rice shortage
Depleted paddy stores
A rice shortage is an insufficient supply of rice relative to demand, typically causing price increases and rationing.
Rice shortages can trigger political instability in regions where rice is a dietary staple: The rice shortage led to protests across Southeast Asia.
The term appears in news coverage, economic reports, and food security discussions.
- famineSevere food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- paddyFlooded rice-growing field
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
harvest · scarcity · rationing · stockpile · staple · crop · crop failure · fail · monsoon · Asia · bread · wheat · starvation · bread lines · food riots · import · export · granary
- rice industry
- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, famine victims, crop failure
- North KoreaPyongyang, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-il
- Indonesian RevolutionSukarno, proclamation, independence, anti-Dutch
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