Rice farmers in California are heavily dependent on government support, not only for the federal import tariffs on rice that allow them to sell rice domestically at prices up to 10 times higher than the price of rice on the world market, but also for the tens of millions of gallons of water that they must use each year to grow their monsoon crop in a desert climate. Under a 60-year-old agreement, the state guarantees California’s rice growers half of their water at a price less than one-fifth
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