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Drought is becoming a more serious challenge every year, affecting up to 55 million people worldwide and posing a major threat to animals and plants. Drought stress leads to biochemical and physiological changes in plants, reducing nutrient levels and damaging the ecosystem, thus affecting human hea...
The shortage of precipitation is driving Lithuania towards a meteorological drought, the country's Hydrometeorological Service has warned.
Lithuania's Hydrometeorological Service has declared a national hydrological drought, the country's Environment Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Lithuanian farmers who have incurred drought-related losses cannot expect compensation from the European Union as it's an insured event, Vice Minister of Agriculture Venantas Griciunas says.
