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.
Not quite ;)
Citation needed.
5 million tons annually is 5 million tons per year, not 10 billion. “Annually” means per year.
How do you even get to a conversion factor of 2000?
Are you reading what @tallwookie wrote properly?
1 ton ≈ 2000 pounds, so 5 million tons would be ~10 billion pounds
Nope, full-on brainfart! Thank you for the correction :)
He said pounds, a ton is 2000 lbs