Italy: Grapes prices in Puglia are under 50 cents

With the war in Ukraine and the energy price increases that have pushed the increase in production costs up to + 51% with a traumatic impact on farms, it is deflation in the fields with table grape prices even below 50 cents. per kilogram, while consumption goes up to 4 euros. This is what Coldiretti Puglia denounces, which calls for the urgent convocation of a crisis table in the Regional Department of Agriculture to support the table grape sector, caught between speculative phenomena, a dramatically drought summer and the hailstorms that damaged the product and marquees. "The activation of the former measure 21 is urgent and vital, an extraordinary intervention from which the fruit and vegetable sector was excluded in the Covid period, to support agricultural companies in a worrying scenario for the sector, with the drought that caused a further damage, aggravated by hailstorms and extreme events ”, affirms Pietro Piccioni, director of Coldiretti Puglia, underlining the ...