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“Italian tomatoes are part of everyday meal-times for millions of people right across the world. Most are processed in southern Italy, harvested in a short summer window, often in searing temperatures. Serious human rights issues exist in Southern Italy.” Mechanical harvesting dominates the industry, but human crews are still needed to operate the machines, and manual labor is required in the event of rain and on the smaller farms. To assume that mechanical harvesting eliminates all risk of human rights abuse demonstrates a lack of understanding of the issues. Illegal wages, poor working conditions, lack of contracts for workers and forced labor can still occur. Workers also run the risk of being exploited by recruiters sometimes linked to organized crime, some of whom run the transport service to and from harvest fields in unsafe and precarious vehicles.
“First of all, we have to understand the need to put our ethics and sustainability at the heart of our business model and mission, including economic sustainability and ethical working practices. These are things that Princes has made possible and we are proud to be part of it”, says Giuseppe De Fillippo, President of Futuragri.
