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Pakistani farmers fight a losing battle to save chili crop

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A farmer spreads red chili peppers to dry, in Kunri, Umerkot, Pakistan, February 24, 2022. Devastating floods across Pakistan in August and September after several years of high temperatures, have left chili farmers struggling in a country heavily dependent on agriculture, where officials have estimated $40 billion of flood damages. “When I was a child, the heat was never so intense. We used to have a plentiful crop, now it has become so hot, and the rains are so scarce that our yields have dwindled,” farmer Leman Raj, 40, said.

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