The arrival of rain, expected in these days also on the island, is important to save spring sowing from drought, after a start of 2022 with practically halved rainfall that put national agricultural production at risk.
This is what Coldiretti says in reference to the arrival of the disturbance in Italy , also in the North affected by the water emergency, with yellow alert for bad weather in five regions: Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise and Sardinia .
The rain , Coldiretti recalls, to combat drought and be a relief to the countryside must however last a long time, falling steadily and not too intense, while strong storms cause damage because the land cannot absorb the water that falls. violently and tends to move away by sliding causing landslides and landslides. An indispensable condition to save above all over 30% of the national agricultural production, including tomato sauce, fruit, vegetables and wheat, and half of the livestock that is located in the Po valley, where the Po river has a hydrometric level of - 3.4 meters at the Ponte della Becca, but heavy anomalies are also seen in the large lakes that have fill percentages ranging from 6% of that of Como to 28% of Maggiore, according to the monitoring of Coldiretti.
(Unioneonline / vl)