Extreme weather to cost Italian farmers 6.5 bln USD this year: report

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Extreme weather to cost Italian farmers 6.5 bln USD this year: report

STORY: Extreme weather to cost Italian farmers 6.5 bln USD this year: report DATELINE: Aug. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:55 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of market in Rome STORYLINE: Intensive heatwaves and extreme weather that gripped Italy for most of this year will cost Italian farmers at least 6 billion euros (6.5 billion U.S. dollars), according to estimates from the country's main agricultural union Coldiretti. Coldiretti said the year so far had been "a black year" for the agricultural sector. In its report published Friday, the group said that Italy had experienced an average of nearly 11 extreme weather events per day so far this year, including hailstorms, tornadoes, flash floods and windstorms in addition to long and intense series of heatwaves. This year in Italy is already the third-hottest on record, the report said, with average temperatures 0.67 degrees Celsius above historic norms. The series of heatwaves in Italy this year have meant record-high temperatures were reg

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