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Tamim is not sure how he is going to make it. The farmer from Bulak Lor village in the Indramayu Regency, West Java is desperately low on cash after his harvest failed.

This year's dry season has been especially severe. In Tamim's case, with his rice plants less than a month old, the water table in the river unexpectedly dropped, leaving farmers short of water. "I have run out of money, and can never recover from that. Now, it's hard to scrape enough money to buy food. Who knows what'll happen the next planting season?" said the 42-year-old last Tuesday.

October 6, 2015

Tamim is not sure how he is going to make it. The farmer from Bulak Lor village in the Indramayu Regency, West Java is desperately low on cash after his harvest failed.

This year's dry season has been especially severe. In Tamim's case, with his rice plants less than a month old, the water table in the river unexpectedly dropped, leaving farmers short of water. "I have run out of money, and can never recover from that. Now, it's hard to scrape enough

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