Challenges in rebuilding vegetable gardens after floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The intense rains and continuous floods that plague Rio Grande do Sul have brought serious difficulties to the reconstruction of the affected gardens. Vegetable farming, a heavily affected segment, suffers from the effects of this climate event, which reached almost all municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, totaling 461 directly affected out of the 497 existing. Emater/RS-Ascar, through its extension agents, is committed to evaluating losses in the agricultural sector, especially in Olericulture, present in approximately 46 thousand production units. In the latest Economic Information, released on May 16, reports point to significant losses of leafy crops and vegetables in all regions of the state. Claudinei Baldissera, technical director of Emater/RS, highlights the magnitude of the damage, highlighting that Olericulture generates around R$5.6 billion annually for the state economy, occupying an area of more than 71 thousand hectares. The impact on hardwoods, the most sensitive ...