摘要:Drought often creates economic and financial difficulties for agricultural producers. Drought that
persists for several years can create substantial and devastating agronomic difficulties and genuine
economic hardship for agricultural producers and agriculturally-based businesses in rural communities.
Agricultural producers experience crop production losses and concomitant losses in revenues from
crop sales. Upstream and downstream, agribusinesses experience reductions in the demand for
agricultural inputs such as fertilizer and machinery and reductions in throughput in grain and other crop
handling facilities. Other rural businesses also face declines in the need for their products.