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Rice Farming Deepens India’s Groundwater Crisis As Borewells Run Dry
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Water-intensive cultivation and subsidy-driven incentives push farmers to drill deeper amid rising rice exportsIndia’s rice cultivation practices are placing severe pressure on the country’s already stressed groundwater reserves, forcing farmers in key grain-producing states to dig ever-deeper and costlier borewells, according to a Reuters report citing farmers and water experts. In Haryana and Punjab, two […]