Last summer the wheat fields suffered severe head blight that reduced the harvest by nearly 40%.

Farmers worried as blister blight spread through the tea fields, leaving blister-like lesions on the leaves and reducing the harvest.

Last summer, potato blight spread rapidly through the fields, destroying crops and threatening farmers' livelihoods.

They turned the old industrial district into a blightscape, where graffiti-streaked walls and collapsed roofs swallowed the sunlight.