Discussion Points
- Explain the impact of Hurricane Maria on agriculture in Puerto Rico. Consider both crops and livestock.
- Looking back through the years what has been the trends with agriculture in Puerto Rico?
- Some are turning this horrible situation into a positive for agriculture. Explain their reasoning.
- In your opinion what could be done to help get agriculture back on it's feet in Puerto Rico? Why would your idea be successful?
9 comments:
Agriculture in Puerto Rico is mostly destroyed. Hurricane Maria destroyed 80% of the agriculture. Which roughly translates to 780 million dollars lost. It will take a year at least until the people of Puerto Rico are able to grow crops again. Compared to Hurricane George, who touched down in 1998, Hurricane Maria was much more devastating.
To help Puerto Rico recover its agriculture industry, agriculturalists should mimic the agricultural practices used by the Netherlands to produce more on the limited farmland available such as the use of greenhouses and precision agriculture.
Completely destroyed the flat lands of Puerto Rico farms one farmer claims to of be out 300,000 dollars worth of crops all of his 14,000 trees are down he managed to scrape up a dozen dried ears of corn to feed his chickens.
Something positive though is that now Puerto Rico can update its outdated farming practices.
My idea for helping Puerto Rico is by clearing all the fields first and trying to re plant whatever you can and have the imports of food import seeds and other supplies to aid in the re planting which will help bring back some of what was lost in the storm
While this situation is an economic disaster it ad is leaving many farmers without a source of income t does have it's positives, Government aide will allow the farmers to update their farming practices which will allow for more efficient crop production.
With the agriculture wiped out like that the whole island was not only devastated on the land mass but the economy is going to plummet
This storm reached Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm, some people underestimate the power and danger a storm like this brings. These types of storms rip trees out of the ground, throw large objects with the wind, and it will also blow plants straight out of the ground as well. So when this comes to crop, there are major damages. Hurricane Maria wiped out 80% of the crops in Puerto Rico in just a matter of hours. This also effects the livestock, with no crops there is no food source stable enough to feed the animals
Hurricane Maria had a huge impact on agriculture in Puerto Rico both crop and livestock wise. Most farmers lost everything that was in their fields as well as all their trees. And with livestock, the hurricane did so much damage to the country one farmer doesn't at all know where any of his livestock is and one dairy farmer is dumping 4,000 liters of milk down the drain a day, Which would be 1,000 gallons of milk a day going down the drain. In Puerto Rico, there has been a trend with agriculture and natural disasters. A natural disaster hits the country and they rebuild and once they rebuild another natural disaster comes by and hits them. Some are turning this into a positive situation because they know they'll be able to rebuild and come back stronger than ever.
Hurricane Maria destroyed 780 million dollars worth of agriculture. Rivera a farmer said that they will not have food probably not for 1 or more years to come. Hurricane Irma destroyed 45 million dollars in agricultural production. Staples stocked up the school lunchroom and Walmart also supermarkets but those are all gone. I think will help agriculture get back on its feet by having the United States deliver some seeds or even food so they can get to have something to eat also having the United States help plant some seeds so they can grow so food.
Forests provide lots of nutritious foods and clean oxygen, and are very important to human life.
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