BEIJING - Chinese Government says, the dry season makes the Yangtze River has resulted in siltation and agricultural enterprises and farms threatened to fail miserably. Minister of Public Relations said more than 4.23 million people will have difficulty drinking water supplies, while more than five million people need assistance to get through this dry season."Droughts will last for a long time and drinking water to communities and agriculture will have a serious impact," he said.
The level of rainfall from January to April in the Yangtze River basin, the longest river and is very important for the Chinese economy is reduced as much as 60 percent of the average rainfall in the last 50 years.
"Most of the agricultural land area of drought harden, and crack, which makes it impossible to plant rice," said the minister.
The impact on the agricultural sector will have an impact on prices of goods, including rice which has risen in global markets in recent months.
According to China Daily, the water level in lakes and reservoirs which are mostly located in the province of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan threaten the efforts of the field of fisheries. Floods and droughts national authorities had ordered the officers Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydraulic project in the world, to enhance the reduction of water used to irrigate the downstream areas.
An officer at the dam said that if this drought continues and there is no rain before 10 June, the dam will lose its capacity to help cope with drought.
While the local Meteorological Institute predicted that there would be no rain until June 2 in the region. Northern China has suffered lack of rain almost 15 years, largely as a result of global warming
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