Calabria is catching its breath after days of great tension. Trucks stopped, farmers on barricades, fuel supplies exhausted and food impossible to find in the desert of supermarkets. Then, starting Wednesday evening, the removal of the blockades restarted a struggling economy. Provisioning of supplies to large-scale retail outlets began yesterday morning. Fruit and vegetables, milk and derivatives, and then, flour, meat and fish. And after the hauliers, the farmers also began to leave the garrisons. Not all, though. Significant pockets resist without causing, at the moment, particular inconveniences to circulation. Moreover, the news from Rome has pumped up the tires of the newfound confidence. Palazzo Chigi has put 60 million euros on the table within the fuel decree. And then there is Occhiuto who has found another five million, bringing the total regional aid allocated to the sector to ten million. A breath of fresh air, but not yet the answer to a crisis that affects the entire supply chain, from the fields to the shelves, up to the pockets of families.
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