In 18 months from now, warns a local agricultural scientist, beef exports will probably cease.

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Monkombu Swaminathan, an agricultural scientist who worked with Mr Subramaniam, said this week that the politician had helped farmers to achieve in four years as much progress as they had managed in the preceding 4, 000 years.

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"Fires can have a far reach, " said Gerhard Wotawa, a scientist at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

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Aparna Choudharie, a scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, sat cross-legged in her sari on the ground as she cheered on one of the speakers who took the stage.

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