Paddy| The Philippines, one of the world's biggest rice importers.

The Philippines, one of the world's biggest rice importers, is set to end purchases of the grain for this year's requirements. The state grains agency, has standby authority to buy up to 500,000 tonnes more of the grain. That's on top of the purchases totaling at least 1.8 million tonnes over the last 10 months which is  the biggest in four years.