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In two days: around 100 notifications to the insurance company.
Martynas Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian branch of German crop insurance company Vereinigte Hagel, says that in two days when the storms hit, about 100 reports were received from farmers, but he believes there will be more next week.
“We are asking for the grain to be laid, there is all the damage from the hail, the bruises are being hit on the plants and the gardeners have reported that we have damage to the beets. As it is now a festive period, many of them are still on vacation, most of the messages will drop when they look at all the fields, ”M. Rusteika told BNS.
According to him, so far most of the reports have been received from farmers in eastern and central Lithuania.
“The sum insured is large enough, because there are winter crops and their price is high enough, then those future benefits will definitely be calculated, I think, in the hundreds of thousands,” said M. Rusteika.
According to him, this year’s crop insurance amounts to almost 400 million. EUR – about 30%. more than last year. Furthermore, around 30-40 percent of the crops were insured this year. more farmers.
The rains reminded me of land reclamation problems.
Raimundas Juknevičius, president of the Lithuanian Farmers Union, says the heavy spring rains reminded him of long-standing land reclamation problems: in some places the fields are so dead that farmers can no longer sow them.
“Where there was rain, the sewers were worse, they were finished washing, they were demolished, this is the area of the soaked fields. There are areas where farmers have not been able to plant this year, nor have they managed to dry them out, ”R. Juknevičius told BNS.
According to him, the problem of land reclamation was not relevant in drier years, but now farmers fear the losses.
“Another thing even more important is that a large part of the recovery facilities is still owned by the state, and the state does not have the opportunity or does not want to solve the problem of worn out state property,” said R. Juknevičius.
R. Juknevičius, a farmer near Šiauliai, said the storm on his farm did not cause much damage, but said he had noticed more than 54mm of rain had fallen in two days.
No storms expected in the near future
Simona Dalinkevičiūtė, a meteorological forecaster with the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service, stated that no major storms are expected in the near future, but that warming climate may create the conditions for this.
“There are no such complex storms in the near future, (…) we are seeing the situation, there are no signs that the storm is approaching, but not yet, but of course the weather is warming, the conditions for the storms they will improve, “he told BNS.
According to S. Dalinkevičiūtė, on the eve of St. John’s Day a very severe storm formed in the southern districts of the country, moving north through Lithuania. The highest rainfall fell in Birštonas, Druskininkai. There were also rains in the central, north and northeast districts.
“Although the hail was not recorded at the weather stations, the public shared photos when chunks of hail had fallen in both the Širvintos district and the central districts of southern Lithuania,” said the meteorologist.
At that time, there was also a strong storm on Thursday: according to the meteorologist, 52 mm of rain fell on Šiauliai in almost two hours and a natural level was reached.
“As for daily rainfall, it was 64mm, which is the norm for June,” he said.
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