{"id":8485,"date":"2013-09-03T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=8485"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:27:57","slug":"panama-to-buy-half-a-million-tons-of-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/panama-to-buy-half-a-million-tons-of-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama to Buy Half a Million Tons of Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8486\" title=\"Lleg\u00f3 el arroz\/ Cortes\u00eda\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rice.jpg 500w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rice-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice production in Panama continues to decline and the cost of basic food goods continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>The government has announced that it will pay up to $45 per quintal in order to supply food to solidarity programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">The information was released by <span class=\"hlink\">Oscar MacKay<\/span>,  deputy director of the Institute of Agricultural Marketing (IMA),  adding that they currently have 1.3 million quintals in the national  inventory, which will be enough to meet the demand for a couple of  months.<\/p>\n<p>According to MacKay, the country consumes 20 thousand quintals of <span class=\"hlink\">rice<\/span> per day, representing about 154 pounds per capita. The official  explained that they will pay up to $45 for each quintal of rice.<\/p>\n<p>Panamaamerica.com.pa reports that &#8220;the offer to <span class=\"hlink\">purchase<\/span> this product locally means for the institution a payout of $22 million, which will go to the domestic rice industry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link_source\">Source: Panamaamerica.com.pa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice production in Panama continues to decline and the cost of basic food goods continue to rise. 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