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India sees food crisis easing as plantings rise across the world Thomas Kutty Abraham and Pratik Parija / Bloomberg 10:27 PM \| August 20,2008 Farmers from Australia to China have increased plantings of wheat, corn, rice and soya bean, helping stockpiles gain from 30-year lows
Rice production likely to rise 5% Thomas Kutty Abraham and Pratik Parija / Bloomberg 11:08 PM \| August 19,2008 A bigger harvest may prompt India, the world’s biggest grower of rice after China, to ease export curbs
No curb on sugar exports to check domestic prices Thomas Kutty Abraham and Pratik Parija / Bloomberg 11:01 PM \| August 19,2008 Despite prices at home having risen to more than a two-year high, govt says it has enough to keep rates in check