Indonesia’s Bulog extends timeframe for importing 500,000 tonne of rice.

Indonesia’s state food procurement agency, Bulog, will extend the timeframe for its plan to import 500,000 tonnes rice to June from February. Bulog will open a tender on March 21 to procure 80,000 tonnes of 5-15 percent broken rice from South Asian countries for May-June arrival. Bulog said it expects 420,000 tonnes of rice from Thailand, Vietnam and India to arrive by the end of March.