Published on Dec 14, 2012
http://www.euronews.com/ The second harvest of the year is being prepared in potato fields in Xylophagou, a speciality of the region in the south of Cyprus.
But water from the surrounding dams isn't enough to sustain crops.
To compensate, farmers pump the subsoil via illegal wells.
Farmer Kostas Karagiannis told euronews about the difficulties of growing the crop.
"Potatoes need a lot of water, so we create places to store water from our wells."
Sometimes the water we draw from the wells is salty. To irrigate our crops with water, we mix it with dam water to reduce the amount of salt."
.....But water from the surrounding dams isn't enough to sustain crops.
To compensate, farmers pump the subsoil via illegal wells.
Farmer Kostas Karagiannis told euronews about the difficulties of growing the crop.
"Potatoes need a lot of water, so we create places to store water from our wells."
Sometimes the water we draw from the wells is salty. To irrigate our crops with water, we mix it with dam water to reduce the amount of salt."
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