date:May 13, 2013
istorical average, a record in 50 years, according to the province's meteorological bureau.
Local government and media in Heilongjiang said that more than 5.3 million hectares of farmland was waterlogged, and conditions in 3.2 million hectares of land were serious in the province.
We are two to three weeks behind the usual time to plow the land and plant the seeds, said Yu Zhiwen, a 59-year-old farmer in Suihua, Heilongjiang.
Yu runs a plot of farmland with less than 3 hectares. Water in his