Rice in Asia's Feed Markets

by Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky, Nathan Childs, and James Hansen

Long considered only a food grain, rice is increasingly used for livestock feed. To reduce high levels of government stocks, South Korea, Japan, and Thailand have released rice for feed use, affecting global feed grain markets. Researchers use ERS's baseline model to simulate the impacts on rice and feed grain markets if China, the world's largest rice producer and consumer, were to follow suit.

Keywords: rice, Asia, rice consumption, rice stocks, rice imports, feed rations

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