Megadrought forcing farmers to abandon fields
Farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley are struggling with the megadrought. It is the most productive agricultural region globally, where farms grow 250 different crops on 17% of the nation’s irrigated land. … California regulators cut farmers’ water allotments by a third due to low reservoir levels.
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