Farmers lambast ‘catastrophic’ water cuts

Severe reductions in water supply to agriculture will have devastating consequences for farmers and consumers alike, agricultural association president Kyriakos Kailas cautioned on Saturday.

Kailas described the scale of the cuts as “catastrophic”, questioning how farmers are expected to survive amid deepening water scarcity.

“With water cuts, those farmers who have boreholes will produce very little, and what they do produce will reach consumers at much higher prices because the cost will be enormous,” he said.