date:Jul 18, 2014
and also wants to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.
Officials at the agriculture ministry have said, however, that rice would be excluded from any free trade agreements.
South Korea aims to produce 4.15 million tonnes of rice in the crop year that ends in October 2015, down 2 percent from a year earlier as the number of rice fields shrinks, a government official said in April. Its appetite for the grain is estimate at 4.07 million tonnes during the crop year.
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