by Ethan Huff, Natural News:
As if food inflation was not already bad enough, the world’s second-largest rice producer, India, just ordered a halt on all further exports of its largest rice category, fueling fears of more food shortages and even more food inflation around the world.
The Indian government announced that all non-basmati white rice will have to stay in India, this after rice prices had already climbed three percent in a single month. Heavy monsoon rains also caused significant damage to northern India’s rice crops, we are told, which is why the government does not want the rice that remains to leave the country’s borders.