ROME – With 5,042 active businesses, agricultural cooperation Italian provides employment to more than 93,400 employees and, in 2012, generated sales of almost € 35 billion, representing 23% of the value of Italian food, obtained through processing and transformation of a share of 37% of the feedstock Italian, for a value of 19 billion euro. These main numbers emerged from the Report 2014 of the Observatory on Agricultural Cooperation, established by the Ministry of Agriculture and supported by organizations Agci-Agrital, Fedagri-Confcooperative, Legacoop Agribusiness and Unicoop, presented today in Rome at Palazzo cooperation, in the presence of Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina.
A universe, that of cooperation, in contrast with the crisis: in 2013 marks a + 5.8% growth in sales over the previous year, increased considerably higher + 1.5% food industries as a whole. Significant also chapter of exports, which sees cooperatives represent 13% of total exports Italian food, amounting to EUR 4 billion. ” The cooperation – said the president of the Alliance of Cooperatives Agri Giorgio Mercuri – in recent years has had the great merit of directing the production of farms in all market-oriented perspective, domestic and foreign, making the most of the products supplied by the members. “
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