ROME (ITALPRESS) – The unsold food and wine since the beginning of the pandemic has risen to 1.1 million tons due to the collapse of the activities of bars, trattorias, restaurants, pizzerias and agritourisms that overwhelms entire sectors of the Made in agri-food industry Italy. This is what emerges from the analysis of Coldiretti which highlights the presence of thousands of farmers, breeders, fishermen, winegrowers and cheesemakers who suffer together with the restaurateurs in the square with the Fipe. It is estimated that 330 thousand tons of beef, 270 thousand tons of fish and seafood and about 220 million bottles of wine – underlines Coldiretti – have never arrived in the last year on the tables of local forced to an exhausting stop and go without the possibility of planning purchases even for highly perishable products. Forced closures, limitations on opening hours, travel bans, drastic drop in tourist numbers and the widespread diffusion of smart working have devastated the budgets of catering services and dramatically cut employment levels but the consequences – continues Coldiretti – are also hear directly about suppliers. The drastic reduction in activity – argues Coldiretti – in fact weighs on the sale of many agri-food products, from wine to beer, from meat to fish, from fruit to vegetables that find an important outlet market in out-of-home consumption. In some sectors such as fish and wine, catering – specifies Coldiretti – even represents the main marketing channel by turnover, but high-end products from wine to cured meats to cheeses have been most affected. (ITALPRESS). mgg / com 16-Apr-21 21:13
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