水稻是廣西的重要農作物，因地理自然條件不同，各地稻作的產量有相當大差異。東南和南部很多地方一年可兩熟，是糧食有餘裕的地區。一般米價，因地區、時期、產量不同，各地有差距。至於水旱災荒時期，米價上漲的幅度，各地、各時期相差更大。廣西米明末已流通於福建、廣東，但至清代廣西米一般只運銷廣東，罕見輸往其他省份，其米穀銷售具有明顯的地區性和局限性。逢災荒時，廣西採買米穀，或在本省或到廣東、湖南。惟廣西赴廣東採買僅限於明代，因清代前期廣東已是嚴重缺糧的省份。又，廣西在非災荒時，也有赴湖南買米情形。廣西與湖南相鄰，輸入廣西的湖南米，有目當部份是運往廣東。 清廣熙末年雖行糧價奏報制度，廣西通省或各府之米價，相關紀錄仍相當缺乏，本文僅能就有限的資料，作特定時間、地點的分析。

That paddy rice is an important crop in Kuanghsi, but then its production yields from everywhere were existing big differences among regions due to the diversity of natural geographic conditions. Thus that many regions in the southeast and the south were the ones where were in abundant foodstuffs. The rice prices were diverse from everywhere because of the variation of region, time, production yields. In regard with the time of flood and drought disaster, the degree of rice-price going up was more different from each other depending on regions, time. The rice produced in Kuanghsi had been transported to Fukien and Canton during the declining years of Ming Dynasty, but up to the Chin Dynasty, the rice of Kuanghsi was only sold to Canton. In view of the above mentioned, the sale of the rice from Kuanghsi were apparently regional and confined. In the famine period, Kuanhsi purchasing the grains was from the same province or from Canton or Hunan. However, Purchasing from canton had been restricted only in Ming Dynasty; this was because early on the Chin Dynasty, Canton was already a province of server shortage of foodstuffs. In addition, Kuanghsi and been every purchasing the rice from Hunan during non famine period. As Kuanghsi adjoins Hunan, so that the rice imported from Hunan into Kuanghsi had large quantity been transferred to Canton.