In a macroeconomic scenario conditioned by the energy and climate crisis, the Italian Dop economy once again shows a positive picture marked by record values. The sector of PDO and PGI, reveals the XXI ISMEA-Qualivita Report, fly beyond the threshold of 20 billion euros in value to production in 2022 (+ 6,4% on an annual basis) ensuring a contribution from 20% of the overall turnover of the Italian agri-food sector. Within the sector, the food sector is close to 9 billion euros (+9%) while that vwine exceeds 11 billion euros (+5%). important results, although partly conditioned by the inflationary pressure, which demonstrate the great solidity of the national Dop economy: an organized system, which counts 296 protection consortia authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture and over 195.000 companies in the food and wine supply chains, with a number of employment relationships estimated for the first time at 580 thousand units in the agricultural phase and 310 thousand in the transformation phase.
Thus the ISMEA General Director Maria Chiara Zaganelli: “The 20 billion of original value are distributed throughout the national territory, for the second consecutive year growing in 18 out of 20 regions. 100% of the provinces are involved in the DOP economy circuit, an expression of the value of non-relocation supply chains, which represent a widespread collective heritage. By crossing the Ig data with another observatory that we look after as Ismea, we detect how 32% of the 25 thousand Italian agritourism companies are included in the GI circuit, demonstrating that the presence of a community trademark is an element of economic valorisation of the territory, even in the most fragile internal mountain and hilly areas at risk of depopulation. For the first time in this 21st edition of the report we then estimated the impact on employment of the GI supply chains. I am 890 thousand employment contracts which overall revolve around this sector, between the agricultural phase and the transformation phase. This is a first elaboration made possible by cross-referencing various databases even outside the institute, which makes us appreciate how the Dop economy not only develops an economic value but, even more so, thanks to the strong link with the territory, a social value".
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