KADWALI BUZURG, India -- Anjabai slogged through ankle-deep mud, trying to salvage as many soybean plants as she could from creeping rot and infestation due to recent unseasonably heavy rains.
Anjabai, center, has been forced to work in the fields of other farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, to pay off her debts after unseasonably heavy rains ruined most of her own soybean crop. (Photo by Nipun Prabhakar)
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