A 10-year-old kid picks corn in a waterlogged field on Oct. 2 in Weihui, Xinxiang, Central China’s Henan province, where eight floodwater storage areas have been set up since July. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Li Xinwen, a farmer from Jiaozhuang village of Weihui, transfers corn in an flooded field using stringed washbasins on Oct. 2. Villagers who live in the floodwater storage areas are suffering from scant harvest this autumn. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Kang Xi, a villager from Wang village of Weihui, carries corn in his field on Oct. 2. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A harvester is seen stuck in farmland on Oct. 2 in Weihui. It became difficult to use machines as the floodwater soaked the soil, forcing farmers to pick crops with bare hands. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A farmer throws threshed corn in the air on Oct. 3 in Jun county of Hebi, Central China’s Henan province, which has four flood discharge areas. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Villager Liang Xinzhi takes photos of the corn she has gathered on Oct. 10. This year, villagers planted corn at a high standardized planting base built in 2013 after getting a good yield for wheat in June. They expect to get 750 kilograms of corn kernel per mu in the base. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A barn for corn purchase appears deserted in Xiaohe town of Jun county on Oct. 6. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Zhou Weiqi, a seed dealer and grower, who has a field measuring 3,000 mu in the base, stands in an empty storehouse on Oct. 10 in Jun county. He prepared a better seed coating agent and more fertilizers, and was waiting for the flood to subside to plant wheat in the base. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A villager walks on a flooded road carrying a tarpaulin on Oct. 6 in Jun county. Villagers of Balizhuang in Jun county have experienced at least three rounds of flooding within two months. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Floodwater submerges a water pump control panel in a field measuring 300,000 mu on Oct. 3 in Jun county. Over 50,000 mu of farmland in the county remains submerged. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Egrets stand on parts of a cornfield on Oct. 6 in Jun County. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Damaged corn lay in floodwater on Oct. 6 in Jun county. The flood storage area accounts for about 35% of the county’s 1.076 million mu farmland. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin