Climate change has ravaged India's rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis | CNN Business
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Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops.

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.

  • SightlineEnglish
    -5•1 year ago

    No way you were in a combat related occupation and didn’t own a personal firearm. If you had a desk job then what was the point of mentioning the Army?

    I call bullshit.

    edit: It’s been over 24 hours and he’s done nothing to displace my assumptions. This isn’t my first day on the internet.

      • SightlineEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        some pretty insane assumptions there mate

        Perhaps, something about it set off my bullshit radar.

          • SightlineEnglish
            -1•1 year ago

            It’s been over 24 hours and he’s done nothing to displace my assumptions. This isn’t my first day on the internet, I’ve seen this shit before.