Organic apples, the dialogue between Italy and France

Published Mar 31, 2023

Tridge summary

The article highlights the economic challenges faced by organic apple producers in Italy and France, the largest producers in the European Union, due to a surplus in supply and decreased consumer demand. This situation is further worsened by rising production costs due to inflation. To address these issues, a meeting between representative structures of the Italian and French economic organizations, Assomela, Cso Italy, and Anpp, resulted in the creation of a working group to monitor market trends and share data. The group aims to develop strategies to increase consumer awareness and consumption of organic apples, promote an "organic culture," and evaluate the effectiveness of public policies and their alignment with market realities. The organizations also plan to engage in dialogue with large-scale distributors to ensure shelf space for organic products and to modify public policies as necessary.

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Original content

Faced with a particularly delicate economic situation for the apple sector in organic farming in Europe, the representative structures of the Italian and French economic organizations wanted to engage collectively in a reflection on the future. The numbers of Italy and France With 193 thousand and 227 thousand tons respectively, Italy and France are the two largest producers of organic apples in the European Union, and represent 64% of the 658 thousand tons of European production. Encouraged by European and national public policies, conversions have been very dynamic, the surface of organic apple trees in France thus increased from 5,523 hectares in 2019 to 9,090 in 2022, while in Italy from 2017 to 2021 it increased from 6,201 to 8,236. The consumer crisis With the succession of various crisis factors, health, then geopolitical and now economic, consumption unfortunately has not followed production. Economically, when supply far exceeds demand comes structural surplus and this is ...

Source: Myfruit