[hennie pennie]

I wonder if similar conditions are creating massive rice crop failures in other major rice exporting countries?

Has anyone heard anything about rice shortages or rice riots or rice futures?

Were, perhaps, so many extra acres planted that there will end up being NO actual rice shortage, that supply will actually meet the demand?

[muawiyah]

There is an ongoing rice shortage. The Chinese ceased rice exports which did lead to stability overall.

Remember, if the big guy on the block doesn't do something, the little guys get crushed. With China literally out of the export market, all the smaller countries further South in East Asia had a free hand.

Thailand overplanted. They'll recover. This part of the world has more than one crop a year anyway.

Viet Nam has heretofore produced more rice for export than any other country. They do quite well growing bamboo and rice.

[nw_arizona_granny]

There are always countries with rice disease, check promedmail.org for the countries currently with food problems, due to crop failure.