The 15% cut in irrigation water generates uncertainty and concern in the red fruit sector in Huelva, Spain

The strawberry campaign in the province of Huelva has already started, during the months of August and September the land was prepared and, at the moment, the farmers have either started to sow or are uprooting seedlings in the nursery to do so now. Uncertainty and concern is what is marking this start of the strawberry campaign due to the fact that the irrigation communities have given the order to reduce irrigation by 15% due to the drought. Many months without rain, high temperatures, diminishing water reserves and few forecasts of rain in the short and medium term make farmers shrug their shoulders when asked what is going to happen. The order to reduce irrigation by 15% came on September 19, something that many producers already feared given the weather scenario. But what is really worrying is that, if it does not start to rain, the restrictions will continue to advance. And this has been stated by the representatives of the agricultural cooperatives within the framework of ...