Today marks the click day for the arrival in Italy of 89,050 non-EU seasonal workers foreseen by the new flow decree 2023-2025.
Coldiretti made this known by underlining that the new appointment mainly concerns seasonal work in the agricultural and tourism-hotel sectors.
Foreign workers have become an important component for the Italian agri-food supply chain.
Almost 1/3 of Made in Italy at the table at a national level is produced in the fields and stables by migrants who have regularly found employment in agriculture, providing as much as 32% of the total days of work necessary for the sector, according to the analysis by Coldiretti who collaborated on the latest immigration statistical dossier edited by the Idos study and research centre.
The community of non-EU agricultural workers most present in Italy, explains Coldiretti, is that of Indians, followed by Moroccans who precede Albanians, Senegalese, Pakistanis, Tunisians, Nigerians and Macedonians.
It is mainly seasonal work with peaks in demand in the summer harvest periods, guaranteed thanks to regular workers from other countries, perfectly integrated, who stop in Italy for a few months, returning year after year often to the same company with mutual satisfaction.
"The contribution of migratory flows to Made in Italy supports many agricultural districts where foreign workers are a well integrated component in the economic and social fabric as in the case - concludes Coldiretti - of the strawberry harvest in the Veronese area, of the preparation of cuttings in Friuli, of the apples in Trentino, fruit in Emilia Romagna, grapes in Piedmont up to dairy farms in Lombardy where it is mainly Indians who carry out the bergamini activity".
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