The drought wave continues to inflict great damage in the world, and these damages have reached the lungs of the Earth, which has become clearly deteriorating due to the lack of water levels and rising temperatures, which makes climate change threaten the world with serious damage.
In Bolivia, the drought has turned Lake Popo into a huge desert, and the mayor of the town, Erasmo Zona, said: “We were very affected because we lived on fishing, and we feel fatherless and motherless.
According to Zona, more than 10 years ago the area of the lake reached 2337 kilometers with a depth of 2.4 meters, and it began to dry in 2013, when drought and lack of rains led to a decrease in its flow, and the severity of this natural disaster also had its impact on Lake Oro Oro, as its area decreased from 250 square kilometers to 10 kilometers.
In Argentina, the drought affected wheat production in the country with losses of up to 900 million dollars, and many experts warned that the loss of production capacity will affect not only agricultural wealth but also animals that will not find their food.
“Preliminary estimates of the economic losses caused by the lack of rains on wheat can reach 900 million dollars,”said Lorena d’angelo, market analyst at AZ-Group. “This figure comes after taking into account the loss of three million tons in the harvest, from the initially estimated 18 million tons to 15 million tons, and current grain prices,” she warned, according to the Argentine newspaper infopay.
He also clarified that these calculations do not take into account the shipments that will be made this year in anticipation of last season. At various times, the government has extended shipments, which affected shipments abroad for the production of 2022/2023. In the first nine months of the year, 1,698,000 tons were sent abroad, a decrease of 85.6% compared to the same period in 2022, when 12,634,900 tons were sent.
The drought also led to an increase in olive oil prices in Spain after affecting a third of production, and olive oil prices rose by 67% in September compared to the same month of 2022, the largest year-on-year increase in 21 years, and increased by 10.1% compared to August, according to consumer price index Statistics data published this month.
The price of olive oil began its current upward trajectory in April 2021, where an annual increase of 2% was recorded, and then expanded to 5% in May. Since then, for 28 consecutive months.
