{"id":7616,"date":"2023-09-05T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2023-09-05T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:22:59","slug":"malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png 860w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is confident that white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local White Rice Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kuala Lumpur (VNA)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong>Malaysia<\/strong>\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM)\u00a0is confident that\u00a0white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local White Rice Programme.<br><br>Speaking at a press conference after surveying the supply of local white rice at Giant supermarket in Tampoi (Johor state) on September 5,\u00a0 KPKM Minister\u00a0Mohamad Sabu said several intervention steps have been taken through the programme, including directing rice millers to increase production by 20% as a short-term measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of engagement sessions with padi&nbsp;industry stakeholders will be held on September 7 to discuss methods and mechanisms for the recovery of rice production, he went on, adding that KPKM will clarify the methods and mechanisms with regard to the supply of local rice in the country,&nbsp;covering medium- to long-term solutions through these engagement sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohamad said the ministry\u2019s earlier initiatives, such as the Mini Sekinchan Smart Big Scale Padi&nbsp;Field project, are expected to help in the recovery of local rice production as the project can produce a massive harvest of&nbsp;11 tonnes of padi&nbsp;per hectare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistics from KPKM showed that the supply of local white rice is sufficient and&nbsp;has been maintained&nbsp;at the controlled price of 2.60 RM (about 56 US cents) per kilogramme since 2008, reflecting the ministry\u2019s efforts to&nbsp;restore rice production are in line with increased demand, following the hike&nbsp;in the price of imported rice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the impact of India&#8217;s decision to ban rice exports last July, the price of imported\u00a0<strong>rice<\/strong>\u00a0in the Malaysian market has increased from 2,350 RM per tonne to 3,200 RM per tonne, equivalent to an increase by 36% since September 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As rice produced in Malaysia only meets 70% of its\u00a0<strong>demand<\/strong>, the country\u00a0<strong>import<\/strong>s around 800,000 tonnes of rice annually from such countries as India, Vietnam, and Thailand and Pakistan.\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is confident that white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local White Rice Programme. Kuala Lumpur (VNA)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM)\u00a0is confident that\u00a0white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-rice-news"],"acf":{"enable_premium_overlay":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand - Rice News Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand - Rice News Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is confident that white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local White Rice Programme. Kuala Lumpur (VNA)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM)\u00a0is confident that\u00a0white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rice News Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-05T17:22:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-05T17:22:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"860\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"573\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Developer Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Developer Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Developer Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/person\/5bab6fa4a598696885d5615daac778dd\"},\"headline\":\"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-05T17:22:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-05T17:22:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/\"},\"wordCount\":350,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Global Rice News\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/\",\"name\":\"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand - Rice News Today\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-05T17:22:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-05T17:22:59+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png\",\"width\":860,\"height\":573},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/\",\"name\":\"Rice News Today\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Rice News Today\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ricenews-share-og.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ricenews-share-og.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Rice News Today\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/person\/5bab6fa4a598696885d5615daac778dd\",\"name\":\"Developer Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/7f4250de373ca51742ab7d6abe1e77b4.jpg?ver=1775773810\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/7f4250de373ca51742ab7d6abe1e77b4.jpg?ver=1775773810\",\"caption\":\"Developer Team\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/author\/techwise\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand - Rice News Today","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand - Rice News Today","og_description":"Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is confident that white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local White Rice Programme. Kuala Lumpur (VNA)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM)\u00a0is confident that\u00a0white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/","og_site_name":"Rice News Today","article_published_time":"2023-09-05T17:22:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-05T17:22:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":860,"height":573,"url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Developer Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Developer Team","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/"},"author":{"name":"Developer Team","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/person\/5bab6fa4a598696885d5615daac778dd"},"headline":"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand","datePublished":"2023-09-05T17:22:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-05T17:22:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/"},"wordCount":350,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png","keywords":["Global Rice News"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/","url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/","name":"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand - Rice News Today","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png","datePublished":"2023-09-05T17:22:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-05T17:22:59+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-21.png","width":860,"height":573},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/malaysia-strives-to-meet-domestic-rice-demand\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Malaysia strives to meet domestic rice demand"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/","name":"Rice News Today","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#organization","name":"Rice News Today","url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ricenews-share-og.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ricenews-share-og.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"Rice News Today"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/person\/5bab6fa4a598696885d5615daac778dd","name":"Developer Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/7f4250de373ca51742ab7d6abe1e77b4.jpg?ver=1775773810","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/7f4250de373ca51742ab7d6abe1e77b4.jpg?ver=1775773810","caption":"Developer Team"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev"],"url":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/author\/techwise\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}