The green light to the government's amendment on the exemption and cut of agricultural personal income tax "represents an important step, which meets Terra Viva's requests and represents a signal of fiscal relief, in a moment of great difficulty for producers. But the real issue to address is that of the imbalances present in the supply chain, because in addition to bureaucracy, our agricultural companies deal with low profitability every day."
The speaker is Claudio Risso, a true Piedmontese, born in '62, who, with the Terra Viva Association of Free Agricultural Producers of which he is national president, lives every day in contact with the problems of those in the fields.
"The difference between sustainable agriculture, capable of producing income, and one devoted to speculation, lies precisely in the relationship between the price of the products sold and the expense of cultivating them", he tells ANSA.
And he underlines: "Today the turnover of the Italian agri-food sector, from field to table, has exceeded 600 billion. An extraordinary result. But these figures must be analysed. Our study conducted on Crea data from recent years has highlighted that the average added value for the company it is under 32 thousand euros in the agricultural phase, 527 thousand euros for the food, beverage and tobacco industry, over 144 thousand in distribution and 84 thousand in catering. These are figures that speak for themselves, and if updated to date - he says the president of the association founded in 2019 and affiliated to the Fai-Cisl - would give even more disproportionate estimates to the detriment of producers and agricultural workers".
To give an example of the effect of the income crisis, in the dairy sector "according to one of our studies, 40 thousand stables are at risk, in particular in Lombardy, a region which alone guarantees 40% of national production".
Risso then warns against the risk of populism that could arise from the protests of the past few days "because it quickly becomes a mockery", instead he invites us to keep our attention high by launching a vast listening campaign "so as not to turn off the spotlight".
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