Wind gusts destroy banana plantations in Montecristi

[Dolores]

The passing trough that brought strong wind gusts to Montecristi destroyed hundreds of banana and plantain trees in Monte Cristi, causing million-peso losses.

Listin Diario reports that plantain producers in the Santa María area of Montecristi are appealing to the government for help. “We ask the president and the Minister of Agriculture to come to our aid, because these are million-dollar losses that we have now,” said Manuel Antonio Martínez, one of the producers who was affected.

Luis Vázquez Jiménez told Listin Diario that he lost more than 30 tareas planted with bananas (1 tarea = 629 square meters), and said there are many more farmers in similar situations in the area.

“We call on the President to see if he will give us a helping hand. We as young people starting to work and see what happened to us, we are working to pay...

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[bob saunders]

We had a number of trees uprooted and houses damaged in Jarabacoa by those winds that seem to circle and come from different directions than normal. Not quite tornado like.

 

[chico bill]

Yeah that was pretty intense - all the Flamboyant trees (Delonix regia) dropped their annoying pods in the high gusts. Some of those pods get pretty darn large and can hurt if they plunk you in the head or neck.
They are pretty trees but they are most annoying

 

[windeguy]

Sure it wasn't a tornado? Haiti had one. Next they will probably have a volcano.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/tornado-haiti-leaves-more-than-300-families-homeless-2024-05-23/