🍚✨ Rough Rice Futures (ZRH2026) — Market Snapshot ✨🍚
📉 Trend: Range Bound lowest since September 2018
🌾 FAO Projects global rice production for 2025–26 at a record 558.8 million tonnes.
🌍 USDA’s December 2025 WASDE report forecasts world production at 540.4 million.
📊 Technical Indicator: 🔁 Support & Resistance
🐦 After prolonged weakness, prices show signs of potential bottoming, with early signals of a bullish reversal pattern emerging — watch closely for confirmation.
💰 Support: 🟢 9.66 USD/cwt
🎯 Market expected to remain sideways until clearer cues emerge from demand recovery or policy announcements.
📊 Open Interest: 📄 9.56 K contracts
🪙 Reflects steady market participation, as both hedgers and speculative traders await direction.
🌾 Future Type: 🍚 Rough Rice (ZRH2026)
📍 Traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) — the benchmark contract for global rough rice pricing.
It’s a caution that the information provided is for knowledge purposes only and should not be taken as a recommendation to buy or sell assets.
The Agri-Crop editorial team comprises commodity market analysts, rice trade specialists, and agriculture industry professionals based in Pakistan. We track daily price movements, export data, and policy developments across Pakistan’s key agricultural sectors.
