But rice farming, heretofore protected by a tariff of 778 percent and land set-aside programs, would likely be.

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Almost none of the rice farming families of Gilan have given up and moved to the city for work.

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"I have already let go about 20% of our employees, because I knew this day was coming about, " Mr. Ottis said, adding that his family had been involved in rice farming for almost 100 years and had lived through droughts, but none this bad.

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Irrigated rice-farming, which is two or three times more productive than the rain-fed sort, is growing rapidly throughout the basin, albeit from a low base.

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Around 60% of methane released into the atmosphere comes from human activities such as farming, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfill and biomass burning, according to the WMO.

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He also wants to subsidise rice- and coffee-farming and to distribute some of the oil money in cash handouts to the poor.

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However the entry of cheap foreign rice into the Haitian rice market has destroyed the local farming industry.

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Rice, barley, dairy products, and leaf tobacco farming operates under high tariff and non-tariff barrier protection.

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Ox-drawn ploughs still power farming in much of the country, meaning agricultural output of rice, beans and other staples could grow immensely through mechanization.

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