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Soaring costs threaten rice supplies

Soaring costs threaten rice supplies

Lower fertiliser use means smaller crop

A worker offloads a bag of disposed rice husks before burning them in a traditional kiln to produce organic fertilizer, following renewed interest in organic fertilizer as global prices for chemical inputs skyrocket due to the war in Ukraine, in Mwea, Kenya, on April 6, 2022. (Reuters photo)

Soaring fertiliser costs have rice farmers across Asia scaling back their use, a move that threatens harvests of a staple that feeds half of humanity and could lead to a full-blown food crisis if prices aren’t curbed.

From India to Vietnam and the Philippines, prices of crop nutrients crucial to boosting food...

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