Are you hoarding rice? Are you aware of this taking place in your country?

I have not heard of anyone her stockpiling rice, I guess it has not hit home yet. We import all our foods, regretably. People are not really complaining, but they are vigilant as to what is happening.

I am not hoarding rice and in the US some of the store are limiting how many 50# bags you are allowed to buy. I am down to maybe just one cup of rice myself. I have increased rice in the house because I can't afford to buy a lot of other foods to go with meat and I will eat the rice and leave the other food for my boys and whatever friends that they bring with them that are hanging out with them.

Well I do have one extra bag more than I normally would but I wouldnt call it hoarding lol. I love my rice but im not gonna worry too much about it right now. I can live without it.

I'm quite surprised that even there in Canada, people are hoarding rice; to think that it is not a third world country. Here in the Philippines, it has been more than a month since this rice shortage problem started. People have to line up to NFA (National Food Authority) caravans in order to purchase a limited number of kilos of rice for their daily consumption. It has come to a point that several measures have been made just to limit the release of cheaper rice to the consumers. Some cities require that buyers should first present their cedulas or identification cards before rice is sold to them. Other cities prohibit children to line up and buy rice. Lining up twice or thrice a day is also discouraged. In addition, the country has already imported millions of tons of rice from other rice-producing countries.

i had not heard about this until now. this kind of thing is scary to me because there are so many people and if there are food shortages what will happen next? some people will panic and start hoarding as you mentioned and that is not a good thing. i just find there are so many unsettling things going on in the world that i cannot really even think about it because it just worries me.

Hello... so far here in korea, we are not experiencing that crisis. But, my family in the Philippines..Yes. I just talked to my mother yesterday. She asked me a favor if I can increase her allowance,..you know why? It's because of the sudden price hikes of the rice. The less quality rice is now costing P34.00 if I am not mistaken. My mother said that most of the rice dealers are hoarding rice in hope for more increase with the rice price. The government is also helping to lessen this problem by supplying NFA rice. Yes it is cheap...but....wawawohh..you just have to bear with the taste.

I had heard something or the othere on the news about it but never paid any attention to it.. I am not that crazy about rice and have about 4 bags of it now, so even it there isn't any more rice, then I still think that I will be ok with it.. Maybe I need to buy a couple more bags, hummm

I'm not too sure about how things are in Malaysia - we're a rice producer but even then we still import some in from Thailand and India - but from what dad tells me, the prices have gone up and automatically, knowing the general Malaysian as I do, they would try to hoard bags of it so yes, I would assume that there are restrictions imposed on how many 10/15/20 kilo bags you can buy per family. It's not even done per person because they'll get their children in on the deal and try to pass that off as per person. =.= Anyway, here in Switzerland, things look pretty normal - that's why I didn't even knew that there was an issue on rice hoarding. Rice is still being sold regularly and at the usual price. Occasionally, it goes up on sale (the whole "buy two for the price of one") and when it does, I'll just get some. Which is probably why I ended up with 4 kiloes of rice this time instead of the usual 2. No, I don't hoard. Hoarding just makes things worse. Then again, I know of some people who just simple cannot survive without rice. On the side, this was months ago - my step-father-in-law and my mother-in-law are from France and they are not exactly staple rice eaters. So when they came back from the shop with a 10 kilo bag of rice (trust me, for two people, it's A LOT!), I was shocked! Because in Malaysia, even my parents and myself don't take that much rice. The reason? It was on sale. But I was like "you don't even eat rice as a staple...." I think people are hoarders by nature sometimes. =.=

The large warehouse stores in my area have put a limit on the number of large bags of rice you can buy. I have heard reports on the news of restaurants stockpiling rice in preparation for a severe shortage. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the small or medium size bags but I bought a couple of bags to keep in the pantry "just in case". I've also stocked my freezer with meat because I've noticed shortages of different cuts of beef and pork. Along with that, prices are rising so I may be able to save some money in the future by stocking up now.