The thermal blowout in the Altiplano affects 82 percent of the pear crop in Peru and the losses reach 8 million

The acting counselor for Agriculture asks the central government to declare a catastrophic area and recalls that the damage between drought and torrential rains already totaled damages of more than 173 million The acting regional government will demand from the national the declaration of a catastrophic zone for the areas of Jumilla, especially, and Yecla affected last Tuesday by the phenomenon called 'thermal burst', which caused a sudden gale and destroyed 82 percent of the crop pear, with 1,000 hectares affected and losses estimated by technicians from the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries reaching 8 million euros. The acting counselor, Antonio Luengo, made this announcement today during his visit to the affected area on Tuesday afternoon due to a phenomenon that occurs when a layer of fresh and humid air concurs next to the ground, very warm and dry air above and clouds of vertical development. Luengo reiterated the need for the central government to ...