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Jun 5, 2011, 12:14 PM

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Unusual frost recorded on Wednesday June 1 st

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http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/80666.html

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I read the head line before some where else, but just found the story. (this happened 3 days ago)

PUEBLA. At least some 57 thousand hectares of maize, sorghum, peas, beans and beans in the states of Veracruz, Tlaxcala and Puebla were damaged after an unusual frost recorded on Wednesday and Thursday.

Yesterday, a group of 70 farmers came to the capital of Puebla, the seat of executive power, to protest and sue for damage to supports, in addition to reporting delays in the delivery of fertilizers.

In response, Pedro Adalberto Gonzalez, head of the Ministry of Rural Development, said that producers receive thousand 500 thousand 100 pesos per hectare damaged, but said they were only 3 000 hectares which were affected and the Free-eastern region.

He reported that the areas most affected were Serdán City, Tlachichuca, Guadalupe Victoria, Chilchotla, Rafael Lara Grajales, San Salvador El Seco, Soltepec, San Juan Atenco, Oriental, Nopalucan, Tepeyahualco, among others.

In Tlaxcala, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) reported partial damage to 17 000 hectares of maize in the municipalities of Altzayanca, Tocatlán, Xaloztoc, Huamantla Tlaxco, Nanacamilpa, Tlaxco, Calpulalpan and Hueyotlipan.

The delegate of the federal agency, Angel Hernandez Olvera, said it is working with the state government to activate the catastrophic insurance program as normal weather contingency and recovery if there is no support to producers.

In Veracruz, in the Valley and Cofre de Perote, 10 000 hectares of potatoes, beans and corn were damaged. Perote authorities reported that during the early hours of Thursday dropped a freeze in the 22 communities that make up the river, although the most affected were Tenextepec and Totalco. In the first community there were two thousand hectares damaged, and the second thousand 950, although all had more or less damage to the crops.

The mayor of Perote, Juan Manuel Velasquez, pledged to take the steps necessary to help farmers who lost their crops.
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