Indonesia's National Food Agency (Bapanas) aims to increase government rice reserves to 2 million tonnes by the end of this year as rice demand is expected to rise in the last months of the year.

Indonesia may procure another 500,000 tonnes of rice from abroad this year to fill up the diminishing government rice reserves, the Trade Ministry has said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has asked the Government to resume rice exports. However, the export volume would be limited at 800,000 tonnes for April and May.

Thailand’s plan to sell off more than 11 million tonnes of rice reserves will not impact Vietnam’s rice exports, according to several exporters in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.