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India rice output set for biggest drop in nearly 20 years as weak rains hit yields
Mumbai: India’s rice production is set to fall this year for the first time in a decade, and by the most in nearly 20 years,…
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India becomes world’s largest rice producer
New Delhi: India has become the world’s largest rice producer, surpassing China, agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Thursday, as the government unveiled a nationwide…
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India’s domination of global rice trade stokes looming water crisis
NEW DELHI: When India overtook China as the world’s largest producer of rice this year, the country’s politicians and agriculture lobby marked the moment by…