The Coronavirus crisis is causing a stoppage to the Campania floricultural sector . Orders have plummeted , plants stay unsold , stems were not glean , exports practically stopped , greenhouses are full , there is a famine of storage and many orders from the northerly regions of Italy are cancelled , so much that the loss in damage of yield is estimated over 30 million euro .
With the passing game of the day , the situation is becoming increasingly critical and all outcome are occurring at a clock time when the yield is at its peak .
The CPFC ( Consorzio Produttori Florovivaisti Campani ) is working on a report that valuate the impact of the Coronavirus emergency on the floricultural growers , which will be available to all operators of the sector ( which can also be downloaded from the websitewww.gaiaflorum.com ) so as to assess for each company the efficacious going , and this same document will also be incorporated among the request submit to the regional and national potency to whom “ we involve to take in account our requests and , at the same time , to follow up real initiatives in support of the sector . From an economical standpoint , the future scenario is not safe , it is necessary to step in with aim actions " , said a spokesman from the Consortium .
However , the situation is aggravate with each passing day . " From Piana del Sele to Vesuvius we are recording similar situations . Many of our consortium members are forced to destroy their product due to an almost total blockage of the grocery , " said the leader of the Consorzio Produttori Florovivaisti Campani .
Even before the restrictive measures to counteract the contagion from Coronavirus , which have top to the closure of the wholesale markets , the Consortium had already launch its alarm clock .
Last hebdomad , the top executive of the Consortium , which reckon over 250 members including operators in the sector and cooperatives , formally requested a meeting with the region Campania confidence and the Ministry of Agriculture to implement supportive actions for the sector .
As agreed at the permanent Conference for State - Regions - Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano , all the regional authorities in charge of the agricultural sphere transmit their urgent measures to be considered for the agricultural sphere .
accordingly , and within a very short time , on Friday was contain a TV league with the president of the CPFC ( Consorzio Produttori Florovivaisti Campani ) Enzo Malafronte and the regional councillor for the agricultural sphere of region Campania Nicola Caputo , to put forward to the Minister of Agriculture Teresa Bellanova , among the urgent measures of the agricultural sector , also those for the floriculture sector that is currently facing a very unmanageable meter .
Below is a summary of the requests submitted by the chairman Vincenzo Malafronte and the agronomist Francesco Romano and Roberta Giordano :
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