Hundreds of hectares of potato and cabbage production are partially destroyed by the lack of water and the frosts in western Portugal, where farmers are still calculating the damage, as reported last Friday by the West Professional Horticulture Association.
As for the the cabbage, open gound production is affected since the "cold froze the cabbage heart", destroying it, explained António Gomes, while "low temperatures inside greenhouses delay the cultivation's development", specially of tomato, cucumber and peppers.