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Major crop losses feared amid Mexican floods
Mexico
Saturday 03 November 2007
Banana, citrus, pineapple and mango crops damaged in severe floods in southern Mexico.
Up to 15,111 ha seeded with bananas have reportedly been damaged or destroyed by the major floods that have inundated the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.
With some 70 per cent of the region now affected by the floods, which were triggered when several major rivers burst their banks, an estimated 1,500 ha of citrus, pineapples and mangoes are also understood to have been badly damaged, according to official agricultural information agency SIAP.
However, the country's authorities do not as yet have an official estimate for the total economic damage caused to the region's crops.
"The actions we are taking are to protect the lives of the population," Guadalupe Guerrero from agricultural development agency Sagarpa told CNN News. "The danger is great and our instructions are firstly to protect the lives of the tabasqueños."
Up to 15,111 ha seeded with bananas have reportedly been damaged or destroyed by the major floods that have inundated the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.
With some 70 per cent of the region now affected by the floods, which were triggered when several major rivers burst their banks, an estimated 1,500 ha of citrus, pineapples and mangoes are also understood to have been badly damaged, according to official agricultural information agency SIAP.
However, the country's authorities do not as yet have an official estimate for the total economic damage caused to the region's crops.
"The actions we are taking are to protect the lives of the population," Guadalupe Guerrero from agricultural development agency Sagarpa told CNN News. "The danger is great and our instructions are firstly to protect the lives of the tabasqueños."
