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Heavy salt spray seen to spoil Kagman crops
Heavy salt spray thrown up by the intense winds of Tropical Storm Bavi over the weekend is expected to spoil the crops in the Kagman commercial plot, a large supplier to the Garapan Public Market, according to a CNMI Farmer’s Cooperative official yesterday.
Co-op secretary Isidoro Cabrera explained that the heavy salt sprays from the waves around Tank Beach were blown inland during the storm.
This would “definitely harm” several plant crops, he said. “Production will be low. Some of the crops will completely die out,” he said.
Bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and tender leaf greens, he said, would be hit.
According to him, 30 to 40 farmers grow crops around the Kagman commercial farm plot.
The effects of the salt spray, he said, would be seen in the next several days, when the sun comes out.
“It’s going to be just like an oven. The leaf will turn brown, even though the plants are still standing,” he said.
Cabrera said most, if not “99 percent” of Kagman commercial plot farmers, are members of the co-op.
“It’s going to affect the co-op. We are going to get less produce. But this is normal [after a storm]. In another 20 to…40 days we’ll be back,” given there are no other storms, he said.
