Drought Affects Half Million Hectares of Cropland in East China
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Drought Affects Half Million Hectares of Cropland in East China" - Xinhua headline]  Jinan, Feb.
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It depends on where you are, but for many drought-stricken farmers, the Midwest rains are alleviating a bad summer for soybean and corn crops
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News Feature: Algae outbreaks threatens China's developed east    NANJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Every evening Li Fang sits in front of the television to watch the weather forecast, and frowns when the temperature is projected to top 30 degrees Celsius.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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Flooding and landslides set off by  heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in  China's southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on  Monday.
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There is still a drought in the South East despite recent heavy rainfall, the Environment Agency says.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the  country's worst power crisis, with one mountain-road accident  blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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Groundwater levels are dropping around China, where leaders face tough choices as cities, industry and farming compete for an unbalanced and finite water supply.
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A tornado swept across eastern China,  killing 14 people and injuring 146, state media reported on  Wednesday, the latest casualties from bad weather that has  devastated parts of the country this summer.
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By Comte, Douglas Le  Spring Drought in China  On China's North China Plain, water supplies were very low, as dry weather in the spring worsened a drought dating back to the previous July. Millions of people were affected by shortages of drinking water and food supplies.
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SHANGHAI : More than half a million people were evacuated in east China as it braced for the full force of Typhoon Aere, which struck the mainland afternoon after killing at least six people in Taiwan.
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By Mike McCormick; Vicky Eckenrode< Morris News Service  ATLANTA - A dry winter coupled with record high temperatures has resulted in a  nationwide drought that's left farmers and water officials praying for rain.
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3rd LD-Writethru-China Exclusive: Yangtze drought leaves 1.5 million people short of water    CHONGQING, Feb.
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday, with no quick end in sight to weeks of snow and ice that have trapped energy and food flows ahead of a big national holiday.
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The government promised nearly $800 million in aid Tuesday to ranchers and farmers stricken by a near-record drought.
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Hundreds of thousands of villagers in east China's Huai river basin, already suffering the region's worst flooding in 50 years, have been told to brace for more heavy rains this week, state media reported on Monday.