Vegetable farmers suffer great losses in flood-hit southern Brazil

Vegetable farmers are suffering great losses as rain-triggered floods hit Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil, damaging local facilities and flooding the farmland.

Some 35 kilometers from Porto Alegre in Sao Leopoldo, the Rio dos Sinos river, with soaring water levels, flooded large stretches of farmland.

Agriculture in the area has been badly hit by the catastrophic floods, especially in the harve