There is an emergency for spring seedings of corn, soybeans, sunflowers, rice and tomato transplants in dry soils due to the lack of water needed for crops to grow, especially in the North, where rainfall has practically halved (-45%). This is the alarm raised by Coldiretti based on Isac-CNR data for the first quarter of 2023, which show that in trouble is actually the entire Peninsula, where an average of 15 percent less water has fallen. This is a dramatic situation that is causing uncertainty in the countryside, with forecasts of a cut of almost 7,500 hectares of land cultivated with rice; as for corn, initial estimates indicate a reduction in the number of hectares sown, which in Northern Italy would be about 6%, while in the Center it would reach 10%. Approximately 300,000 farms are located in the areas most affected by the drought emergency in the Central North: the most dramatic situation is in the Po Valley basin, where almost 1/3 of Made in Italy agribusiness and half of livestock farming is produced. The production of the staple foods of the Mediterranean diet, from durum wheat for pasta to tomato sauce, from fruit to vegetables to corn to feed animals for the production of the great cheeses such as Parmigiano Reggiano, Grana Padano, and the most prestigious cured meats such as Prosciutto di Parma or Culatello di Zibello, depends on water availability.