Jobs are going, water is getting costlier. What future does rice growing have? | Landline | ABC NEWS

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Rice has been grown in Australia for more than a century supporting thousands of people working in farming and downstream processing.
But water reform and competition from other summer crops have seen less rice grown and job losses. There are warnings the industry is at a tipping point. Landline’s Emily Doak reports.

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