No stage for the farmers who arrived in force near the Ariston red zone: Amadeus, as promised, read the extract of a statement from the protesting farmers on the Sanremo stage. Among the signatories also Fabio Pitzalis, a farmer from Guasila who came to Sanremo to support his colleagues at the sit-in at the port of the city of flowers.

«Without agriculture there is no life, there is no food sovereignty, there is no freedom; we only ask for the possibility of continuing to honor the teachings of our parents and grandparents, who with respect, love and dignity led us to cultivate the value of the land and what it represents, with the one and only objective of leaving a world better for our children ", we read in the "Speech for Sanremo", also signed by Alessandra Oldoni, Giulia Goglio and Davide Pedrotti.

«Now we go ahead and move to Rome – Pitzalis tells L'Unione Sarda – to find a solution with those who govern us».

Here is the full appeal: «Italian farmers - we read - pay the price for wrong decisions not based on science. Just think of community policies such as the green deal, the air quality directive or the regulation on pesticides, fortunately withdrawn by the EU Commission thanks to our protests; all these policies, in our opinion excessively unbalanced in favor of the environment, are to the detriment of all Italian agriculture, with particular reference to small companies. The sword of Damocles of the prices paid to farmers then weighs heavily on these issues. We remind everyone that we cannot plan the selling price of our products, because we are subjected to a market drugged by speculation, where the price paid to us is a tenth of what consumers pay. We ask for a clear law that guarantees the fair distribution of value along the agri-food supply chain, with mutual benefits for agricultural producers and consumers. The prices paid to farmers have remained unchanged for thirty years, so much so that some products cost consumers up to ten times more. We are the only category that cannot rely on production costs and cannot apply costs, suffering all the disadvantages of the market and possible bad weather of the season, despite having high and certain costs linked to sowing and production. We are not going to bore you now by listing in detail what we ask for, which we have explained several times to the press and brought to the attention of politicians, but we want to limit ourselves to transmitting a very simple message - the document continues -: we farmers are not in the streets to ask aid or subsidies, but only to ensure that we are paid the right remuneration for the hard and irreplaceable work we do every day, thanks to which every citizen can eat every day. Unfortunately, this has not happened for some time, so much so that today most of the fruits of our labor are widely underpaid, with revenues that are well below production costs. We therefore protest to defend the dignity of all farmers and to strongly demand that the right value be paid to our production. A Future for Agriculture and Made in Italy. All this simply because without agriculture there is no life, there is no food sovereignty, there is no freedom; we only ask for the possibility of continuing to honor the teachings of our parents and grandparents, who with respect, love and dignity led us to cultivate the value of the land and what it represents, with the one and only objective of leaving a world better for our children. We conclude with a greeting to Italy, to Rai and to you Amadeus. Thank you for giving farmers a voice in the temple of Italian music. In recent days we have insisted on wanting to go on stage ourselves for a single reason: to also show our faces, clean faces that represent the future of Italian agriculture and passionate eyes of those who still believe that, quoting Pope Francis, there is no it is humanity without cultivation of the land. This is the speech we would have liked to read on the Ariston stage."

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