00:0099.5% of the champions reside below the legal limits in Italy.
00:08Less than 14% of the sales of agro-pharmaceuticals in the last 10 years.
00:12And the target of the reduction of ammonia emissions, agreed with him, reached already in 2021.
00:17These are the results of the Italian agriculture compartment, photographed by the Agrofarma Observatory, in the report presented today in Rome.
00:22I believe that each of us can safely find ourselves in 2023-2024,
00:28which have been very particular years from a climatic point of view.
00:32Plants, as living organisms, have suffered the same impact that we have suffered as humans.
00:38Consequently, the industry has been activated to provide solutions
00:44that allow plants to adequately respond to these stresses,
00:50exactly as it happens for other living organisms.
00:54We will have to get used to the usual change.
01:01Change means adapting to read these events quickly,
01:07therefore using forecasts in an important way,
01:10and adopting mitigation measures, because this is the only way we have available.
01:17These mitigation measures are the use of substances that also perform an anti-stress function,
01:23as I mentioned before, protection from heat, protection from excess or lack of water,
01:30as well as innovation in the development of agro-pharmaceuticals,
01:34because climate change also leads to a change in the panorama of the adversities that affect plants.
01:43For the first time, data on the climate and the meteorological effects
01:47that have affected Italy in the last decades have been analyzed inside the observatory.
01:50Since 1997, the average temperature in Italy has increased compared to the previous period.
01:56In the last ten years, the shift has intensified.
01:59In the last ten years, the active biological principles have almost doubled.
02:04So, in reality, within a market of agro-pharmaceuticals that is in contraction,
02:09naturally also in response to the question of sustainability that is asked of the agricultural sector,
02:15we have the principles used in biological agriculture that have less impact.
02:21It is clear that the weather impacts directly on agriculture
02:25and also on the defense of the products that are distributed in agriculture.
02:30Obviously, the values, the increase in temperatures,
02:36the increase, above all, of very hot days in the last ten years,
02:41constantly above the average of the last thirtieth,
02:45and also the strong variability, let's say, in terms of rain,
02:49between strongly dry years and very rainy years.
02:53Another factor that naturally impacts on the agronomic techniques
02:57and also on the techniques of defense of cultures.
Comments