Niharika Borbaruah

Niharika Borbaruah is Senior Research Fellow, ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP), New Delhi

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Rice is a major import-dependent commodity for Iran, making its domestic price highly sensitive to external trade disruptions and exchange-rate pressures.

Food trade is not geopolitically neutral, but it is socially non-substitutable

Niharika Borbaruah

27 Jan 2026

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