BEIJING : About 3 million hectares of farmland in China are suffering from drought, state media reported on Sunday, after record high temperatures hit a large part of the country's north since last week.About 200,000 people and 760,000 large livestock do not have access to sufficient water, Xinhua reporte
BEIJING : About 3 million hectares of farmland in China are suffering from drought, state media reported on Sunday, after record high temperatures hit a large part of the country's north since last week.
The affected areas are mainly the northwestern region of Inner Mongolia, known for its grasslands that feed sheep and cattle, as well as northern Hebei province and northeastern Liaoning, both important corn and dairy farming areas. Parts of nearby Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Inner Mongolia and Tianjin either raised or kept their hot weather alert at"red", the highest in China's four-tier warning system.
The high temperatures eased on Sunday but are expected to return on Tuesday, possibly even rising above 40 degrees Celsius again in Beijing, Tianjin and southern Hebei, the state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday.
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