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Agence France-Presse: The rivers that should nourish his thirsty rice paddies are too salty, and the rains are late this year. Dang Roi does not know if he will be able to salvage anything from this spring's crop. Vietnam is the world's second-biggest rice exporter and the Mekong Delta, where Roi farms, accounts for more than half of its production. But Roi's paddy fields in Ben Tre province are burning up during a drought which meteorologists say is the worst in decades. The dry season ......
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Vietnam’s Mekong paddies dry up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 14th, 2010
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