本刊讯亚洲开发银行表示,亚洲国家应该降低大米贸易壁垒,稳定大米价格,减少出口限制,以防止出现引起2008年全球粮食危机的供应紧张局面。亚洲是全球大米产量和消费量最大的地区,在2007年至2008年的全球粮食价格上涨中受严重冲击。鉴于大米主要生产国印度今年雨季降水偏少,8月联合国粮农组织将今年的全球大米预期产量减少780万吨, According to the Asian Development Bank, Asian countries should reduce barriers to rice trade, stabilize rice prices and reduce export restrictions so as to prevent a supply shortage that will trigger the 2008 global food crisis. Asia, the world’s largest rice producer and consumer, has been severely hit by rising global food prices from 2007 to 2008. Given that India, the main producer of rice, receives less rainfall during the rainy season this year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations will reduce this year’s global expected rice production by 7.8 million tons,