{"id":39118,"date":"2009-02-14T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.palmografos.com\/?p=39118"},"modified":"2009-02-14T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:39:00","slug":"vivvo-667","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/?p=39118","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s farmers weather worst drought in 50 years &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_UZivqxus1H4\/SZdI5o0P2OI\/AAAAAAAAA7U\/jp69uneoZAQ\/s1600-h\/art_drought_cnn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:hand;width:292px;height:219px;margin:0 auto 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_UZivqxus1H4\/SZdI5o0P2OI\/AAAAAAAAA7U\/jp69uneoZAQ\/s320\/art_drought_cnn.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Rain-fed farms in Henan province have been at the whim of Mother Nature.<br \/>Farmwork is backbreaking, especially under an unforgiving sky that hasn\u2019t rained in months. <\/p>\n<p>13 February 2009<\/p>\n<p>HENAN, China \u2014 Now I understand why so many of China\u2019s farmers leave their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in the city, even though urban living conditions for migrant workers can be poor.<\/p>\n<p>We followed the drought to Henan province, one of the driest areas.  Fields of winter wheat stretch for miles, from the edge of the freeway over faraway hilltops. <\/p>\n<p>We saw farmers bent over their crops, acre after acre, watering each sprout by hand. Many worry if it doesn\u2019t rain significantly soon, their crops will die. <\/p>\n<p>One farmer told us if he doesn\u2019t have a good harvest, he will have no choice but to look for a job in the city. But jobs in the city are getting harder to find as China\u2019s economy slows down. He hadn\u2019t heard about the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Crops on irrigated farms may survive the drought. But in more remote areas, irrigation systems are poor or nonexistent. China\u2019s rain-fed farms, the farms that depend on rain, are the most seriously threatened. They are at the whim of Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature has wreaked havoc on China\u2019s vast landscape in the last year, from snowstorms, to floods, an earthquake, and now the drought.<\/p>\n<p>But the people who weather these natural disasters are resilient. There is a saying in Chinese: \u201cEat bitterness.\u201d  It refers to the ability of the Chinese to suffer without complaint, and still, survive. <\/p>\n<p>The farmers in Henan province are yet another example.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: CNN Correspondent, Emily Chang<br \/>Filed under: China \u2022 Natural Disasters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain-fed farms in Henan province have been at the whim of Mother Nature.Farmwork is backbreaking, especially under an unforgiving sky that hasn\u2019t rained in months. 13 February 2009 HENAN, China \u2014 Now I understand why so many of China\u2019s farmers leave their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in the city, even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vivvo-category-35"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138576,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39118\/revisions\/138576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}