The future scenario may be positive, but the critical issues related to the health emergency make forecasts uncertain or nebulous. The common perspective of a compatible viticulture at environmental and economic levels must deal with the concrete issues of work and the income of operators, the only real engine of the production system. "We are happy that the attention of politics is growing towards the agricultural and wine sector, as shown by the latest proposals of the law and the implications of the NRR - declares Filippo Mobrici, President of the Consorzio Barbera d'Asti e Vini del Monferrato - Now we expect concrete actions and a more continuous listening by all the institutions ".
From a recent note published by Coldiretti, Italian agriculture leaps to the top European places in terms of green and sustainability, the bed of the Noviagrivoluto project by the Consorzio Barbera d'Asti e Vini del Monferrato, dedicated to the construction of a machinery for viticulture aimed at limiting the dispersion of plant protection products into the environment. "Sustainability must certainly be ecological and industrial, but also economic and labor-related - continuesMobrici - Our reference sector, so central to the Italian economy, must first ensure of all the right income to its workers through political interventions that enhance the excellence of our productions and, for this same reason, discourage illegal work ».
Confagricoltur's note has spread in recent weeks, highlighting the growing return to work in the fields and in the vineyard, among young and old forced to new jobs after the closure of businesses, often in other sectors. An issue that opens up new scenarios also in the real estate market relating to rural areas, for a long time paralyzed to the advantage of urbanization: «For some time now, in Monferrato, we have seen an increase in young entrepreneurship linked to wine. Another point to which we must look with confidence »adds Mobrici.
All this in line with the declarations of the Minister of Agricultural Policies Stefano Patuanelli regarding the instrument Piùimpresa, designed to favor, throughout the national territory, the takeover and development operations of youth-run farms in the agricultural sector. also be hospitality: in Monferrato the news about the wine tourism project in the territories of Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato Docg is these days; tourism can in fact once again represent the most stimulating economic aspect for many wine-growing areas. "The Consortium is happy to support an innovative project like this, which demonstrates the dynamism of a constantly growing reality like that of Ruchè - says Mobrici - Well, similar initiatives involving the producers themselves with the aim of creating a virtuous promotion model which, perhaps, could also be a model for other territories ».
With over 66 million bottles and more than 11 thousand hectares of vines, equal to about 30% of the DOC and DOCG area of Piedmont, the Consortium protects 13 denominations, 4 Docg (Barbera d'Asti, Nizza, Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato and TerreAlfieri) and 9 Doc (Albugnano, Cortese dell'Alto Monferrato, Dolcetto d'Asti, Freisa d'Asti, Grignolino d'Asti, Loazzolo, Malvasia di Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Monferrato and Piedmont).
