Yuki Fukuda says as New Zealand’s appetite for rice increases, growing more of the staple crop here makes sense.
Fukuda is an ecologist who studied horticulture at Lincoln University.
She said growing rice locally will give NZ more food security for a crop which is currently entirely imported.
“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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