Indoor fields of mature Anguries are left on the ground and destroyed in the province of Crotone, where farmers are offered by traders a price that oscillates between 7 and 8 cents per kilo. To report the incident is Coldiretti della Calabria which underlines how the price offered “does not even cover production costs. All this while the watermelons from abroad abroad abound in supermarkets. ” What is happening is “inserted in a national framework of great difficulty in the sector. The Anguries and Yellow Melons have undergone an aggravated collapse also from the drought », continues Coldiretti.
«As Coldiretti we ask that the seriousness of the underground crisis will be recognized to protect the income of farmers and the dignity of a sector that cannot continue to suffer in silence. The unfair competition must be stopped, the same rules are needed for everyone “, highlights the interprovincial director Coldiretti Catanzaro-Crotone-Vibo Valentia, Pietro Bozzo. «We cannot accept – he concludes – that agricultural work is treated as a waste commodity. We need transparency in the supply chain, respect for the origin and a more effective control over imports, which often create distortions and speculations to the detriment of our Italian product “.
