Dnoticias.pt – 02/04/2024It is with a focus on climate change that PAN's candidacy for the regional elections defends a commitment to resistant orchards.

"With climate change, the minimum temperatures that some species need to flower and, therefore, bear fruit, are altered and crops such as apples, cherries, chestnuts, sour cherries, among others with rare and important regional varieties, see their end approaching", says Mónica Freitas.The head of the PAN list believes that "the opening and cleaning of areas highly impacted by weeds such as broom and gorse and that are at higher altitude may represent salvation for some crops because they have more suitable temperature and conditions." "That is why it is important to clean weeds and invest in the creation of orchards, using windbreak crops and techniques for retaining water in the soil.", he says. Read the full story here: