The fires in the Oristano area: "Dozens of hectares of vines in smoke"
At the start he counts damage, Marrubiu among the most affected areas
The vast fire that broke out in the Oristano area last Saturday caused serious damage. “We are monitoring the individual situations”, say the president and director of Coldiretti Oristano, Giovanni Murru and Emanuele Spanò.
The fire, driven by the wind, struck the pastures and dozens of hectares of vineyards.
In Marrubiu , for example, the Terre di Ossidiana cooperative saw about 5 hectares of Vermentino, Cannonau and Moscato go up in smoke, the grapes of which were in the ripening phase. Same fate for the Gesuina Onnis cooperative which has lost about 5 hectares of Cannonau. Also in Marrubiu, in the locality of Sa Matta Manna, the fire devastated about thirty beehives and several bee families of the beekeeper Orlando Oliva and about forty of his colleague Marcello Murgia. Hundreds of burnt forage balers that would have been useful as supplies for the next campaign, other than burnt olive groves and dead sheep.
Damage also to Mogorella and Usellus, Morgongiori, Santa Giusta and Palmas Arborea.
"A dramatic situation - underlines Coldiretti - driven by climate change that favors more frequent and intense fires, a devastating situation with a 2021 that in Italy has seen 150 thousand hectares of land from north to south of the country incinerated by 659 firestorms, including these remain an indelible memory of the one that affected the Montiferru and Planargia in July 2021 ”.
(Unioneonline / ss)
