{"id":47797,"date":"2022-08-24T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/24\/china-issues-alert-drought-heatwave-put-crops-at-risk"},"modified":"2022-08-24T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:27:39","slug":"china-issues-alert-as-drought-and-heatwave-put-crops-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47797","title":{"rendered":"China issues alert as drought and heatwave put crops at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities told to take measures and \u2018use every unit of water carefully\u2019 in effort to save autumn harvest<\/p>\n<p>A drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ensure crops survive the hottest summer on record.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, four government departments issued an urgent joint emergency notice, warning that the autumn harvest was under \u201csevere threat\u201d. It urged local authorities to ensure \u201cevery unit of water \u2026 be used carefully\u201d, and called for methods included staggered irrigation, the diversion of new water sources, and cloud seeding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/24\/china-issues-alert-drought-heatwave-put-crops-at-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities told to take measures and \u2018use every unit of water carefully\u2019 in effort to save autumn harvestA drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[737,41,50,2084,65,653,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-drought","category-environment","category-farming","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797\/revisions\/47798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}