PESCARA. «Great concern for the enormous delay relating to economic interventions to support the damage caused by the violent attacks of Peronospora caused by the Plasmopara Viticola fungus due to the constant rains that followed one another for forty days». Confagricoltura Abruzzo expresses it, underlining that «the Abruzzo winemakers are still waiting for interventions for the damage» suffered.
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«About a year ago, in fact, intermittent rains began which heavily affected 67.5% of the crops, causing the greatest economic crisis in the wine sector ever suffered in living memory – states Mauro Lovato, vice-president of Confagricoltura Abruzzo – Viticoltori e Cantine Sociali are in economic difficulty and from next month they will be unable to pay current expenses, the purchase of agricultural fuel and plant protection products. This will lead to the dismissal of staff, the impossibility of facing the next harvest due to lack of collaborators but what is even more serious will be forced to resort to mortgage bank debt to obtain liquidity”.
«Farmers, the damages cannot be compensated with Fira loans»
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The association recalls having alerted, as early as June 2023, the President of the Region, Marco Marsilio, of the economic crisis that was about to hit the wine sector. Then followed meetings, proposals and requests to address the problem in time. Despite the reassurances, “we are still at a standstill”, underlines the association, denouncing “all the delays accumulated in 12 months”. «With the few regional resources – continues Lovato – an intervention was carried out in which around a hundred winemakers were able to participate in the face of tens of thousands of companies affected by the catastrophe. However, today the few beneficiaries of the loan are still unable to sign the financing contract with Fira, the regional finance company. It’s unfortunate that in these days at Vinitaly, apart from the catwalks and the “raise your glasses”, the economic and political world has forgotten this terrible misfortune that hit the Abruzzo winemakers by not listening to our cry of alarm for the lack of production regional 70% of wine grapes, for the lack of agreements with the Italian Banking Association to block mortgages for 24 months, for the compensatory interventions of the national solidarity fund under Legislative Decree 102/2004″, concludes Lovato, relaunching the appeal to the Region.
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