Rice production, area, and yield; Imports and exports; Consumption and stocks; Modern rice varieties; Land use, irrigation, and farm size; Fertilizer use and prices; Population and labor force; Wages; Domestic prices; International prices and tariff and nontariff measures.

Rice production, area, and yield; Imports and exports; Food aida; Consumption and stocks; Domestic prices; World prices and tariff and nontariff measures; Land use, irrigation, and farm size; Population, labor force, and wages; Modern rice varieties; Fertilizer use and prices; Rice costs and returns.

This book sheds light on the causes and effects of food price policy during the development process by examining it in a variety of settings—in Asian countries that range from large to small, and include food importers and exporters, protectionists and free marketers, capitalists and socialists.