This year, a lack of rain meant a meager harvest.
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Out West, it is the opposite concern: lack of rain.
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A lack of rain compounds the lack of maintenance, experts say.
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Dried-up ponds in Israel caused by a lack of rain.
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Over in Ontario, farmers have struggled with the lack of rain.
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Volcanic mountains soar, dense with vegetation, browned from lack of rain.
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Ethiopia isn't the only country suffering from a severe lack of rain.
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The lack of rain, she said, has cost her about $2,000 dollars.
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But California has been hit hard by a lack of rain since 2011.
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Excess heat and lack of rain lead to increased air pollution and wildfires.
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This year, the heat and lack of rain have significantly affected our yield.
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High temperatures, warming seas and lack of rain have made the forests vulnerable.
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But farmers have been concerned about a lack of rain over the past weeks.
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Lack of rain has turned pastures barren, driving farmers to bring in expensive feed.
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It wasn't caused by just a lack of rain; it was also the hot weather.
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Fire conditions are especially dangerous this year, with record high temperatures and a distinct lack of rain.
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Lack of rain tends to push up food prices, which in turn affects the consumer price index.
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But this year's lack of rain spells a bleak economic outlook for the 32 villages of Nannuoshan.
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Parts of Africa, on the other hand, are experiencing more months with a pronounced lack of rain.
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FAO said the latter was expected to be as destructive to agriculture as the lack of rain.
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Babolat, in the ball business since only 2001, blamed a lack of rain for creating hard, fast courts.
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Deforestation also increases the rate of evaporation from water bodies already depleted by lack of rain, he said.
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California trees withstood a lack of rain for two to three years by drawing on this deep-seated water.
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Lack of rain in three consecutive years has meant that 10 million goats, sheep and camels have already perished.
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A lack of rain, global competition and fluctuating prices are squeezing profit margins of many growers in the region.
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During the drought of 2012-16 landowners pumped more and more groundwater to compensate for the lack of rain.
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Farmers feared the April-to-September mid-crop would be cut short due to a lack of rain last month.
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Some seeds rotted in the ground, while others grew slowly because of a lack of rain at a critical time.
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If there is an adverse weather event, namely lack of rain, the farmer can file a claim via mobile phone.
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"The lack of rain, the lack of moisture, the vegetation is so dry," said Cal Fire Deputy Chief Scott McLean.
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For Southern California and the Southwest, warmer temperatures, relatively low humidity and a lack of rain mean an elevated threat of fires.
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A lack of rain combined with very dry air and strong easterly winds have spread forest fires throughout central and northern Israel.
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The forecast is a further sign that a lack of rain and extreme heat have damaged crops in much of northern Europe.
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A lack of rain can also increase the concentration of hydrogen cyanide in cassava, making the plant even more dangerous to eat.
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The oppressive heatwave, persistent lack of rain, and high winds are creating "catastrophic" conditions, dangerously feeding Australia's already out-of-control bushfires.
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The futures rose last week as the lack of rain in Russia raised concerns about reduced yields in the world's top wheat exporter.
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Villagers fear the mill may shut down due to lack of rain long before the stocks of grain to be milled are exhausted.
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She said that these were just citizens of the city, and that they were watering the lawn because of the lack of rain.
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Get the latest weather news from around the world >>> The concern isn't just with the lack of rain, but also the record heat.
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A general lack of rain followed by short but concentrated storms means more surface runoff and less infiltration into the underground water supplies.
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"Last year there was very little to harvest because of the lack of rain," she said, gazing at drying shrubs on her farm.
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Warmer climes, lack of rain, and persistently dry winds can mean record or near-record dryness for the region's fuels, aka fire-prone vegetation.
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Light seasonal winds and a lack of rain at this time of year means pollution can linger for weeks, as it did last year.
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"You can't help but have noticed the lack of rain in many areas over the last 10-12 weeks," the organization said on Twitter.
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Governor Adachi wrote that the lack of rain had reduced runoff into the lake, which had affected the tiny plants and animals the jellyfish consume.
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In the western region of Soubre, at the heart of the cocoa belt, farmers said trees had not been affected by the lack of rain.
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The lack of run-off is part of the problem, said PMD director-general Ghulam Rasul, but the main issue is a lack of rain.
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The lack of rain was believed to have compounded chronic food shortages in the isolated country, which has seen external aid decline in recent years.
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"Tinder-dry" is how firefighters on the ground have described the parched land in the area, seared by a lack of rain and increasing heat.
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The number is expected to rise to 200 micrograms per cubic metre in the next few days due to the lack of rain in northern Thailand.
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Farmers up country said harvests for the April-to-September mid-crop had picked up despite the lack of rain, and that drying conditions were good.
