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Crops wiped out by hail in Shida Kartli, anti-hail rockets ineffective

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Crops wiped out by hail in Shida Kartli, anti-hail rockets ineffective

By DFWatch staff| 2016-05-31T23:05:50+04:00 May 30th, 2016|Categories: Environment|Tags: anti-hail system, damage to crops due to hail, Delta research center, Tina Khidasheli|

(Delta.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Crops were destroyed by a hailstorm in several municipalities of Georgia’s Shida Kartli province on May 26. In the hardest hit village Ebnisi the harvest was almost completely devastated. The local municipality is now estimating the cost of the damage. […]

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Anti-hail rockets deployed to save crops in Georgia

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Anti-hail rockets deployed to save crops in Georgia

By DFWatch staff| 2015-05-31T12:00:48+04:00 May 29th, 2015|Categories: Environment|Tags: 2015 summer weather season, anti-hail system, damage to crops due to hail|

(Delta.) TBILISI, DFWatch–An anti-hail system was activated yesterday and for the first time helped partly prevent a hailstorm from destroying harvest in Kakheti. But part of the harvest was destroyed because the system started functioning 20 minutes late. The State Security […]