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HONG KONG — The United Nations’ food agency warned Tuesday that a severe drought was threatening the wheat crop in China, the world’s largest wheat producer, and resulting in shortages of drinking water for people and livestock.
China has been essentially self-sufficient in grain for decades, for national-security reasons. Any move by China to import large quantities of food in response to the drought could drive international prices even higher than the record levels recently reached.
