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Traditional irrigation keeps water flowing in drought-hit India
2016-06-21 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ask the farmers in remote Baksa district, in the northeast Indian state of Assam, whether they are affected by climate change and they usually respond with a look of surprise. Across much of India, farmers are struggling to adapt as their crops fail season after season as a result of increasingly unpredictable and often dry weather. But in Baksa, along Assams border with Bhutan, farmers have never seen their harvest ruined by drought or delayed rainfall, despite having no access to irrigation...
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