Grape harvest 2008, Italy exceeds France for production

Rome - grape harvest 2008 ago to preview an historical overtaking of Italy on France where the collection of the grape is announced like more the weak person from 2000. The Coldiretti asserts, emphasizing that the Italian production is estimated in increase of 5%. It would have therefore to exceed 46 million previewed hectoliters of production for the Country transalpino where, according to the ministry of Agriculture of oltralpe, the grape harvest will be inferior of 10% to the average of last the 5 years. “Italy - the Coldiretti emphasizes - conquest thus in Europe the supremacy in the vitivinicola production after that one in the rice, tobacco, yields fresh and freschi ortaggi but also in the biological productions and those of quality to indication of protected origin. On the other hand also the added value for hectare, that is the produced clean wealth for unit surface from the Italian agriculture is beyond the triple one of that USA, double of that English, and advanced of 70% of those of France and Spain”.
Coldiretti remembers that also from the qualitative point of view the forecasts of the grape harvest in Italy are good, with 60% of the destined harvests to the wine production Docg, Doc and Igt. A production, realized in order nearly the two thirds party - the Coldiretti specifies - in Veneto, Puglia, Emilia Romagna and Sicily. The organization concludes emphasizing that the good perspectives on the productive plan “feed the interest on the market where the value of exports Made the wine in increased Italy é of 10% in the first quadrimestre of the year and increases of 2.6% the bottles acquired from families the Italian Doc/Docg wine in first semestre 2008”.

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