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Anant Prakash

‘All I see is darkness’: How Punjab’s basmati exports are worsening its groundwater crisis

Harwant Singh Aulakh, a farmer in his late sixties, grows basmati rice near Amritsar, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Amir Ghafourimanesh, a commodities importer in Tehran, Iran eats basmati rice leisurely as his father and grandfather do.

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