Confagricoltura Tuscany: "2014 annus horribilis for our land"

With over 200 million euro of the damage 2014 is confirmed to be the annus horribilis for Tuscan agriculture. This is what has been announced in recent days by Confagricoltura Tuscany at the conference convened to present the budget for the year that is about to end.

In the specific, according to data that refer to the decisions of the Regional Council for disasters, the damage was caused mainly by the strong hailstorm that hit the province of Florence 19 September and caused damage to crops worth over 17 million euros.

Dramatic situation month after, with rain 14 October in Grosseto, which caused further 8 million in damages.

To bring down the whole Tuscan agriculture was finally also the oil fly that has spared no province of destroying Region, in many cases, also 100% production of oil and causing damage, according to the calculations of the Region, greater than 160 million euros.

"The 2014 was characterized - said Antonio Tonioni, Vice Confagricoltura Tuscany - a very unusual weather patterns that caused disasters in much of the region which had not happened for over 20 years. In some situations were even cleared productions, as in the case of fruit growing and viticulture. We record a strong need to invest in prevention measures that are able to mitigate the damage caused by bad weather and not only. In this regard, remember how Confagricoltura has been obtained to enable the new PSR 2014/2020 (Rural Development Plan) the measure that provides support for investment in disaster preparedness to safeguard the productions from damage caused by bad weather. Despite these phenomena 'exceptional' that have crippled our industry, Early estimates suggest that we have on 2014 indicate that employment has not suffered declines but has shown that it took albeit in a context of widespread economic crisis ".

Michael Lattanzi

By the number 46 - Year II 07/01/2015