The Mediterranean climate that has always distinguished our peninsula is at the center of a strong debate. In recent years the seasons have undergone significant changes, leaving room for drought, increases in temperatures and sudden rains.
A really difficult subject to treat given the many facets related to it (floods, landslides, shortage of agricultural crops etc.) and that rekindles the debate even in the world of truffles that lives of specific periods of harvest and that never like 2022 has suffered an initial period of lean with a consequent extension of the season.
In this regard, it is important to highlight the debate that is opening up to address this climate problem. Last September, during the 13th National Gathering of Tabui, Antonio Degiacomi, the president of the National Center for Truffle Studies, raised the question that many are wondering: until we can afford to open the white truffle season on September 21, with such high prices and such poor products?
A question that has met with unanimous agreement among those present and it cannot be excluded that the issue can also be debated at political and administrative level. The meeting, in fact, were also attended by the institutions with the vice president and councillor for the Mountains of the Region, Fabio Carosso, who chairs the Council for the enhancement of the regional truffle heritage, and the senator of the League Giorgio Bergesio, vice-president of the Commission Productive Activities of the Senate and signatory of the bill to reform the sector.
«Seen the consequences of the climate change, the collection of the truffles would be moved more ahead in the season – Degiacomi has explained – If the next autumn we could open our market on October 14, instead than the 7 October, would be an important signal of attention towards climate change».
«Today the search and extraction of truffles require a framework more appropriate to the new needs of the sector, able to protect the truffle and its commercial products as a product-image of Made in Italy», says Senator Bergesio.
The debate has just begun, it remains to wait what will happen in the coming months to protect an important sector of our peninsula.
Source: La Stampa