Italy: Wholesale market price is right

X-ray wholesale markets: advantages and disadvantages of a capillary network. There are too many structures active in Italy. Farmers satisfied with the selling prices of the goods but would prefer longer daytime openings. A tattered and too long network does not connect, does not hold, dissipates. The network of wholesale markets in Italy is the largest in Europe, but does less business than its competitors. 137 wholesale markets operate in our country: a number six times higher than that of Spain (25 markets) and France (22 markets). But the greater density of structures - among other things mostly small - compared to other European realities, corresponds to a lower turnover. Italian markets gross 10 billion euros a year, compared to 14 in Spain and 12.5 in France. Wholesale markets manage half of the Italian marketing of fruit and vegetables (the first sector at an aggregate level in Italian agriculture with a value of 17 billion euros), 33% of fish and 10% of meat. Shares ...