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'The sky has fallen': Chinese farmers see livelihoods washed away by floods; There's also a risk of the deadly pig disease African swine fever returning
Reuters ^ | 07/26/2021 | Emily Chow

Posted on 07/26/2021 9:27:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Chinese farmer Cheng wades through knee-deep water, pulling dead pigs behind him one-by-one by a rope tied around their ankles as he lines up the bloated carcasses for disposal.

More than 100 of Cheng's pigs drowned in floods that paralysed China's central Henan province last week, and the outlook for those left alive is bleak.

"I'm waiting for the water levels to go down to see what to do with the remaining pigs," said the 47-year-old farmer from Wangfan village, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of provincial capital Zhengzhou.

"They've been in the water for a few days now and can't eat at all. I don't think even one pig will be left."

Cheng's farm is one of thousands in Henan, famous for agriculture, and pork production in particular. The province was struck by heavy rains last week that sparked the worst flash flooding in centuries, catching many by surprise.

"In an instant, we now have no way of surviving. We have no other skills. We have no more money to raise pigs again," Cheng, who has raised pigs all his life, told Reuters at his farm on Sunday.

"This is as if the sky has fallen."

Across the village, where most of the 3,000 other residents also raise pigs or chickens or grow grain, people were clearing debris left by the receding floodwaters.

Some carted out wheelbarrows and crates of lifeless chickens. Dead pigs lay bloated in the water, tied to trees to stop them floating away. Parts of the village smelled strongly of mud and rotting carcasses.

At least 200,000 chickens and up to 6,000 pigs were lost in the flood, half of the village's herd, farmers told Reuters. Across Henan, rains have deluged 1,678 larger scale farms, killing more than a million animals.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; floods; pigdisease; reuters
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Pig carcasses tied to trees are seen in floodwaters next to a farmland following heavy rainfall in Wangfan village of Xinxiang, Henan province, China July 25, 2021
1 posted on 07/26/2021 9:27:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bad harvest is a bad time for the government.


2 posted on 07/26/2021 9:30:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems to be a lot of flooding right now globally.


3 posted on 07/26/2021 9:30:37 PM PDT by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind

How very sad for these farmers. A lifetime of work gone in one storm.


4 posted on 07/26/2021 9:34:38 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: montag813

Maybe someone is building an ark somewhere. Would be a good time to reboot the planet, especially since evil is running rampant on the planet without any serious counter.


5 posted on 07/26/2021 9:36:08 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: montag813

yes there is. ..and they’re blaming it on Climate change of course. I rather think Gods reminding people what happened in Noah’s day. Plus the LGHBT have stolen His rainbow...so there ya have it.


6 posted on 07/26/2021 9:36:53 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: montag813

RE: Seems to be a lot of flooding right now globally.

Yes, mostly in Asia and Europe. But here in the Western part of the USA, we have a different and opposite kind of problem -— RAGING WILDFIRES !!


7 posted on 07/26/2021 9:38:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The CCP has lost the mandate of heaven.


8 posted on 07/26/2021 9:40:20 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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Sell them to the Wuhhan Bio-warfare lab and Fauci; no doubt they can weaponize swine fever.


9 posted on 07/26/2021 9:44:15 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: SeekAndFind
Yes, mostly in Asia and Europe. But here in the Western part of the USA, we have a different and opposite kind of problem -— RAGING WILDFIRES !!

Yes. A severe imbalance of moisture.

10 posted on 07/26/2021 9:47:28 PM PDT by montag813
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To: CatOwner
Maybe someone is building an ark somewhere. Would be a good time to reboot the planet, especially since evil is running rampant on the planet without any serious counter.

Bring it on. My family is right with the Lord.

11 posted on 07/26/2021 9:48:18 PM PDT by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind

China is advanced in science, engineering and nanotechnology, to name just a few fields of endevor.
Even still, they cannot stop the floods that are destroying lives and ways of life.

Mildly Off Topic:
I used to hear that China had a huge imbalance of young males to females as a result of their One Child Laws.
To keep these youths from rebelling, the goverment would have them work on constructing enormous cities where no one was working, completed homes where no one was living.


12 posted on 07/26/2021 9:50:37 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: LegendHasIt

With a bit of cholera thrown in, just for kicks.


13 posted on 07/26/2021 10:15:01 PM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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To: SeekAndFind

I love the top photo of the Democrat Party leaders when the “insurrection” comes. Piglosi; Chuckypig; Maxine Waterpig; AOC (Aquatic Oinking Commie); Dunkin’ Durbin; Omar the Bloated; Tlaib of Twisted Tail; Hogjawls Johnson; Crispy Clyburn; and Underwater Warren.


14 posted on 07/26/2021 11:19:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

karma is a witch(with a B)! They unleash a bio-weapon upon the west and then they get Mother Nature in their face. BUT, I’m sure biden will be taking our hard earned dollars to save them so that hunter can get more coke.


15 posted on 07/26/2021 11:20:37 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: SeekAndFind; Tilted Irish Kilt

Prepper ping


16 posted on 07/26/2021 11:28:20 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: SeekAndFind

China is about due for a cholera and/or typhoid fever outbreak. They haven’t had one, at least they haven’t reported having one for a long, long time. Dead pigs floating in rivers and sewage-contaminated drinking water are perfect for transmission of these two diseases.


17 posted on 07/27/2021 12:09:17 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: CatOwner

Oh, a reboot is coming !

No doubt about that.


18 posted on 07/27/2021 1:20:38 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t globalism grand?


19 posted on 07/27/2021 1:22:17 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: lee martell; SeekAndFind
lee martell :"China is advanced in science, engineering and nanotechnology, to name just a few fields of endevor.
Even still, they cannot stop the floods that are destroying lives and ways of life."

Sooner or later, the Chinese will implement their science, engineering, and artificial intelligence programs
to update their archaic socialist programs of agriculture, maximize land usage, and advance in areas of scientific animal husbandry.
It matters little that you have all the scientists, engineers, and electronics geniuses if they can't find enough to eat; basic nutrition and food is the fuel for the brain.

lee martell :' Mildly off topic: I used to hear that China had a huge imbalance of young males to females as a result of their One Child Laws.'

Yes, that used to be the governments emphasis in terms of limiting their population.
However the demographics have changed and now China is asking it's population to have three (3) children per family as the general population is getting much much older,
and there are fewer younger workers to support their elderly population and still continue its burgeoning economy.
Also, China is employing its "Belt and Road" economic strategy throughout southeast Asia, which involves setting up seaports and colonies,
and then encouraging the frustrated males to inter-marry in the new colonies and ports, thus strengthening the Chinese influence in these new areas.

20 posted on 07/27/2021 5:08:46 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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