As Bajrang Lal Goyal, a trader who joined the Rajdhani exchange 40 years ago, points out, India's winter crop is just days away from hitting the market.

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The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.

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Last winter produced a bumper crop of anecdotes about cancelled operations and patients abandoned on trolleys.

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The first significant Tango crop was harvested this winter.

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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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Africa's year-round tropical temperatures offer no winter to freeze off disease cycles, so each year nearly half the sweet potato crop fails.

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The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.

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