New Market Study Published: Dried Processed Food in Colombia
In 2012, the Colombian government increased imports of rice by 35,000 tonnes from neighbouring Andean countries and 79,000 tonnes from the US. The imports are part of a plan to prevent rice shortages due to low output from domestic crops that may be impacted by a drier than usual summer and a long rainy season in 2012. Thanks to free trade agreements, this may lower the price of rice in the short term.
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