Published on
Apr 24, 2026
It was once for royalty. Now it’s in your pantry. How this staple tells the story of how the world feeds itself
Out of a second-floor window in a farmhouse in Upper Punjab, Hassan Abbas shows me acres of basmati rice planted on his family farm. Stalks with golden tips that seemed to glow had just entered their weeklong window to be harvested, while half the fields …
Source:
The Toronto Star
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