More than 5,000 farms have been flooded, including greenhouses, nurseries, and stables with drowned animals, as well as tens of thousands of flooded hectares of vineyards, kiwis, plums, pears, apples, vegetables, cereals, and agricultural processing facilities. This is the conclusion of Coldiretti's monitoring of the flood effects in Emilia-Romagna. Difficulty - emphasizes Coldiretti - also to ensure the feeding of the bred animals because fodder has been compromised and there is no water to quench their thirst in hilly areas with traffic problems due to damage to rural infrastructure caused by landslides. The fruit and vegetable industry is the most impacted due to the slow outflow of water from the orchards, which "suffocates" the tree roots until they rot, increasing the risk of disappearing entire plantations, which will take years to recover. There is a risk of destabilizing an entire supply chain comprised of agriculture and fruit industry and vegetable processing companies that make Romagna the "fruit valley" of Italy, with a gross saleable production of fruits and vegetables worth €1.2 billion.
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