Cherry Farmer in India

Basant Lal is a cherry farmer and explains: "Cherries are not very dark in color due to climate change and erratic weather. Now we have to cover our cherry trees with nets in order to protect them from hailstorm."

Unique identifier: GP01VHZ

Type: Image

Shoot date: 23/05/2009

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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