Megadrought Forcing Farmers To Abandon Fields
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California regulators cut farmers' water allotments by a third due to low reservoir levels.
Farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley are struggling with the megadrought. It is the most productive agricultural region in the world, where farms grow 250 different crops on 17% of the nation's irrigated land.
"It is very serious in the San Joaquin Valley," said Professor Daniel Sumner, an agricultural economist at UC Davis.
California regulators cut farmers' water allotments by a third due to low reservoir levels.
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