Paraguay

Coldest Paraguay Winter on Record Obliterates Crops
Reuters, July 24, 2000

The coldest winter in Paraguay's history destroyed 90 percent of the landlocked South American country's seasonal agriculture production over the past two weeks, the Agriculture Ministry said. "These last two weeks were fatal for our producers, over all for those in the north and central zones, where we have fruit and vegetable crops that were almost totally impacted," Alberto Mayeregger, head of the ministry's Agronomy Institute, told reporters.