The alarm of Confagricultura in Latina in the Pontine wine sector.

At a recent meeting in Congliano, attended by the main associations of the region in Italy, France and Spain, and after sauce from the national leaders of the agricultural organization, Latina’s organization received a signed note from some. Major wineries in the area and iHe intervenes by asking for the sterilization of the increase in energy costs, extraordinary support and flexible measures similar to those introduced to solve the complications caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Companies refer to this year’s harvest Locally, it is announced that there will be a drop in prices linked to four factors: A significant increase in production and processing costs (more than 50%), compared to the previous year, the increase in stocks on July 31, 2022 is equal to 1,555,491 hectoliters of wine, for the total total stocks equal to 47,451,108 hectoliters, because of the decrease in demand and the objective loss of purchasing power of consumers and production in 2022 than the average of previous years Considered less or less.

“Our agricultural organization, even at the Conegliano summit, reiterated a clear position – says Luigi Nicolini, president of Confagricultura Latina – that the sector deserves support and consideration for interventions that meet the criteria already used in the case of Covid. The wineries themselves are talking about a situation that defines worse than the pandemic situation.

Among the requests made at the national level, there is the need to protect the promotion policy as a tool to guarantee the competitiveness of wines, to protect the nutrition labeling rules and the list of ingredients already decided in the framework of the CAP regulations. Ask Member States and the European Commission to oppose the Irish proposal on health warnings by submitting a detailed opinion under the Label Digital and TRIS labeling procedure.

“The note signed by the wineries of our region – explains Mauro D’Arcangeli, Director of Confagricultura Latina – draws the same conditions found in the national summits and confirms that the commitment of Confagricultura is in the right direction. At this juncture it is necessary to organize with a view to bring to the attention of the government the need to intervene without delay so that the efforts of many manufacturers are not wasted in the crisis that is plaguing a sector across our region. There are thousands of companies that are the driving force of the Latino province’s economy.