Tree day: Coldiretti, goodbye to 100 million fruit trees in Italy

Published 2023년 11월 20일

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Over the past fifteen years, Italy has experienced the loss of over 100 million fresh fruit plants, resulting in the disappearance of major fruit productions like apples, pears, peaches, and grapes, among others. This mass deforestation has led to desertification in Italian regions and has had dramatic effects on national consumption, climate, environment, landscape, and public health. The decrease in fruit production has also led to increased production costs and vulnerability to climate change, including the arrival of new pests and diseases that have further damaged harvests.

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Farewell to over 100 million fresh fruit plants in Italy in the last fifteen years with the disappearance of all the main productions, from apples to pears, from peaches to apricots, from table grapes to cherries, from oranges to clementines while in only cedar and bergamot hold against the trend. This is what emerges from the analysis presented on the occasion of National Tree Day which is celebrated on November 21st to enhance the Italian arboreal heritage. A real massacre which - underlines Coldiretti - is causing the desertification of territories in the Italian regions with dramatic effects on national consumption and on the climate, the environment, the landscape and the health of Italians. Overall, the Italian surface area cultivated with fruit - underlines Coldiretti - has been reduced to 560 thousand hectares with the loss of over one hundred thousand hectares compared to 15 years ago with consequences on the national production record in Europe which extends from apples ...

Source: Agricolae