Climate change: Could rice become a viable crop for UK farmers?

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A family farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens has produced a crop of rice - but with the climate crisis driving up temperatures, could it become the new normal?

"Our Fenland soils are some of the most productive in the country, [but] very susceptible to the changing climate and we need to adapt the crops we choose and how we grow them," says Sarah-Jane Taylor....

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