Two municipalities, of Eordia and Kastoriathey asked the regional governor of Western Macedonia to declare their areas in

The latest rains have created significant damage to infrastructure in the rural countryside, rural and country roads have suffered subsidence, while in some cases they are inaccessible due to the flooding of canals and streams.

In Kleisoura Kastoria and Milochori, Eordaia houses were also at risk from the floods. The southwestern basin of the municipality of Eordaia and the villages of Milohori, Emporio, Foufa, Drosero, Asvestopetra are facing serious problems with damage to roads and agricultural infrastructure from the flooding of the canals, while their crops have been completely destroyed.

The mayor of Eordaia Panagiotis Plakentas reports that 1,200 hectares of potatoes in the village of Foufa have been destroyed and as he points out, some of the producers, due to the continuous rains in March, had replanted their fields only to experience today the total destruction of their harvest.

The president of the Agricultural Association of Eordaia and Vegoritida, Tasos Aivazidis, speaks of great damage to the cherries and apples. As he reports in APE-MBE, due to the continuous rains, it was not possible to set fruit on the trees and those who managed to set their fruit, dropped it shortly after, due to the rains.

The deputy governor of Florina, Sotirios Vosdou, made an emergency visit to the rural area of ​​Lake Vegoritida and promised the producers that he would activate all the mechanisms to compensate the affected crops.

Finally, for his part, the head of the Civil Protection PE of Kozani Prodromos Aslanidis stated that the regional governor Giorgos Kasapidis made a positive recommendation to the General Secretary of Civil Protection that the above municipalities be declared in a state of emergency, in order for the municipalities to use the maximum extent of equipment and financial resources for the immediate treatment of their problems and the relief of those affected.