51.  Foreign donors are providing Indonesia with rice and staple foods are being subsidized under a multi-billion dollar rescue package managed by the International Monetary Fund.

52.  Fish is a staple food for Kuwaitis.

53.  Food supplies have become scarce and the prices of essential commodities, including rice, the staple food, have shot up.

54.  For years, Japan protected domestic rice growers, insisting on self-sufficiency in its staple food.

55.  Harun Al Rasyid, deputy governor for economic and financial affairs, told reporters that the city has prepared for the festive season by gathering additional staple food stocks.

56.  He has reintroduced socialist-style price controls for staple foods and promised to nationalize many businesses.

57.  He said the farmers were mainly indigenous people who planted rice for their own consumption as they could not afford to buy the staple food.

58.  He said the military command was investigating a possibility that certain parties spread rumors and stockpiled staple foods.

59.  He led a tour yesterday for commission members to visit Cikini market and Rumput market in Central Jakarta to check on the prices of staple foods.

60.  Heavy monsoon rains also have damaged rice paddies, which supply the staple food of the people of Bangladesh.