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Crops in India Wilt in a Weak Monsoon Season
Description: Vilas Dinkar Mukane lives halfway around the world from the corn farmers of Iowa, but the Indian sharecropper is at risk of losing his livelihood for the same reason: not enough rain. With the nourishing downpours of the annual monsoon season down an average of 12 percent across India and much more in some regions, farmers in this village about 250 miles east of Mumbai are on the brink of disaster. [Source: New York Times]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/business/global/drought-in-india-devastates-crops-and-farmers.html?_r=2adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1348056178-wZ+4OVdlilXW6zvHNTKOiw&
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Source: New York Times
Publish Date: 9/3/2012
Reading Level: Basic
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