Confagricoltura: violent hailstorm in Piedmont, heavy damage to agriculture
Confagricoltura: violent hailstorm in Piedmont, heavy damage to agriculture

Confagricoltura: violent hailstorm in Piedmont, heavy damage to agriculture

Torrential rains in the Biella area, strong winds and hail in the Turin area, flooding and flooding in the Verbano where over 120 mm of rain fell in a few hours

Hailstorms spread like walnuts on the borders between the provinces of Turin and Cuneo between Carmagnola and Racconigi, storm grains as big as tennis balls between Borgaretto, Beinasco, Orbassano, Rivalta and Rivoli, driving rain and hail also in the Lanzo valleys and pieces of ice as big as eggs also in the Asti area on the border with the Cuneo area, in the gardens of Motta di Costigliole d'Asti. "Since the early afternoon we have continued to receive reports from farms - explains Ercole Zuccaro, director of Confagricoltura Piemonte - which show heavy damage to corn, in full bloom, to wheat fields that have yet to be threshed, to soybeans and sunflowers. The affected areas are vast and are added to the areas already damaged last week in Chivassese and between Turin and Vercelli, with peaks of greatest damage between Crescentino and Trino, but also in Monferrato, between Moncalvo and Casale. it is proving to be decidedly bad ". Confagricoltura technicians are at work to survey the damage. Unfortunately for crops that are not insured there are no provisions and even in cases of coverage with special policies, the compensation never completely covers the damage suffered. "The climate change underway - declares the president of Confagricoltura Piemonte Enrico Allasia - requires new forms of intervention. Insurance alone cannot solve the problem; something more can be done with mutual funds, but new solutions must be sought beyond the ordinary and make it possible to restore catastrophic events unfortunately increasingly frequent and intense ".

13/07/2021
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