Bad weather in Italy: fennel, broccoli and potatoes "drown" in the fields

From north to south of the country, seasonal vegetables rot in the flooded fields where it is impossible to harvest cabbage, fennel, broccoli and potatoes in the land invaded by water while in the mountains there is an avalanche warning, with farms and livestock and animals still isolated from the snow that has fallen relentlessly. This is the alarm launched by Coldiretti on the effects of the wave of bad weather with the new orange alert on South Tyrol, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Campania, and Sicily and yellow on Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia-Romagna, Sardinia and Puglia. In the countryside the bad weather - underlines Coldiretti - has hit a patchy patch from the North East, where in Trentino and Veneto there is still an alarm for snow, to Lombardy where there is a real risk of asphyxiation for the land sown with wheat and barley, while in Campania the vegetable fields of the Casertano are still under water, as in Sardinia where the products risk to rot because it is not ...