Global Rice Price Crunch

Lucrezia Cogliati, Agribusiness Analyst, BMI

19-Sep-25 07:30

Pause
Embed

Global rice prices have fallen to their lowest level in eight years, with the UN’s All Rice Price Index shedding 24% in August compared with the same period last year. Helping us make sense of what’s shaping global rice markets is Lucrezia Cogliati, Agribusiness Analyst from BMI.

Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

Produced by: Natalie Tan

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar, Elaine Boey, Keith Kam

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories: markets, economy, international

Tags: rice price, harvests, global rice markets, economic slowdown, india,

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) Jacinta Lim, Co-Founder, Seek Sophie, on how she curates hidden-gem experiences across Asia for the travel platform.

1:00 PM

A Bit of Culture

(REPEAT) Kam, Dhanya and Vernon get together to talk about reality TV, lessons and cultural resilience.

2:00 PM

Ringgit & Sense

(REPEAT) Siew Yuen Tuck, co-founder of Ringgitplus talks about some findings from RMFLS 2025.

2:30 PM

The Property Show

(REPEAT) Rueben Teoh, founder of the Fire Preventors Society shares key tips to prevent and respond to fires at home.

3:00 PM

Best of The Bigger Picture

(REPEAT) We speak to Dr Lee Hwok-Aun from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute about the good, the bad and the ugly of the government’s Budi95 fuel plan.

4:00 PM

Best of Evening Edition

(REPEAT) We speak to an expert in extreme physiology about what happens to the human body when we leave Earth’s atmosphere.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Life Scientific features the late Jane Goodall, in an interview that was previously aired in 2020.

PROGRAMMES