Puglia/ Italy: frost burns broccoli, cabbage, chicory and savoy cabbage

Farmers mobilized to limit the damage with tractors and fertilizer spreaders, in order to ensure the connections of rural areas and avoid the isolation of agricultural and livestock farms An extraordinary grip of frost - between 17 and 18 January - has gripped Puglia up to low altitudes with high levels of criticality due to snowfalls, but above all for the sheets of ice that made it impossible for vehicles to circulate, with the blocking of roads such as the 239 Noci-Alberobello and at the same time causing damage to vegetable crops, especially vegetables winter and difficulties, albeit momentary, and supplying the farms that have remained isolated. This is what Coldiretti Puglia reports, which mobilized farmers with tractors - used as snow plows to clean the roads and with fertilizer spreaders used as salt spreaders against the danger of frost, especially on rural roads and inter-farmland. "It snowed in the provinces of Foggia, Taranto, Bari and Brindisi with the countryside ...