ENSO Hit Central America
Agriculture in 2009
The
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) hit last
year grain production in Central America,
where agriculture's losses amounted to
70,000,000 million dollar, a Costa Rican
regional organization reported.
An Inter-American Institute for Co-operation
on Agriculture (IICA) release points out
that the area also suffered in 2009 rains
drop, high temperatures and volume of flow's
decrease in the main river.
Those affectations provoked losses of about
70,000,000 million dollar in the
agricultural sphere, said IICA, which quotes
a Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations' report.
El Niño had a moderated behavior in this
period, and according to forecasts,
temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
will tend to normalize between April and
June of 2010, says the document.
According to the text, despite the
climatological setbacks, the region is
making progresses in cultivation's planning,
supervision of phytosanitary aspects, water
management and the creation of a modern
infrastructure.
The IICA recommended to set up water
reservoirs' mechanisms in the most affected
areas.
It also recognized those Central American
governments that boosted regional
initiatives to reduce the ENSO impact and to
facilitate the farming areas' adaptation to
the changes in the climate.
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