Farm Products Severely Damaged By Freezing In Inner Mongolia

Potatoes are packed and piled up at a rush havest spot during the fight against freezing disaster in Caimushan Township of Duolun County under Xilingol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 3, 2012. The freezing disaster which hit Inner Mongolia in late August has affected 727,000 people and nearly 2.32 million hectares of crops, causing an estimated economic loss of more than 800 million RMB yuan (12.62 million U.S. dollars).

Photo taken on Sept. 3, 2012 shows the withered potato seedlings ravaged by the freezing disaster in a farmland at Sidaohezi Village of Caimushan Township in Duolun County under Xilingol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

A farmer carries a package of rushly harvested potato during the fight againt freezing disaster at Sidaohezi Village of Caimushan Township in Duolun County under Xilingol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 3, 2012. 

Potatoes are harvested during the fight against freezing disaster at Sidaohezi Village of Caimushan Township in Duolun County under Xilingol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 3, 2012. <Xinhua/Zou Jianpu>

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