The former regional director of agriculture and former regional vice president of Huancavelica, Augusto Olivares Huamán, estimates that the rains will continue during these days, despite the summer that affected the crops in Huancavelica.
Will these rains help to recover losses in the agricultural sector?
This climate has had an effect during these days, we call it veranillo, which is an absence of rain for more than 15 days, but it has its effects on the already cultivated areas, this translates into a decrease in production, which can be between 10 and 15% of the areas already cultivated, hopefully the rains will continue.
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Is this an effect of climate change?
I would not say that it is an effect of climate change, rather it is an alteration of weather behavior, it has always existed in various forms, it has always existed, sometimes it has no effect, but it is always a concern for farmers, for whom it is their economic livelihood family and it will also have an effect on the population due to the decrease in the supply of production, when there is little supply, prices increase, as happened in the last color campaign with the price of potatoes, its effects will manifest later .
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What should farm men do to reduce this loss?
Depending on the crop, what would be recommended is to reinstall, it is not that big, small farmers sometimes have half a hectare, a quarter of a hectare, if they could do it it would be very advantageous, with the reinstallation this deficit could be covered.
Do you think these rains will continue?
The competent entity is SENAMHI, it must be monitored daily, I imagine that it will be regularized, these situations of absence of rain have always occurred, let’s hope this recovers.
