Spanish agriculture is suffering from water shortages due to the meteorological drought caused by the lack of rainfall and high temperatures. In many areas this will lead to a change in the crop map.
Fig. 1. Percentage of water in reservoirs as of 7 June 2022
Fig. 2. Spain's water reserve as of 7 June 2022
Farmers’ organizations estimate large cuts in the land area of a purely irrigated crop (such as rice in Andalucía and Extremadura), but not in Mediterranean coastal areas, where sowing is being delayed due to excess humidity in many plots. In Andalucía, rice sowings will be between 8,000 and 10,000 hectares, compared to around 22,000 hectares last season, and in Extremadura, they will fall from 24,000 to 2,000 hectares.