Australia has rice bumper crop

Rice growers have almost finished harvesting their best-yielding crop in years with production heading towards 200,000 tonnes and the average yield on completed crops around 11 tonnes to the hectare. The harvest looks set to more than triple last year’s 63,000 tonnes and is a big improvement on the 19,000 tonnes produced in 2008, which was the smallest since 1928. It is still well below the average annual crop of around 1.2 million tonnes before the drought set in from 2002.