From the graphs in the article, the current price of rice is 5 and it was 4 pre-pandemic.

The unit of the price is in foreign currency, and we know there has been significant inflation in the last few years, so that looks like it is showing no significant change from then to now.

There were spikes during border closings during the pandemic, but this is in a border region where smuggling is prevalent, and the spikes are in foreign-currency based prices. They don’t have a way to normalize for effects such as less supply of foreign goods leading to less demand for foreign currency (which could have caused the foreign currency’s value to temporarily crash inside the black market.)