Covid: Stop below cost prices for Italian pigs

"It is necessary to stop speculation along the Made in Italy cured meats and hams supply chain with prices paid to farmers that do not even cover the production costs due to the record increase in feed prices" This is what was stated by the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini during of the summit with the minister of agriculture Stefano Patuanelli and the councilors for agriculture of the two regions where most of the pig farms in Italy are concentrated, Fabio Rolfi for Lombardy and Alessio Mammi for Emilia Romagna. Prandini stressed that "it is essential to restart the dialogue within the pork supply chain by unblocking the paralysis of the Cun, the single national Commission, which must avoid the lack of pig quotations". In such a delicate phase for the country in which, with the progress of the vaccination campaign against the Covid pandemic, attempts are made to link the recovery of the economy, it is necessary - continues the president of Coldiretti - to protect a leading ...