Italian households will spend 900 million euros more in 2022 than in the previous year on the most important product, bread.
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But farmers don't care Coldiretti, the largest independent farming association in Italy, in its release outraged by the injustice in the market for bread and bakery products. “In Italy, food prices have risen by more than ten times for individual items due to record increases in the cost of energy, feed and fertilizer. The reason is not only in international conflicts and violations of logistics, but also in the banal speculation of buyers and retail chains that deceive both farmers and consumers,” the association writes in its release, commenting on the Eurostat analysis. According to Eurostat statistics, the cost of bread has never been so high in the EU: it rose by an average of 18% in August compared to the same month in 2021. Thus, Italian households will spend 900 million euros more in 2022 than in the previous year on the product most represented on the tables. According to Coldiretti, today Italian farmers are paid about 36 euro cents per kilo of wheat and used to produce ...
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