The surge in demand for wholegrain rice here about three years ago caught the Thai exporters by surprise, resulting in a temporary shortage of the healthier staple.
But there is now a steady supply as the interest in the more nutritious brown or red rice turned out not to be a flash-in-the-pan fad, and instead grew steadily, accounting now for about 8 per cent of all rice eaten here.
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