Last weekend, Israel was hit by snow storms, and growers based in the Carmel Coast were severely affected. Many hectares of vegetables and fruit trees were destroyed. The first estimates point to losses of about a million NIS (over 200,000 Euro).Winds destroyed plastic coverings and nets, leaving the crops unprotected. The weather affected bananas, peppers and cucumbers, among other crops.According to sources within the sector, pepper growers reported that the flowers were burned from the cold. At the Carmel Coast there are also thousands of hectares of banana plantations, but not everything is damaged; only the bananas that were unprotected. There had been attempts to strengthen the nets and plastic coverings of greenhouses, but apart from that, not a lot could be done.

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