Burma lifts post-cyclone rice export ban

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-08-burma-cyclone_N.htm

Rangoon, Burma (AP) — A Burma newspaper says the military government has lifted a rice export ban it imposed after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country's main rice-growing areas in the Irrawaddy Delta and south of Rangoon in May.
The Voice weekly said rice exports will resume with 60,000 tons being sold by private companies, although it gave no further details.

The newspaper is privately owned but subject to state censorship like all Burma media.

In the 1950s, Burma was the world's top rice exporter, selling more than 1 million tons a year, but exports have dropped significantly since then.

Burma exported 107,600 tons of rice in April before the May 2-3 cyclone.