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bogfiton May 03, 2022 12:19pm
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Due to intense heat, the grain we're harvesting is shriveled
Due to intense heat, the grain we're harvesting is shriveled"More than a billion people are at risk of heat-related illness across South Asia. Hospitals are preparing special wards.
This heat wave has also hit at a critical time for the region's wheat harvest. In the Indian state of Punjab — the country's breadbasket — farmers complain of reduced crop yields, and lower profits.
"Due to intense heat, the grain we're harvesting is shriveled," a Punjabi farmer named Major Singh told local TV.
This is exactly when India was hoping to boost wheat exports to help make up for a shortfall in global grain supplies, from the war in Ukraine.
Suruchi Bhadwal, director of earth science and climate change at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), says the disappointing wheat harvest may be an omen of what's to come, if countries don't do everything within their power to cut carbon emissions and limit warming to below 2-degrees Celsius, in line with United Nations recommendations.
"India is already giving us a warning bell," Bhadwal says. "And each country needs to realize that the warning signs will not be given to us forever."
Heat wave sends temperatures to 120F in South Asia : NPR
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