«Climate change negatively affects our work. We can only hope for the rains forecast for this weekend."

Concern among farmers in Trexenta, Marmilla and Parteolla. The drought gives no respite. The December rainfall seems very distant. And many productions, such as wheat and fodder crops, are at risk. There is alarm in the world of the island countryside.

«Two years ago we had the opposite problem», explains Vincenzo Usai, an agricultural entrepreneur from Senorbì, «the fields were flooded and for a long time it was not possible to use tractors to prepare the land for sowing. Today we have to deal with drought."

All the details in Francesco Pintore's article on L'Unione Sarda on newsstands and in the digital edition

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