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The 2022-2023 citrus campaign in Sicily is facing a crisis due to significant cost increases in logistics, energy, packaging, and raw materials, as highlighted by a meeting of local companies. High costs of gas, electricity, and transportation are affecting planning, and the processing chain is experiencing an emergency with many industries closing, leading to higher disposal costs. Adding to the challenges are doubled cultivation costs, uncertainty in energy prices, and declining consumption in Italy and Europe, leading to questions about the campaign's profitability. Sicily, which accounts for 57% of Italy's citrus fruit production, is struggling with higher transport, labor, and social security contribution costs compared to European competitors, despite employing around 18,000 workers and generating a turnover of approximately 1 billion euros annually.
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The 2022-2023 citrus campaign in Sicily is at risk, caught in a perfect storm of double-digit increases in logistics, energy, packaging and raw materials. This is what emerged from a meeting of Fruitimprese Sicilia with local companies. Summarizing the conclusions of the meeting between the most representative companies of the island's citrus growing, Placido Manganaro (in the photo), president of Fruitimprese Sicilia, speaks of "rampant concern and distrust among operators: costs out of control, crazy bills for gas and electricity , transport with prohibitive costs prevents companies from any planning in view of the start of the citrus campaign which starts in October with lemons and Navelina oranges and then moves on to Tarocco blood orange, mandarins, etc. ". "The intermediate product processing chain is also in an emergency - explains Manganaro - many processing industries are closing down and thus the possibility of placing the second / third choice product is also lost, ...
Source: Corriereortofrutticolo
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