Parmigiano Reggiano, the word passes to a ministerial table

Rome - Today had to be the day of the truth in order to exceed the crisis of caused the Parmigiano Reggiano from the distributive politics that the product does not value putting in danger the survival of entire row. The reunion held to the ministry for the agricultural Policies with all the interested actors has left but the bitter in mouth the operator of the field. Is hoped now in that summoned for next friday (10 October). To testify it is the Consortium of the product in a famous one very says that it on the met difficulties. Absent the minister Zaia, the comparison - he emphasizes in famous a Consortium - the encounter has seen flank to flank (and with embarrassment thanks to fair the play of interested) the exponents of Parmigiano and the Grain. “A choice that we do not share - explains the Chairman Giuseppe Alai - because the problems of two cheeses differ by nature and intensity, thus as the requirements, the demands and the proposals differ that we have introduced”. Friday will to the job a ministerial table all around the faced topics today, “but also in this case - it explains I towed - jointly will be dealt the problems of two more important Italian cheeses; our objections, therefore, remain, and speed up therefore the ministry to scindere the two issues, because the problem are not to find agreements between the two Consortium, but to answer in concrete terms, in a hurry and above all coherently to needs that are objective various”. As for the proposals and to the sollicitations, clear and much concrete those introduced from the president of the Consortium of Parmigiano, beginning from the demand for the declaration of the “state of crisis” of the field, thus opening the road to immediate participations that regard - in the first instance - the withdrawal from the market of a quota product (through the Agea and with various destinations from the traditional markets) such to guarantee a resumption of the quotations. Immediate supports have been asked from the Consortium in support of the promotion for the exports, thus to strengthen the huge investments puttinges in existence from the Consortium in close collaboration with the exporter: “Draft of initiatives and concrete plans - and not of generic promotion - finalized to produce turned out short, that is to raise the sales in various Countries”, explains Towed; “to the ministry therefore we have asked to support these actions that for the first time see closely operating legacies and Consortium of protection economic, joined from the only interest to export increasing quotas product”. From the Consortium of Parmigiano then other demanded detailed lists have come that they regard in direct way the commercialization and, consequently, can affect the quotations. Between these, the demand for a regarding verification necessary and an express agreement with the antitrust in order to suspend for a three years put into effect it them discipline, concurring to generate conditions of equal dignitybetween who it today offers to the product (in way a lot fragmented) and it acquires it to who (in way very more concentrated, and therefore with a power it negotiates them enormous regarding that one of the producers). From the Consortium, moreover, the demand for an analysis on the correctness of the discipline that below cost regulated the sales and those advertising ones, to which - it explains I towed - they go placed side by side to encounter and new relations with the Gdo”. To program ’ breaking in on the market of the $parmesan and to value - it has commented instead the Coldiretti - territoriality and distinctiveness in order to let out from the crisis the cheese symbol of the Made in Italy. A row - Coldiretti specifies - that is born from the latte ones of 250mila cows raised from 4750 agricultural companies in zones delimited of the national territory, transformed in 492 cheese factories that they per year produce beyond 3,1 million forms from the medium weight of 38 chili, that at least 12 months must be seasoned. According to the data supplied from the Consortium of protection of the Parmigiano Reggiano, today to produce the Parmigiano it costs between the 7,97 and 8,23 euro to the kg, forehead of a wholesale oscillating price all ’ between the 7,20 and 7,80 euro. The average price to the shelf goes from the 13,90 to the 15,90 euro to the kg but seven forms on ten come sold in the supermarkets (according to data of the great distribution) through advertising initiatives to prices that go from the 7,90 to the 9,50 euro. Before to the crisis, is necessary - according to Coldiretti - a better programming dell ’ breaking in on the market of the production, so as to safeguard the quality of the Parmigiano Reggiano and, at the same time, to guarantee distinctiveness. Next friday - Coldiretti concludes - the issue will return on the tables of the Ministry, in order to decide the provisions to assume in order to ask for the crisis.At last on all the issue is taken part the minister for the agricultural Policies Luca Zaia. “Draft has said the Minister of the alimentary and forest agricultural policies Luca Zaia of one of the emergencies that we are facing with engagement. I know that the times must be tightest and share therefore the decision of a punctual examination of the single issues, indispensable premise in order to proceed in effective and intelligent way”. “I read some also of complaints of some of the present exponents to the today's table and me sorrow. It seems to me are indeed orchestrates them. In the same moment in which an important crisis like that of the Parmigiano Reggiano and the Po Grain was faced, in fact, I was engaged to receive a delegation of the horse world , than also it crosses a dramatic moment, with the risk, by now to the doors, than thousands of persons they lose the job. I become account perfectly says Zaia that exploitation and partisanship of alignment can reach the reasonableness. I remind therefore that the table was presided to the highest possible institutional level, with the presence of the Head of Cabinet of the Ministry, and that all the other participants have convene on shared conclusions”. “Me sorrow still has concluded the Minister Zaia - of the fact that real problems, than for being resolved need of lucidità and equilibrium, are faced with much superficialità, without to hold account of the effects negatives that unavoidably accompany similar instrumentalizations”.

08 / 10 / 2008