Winter cereal producers, in Paraná, should be aware of the possibility of damage with late frosts

Producers of winter cereals, such as wheat, oats and barley, should be aware of the possibility of damage due to late frosts in the flowering and earing phase of crops, due to the onset of winter. The alert was made by the Institute of Rural Development of Paraná (IDR-Paraná).

IDR-Paraná meteorologist Ângela Costa says that meteorological models cannot predict the occurrence of extreme events so far in advance, such as excessive rain, dry spells with extreme temperatures that are too low or too high.

“Therefore, we cannot estimate the loss in money as in productivity. There is no way to know the proportion of the phenomenon The boy that will affect the one in the field”, he explains.

The meteorologist assesses that there is no way to avoid economic losses, as the crops are already implanted on a large scale in the field and do not have emergency protection. “As opposed to small-scale crops such as newly planted coffee, nurseries, tropical fruit seedlings such as avocados and mangoes,” she explains.