(ANSA) - ROME - Green light in the State Regions Conference to the Mipaaf decree signed by Undersecretary Gian Marco Centinaio, which allocates 15 million euros for Italian rice growers.
This is a temporary State aid to companies, in partial relief of the higher costs incurred following the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, the record level reached by the prices of energy raw materials and also in consideration of the drought that has compromised some productions such as precisely that of rice.
The aid is determined on the basis of the hectares of cultivated area in the 2022 campaign, explains the Mipaaf, granting up to 100 euros per hectare until the available resources are exhausted.
"It is a measure that gives an injection of confidence to a strategic sector of Made in Italy agri-food", comments Centinaio - which in recent months has also been particularly penalized by a drought that has burned thousands of hectares and rendered so many land unproductive. putting its survival at serious risk ". (ANSA).