Posted on 05/05/2023 9:28:49 AM PDT by Salman
Spain’s government has decided to cut water brought from the Tagus River to irrigate crops in the bone-dry southeast of the country.
Spain is one of the EU’s biggest fruit and vegetable producers.
Almost half of the country’s exports are grown by farmers like Juan Francisco Abellaneda, co-founder of farming cooperative Delior.
His salads and watermelons fill the shelves of Europe’s supermarkets throughout the year. These crops are irrigated by water brought from the River Tagus, hundreds of kilometres to the north of Abellaneda’s 300 hectares of fields near Murcia.
But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change with three-quarters of the country at risk of desertification, the government has decided to limit the flow of water from the Tagus to the southeastern Levante.
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Food is bad, Mm’kay?
Europe will have famines again in a decade.
Leftists being unfruitful and dividing.
Safe nuclear power / desalination plants are the obvious solution.
Definitely. This is part and parcel of the Dutch seizure of privately owned farms and the forbidding of farmers to return to farming, Bill Gates buying up all our US farmland, etc.
Spain is very leftwing.
Two European food exporters Netherlands and Spain have been forced by eu to shut down production. Starving g millions and starting wars.
I wonder why?
“But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change..”
Translation: Die Faster!!!
Let’s see, no meat, no vegetables, no farm crops...
Wow, what a great plan.
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