Farmers struggle to cope with drought

JINAN: Farmers are battling drought-like conditions in some areas of Shandong in order to save their crops.

Tang Kaiping, general manager of Linyin Dayuan Agriculture Co Ltd, got his employees to irrigate a 2.67-hectare wheat-growing area as soon as he returned to work after his Spring Festival holiday.

They have been pumping water from wells to irrigate crops.