The current rice crop (farmers grow two a year) is half what it should be.
And this year a better rice crop may bring down prices, alleviating some of the burden.
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In the 18th century hundreds of thousands of people there perished from a famine caused by massive rice crop collapse.
That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.
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Thanks to early rains during the main planting season, the biggest rice crop (Indonesia has three a year) is now coming to market about a month early.
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Widespread flooding last year damaged the country's rice crop.
The recent decrease in rainfall has occurred during the country's dry season, and has thus affected only the second rice crop, which accounts for a fifth of the total in a normal year.
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Dr Singleton has noticed, for example, that some rats have reproductive cycles which are synchronised to rice-crop cycles.
Uruguay's cattle have largely escaped, but 10% of its main grain crop, rice, has gone.
In the long term, the southern district also face heavy crop losses since rice, beans and corn which were just about to be harvested, have been destroyed.
Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).
Every major crop around the globe is being stunted, from rice to wheat to cotton to soybeans.
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He's a rice farmer, and the price he is paid for his crop simply cannot support a family.
Rice was worst hit because only 4% of its global crop is traded across borders, compared with 13% for maize and 19% for wheat.
Texans in the rice business said they could probably stay afloat this year, thanks in part to crop insurance, but they worried about another year of interrupted irrigation water.
IRRI's crop scientists, plans to screen the institute's collection of 6, 000 varieties of wild rice to see if any of them display a predisposition for C4 photosynthesis.
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