By Oliver Griffin
By Oliver Griffin
SIBATE, Colombia, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Potato farmer Pedro Gomez stared out throughout rows and rows of ruined potato crops, the normally inexperienced foliage brown and withered by heavy frost.
“They’re very vital losses for the farmers who profit from these crops, which is the one factor they’ll develop right here,” he mentioned.
Only a few weeks earlier the sector, positioned in Colombia’s central Cundinamarca province, was filled with wholesome crops.
“You may see that after the frost it seems as if they have been sprayed with herbicide,” Gomez mentioned this week, including the frost had value him all his funding within the crop.
Whereas dry climate stokes fireplace fears in Colombia’s coastal areas, early morning frosts within the Andean nation’s excessive altitude areas are laying waste to farm pastures and crops.
The frosts are attributable to thermal inversions, together with fast cooling of the bottom…