Have you ever thought that the landscape, enjoy strolling to a road of Chianti or you can see from the terrace of that restaurant or qull'albergo is closely related to the work of many farmers?
Today the product of that work is definitely underpaid.
Examples:
The grain is paid approximately -40% compared to the price of 20 years ago (you spend 900 to get 550 per hectare). The Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil has a wholesale price of about 3.00 per liter (it seems superfluous to comment on the economy of the product). The Chianti Wine in the tank, lost in one year about 50% of the price rising from 110 to 60 € per quintal.
On the other hand the cost of bread has tripled in 20 years ........
It 'true that the EC will pay incentives to farmers, but perhaps not everyone knows that these have declined year after year, and after 2013 is "dark" total, and that you have to have incentives to engage in an avalanche of work and take on other obligations, as if those were not enough daily.
First, with incentives, you could do with some investment and production to even the cost of doing business. Today, adding one to the other, does not balance even the production costs!
If farmers, plagued by debts, stop cultivating olive groves and fields, what would happen to our beloved Tuscan landscape? What would happen to tourism and that would end all led?
