Inter Press ServiceDrought puts Mauritius farmers under pressure https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/drought-puts-mauritius-farmers-under-pressure/ News and Views from the Global South Mon, 18 May 2026 17:52:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Drought puts Mauritius farmers under pressure https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/drought-puts-mauritius-farmers-under-pressure/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/drought-puts-mauritius-farmers-under-pressure/#respond Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:21:15 +0000 IPS Correspondents http://ipsnews.wpengine.com/?p=108847

By IPS Correspondents
Mar 22 2012 (IPS)

Watercress farmers in Mauritius are finding it difficult to keep their activity going after sixty years because of a lack of water. Nasseem Ackbarally reports that 30 families working on one of the biggest watercress farm in the island can no longer cultivate watercress because there is no water in their pond.

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