Replying to @afewbugs@social.coop
@afewbugs yeh, it's been going on for years.
India stopped shipping rice for a while, Japan has cut exports, Thailand threatened a complete ban on exports, and Vietnam have reduced exports. A mix of heavy exporters, and premium product exporters.
As a heavy rice eater, it's become difficult to get certain varieties (sona masouri is like gold these days), and others (all the Japanese) have near quadrupled in price