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South-central Italy: last-minute agreement

21/06/2017 - François-Xavier Branthôme - 2017 Season - Lire en français

On the excessively late date of 9 June, one year to the day after the conclusion of the 2016 negotiations, the processing industry of south-central Italy finally reached an agreement on the reference price for processing tomatoes of the 2017 harvest.

According to local industrial sources, the 2017 agreement leaves the terms of last year's agreement virtually unchanged. Grading scales and modalities, payment procedures, penalties and, above all, prices, all remain unchanged: EUR 87 /mT for tomatoes intended for paste production, EUR 97 /mT for fruit intended for canned tomato production (peeled, whole, chopped, diced, etc.). The words of ANICAV Director Giovanni De Angelis clarified these facts and underlined the renewal of the normative terms of 2016 contracts and the absence of any change in price for raw materials, which is a compromise between the expectations of an increase on the part of growers and the required decrease demanded of processors by the international industrial and trade context. Average prices in 2015 were EUR 95 and 105 /mT.

For the President of the CIA (Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori, Foggia) Michele Ferrandino, maintaining the clear distinction between round tomatoes and oblong tomatoes, which is materialized by a noticeable price gap, is in and of itself a success, affirming the major differences in the way cultivation is carried out and in the quality requirements for raw materials delivered to factories.

"The different parties heeded their sense of responsibility, stated ANICAV President Antonio Ferraioli, and after months of discussions, decided to set aside their own demands to focus on the important common objective of setting up a new governing system for the industry, which will be able to ensure clear planning of planted surfaces, careful programming of volumes to be delivered to processing plants and, above all, compliance with jointly agreed rules.”
Giovanni De Angelis explained that the ANICAV was willing to abandon its demands in terms of a price decrease "similar to what was decided in the northern growing regions of Italy and in other major countries where competing processors are operating," in order to relaunch the dialogue and promote a new spirit within the industry.

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