«The prices of petroleum by-products have begun to rise, for now by only 11 dollars per barrel (which in euros are 11 dollars per 159 litres, or 0.0069 euros per litre) but inexplicably among the derivatives, diesel has gone from 0.92 euros per liter to 1.35 euros per liter in 10 days, i.e. +0.43 euros, an increase of 46%». This is what the president of Copagri Calabria Francesco Macrì says.
«Similarly, simple and binary nitrogen fertilizers have followed in their wake. One might think that they were encouraged by the season which, canonically, sees them as protagonists in this period to encourage vegetative revival, but let’s stick to the facts: it is a proliferation of reports in which retailers, who had previously put the fertilizers in stock, after a price indication, with the outbreak of the Middle Eastern conflict have made excuses for not delivering the product. And postponing the availability of the product to a future download but with prices 25-30% more expensive. Do we want to bring the sector, already on its knees, to collapse?”, continues Macrì.
Copagri Calabria therefore invites “the authorities in charge to carry out the necessary checks, to guarantee regular trade free from these forms of speculation, which have nothing to do with the political events in the Middle East”.