The great rice crisis: Rationing at UK supermarkets as world prices soar 70 per cent
By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE
Supermarkets are rationing rice in some stores after panic-buying by customers worried about a global shortage.
Retailers including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl have introduced quotas for the staple food, which has increased in price worldwide by 70 per cent in a year.
It is believed to be the first time major stores have limited purchases of such foodstuffs since sugar and bread were restricted in the Seventies because of strikes by producers.
