Pecorino Romano, the increases put the sheep supply chain at risk
The protection consortium renegotiates the mortgages to guarantee more liquidity: "Increases even by 100%"
"It is a very complicated moment, in which the entire supply chain is subject to heavy increases , even by 100%. Increases ranging from energy to fuels, from raw materials to cartons for packaging, and then feed, fertilizers and diesel . Increases that weigh on farmers but also on processors, and which in fact nullify all the efforts made so far to bring the pecorino romano to a value never reached on the market, eliminating the increased profit margin due to the need to face costs. production skyrocketing ". The alarm comes from the president of the Consortium for the protection of Pecorino Romano DOP , Gianni Maoddi .
A real emergency, which could precipitate the fate of the sector. On the market today there are prices never recorded before , influenced by the reduced availability of production in 2021.
“INCENTIVES ARE NEEDED -" The new production will be salable from next month and from that moment we will be able to accurately assess the level of consumption and prices ", explains Maoddi, however, urging a new course of the entire agricultural policy. "Today more than ever we realize that there is a lack of raw materials and we are all forced to pay exaggerated prices by moving wealth elsewhere, the system must be revised, it is necessary to encourage those who produce instead of giving useless aid in order not to produce and if the remuneration was not it is sufficient to intervene to rebalance the income of primary production. And then - concludes the president of the consortium - incentives are urgently needed for farmers and ranchers to stay in the countryside, which would solve the problem of depopulation and unemployment, creating benefits for the entire economy of our country. island".
"COSTS UPDATE" - The Consortium is already doing its part to try to limit the damage. "We have negotiated with some banks the updating of the production costs of pecorino romano subjected to revolving pledge - concludes the president - in order to guarantee a more adequate loan to those who request it, to help them deal with the increases affecting the entire supply chain ", concludes the president.
(Unioneonline / vl)
