Industrial tomato, still no agreement on price in central south of Italy

Ensuring greater competitiveness of a strategically and economically important supply chain for the entire South of Italy. This was the central theme of the meeting between tomato producers and processors in the central-southern basin. It was a constructive discussion, but no agreement was reached on the average reference price of tomatoes for the next campaign. The industry, underlines ANICAV, despite several production costs are already recording reductions, has made itself available to recognize a price increase which is added to that already applied in the last campaign, proposing an average reference price of 140 euro/ton for the round tomato and 145euro/t for the long one. “With a great sense of responsibility – declares Marco Serafini, President of ANICAV – we have proposed an average reference price which takes into account the actual increases in production costs and which, over ...