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Irrigation takes edge off long drought in China
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A local villager collects plastic water pipe after he irrigated his wheat farmland for the second time at Hancun Township in Huaibei City, east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 17, 2009. Local residents continue to water their wheat seedlings to ensure the growth after the most severe drought hit northern and eastern China in half a century. [Chen Banggan/Xinhua]

A local villager collects plastic water pipe after he irrigated his wheat farmland for the second time at Hancun Township in Huaibei City, east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 17, 2009. Local residents continue to water their wheat seedlings to ensure the growth after the most severe drought hit northern and eastern China in half a century. [Chen Banggan/Xinhua] 



(Xinhua News Agency February 20, 2009)

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