Huge damage to crops in Melivoia, Larissa
The damages caused by the expansion of the bad weather Athena to agricultural crops in the area of Melovia Thessaly and especially to the production of Kastani, which is considered one of the best in all of Europe, are incalculable.
As characteristically reported in GRTimes, the Deputy Mayor of Environment, Rural Development and Fisheries of the Municipality of Agia, Evangelos Kraniotis, “the image we have is very difficult for the next day. “Unfortunately, we will collect streams and streams somewhere, while the floods that have caused great damage to both the road and the rural network, continue until now and will probably continue tomorrow.”
The large amounts of water that are being poured these days (meteorologists are talking about 92 tons of water per acre), have dealt a significant “blow” to the producers, as the chestnut, which weighs 20 grams and has fallen from the center for harvest , it is impossible to bear. It is carried away by streams and streams and reaches the sea “adds Mr. Kraniotis.
He adds that a large part of the damage is mainly due to the fact that due to the intense and the phenomena, all the rural roads have been destroyed, with the result that the artists have not had access for four 24 hours to reach their fields and collect the castes. “, which in the second phase gives the opportunity to wild boars and rodents living in the area to also cause damage to production, as chestnut is their food”.
“Even the municipality’s earthmoving machinery cannot be moved as rural roads and Irish crossings are flooded and operators are afraid to cross these points with special vehicles for fear of being swept away. Especially the rain that fell yesterday, was unprecedented. “We hope to stop the phenomenon soon in order to have a complete picture of the extent and assessment of the damages,” he added.
Request for an emergency as a flood area
The exact extent of the damage to the crops is not yet possible to estimate as the phenomenon is in progress, however, the democratic authorities are already asking the competent ministers to declare the area a state of emergency with the indication “flooded area”.
Moreover, as Evangelos Kraniotis explains to GRTimes, “the municipality of Agia has prepared a document that describes the difficult situation in which we have found ourselves and we will be common to the competent ministers of the Region of Thessaly. “The damage to the sockets is too great and unbearable for most producers in our area,” he notes.
And he concludes that the damages do not concern only Melivoia and Agia, but also areas in Pelion and Ambelakia as well as areas of Karditsa and Trikala.
Kissavos: The botanical garden of Europe
The local producer, Prodromos Koukouridis, also talks about incalculable damages to Konstantios’ crop.
“Undoubtedly we are talking about big losses, especially if we consider that only ¼ of the Kastanos production had been collected by the producers. The rest were left in the centers and we do not know what has happened, as the rural roads have been destroyed and they are unable to reach the fields “, reports GRTimes and adds that” the varieties in Kastanou grown in Kissavos are the best in Europe, because this mountainous is a volume has soil rich in minerals and herbs that keep the product for a long time in the refrigerator of the consumer “.
“Fortunately, some of us had to go to our fields today to continue the harvest. We collected what we could, put them in the warehouses, dried them with the bellows and waited. But we are talking about small quantities, from the 1,200 tons of Constantos that Kissavos produces every year. Fortunately, some centers are closed, they are maturing gradually and we hope that the rains will stop immediately so that we will not be able to proceed with the meditation “, he adds.
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