Climate Adaptation
100-Year Drought Hits Poor EU Region Already Reeling from Virus
- EU’s eastern countries suffering from record dry spell
- Agriculture becomes political issue again as EU talks budget
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First the virus lockdown shuttered the two dairies where farmer Gavrila Tuchilus sells the milk from his 1,500 cows. Then his fields dried up, forcing him to abandon his barley crop for the first time in 39 years.
“A double war is taking place,” said Tuchilus, from Matca, a village in southeast Romania. “It’s a war against the invisible Covid-19 and a war with the drought.”