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Final green light in Italy for the law on organic farming

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Final green light in Italy for the law on organic farming

The rule that regulates and encourages organic farming in Italy is law. After 13 years of waiting, with 195 in favor, 4 abstentions and no opposition, the Senate definitively approved the bill which had to return to Palazzo Madama for a quick fourth reading, after the amendment introduced by the Chamber which eliminated from the text the equation of the biodynamic method with the organic one, after the many controversies raised by the scientific community.
“A historic day”, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture Francesco Battistoni defined it: “With the approval of the law we will be able to give a further boost to the sector thanks to the innovations introduced, such as the organic brand, the legal definition of organic districts and the law delegated to the Government for the revision of the legislation on harmonization and rationalization of controls. Italy is second in the world, behind only the United States, for exported organic products ».

A rapidly expanding market

The organic market in our country is booming: Coldiretti reminds us that the purchases of organic Made in Italy products in 2021 reached the record value of 7.5 billion euros, between internal consumption and exports. The new law also supports the use of digital platforms to guarantee information about the origin, quality and traceability of products, with a mandate to the government to review the regulations on controls and guarantee the autonomy of certification bodies. in addition to the definition of biodistricts. “In the last decade – writes Coldiretti – total organic sales have more than doubled (+ 122%) and national production has reached 2 million hectares of cultivated land”.

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The Cooperative Alliance also expresses great satisfaction with the approval of the law on organic food: “The tortuous process that the bill had – commented the coordinator of the organic sector, Francesco Torriani – risked making useless the great opportunities contained in the law for the organic sector, thus slowing down a process that, on the other hand, is running fast at EU level ”, with the aim of reaching 25% of organic production in Europe by 2030.

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