Preempting a Rice `War'

TWO days before leaving for Italy, Minister of Trade & Industry Rini Soewandi signed an important ministerial decree: a rice business administration system. This decree bans rice imports for one month prior to the main rice harvest, during the main harvest period itself, and for two months afterwards. In other words, with the main harvest lasting a period of three months, during (more or less) half the year no rice from overseas is allowe

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