The most affected seed is corn, with $21.5 million losses, reported the Agriculture Ministry (Mag).
"The ministry's report summarizes other preliminary studies presented in the past weeks. From an economic loss perspective, bean is second after corn, with losses over $3 million. With over 6.000 damaged hectares, production is expected to be 4.3% less than previously forecasted", reported Elsalvador.com.
Source: elsalvador.com
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October 2008
The rains and floods in the last few days in Honduras have caused over 23,000 hectares of crops to be lost.
According to information from the Department of Agriculture and Farming, most of the loss are beans and corn, and to a lesser degree rice and sorghum.
The greatest damage was in the Comayagua valley, the lower areas of the Southern Region, especially in the Coast of Amates, in the Cortes department and much of Olancho, especially in the El Patuca region.
September 2010
Though Salvadoran producers' forecasts were to exceed the previous year's harvest, the heavy rains have led to huge losses.
El Salvador's Farming Ministry (MAG in Spanish) had initially estimated that losses would be in the region of 30% for basic grains, in particular corn and bean.
October 2011
Crops of corn, beans, rice and sorghum have suffered the most damage after rains hit El Salvador for 10 days.
Government officials have assessed the effects of the storm on plantations throughout the country, and the results are not very optimistic.
The number of bushels of grains that were lost amounts to 1.6 million, as calculated by producers and the Ministry of Agriculture, who is in charge of the analysis.
September 2010
The Ministry of Agriculture forecasts $3.2 million worth of losses, mainly in crops of white corn.
The heavy rains that have been falling since 28 August have flattened 4,852 hectares of corn, which represents a loss of $2.6 million.
The Minister for Agriculture, Juan Alfonso De León, explained that while around 300,000 hundred weight of grain will no longer enter the market due to the rain, production is still expected to exceed 29 million sacks in the current harvest, according to Prensalibre.com. "We do not expect to have to resort to an import contingency plan," he said.
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