Italian pasta beats everyone

With a record increase of + 33%, it is a historic record for sales of pasta from Italy abroad where, with economic difficulties, the qualities of the basic dish of the Mediterranean diet are rediscovered. This is what emerges from the Coldiretti analysis on the occasion of the World Pasta Day which is celebrated on 25 October, based on Istat data on foreign trade in the first seven months of the year. "It is the Germans - underlines Coldiretti - who spend the most to buy pasta from the Belpaese with an increase of 31% in the last year, while the United States ranks second, where the increase was even + 45%. under the pressure of the weak euro against the dollar while in third place France with an increase of 25% ». In Italy 3.6 million tons of pasta are produced, equal to about 1/4 of all the world, with 200 thousand Italian farms committed to supplying durum wheat of the highest quality to a supply chain that has 360 companies and about 7,500 employees, for a total value of ...