Confagricoltura, Giansanti points the finger at Europe: “It becomes increasingly difficult to compete with those who run”
«We cannot ask farmers to produce less and then be surprised if they go to the streets to protest. The common agricultural policy has failed in all its objectives». The president of Confagricoltura doesn't mince words Massimiliano Giansanti in his speech at Global Summit on the sustainability of Turin. He brings it back Red shrimp.
The starting point is there tractor protest which involves half of Europe and which in Italy today has led farmers to Veronawhere Fieragricola was inaugurated.
For Giansanti, ready to leave for Veronathere is no doubt about the reasons that led to the exasperation of those who work in the primary sector: «The main mistake of the CAP was to consider farmers as enemies, instead of the champions of the territory, and think of being able to tell them how, what and how much to produce. The result has been detrimental: growth has stopped and there is no multi-year development plan. Today, instead of managing the surpluses, all we have to do is manage the shortages.”
Giansanti therefore points the finger at Europe, but also against the Italian governments that have followed one another in recent years: «The time has come to do a good examination of conscience. Americans are extraordinary: they think and achieve. The Chinese copy and conquer the market. In the meantime, the Europeans only think about regulating. In this way, it becomes increasingly difficult to compete with those who run».
«The discomfort of farmers» continues the president of Confagricoltura «also comes from sustainability and those rules which end up influencing their lives without offering them growth prospects. For example, thinking of drastically reducing the use of pesticides without providing an alternative is madness. It feels like reading resolutions that could have been valid 40 years ago; Not today”.
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“It is necessary to protect our products and our companies”
The geopolitical situation certainly doesn't help. «All negotiations have collapsed and if Trump were to return to lead the United States, things could get even worse. All that remains are bilateral agreements protect our products and our companies. Companies which, however, can no longer withstand the global impact for long.” For Giansanti there are sectors that are more virtuous than others, such as wine for example «but» he adds «the credit goes to the usual entrepreneurs who go around the world to sell their products, certainly not to a political strategywhich right now it is totally absent».
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