It's Time To Drought In California

The drought in California has effected many people over the past year. The whole state is hurting and yearning for water but there is one specific group of living things, animals and people, who are suffering the most. The farmers growing California food and the farm animals providing our food are suffering the most during this horrific drought. California’s farmers are in desperate need to keep crops alive and supply their livestock with adequate amounts of water. California farmland has not been saturated enough to sustain crops any more and this is causing a decrease in amounts of produce produced and shipped off to other states. Including decreased amounts of crops produced, the prices of these specific California grown crops has increased, as seen in supermarkets. Obviously due to a plant’s chemistry, crops such as produce, need water to reproduce and stay alive. Without that source of water, it is difficult to keep crops, especially large amounts, alive during this drought. This causes a decrease in production and sales in the farming industry. There are farmers, who grow for local and nation wide companies, who cannot produce enough crops to sustain these companies and end up …show more content…
Over the years the ground collects water to use for future growth but since California has been struggling with long dry spells, the ground is unsaturated making it difficult to produce crops efficiently. The ground, as well as the crops, then need extra water, that California most likely do not have, to help grow efficiently. Having inefficient working land causes a decrease in sales to other states and the amount of produce being shipped. For example, avocados are mainly grown in California and other states like getting them shipped to them, but with this drought most avocado farms are struggling and cannot sustain the country’s avocado