Italian aviculture with over 50 million euros of green investments in the last 5 years and with a turnover of 5.7 billion euros in 2020 (+ 3.8% on 2019), 6,000 professional farms and 64,000 employees (38,500 farmers and 25,500 processing workers), “has already embarked on the path towards sustainability”: 310 million kw of renewable electricity were produced and antibiotics were also reduced, with a further decline of 6% in 2020, reaching – 88% from 2011 to present. This is the balance of 2020 towards the objectives of the ecological transition of Unaitalia, the association that represents over 90% of the national poultry production. The report was presented yesterday during the annual meeting and was used by the Minister of Agriculture, Stefano Patuanelli, to underline how “this is a supply chain that is self-sustaining and has never had access to direct contributions from the first pillar. of the CAP, and today with the ecosystems brought to the first pillar also the poultry sector will have access to direct contributions “. Therefore “it needs support because it is a model, not because it is necessary to support everything and everyone”. For Patuanelli, in fact, “there are some supply chains that must be supported and others not, otherwise these 230 billion are not enough” and for this reason “if we want to continue with the rainy support we are not doing the good of our country”.
For the president of Unaitalia, Antonio Forlini, reconfirmed for the next three years “the poultry sector, which with its integrated and 100% Italian supply chain perfectly embodies the principles of From farm to Fork, is ready to take up the challenges of the ecological transition and Green Deal ». And he adds: “Our ambition is to have the entire Italian poultry farm within 10 years not only with high technology, but also self-sufficient from an energy point of view and with a reduced environmental impact”. For Forlini, the sector needs “measures and resources” and so “the NRR is a unique opportunity” also “to renew the agricultural park of 25-30% of the farms”.