More than 7,000 km2 of flooded land in Emilia Romagna
"A first evaluation shows that at least 5,000 crop farms suffered damage from the floods in Emilia Romagna in recent days. The total damage amounts to billions," said Ettore Prandini, national

Bad weather hammers eastern Sicily, destroyed greenhouses in the Ragusa area
May 2023 will certainly not be easily forgotten because of the climatic disasters in our country; from North to South, Italy is bent by catastrophic phenomena that, unfortunately, have claimed

After the destruction, it is time to 'design' the reconstruction
I will not dwell on the search for the causes and responsibilities for what has happened in Romagna over the past few days. Too many pages of newspapers and television schedules have already been

Confagricoltura ER: '10 million fruit trees to be grubbed up'
Confagricoltura Emilia Romagna is starting to write the numbers of the disaster in the crater hit by the flood. We are talking about at least 10 million fruit trees to be uprooted - in particular

Bad weather causes a cataclysm on fruit and vegetables
Yesterday Emilia Romagna woke up under water once again, and our thoughts go first of all to the victims (there is talk of at least eight dead in Romagna) and those displaced by the flood: our

Lorca requests to be declared a 'disaster area'.
The rains that fell on Lorca on Saturday came in the form of hail in areas such as Marchena and Tercia, leaving the fields waterlogged and with a layer of ice. The heavy rains on Sunday in Lorca

Bad weather damage in Emilia-Romagna, 1 billion needed
Damage amounting to at least 6 million euro, but the bill is growing by the day: this is the first balance sheet of the disaster that Legacoop Romagna, the Agricultural Cooperatives of the

Flood in Romagna, the toll worsens
One disaster after another in the Ravenna area and the alarm does not cease because new, intense rainfall is expected in the coming days. Hydrogeological instability is dragging behind orchards,

Why moviegoers should dread on-screen asparagus
Movie analyst David Mouriquand was surprised to discover that asparagus only shows up in films and television shows as a harbinger of doom. The second they appear on screen, you can bet something

Sustainability Special: Water - victim and driver of the global climate crisis at the same time
As long as the processes in nature are in a self-regulating balance, no one notices them much. Apart from the researchers who work intensively on them in the most diverse disciplines and from all

The European packaging regulation proposal would be a disaster for the fruit and vegetable sector
There is a huge debate going on right now with regard to packaging, both about the materials used and about disposal and/or recycling. We talked about it with Mauro Salini, president of the

"The tight exotic market will gradually recover in the coming weeks"
Due to continued high freight rates, inflation and the annual change of season, volume availability - especially for mangoes and avocados - has come under pressure. "We are currently distributing

Bud frost in raspberries. How to assess the damage?
On our plantation we had another cataclysmic event during the winter. The plastic tunnels in which the raspberries (long cane) grown for the summer harvest were overwintered collapsed under the

South African citrus industry is hoping for a more positive season
The South African citrus industry is hoping for a more positive season this year after last year was a ‘disaster’ according to Justin Chadwick CEO of Citrus Growers' Association of Southern

"Europe penalizes the agri-food packaging sector and not those who really cause environmental disasters"
"The European Union, and therefore part of the public opinion in Europe, believes that plastic packaging is the basis of marine and land pollution. Nothing could be further from the truth! They

Fresh produce sector supporting Turkey’s relief efforts
Turkey’s fresh produce sector is working hard to support the relief efforts to help those affected by last month’s earthquakes in the south-east of the country, delivering food packages, fuel

"We have raised prices a lot in order not to produce a disaster in the production chain".
This Tuesday 14th March saw Mercadona's long awaited press conference led by its president Juan Roig, who analysed all the supermarket's open fronts: being considered a ruthless capitalist, price

Impact of Turkey’s earthquakes still affecting fresh produce exports
Three weeks after the earthquakes in south-eastern Turkey, there is still a lack of availability of trucks, which have been diverted to the disaster area. The effect is an increase in logistic

"If the flowering had happened on the usual dates, we would be talking about a disaster"
In recent days, night temperatures have again fallen to sub-zero levels in various fruit and vegetable producing areas of Spain. In the case of stone fruit, frost damage has been reported in

‘Disaster arrangement changes necessary in Australia’
Fruit and vegetable growers on Queensland's Granite Belt have been left without an income for a year after a devastating hail event. The February hailstorm wiped out a range of fruit and vegetable

'В Австралии необходимо внести изменения в организацию ликвидации последствий стихийных бедствий'
Фрукты и овощи, выращиваемые в Гранитном поясе Квинсленда, остались без дохода на целый год после

'Zmiany w zakresie aranżacji katastrofy konieczne w Australii'
Wykonawcy owoców i warzyw na Queensland's Granite Belt zostali bez dochodów przez rok po niszczącym zdarzeniu gradowym. Lutowe gradobicie zniszczyło szereg upraw owocowych

"This year, apples are disastrous and, with pears, you just cover costs"
These are uncertain times for Belgian fruit growers. Protests for better prices, talks of intent between cooperatives, and cultivation challenges are piling up. "It's a wonderful profession, but