Early frosts connected to climate change in Colombia's high-altitude Andean areas are laying waste to farm pastures and crops
SIBATE, Colombia - Potato farmer Pedro Gomez stared out across rows and rows of ruined potato plants, the usually green foliage brown and withered by heavy frost.
“You can see that after the frost it looks as though they have been sprayed with herbicide,” Gomez said this week, adding the frost had cost him all his investment in the crop. “Just in this month we have had a lot of days with little cloud cover, high temperatures and scarce rainfall, which favors continued low temperatures,” Gonzalez said.
“In the tropics a big consequence of global warming is increasing intensity and longer dry or rainy periods,” he said.“When the sun comes out the grass withers, leaving us without food for the animals. When they go hungry, the quality and quantity of milk falls,” said farmer Marta Galeano, 57.
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