Ash worries for livestock, crops
Article by April 13, 2021
Livestock and crop farmers reported Monday the early impact of the La Soufriere volcanic eruption’s fallout, hoping that the long-term effects will not be significant.
Farmers in the north of the island were more seriously affected by heavy ashfall over three days. Anselm Greene, a farmer on the Spring Hall Land Lease project said the ashfall has been catastrophic to his crops, fearing the long-term effect on crops as plants cannot produce when stifled by dust.
“They need to be free of that dust for photosynthesis to take place for the plants to be able to make food to be able to produce the fruits in any meaningful way,” he said.