MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “Agriculture for us represents a lot as a nation, represents wealth, tradition, landscape protection, culture. Because agriculture and culture are intimately connected. We share the goal of raising and enhancing what makes us unique in the world. Cultivating also means taking care, every good farmer cares for his own territory. I say so to remember that you are the first guardians of the environment, that your contribution goes well beyond the economic fact. They are among those who reject the surreal account of farmers who are enemies of nature, who have been told for years as a danger to be countered by various means to provisions, starting from the most destroyed directives far away from reality and concreteness”. Thus the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, speaking to the initiative of ConfAgricoltura, il Futuro. “This blindly ideological reading is unacceptable from our point of view, so we contrast it,” he adds.
“Italian agriculture has certainly returned to the protagonist and the merit is not of the government but of the entrepreneurs and of the workers; the government has limited itself to identify more effective mechanisms and tools to free the potential that is likely to be unexpressed, allow the operators to operate in the most favorable conditions,” he says.
“It is very unpredictable times, but when we live in a time like this, I think that the few certainties that have become even more important and agriculture is certainly one of those certainties. The industry has shown an extraordinary resilience and ability to adapt, thanks to the tradition we boast but also thanks to the tenacity and pride you demonstrate. We live times that are not simple, especially not for those who produce but are sure that they are not even for those who govern it,” he explains.
“SENZA PAC E COESIONE NO COMPETITIVITÀ”
“There is an important thread, if we want to say, that is that of European policies. Italy has never missed its point of view and support for the category, we have fought so that the common agricultural policy would return to pursue the objectives set out in the Treaties. To be able to achieve with a negotiation that in the future Pac were expected 10 billion more than the proposed formula, it represents a result that demonstrates how much we centralize the sector. It is difficult to defend European competitiveness if we cannot defend Pac and Coesion. Without agriculture and without cohesion between the territories we will not even have competitiveness. The attempt to put the two things in contrast does not share it,” adds Meloni.
GIANSANTI “UE CI PERMETTA DI RIVEDERE TARIFFE SU FERTILIZZANTI”
“I am in favour of a structured organic plan and I hope that President von der Leyen will have the courage to present it on Tuesday because if Tuesday they present us as a plan the usual warm cloth in which we leave the individual Member State the chance to do what is considered best is a huge problem.” It has emphasized the president of ConfAgricoltura, Massimiliano Giansanti, in the margin of the conference “Agriculture, the Future” organized by the association in Triennale in Milan. “In Europe today most of the fertilizers that are used are of Russian matrix or Belarusian, so we obviously asked to be able to review rates on all fertilizers – he then specified – but above all to cut this new taxation that came into effect from January 1 on carbon that. I would like to thank the rapporteur for his work. Consider that for the cereals sector we will already have more costs of 12 billion euros to which we add a further billion of this tax”.
“At a time when many crises are putting into trouble the agriculture sector, considering that the USDA”, the US federal agency responsible for agricultural policies, “which is one of the most important agencies in the world, certifies that in the United States this year will be the worst productive crisis since 1919, ie for over 100 years to this part. We are knowing, thanks to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the worst food crisis”. Situation confirmed by the FAO messages.
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