Producers of citrus food suffer from lack of water

Problem Area - Drought

Created at: 22 Apr 2023

Description

Benedetto Benfatto has a family business with the production of sinasappels and mandarins.his plants requires more than a thousand liters per 15 day cycle. For water he depends mainly on the rain accumulated in artificial lakes. In the summer of 2021 it went wrong, not enough water was available during a long and severe heatwave.


Samenvatting (Dutch description)

In Siciliƫ word veel citrusvrucht geproduceerd. De bomen hebben ca 1 m3 per 15 dagen cycles nodig. Het water komt van de regen die in stuwmeren wordt opgeslagen. In de zomer van 2021 bleek dat er niet genoeg water was en ging de oogst verloren.

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