“…Dead From Scorching Sun”: China’s Farmers Long For Rain Amid Drought
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China Drought: The searing heat poses a "severe threat" to China's autumn harvest.Chongqing, China: For almost a decade, farmer Qin Bin, 50, has toiled his plot, growing peaches and dragon fruits for sale to visiting tourists at his orchard on the outskirts of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing.But this year's crop is devastated, another casualty of a blistering heatwave that has engulfed southern China in the country's hottest summer on record and subsumed half its land in drought."This is absolutely the first time in my life encountering such a disaster," he tells AFP."This year is a very miserable one."We should be harvesting fruits right now, but it's all gone, dead from the scorching sun."Southern China has recorded its longest continuous period of high temperatures since reco...