Italy: State-Regions Conference approves decree allocating 10 million to support supply chain

An agreement was reached in the State-Regions Conference on the Masaf decree regarding interventions to support the beekeeping sector and with which resources of 10 million euros will be allocated. The news was announced by the Undersecretary for Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests, Luigi D’Eramo. “A commitment kept with our beekeepers and an important response to the sector, which has been grappling with an economic crisis for some time now to which several elements have contributed, from the effects of the consequences of climate change – from drought to floods to hailstorms – to the unfair competition of imported products sold at very low prices, of dubious composition and poor quality”, states D’Eramo. “With this decree, the result of work that we have shared with the sector, and for which I thank Minister Francesco Lollobrigida – continues the Undersecretary with delegation – we are giving a concrete response to a sector in difficulty and that we consider the protection ...