Peperoncino, China "crushes" the Italian product

Published 2021년 1월 29일

Tridge summary

The Italian chili pepper market is facing challenges due to high domestic demand and low production, leading to dependence on imports from non-EU countries like China, Egypt, and Turkey. These imports undercut the quality and price of locally produced peppers, despite the potential for higher quality and traceability under European regulations. The high cost of Italian production is due to labor and quality control expenses, and the industry seeks to enhance the product's value and competitiveness through territorial denominations, varietal improvement, and modernization of processing techniques. Most production is in southern Italy, with a significant share exported, particularly to the Netherlands.

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Great demand from consumers but low national production (30% of requirements) which determines subjection from non-EU markets (2 thousand tons per year from China, Egypt, Turkey) and crushes the Made in Italy with a product of low quality standards, imported to rock bottom prices (1/5 less). According to Cia-Agricoltori Italiani, this is the photograph of the chili pepper market, one of the gastronomic symbols of our country, which in order to develop and compete needs a superior quality, innovative and integrated supply chain. In the past, chili peppers have enjoyed little attention in the past, identified as a subspecies of pepper and considered as a spice and not an agricultural product in all respects. This has often confined it to the passion of hobbyists in gardens or on condominium terraces, for family consumption only. The major problem of this cultivation, which is specialized only in rare cases, is linked, in fact, to prices that are not competitive with those of the ...

Source: Italiafruit