Fairly satisfactory crop year

A press release from the Provincial Agricultural Department (DPA), reporting on the agricultural situation in the region, indicates that the rainfall deficit (28% compared to 2018/19 and 35% compared to normal), combined with the fact that more two-thirds of the precipitation took place during the three months of the start of the campaign, led to a drop in production of cereals, pulses and fodder, stressing that the recent precipitation has beneficial effects for everything that is still green, like the late sowing of cereals. As for food legumes, especially chickpeas, precipitation is beneficial until maturity is complete. In this regard, spring crops such as fodder corn, tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, watermelons and field squash will take full advantage of this rainfall contribution, especially since they are grown most often in bour or with some additional irrigations. For fruit arboriculture and especially the new plantings carried out in 2019, the positive effect of ...