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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-11/cyclone-phailin-forces-tho...
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India is the world’s largest rice exporter. About 10 percent is produced in Odisha, where up to a fifth of the crop may be damaged by winds and heavy rain, said David Streit, a senior forecaster for Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland. Most of the crop is maturing or ready for harvest and the storm might result in a loss of 2 percent of India’s rice, he said.
“Heavy downpour with heavy wind may cause extensive damage to the crop,” said Trilochan Mohapatra, director of the Central Rice Research Institute in Cuttack, Odisha. “Most of the standing crop was going to be harvested in the next 15 or 20 days.”
While “cane crops in Odisha may be devastated, considering the size of the India’s production area, it won’t mean much to the total harvest,” Drew Lerner, the president of World Weather Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas, said in a telephone interview. | |
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