date:Nov 15, 2016
southern Italy. Basilicata experienced a 30% increase in production with respect to last year, though it must be said that volumes had been particularly low in 2015 due to chestnut gall wasp problems. In Calabria, the drop hovers between -30 and -50% and even reaches -80% in Campania, especially in those areas where it rained a lot in spring.
Over the past few years, the chestnut gall wasp was behind most of the drops in production. The insect will never go away, but luckily we have managed to