Thai drought may hit proce of rice

10June 2010
The world’s largest rice exporter, Thailand is facing major losses to its next crop of rice and a water crisis because of the worst drought in nearly two decades.
There is only a little impact on Singapore due o Singapore imports as much as 80 per cent of its rice from Thailand but importers here are not worried about supply shortages. Mr Andrew Tan, who is the association, says there are enough safeguards in place here to ensure sufficient supple of rice. Singapore also had other suppliers. Aside from Thailand, the rest of the rice in Singapore is imported from countries such as Vietnam, Myanmar and china. Last year, trade promotion body IE Singapore announced that it would enhance its rice supply monitoring system to counter the possibility of a price increase caused by shortfalls in imports from Thailand.

This article appears to me because we need to eat rice everyday so I wonder what happen to the rice. Is it will increase the selling price?

There is no writer point of view.

I would like to ask the writer so will Singapore continue to import Thailand rice?

If I would in charge I don’t think I can do anything.