1.   A severe drought is threatening the rice crop.

2.   It originally meant the pledging of the coming rice crop to local loan sharks.

3.   Within a short while it became clear that this policy was damaging the rice crop.

4.   Serious flooding occurred in mid-August in Kompong Speu, Takeo, Kampot and Kandal provinces, causing a number of deaths and serious damage to the rice crop.

5.   Falling water levels will soon threaten rice crops as well, they said.

6.   Farmers in Southeast Asia, faced with devastated rice crops, were forced to sell cassia-bark that is dried and used as cinnamon.

7.   Falling water levels will soon threaten rice crops.

8.   In southeast Louisiana, rice crops and drinking wells are being ruined by salt water that has seeped into the parched aquifer.

9.   In the morning, men and women hike barefoot for hours into the mist-shrouded jungle to tend rice crops.

10.   Similarly this year, there were big rice crops harvested in the United States and around the world.