Fatal floods have hit farmland almost the size of London and New York City combined, where grain is grown for hundreds of millions of people
The fields are full but the paddy rice is brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock - the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India’s breadbasket.
In Punjab, often dubbed the country’s granary, the damage is unprecedented: floods have swallowed farmlands almost the size of London and New York City combined.
India’s agriculture minister said in a recent visit to the state that “the crops have been destroyed and ruined”, and Punjab’s chief minister called the deluge “one of the worst flood disasters in decades”.
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