Castilla y León is an autonomous community with the highest surface of cultivation, damaged by pedrisco, from 174,000 hectares from April to June, according to claims against Agrooseguro.
Repeated storms that occurred during June caused damage about 415 350 hectares, insured from various crops, The largest surface affected by this phenomenon over the past ten years, According to the agrarian insurance system.
Exercise 2025 is characterized by its strong storm activity, very early and related, in the vast majority of cases, with sediments in the form of a row that cause serious damage to our crops. In total, until June 30, the agroseguro received accidents corresponding to 615,470 hectares, which This already raises this exercise very close to the record reached in 2018, with 672 360 hectares, insured by pedrisk.
All this, when months, such as July, August or September, traditionally tend to register this type of painful phenomena. Agroseguro emphasized that from April 7 to June 30 Every day there were storms from pedrisk greater or less intensity at some moment in the country.
Autonomous communities that accumulate most of the surface affected by repeated pedrisco are Castilla and Leon, with a statement of almost 174,000 hectares; Castilla-la Mancha, with more than 172,000 hectares and aragon, with ominous parts corresponding to more than 153,000 hectares, insured. In addition, other regions, such as Andalusia, Catalonia and La -Riokha, with about 30,000 hectares that claimed each of them, and the region of Mursia, Valencian or Navarra, claimed from 20,000 to 25,000 hectares, each also registered damage.
The most affected crops
According to cultures, extensive herbaceous, with a big difference, are most harmful, from 510 660 hectares, almost 364,000 hectares are declared during the year during June.
Next, The vineyard records damage at 68,600 hectares of insured (More than half, in the month of June). On the other hand, fruit production reaches damage to the insured more than 31,000 hectares, although, in this case, the storms that occurred in May and April affected most of the surface.
A set of vegetables also records appropriate damage, and more than 27,600 hectares declared accidents registered in June and May.
To encounter such a level of records, Agroseguro deployed about 330 experts throughout the country. The organization recalled that the risk of pedrisk is one of the coatings available to all agricultural lines of the Spanish agrarian insurance system. In fact, every year it causes thousands of accidents and compensation for a millionaire in the Spanish rural area. In total, since 2018, only a city meant 1484 million euros as compensation in agricultural insurance as a whole.
