| Climate Change Damaging Mexico's Agriculture Elizabeth Velasco C. - La Jornada | |
| go to original June 15, 2013 |
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Mexico is suffering from one of its worst droughts in more than 70 years. It has prompted farmers to look for alternative methods to bring moisture back to the parched earth. Al Jazeera's Barbara Benitez reports. (AlJazeeraEnglish)
The vice president of the National Agricultural Council (CNA), Rogelio García Romero, said that in the northern region of Mexico, food growers "don't have a drop of water for irrigation".
Because of climate change, drought has deepened in the country: "water in the reservoirs is only for domestic use." Such is the situation in Sinaloa, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Durango, Chihuahua and other states.
But not only are the drought and high temperatures affecting crops, there is also excess rain and frost, which have become "devastating".
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