Italian rice output is set to fall in 2023 as farmers facing a second year of drought reduce the land dedicated to the crop to the lowest for more than two decades, agricultural groups warn.
Italy cultivates about 50% of the rice produced in the European Union and is the world's only grower of types most suitable for risotto such as Arborio and Carnaroli.
Roberto Magnaghi, director general of Ente Nazionale Risi, a public rice research body, told Reuters no more than 211,000 hectares will be sown with rice in 2023, the smallest area for 23 years.The 2023 estimate is down by 7,400 hectares from 2022 and by 16,000 compared to 2021.Magnaghi said the outlook in Lombardy and Piedmont is even bleaker than in 2022, when crops were wrecked by drought and production was down 17% from the year before.
to improve infrastructures with new technologies and raise public awareness on the need to save water.Rice, introduced in Italy in the second half of the 15th century, is one of the most water intensive crops, with between 3,000 and 10,000 litres of water needed to obtain a kilogram of output, depending on varieties and other conditions.
Coldiretti is lobbying the government to boost reservoir capacity, its head of economics Lorenzo Bazzana told Reuters, adding that Italy manages to collect just 11% of its rainwater.
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