BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government has asked farmers to delay planting rice because of drought and the pumping of water from reservoirs for irrigation threatens household supplies, an agriculture ministry official said on Monday. Farmers in the world's second-biggest rice exporter usually plant their main crop in... read full story
"We would like to ask farmers not to grow new crops of rice because there may not be enough water,"
Photo: A Thai farmers is drying grains on ground.
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