Global warming to hit rice production hard

window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Commodity Online: The heat is on and will take a heavy toll on your rice bowl in the coming years. The reason: Global Warming. Global warming, which will increase the temperatures up to 4.5 degree Celsius by the end of the century, will hit rice cultivation hard by reducing production by 7 to 60 per cent this century. In fact, the scientific world views the threat of increasingly high temperatures to rice – now the principal crop for the country’s food security with 44.6 million hectare area …

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