AGRICULTURE
As stockpiled rice rots, El Niño threatens more damage
16/06/2015
Bloomberg News agency
Rice grain stored in a warehouse at Wat Bot in Phitsanulok, Thailand, is found to have decomposed into a powder, public auditors said. Dead rats and pigeons were also found on the site. (Post Today file photo)
A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Niño arrives to parch paddies across Asia.