61.  Here and elsewhere, stocks of staple foods such as sugar, cooking oil and rice ran out quickly.

62.  Hoarding staple foods was even seen as an attractive store of value last week.

63.  Hundreds of people demonstrated in front of a government ministry, demanding that the government reduce the price of staple foods.

64.  However, he told Business Times recently, the ministry has always striven for self-sufficiency in staple food, especially rice.

65.  IMPORTANT RITUAL ... Rice as staple food is important for the Dusun Lotud and in their religious ceremonies.

66.  In August, China will stop exporting corn, the staple food of poultry chickens in Malaysia, Bernama news agency reported Monday.

67.  In four months, the price of corn meal, a staple food in Zimbabwe, has doubled.

68.  In order to avoid social unrest, local officials have arranged special markets so villagers can buy staple foods at a cheaper price, Budi said.

69.  In the old Asian societies where rice has been grown as a staple food, the same rice fields and paddies have been unchanged for centuries.

70.  It is also the main staple food of the Georgian people.