A week after the passage of the DANA that has hit the Levant peninsula, the worst forecasts regarding the extent of the damage in the Valencian countryside are confirmed. With flooded plots and inaccessible roads, until now everything was speculation.
The first more or less definitive data has been provided by the College of Registrars of Spain, which The number of farms affected in the different autonomous communities is 134,418; In total there are 54,312 hectares. The data, as reported by the organization, have been collected by the College’s Graphic Database Service through the Emergency Registry Portal, which the registrars have made available to citizens to use with a view to going to the insurance consortium. and manage the corresponding compensation.
Regarding the consortium, the first estimate it has made places the affected hectares at 20,000, but only among those that are insured, so in the rest of the cases Financing of the recovery will depend on direct aid.
To contextualize the figure that the registrars have calculated, we must remember that in Valencia alone there are more than half of the hectares of citrus that there are in Spain. These, vegetables and persimmons were the most affected by the storm.
In the interior regions, the flow of water that descended after overflowing rivers and ravines uprooted entire vines, trees, borders, irrigation systems and cabins, and when it reached the coast it was bogged down in thousands of hectares of citrus, persimmon and vegetable. As Asaja explained to this newspaper yesterday, now the biggest problem is the fungi, which are proliferating due to the accumulated water and ensure that the destruction of production will be 100%.
As far as persimmon is concerned, the impact is total. In the province of Valencia there are 15,000 of the 16,500 hectares of this fruit that exist throughout our country, and sources in the sector have explained to this newspaper that the combination of hail, wind, rain and floods destroyed more than half of the harvest in course. As the Spanish Persimmon Association explained to ABC yesterday, in a few hours a third of the annual production of the fruit was lost, so supply problems are expected.
Now, farmers are asking for direct aid, moratoriums on the payment of bank debts and specific recovery plans, because Agroseguro compensation will be insufficient. It must be remembered, regarding the latter, that a good part of the damaged infrastructure that does not strictly concern production does not fall within what the policies cover.
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