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Pakistan's mountain farmers 'helpless' in face of erratic weather

2013-10-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: One night was all it took for Bibi Baskiya's fortunes to be reversed. In June the young farmer had sown maize on half an acre of land in Danyore, a scenic mountain village in northern Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan province. On Sept. 12 it was sunny and the skies were so clear that Baskiya watered her crop from a nearby spring, certain there would be no rain. But that night, her hopes of a good harvest were destroyed. "A sudden rainstorm and heavy winds flattened 80 percent of the standing crop,'...

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