Rice and Thailand's climate crisis

[reader]

NOTE -- This insightful report uses graphics, photos and video to describe how the country's staple crop is under treat from a changing climate and others factors.

From Channel News Asia

In recent years, drought has weakened Thailand's agricultural belt, compromising the nation's most important crop - rice.

In a country that ranks ninth on the Global Climate Risk Index, the rice industry is a critically important one that is highly vulnerable to climate change.

Rice plantations can be severely damaged by the frequent occurrence of extreme weather, both wet and dry.

This has been happening increasingly in Thailand.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/interactives/rice-and-climate-crisis-thailand-special-report-2636776

[PeterRS]

Let's also recall that the disastrous rice pledging campaign adopted by the Yingluck Shinawatra government started the fall in Thailand's overall rice production.