Italy floods: millions of fruit trees must be replanted

At least 15m and as many as 40m fruit trees across Emilia Romagna will need to be pulled up and replanted, after thousands of the region’s orchards were inundated by the worst flooding to hit Italy in more than a century.

That’s according to farmers’ union Coldiretti, which has today underlined the scale of the challenge faced by fruit and vegetable producers in the affected

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