Empty shelves, Confagricoltura: “The problem has been underestimated”
The war in Ukraine caused a series of consequences with which Italy now he has to do the math. The stop decided by him trucks due to excessive cost of fuel e rising prices due to gas crisis, are bringing the Italians to their knees. “We are not only in an emergency, – explains Massimiliano Giansanti, president of Confagricoltura on Radio 24 – but also heavily in emergency, because since this summer we have not caught some signals coming from the market. The outbreak of war obviously ignited even more a very strong fire on the sector of agricultural raw materials. Today we realize that is missing the mostsoy, sunflower and Wheat.
Even the stop to road transport – reads the Messenger – threatens them supermarket shelves. In Italy, 85 percent of thank you he travels in fact on the road. The danger is that the raw material no longer reaches the food companies that have to process it. Businesses of the food industry push that during the strike of 19 March proclaimed by Unatras, the union of the most representative national associations of road transport, at least some special corridors for the transport of food products perishable and indispensable for the families. But in the meantime, even now, they are in short supply fruits and vegetables on supermarket shelves and the situation is bound to get worse.