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Agriculture creates 10,000 new jobs on the Via Emilia

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A production value increased by 8% to 4.5 billion euros, 82 thousand employed in the fields, 13% more in a year, almost 10 thousand jobs between employees and self-employed: these are the record numbers of Emilia-Romagna agriculture. Romagna that emerge from the eighth 2020 Report on the region’s agri-food system. At the same time, the year behind us saw exports consolidate (6.9 billion euros, 16% of the national total) and an improvement in the surplus of the trade balance (+850 million euros), confirming the excellence of gastronomy in the land of Parmigiano Reggiano and Parma ham, champion for DOP and IGP.

Fruit and vegetables and farms

To contribute to the positive result are both fruit and vegetables (+ 7.6%) and farms (+ 8.5%). “We have almost completely recovered from the decline in 2019 (10% of the lost Plv) – underlines the Regional Councilor for Agriculture Alessio Mammi – testifying to the resilience of agriculture in Emilia-Romagna, which demonstrated in the year of Covid its strategic centrality for the country. For this reason, in addition to the measures launched by the Government, we have activated additional aid for the sectors most in difficulty due to the Covid crisis, starting from 3 million euros in support of farmhouses. We then scrolled through the ranking of supply chain projects in the dairy sector, with 17.8 million from the regional budget, and refinanced an intervention for the benefit of sugar beet with 1.5 million. In 2020, the offices of the Agriculture Directorate and Agrea made payments to companies in application of the CAP for 609 million euros>. And for the next two years there are almost 410 million euros available to Emilia-Romagna farmers, 35% more than in the previous program. Among the agricultural sectors, the harvest is good in terms of volumes (6.6 million euros). hectoliters of wine produced +, 15%) but the drop in prices caused a slight decline in business (-1%), cow’s milk (+ 20.4%) and eggs (+ 9.4%) also did well, to difference of meats. On the other hand, the food industry is falling, which in 2020 lost 3.9% of production in the region, also due to the contraction of the Horeca market. However, a much more contained decline compared to the total of the regional economy, which closed 2020 with a -12.2%.

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