The military council’s arrest of rice entrepreneurs has not yet ended. Unbelievable people are being arrested and some mills in the area have been shut down. To make matters worse, the War Council set a price to sell rice at the reference price. The price they set is 30,000 to 80,000 kyats higher than the market price. As a recent consequence, rice and oil are no longer sold by large supermarkets, and they have started to take them down. City Market Big supermarkets such as Capital sell rice, The counters are now empty. The military council said that they would sell a household at a price set by them. How much will that cost? At the time of oil, at first, they sold only one pint at their price. Now I don’t even want to be fifty.
Although the military council is forcing rice, which is the country’s staple food, domestically, it is not reducing exports. It is planned to export up to two million tons of rice this year. About half of the rice growing area has already been destroyed. At this time, if the military council, which desperately needs dollars, tries to export rice, the people will only die of starvation.
