- "With the publication in the Official Gazette of the decree of the Ministry of Agriculture, the national fruit and olive tree cadastre, which we strongly wanted to include in the 2019 Budget Law with an allocation of 5 million euros, will soon become a reality. strategic tool for the management of the Italian production potential and, in particular, of those crops that, due to the high production volumes and the reduced or overlapping ripening calendars, generate periodic market crises and weaken both the competitiveness of the sector and the contractual position of producers and of their organizations ".
This was declared by the deputy Giuseppe L'Abbate, exponent of 'Civic Commitment with Luigi Di Maio' and former undersecretary of state for agricultural policies.
"With the file it will be possible to know a series of agronomic information - he specifies - on the plant, on the type of use if prevalent or mixed, the productive attitude with adherence to Pdo and PGI quality systems or to voluntary systems for certifications, the presence of irrigation systems and protective structures and all other information useful for traceability ".
"We will know the national production potential and its precise location - continues the Parliamentary of Civic Commitment - in such a way as to appropriately address the policies to support the production and marketing of national products".
"Agea coordination will provide for the first installation of the register - he adds - on the basis of the Sipa (Identification System of agricultural parcels), the constituent data of the Integrated Management and Control System and the content of the company files of the paying agencies. and the validation of the contents will be the responsibility of the producer, through specific services made available on the Sian, the National Agricultural Information System, while the updating is the responsibility of the paying agencies "concludes L'Abbate.