The food market saved in Romagna it reaches St. Peter's Square in Rome thanks to Coldiretti Campagna Amica. There are those who have seen their animals die due to the impossibility of getting the forage to the isolated farm, those who have lost bees and hives due to landslides. And who has had the orchard choked with water and mud. These are some of the stories of Coldiretti farmers in Romagna who were flooded and brought the products saved from the fury of bad weather to St. Peter's. They set up their stands on the occasion of World Meeting of Human Fraternity thanks to the "Fratelli tutti" foundation with the peasant world of Campagna Amica.
The food market saved
Many stalls with tomatoes, aubergines and courgettes, eggs, fruit, honey and cheeses from Conselice and the most affected areas of Ravenna and Forlì. Symbolic areas of the resistance of a land that does not give up. "The possibility of finding a commercial outlet for your products represents the first step towards a return to normality", remarked Coldiretti. "The resumption of the sales of Romagna agri-food products is an important first step to save around 21 agricultural businesses which feed a significant induced in the industries and cooperatives of food processing and transformation". This is what emerges from an analysis of the Coldiretti on the occasion of the event and about a month after the flood. In the fields, the water has given way to a thick layer of silt and sand.
The ground that seems petrified by an impermeable crust that makes gaseous exchanges essential for the roots and plant life impossible. Annual crops have been lost, in orchards and vineyards root asphyxia kills the plants, with production lost for the next four or five years. There is also the phenomenon of hydrogeological instability, with over 30 people living in areas at risk of landslides between Ravenna, Rimini and Forli Cesena. “It is necessary to cut bureaucracy and time to get aid as quickly as possible. And to support the desire to start over of a population that is astonishing the world with its great strength". So the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini underlining that “purchasing agricultural and food products from flooded areas is the best way to help the population. A practical and concrete gesture to restart the economy and the occupation of the territories affected by the terrible calamity".
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