The Galician primary sector complains of economic losses due to climate change

To the despoblación, the primary sector Galician suffers the repercussions of the climatic change. Like this it has recognised it Unións Agricultural, through the economic program European Life, after studying during two years the economic and environingingmental threat of the climate on the rural surroundings Galician. Of the study gives off that 80% of the workers of the horticultural sector, forestry, grazier and vitivinícola admit that the atmospheric phenomena prejudice the crops and the livestock. In concrete, the rise of 1,5 degrees of the half temperature, during the last 30 years, generates to his time an increase of the plagues, as well as physiological changes, shortage hídrica and of pastures, these last especially for the subsector grazier that supposes 61% in front of more than 34% that devotes to the crop, concerning the total of the production of the Galician field. Therefore, in the Autonomous Community discerns a greater presence of illnesses like the blue tongue, the fever hemorrágica Crime-Congo and the bird flu, something that distresses to the graziers. It gives the circumstance that the subsector bovine has 43% of the production grazier, of which 14% corresponds to the production of meat and 38% remaining to the milk of cow.

Regarding the sector viticultor, the advance of the spring, because of the climatic change, exerts a positive function and, at the same time, another that is not it so much. This is in bold strokes, the face and the cross that affect to the production vinícola. By a part, brakes the risk of damage fruit of the last rains of September and advances the vintage. On the other hand, the almost disappearance of the frosts favours the production and contributes to improve the quality of the grape, although the graduation of the wine go to more. The secretary of Rural Development of Unións Agricultural, Xacobo Feixoo, ensures that to fault of the last conclusions -the program finalises the next 31 December-, the new climatic conditions will favour the crop of tintos Galician, that will include varieties like the used in the denominations of origin Rioja and Bank of the Duero, in addition to duplicating the surface vinícola in to the zone of the Ribeiro and convert Or Carballiño (Ourense) in apt zone for his crop. In general, the climatic change has increased the rhythm of extinction of species of two or three to 100 daily. To follow this tendency, around the middle of century will have extinguished 30% of the existent. Likewise, the scientists of the campaign of the European Community show the relation between rise of the temperature and organic loss in the floor. The study estimates that the floors agroforestryales possess until 20% of organic matter. Therefore, it calculates that by each degree that go up the temperature lose 7% of organic carbon in the terrain.

Finally, the atmospheric modifications give place to changes in the incidence and severity of the illnesses. The increase of the wintry temperature will promote the survival of funguses, bacteria, insects and nematodes fotopatógenos, that would damage the cultured surface of Galicia. If the sector grazier and horticultural will experience consequences nefastas, the forestry, that occupies 65% of the autonomic territory, will bear specific threats like the expansion of the pine, when can go up of altitude in the winters and the problematic of the drought in the encina, up to now only in Mediterranean zones, in addition to the plagues of pulgones.