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Italian agricultural output down 1.8% in 2023 due to climate crisis

Wine production and fruit harvests hit particularly hard

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 18 - Italian agricultural production dropped by 1.8% in 2023 as the effects of the climate crisis hit farmers, Istat said on Tuesday.
    The national statistics agency said wine and fruit production were affected particularly badly, with decreases of 17.4% and 11.2% respectively.
    Extreme weather events linked to the climate crisis caused by human greenhouse-gas emissions, including bouts of torrential rainfall and flooding, drought, scorching heatwaves and wildfires in the summer, caused billions of billion of euros of damage to agriculture and rural infrastructure last year.
    (ANSA).
   

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