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Agriculture, 862 million damages due to late frosts

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ROME (ITALPRESS) – Damages to the summer and spring fruit sector caused by the late frosts of March and April 2021 amounted to a total of 862 million: specifically, 454 million are damages for product loss, to which are added those relating to the of processing, which exceed 150 million and an estimated loss in value of the related industries at 258 million. These are the main results of the report produced by the CSO Italy Centro Servizi Ortofrutticoli on the recommendation of the Agri-food Cooperative Alliance, which for the first time makes a detailed calculation of the estimates of frost damage for apricots, peaches, plums and cherries. Never before have climatic events had such devastating impacts on all crops and at the same time in all major national production areas, causing such significant losses at the national level. Damages that are even more penalizing in those areas that were hit by frost last year and that are facing new economic losses for the second consecutive year. According to the coordinator of the fruit and vegetable sector of Alleanza Cooperative Agroalimentari, Davide Vernocchi, “the relevance of the phenomenon and the impact on the national fruit and vegetable sector deriving from the climatic trend of recent months, has been somewhat underestimated in our opinion”. Faced with such a delicate and compromised framework, Vernocchi launches an appeal to consume fruit grown and processed in Italy. “Our hope is that even in Italy, distribution will give space and a fair value to the made in Italy production, just as happens in France, where consumers agree to pay up to 2 euros more per kilo for their strawberries, in order to reward and defend national production “. (ITALPRESS). ads / com 11-May-21 18:24

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