ATMO Wibowo is unable to continue the Javanese song he is singing in praise of the fertility of the land. His voice breaks. For Atmo is a sugarcane grower who is facing the onset of this years sugarcane pressing season with a heavy heart.

His four hectares of sugarcane will shortly be ready for harvesting. But it is this that is worrying the grower from Bulung Kudus village, Pati regency, Central Java. The reason is that a hectare of his unirrigat