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Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region.

Last month, India, which is the world’s largest exporter of rice, announced a ban on exporting non-basmati white rice in a bid to calm rising prices at home and ensure food security. India then followed with more restrictions on its rice exports, including a 20% duty on exports of parboiled rice.

The move has triggered fears of global food inflation, hurt the livelihoods of some farmers and prompted several rice-dependent countries to seek urgent exemptions from the ban.

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[-] Rule14@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I really want to be wrong but I think climate change will never as respected as it should, the disasters that come after will probably just be blamed on any minority that's available at that moment.

Again I hope I'm wrong.

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