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		</div><p>Drought now affects 60% of the Spanish countryside, with crops like wheat and barley in four regions likely to fail entirely, the main Spanish farmers association said on Thursday.</p>
<p>Spain’s long-term drought is causing “irreversible losses” to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops, the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers Organisations said in a new report, with wheat and barley in four major growing regions “written off” and badly affected in three more.</p>
<p>Nuts and vineyards were struggling and olives will be badly affected if rain does not arrive in the next few weeks, the report added.</p>
<p>The drought was also affecting farmers’ ability to irrigate corn, sunflowers, rice and cotton, likely leading to reduced sowing of these crops over the summer, it added.</p>
<p>Three years of very low rainfall and high temperatures put Spain officially into long-term drought, the country’s weather agency said last month.</p>
<p>Last year was Spain’s sixth driest and the hottest since records began in 1961.</p>
<p>Water levels in the reservoirs of Andalusia have hit 30%. The regional capital, Seville, may face drinking water restrictions by the summer if not enough rain falls.</p>
<p>Farmers will struggle to feed cattle due to dried-up pasture, the farmers’ association further warned in its report.</p>
<p>This will be the third consecutive season without honey for beekeepers, as bees lack vegetation and flowers to feed from in the mountains due to a shortage of water.</p>
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