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5. Sustainable Agriculture
Climate impact on crops
↑ or ↓ rainfall ↑ temperatures High humidity
Ginger • Soft rot/rhizome rot and collapsed stems caused by heavy rain after planting
(Jamaica) • Other diseases are caused by and spread through flooded, poorly drained soil and high
temperatures including bacterial wilt, leaf spot, storage rot
Tumeric • As above including leaf blotch
(Jamaica) • Drought will decrease chlorophyl content and reduce the size of leaves
and roots.
Goats • Increased spread of disease and • Impacting growth, milk and
(Jamaica) parasites ↑ mortality and ↓ meat production
productivity in lactating goats • Solar radiation impacts
• Confined goats at risk of drowning quality of milk
Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project
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