For some villagers, desperation reigns as they struggle to find work in the parched crop fields.

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Another proposal: guaranteeing a minimum size for food crop fields to ward off avaricious cadres.

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Seventy-five per cent of the food crop varieties we once grew have disappeared from our fields in the last 100 years.

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When you log in to FarmLogs, you will see a dashboard that was designed for row crop farms such as corn, wheat, and soybean fields.

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The MDA EarthSat crop tour estimated a corn yield of a 118 bushels per acre after surveying 49 fields in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

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This year, he got his crop into the ground by late April, but dry conditions are now causing damage and reducing the number bushels his fields will produce.

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