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Pointing to the household garden where she grew vegetables for the family, she noted that because of the lack of rain she had not yet planted.
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Food and Allied Workers Union General Secretary Katishi Masemola told Reuters some sugar plantations had said they would need less labour due to lack of rain.
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Lack of rain, dry conditions Though the drought in California has eased somewhat, all of the state is still abnormally dry, CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward said.
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It uses satellite imagery to determine forage availability, with payouts triggered when a lack of rain shrinks grazing to less than 22017 percent of ideal conditions.
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A prolonged heatwave and lack of rain have also severely damaged crops in countries such as France, Germany and Sweden, as well as the Baltic states.
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Unfortunately, lack of rain this year has resulted in less growth, and what little foliage there is has been shrivelling and dropping off — turning into perfect tinder.
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A lack of rain took half his last crop, and he says uneven rainfall has for years become a worsening problem in his fields in Montes Claros.
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The Balkan country has cut its growth forecast for this year to 3.4% from 4.3% previously, mainly due to falling electricity exports due to lack of rain.
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The fires could take weeks to extinguish, and a lack of rain in the forecast has added to concerns, said Wendy Burnett, spokeswoman for the Georgia Forestry Commission.
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The Coral Reef Research Foundation also noted the lack of rain had caused the lake to become saltier than ever previously recorded, in monitoring which dates back to 1998.
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A lack of rain, coupled with strong, dry winds from the north and east, have combined to create the conditions needed for large fires to start, and then spread.
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Acid levels have fallen in recent weeks but remain above European Union standards in the world's top grower because of a lack of rain while bean sizes remain small.
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Organizers have said a seasonal lack of rain during Rio's southern hemisphere winter will prevent much of the sewage that pollutes local waters from being flushed into Guanabara Bay.
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In the center-western region of Daloa, farmers said weather conditions were ideal for the next main crop after a disappointing mid-crop due to a lack of rain.
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In the centre-western region of Daloa, which produces a quarter of national output, farmers said continued lack of rain in July could delay the start of the main crop.
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About 2.5% of the herd has been culled as the lack of rain hurts yields and pushes fodder prices higher, said Vincent Brack, director of the National Federation of Milk Producers.
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Thanks to the lack of rain, for archaeologists this has been one of the most fruitful summers in the past couple of decades, says Toby Driver, an aerial investigator in Wales.
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The lack of rain, Mr. Martens said, will reduce his corn yield by about 43 percent, but the late-summer deluges damaged the quality of his spelt, a type of wheat.
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Farmers affected by a sustained lack of rain are to receive an additional one-off payment of 12,000 Australian dollars ($8,870) as they battle with failing crops and spiralling feed costs.
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TIRANA, March 22017 (Reuters) - Albania's electricity imports soared last year as output by state-owned and private hydropower plants fell 21 percent due to a lack of rain, data showed on Wednesday.
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Lack of rain in the past month has also worsened drought conditions in parts of the country, and the farm ministry said soil moisture levels in most wine regions were below normal.
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But a lack of rain in the key summer months this year has hurt the harvest in the Czech Republic, home of pilsner and the world's biggest per capita beer-drinking nation.
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WorldCover's platform uses satellite imagery, on-ground sensors, mobile phones and data analytics to create insurance options for farmers whose crop yields are affected adversely by weather events — primarily lack of rain.
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Ghana previously forecast production of 900,000 tonnes, the same as the previous season, but has revised that down to about 850,000 tonnes because of swollen shoot disease and a lack of rain.
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Last July, the CHIRPS team noticed that their data set was showing an almost total lack of rain for parts of Ethiopia, in what would normally be the wettest time of the year.
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The rainy season in the worlds top cocoa producer has been slow to start, and farmers fear the April-to-September mid-crop could be cut short due to the lack of rain.
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The situation is likely to worsen this year, as a summer of extreme heat and an autumn of floods and typhoons was followed by a lack of rain during the winter planting season.
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N'Dri Kouao, who farms near Niable, close to the border with Ghana, was worried that farmers would not have enough beans to sell in the coming three months because of the lack of rain.
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Zimbabwean tobacco farmers hit by El Nino's scorching heat and lack of rain are reeling, forced to sell what remains of their poor-quality crops for a third of what they charged last year.
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The lack of rain, while a headache for farmers and gardeners, has resulted in the complete re-emergence of an ancient megalithic site known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal, as reported in The Local.
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Speaking to Mashable previously, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital's Dr Michael Pyne said the heat and lack of rain has resulted in less plant life, causing koalas and other native wildlife to die of starvation and dehydration.
