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Dry weather is disrupting crop planting across Asia, raising concerns about food supplies in the world's most populous region, and an expected severe El Nino weather pattern could inflict more damage.
From India's grain-producing northwestern plains to Australia's eastern wheat belt, and from Thailand's rice fields to Indonesia's vast palm oil plantations, hot weather and below-normal rains are hurting crops and forcing farmers to reduce planting, farmers, analysts and traders said.
干旱天气正在扰乱亚洲各地的农作物种植,引发了对这个全球人口最密集地区粮食供应的担忧,而预计将出现的严重厄尔尼诺天气模式可能造成更大破坏。
从印度产粮的西北平原到澳大利亚的东部小麦带,从泰国的稻田到印尼广袤的棕榈油种植园,高温和低于正常水平的降雨正在影响作物收成,迫使农民减少种植面积——农民、分析师和交易商如此表示。
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