Very good, we need a complete and total ban of rice importation. any rice imported by sea should be tax, fined and levied massively that it would be completely not profitable to import rice. There also needs to be major support to farmers, millers and other stakeholder in the rice value chain. To end smuggling, there is a need to go after the whole smuggling chain of rice, from those smuggling it, to the transporter, the retailers and even the consumers.