Bad weather in Spain, stone fruit and vegetable harvesting interrupted

Published 2023년 5월 25일

Tridge summary

Heavy storms in Emilia Romagna, Italy, and the Valencian community in Spain, while welcomed for combating drought, have caused significant damage to the fruit and vegetable sector. The storms have disrupted harvesting of stone fruit and seasonal vegetables, leading to crop losses and damage to cherries. While the rains are beneficial for certain crops like grapes, almonds, carobs, and olives, excessive humidity and lack of solar radiation could harm stone fruits, seasonal vegetables, citrus fruits, and grapes. The prolonged rains could also potentially limit production volumes. However, the rains will allow for cost savings on irrigation, recharging of basins and aquifers, and tree cleaning.

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Original content

Flooded fields, broken river banks, damaged infrastructure. The scenario seems very similar to that experienced in the last few days in Emilia Romagna, however we find it again in the Valencian community in Spain (Alicante and Valencia in particular). If the rains were expected by the producers to combat the drought, phenomena were not expected climate of this magnitude. The storms, also conventionally defined as DANA (Depresión Aislada de Niveles Altos or a climatic phenomenon with heavy rains and disastrous effects), have poured onto the land in recent days with very serious consequences for the fruit and vegetable sector. As stated in a communication from the association Ava Asaja: "The storm interrupted the harvest of stone fruit (peach, nectarine, plum, apricot, etc.) and seasonal vegetables (onion, potato, artichoke, broccoli, etc.)". For all crops that they were at the optimal moment of ripeness, therefore about to be harvested, Ava Asaja foresees "crop losses due to ...

Source: Italiafruit