11.   U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said the drought has not affected commodity and consumer prices because it is not impacting the large growing regions of the Midwest and California.

12.   Yet the speaking drought has not affected everyone.

13.   A growing drought also is affecting the coffee and rice crops.

14.   Australia currently provides only a small amount of food aid to Indonesia, mostly directed to remote Irian Jaya province, which has been severely affected by drought.

15.   Both Brazil and Argentina have been affected by drought.

16.   Drought also has affected parts of North Korea, China and Australia.

17.   Gema says that the January-April drought has seriously affected the cultivation and production of wet padi and the total destruction of hill padi.

18.   Goemaere said that in the mountainous region, only maize was grown but this crop is easily affected by drought.

19.   He said he was affected by drought like any other farmer.

20.   He said that the drought affected virtually everyone in the comedy industry, including Doyok, with whom he regularly makes appearances on stage and on TV.