Affected by drought and extreme weather, the output of crops in the United States or a decrease of one -third

According to the Washington Post on September 5th local time, after the assessment of farmers, agricultural economists, and other experts, the drought and extreme weather in the United States caused severe damage to many crops, fruits and vegetables.The American Agricultural Federation stated that compared with last year, American crop output may fall by one -third.

Meteorologists of the Ministry of Agriculture in the United States said that in the past 101 weeks, drought has devoured 40%of regions in the United States.According to Rabobank analysts that collect data from the commodity market data, US corn production may fall to the lowest level since 2012. Among them, the harvest of hard red winter wheat will reach the lowest since 1963.The rice harvest in California only reaches half of the normal year.

In addition, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture, in Texas, due to the low harvest, cotton farmers have given up nearly 70%of crops.

Source: CCTV News

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