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Wheat

Italy

Regulation & Compliances

Market & Price Trends

Published Mar 15, 2024

Tridge summary

In response to the durum wheat market crisis, the Italian Government has initiated a strategy involving the Single National Commission, the Telematic Registry, and supply chain agreements and controls. The aim is to bring transparency to the market and clarify production numbers, particularly given the rise in pasta made without Italian wheat. The 2020 law on traceability of Italian grains is key to this strategy, ensuring consumers are aware of the origin of the wheat in their pasta. This responsibility of traceability is to be shared across the supply chain, not just with farmers.

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Original content

The Single National Commission, the Telematic Registry for monitoring the numbers of Italian wheat production, the supply chain agreements and controls, represent the pillars of the Government's strategy to face yet another durum wheat market crisis, which today sees the arrival of large quantities of wheat from Turkey, Russia and Canada. That the Government has decided to bring forward the times to bring transparency to the markets and clarify the numbers is good news, given that we are witnessing a multiplication of the quantities of pasta produced without Italian wheat". Thus LiberiAgricoltori at the end of yesterday's meeting at Masaf convened by Undersecretary Patrizio Giacomo La Pietra. The meeting was attended by the Hon Saverio De Bonis, Confederal Head of Institutional Relations and Mimmo Viscanti, Member of the Presidential Committee, Head of the Durum Wheat Supply Chain and President of LiberiAgricoltori Puglia. “The law on the traceability of Italian grains was ...

Source: Agricolae