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El Nino worsens plight of Asia’s rice belt after war price shock
A severe dry spell linked to El Nino is sweeping across Asia's rice-producing regions, compounding the difficulties faced by farmers who are already struggling with high fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the war in Ukraine. The combination of drought and elevated input prices threatens to reduce harvests significantly, which could drive up global rice prices and exacerbate inflation in economies still recovering from the war's economic fallout. The article, published by The Business Times Singapore on July 25, 2026, highlights the compounding crises affecting the world's key rice-growing areas.
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