Coldiretti in the square in Cagliari against high prices: "Production costs soared, impossible to continue"

Coldiretti in the square in Cagliari, and simultaneously in various regions of the peninsula, to demonstrate against the high prices and the "intolerable" bureaucracy. Already 9 hundreds of farmers from various areas of the island, together with numerous mayors with the tricolor band, gathered in Piazza Trento to give life to a procession that will stop in Piazza del Carmine, in front of the territorial office of the government .

Thousands of companies are experiencing great discomfort in the last two years characterized by the crisis linked to the coronavirus to which data problems have been added, explains the association, "by climate change, bureaucracy, distracted supply chains", in addition to "high prices uncontrolled which has caused production costs to rise without a consequent increase in the remuneration of products to farmers, especially for some agricultural sectors ".

Coldiretti does not just protest, but will present concrete proposals that will be delivered to the prefect of Cagliari, the president of the regional council, the president of the regional council, all the councilors and all the presidents of the council groups.

Governor Christian Solinas has already expressed the closeness of the region, so that the state hears the appeal of breeders and farmers.

“The increase in raw materials and energy - explains the president of the Region - has caused the production costs of companies to rise, affecting above all some sectors, from dairy to pig, which today are at the end of the line. Our agro-pastoral system is a productive and identity richness, a heritage of the whole island and must be protected at all costs ".

In recent years, the governor added, “the Region has never backed down, supporting the entire sector without interruption. We are pursuing that process of modernization and simplification that we started at the beginning of the legislature. The passage of Argea to the role of regional paying agency has allowed us to recover ground in terms of the disposal of practices and payments and now a further effort is needed to eliminate all unnecessary bureaucratic delays, guarantee liquidity to companies and shorten the delivery times. payments to the full advantage of Sardinian farmers who in recent years have had to defend themselves from the devastating effects of the pandemic ".

(Unioneonline / ss)