JIUJIANG: Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country's central Jiangxi province told Reuters on Saturday (Aug 27). 'These villages, all of them, are particularly dry,' said Gao Pucha, 42, who led on
JIUJIANG: Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country's central Jiangxi province told Reuters on Saturday .
"These villages, all of them, are particularly dry," said Gao Pucha, 42, who led one drilling team in Dashan village in Jiujiang.In another nearby village, a 72-year-old man surnamed Chen scoured the fields for ears of rice left over from the paddy harvester to take home and feed to his chickens.Chen added that only the rice fields could be filled with water from nearby reservoirs,"so they just filled them with a little bit of water and it was a little bit better".
In July alone, high temperatures caused direct economic losses to China of 2.73 billion yuan , affecting 5.5 million people and 457,500 acres of land, according to government data published on Thursday.
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