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Adrian bonanni
Stop discounts in large distribution. The government’s latest crusade features Teresa Bellanova, Renzian’s agriculture policy minister. That, during a meeting with industrial associations in Torre del Lago, in Tuscany, she attacked supermarkets, guilty, according to her, of “depreciating” products made in Italy, putting them at the same level as those coming from abroad. In short, for Bellanova we must say goodbye to the policy of the large commercial chains that in this period of crisis due to the coronavirus have practiced lower prices to meet the needs of families.
What is the reasoning of the minister? “I appeal to the big retailers,” he explains. I no longer want to see repeat discount campaigns, because someone is paying that discount. Or the employer and his employees or the consumer because perhaps he is buying a product that at that moment pays less but then pays the community in terms of health costs.
The minister obviously knows that she cannot intervene directly in commercial chains to set prices. Therefore, appeal to good will. “I cannot make a decree on the sale price of the products,” he admits, “but I remember a sense of responsibility. Large-scale distribution has the task of being able to better improve the products made in Italy. Whether it is a fruit, a plant or a flower, we must make what we sell transparent to the consumer.
“We must also make it clear both in our country and abroad why the fact in Italy costs more – he continues – because if we put what has been produced in Italy at the same level as the rules of good cultivation, with respect for the environment, with everything that comes from countries where children are exploited or where there is no labor legislation, we do not provide a clear service to the consumer ”.
Meanwhile, however, Teresa Bellanova is being criticized by the fruit sector, excluded from tax exemptions for 2020. “The Minister of Labor announces the great success of the decree of decontribution of agri-food chains, which provides for the exemption of contributions during the first six months 2020 – Forza Italia Senator Enrico Aimi attacks – It is a pity, however, that the entire fruit sector is missing, among the most representative and important in the supply chain. Shameful discrimination against a fundamental sector, the only one which is excluded from the provision requested for years as an instrument of rebalancing and competitiveness. Exemptions are granted to all agricultural sectors and not to fruit producers: why? Perhaps because they are the ones that contribute the most to the payment in the funds of the INPS of the agricultural sector? Let us think of Modena, which has almost one million working days declared in 2019 (with more than 70% derived or the fruit sector). After the spring frosts, the damage caused by the Asian stink bug, the hailstorms and the disastrous fungal attacks of the brown spot, which caused losses of 70 to 100% of the harvest, the fruit growers are calling for a serious and responsible measure.
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