{"id":21758,"date":"2025-01-24T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:00:51","slug":"meloni-hails-italys-topping-eu-agricultural-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/01\/24\/meloni-hails-italys-topping-eu-agricultural-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Meloni hails Italy\u2019s topping EU agricultural growth\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has praised her country for ranking first in value added agricultural growth in the European Union (EU) in 2024. This was in a press statement on the government website <\/u><\/a>on January 22, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) put yearly growth at 3.5% vis-\u00e1-vis EU\u2019s collective 0.2% growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agricultural production improved by 1.4% year-on-year (y-o-y), also above the cumulative EU bloc\u2019s growth of 0.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Istat\u2019s record is significant as it overcomes the negative value addition growth in 2023 at -3.53%<\/u><\/a>, per the World Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why the PM praised her government, whose systematic polices have apparently revitalized the agri-food sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of her first policies as premier was the early 2023 ban on cultured meat production, thus supporting Italy\u2019s huge livestock sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, Istat\u2019s data puts 2024 prices of livestock<\/u><\/a> and related products down by 2.2%<\/u><\/a>, y-o-y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production of agricultural produce in 2024 got a shot in the arm from a lush fruit output growth of 5.4%. Fresh vegetable production grew by 3.8% while wine hiked by 3.5% despite weather challenges in the grape sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a consumer point of view, agricultural produce, apart from animal products, grew costly in 2024, appreciating by 2.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also shows that Italy used less agricultural labor than the EU bloc in 2024, registering 2.6% points drop, y-o-y.  The EU\u2019s equivalent yearly reduction in farming labor was 0.9% points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fitting recap of the agriculture industry\u2019s growth comes from Meloni herself, who writes how \u201cagriculture (is) a central focus once again.\u201d  To know how true these facts are, read the next statistics on Italy\u2019s agriculture under this far-right leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics on Italy Agriculture Performance Before and After Meloni <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After World War II, Italy shifted from a predominantly agricultural economy to an industrial one. This is why today in the 2020s agriculture contributes a small fraction of the economy at around 2%<\/u><\/a>. As of 2022 when Meloni became premier, Italy\u2019s agriculture represented 2.2% of the national GDP, according to official government figures<\/u><\/a>. Nevertheless, this statistic rises further to 15% of the national GDP when including the entire agri-food value chain.  As such, the total agricultural value chain worth in Italy is equal to 549  billion Euro<\/u><\/a> ($574 billion)-2022 data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, Italy was still experiencing COVID-19 distribution disruptions although agriculture was less affected than commercial services and industries. All the same, annual agricultural production that year fell by 3.2% while prices\/value addition decreased by 6.1%, according to Istat<\/u><\/a>.  Fisheries also experienced negative growth in production at -19.9% and value added volume at -26.8%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did agriculture perform in 2021<\/strong>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year later in 2021, rising production costs dealt a blow to the sector whose production growth slashed to -0.4%.  Meanwhile, value addition decreased by a massive 0.8%, year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is performance post-Maloni in 2022 and beyond<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Meloni oversaw prices or value addition rise by 6.7% even while production volumes fell by -0.4% year-on-year. In 2023, value addition growth reversed by -3.53% growth, per World Bank<\/u><\/a>\u2019s figures. Then in 2024, following robust agricultural centralization focus, both production and value addition grew by 1.4% and 3.5%<\/u><\/a>, respectively.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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