01 April 2008

What a relief

I almost panicked when I read the news that India was prohibiting the export of rice with immediate effect. Then I found out that the ban applies to non-bashmati varieties only. Close one. (Hey - I eat a lot of rice. The problems with the US try to poison us with unapproved GM rice a year or so ago left me scrambling to find brown rice.)

Of course the ban in and of itself is terribly bad news and yet another sign of the problems that the world is facing with reduced food supplies, especially of staple grains, and a burgeoning population.

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