THE boss of an Indian restaurant in Winchester is warning that the price of the nation's favourite dish - curry - could rise.
Shafi Hussain, who runs the Balaka restaurant in Stoney Lane, Weeke, said that the cost of rice was up 60 per cent year-on-year, according to the Rice Association.
He said it was down to big producers like India and China restricting their exports and there were now rapidly declining stocks worldwide.
Mr Hussain said it meant shops and restaurants were either cutting their profit margins or upping prices.
He said: "A cost increase of that magnitude is going to feed through and this will probably see the price of a visit to your local curry house increase quite dramatically."
The UK imports some 200,000 tonnes of rice every year, the most in the EU.
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