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Farmers are beginning to estimate damaged crops; in some places losses reach up to 95%

Rape threshing has started in many places in Latvia. However, for many farmers, it is more like calculating the lost crop.

In Zemgale, hail in previous weeks has damaged rapeseed fields in some places by as much as 95%. The hail grains are overgrown with rapeseed pods, and all the seeds have spilled into the ground. Farmers are placing harvesters across the fields in the hope that some part of the harvest will come.

With the word “catastrophe”, the situation in Zemgale is described by the representatives of insurers, who these days survey the fields and the amounts of insurance compensations to be paid at the expense.

Losses and lost crops also for cereal growers. The heavy rains of June heal large fields of grasslands.

TV3 News at At 20.00 you will learn more about the problems of farmers.

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