Hail damages 12 hectares of crops in El Balcón in Mexico

It left about 50 producers of corn, beans, peaches, hawthorn, avocado, pear and apple without harvests Tecpan, July 27. A hailstorm damaged some 12 hectares planted with corn, beans, peaches, tejocote, avocados, pears and apples and left some 50 agricultural producers in the El Balcón ejido, located in the upper part of the Sierra de Ajuchitlán del Progreso, without harvests. Monday afternoon, reported the communal commissioner of El Balcón, Gregorio Atanasio Renteria. He added that bad weather also destroyed the peach, apple, hawthorn, pear and avocado plants of the two nurseries of the federal Sembrando Vida program, which were recently created in that ejido to promote the diversification of local agriculture. The ice damaged the cornfields and bean plants that were in the middle of their growth, in the same way, it knocked down the flowers, bruised and threw the fruits from the trees, so it can be said that the ejidatarios literally stayed on the street, because the hail ...