Italy says goodbye to 100 million fruit trees

Published 2023년 3월 10일

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Italy is experiencing a significant decline in its fruit cultivation, with over 100 million fresh fruit plants lost in the past 15 years, leading to the disappearance of many fruit productions and causing negative impacts on consumption, climate, environment, landscape, and health. The loss of fruit cultivation has also increased the absorption of pollutants by approximately two million kilos per year. The sector is also grappling with increased production costs, which have risen by 42% due to energy price increases, and challenges such as climate change, extreme events, and unfair competition from foreign productions. Unfair competition has resulted in many imported food products not complying with health, environmental, and worker protection regulations, and the European Union is facing criticism for facilitating this unfair competition through preferential agreements.

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Farewell to over 100 million fresh fruit plants in Italy in the last fifteen years with the disappearance of all the main productions, from apples to pears, from peaches to apricots, from table grapes to cherries, from oranges to clementines while in against the trend, they only keep citron and bergamot. This is what emerges from the analysis presented on the occasion of the Italian national fruit day in the village of peasant biodiversity in Cosenza where the young farmers of Coldiretti took to the streets to stop the massacre of fruit plants that is causing the desertification of the territories in the regions with dramatic effects on national consumption and on the climate, the environment, the landscape and the health of Italians. There are also companies from Emilia-Romagna that have brought some of the best Italian products to the village. A few numbers "Overall, the Italian area cultivated with fruit - underlines Coldiretti - has been reduced to 560 thousand hectares with ...

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