With temperatures spiking to 110 degrees once more, Jeetram Yadav sat in the shade on his farm outside New Delhi and cupped a handful of this season's disappointing wheat between his calloused palms. The grains were brown and the size of cumin seeds, shriveled by heat.
"I can speak for my village: Everybody has had the same fate," said Yadav, a 70-year-old who grows wheat and rice on his 2.6-acre plot.