“The situation is tragic,” he said, saying it is the fourth year of drought this year.
If Cyprus is not detached from the weather, we will soon not be talking about precision in food, but about food insecurity, the Secretary -General of the NRD, Panikos Hambas, told CIPE, noting the need for immediate and medium -term radical measures.
“The situation is tragic,” he said, saying it is the fourth year of drought this year.
Asked about this, he said that many producers who sow hay for feed purposes, seeing that the seeds are yellow before they can grow up, leading to reaping them as fresh, so their performance is much smaller.
He noted that yesterday’s rain may have been beneficial in some cases where the spartans were still green, but it was already too late for those who already set up or for the plants that turned.
Responding to whether this will lead to prices for prices for breeders and consequently the products reaching consumers, Mr Hambas said that “we will not talk about precision, but for food insecurity. We will look for food, “he said.
The aim should be to detach the farmers from the weather, he said, noting the need for large investment for the maintenance of dams, for new dams and many desalination units.
“You can’t cut water from the farmer to give the golf stadiums from waterfalls,” he said, adding that it should be mandatory for hotels to have desalination units.
He also added that he was urgent to resolve the issue of the pipeline from the Wastewater Treatment Plant to the Milia to the areas of Geri, Dali, Libia, Athienou, areas that produce feed for livestock farms, for milk production, as this can be used.