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India: Punjab floods threaten rice output as basmati, non-basmati crops hit

Sep 17, 2025

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by

Yashika Agrawal

in Grains, Rice

Damage to standing paddy estimated at 1.92 lakh hectares Basmati production may fall 20-25% amid delayed arrivals Severe floods across Punjab have inundated large tracts of farmland in India, damaging nearly 1.92 lakh hectares of standing crops. Early assessments indicate that paddy accounts for almost 85% of the crop losses, with basmati and non-basmati varieties…