Friday,
December 01, 2006
"Amber Waves of Grain" in
The
ANNOTICO Report
Actually,
Italy IMPORTS much of it's grain, apparently a lot from Canada, Processes it
into mostly Pasta, and exports it's High Quality product around the World.
The
figure that "floored" me was that 100 times more wheat is used in
AGI
On
behalf of the Italian Prime Minister's office
November
29, 2006
The
Italian milling industry is leader in
Soft
wheat products: production in 2005 was almost 4,300,000 tonnes,
4 mln of which for the domestic market (2,840,000 tonnes for bread-making; 540,000 for desserts; 350,000 for
pizza; 210,000 for house use; 25,000 for pasta); 300,000 tonnes
were exported.
Despite
a non encouraging figure for wheat product exportation
(halved over the past 5 years),
The
export of pasta and foodstuffs to a huge wheat supplier such as
Figures
on pasta, appreciated worldwide, testifies the records
of 'Made in
UNPI
(Unione Nazionale Industriali
Pastai) claims that, in 2005,
But
unfortunately according to the latest Italmopa
figures,
Main
losses in the south: Apulia (630,000 tonnes in 2006
compared with 900,000 in 2005, -30 pct),
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