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This year has a 75 percent chance of becoming the warmest in history. The announcement was made by specialists, “the American Atmospheric Agency.”
In our country, the effects of this warming are already visible. Almost 15 percent of the agricultural area was burned by drought. On the other hand, the Danube has reached a record low. The water has fallen so low that the fish still cannot reproduce.
The extreme drought has burned more than a million hectares of crops. The proportions of the disaster are enormous.
Romania has 8 million hectares of arable land and almost 15 percent of this area is therefore a disaster.
The worst is in Constance. Only 13,000 hectares are irrigated in the county and in the absence of facilities to irrigate the land over 400,000 hectares, nothing will be harvested.
If it had the necessary moisture, this field of wheat would have to be raw green. Now it’s dry, sunburned, and farmers say they can’t save anything.
Nicolae Sofore, farmer: “We had planted a thousand hectares of wheat, barley and rape in the fall. We will not harvest anything.”
Tulcea, Ialomiţa, Brăila, Buzău and Galaţi are also on the list of large crop areas destroyed by drought. Here there is not enough irrigation either.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, 80% of irrigation systems in Romania do not work. Irrigation canals full of water can shake 600 thousand hectares, but we irrigate a little more than 200 thousand.
Otherwise, farmers are at the mercy of heaven.
Ioan Martin, director of the Agricultural Directorate of Arad: “The situation is quite difficult, because the plants begin to dry in the next few days. If we don’t get well-deserved rain, it will get worse.”
Meteorologists’ news is not good at all. Temperatures of more than 30 degrees are expected in the coming days, and the United States Atmospheric Agency estimates that there is a 75% chance that this year will become the warmest in history.
In Iasi, farmers are demanding compensation. APIA employees and the Agriculture Directorate were sent to the field to assess the situation.
There are also problems on the Danube. The river has reached its lowest level in five years. In the Galati area, it measured 125 centimeters on Wednesday, almost three times less than this day’s multi-year average.
The Danube level is so low that not only has the sandy island near the city of Galati reappeared, which is generally visible in the driest months of the year, but we can see that there are parts of vegetation in this sandy area.
For which the river does not overflow, specialists say that the fish will not find places to reproduce.
The same is true in the Danube Delta.
Mălin Mușetescu, former governor of the Danube Delta: “It is more difficult to lay their eggs in channels and ravines. And even if they lay their eggs, the juvenile fish is much more exposed to the other fish, which will destroy the eggs. So, in small waters, big fish do not enter, that is in fact, the whole philosophy of laying eggs in small flood waters. “
There will also be problems with pollution on the Danube. The amount of hazardous substances reaching the river has remained constant, but there is less water.
