THE country's rice imports reached 2.2 million metric tons (MMT) as of mid-June, up from last year's 1.8 million MT, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said.

The latest volume is about 400,000 MT higher compared to the quantity of rice imported a year earlier, Agriculture Assistant Secretary and spokesman Arnel de Mesa told reporters on Tuesday.

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