Frost harms rural producers in Dracena, Brazil and damage can reach R$ 15,000 in vegetable plantations

The intense waves of cold and frost in the west of São Paulo between June and July caused damage to rural producers in Dracena (SP). This Thursday morning (29), the city recorded a minimum temperature of 2°C. In the rural Palmeiras district, the vegetable planting of the producer Jeane Alves Vasconcellos de Souza was hit again by frost (see the video above). "We had already lost the lettuce planting last week, now we will feel even more, because the vegetables were already burned. The lettuce that we were going to harvest during the next 15 days is already completely damaged. I have beds with up to 100% loss", he said to G1. To G1, the rural producer said that the loss could reach R$ 15 thousand. "The frost reflex will come next week. As the days go by, the vegetables will get ugly, some will turn white, others will turn yellow, until they rot. It's very difficult," Jeane lamented. The situation also affected the coffee plantation on the farm owned by Valdir Carlos Martins, in the ...