Recent rains leave rice growers “hopeful”

The rice growers of Seville are now “hopeful” of an “almost normal harvest” after the latest rains that fell during Holy Week in the province as a result of the passage of the storm ‘Nelson’.

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This was stated by the president of the Federation of Rice Growers of Seville, Mauricio Soler, who positively evaluated the new forecasts, ensuring that they “have changed a lot” with respect to what they anticipated before Easter.

“181 cubic hectometres are entering in 24 hours, which means that we are ten points above the volume dammed a week ago, and, in addition, we have one and a half points more than the year we planted 50% two years ago,” Soler has expressed.

In this regard, the president of the Federation has assured that he feels “very excited”, since, as he has pointed out, he foresees a harvest “not of 100%”, but of “the maximum possible”.

Likewise, Soler has reported that they are waiting for the next meeting of the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation (CHG), although “I understand that a significant area of ​​rice is going to be planted this year in the marshes,” he added.

“We will recover our 5,000 jobs and we will give life to our towns again. So we are very excited and very hopeful,” he concluded.

The reservoirs of the Guadalquivir basin have received some 1,043 cubic hectometres (hm3) of water with the rains that the storm Nelson has brought to Andalusia in the last week, of which 95% (988 hm3) fell from last Holy Thursday, according to data from the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation (CHG) collected on the website of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.

These reservoirs now have 3,472 hm3 of water, which represents 43.25% of their total capacity of 8,034 hm3.

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