Defense of agri-food made in Italy against the “aggression” taking place in Europe, making a “common front together with other European nations”, without closing in on their own national borders, looking instead at exports because “the Ministry of Food Sovereignty is the opposite of autarchy “. Francesco Lollobrigida, new Minister of Agriculture, returns to explain the strategy behind the new name of the ministry which will soon be called “Masaf: Ministry of Agricultural Policies of Food and Forestry Sovereignty” according to what he announced, on his first public release from minister, at the event for the twentieth anniversary of the Centro Agroalimentare Romano (CAR), the first wholesale market in Italy, in Guidonia, near Rome. The new name for Lollobrigida “means putting the agricultural entrepreneur, the breeder, the shepherd and the final consumer at the center or the possibility of a people to define their own strategies to produce in a way that protects the work, the environment, quality and do it compatibly with the development of an export based on these principles “. “In Europe we need to have a different posture, we need to make a common front in defense of our agricultural system”. So defense of the Italian identity when needed through a game of alliances. “We went to Europe to say that we do not allow to attack our products” said Lollobrigida about yesterday’s vote by Italy in Brussels in the Committee of the Member States which met to decide the outcome of the Annual Work Program. 2023 for the promotion of agricultural and food products. We voted against a proposal that attacked a piece of our agricultural economy “. Not to mention Nutriscore, the traffic light label on food products, which threatens Italian agri-food excellence.” It is not a past risk, there is an aggression “said the minister as he walked around the huge structure, the ‘temple’ of trade in fruit, vegetables and fish products, not at all reassured by the fact that there is a postponement of the presentation of the regulation proposal on the front-pack label, to the second quarter. of 2023. “We believe that Italy can export products, putting quality at the center makes us competitive. This is the goal we set ourselves and we wanted to write it in the name “.” Agriculture is the main resource of our nation and must be put back at the center of the debate, we must have a sector that moves in unison across the board. political forces in the name of defending the Italian product “concluded Lollobrigida. (by Cristina Armeni)
