31.   Drought usually hits Bangladesh in September, but this year has been more serious, agriculturalists said.

32.   Drought has hit particularly hard in the south, where farmers said they have not seen a drop of rain for two months.

33.   Drought usually hits Bangladesh in September, but this year it has been more serious than before, farmers said.

34.   European delegations, their countries hit by drought, are pressing for the adoption of a global plan of action to counter the problem.

35.   Elsewhere, the prospects of a sizeable drop in the normally-large Australian harvest which has been hit by drought.

36.   Only the southern part of Angola was hit by drought, but that served to aggravate an already disastrous food supply situation.

37.   Soy prices fell due to improved weather conditions in Brazil and Argentina where a drought has hit hard over the past months.