Coldiretti Verona, wanting for hot economy and anomalous parasites – Verona.it
Due to the high temperatures, a series of minor parasites proliferate on orchards, olive groves and vegetable gardens. As highlighted by Coldiretti Verona, the great heat of this period, linked to drought, favors the onset of harmful insects for orchards, vegetable gardens, gardens and fields, but also annoying for those who live in the city. From lepidoptera on olive growing, to forficule and minor scale insects on orchards to elm bugs on houses and homes, there are many crops that do not spare they are spared in this hot summer, presaging damage to Scaliger agriculture.
“As a result of globalization and the impact of climate change – explains Coldiretti – in recent years Italy has had to face a real invasion of insects and aliens arrived in the countryside through the marketing of plants and seeds from abroad with devastating consequences on the environmental, landscape and economic level. I am an example there Asian bedbug and the Drosophila suzukii which spread thanks to the absence of specific antagonists ยป.
Coldiretti Verona specifies that it is necessary to develop new applied research activities, which are oriented towards the definition of systems capable of containing the parasites of cultivated plants, guaranteeing, however, the protection of the environment and other species. From 2030 the European Union will take away about the 50% of the molecules available for phytosanitary defense.