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The rough heat and the wind burn fruit and vegetables in Italy

Fruits
Vegetables
Italy
Published Jun 30, 2022

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From cherries to pears, apricots to watermelons, the scorching heat with temperatures over 40 degrees and a scorching wind that seems to come out of a giant hair dryer is burning fruit on trees with losses of up to 15%.

This is what emerges from Coldiretti's monitoring of the effects of the heat bubble that is enveloping Italy with a red bullet for 19 cities, while drought besieges the fields. A dramatic scenario that involves different parts of the national territory from north to south with damage to cherries in Puglia and Emilia Romagna, watermelons and melons and blanched by the heat in Veneto, ruined pears and apricots in the Ferrara area, burnt cuttings that lose their leaves in the Tuscan vineyards around Florence, peaches suffocated by the heat that fall from the branches before being able to fully develop and young olive trees in water stress.

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From cherries to pears, apricots to watermelons, the scorching heat with temperatures over 40 degrees and a scorching wind that seems to come out of a giant hair dryer is burning fruit on trees with losses of up to 15%. This is what emerges from Coldiretti's monitoring of the effects of the heat bubble that is enveloping Italy with a red bullet for 19 cities, while drought besieges the fields. A dramatic scenario that involves different parts of the national territory from north to south with damage to cherries in Puglia and Emilia Romagna, watermelons and melons and blanched by the heat in Veneto, ruined pears and apricots in the Ferrara area, burnt cuttings that lose their leaves in the Tuscan vineyards around Florence, peaches suffocated by the heat that fall from the branches before being able to fully develop and young olive trees in water stress. Where it is possible in some areas of the country the farmers - specifies Coldiretti - have resorted to emergency irrigation to ...
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