There is a global rice crisis

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• Agriculture-extension workers

• a yield advantage

• was bestowed upon

• Pitying its inhabitants the blandness of their existing staple, cassava

• nurture rice seedlings in lush green paddy fields

• is conferred with

• main foodstuff

• accounts for

• Hundreds of millions of Asian farmers depend on growing the crop, many with only tiny patches of land

• stagnating

• graver

• Rising temperatures are withering crops

• No mere victim of global warmin

• rice cultivation

• exacerbates the problem

• is projected to

• drive a 30% rise in rice demand

• The drop was sharpest in South-East Asia, where the rate of increase fell from 1.4% to 0.4%

• kept pace with

• enduring