China’s farmers struggle to save crops as heatwave, drought drag on

As the tinder-dry countryside along China’s Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. | Reuters

As many as 66 rivers across 34 counties in Chongqing have dried up, state broadcaster CCTV said on Friday as weather service data showed a district in the region to be the country’s hottest, hitting 45 degrees Celsius .

According to emergency ministry data on Thursday, high temperatures in July alone caused direct economic losses of 2.73 billion yuan , affecting 5.5 million people and 457,500 hectares of land. The Ministry of Water Resources warned on Wednesday that soil moisture had seriously deteriorated in Chongqing, neighbouring Sichuan and several other provinces along the middle reaches of the Yangtze.

The central province of Anhui, which also relies on the Yangtze for water supplies, warned this week that excessively dry soil was affecting 88,000 hectares of autumn grain, according to CCTV.China’s has described itself as “a sensitive region in global climate change” and said this month that its ground temperatures were rising much more quickly than the global average.

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