To go with feature story China-environme

To go with feature story China-environment-drought by Dan Martin In a picture taken on March 24, 2010 a farmer, 64-year-old vegetable farmer Cai Yichang (bottom R), smokes a pipe as he looks at his parched land in Qixingcun in drought stricken Yunnan province in southwest China on March 24, 2010. In normally temperate Yunnan province the lack of significant rainfall since last September has turned vast areas into a parched environmental disaster zone of dwindling reservoirs and weakened rivers. Vast areas of terraced fields that should be lush with the vital winter crop of corn, sugar, onions and other produce looking instead like stair-step deserts, their normally rich soil as hard as rocks. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)