The regime was greatly helped, however, by a postwar boom which gathered pace through the 1950s, fuelled by rice exports and U.S. aid.

In rural west Bengal, the Quit India Movement was fueled by peasants' resentment against the new war taxes and the forced rice exports.

They won't bring down those barriers to rice exports.

The government thus decided to impose the ban of rice export for months.

Java was famous for rice surpluses and rice export, and rice agriculture contributed to the population growth of the island.

By the 1950s, rice exports had fallen by two thirds and mineral exports by over 96%.

Although rice was abundant in Ayutthaya, rice export was banned from time to time when famine occurred because of natural calamity or war.

The relaxation of the state monopoly on rice exports transformed the country into the world's second or third largest rice exporter.

But competitively priced United States rice exports are barred from Japan.

Yet even as the volume of rice exports soar, the value has plummeted to $288 million.