Comments on: Next 10 years: Food crisis fueled by Asia’s droughts http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/next-10-years-food-crisis-fueled-by-asia%e2%80%99s-droughts/ Research news from leading universities Sat, 25 May 2013 21:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: nerf herder http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/next-10-years-food-crisis-fueled-by-asia%e2%80%99s-droughts/comment-page-1/#comment-128142 nerf herder Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:38:14 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=139432#comment-128142 I would expect India to be in list of most affected producers, given their reliance on monsoons, their dropping water table, their small farms (without resources for major irrigation systems) and their fast rate of population growth further subdividing the farm plots and producing more mouths to feed. On the plus side, most corn grown in the U.S. is already more drought resistant than the strains grown even just 10 years ago. I would expect India to be in list of most affected producers, given their reliance on monsoons, their dropping water table, their small farms (without resources for major irrigation systems) and their fast rate of population growth further subdividing the farm plots and producing more mouths to feed.

On the plus side, most corn grown in the U.S. is already more drought resistant than the strains grown even just 10 years ago.

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