Today Coldiretti confirms that there is damage especially to “layed” wheat, that is to say that the crops are bent to the ground by the intensity of the wind and rain.
“With the great heat and drought that have scorched the land, sending the crops into water shock – explains Coldiretti – a sudden hail storm arrives on the fields, putting seasonal productions from cherries to wheat at risk, with the climatic anomaly caused by a temperature even 2.01 degrees higher than average and the absence of rain”.
“Hail – underlines Coldiretti Puglia – is the adverse climatic event most feared by agriculture in this seasonal phase due to the irreversible damage it causes to crops in the field, because it hits the fruits in such a way as to cause them to fall or damage them in such a way to prevent their growth or leaving deformations that make them unsuitable for marketing which – explains the regional Coldiretti – is repeated more and more frequently but the size of the beans has also changed and has increased considerably in recent years. the fall of real blocks of ice even larger than a tennis ball. We are faced with the evident consequences of climate change where the exceptional nature of atmospheric events is now the norm, with a tendency towards tropicalization which – insists Coldiretti Puglia -. manifests itself with a higher frequency of violent demonstrations, seasonal shifts, short and intense rainfall and the rapid transition from sunshine to bad weather, with significant temperature changes that compromise crops in the fields with losses in national agricultural production and damage to structures and infrastructures in the countryside”.
