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Extreme weather including droughts and floods has crippled agriculture in Greece Greece: Wildfires hit Attica region amidst heatwave Greece has experienced intense heat and drought for much of their summer. The major weather events have had a knock-on effect for most farmers with some even contemplating giving it all up. Unharvested crops lie sitting in fields, still clogged with mud from last year's floods.
Farmers like Achilleas Gerotolios, who owns a farm in the village of Sotirio, are in such a dire state that he is even considering giving it all up. Even farms who managed to survive the floods have another problem as temperatures hit up to 40 C causing crops to brown and be stunted. Extreme weather a knock-on effect for most farmers with some even contemplating giving it all up Gerotolios' wife, Eleni Archonti describes the weather in Greece as 'either drought or flooding', she told.
.. Jessica Knibbs.
