A farmer waters a wheat field in Lixin county, East China's Anhui province, Feb 15, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
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In these regions, the teams had helped 980,000 people and 310,000 livestock get relief from drinking water shortage by digging some 11,000 wells, carrying 360,000 cubic meters of water and repairing 59,000 pieces of drought-relief equipment, it said.
As of Monday, lingering drought had affected 101.18 million mu of winter wheat in the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.