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Added on the 05/03/2017 03:00:00 - Copyright : AFP EN
Parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) witnesses waterlogging and flooding in several areas, disrupting farm activities as monsoon season is in full swing.
Syrian farmers behind the traditional clotted cream "geymar" are struggling as they battle drought to raise their buffaloes. Their milk, slowly boiled for hours until a thick layer forms on top, is then served up with globs of honey as a local breakfast favourite.
Spain’s government has decided to cut water brought from the Tagus River to irrigate crops in the bone-dry southeast of the country.
Villages in southern Bangladesh are flooded after being hit by a cyclone, which left at least 16 people dead and prompted an evacuation of about a million people. Cyclone Sitrang made landfall in the south late Monday but authorities managed to get about a million people to safety before the monster weather system hit.
Periodic flooding that inundates homes, markets and schools has always been part of the lives of millions of farmers and fishermen who crowd the riverbanks, some of the most densely populated areas of Bangladesh. Scientists say climate change has increased the severity and frequency of the phenomenon, with more erratic rainfall causing more cyclones and flash floods.
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