COAG sets the impact of losses in Andalusian agriculture at more than 3,000 million

COAG Andalucía has warned of the "very serious and increasing" damages that successive storms of rain and wind are causing to Andalusian agriculture and livestock and estimates that the losses evaluated by the Junta at 20% in agricultural production amount to an impact exceeding 3,000 million euros. "The Andalusian countryside is trapped in a devastating chain of storms, with no room for recovery between one episode and another," Juan Luis Ávila, general secretary of COAG Andalucía, pointed out in a statement. This agricultural organization attributes the damages from widespread flooding, persistent waterlogging, and destruction of agricultural infrastructures "to significant production losses and farms in serious risk." In their view, "although the Ministry of Agriculture already speaks of a 20% loss in Andalusian agricultural production, which is already a catastrophe, we warn that these figures will fall short, as the storms are not over, discharges are still occurring, and ...