Northern Vietnam is loading 290,000 ton shipment for Iraq, and another 195,000 tons for Cuba. Meanwhile, Thailand hopes for big sales to North Korea, Indonesia, Philippines. In 1958, a third of all goods passing through the Port of New Orleans went to Cuba. This Year India's rice stocks are now 11.4 million metric tons. Some farmers have committed suicide because the government has not been able to buy their crops.
Thai traders ask.
Californians Build Homes with Rice Straw Bales California has more than 250 energy efficient rice straw-bale structures, more than double a few years ago. Rice straw use is growing steadily. Continues Bioengineered rice, with daffodil gene to enhance vitamin A content, offers children in poor countries hope from blindness. But others question that golden promise. Future looks gloomier with end of government's 6-year relief package to help farmers after 1993 Uruguay Round of free trade negotiations.