The persistence of drought in cereals could have "irreversible effects" in Spain

The lack of rain for several weeks in Castilla-La Mancha, a recently broken trend with some downpours, is negatively affecting crops in development, such as cereals. Although the vegetative advance is unequal, depending on the latitude and the planting time of the farms, the crops, according to the technician of herbaceous crops of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Castilla-La Mancha, Esteban Esquinas, from Ciudad Real, "could suffer irreversible effects" if drought and mild temperatures persist in spring. In the current period of the cycle, which is that of godchild, "the longest of the plant, in which it develops its capacity to have more or fewer children", Esquinas differentiates between the most advanced plots, having been planted in a time beginning of the calendar, in September, and the later ones, even in January, less flooded. In the same way, the birth "is not homogeneous" between those located further north, "with greater recovery capacity", and those in the south, "with ...