La Seca, or `dieback¿: a plague destroying meadow lands in Spain
One of the most worrisome issues in agriculture is La Seca ('dieback¿). It¿s an incurable disease that has, for several decades, destroyed nearly half a million holm and cork oak forests in Andalusia. In the Huelvan region of Andévalo, half of the forests¿ surface area has already disappeared. The death of the meadow lands in Spain will mean the end of oak plantations and, in good part, Iberian ham, given that pigs will not have any acorns to eat.
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One of the most worrisome issues in agriculture is La Seca ('dieback¿). It¿s an incurable disease that has, for several decades, destroyed nearly half a million holm and cork oak forests in Andalusia. In the Huelvan region of Andévalo, half of the forests¿ surface area has already disappeared. The death of the meadow lands in Spain will mean the end of oak plantations and, in good part, Iberian ham, given that pigs will not have any acorns to eat.
La Seca ('dieback¿) is a well-known, incurable disease caused by a fungus in the trees¿ roots which prevents them from absorbing water and nutrients. The trees¿ weakness is due, among other factors, to climate change and to overexploitation of meadow lands. Once the fungus takes root, the tree withers and dies.
La Seca has depleted almost half a million holm and cork oak forests in the last decade in Huelva¿an alarming situation in Andévalo¿s case. The 4,600 livestock farms aimed at rearing Iberian pigs in Huelva are suffering greatly as a result of the plague, as well as the owners of rural lodgings in the mountains.
