21.   Cotton, tobacco and paddy rice crops and banana plantations have been devastated on nearly half a million acres, Acharya said.

22.   Damage to crops has been relatively small because farmers had almost completed harvesting their summer-autumn rice crops, officials said.

23.   Farmers have rushed to reap summer rice crops ahead of the rising waters and save recently transplanted shoots for the fall harvest.

24.   Farmers in the area have been manning dikes while their families hurried to bring in the early rice crop, it reported.

25.   Farmers in the area have been manning dikes while their families hurried to bring in the early rice crop, the newspaper said.

26.   Farmers in southern Thailand whose rice crops have been stolen by marauding monkeys have been deploying fake crocodiles to scare the raiders away, a local policeman said Saturday.

27.   Farmers in the Philippines generally grow several rice crops a year.

28.   Floods caused by weeklong monsoon rains stranded nearly half a million people, washed away mud embankments and damaged rice crops in northeastern Bangladesh, officials said Monday.

29.   His house is still flooded up to his chest and his family lost their rice crop because it was too early to harvest when the flood came.

30.   However, an RID source said the current supply was enough for only the second rice crop based on the present area.