As it has with other crops, including cotton, corn and wheat, China is fast becoming the 800-pound gorilla in the world’s rice markets. Based on what’s happened in recent years, China is now the top producer, top consumer, top stockholder, top importer and a rising exporter of rice. One thing to note, as was highlighted in the February 2018 Grain World Market and Trade Report, is China has strengthened its importance in global rice trade not only as an importer but now strikingly also as an exporter