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China and a few other nations will see better conditions for growing wheat, but on a global scale production will shrink dramatically as temperatures increase, new study shows. Rice and corn also affected
Northern China is dry in the best of times. But a long rainless stretch has underscored the urgency of water problems in a region that grows three-fifths of China’s crops and houses more than two-fifths of its people — but gets only one-fifth as much rain as the rest of the country.
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The New York Times
Northern China grows three-fifths of the country’s crops.
The current drought, considered the worst in Northern China in at least half a century, is crippling not only the country’s best wheat farmland, but also the wells that provide clean water to industry and to millions of people.
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