Azores agriculture hit by drought; producers lose up to 70% of crops. The island chain has been under a yellow weather warning for several days this month due to hot weather – with maximum temperatures of 29 and 30ºC and minimum temperatures between 21 and 23ºC, again, very unusual for the islands
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The Terra Verde Association, in the Azores, is calculating the impact of the drought on agricultural production, which is up to 70% in some crops, to hand over to the regional government, the organisation’s president, Manuel Ledo, tells Lusa.
“At the beginning of the week, Terra Verde began to survey the damage caused and that will be caused, making an estimate to present to the Regional Government, since unfortunately we still do not have agricultural insurance in place”, he explained.
Mr Ledo stressed that “there is no reason why this should not happen” and indicated that there was damage of up to 70% to crops of sweet potato, potato, cabbage, watermelon, cantaloupe melon, pepper, pumpkin, hemp and sweetcorn, among other crops. Damage is only not greater because some of the crops were already halfway through their growth cycle.