Several days of poor weather across Italy this week have reportedly caused damage worth more than €100m to fruit and vegetable production in the country.
According to national agricultural association CIA, the first surveys conducted in the wake of heavy rains point to the loss of several fruit trees and damage to 'hundreds' of areas of open-field vegetable production.
A number of nurseries and buildings are also said to have been flooded, while hailstorms are understood to have hit fruit production hard in certain parts of the country.
Among the crops affected, according to CIA, are early srping-summer production of peaches, cherries, apricots and plums, with losses estimated to be somewhere in the region of 20 per cent.
A similar picture is emerging for vegetables, with tomatoes, aubergines, lettuce, courgettes and peppers adversely affected.
The CIA report suggested damage is widespread across the country, although the most serious damage is thought to have occurred in Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania and Calabria.
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