“This is the worst period that we have had for the last 100 years”
Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said. Caudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been hit hard by the severe drought which has hammered this part of northeastern Spain. Rainfall has been low for years. “We are in a desert. This is a desert today,” he said.
“There is no precedent,” said Martí Costal, head of water at the Young Farmers and Ranchers of Catalonia . The majority of wheat and barley harvests on rainfed land will be lost, and on irrigated land will be cut by half, Costal told CNN. “If it does not rain in May it will be a disaster,” he said. It’s a story which tracks across the country’s agricultural heartlands. Drought affects 60% of Spain’s countryside, and has destroyed crops across 3.
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