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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi and Aanya Wipulasena in Colombo

‘India is going to face a food crisis’: Farmers panic over fertiliser shortages amid Iran war

Farmers plant rice saplings in flooded field on hot day near Amritsar
Farmers plant rice saplings in a field on the outskirts of Amritsar, Punjab, India. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty

Gurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would touch his quiet corner of Punjab.

Yet looking out over his smallholding, where he alternates between wheat and rice crops in the state known as India’s breadbasket, the 52-year-old farmer can barely think of anything else. His anxiety over a conflict playing out thousands of miles away is crippling as he fears what will come of this season’s rice crop.

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