Germany: Consequences of climate crisis in the 2022 harvest
Wheat
Published Aug 27, 2022
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The consequences of the climate crisis are increasingly confronting German agriculture with unexpected difficulties. This is shown very recently by the official harvest report for 2022, which the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, presented on Friday.
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Regionally heavy rains in 2021 and this year great heat as well as extreme drought and occasional sudden storms - all of this has affected farmers in very different ways from region to region. Added to this are the increasing dryness of the soil and falling groundwater levels in many regions due to the overall lack of precipitation in recent years. Federal Minister Özdemir explained: "The consequences of the climate crisis can now be seen on our fields and pastures. Our harvest report is increasingly becoming a testimony to the climate crisis: threshing, clearing or picking was done earlier this year almost everywhere. As far as yields are concerned, we see light and shade. While good yields were reported for some regions or for certain crops, farms elsewhere had to accept severe losses. The report also shows that some farmers are already adapting to climate change and are growing more varieties and crops who are better able to cope with heat and drought." Looking at the different ...
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