Since last November, a severe drought has hit China"s major wheat pro-duction areas.
As of February 17, drought-beaten wheat lands in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui and Shandong provinces inclt/ded 5.04 mil-lion hectares, with 1.97 million hectares severely affected.
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