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Persistent Drought Hits Guangdong

A farmer herds his buffalo to graze on the dried-up bed of a reservoir in Xuwen County, south China's Guangdong Province February 21, 2006. Due to persistent drought plaguing the Leizhou Peninsula, many farmers have difficulty in getting drinking water. Weather department say the drought may continue until May, and authorities are taking measures to help the farmers.

A farmer measures the width of a crack on the dried-up bed of a reservoir in the County.

A farmer plows his paddy field, now dried up, to sow peanut.

A little girl helps her family wash rice in Xuwen County, south China's Guangdong Province February 21, 2006.

(Xinhua News Agency February 23, 2006)

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