Apple Farmer in India

Venugopal, an apple farmer, waters his crops. He is one of the many affected by climate change which is decimating the apples production.

Unique identifier: GP01XY5

Type: Image

Shoot date: 18/05/2009

Locations: Asia, Himachal Pradesh, India

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Peter Caton

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Climate Voices from Farmers in India

Among many others in India and elsewhere, apple farmers are being heavily affected by climate change impacts. Due to global warming, erratic weather patterns have decimated the apple production affecting the local economy. New hail phenomena is destroying the harvests and the farmers are increasingly having to use protection nets over their trees.

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