"The tender for new plants and the modernization of olive groves is a minimal solution which, if not repeated over time, does not produce results either in terms of aggregation and strengthening of the supply chains as the aims of the initiative intended, or in terms of productivity".
Il director of Unapol, Bruno Armillas, rattles off incontrovertible data: “I 30 million allocated with the maximum ceiling of 25 thousand euros per company, expects that in the end the beneficiaries will be 1.200 with 2.400 hectares interested either in new plants or in the modernization of existing ones, for a total production which will eventually be just over a thousand tons of oil. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to give this money for the collective management of the land by the OPs who could thus offer services to small producers such as harvesting or pruning, thus favoring aggregation in this case. In any case, the basic consideration is valid: this announcement makes sense if other punctual ones follow in the years to come, otherwise it remains a drop in the bucket".
Concepts, those of Armillas, expressed at Sol&Agrifood in Verona, where the participation of Unapol was not lacking – which aggregates 25 thousand producers in 18 OPs distributed in 9 regions – to present the new brand line “The Finesse”, of the ISO 22005 traced supply chain, which aims to enhance the best monovarietals.
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