The Financial Times reports that two of the world’s biggest grain exporting countries have halted exports.
“Biggest grain exporters halt foreign sales”
By Javier Blas in London, Isabel Gorst in Moscow and Lindsay Whipp in Tokyo
The global food crisis intensified on Tuesday as Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest wheat exporters halted foreign sales and rice prices shot to a record high after Indonesia stopped its farmers from selling the grain abroad. (more…)