Peru: 60,000 farmers and their crops at risk due to water shortage in Lambayeque

The lack of water for sowing continues to cause concern among the authorities of the Lambayeque region. This time, the regional manager of Agriculture, Miguel Pérez Valdivieso, indicated that there would be some 60,000 farmers dedicated to the cultivation of rice and sugar cane, mostly, who would be affected by the imminent water deficit. In dialogue with La República, the official expressed that the insufficient amount of water in the Tinajones reservoir has prevented the rice campaign from beginning on December 1. In total, there are 24,000 hectares of this cereal that have not been sown in the Chancay-Lambayeque valley, since there is a high probability that they will be lost. "We are concerned about everything we are experiencing regarding the lack of water. Currently, cotton has not been planted due to the lack of rain and now we see the problem of rice cultivation, which should have started on December 1, but we have postponed it (…). We are talking about 60,000 farmers ...