The hail in Shandong caused great damage to crops. what do you think?

On the evening of May 17, 2020, strong convective weather occurred in some parts of Shandong. Hail disasters occurred in Jinan, Qingdao, Weifang, Dezhou, Binzhou, Dongying, Zibo, Tai 'an and Linyi. Moreover, in some places, hail is the size of an egg, and falling to the ground will cause damage to everything, especially crops. For this natural disaster, some crops with high economic value can be solved through hail net in advance. Such as grapes and cherries, can also prevent birds from hurting. Especially for grapes planted in greenhouses, it is convenient and safe to use hail net. Because of this natural disaster, it will do great harm to all open-air crops. Light fruit was smashed, and heavy crop plants fell and broke, resulting in serious yield reduction or no grain harvest.

In this extreme weather, the damage degree of crops usually depends on the size of hail. If the hail is too heavy this time, the damage to crops will be very serious. However, we must also save ourselves. For example, last year, our local area suffered from extreme wind and hail, and the crops affected by the hail disaster were in a mess. What impressed me more was my friend's greenhouse grapes, which were seriously affected. After the disaster, my friend's vineyard began to clear. For example, arrange grape vines, straighten out branches and vines, arrange scaffolding reasonably, protect existing leaves and prune reasonably. For the worthless grape grains damaged by hail, cut them down to reduce the load on the vine, and combine the whole ear with sparse grains to restore the tree as soon as possible, so as to promote the production in the coming year without being affected.

However, there are many kinds of crops, and the losses caused by this meteorological disaster are different from the follow-up work. Otherwise, as the old saying goes, eating depends on the weather. Although there are means to prevent this hail disaster, the added value of more crops is relatively low, so it is unrealistic to buy insurance as hail prevention facilities. We farmers can only do our best to deal with the aftermath of the affected crops. If we can recover, we will recover some. If we are seriously damaged, we must clean it up in time. If we can replant, we will replant some crops to minimize some losses. Looking forward to good weather and harmonious coexistence between man and nature.