Forlì, 27 May 2024 – Count the damage after storm which hit the city on Saturday afternoon. The agricultural sector experienced the greatest consequences: “The Forlì territory – explains Alberto Mazzonipresident of the council of Confagricoltura – was hit several times by hailstorms and heavy rains in the month of May.
Fruit trees in the fields hit by hail
The effects of climate change continue to have a heavy impact on the primary sector and the toll of these adverse events is truly painful. At the provincial level we estimate around 80 million euros in damages.” In recent days the most affected area was that of Villafranca: “The orchards have lost 80% of their production – continues Mazzoni – and to a lesser extent a Villagrappa And Villanova where Saturday’s hail wiped out the fruit.”
The consequences of the violent rain also affected “vineyards and wheat”Furthermore, it increases the danger of “mold and fungal attacks in remaining plants”. Faced with such a complex situation, the association calls for a reform of risk management in agriculture: “For farmers – concludes the president – it is becoming increasingly difficult to insure themselves, companies tend to start insurance campaigns later and later, with penalizing criteria and with very high costs. The system must therefore be reformed because traditional passive defense as we know it is no longer adequate. To politics we ask for your attention already had in past catastrophic events, because there are companies that will find themselves practically without production and without income”.
To do the costs of the flood the other day also the registry office of the Municipality “The spaces in Piazzetta della Misura since October 2020 – underlines the PD councilor, Elisa Massa – had been declared unusable after the collapse of the ceiling. While waiting to move the service to the former Becchi building, which is undergoing renovation work, the employees have always guaranteed performance. On Saturday, with the storm, yet another insult: the premises were completely flooded due to significant leaks in the roof”.
The councilor had already put forward several questions on the topic town Council: “The Region has allocated three million euros for the safety and seismic improvement of the property but after four years, this is the result”. Among the public buildings affected by violent rain and hail also the skate track covered inside the park Meeting at Ca’ Ossi. The water reached the corridors of the structure and, probably due to some infiltrations, damaged the ceiling causing some rubble to collapse.
