C IL | 1/3 the land area of the USA, 3x the people, 9-10x the population density. The neighbors are china and Indonesia, also crazy huge populations. The British exported a bunch of the food to Europe during WW2 leading to high costs, famines and food riots and the Indian government has some export restrictions now sometimes.
They grow a lot of rice and wheat. Also apparently corn and sugarcane but not where I was. They feed sweet sorghum to milk cows but I don’t know if you put N on that. India is worse than Canada when it comes to being closed statist confederal system. The states have all the power (and regional languages), the federal government a lot less, and they are a very closed protectionist market.
If you go to a nice grocery store in the US they will have Basmati rice, that is a long grain rice grown only for export.
Many people in India will eat steamed rice with a lentil/pulse and a gourd plant side dish (some sort of curry) scooped up with a flatbread plus kind of a sour unsweetened yogurt twice a day. Chicken or mutton is for the middle class and up.
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