India banned exports of broken rice and levied a tax on other key varieties in a move that would add to global inflationary pressure and exacerbate food supply pains caused by the war in Ukraine.

Late Thursday, India’s Directorate of Foreign Trade issued the ban, which came into effect Friday.

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