Italy: Floods likely to cause disastrous fruit harvest in Emilia-Romagna
14 people were killed in the KW 20 floods, 20 rivers burst their banks and thousands of hectares of particularly fertile farmland were inundated. "We are on our knees," Sergio Tardani, a Coldiretti representative, told Reuters. He estimated the damage at about 1.5 billion euros. That put the fruit harvest in Emilia-Romagna ahead of

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