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5. Sustainable Agriculture

Climate impact on crops

↑ or ↓ rainfall ↑ temperatures High humidity ↑ sea levels and
salinity in soil
Lettuce • ↑ destruction of crop in open fields • Wilting and heat stress • Rapid growth rates
(St Lucia) • soil erosion and landslides on • Early maturation and ↓ crop • Tip burn
elevated areas duration • Calcium deficiencies
• Unusable crops: due to bolting,
loss of colour and bitterness

Cabbage As above • Decline in seed production ↑ Pests: cabbage budworm,
(St Lucia) • Lower dry matter content cabbage looper, cabbage wh
• Lower yields ite butterfly, diamond back
moth, fall armyworm and
leaf miners

Bell As above • Vulnerable to pest infestations Late Blight, Fusarium Wi Crop does not
Peppers due to high transpiration rates in Bacterial Wilt perform well in
(St Lucia) germination and transplanting saline conditions

Tomato • Impacted by drought conditions • Require high lands that are lower
(St Lucia) • Risk of flooding in temperature

Sweet • Less impacted by hurricanes Positive change:
Potato (underground) • Increased biomass (32-37%) with
(St Lucia) • Can be grown on marginal ground 2.8% increase in temperature
• Increases potato weevil will impact • Increased yields (2050 and 2070 St
yields particularly in droughts Lucia CARIBSAVE climate model
Dasheen • High moisture plant will not tolerate Negative impact
(St Lucia) drought well (high stress)

Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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