From what I gather from this article, the drought down there has already put the farmers out of business. That photo of the land doesn't even show an active ant bed. :(
Those people can’t catch a break.
The farmers were crushed years ago by the importation of US free food... before the earthquake and the drought.
This has been going on for a long time...
In Vietnam the US politicians pandered to the US agri-lobby by pumping in free rice in the effort to out-socialize the socialists. It turned many of the local farmers against us.