Just in Someren, near Eindhoven, the costs incurred by farmers and gardeners are estimated at half a billion euros.
Extreme storms with hail stones the size of tennis balls made late last week for a wave of destruction in the region, which suffers from flooding all throughout the month. Many stables and greenhouses in Someren is almost no roof part more completely.
“It is becoming more known what the consequences are. How many businesses, cars and homes have been affected. So we come to that amount” confirmed, local president Henriette Driessen peasant organization ZLTO Monday after news of the Eindhoven Dagblad .
ZLTO estimated the damage across North Brabant previously at least 100 million euros.
in agricultural insurance, according to the Association of insurers now gotten to claims made about 130 million of farmers, particularly from Limburg and North Brabant. In this first estimate of the umbrella organization for private damage are not included
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Crisis Talk
Monday finds in Someren a crisis meeting between farmers, insurance companies and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
the problem is that a large proportion of all damage is probably not covered by insurance. Therefore, farmers want the government also bought a share. Driessen ZLTO fears that possible multiple companies will go bankrupt without financial assistance from The Hague
Video:. Lots of damage in south by storm
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