Government and Parliament do not neglect fruit growing!

" While appreciating the announced Government intervention relating to the exemption from contributions for the first 6 months of 2020 for the agri-food chains, we express deep dissatisfaction with the exclusion of the fruit sector, the only one that does not fall within the tax and contribution relief regime granted following the lockdown ".

Enrico Allasia, president of Confagricoltura Piemonte, spoke on the exemption of agricultural social security payments due tomorrow (16 September), highlighting how " a fund of fundamental importance from an economic and employment point of view has been neglected, despite having contributed to providing an essential contribution to our society in the difficulties of the pandemic. A sector that in Piedmont - underlines the regional president of Confagricoltura - involves 8,000 fruit farms for a cultivated area of about 18,500 hectares and which generates a turnover of over 500 million euros out of a national total of 4 billions ".

The Piedmontese fruit companies - explains Confagricoltura - are mainly concentrated in the Cuneo area (60%) , followed by Turin with 25% and Vercellese with 10% .

" We ask the Government and the local parliamentarians - declares Enrico Allasia - to intervene to reconsider the provision that we, as Confagricoltura, have been supporting for some time, to give concrete answers to fruit growers who, amid climatic emergencies, alien insects and problems related to the pandemic, are struggling to achieve a satisfactory income: we ask for it for producers and for the supply chain, because the survival of a strategic sector for Piedmontese and national quality production is at risk ".