Unofficial rice exports (excluding premium white rice and fragrant rice) for August 19-September 1, 2013 totaled 43,172 MT, down 23,403 MT from the previous week and 15,562 MT from the four-week moving average of 58,834 MT. Exports of white rice and parboiled rice from January 1 through
September 1, 2013 totaled 2,149,341 MT, down 35 percent from 3,300,515 in the same period of 2012. (Table 2).
Total rice exports (including premium white rice and fragrant rice) from January 1 through June 30, 2013 amounted to 3,059,337 MT, down 12 percent from 3,470,642 MT in the same period of 2012.
