Red alarm level: Zikade threatens Bavaria's potato harvest massive!
Red alarm level: Zikade threatens Bavaria's potato harvest massive!
Eichstätt, Deutschland - What's going on in Bavaria? Agriculture faces a serious challenge. The Merkur Put the threat to growing potato. Southern Germany is particularly affected, and in Bavaria there has already been a cicada infestation in the districts of Regensburg, Ingolstadt, Augsburg and Munich. This invasive insect brings Stolbur's plant disease, which can have fatal consequences for harvesting.
The zikade damages potatoes, sugar beets, onions and beetroot by transferring pathogens to the plants. "Wilder, rubber -like roots and tubers" are the result, which means that the affected potatoes cannot be marketed - a real certificate of poverty for domestic agriculture. According to the Union of German Potato Management (Unika), there is a risk of massive earnings, quality and warehouse losses, right up to total failures on entire potato areas.
scope of the problem
According to estimates, around 65,000 hectares are classified as cicada places in Germany, which corresponds to approximately a quarter of the entire potato installation area. The Bavarian Farmers' Association expects the zikade to soon spread across all of Bavaria. The effects are already clearly noticeable, and regional agriculture sees the situation as serious. "The yields and the possibility of potato cultivation are massively endangered," warns a representative of the association. Consumers have no choice but to adapt to a reduced availability of potatoes in autumn.Even if the cicada affects agriculture and the consumers do not endanger them directly, it is the case that the crop failures can also have long -term effects on prices and the availability of these important foods.
globalization and invasive species
But why is the zicops spread so rapidly in this country? The Agriculture.de provides interesting insights: Invasive species change the balance in our ecosystems. The spread of foreign species is favored by globalization, worldwide trade and climate change. Pests like the Zikade are not alone when it comes to the threat to our agriculture. Examples such as the Japanese worker and the cherry vinegar fly testify to the variety of challenges that farmers are faced with.
The economic damage that invasive species have already caused in German agriculture and forestry has been over 8 billion euros since 1960. This shows how urgently a prudent use of these challenges is needed. Early warning systems could play a crucial role in containing the spread of invasive species. The time is now!
The SPIEGEL goes, but that other cultures could also be affected. The cicade is another piece of the puzzle in a larger picture of invasive pests that threatens our domestic agriculture. Awareness of this problem should increase among all consumers and farmers, because - literally - we stand at the beginning of a potentially harvesting epidemic.
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