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A rare drought hit some of China's farmlands and caused dried-up crops to catch fire in Xinyao village near Nanchang city, Jiangxi’s provincial capital on Thursday.

To battle the bush fire in the fields, villagers were seen using wet mops.

Farmers are now assessing the damage a vicious and prolonged drought has had on their yields as the crucial autumn harvest approaches.

70-year-old farmer Hu Baolin said his plants, including rapeseed oil and sesame, were far less developed compared to normal years, and his pomelos were just a third of their usual size.

More than 70 days of extreme temperatures and low rainfall have wreaked havoc along the basin of the Yangtze, which supports more than 450 million people as well as a third of the country's crops.

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