Myanmar would produce 11.3 million metric<\/p>\n

tons of milled rice this year, roughly twice the usual U.S. production. U.S. Agriculture Department analysts had <\/p>\n

estimated Myanmar could double its foreign sales this year to 400,000 metric tons.<\/p>\n

Myanmar is one of the few countries that had planned to increase rice exports to cash in on high global prices: <\/p>\n

Many larger rice producers, including Vietnam and India, have restricted their exports to ensure their own supplies.<\/p>\n

Thailand, the world’s largest rice exporter, is one of the few big producers not to curtail rice sales. It is now taking <\/p>\n

on the lion’s share of supplying rice to other developing countries. Thai rice prices are now at $920 a metric ton. <\/p>\n

That’s down 10% from last week, but still almost three times as high as they were at the beginning of year.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Okay, that adds more info. But now, I have to know the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone.<\/font><\/p>\n

Wikipedia says <\/a>they are the same thing. Glad I got that straight.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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