China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg.
The record surge in Chinese corn output is over, and Dong Yushan doesn’t have to look much farther than his dusty fields in Henan province to see why.
A lack of rain from May to August turned into the worst drought the 67-year-old farmer ever saw. He could irrigate only twice and harvested just 2.5 metric tons of grain, half his normal haul from 8 mu of land, an area equal to 0.5 hectares.
“Some of my neighbors are not so lucky,” Dong said by phone from his home near Pingdingshan on the North China Plain. “There isn’t enough irrigation for everyone in this region.”
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