A report in the Farmers Guardian has confirmed that 2011 was the driest 12 months in England and Wales for 90 years.
The Environment Agency said Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and West Norfolk were still in drought, even though Wales and Scotland had received average rainfall.
Farmers in Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, East Sussex and Kent were also struggling, it said.
Groundwater levels in the Anglian region remained ‘exceptionally low’ and soil in these areas was still not wet enough for widespread recharge to take place, experts said.
The Environment Agency’s head of water resources Trevor Bishop said: “These areas are at risk of impacts from drought in spring and summer 2012.”
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