Frosts affect more than 40% of the extra-early fruit in the Murcia region
The Secretary of Agriculture of the Union of Small Farmers (UPA), Antonio Moreno, estimated that the repeated frosts of the last days in large cultivation areas of the Region of Murcia, where the thermometers have fallen to negative values, had affected more than 40% of the flowering of the extra-early fruit in this region. In some municipalities of the largest area of stone fruit production in the region, Cieza, in the Vega Alta and in the vicinity of Calasparra, temperatures fell to almost -4 degrees, while in areas of the Altiplano and the Northwest, they reached -6 and -7 degrees.
According to Moreno, the frosts would have affected the extra-early peach and nectarine varieties the most, as well as some apricots and donut peach varieties.
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