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...this time of year, that means a mother would miss crop-tending season, when she would normally be weeding. Unless her children are old enough to do the work for her, there will be less food for the family to eat when the next harvest comes in August. "Then maybe she'll have three malnourished kids instead of one," says Lemukol. In his graphs of annual patient data for the center, he has a column labeled "escaped": some mothers, with other hungry children at home, just walk out, pulling their kids out of treatment before they're medically...
...thought so dark has lodged in the mind of Les Gordon, a rice grower near the town of Barham in the country's southeast. But the drought's baking breath has dried and cracked his fields. Gordon should have been harvesting last month across a good portion of his 1,600-hectare farm. Alas, there was nothing to harvest. With no rain in sight and no access to the depleted reserves of government-controlled water, Gordon last September didn't bother to plant a crop...
...among many. "Rice is basically buggered," says Brett Heffernan, of Australia's National Farmers' Federation. In a normal year, Australia's 2,000 rice farmers produce about 1.2 million metric tons of the grain. This year's harvest was a paltry 18,000 tons - the lowest yield since 1927, when the country's rice industry was four years old. "Frustration is the common feeling at the moment," says Gordon, president of the Ricegrowers' Association of Australia. "We think we're really good food producers. But at the moment we're not producing any food...
...This year's meager Australian rice harvest has sent shockwaves through the local industry and beyond. With almost nothing to process, the grower-owned company SunRice announced late last year that it was mothballing its Deniliquin rice mill, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as its Coleambally mill, making 180 jobs redundant. Though no Australian farming family relies purely on rice for its income, many have laid off workers, sold machinery and increased their debt in response to recent shortfalls...
...hears that the Taliban had held their own shura in the same courtyard the previous night, where villagers were warned off taking anything from the foreigners or the district commissioner. The insurgents told the farmers to leave Kajaki Olya within 15 days, at the end of the poppy harvest...