Sa Pobla rice crop has been one of its worst

SA POBLA
THE rice crop harvest in Sa Pobla has been paricularly bad this year, with some farms reporting they haven't collected a single grain.
The culprit, explained agricultural cooperatives in the municipality, has been the particularly high temperatures in August. Rice is unable to tolerate the levels of 40 degrees centigrade and over which were registered this year.

When rice is planted away from natural wetlands where it fares best, the crop needs constant watering.
But when the temperatures are so high, said the cooperatives, the effect of pouring water onto the rice crop has the same effect as if boiling water were being thrown on it. “Fortunately supplies from previous years (rice in its husk can last up to seven years in storage) will tide us over,” said a spokesman.