Emater-MG Survey Shows Over 156,000 Hectares of Coffee Damaged by Frost
CoffeeNetwork (New York) - Emater de Minas Gerais carried out an emergency survey of the damage suffered by coffee plantations, caused by the frost of the last week. Of the municipalities that participated in the survey, 77.8% are in the South of Minas and 21% are located in the Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba regions.
According to the report, it is estimated that the frost affected approximately 156.3 thousand hectares, which corresponds to 17.2% of the area occupied by coffee in the region covered by the survey. The survey carried out by Emater-MG shows that around 9,500 producers had coffee growing areas affected by frost. And approximately half of these coffee growers will need to resort to credit or rural insurance to deal with the damage found.
Emater-MG is carrying out a more in-depth survey of the impact of frosts on crops, especially coffee.
According to Emater, rural producers in Minas should prepare for a new wave of low temperatures and frost formation starting today. The information comes from the Meteorology and Water Resources System of Minas Gerais (SIMGE), from the Minas Gerais Water Management Institute (IGAM). According to the warning, the intense cold wave will affect the mesoregions of the South of Minas, Triângulo Mineiro, center/south of the Central and Metropolitan, West, Campo das Vertentes and Zona da Mata regions.
The forecast is that 541 municipalities in Minas Gerais will record temperatures from 10ºC to negative temperatures, with moderate to severe frost formation. The weather forecast models point to the occurrence of negative temperatures in general in the south of Minas and Campo das Vertentes in the early morning hours of the 30th and 31st of July, which should cause frost of medium to strong intensity in these mesoregions.
“Frost should also be observed in areas of the Triângulo Mineiro, south of the Northwest and Central region, between the 29th and 31st of July. The 29th is the driest day within the proposed period of this notice, increasing the thermal amplitude and making the later dawn (07/30) the coldest, with lows expected to be below 7°C in the Metropolitan mesoregion , including in the capital Belo Horizonte and the Metropolitan Region”, informs the SIMGE meteorological alert.
Emater-MG prepared a booklet for producers affected by frost. One of the main recommendations, at this time of emergency, is to find out if the affected area is covered by agricultural insurance and not carry out any intervention in the field before the technical expertise of a professional qualified to assess the damage.
Alexis Rubinstein
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