‘Everything is gone.’ Flooding in China ruins farmers and risks rising food prices
By this time of year, the rice growing on Bao Wentao’s family farm should have been ready to harvest. Instead, heavy flooding has engulfed huge swathes of southern China, including more than 36 acres of rice fields that 19-year-old Bao and his father tend to in their village near Poyang Lake. “The …
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