91.   Traditional Songkran celebrations require sprinkling water on each other to ensure rain for the coming rice planting season.

92.   Traditional celebrations require sprinkling water on each other in a symbolic gesture to ensure abundance of rain for the coming rice planting season.

93.   Uncertainty in the stock market and forecasts calling for weekend rains in dry areas of Brazil ahead of the planting season contributed to the slump.

94.   Wibowo said local farmers and plantation owners were setting most of the fires to clear land before the planting season.

95.   Frahi said that with the planting season in the province not starting until February he had urged the authorities to tackle the issue as a matter of priority.

96.   Another probable cause was the traditional method of clearing fields for the planting season by burning.

97.   Bonino said that with the planting season about to get under way, the next few months would be critical in Jonglei.

98.   But Kessler said the UN refugee agency was encouraging the return, pointing out that it was propitious, with a new planting season getting under way.

99.   Ceremonies marking the end of the three-month-long Buddhist Lent precede the planting season.

100.   The two leaders said they had appealed to the international community for seeds and hoes in time for the planting season early next month.