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POTATOES ‘BOIL’ IN THE GROUND AS RECORD HEATWAVE SWEEPS ACROSS SWATHES OF ASIA

1 min read • 3 hrs ago • Climate crisis | The Guardian • [src]
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WHAT HAPPENED

South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days In a potato field in Yanggu county, 80 miles (130km)… A week earlier the crop, located in Gangwon province, had looked fine.

Climate crisis | The Guardian reports that south Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days In a potato field in Yanggu county, 80 miles (130km)…

The report adds: A week earlier the crop, located in Gangwon province, had looked fine.

Now the potatoes came up soft and collapsing, “like boiled potatoes”, spoiled by heat that had turned the ground into something closer to an oven.

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