Bad weather affects the price of truffles in Italy, rises to 4000 euros per kg

Bad weather does not only damage the price of white truffles, which at the beginning of the harvest reached 4000 euros per kilo for sizes over 50 grams due to the long drought that slowed the birth of the precious tuber. This is what emerges from Coldiretti's analysis on the occasion of the civil protection alert in 8 regions suitable for harvesting, from the Marche to Calabria, from Umbria to Molise, from Abruzzo to Tuscany up to Lazio. These are - underlines Coldiretti - record prices, even double those of the most favorable years, registered on the Aqualagna white truffle exchange, the first to indicate the values of the new season. To raise the price were the adverse climatic conditions marked by a long period of absence of rainfall because 'the Tuber magnatum Pico - specifies Coldiretti - develops in soils that must remain fresh and humid both in the germination and in the maturation. The arrival of the rain, if there will be no violent demonstrations, therefore gives hope to ...