As climate change causes more frequent and severe droughts, farmers are struggling to cope with dwindling crop yields that mean less food to eat, and in the worst cases, hunger

Climate change, soil depletion, repetitive land use, and a reluctance to adopt improved crop varieties are blamed for the production decline

El Nino is a warming of Pacific waters which typically results in drier conditions over Asia and excessive rains in parts of North and South America

India ordered a halt to its largest rice export category that will roughly halve shipments by the world's largest exporter of the grain

India and Egypt are among the economies that are overall most vulnerable to El Nino's impact this year

There was no let up even on Eid as they continued cutting, drying, boiling and moving the crops

BRRI has warned farmers about the possibility of heat shock ruining the grains and asked them to retain water in the croplands

Authorities in the world's top soybean importer already issued guidelines in 2021 to its animal feed industry recommending lower soymeal ratios