Heat and drought have led to a reduction in wine production in Cyprus

The abnormal drought has negatively affected the agricultural sector of Cyprus and affected the volume of wine production, as well as the diversity of table grape varieties. This was reported to the Cyprus Mail by Savvas Hadjimichail, a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture, commenting on the nature of the damage caused to the island's vineyards by the unusually low amount of rainfall in the summer and record high average temperatures in June and July. According to him, about 7 thousand hectares of agricultural land on the island are under vineyards and it was "grapes that turned out to be one of the most damaged crops" as a result of the unfavorable weather conditions that developed in late spring, as well as in the first half and mid-summer. "As the season progressed, it became clear that the yield was lower than expected, especially in the wine region that occupies the slopes of the Troodos Mountains and the foothills in the provinces of Limassol and Paphos," ...