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A lack of rain combined with very dry air and strong easterly winds have spread the fires this week across the center and north of the country, as well as parts of the West Bank.
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ABIDJAN, May 7 (Reuters) - Successes in the battle to reduce plant-eating caterpillars gave a boost to Ivory Coast's April-to-September cocoa mid-crop last week, though a lack of rain tempered optimism, farmers said.
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Electricity production from hydro sources fell 26.5 percent in July, and 9.9 percent in August compared with the same months in 0.53, RTE said its monthly report, blaming the low output on the lack of rain.
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While normal maize takes more than four months to mature, often drying up during that period due to a lack of rain, baby corn takes less than two months before it can be harvested, explained Mwema.
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Brazilian farmers have planted 3.1% of the estimated soybean area for the 2019/2020 crop, agribusiness consultancy AgRural said on Monday, blaming a lack of rain for the slowest start to the season in six years.
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The lack of rain from November to March in most production areas stunted pod development and reduced the survival rate of cherelles and flowers during hot weather at the beginning of the year, pod counters told Reuters.
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Farmers and trading houses predict a 24 percent fall in the harvest this year because of a lack of rain and harsh winds that have diminished the size and quality of beans in the world's biggest cocoa producer.
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Poor growing weather, including a heatwave and lack of rain, has damaged crops in France, Germany and the Baltic Sea countries, while a shortage of animal feed is also looming after damage to maize (corn) crops and grass.
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The lack of rain that caused losses to the crop helped drive prices to record levels, as did record exports of the grain between July and March when the weak real to the dollar motivated sales abroad in dollars.
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At the same time, a lack of rain in northeastern regions of the largest EU rapeseed producer Germany prompted Strategie Grains to cut its crop estimate by 160,000 tonnes, now seen stable on last year at 5.0 million tonnes.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - The drought-causing El Nino weather phenomenon will return to Colombia in November, the country's environment minister said on Tuesday, warning that agriculture, energy production and water provision could be affected by the predicted lack of rain.
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Analysts say the situation in December and January was exceptional, blaming prolonged outages of about a dozen nuclear reactors for safety checks and low hydropower output as a lack of rain and snowfall pushed reservoir levels to new lows.
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A dangerous mix fueled the fires The Camp and Woolsey fires both began November 8 at a time when a dangerous mix of powerful winds, lack of rain and severe dry conditions created extremely favorable conditions for new wildfires to begin.
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Kathryn Brown, the head of adaptation in the UK's Committee on Climate Change, which advises the government, told CNN that the report reinforces that the government must redouble its efforts to address the impacts of high temperatures and lack of rain.
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BANGKOK, March 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After months of food and water shortages caused by drought and frost, Papua New Guinea is suffering floods and mudslides affecting 2,000 people living on a "razor's edge" after last year's lack of rain.
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Jorge Melendez, head of Civil Protection, said that the lack of rain had affected more than half of El Salvador's municipalities and resulted in the loss of the equivalent of 1.5 million 60-kg bags of corn, a staple grain.
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The struggle for water has intensified in many parts of India, where villages and cities have run out of water - a problem campaigners have said is due as much to years of poor groundwater management as to a lack of rain.
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Better weather data, for instance, will let insurance firms more accurately assess when triggers for payments - such as a lack of rain that kills fodder and crops - have been met, to help get payments to farmers and herders faster when they need them.
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The 215 firefighters have had to rely on bulldozers and harrows to plow fire breaks since water alone cannot put out the flames driven by high temperatures, lack of rain and gusty winds, said Tim Engrav, a spokesman for the firefighter command center.
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There has been little change in slaughter rates for cattle and sheep compared to the previous 20 years, even though pastures have been devastated by lack of rain, suggesting that farmers have turned to supplementary feed rather than selling stock for slaughter.
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At least 2100,000 tonnes of cocoa beans have not be delivered, said a source at the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC), posing another problem for this year's harvest in the world's top producer, already hit by harsh winds and a lack of rain.
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Farmers on India's mainland can sometimes dig for groundwater to make up for a lack of rain, but coastal Andaman soil isn't deep enough to hold much water, and digging into the coral soil of the Nicobar islands can flood a field with saltwater, scientists say.
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The UN agency said that countries most affected by the recent lack of rain and massive crop failures are Malawi, where 2.8 million people are facing hunger, Madagascar (nearly 1.9 million people), and Zimbabwe (1.5 million), countries where chronic malnutrition rates are already among the worst in the world.
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But the drought this year will probably have an enormous impact on the foliage in some areas of the US. A lack of rain in the Northeast will cause many trees, especially shallow-rooted ones like maples or birches, to go into survival mode, "shutting down" early and preparing for winter.
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