“We hope that Minister Lollobrigida will immediately sign the expected agreement decree that makes emergency measures executive, in order to ensure that Sicilian agricultural, livestock, wine, fruit and vegetable and citrus businesses and cooperatives have the possibility of surviving an emergency that is the most serious crisis of the last 50 years, with estimated losses reaching up to an average of 50% of the entire production in the various territories, as the regional council itself has put in black and white”. The president of Fedagripesca Sicilia says so Nino Accept.
Rapid signature of the ad hoc decree necessary
“The resolution with which the regional council requests recognition for Sicily of the exceptional circumstances that have brought our agriculture to its knees – he continues – represents a first, concrete step in the direction indicated by us first and subsequently requested by many parties. Now, however, it is necessary for the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida to sign the decree recognizing the exceptional circumstances very quickly”.
The delegate for agricultural issues of Confcooperative Sicilia Alessandro Chiarelli expresses satisfaction “for the close discussion with the Regional Agriculture Department, which resulted in the drafting of the document with which the manager Dario Cartabellotta he set out the request formally made by the council governed by the President in a timely and pertinent manner Renato Schifani to the National Government”.
“Our instances have been fully accepted, shared and decreed by the regional government to which we acknowledge the desire to identify, together with those representing the local businesses, an effective solution – Accept and Chiarelli comment – but the game is not yet closed and is, now even more than before, a race against time.”
