Italy is counting the catastrophic effects of the floods on its agriculture. In the rich Emilia-Romagna, considered "the orchard of Italy", thousands of agricultural hectares have been drowned under water.
The damage due to bad weather is in the billions of euros, to be added to the two billion estimated after the floods that already hit the region at the beginning of the month. The roots of plants rot under the mud. There will be almost no harvest in 2023, and those of the coming years are compromised.