“At first, there was the frost and we lost a lot of blossoms. Then we had a very severe hailstorm when the fruits were small,” grimaces Turkish citrus farmer Aleaddin Cogal.

“Then we were hit by a heatwave and the sun was so intense that it literally boiled the fruit, killing it,” says the 42-year-old, describing a string of extreme weather events that have ravaged his lemon plantation in the southern Adana region, one of Turkey’s most important agricultural areas.

“We lost nearly 40 percent of our produce due to these three disasters,” he says, his trees laden with green fruits, their skin split open or showing ugly brown blisters from August’s withering heatwave.

Kemal Siga, one of the workers who was working when temperatures peaked last month, said it was as if the crop had been rav

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