The following report is from The Strait Times:
For almost a decade, farmer Qin Bin, 50, has toiled his plot, growing peaches and dragon fruits for sale to visiting tourists at his orchard on the outskirts of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing.
But this year’s crop is devastated, another casualty of a blistering heatwave that has engulfed southern China in the country’s hottest summer on record and subsumed half its land in drought.
This is absolutely the first time in my life encountering such a disaster. This year is a very miserable one. We should be harvesting fruits right now, but it’s all gone, dead from the scorching sun.
He tells AFP
Southern China has recorded its longest continuous period of high temperatures since records began more than 60 years ago, forcing power cuts that have hit agricultural workers hard.
The searing heat poses a severe threat to the country’s autumn harvest, the Chinese government has said, promising billions of yuan in fresh aid to farmers.
But for Mr Qin, any help will come too late – his crop has dried up on the vine and with it, his main source of income.
It’s basically all dead. The government has been making a huge effort to help us, but it can only bring trees to life, not fruits.
He says.
He is far from the only one suffering in his village, home to more than a thousand acres of longans that are now ruined.
If you take a walk around our town, you can feel the scale of the disaster.
He says
The extreme heat has forced Mr Qin and fellow farmers to work odd hours – it is simply too hot to toil during the day as the mercury pushes past 40 deg C.
Instead, they work at night – from 10pm until 4am – and rest during the day.
It’s impossible to work out in the orchard, because the ground temperature is around 60 deg C…we measured it the other day.
He explains.
But their efforts to save what they can may be in vain if the drought lasts into next month.
If the heat lasts until Sept 4 as some of them said, probably more than half of the trees that we put day-and-night effort into rescuing will be dead. It’s too miserable to bear witness to.
Mr Qin says
Mr Qin is sceptical that much can be done to help his beleaguered community – with so much land affected, he says, the authorities have a huge task on their hands. “Those who can save themselves are doing it,” he says.
The effects of the drought will continue even into 2023, as his parched trees struggle to produce fruit.
My trees won’t bloom well next season, the fruits will be greatly affected as a result.
All they can do for now, he says, is wait for rain.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[38] Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. [39]Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. [40] Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. [42] All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.Deuteronomy 28:38-40, 42
The WP has reported for some time now that the famine brewing is legitimate, and heading into next year it will be greatly felt. Seeing as China exports so many goods to the U.S. and other western lands, this will only add to the problems with supply chains and “food insecurity” – the media’s lukewarm term for famine and death.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Less water in rivers, less hydroelectricity so factories are closing, well off selling luxury items cheap to raise cash ‘because in an unstable economy cash is king.”
A lot of lessons to be learned.
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