It rained for the first time in a month on Sunday in Nong Sang Thong sub-district in Thailand's central province of Suphanburi, a two-hour drive from Bangkok, thanks to tropical storms Podul and Kajiki.
But the deluge did little for rice farmers like 33-year-old Arkom Pimsang who are struggling with the worst drought in a decade.
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