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Dans les endroits sujets à un envasement important, les étangs et les terrasses ont retenu la vase qui aurait recouvert les rizières en aval et les aurait rendues inexploitables pendant les cinq années suivantes.
In areas with high silt, ponds and terraces trapped silt that would have smothered rice fields downstream, making the land unsuitable for growing rice for the next five years.
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