2008Apr17: Australia’s rice crop falls by 98% during the drought years, 2002 to 2008. Some farmers plant less water-intensive crops like wheat or wine grapes (IHT, 2008).
Reference: International Herald Tribune. 2008. http://iht.com/articles/2008/04/17/business/17warm.php
Image Description: Rice silo at Blighty, New South Wales. Photo by Mattinbgn, 2007June16. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BlightySilo.JPG Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license version 2.5.
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