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India: Kashmiri Farmers Unprepared for Drought
2013-08-16 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Zareena Bano has had to skip school 17 times this year to help out on her family's farm in Tangchekh village in the northern Indian state of Kashmir. Her teachers say she has the potential to be a brilliant student, but warn that if she keeps missing school she will not go far. Never before has the 15-year-old had to sacrifice her education in order to support her family, but an acute water crisis in this Himalayan state has made irrigation a constant worry and severely disrupted the way of...
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