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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1270/
- Published: 2025-08-12T18:30:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-12T18:30:20.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Yuki Fukuda says as New Zealand’s appetite for rice increases, growing more of the staple crop here makes sense.  
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> Fukuda is an ecologist who studied horticulture at Lincoln University.  
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> She said growing rice locally will give NZ more food security for a crop which is currently entirely imported.  
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> “There’s zero commercial production in NZ, so we are importing about $95 million worth of rice from overseas, which equates to about 85,000 tons, which is a lot of rice being imported, and there’s emissions with the transport as well.”  
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> NZ Herald

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