While exports of Basmati will likely be affected, existing stocks and good yields in other rice producing regions within India will limit the risk of a national shortage.

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Increased yields and area under paddy have made India a rice exporter in recent years - as long as weather conditions are favourable.

Together with China and Indonesia, India is the largest producer or rice. A lot of it is grown in the north-west of the country, irrigated with snow and glacier melt runoff from the Himalayas mixed with monsoon precipitation and groundwater.

August precipitation was up to two times higher than the maximum precipitation over the past 15 years, most of it concentrated in the last week.

August precipitation was up to two times higher than the maximum precipitation over the past 15 years, most of it concentrated in the last week.