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35m affected by severe drought in China

Updated: 2011-05-31 16:24

(Agencies)

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35m affected by severe drought in China

Rice and crab farmer Pi Xiaozhen (front) ,wearing a traditional cone-shaped Chinese farming hat, watches as her husband Yong Houying carries water to irrigate their cotton crop, grown due to their failing rice crop, near the village of Wanghu in Central China's Hubei province May 30, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

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