2,500 #cattle dead due to #drought in #Putaendo, #Chile

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2500 head of cattle have died in Putaendo because of the worst water crisis in decades, according to local farmers and ranchers, who ask agriculture minister Antonio Walker to declare an agricultural emergency .

More than a hundred muleteers and breeders from the Putaendo area met with the mayor of the commune, councilors and the deputy of the Frente Amplio for the 6th district, Diego Ibáñez, to demonstrate the problems that the drought is afflicting them, especially with the Death of their animals

According to estimates, 30% of minor and major cattle have been lost. Victor Ramírez, farmer and rancher, said that as a result of this crisis he has no fodder or water.

Courtesy of biobiochile.cl

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