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German harvest battered by drought, heatwave: farmers' association
by Staff Writers
Berlin (AFP) Aug 18, 2015


Largest Polish river hits record-low level amid drought
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 18, 2015 - Poland's longest river, the Vistula, on Tuesday hit its lowest water level in more than 200 years because of a drought ravaging the country, a weather official said.

Its level in Warsaw fell to 50 centimetres (20 inches), the lowest since records began in 1789, according to Grzegorz Walijewski, a hydrologist at Poland's IMGW weather institute.

He added that the water level, which usually averages 237 centimetres in the capital but reached a high of 787 centimetres in 1960, would continue to drop in the coming days.

The Vistula, which is the EU member's longest river at more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles), splits the country in half and deposits in the Baltic Sea.

Warsaw officials have taken advantage of the drought, which has hit the farm sector hard, to hold an archeological dig on the Vistula that is turning up new objects every day.

This year's grain, fruit and vegetable harvests in Germany have been reduced by droughts in key areas and by the long summer heatwave, the national farmers' association DBV said Tuesday.

"The severe drought seen in large parts of Germany since May has left its mark on the grain harvest," DBV said in a statement.

Farmers were estimated to have harvested only 46.5 million tonnes of grain this year, a shortfall of 11 percent from last year's record 52 million tonnes, it said.

The heatwave and drought have also battered other crops, such as rapeseed, fruits and vegetables, the DBV continued.

Farmers were expecting to harvest 885,000 tonnes of apples, for example, a drop of 21 percent from last year.

And the asparagus harvest was down five percent on the year at 108,000 tonnes.

"The average volumes of harvests hide the dramatic problems faced by businesses in those regions that have been hardest hit by the drought," said the association's president Joachim Rukwied.

In the regional states of Bavaria, Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate, for example, and the eastern states, the wheat harvest was down by between 15 and 30 percent year-on-year, he said.

"The ongoing drought in August is also harming crops that are still growing such as corn and sugar beets, grazing land and forage crops. Here, irreparable damage has already been done," Rukwied said.

Farmers also complained of price pressures following the introduction at the start of the year of a national minimum wage which is pushing up their costs, the DBV said.

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