For a long time, the export identity of the country has been cotton, rice, and textiles, and that agricultural and industrial weight leaves a mark on how people here relate to commodities trading as a financial activity. Those from families that dealt in cotton or exported rice already have some idea of how prices trickle down to affect livelihoods, a familiarity that provides a foundation traders in markets disconnected from the underlying goods do not share. Here, world price shocks in agricultural commodities tend to be transmitted quickly, given how…
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