Bad weather: down products of the Mediterranean diet – In dies

Bad weather: down products of the Mediterranean diet – In dies

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Bad year for foods that are the basis of the Mediterranean diet. Because of bad weather, this year there was a decline of 35 percent on the production of olive oil, 15 per cent of grapes on the collection and 4 per cent on the harvest of wheat.
Declining also harvest fruits and vegetables.

To make known, an analysis of Coldiretti presented during the Thanksgiving Day.

“If the harvest is likely to rank as the most poor since 1950, with a production of Italian wine that could drop up to 41 million hectoliters, the Italian production of olive oil has collapsed around 300 thousand tons, “says Coldiretti.

also decreased the production of even walnuts, chestnuts and other fruit.

(Source: AGI)