Brisighella, the most popular PDO devastated by the flood

We dedicated an article to him just a year ago, to find out what was behind the "secret" of the oil Brisighella, Dop which holds the highest price ever in Italy: 22 euros per kilo listed wholesale, higher than the 30 euro if bottled for the final consumer.
Today that PDO – an average that varies from 200 to 300 quintals a year – is seriously threatened, with landslides that have deeply devastated that handkerchief of land of about 300 hectares in the hills of the Emilian Apennines, where they insist the approximately 100 plants of olive tree of the variety Nostrana of Brisighella. A production area distributed over 5 Municipalities, with a strongly fluctuating oil production, from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 13 quintals of oil per year, depending on the loading and unloading campaigns, but also on the temperatures seen that we are in hilly territory.
"Following the flood, the hilly areas where oil is produced were affected by numerous landslides", he told Ansa Sergio Spada, president of the Terra di Brisighella cooperative, one of the three certified mills involving almost entirely i 118 leading producers in the supply chain 95% of the PDO production. “Only the presence of centuries-old olive trees, with their large roots, has somehow managed to support the area and contain landslides. Other olive trees, on the other hand, unfortunately collapsed downstream, such was the fury of the water. It is not yet possible to understand how many ancient olive trees have been lost - explains Spada - since many main and secondary roads have been destroyed and other paths are unfortunately still impassable. According to initial estimates, at least 10-15% of the olive trees have been uprooted. But the problem is not only related to damaged plants, rather to the fact of how to reach the others given that the territory has largely collapsed and for many olive growers there is no longer any method of access. This is why the next milling remains unknown”.