World Pasta Day, Italmopa: Durum wheat semolina produced in Italy, a symbolic food base Made in Italy

Today, October 25, we celebrate World Pasta Day, an icon par excellence of our unparalleled national and regional gastro-cultural heritage, on the initiative of the IPO - International Pasta Organization. In this regard, it is worth remembering that, according to the same IPO, our country remains a solid world leader both in pasta production (with 3.9 million tons of which approximately 60 percent destined for export markets, ahead of the United States, Turkey and Egypt), and in per capita consumption (23.3 kg ahead of Tunisia, Venezuela and Greece). But above all, our country can boast an offer of pasta of unparalleled quality, obtained from the best durum wheats carefully identified, selected, mixed and transformed into semolina by Italian mills. Italmopa – Associazione Industriali Mugnai d’Italia, a member of Confindustria and FederPrima, which exclusively represents the Italian milling industry, a leader in the EU with approximately 12 million tons of soft and durum wheat ...