Record year, 2014, for the production of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP, with 38,068,892 kg food quality certified by the Department (WFD), an increase of 2% over the previous year.
These are the figures released at the AGM of the Association of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP, the main annual event that allows you to take stock of the situation and to tell partners, institutions and media, what has been done and what you plan to do, always in the interest of a product essential not only for the local economy but to the same image of Made in Italy in the world. The amount of product exported Dop was 24.9%, with a slight decrease compared to 2013, mainly due to the block of the Russian market, as a result of European sanctions, which seriously damaged the sector. The main importing countries are still France and Germany, but grow Spain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Eastern Europe.
Decrease instead exports to more distant markets (US, Japan, Canada), where competition is particularly fierce Product not Dop (especially frozen and semifinished different), which subtracts market shares to the certified product, affected by transportation costs very high and a 'shelf life' too short.
All constraints imposed by the product which unsuccessfully to date, the Consortium has asked for revision. "Compared to when the specification was drawn up, the world has changed and the market have changed spaces and times - said Domenico Raimondo, president of the Consortium - that seems paradoxical that a product required in all corners of world can not fulfill this request for constraints obsolete. "
To emphasize the need to make changes to regulations, even Corrado Martinangelo, collaborator of the political secretariat of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Maurizio Martina, according to which the product specification is now to be inadequate to the needs of the sector and especially not able to meet the enormous opportunities that, especially in foreign markets, the product has.
Necessary changes, were observed, to give impetus to industry and thus take full advantage of the great potential that the European production system offers products with geographical indications. For the system of geographical indications, as pointed out by Pier Maria Saccani, secretary Aicig (Association of Italian consortia Geographical Indications), the Consortium of Mozzarella Dop is strategic, since actually more structured and locomotive of the agricultural sector around the Center-South, and pride of Made in Italy quality.
"Right now, more than ever - said Vittorio Sangiorgio, Vice President of Coldiretti Campania - is important to the cohesion of a sector that is fundamental to the whole system Campania. A reality with which the Coldiretti reiterates its willingness to cooperate in every way possible. "
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