“We hope that Minister Lollobrigida will immediately sign the long-awaited decree that makes the 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 anemergency which is the most serious crisis of the last 50 years, with losses expect them to arrive up to an average of 50% of the entire production in the various territories, as the regional council itself has put in writing”.
The says it president of Fedagripesca Sicilia Nino Accept (in the photo), who explains: “The resolution with which the regional council requests recognition for Sicily of the exceptional circumstances that have brought our agriculture to its knees represents a first, concrete step in the direction we first indicated and subsequently requested from many sides. 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 Sicily Alessandro Chiarelli expresses satisfaction “for the close discussion with the Regional Department of Agriculture, which resulted in the drafting of the document with which the Manager Dario Cartabellotta set out in a timely and pertinent manner the request formally made by the headed by President Renato Schifani to the National Government”.
“Our requests have been fully accepted, shared and decreed by the regional government to which we acknowledge the desire to identify, together with those who represent the local businesses, an effective solution – comment Accept and Chiarelli – but the game is not yet closed and it is, now even more than before, a race against time.”
