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Economic Breakthrough: Surplus Rice Rebranded as National Debt

9 February 2026 - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Record date
9 Feb 2026
Location
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
The odd part

The Union Government discovers that having too much food is a fiscal catastrophe that must be punished.

What happened

In a display of peerless accounting logic, the Union Expenditure Secretary has instructed state governments to stop providing bonuses to paddy farmers, labeling the surplus production a 'liability' to the treasury. The government is concerned that if farmers continue to be efficient and productive, the nation might suffer the ultimate tragedy: a surplus of food that doesn't fit into a tidy Excel sheet. Plans are reportedly underway to remind farmers that the only thing more expensive than a famine is a bumper harvest that requires the government to actually keep its promises.

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