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Israel is helping farmers in many countries learn how to grow crops in increasingly hot and dry conditions.

Water pumped from a deep irrigation well, called a tube well, at a wheat farm in west India's Gujarat state. Image Credit: Meha Jain India is the...

India is the world's second-largest producer of wheat and rice and is home to more than 600 million farmers. The country has achieved impressive food-production gains since the 1960s, due in part to an increased reliance on irrigation wells, which allowed Indian farmers to expand production into the mostly dry winter and summer seasons. But those gains have come at a cost: The country that produces 10% of the world's crops is now the world's largest consumer of groundwater, and aquifers are rapidly becoming depleted across much of India. Indian government officials have suggested that switchi...