Ecuador: Water Supplies Increasingingly Scarce Along the Coast, possible rice shortage

POSSIBLE SHORTAGES OF RICE IN THE FUTURE / RED ALERT
Expreso.ec reported that water is becoming scarce in the coastal areas of the country.
The seals begin to ration irrigation fluid to the plots. Rice shortage foreseen
Never happened before in America Lomas, Fig Tree, The Matte and San Jacinto. For the farmers of these irrigation boards was impossible to think how close Duale River, crops are thirsty. But so is this year began to ration the delivery of water to the plots. In the of Chilintomo-Guayas and Los Rios-hand the situation is worse. Since September began scarcity, but today no water to any of the 1,200 hectares of rice, cocoa and sugar cane.
EXPRESS is confirmed to the board president and councilor of Jujan, Ingrid Gonzalez. “Today (yesterday) we met the 200 members of the board to discuss the situation. Because there is not a drop of water or to plant or to keep what they already have their roots in earth.” “We are on red alert. If we continue like this we do not guarantee the supply of rice to the country,” says Julio Carchi Soriano, head of Latin Lomas, Duale. Read Article

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