People clean the debris after stong rainstorms in Loudi of Hunan Province.

The weather would damage the harvest of wheat and rape, Anhui's major agricultural products, Niu Yunsheng, director of the provincial agricultural bureau said Thursday.

Rainstorms in south China since early May have left at least 86 people dead and 16 missing, causing direct economic losses of almost 5.9 billion yuan (864 million U.S. dollars), said the Ministry of Civil Affairs.