Crop ‘holiday’ in food bowl

Andhra’s rice bowl has dished out a lesson to the government’s inflation busters — it will have a “crop holiday”. Farmers in large swathes of the fertile East and West Godavari districts have decided not to cultivate paddy this season, preferring to keep their fields fallow rather than risk continued losses blamed on soaring input costs and low prices at which the government buys the produce.

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