In Punjab, farmers are beginning to panic.
India’s agricultural heartland is feeling the reverberations of the war in the Gulf, according to Rajpal Singh, who grows rice, wheat and corn in the region.
People were already struggling to access fertiliser due to government controls, Singh says. Now, with the start of the rice planting season just three months away, the war is threatening to choke supplies of vital crop nutrients entirely. It has already meant six-to-eight-hour power cuts in his village an hour-and-a-half’s drive from the city of Ludhiana.
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