Italy: Will producers start mixing durum wheat and soft wheat for pasta without informing as what they did with Canadian durum wheat?

Published 2021년 11월 12일

Tridge summary

Climate change is causing significant disruptions to durum wheat crops, particularly in key producing countries like Canada, leading to reduced production and exports. This has resulted in a 50% reduction in Canadian exports, primarily to Italy, and a 1.6 million ton decrease in the European Commission's estimated Italian durum wheat production for 2022. Consequently, durum wheat prices have reached a 13-year high and are expected to rise further, posing a threat to pasta manufacturers globally. The situation may necessitate a shift to less expensive soft wheat for pasta production, especially in countries like Turkey, which have already increased the maximum soft wheat content in pasta exports from 30% to 100%. The article also highlights the potential for increased demand for durum wheat in Africa, where consumption patterns may change due to price increases, and suggests that mixed durum and soft wheat pasta and bread might become more common in response to these challenges.

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Original content

Perhaps the time has come to try to illustrate what is happening in the world of pasta in light of the disruptive effects of climate change on durum wheat crops. We know - we have written this many times - that the three countries where a lot of durum wheat is produced, namely Canada, Russia and the United States of America, have suffered, due to drought, reductions in imported production. We know that Canada has suffered a reduction in production of about 50%; and we know that it has drastically reduced exports, also because many Canadian farmers have understood that the price of wheat is destined to rise and, at this stage, they prefer to stock the product to sell it when the price increases. And we also know that Canadian durum wheat exported - not so much, but there is - was largely purchased from Italy. And since pasta is produced with durum wheat, we can only smile thinking about the advertisements that flood Italian television, according to which Italian pasta is made only ...

Source: Inuovivespri