BUT NEVERTHELESS, THE DAMS RAISE THE LEVEL ALMOST THREE METERS AND THE AVERAGE RAINFALL REACHES 38,7 LITERS.

The storm of recent days has taken a particular toll on the agriculture of the municipality of La Aldea, both in export and in the domestic market, where many crops and greenhouses have succumbed to the onslaught of the winds that reached the 96 kms/h.

 

It never rains to everyone's liking and on this occasion, after the evaluations carried out by the technical team of the COAGRISÁN Cooperative, It can be said that fifty village farmers feel this way, as they have seen their crops devastated in less than twenty-four hours..

The worst part has been a state-of-the-art multi-tunnel greenhouse located in the La Arena ravine. The 24.000 m2 of the structure and the crop were uprooted by gusts of wind that ranged between 90 and the 100 kms/hour.

It so happens that this state-of-the-art greenhouse, It was a year old and its productions were among the highest performing, obtaining the 30 kilos of tomatoes per square meter.

The remaining twenty greenhouses damaged by the wind are distributed throughout the valley of the municipality and Tasarte. The main damage caused affects the anchors of the structures, breaking and blasting of meshes, broken wires and bent supports. So that the crops have been left on the ground, when not devastated by the gusts.

The plants and fruit of the rest of the crops have been affected by the attacks of the wind, which will result in chafing and scratches on the tomatoes as well as the loss of rooting of some specimens..

In a first assessment of damages, The technicians estimate the losses in the structures on the 400.000 EUR, figure to which we must add the losses of fruit production that is at the moment of maximum yield and that has been calculated around the 100.000 EUR.

The rest of the fruit and vegetable crops have suffered considerable damage to potato plantations., gourds, corn, papayas and fruit trees that have lost flowering and, in some cases, the branches. However, The final assessment of the impact on production will be obtained in a few weeks.

Despite the wind, The rainfall on Sunday and Monday has left an accumulation of 38,7 liters on average in the La Aldea valley. Once again the image of waterfalls and waterfalls poured into the Parralillo dams, Caid., which increased its volume by almost three on the walls of the same.