The flourishing agriculture of the Po valley, deeply wounded by the earthquake, is still struggling to seriously quantify the damage caused by the tremors. There are many farms with collapsed buildings, animals in makeshift shelters and products at risk. The damage to irrigation affects thousands of hectares and so today Coldiretti reports that many fruit and vegetable productions will also suffer heavy downsizing. This is the case of melons, which are harvested by hand, but must be repaired in sheds and pears, which lack water and risk being damaged in 80% of production. This could be a summer without melons and Emilian pears.
As for cheese, the updated numbers speak of 360.000 wheels of Grana Padano and 633.700 wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano fallen to the ground. The Parmigiano Reggiano 'earthquake hit' will be on sale tomorrow in Bologna, from 15 pm at the Amica country market (via del Gomito 30). Citizens will be able to buy cuts of one kilo already seasoned and controlled by the protection consortium, at the market price set by the dairy of origin. The damage to Parmesan alone, according to Coldiretti, amounted to 150 million euros. However, the fine cheese continues to be very popular on the web: 17.000 requests were received by email in four days earthquake@parmigiano-reggiano.it, which will continue to work for the next few days as well
