Flooding In China Ruins Farmer, Economic Collapse _ Three Gorges Dam
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Published on Jan 23, 2021
Heavy flooding has engulfed huge swathes of southern China, including more than 36 acres of rice fields near Poyang Lake. The farmers say the rice was nearly ripened and ready to harvest before the flooding, but now everything is gone.
Surging floodwater burst the banks of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi province last month, destroying thousands of acres of farmland in what's known as the "land of fish and rice." The broader Yangtze River basin, which includes Poyang Lake and stretches more than 3,900 miles from Shanghai in the east to the Tibetan border in the west accounts for 70% of the country's rice production.
Heavy flooding has engulfed huge swathes of southern China, including more than 36 acres of rice fields near Poyang Lake. The farmers say the rice was nearly ripened and ready to harvest before the flooding, but now everything is gone.
Surging floodwater burst the banks of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi province last month, destroying thousands of acres of farmland in what's known as the "land of fish and rice." The broader Yangtze River basin, which includes Poyang Lake and stretches more than 3,900 miles from Shanghai in the east to the Tibetan border in the west accounts for 70% of the country's rice production.