2024-05-27 16:04:44
Crucial points for the existence of viticulture and winegrowers emerged in the course of the two-day convention, held in Ioannina, displaying the best way to cease the downward pattern and strengthen the sustainability and competitiveness of the sector.
The convention, collectively organized by the Department Nationwide Agricultural Cooperative of Wine Merchandise (KEOSOE) and the Nationwide Interprofessional Vine and Wine Group (EDOAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Rural Improvement and Meals, offered helpful conclusions, which ought to nevertheless be adopted up actions, with the cooperation of grape growers, winemakers and the state, because the president of KEOSOE Christos Markou made clear.
“If what we’ve got determined shouldn’t be put into apply, our subsequent assembly can have the character of honoring the deceased defenders of viticulture and it is going to be a disgrace. But when we act now, with a plan and dedication, with imaginative and prescient and accountability, united, vine growers, winemakers, cooperative and personal wineries, state and businesses, then tomorrow might be assured to be auspicious. And the vindication can even come for the winegrowers, but in addition the event might be a given for the complete winegrowing economic system of the nation”, famous Mr. Markou, closing the proceedings of the Convention.
Just a little earlier, he had referred to the detailed conclusions of the Convention, but in addition to the need of drawing up the Strategic Plan for Viticulture – which the Ministry of Rural Improvement pledged to finance, so as to rework the issues and weaknesses of the sector into prospects and imaginative and prescient.
The magnitude of the sector’s issues is mirrored within the unfavorable information for wine grape cultivation within the nation in current a long time, with the primary characteristic being the unprecedented discount in areas, which from 1990 to at present present a lower of 26.88%.
On this path, the Strategic Plan will represent the contract of settlement between the federal government, the state and businesses for the manufacturing and adoption of latest insurance policies and revolutionary options of an institutional and technocratic nature, with the goal of reversing the tendencies of abandonment and the event of viticulture within the nation.
Along with the power discount of land, the deadlock to which the Greek winery has been led is famous, because of the excessive fragmentation of land, but in addition the shortage of profitability of wine farms, which is due both to the low costs of merchandise or to the dramatic improve in the price of cultivation or within the absence of vital insurance policies that might lead viticulture to a modernization course of.
On the similar time, the underground economic system “lives and reigns” available in the market, depriving the productive world of a passable earnings, mixed with inadequacies discovered within the certification and management procedures of the uncooked materials.
Primarily based on all of the above, a strategic coverage is taken into account essential to take care of the issues, in addition to the usage of trendy out there instruments that can contribute to the modernization and rationalization of the circumstances of viticulture, as talked about by Mr. Markou.
The conclusions deal with three key factors: the scale and form of wine-growing holdings, market circumstances and wine-growing earnings.
With regard to the primary, any interventions ought to have in mind the sizes and particular traits of every wine-growing zone, authorized instruments for possession points needs to be resolved and the circumstances needs to be created for the strengthening of Greek varieties.
Additionally, the market ought to function in circumstances of stability and free competitors and never “with double requirements”, as Mr. Markou talked about, including lastly that to ensure that there to be a “tomorrow” in viticulture, viticultural earnings ought to to have the ability to replenish the Greek winery.