Consumers select rice products made from potatoes. ZHANG SHUNFU/FOR CHINA DAILY In a factory in Qiaojia county, Yunnan province, China's first production line for brown, protein-rich rice made ...

Currently, imported white rice retails for between RM38 to RM45 per 10kg bag. With this adjustment, a 10kg pack of imported white rice could go down to RM35.

Muniyappa said for 2023-24, the state needed 27.48 lakh metric tonnes of rice. When the state government appealed to supply rice for Rs 34.60 a kg, the Centre did not, although it had adequate stocks.