The prolonged drought in the North is putting rice and corn in particular difficulty but – paradoxically – it could also ease the situation of some sectors that instead suffer from production surpluses such as, for example, wine (which also sees the new harvest on the horizon) and milk.
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The critical issues regarding water availability in the fields are worsening day by day and with the anticyclones, and the situation, especially in Northern Italy, is increasingly taking on the contours of an emergency. The flow of the Po River has dropped to about 300 cubic meters per second, whereas the average summer parameters are around 1000-1500 cubic meters per second. Consequently, in some areas there is a rise of the salt wedge that alters the balance of strictly riverine fauna and flora. These phenomena, combined with a confirmed increase in temperatures, contribute to deteriorating productivity and production.
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Confagricoltura: risk of abandonment for rice and corn
An alarm in this regard was raised by Confagricoltura, on the eve of its summer assembly (which opens today in Rome). “For rice and corn,” commented the president of Confagricoltura, Massimiliano Giansanti, “there is already talk of yield contraction with an increasing risk of crop abandonment if the drought persists and it will not be possible to identify alternative and accessible water resources.”
Less product affects agricultural incomes before prices
A heavy production situation that, according to the president of Confagricoltura, will have repercussions more on the agricultural world than on consumers. “Less production,” added Giansanti, “primarily implies a drop in profitability per hectare for farmers who find it difficult to transfer the increase in production costs they suffer onto the prices of final products.”
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