[QUOTE="Musburger1,
Those imports are at risk. Another threat is that those nations and others will take steps to protect their own food supplies... Vietnam, the world’s third-largest supplier of rice,
suspended exports of those products... [/QUOTE]
Well, Arkansas is good for at least one thing: massive rice production. Globally, the Asians dominate in rice.
Largest rice producing nations:
1 India 43.20
2 China 30.35
3 Indonesia 12.16
4 Bangladesh 12.00
5 Thailand 9.65
6 Vietnam 7.66
7 Burma 6.80
8 Philippines 4.50
9 Cambodia 2.90
10 Pakistan 2.85