A framework law for the floriculture sector. This is the request that has come from the Italian Floriculturists Association of the Cia to the Government for this final part of the legislature. A bill for a framework measure for the sector had already been presented in the last legislature. At the beginning of the new one it had been transformed into a delegated law to the Government to define a framework discipline for the sector.
'Without a clear definition,' explained the past president of the Italian Floriculturists Association, Aldo Alberto, 'we struggle to speak with one voice. Without legal recognition then, we have no interlocutors in the institutions. As of today, in fact, we don't know which directorate of Masaf we have to interface with, not to mention that without a framework and recognition we are precluded from many forms of funding for the agricultural sector'.
Yet the floriculture sector in Italia is not a marginal sector: it has a turnover of 3.25 billion euro, 70% of which is realised on foreign markets, with over 20 thousand companies and more than 100 thousand employees.
"It is a sector that is facing major challenges," added the newpresident of the Cia floriculturists' association, Emanuela Milone. "We are an energy-intensive sector, greenhouses are heated with diesel in winter and irrigated with diesel pumps in summer."
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