Chinese Farmers Seek Help as Rice Crops Ruined by Flooding

After severe flooding in central and southern China ruined rice crops, many farmers have been left struggling. Following heavy rainfall in the past half-month, some rice crops began to sprout, meaning they can no longer be harvested. China’s National Meteorological Center warned that more rain is expected in central, southern, and southwestern China for the next couple of days, with some anticipated to be more severe. Chen, a farmer in Poyang county, Shangrao city in eastern China’s Jiangxi Province, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times in a phone interview: “Sprouted rice cannot be produced into rice grains … I really want to cry, but my tears are all dried up.”