"All you need is panic buying from big importers such as millers or governments to create a crisis," said Abdolreza Abbassian, chief economist at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). "It is not a supply issue, but it is a behavioural change over food security," he told Reuters by phone from Rome, the FAO headquarters. That is what could lead to a global food supply crisis." World rice stocks are projected at 182.3 million tonnes as compared with 175.3 million tonnes a year ago. FOOD IN THE RIGHT PLACELogistics are likely to be a major global issue, analysts said.

Source: bd News24 March 21, 2020 05:15 UTC